Who else was contacted by WOTC but didn't win?

[Kai Lord]

No offense, but it seems more likely to me that your proposals were notable but so close to the ones that were chosen that they preferred to get you to sign off properly now rather than wait and have you challenge it later. *shrug*

You believe they went through 11,000 proposals to see which ones were very similar to the ones they chose, a week before they actually made their final choices, and then contacted those people even though we had to sign a disclaimer up front stating we recognized that their could very well be proposals similar to ours?

 

[Mallus]

Same here...

...Kai. My buddy and co-creator prepared our submission document, and in a dazzling display of procrastination, we just got our document off under the wire, with only his signature on it.

About four weeks ago, Christina Matthews emailed him, mentioned a talk with their legal dept. and requested my signature be snail-mailed to them, no later than Aug. 16.

Needless to say this set off a firestorm of speculation, premature celebration, and alcohol consumption. I drank a frightening amount of vodka at my fav. local bar here in Philly <plug> Tritone between 15th and 16th on South St.</plug>

When we sobered up, we concluded the likely thing was we had transitioned to the "short list" or "shorter list". Pretty soon after this Anthony Valterra mentioned a bit about the mechanics of judging; each reader's top 10's. So we made onto somebody list.

Damn, damn, damn.... and a belated congratulations to the winners.

 

[Maraxle]

Darn. Now I'm wishing that I hadn't followed the directions so well, so that I would know if I made someone's short list.

 

[Pielorinho]

There was a writing panel at DragonCon devoted to how to get published in the gaming field. Several of the folks on the panel said that they saw a big market for new, unique campaign settings. "The vultures," said the guy from Sovereign Stone, "are circling over the discarded entries from the WOTC setting search."

They mentioned that in the coming months, we'd probably see a lot of publishers soliciting people's losing submissions to WOTC's search. One guy mentioned that he might ask friends at WOTC to point him toward four or five setting proposals that he liked, but that didn't quite make the cut.

My impression is that even if you didn't get through this round, there's hope that you'll get through with a D20 publisher. And in doing so, you may find out that somebody at WOTC noticed your submission enough to pass it along to a friend in the industry.

Daniel

 

[Kai Lord]

Re: Same here...

...Kai. My buddy and co-creator prepared our submission document, and in a dazzling display of procrastination, we just got our document off under the wire, with only his signature on it.

About four weeks ago, Christina Matthews emailed him, mentioned a talk with their legal dept. and requested my signature be snail-mailed to them, no later than Aug. 16.

Needless to say this set off a firestorm of speculation, premature celebration, and alcohol consumption. I drank a frightening amount of vodka at my fav. local bar here in Philly <plug> Tritone between 15th and 16th on South St.</plug>

When we sobered up, we concluded the likely thing was we had transitioned to the "short list" or "shorter list". Pretty soon after this Anthony Valterra mentioned a bit about the mechanics of judging; each reader's top 10's. So we made onto somebody list.

Damn, damn, damn.... and a belated congratulations to the winners.

Ha, I hear you man. My friend called me up three days before the deadline and asked if I wanted to send anything in. I hadn't really given it a lot of thought but since he was willing I said what the hell and we brainstormed over the phone.

He then wrote up a rough draft of our ideas, emailed it me (since we live in different states), I spent an hour and a half rewriting it the night before the deadline then sent it back to him and he printed it out and mailed it in with just his signature.

We thought it was awesome but after rereading our proposal I wished I had taken just a little more time to tweak it just a bit. Needless to say when Christina contacted us we thought we were in and celebrated accordingly. Then the next day Anthony said he had his top ten picked out so that sobered us up a bit. We weren't in the finals just yet, but somebody had us on their short list....

 

[Ace]

There was a writing panel at DragonCon devoted to how to get published in the gaming field. Several of the folks on the panel said that they saw a big market for new, unique campaign settings. "The vultures," said the guy from Sovereign Stone, "are circling over the discarded entries from the WOTC setting search."

They mentioned that in the coming months, we'd probably see a lot of publishers soliciting people's losing submissions to WOTC's search. One guy mentioned that he might ask friends at WOTC to point him toward four or five setting proposals that he liked, but that didn't quite make the cut.

My impression is that even if you didn't get through this round, there's hope that you'll get through with a D20 publisher. And in doing so, you may find out that somebody at WOTC noticed your submission enough to pass it along to a friend in the industry.

Daniel

That would be way cool! If I only knew which one almost made the cut. Sigh....

 

[Heylel Teomim]

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My team was contacted a few weeks ago as well, with the same request for all member's signatures. I'd certainly like to think it means we ended up on someone's top ten list.

Woulda been nice to win, but our proposal was a setting we were designing anyway, before the contest was ever announced. We'll certainly finish it. It originated as a LARP, but who knows where it will go now =)

Heylel

 

[Buttercup]

Probably shouldn't say ass or asses, although they do put them right on prime time television in the USA now (and for the last ten years or so).

There was a young lady named Glass,
Who had a remarkable ass.
'Twas not rounded and pink,
as you probably think,
but was brown, and had ears, and ate grass.

I'm sorry, I just had to do that.