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

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THE FR CORE ETHOS STATEMENT

Hello everyone, it seems the thief has a heart of gold, or maybe it is just a sense of fair competition.

The thief looked down the cavern's passage, the dragon was coming, that was for sure. The paladin was saying somthing to him, but he was not listening. Sure they could escepe together, just maybe. But there was only one dragon. Splitting up would ensure the survival of both. But which one? The thief was not about to take a chance with his own life, so that meant there was only one way to split up and ensure survival. Someone would have to stay behind. The thief knew the paladin would not do this. Fingering the pommel of his dagger he gazed at the open space in the armor behind the paladins knee. He thought about the quick stroke. But then he remembered the code of the guild of Kor-Nalakat. He who steals by the knife, dies by the knife. And was he not stealing time from his companion? Furthermore, what would he meet later in these caves. There were still many more dangers- better faced with a friend than alone. And indeed the paladin was a friend. And with this the thief chose a middle ground "Horgart!" he shouted the paladin's name, "Survival of the fittest!" At this he began running down the passage. If they were both fit, they would both survive. Even though they were quite useful, the thief knew that dirty tricks could only get you so far. And he needed to get as far as he could.

THE SENTENCE: Page 6. Column 1. Ancient Wonders, paragraph 1 line 1.

"The history of Faerun is dominated by the cyclic rise and cataclysmic destruction of empires founded on knowledge of the intricacies of magic."

Everything about the forgotten realms can come back to this statement.

Aaron
 

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Folks,

Welcome to the last week to get it postmarked!

Okay, things that I can cover:

1) Our admin is named Christina. You can make her happy by a) following the rules so she doesn't have to take the time to toss your submission b) she likes big envelopes more than small envelopes with folded entrys. To be clear none of this will give you an advantage since she has no vote and we won't know if your entry came in a small or large envelope. But it never hurts to be on the good side of the admin.

2) Mail is now arriving in bins.

3) Answering a question from another board, yes you should be very familiar with the three core books (PHB, DMG and MM) in order to do the 10 page submission (that seems obvious to me but *shrug*).

AV
 

My Friend and I are both submitting enteries. He just mailed me this and I thought it would give someone a hoot.

Thanks for the help, I encorporated many of your ideas. I switched around the order a little like Adam suggested, and
I did many of John's excellent punctuation related changes. I also added a section about orcs and pies.

I mailed it out this morning, so I don't have to deal with it anymore. I got sick of seeing it after I worked on it for another 2.5 hours on Sunday. Now, I am ready to be bitter. I am prepared for the "Thank you for your submission proposal, we received many excellent ideas, but were not able to include yours among them. Thank you for participating in our contest, and we hope you will buy our newest campaign world, "Orcs and Pies".




River
 

mythusmage said:
Alan Kellogg's One Sentence Setting Proposal Which Covers Everything You Need to Know About the Setting.

You kill people and it's legal.

(Six words. Who'll be the first to beat that?;))

Boot, Slay, Loot!

River
 


Re: Parchment paper?

dema said:
Hey Anthony-

Is very light parchment paper ok to use?

Just wondering-

Dema,

Even if it's ok, which I imagine it is, you might want to check and see how well a copy of your proposal will look when made from the parchment. Remember, the review committee gets a copy of the 1 page proposal, not the original.

-Chad Justice
 

ethos statement

This is my first post but I managed to wade through all 30 pages of this subject without getting another cup of copy.

The ethos statement is interesting in that the entertainment industry uses the same thing to sum up their movies. Each studio maintains a large 'red book' which lists each story as a title and one or two sentences. It's a quick way to get a read on a story, or in this case, a world.

I'm glad I read through all of these threads. Thanks for all of the useful contest information in these posts...and the humor contained in the ones that are 'not so useful' but fun, nevertheless.

Gary Pratt
Creative Director
Hallmark Cards (wishing it was Wizards)
 


Could someone who knows someone please tell the WOTC people that the link to the contest guidelines and the submission agreement don't appear to be working.

Could just be over-worked, I reckon.
 

Paka said:
Could someone who knows someone please tell the WOTC people that the link to the contest guidelines and the submission agreement don't appear to be working.

I was just there within the last half hour, and all the links worked fine.
 

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