Retry: How Can You Mess Up, Let Us Count the Ways (WotC Setting Submissions

[mythusmage]

I hope this works. Same deal as before, only you get more options to play with.

 

[alsih2o]

royally ruining your chances-

1 vivid descriptions of sexually transmitted diseases by race

2 prestige classes based on sigfreid and roy

3 omnipotent fruit salads

4 religious fueds settled with bake-offs

5 required skillset: ornithomancy

6 all new feats based on body fluid dispersal

7 designated hitter rules

8 class structure based on wigs

9 post entire entry in limerick form

10 "swords and sandals? i thought you said gourds and vandals!"

 

[Mark]

Accidentally sending your submission to SJG comes to mind...

 

[Pielorinho]

Ignoring any of my very important tips for the contest:

My tips for all of you entering the contest:
-Before you start writing, have a glass of wine. In fact, polish off the bottle. It'll open up your creativity like nothing else.
-Don't waste time poring over your submission for nitpicky little errors. WOTC has editors who can proofread and revise for you: you're the writer, not the grammar teacher.
-Forgotten Realms is a known success. The more your entry emulates FR, the likelier it'll be to win. Overlooked Counties, for example, would be an awesome name for your submission.
-Nothing says quality like exclamation points!!!! Use lots of them! to show that you're passionate! about your setting!!!!!!
-Only squares, and Eric's Grandmother, don't like cussing. Next to an exclamation point, a really raunchy bit of profanity is the best way to show that you care about your subject.
-Remember that you don't just demonstrate creativity through your words: your choice of paper color, font, and even language can demonstrate that you're an original free-thinker.
-Everyone likes limericks.

Follow my tips, and I'm guaranteed to win!
Daniel

 

[Rashak Mani]

If you make a Forgotten Realms look alike... you will have only the Forgotten part... "great" tips by the way...

 

[orbitalfreak]

Best way to not get chosen?

F.A.T.A.L.

'Nuff Said...

 

[Henry]

Ah, yes. F.A.T.A.L. as the new campaign setting. Now THERE is a WotC announcement that would take the company in a new direction...

..then again, prior to 1997, that direction was nothing new...


(I'll stop being evil now...)

 

[EOL]

WoTC will have thousands if not tens of thousands of these things to look through, so it's important that you're sticks out, not just visually (though pink paper and a nice impossible to read script font can't hurt) but to all five senses

Smell- Make sure to soak it in gasoline overnight before sending it.

Sound- Include a tape of you doing karaoke, sure it may have nothing to do with your campaign world, but who can resist Britney Spears "Opps I did it again" performed by a 250 pound male geek?

Taste- Include a candy bar, they travel well and nothing says professional like a pink, gasoline soaked paper, covered in melted chocolate.

Touch- Nothing says "professional game designer" like pink shag carpet, print your entry on that and watch the money roll in....

 

[Talaysen]

Everyone should follow these tips. These are EXACTLY the techniques I used when I got into the final ten of the ill-fated RPGA Adventure Design Contest a couple years ago. Really. You can trust me on this one.

I mean, isn't there honor among fellow entrants?

 

[mythusmage]

Bump.