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

[Pielorinho]

My tips for all of you entering the contest:
-Before you start writing, have a glass of wine. In fact, polish off the bottle. It'll open up your creativity like nothing else.
-Don't waste time poring over your submission for nitpicky little errors. WOTC has editors who can proofread and revise for you: you're the writer, not the grammar teacher.
-Forgotten Realms is a known success. The more your entry emulates FR, the likelier it'll be to win. Overlooked Counties, for example, would be an awesome name for your submission.
-Nothing says quality like exclamation points!!!! Use lots of them! to show that you're passionate! about your setting!!!!!!
-Only squares, and Eric's Grandmother, don't like cussing. Next to an exclamation point, a really raunchy bit of profanity is the best way to show that you care about your subject.
-Remember that you don't just demonstrate creativity through your words: your choice of paper color, font, and even language can demonstrate that you're an original free-thinker.
-Everyone likes limericks.

If y'all follow all these rules in making your submissions, you'll make me a happy man.

Daniel
Why, yes, now that you ask, I DO plan to submit an entry. May the best DM win!

 

[Tallow]

Well I joined this message board community solely so I could read about this contest, respond here with questions I may have for AV/Zulkir, and chat with you all about it. I've had this home campaign detailed in my head for years. I guess its about time I put it on paper eh?

Tallow

 

[KDLadage]

Wow!

I think I am still in shock.

This has got to be one of the most increadible things I have ever seen happen in the RPG business.

Yes, I have entered. No, it is not Umbragia (that I sold the print rights to, you might recall). There are a lot of good writers that will enter this contest -- I know of at least three over on the Pyramid Boards that are getting into it. Lord knows how many D&D fans will get involved (if these baords are any indication...) Add in multiple entries for single writers... and what you have is a few thousand 1-page entries that a pannel of judges will have to sift through...

Wow.

Like I said, I think I am still in shock.

 

[wdodd]

I'd much rather see some of the 10 pagers!

I'd like to see those too, but WoTC won't own them and so they won't be able to publish them. I still hope that EN World will provide a place for people to post their one-pagers and ten-pagers. It should be a separate forum so each submission can be its own thread.

 

[Arthur Tealeaf]

!!!

120 THOUSAND DOLLARS?????????????????+

Wow!

That could...

THAT COULD BY ME A BRAND NEW BIKE!!!!!

WooHOO!!!

I'm entering for SURE!

Will this work?-> THE NEARLY FORGOTTEN REALMS, a setting of Axe and Wizardry where heroes battle monsters with sticks and magic!

 

[KDLadage]

I have an idea for the 10-page submissions (once we get to that stage)

And I posted it in this thread.

 

[Plane Sailing]

My tips for all of you entering the contest:

...snip...

Daniel
Why, yes, now that you ask, I DO plan to submit an entry. May the best DM win!

ROFLMAO! What a fantastic bunch of suggestions! I'll obviously be following every one of them while crafting my submission

Cheers

 

[Sigma]

A question for Mr. Valterra,

I am sorry to pester you on nit-picking details, but your previous posts did imply that following instructions is critical for acceptance.

As a writer, I usually use the cover letter to introduce myself, and mention my previous credits and qualifications. I may also write a paragraph or two concerning design principles of the proposal (though nothing on the actual world itself). Is this acceptable as a cover letter, or would you like it to simply be contact information?

Considering that it's going to be blind judging, information about you in your cover letter is pretty much a moot point. Neh?

 

[Desdichado]

I just posted this on another thread, but since it applies here, I'd thought I'd repost and see if I get a different set of replies...

I find it interesting that the 1-pager template doesn't actually ask for you to describe your setting per se, instead focusing on the heroes and villains and what's different. That's an interesting angle to this whole thing.

 

[KDLadage]

Interesting angle indeed. I managed to squeeze in a few setting details (as I am sure many have) -- but it did make the "pov" for the writing in that one-pager interesting, to say the least.