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

[Twilight]

Orcus

Orcus,

Those ethos sentences you wrote were very well written.

Must I write on such a level to be chosen for the 10 page, or just make sure my ethos is of proper size and a good summary?

 

[Zulkir]

I'm not sure I'm clear on that. Are you saying our submission should take 30 seconds to read, or 3 hours? And how are we going to know how fast each judge can read our richly detailed text?

What he is saying is that your submission should include lots of explosions, a few good one liners and a gratitous skin shot. See if you can, in words, recreate the trailer for "The Scorpion King".

AV

 

[Olidammara]

What he is saying is that your submission should include lots of explosions, a few good one liners and a gratitous skin shot. See if you can, in words, recreate the trailer for "The Scorpion King".

AV

Good one.
Thank you for your patience. I think it's time for me to move along now.

 

[Zulkir]

Really important!!!

All,

I have been stating that if a team of people want to submit a world that each of them must sign their own submission agreement form. This is not incorrect, but I am now informed by legal that it is okay for the team to all sign the same form. In addition - and this is critical- you must print out our PDF version of the submission agreement form. We cannot accept a printed version from another program (like MSWord). Finally, and this is also critical, a seperate submission agreement must be signed for each world that is submitted. For example:

Team Alpha with 4 members designs "IHOP: World of Pancakes" - one release form, four names on the form.
Team Beta with 4 members designs "Survivor: Lava Pits" and "World of Death" - two release forms (one for each submission) each having all four names.

If someone has already submitted and their is a problem due to any of the above we will contact you and give you the opportunity to correct your submission. So far we have only received one problem submission due to the above issues and our admin is contacting that person (so I don't think this is going to be much of a problem).

Finally, we will be notifying people when this is all over, if they made the top ten cut. If you send an e-mail with your cover letter we will let you know by e-mail. If you do have an e-mail please do send it in your cover letter as it will really help our admin out in the contact process. If you do not have an e-mail or you did not send it in the cover letter, don't worry we will send out notice by snail mail.

AV

 

[Tolen Mar]

Re: Really important!!!

you must print out our PDF version of the submission agreement form

Man! I saw that, and went to wizards website to get the PDF. Then I saw the template, and went to DL it. That ticks me off! I had my proposal all ready, it looked good, it read well, it was a professional job. Now the template says that the proposal must have the following sections CLEARLY LABELLED!!!!

Up until that point, I was under the impression that labelling the entries didnt matter as long as they were all there, and all in order. After adding those labels in, the flow is off, and it keeps getting interrupted by the stinkin labels! I even had to go back and tighten it even more because adding those labels pushed it over the one page mark!

I guess Im done ranting, just make sure the rest of you remember to label those sections...

 

[SteveMND]

Thanks for the update, Anthony. Since a large number of the early submissions were as a result of the non-PDF documents that were apparently sent out to the various fan sites (or at least ENworld), you may be getting a comparatively large number of entries that are going by that particular version...

Steve M

 

[jester47]

As for the "movie trailer" idea, that is right on. You have 30 seconds to encapsulate a 3 hour movie. Same thing. You have 1 page to encapsulate a whole game world. Find the highlights, the theme, the feel. Show me the hero, show me a core action and conflict. Come up with a tag line. Every movie has one. That is your answer to question 1.

Clark

Funny my free agent just called and was shouting "SHOW ME THE HERO!"

Aaron.

 

[mythusmage]

An Odd Question

What if all ten semi-finalists are from the same guy?

 

[kingpaul]

cash disbursements

I might be blind, but I don't think I've seen this question posted.

For those lucky few who manage to get money out of this, will WotC cut a check for the whole amount (and thus the winner is responsible for their own taxes), or will taxes be taken out of it?

I'm not familiar with these kinds of agreements (I'm a wage slave in a cube farm), so am ignorant.

 

[mythusmage]

As free lancers the three who have their proposals reach the final round will have to take care of the taxes themselves. This is earned income, and so is subject to state (if any) and Federal income tax.