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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 530449" data-attributes="member: 63">I can understand Business, English, and Graphic design, but why put mathematics at the top of the list?  Roleplaying games definitely seem more of a literary occupation, requiring good storytelling skills.  Of course, the ability to lay out a product to make it have good appeal is important, as is the ability to run a company that produces these things, but unless you're thinking just about general game-theory, I don't see how mathematics really fits in.And no, actually I wouldn't want to restrict it to people of particular majors.  People change their majors all the time, and who knows how a brilliant gamer who is majoring in Latin or Psychology might find a way to bring his or her knowledge into the game world.  Heck, I took a Sociology class this year because I thought it would help me understand group roleplaying dynamics.  Practically any field of study could be applied directly to RPGs, except maybe the hard sciences.  I know that biology, physics, and chemistry might inspire some interesting and accurate rules for RPGs, but you can write rules for RPG-science with just a layman's understanding.  I don't think you really need to know the exact specifics of DNA gene recombination in order to write a monster manual.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Still, though, gamers come from all walks of life.  Why restrict who can apply.  I like your idea about requiring a writing sample, but only for some people.  We could have a few different categories--fiction, illustration, rules mechanics, adventure-writing, and possibly graphic design.  Then maybe a general 'other' category, for people who want to do stuff like write music that can be played during game sessions, or people who believe they could run a gaming business well.  There'd have to be a pretty flexible way to enter the competition, but I'm sure we can think of something.</blockquote>

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