WotC Seeking Your Setting Proposals (was "Big Wizard announcement")

[ilbrant]

The name of the submitting person has to be in the lower left corner. What do you put if it is a team? Does the team need a name to put there, or is it just the name of one person in the team?

Cheers for any help

 

[Tallow]

Okay I don't know if this question was answered anywhere, but I didn't see it in the quick search I made.

One of my team is in Paris and I need to get his signature on a submission form. Will WotC accept faxed signature pages or should I have him get sheet mailed to me asap?

My suggestion would be, if the time frame isn't going to work real well, to leave his name off the one page, and add it as part of your team should you be chosen for the 10 page treatement.

Andy Christian

 

[CrimsonHawk]

Deleted double post!

 

[CrimsonHawk]

A quick question if I may ...

I've already turned in a proposal. However, I noticed a couple of things Anthony touched on that concerns me.

1) I did speak, admittedly at length, on iconic characters for the setting when, as it now turns out, archetypical character examination was being asked for. (I did touch on archetypical characters, but that was in addition to the iconic characters ....)

2) When typing out my proposal, I set the questions themselves at size 10 font and the answers at size 8 font. I'm getting the impression the "audit team" may not like that.

Would I be out of line resubmitting the same proposal, re-written and reformatted to meet the clarified specifications discussed here?

Thanks!

=====O
Dale W. Robbins

 

[Olidammara]

Now you KNOW that wasn't the actual quote dude.

Are you challenging the veracity of my quoting ability?! Retract that, sir!

You did, indeed, say, "Hmm... can I write my proposal in pig latin?" If you look at your original message, it's obvious that the "Hmm..." part was followed by a bunch of stuff that I omitted for space -- that's what ellipses are for.

I'm glad that my real name isn't attached to these messages. Otherwise, your slanderous comments could hurt my chances of winning the contest.

Anyway...
Thanks for the feedback! Very helpful.

Another question: If I include a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) with my submission, would the judges share their opinions with me?

 

[mythusmage]

Then editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Kathryn Rausch, wrote in an editorial that she would only consider submissions printed using using 9 point type or larger. Others may prefer larger type, so consider her standard as a guideline.

Along with type size it helps to consider the font in question. Some fonts do not read well at small sizes, others were designed to be read at small sizes, and so don't read well at larger. Monacoand Geneva start to blur and smear below 9 or 10 points. Chicagoand Times, being designed for printing at very small sizes (4 or 5 points), look horrid at 12 points or greater. So if you really must use 8 point type, I'd recommend Chicagoor Times over any other available font.

Hope this helps

 

[Rasyr]

Another question: If I include a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) with my submission, would the judges share their opinions with me?

hahaha........ ROFLMAO.......

With estimites of between 5,000 and 30,000 submissions, I really don't think that anybody but the "approximately 10" semi-finalists will hear anything from WOTC regarding their submissions.

Here is a question (or two) for Anthony...

Once the semi-finalists have been selected, will WOTC be posting their names on the WOTC website?

I know that I would be interested in seeing the top 10 one page submissions, but I am pretty sure that you guys won't post those, at least until after the July 31st deadline if at all, so as to not having the semi-finalists reading each other's ideas....

So, will you be posting them (the one page sumbissions of the semi-finalists) at some point?

 

[Zulkir]

Afternoon all,

Our next round of questions (sponsored by Duff beer!)

1) Regarding team members in disperate places. If you can't get their ink signature on the page to us then add them after you get to the 10 page level (assuming you get there). We do need actual ink signature on actual paper not electronic or faxes.

2) Happy to be hunted down

3) Team members in lower left: Your choice you can either designate a team lead or you could go with last names only if there are only a few (Dewey, Cheatem and Howe).

4) Reagrding resubmitting. There is nothing in the rules to keep you from resubmitting. Only our admin might know unless we remember that proposal 122 looked alot like proposal 1098 (which is unlikely).

5) We will not be giving anybody feedback on their one page submissions.

6) Regarding making the 10 selected public, we will not do that but they may make themselves public if they wish. We want to respect their privacy. We may do the same for the final three, that is still up for debate.

7) Anticipating a question - if one of the ten decides to submit to a d20 company, yes we will confirm that they were one of the selected 10.

8) First batch came in this morning. I think I'll start an office betting pool on the number of submissions.

AV

 

[Vicente]

Re: Morning

Hello,

Process note - not really important but just so people will know. Our admin process the entries. She makes copies for all of the comittee but the copies have the names covers and replaced with a number. She keep the original which also has the number written on it. All we see is the one page submission with a number. She is also the first hurdle as she has been instructed to set aside any submission that has not followed instructions (so we don't even see it).

AV

That sentence means that if I send a colored work, you´ll get a B/W copy? If I have designed, let´s say, a colored title (probably not readable in B/W), should I change it?

Thanks in advance,

Vicente
Gravity Age Studios

 

[Rasyr]

Afternoon all,

6) Regarding making the 10 selected public, we will not do that but they may make themselves public if they wish. We want to respect their privacy. We may do the same for the final three, that is still up for debate.
AV

Will you, at any time, make the top ten one page submissions public (so that all us interested folks can see what the blind panel thought was interesting/unique enough tomake it into the top 10?

(note: I am not asking about the names of the top ten, just the one page submissions selected)