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

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Re: oh dear...

KDLadage said:
...what if you already sent you submission (and, I suspect, it has already arrived) and you put teh whole thing together before there was a PDF to use... (I used the .doc file, printed and signed).

Twelve hours, and no answer to this? Not even a 'how dare you post if you haven't read all 700 pages of this thread' response? :)

Anthony stated somewhere above that he checked with their legal department & this is OK, as long as the Word document was not in any way altered. I don't know if this applies to the person above who changed the font, but while I'd expect so, I'd resubmit if I were him. (Me, I'm still working on that darn concept summary sentence ...)
 

Re: Oldimmara

mythusmage said:
Let me point out that if you do keep it up, you could find yourself barred from these boards. Do you want that?

Geez, if people were barred from these boards for being immature a**holes, there'd be about twelve members. And that was a fairly funny bit-for Olidimarra, anyway. Although it would have been better if he'd put the link in a {url} tag, so it wouldn't be obvious from a glance at your browser's address bar what he was up to.

Great, now I'm part of the problem.
 


Re: Re: cookies? margins?

seasong said:


12 point Times New Roman
1 inch margins
white space between paragraphs
reasonably sized titles (and an overall title in 20 point)
~450 words


Dang, and there I was patting myself on the back for getting my word count down to 700!

Yes, the core ethos sentence is a brain-buster. IMO, so's the "What's unique?" question. (Shouldn't I have addressed that in the last five answers? You want a summary, or OTHER things that are unique?) Still, I think that if you can't come up with whiz-bang answers for both, you probably shouldn't be submitting.
 

I agree. Personally, I had the hardest time with the "what's unique". I didnt know how to play that right away. I didnt know whether I should product reference or not, etc.

I believe in the theory of primacy and recency. I tell all the younger attorneys to do their closing arguments using this principle. People remember what they hear first and last. So open strong and close strong. If you have 3 points, rank them in strength 1, 2, 3. Then present them 1, 3, 2 (or some advocate 2, 3, 1) so that you begin and end strong.

Why do I mention this?

Your strong open is your ethos sentence (primacy) and your strong close is your why is this different (recency). Those were the first and last read on your submission.

Clark
 

Argh !

My turn to read the post 5 minutes too late.

1 submission per envelope ? I already sent one envelope with two submissions, each of them bundled in its own submission agreement, and with a common cover letter.

Do I have to resend (from Europe - about 2 euros per mail) ?

Be reading you,
YA

Btw.,
Actually, I found Olidammara's latest message quite funny.
 

Re: Re: Re: cookies? margins?

uberkitty said:


Dang, and there I was patting myself on the back for getting my word count down to 700!


Me :)

* 565 words according to HeVeA+Html2Txt+wc / 572 according to wc alone (probably around 540 for human readers)
* 11 pt text and 20 pt title
* 1 inch margins
* 1.7li between paragraphs
* LaTeX-quality pagination


Yes, the core ethos sentence is a brain-buster. IMO, so's the "What's unique?" question. (Shouldn't I have addressed that in the last five answers? You want a summary, or OTHER things that are unique?) Still, I think that if you can't come up with whiz-bang answers for both, you probably shouldn't be submitting.

Well, I put a summary of things I had not found any way of putting anywhere else (cosmogony, addition to rules, history, ...)

Be reading you,
YA
 

oops

I was working on finally putting my thoughts into words last night. I was quite happy with the notes I'd put together...until I realized that the setting I had described pretty much matched the Scarred Lands. Hence, I threw it out. Argh! Back to the drawing board.
 

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