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

[isirga eth]

Re: Re: Is that so?

Show-off!

More like "very-talented-and-desperate-RPG-designer-wannabe", actually...

But let's not stray from the subject. Seriously, I can do all that. Am I hired?: D

 

[Tom Cashel]

Re: Re: Re: Is that so?

Seriously, I can do all that. Am I hired?

Sadly, I imagine you'll have to withstand the submission process with all of us hopefuls...

 

[Umbran]

I think if that is what they wanted it would be splashed all over the WOTC website. I don't think they want submissions from minors. The word is getting out on boards like this filled with hardcore gamers. Older gamers.

So, that makes it advertising aimed at older, hardcore gamers. What makes you think that such an advertisement must be aimed at all gamers, rather than being focused?

Plus, the fact that we got it first does not mean that it won't be all over the WOTC pages soon enough. I'm quite sure their message boards will fill with the news quickly

Also the contest would run for longer and accept e-mail submissions.... No I suspect this may very well be legit.

Wait a second! Who suggested the offer wasn't legitimate? It sure wasn't me. I suggested that a large motivation for the offer was advertising. I in no way suggested that they weren't going to follow through on their offer.

Let's face it, new and interesting campaign worlds are a dime a dozen. They don't need to shell out $160,000 to find or create one for publication. The interest generated by the contest, however, is like gold to a game company, is it not?

Oh, another thing they get out of this, if they so choose - market research. They're going to see a pretty good sample of what people actually want and play in. At the same time they see people's offers, they'll get to see what worlds we play in - and thus what kind of worlds we are interested in.

While some of the first 10 may be really odd, unique game-worlds, I won't be surprised if a number of them are chosen as exemplars of types they see frequently in the submissions. If they see lots of aquatic worlds, I'd expect them to think, "Hmm, aquatic worlds seem popular, let's pick the best for further development". Good to try something really new and unique, but also good to try things that are obviously well liked among the gamers, no?

 

[Tallow]

Art, TCG, et. al.

I'm not so sure that Mr. Valterra meant that each submission will eventually have to include art, trading card games, novels, et. al. I'm pretty sure what he meant was, that your 100 page bible should include all the pertinent information to which the designers/authors of said media would need.

In other words, at some point in my bible, I should describe how people dress, skin tone, hair styles, beards?, etc. It can be quite a daunting thing for a single person to pay attention to THAT much detail across the boards of geography, society, economy, politics, religion, etc. That isn't to say that a single person couldn't pound out very excellent 100 page documents.

For right now, a one page synopsis is all that's needed, and if later we see that we will actually need to provide, art, card game ideas, novel abstracts, etc., then we can of course find more people to create a team.

Tallow

 

[isirga eth]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Is that so?

Sadly, I imagine you'll have to withstand the submission process with all of us hopefuls...

Of course; I plan to submit my entry as everybody else. I meant it BESIDES the contest (I'll withstand losing the contest much better if my many - ahem - talents get me a job to compensate ).

And thank you for correcting the smiley, by the way

 

[Desdichado]

They can't expect too much in the way of art, because the timing doesn't allow for anything much besides pre-generated art to go into the thing.

I wouldn't get disheartened because they are going to ask for a fully fleshed out campaign bible that can be used to write and illustrate a complete FRCS type book without them having to do much of the development. I didn't really expect anything less.

 

[Monte At Home]

Re: Good morning

Okay, I'm starting to get nervous about how many entries we are going to get.

I would be too. Based on the different venues this is already circulating in (among hungry fiction writers as well as gamers), I'm predicting you'll get around 5,000 submissions.

Even if 4,000 of them are crap, that's a lot to get through in just over a week.

The danger to applicants is that if the judges have to move through submissions that fast, this becomes more like a lottery than a round of submissions. So I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Sigma]

Re: Re: Good morning

I would be too. Based on the different venues this is already circulating in (among hungry fiction writers as well as gamers), I'm predicting you'll get around 5,000 submissions.

Even if 4,000 of them are crap, that's a lot to get through in just over a week.

The danger to applicants is that if the judges have to move through submissions that fast, this becomes more like a lottery than a round of submissions. So I hope I'm wrong.

Not only that, but judging by other threads on this board, it looks like there will be a lot of spamming. 4-10 entries from a single person in some cases.

 

[blickish]

WOW!!

That is the absolute worst mis-spelling of Pratchett that I have ever seen.

That's funny. I thought he said Neil Gaiman...

 

[wdodd]

Re: Good morning

Okay, I'm starting to get nervous about how many entries we are going to get.

On the opengaming list I suggested we start a pool to pick the new date for second round decisions after WoTC realizes that they can't review all the submissions before everyone takes off for a long Independence Day weekend.

I'll take July 31st.