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

[Aloïsius]

659 words (638 without labels), Garamond 12 (Garamond 14 for labels), 2.3 cm left margin, 2.2 cm right margin, 2cm upper and low margin. And (not like this post ) checked by someone who do speak english.
I posted it via La Poste, because the express service (24 or 48 hours guaranted) cost 39 or 45 euro (roughly the same thing in US $)
I wonder how many people will realize (to late) after posting their masterpiece that they have forgotten to put such or such page in the envelope? I'm still afraid to have forgotten something.
Last question : When will we start a thread to compare our submissions? It will be an interesting lecture, and I don't think you risk to see your idea looted after 06.21. (And it's the best way to count how many submission came from EN-boarders, as soon as we know how many were received by WOTC : I'm quiet sure many of the future top 10 are known here)

 

[Altmann]

I posted it via La Poste, because the express service (24 or 48 hours guaranted) cost 39 or 45 euro (roughly the same thing in US $)

Btw, I noticed something funny : for a typical 20g submission, "priority" service costs 0.6 euro, while "regular" costs about 1 euro

Last question : When will we start a thread to compare our submissions?
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Feel free to start it...

 

[Ashtal]

Question for AV, or other WotC guys re: Proposal

[Edit: Ya, yah, I suck. I said you could call me a dunce or a ninny at leisure, right! I apologize. And always be sure to read uber-uber-uber carefully. I am lucky enough to have caught my exceptionally stupid error ahead of time. Be sure to have your P's and Q's all in order!]

But if anyone can clarify this, that would be helpful, and could save me $10. Calling me a dunce and a ninny is totally at your discretion as well.


Ashtal

 

[King_Stannis]

i agree, ashtal. it's a great opportunity, but it seems that at times it's been a chinese fire drill on WotC's part. first, you don't need to label the sections. then i think that it got upgraded to "recommended". then the whole idea submission agreement and pdf or not to pdf, that was the question. what the hell was up with their legal department requiring BURNED cd's with the pdf agreement? does that make sense in any way? i would think that that is just common sense.

if i didn't know better, i'd think it was a hastily put together program. but it is clearly not. seems to me like they put an unnecessarily quick deadline on this thing, though. sure, make the cutoff on friday, but give yourselves a little more time to read these things!

oh well, enough griping. it is a great opportunity, as i said, and i managed to navigate the maze of cryptic instructions and submit something. i'm glad i waited till this week, though, when the proverbial dust had settled.

 

[SteveMND]

Which requirements are we dealing with? Why wasn't the 'name at the bottom left hand corner' mentioned in the above 5 requirements if it is indeed a specific requirement?

While I'll admit some aspects of this promotion have seemed to have been a little hasty, let's not pick on Wizards just because you failed to read the material properly.

The fact that you had to have your name at the bottom left corner was very explicit from the beginning, and was documented on the Proposal Template that people were supposed to be following ("3. be structured in accord with the initial proposal template").

The version of the Template on the WotC website states very clearly: "7. Entrant [That's you. Your name must be typed in the lower left corner of the page and nowhere else.]"

And on the .doc file that was initially sent out by Wizards to sites such as ENWorld and others, on it's copy of the Template it also states clearly: "[Proposals should be no more than one page in length, typewritten. Please put the name of the entrant in the LOWER LEFT-HAND CORNER of the page and nowhere else.]" (original emphasis retained)

So it was there from the beginning, and very clear to boot. I don't see how you missed it, frankly.

Steve M

 

[seasong]

Re: Question for AV, or other WotC guys re: Proposal

"First-Round -- One (1) Page Proposals

All initial proposals must:

...

3. be structured in accord with the initial proposal template;"

...

Which requirements are we dealing with? Why wasn't the 'name at the bottom left hand corner' mentioned in the above 5 requirements if it is indeed a specific requirement?

Ashtal

(emphasis above added by me)

The initial proposal template includes your name, lower left corner, as item #7. If you do not use the template, you are not following directions.

 

[Tallow]

Weigh In

Ok, I've just finished my submission. I've rewritten all the sections at least once. Some twice. I've edited. I've had a friend edit it for me. I've also had two folks read it for effect comments. Such as, "Did it grab you? What did you think? Did it read well? Would you be interested in knowing more?" So right now I think I have a very good submission. We will see what happens though.

815 words, Times New Roman, Justify aligned, single space between each section, name at the bottom left hand corner.

I'll be posting my submission on another thread after the 21st. That way you all can see what I put together and comment on it.

Andy Christian

 

[Mercule]

Last question : When will we start a thread to compare our submissions? It will be an interesting lecture, and I don't think you risk to see your idea looted after 06.21.

I won't be doing _any_ public discussion of my idea until after I know I've been eliminated or have $100,000 in my pocket.

That's a really good way to get yourself DQed at any phase of this process, as it could influence the judges, technically. Sure, it'd be work for them to track down the offenders, but if I were them and knew there was a thread discussing people's submissions, I'd be inclined to check the ten finalists against the thread before announcing them, just to be sure they could handle an NDA.

 

[Tom Cashel]

Re: Question for AV, or other WotC guys re: Proposal

Alrighty - I sent my submission in yesterday, and I have been going over everything on the web (being the obsessive compulsive that I am).

One question Ashtal: why'd you wait until after sending the submission to go over everything on the web?

My chances just keep getting better!

I know, I know...what a bastard I am...

 

[slaughterj]

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...

Yep, imagine how the 8pt font, .5" margin submissions will look then - words chopped off, and the rest are too small to bother reading! LOL

Not to mention the idiots who couldn't compact into at least 10pt font, 1" margins. Should there be 1 that gets through, that person should be made to follow the same format for the larger submissions, i.e., have to crank out 20% more than the others!