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

[River]

Ya know, I run multi-dimension campaigns a lot; I could probably find value in 5,000 one page world descriptions...

....though 5,000 worlds "sort of like Forgotten Realms but different" might not be so useful.

I myself would be more then happy to plop down $20 bucks for a 100 page book with 100 most original submissions WOTC can filter out. Thats just distilled creativity right there!

Forget "Splat Books", give me that.

River

 

[Greybar]

Three hole punch, eh?

That should be a good warning shot to people who are stretching the margins to the limits of their printers ability...

[glances down at draft beside keyboard]

whew. that wasn't me. [grin]

John

 

[Weeble]

AV,
One last question from me. How will you EVER make the deadlines to notify winners in time while giving every acceptable submission a fair shot? I can't imagine that every good submission will be looked at fairly, given the number that I think will hit the mailroom.

 

[damnit!]

Re: help a foreigner...

I'm looking for a disinterested person willing to check my proposal. I'm especially afraid that some of my sentence may sound awkard : it's hard to tell if a word sound ridiculous when you are not a native speaker.

I wouldn't exactly say I'm disinterested, as I editted a proposal for one person already, but I'd be willing to look at your submission, if you'd like. Just e-mail it to me ASAP; I'll check it over on Thursday and e-mail it right back to you. If you could, however, please save it in a format that Lotus WordPro 97 can read. I can filter several different file formats, including MS Word up to ver.6.

 

[Mercule]

AV,
One last question from me. How will you EVER make the deadlines to notify winners in time while giving every acceptable submission a fair shot? I can't imagine that every good submission will be looked at fairly, given the number that I think will hit the mailroom.

Heh! That's why I sent mine in on black paper typed in glow-in-the-dark ink. When Anthony sets _my_ entry down for the night, it's gonna keep on talking to him.

 

[NemesisPress]

Everybody is talking about the idea and the physical presentation as if those are the the most important aspects.

I'm sure most of the entries are imaginative ideas with a great deal of potential. But what WOTC will be looking for is someone who can develop it - that's one reason why the format is so specific.

 

[Ghostwind]

That's why I sent mine in on black paper typed in glow-in-the-dark ink. When Anthony sets _my_ entry down for the night, it's gonna keep on talking to him.

Dang! I knew there was something that I should have done before I sent it...

 

[Lord Zardoz]

Well, I sent my submission in today...

I sent it in, and I sent it in using the "Express Post" service provided by Canada Post. I managed to keep the submission to a very reasonable length after much editing. I did not agonize over it for the last month. I only actually sat down and typed out my ideas last night, and ran it through a spell checker a few times. I even went ahead and used this as an excuse to replace my broken printer with one that works.

So for the price of about $210.00 Canadian Dollars, I will have a particular peace of mind. It is the peace of mind that will come with the certanty of knowing that my idea was not worth considering beyond its initial submission. Though I have enough of an Ego that I would not be absolutly blown away if my submission is seriously considered. I know that my ideas are good ones. But I also do not think that I truly expect my idea to get me a shot at the $100 000 prize.

However, I think that it is better for me to be certain rather then to spend the next year and a half wondering what the result would have been if I had submitted. And if it does work out, and my idea does see print, then it is nice to know that my evil bastardry will eventually be inflicted upon thousands of gamers world wide.

END COMMUNICATION

 

[GreyOne]

Everyone can stop sending in their stuff. I just got a private email from AV that my entry has been fast tracked 'cause its "all that and a bag of chips". Thanks for coming out, though.



Jeez. I just finished reading all frickin' 34 pages of this thread (over two days).

 

[Oni]

Whelp, all done, just have to drop it in the mail in the morning.

Around 650 words, not including the secret hypnotic suggestions hidden deep within the verbal structure of my proposal.

Cheers and good luck all!