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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 526733" data-attributes="member: 8461">Ryan, I think this is a good idea in theory, but there are several places I disagree with how you're going about it.The idea of this only going to high school juniors or seniors seems unfair to those of us who are older. I'm finishing my last year of college now, and likewise am only now beginning to attempt (and succeed) in breaking into the RPG industry. It seems that given that, I should be just as likely to be rewarded for my efforts as someone six years younger than me. Especially considering I'm going to be paying back student loans even when I'm finished with college (and will be attending graduate school).The idea of how to award these prizes seems somewhat flawed to me. First, there is no college in the world where you can go for a degree in how to create role-playing games. This means that the awards would have to go to people pursuing majors that could be applied to creating role-playing games, and this opens up the very large can of worms that is subjectivity. Certainly English majors would count, as would Literature majors. But what about History majors? Mythology? Theology? Computer Science for the computer RPG gamers? Business and Marketing (ideas on how to make your game succeed in the market)? Almost anything can be applied somehow as being related to creating RPGs. What's more though, you don't need to get a RPG-related degree to turn out great products. Seak K. Reynolds got his B.A. in Chemistry. Bruce Cordell graduated with a degree in Environmental, Population, & Organismic Biology ("with a nod to Molecular and Cellular Biology"). Neither are game-related degrees, but both are incredible game designers.Finally, while fun, it hardly seems fair to require the applicants to be able to get to GenCon. Especially if they're just in high school, this is almost totally beyond their own power to do, and I doubt their parents will be too pleased that they have to take their kid to Indianapolis to cash in on the $2,000 scholarship prize.As I said, the idea is very deserving of merit, but it just doesn't seem to work that well when applied to real life.</blockquote>

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