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WotC Seeking Your Setting Proposals (was "Big Wizard announcement")
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Femerus the Gnecro
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Yer all idiots.
I think it's time we all tapped a nice big keg of STFU
-Femerus
I think it's time we all tapped a nice big keg of STFU
-Femerus
seasong
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Re: Word Count
Absolutely. In fact, the Word Count is probably the central monster in the Psionic Vampires From Mars module (PVFM8-1)!
Oh, you weren't talking about the brain sucker.
In that case, no. What matters is that you have sufficient words to describe the setting, and sufficient font size to help the judges read the description. The exact balance between these two goals varies from submission to submission, with an absolute lower limit of Font Size = 10 and 0.75" margins (my personal guess, based on what I've seen on these boards).
Telim Tor said:
Absolutely. In fact, the Word Count is probably the central monster in the Psionic Vampires From Mars module (PVFM8-1)!
Oh, you weren't talking about the brain sucker.
In that case, no. What matters is that you have sufficient words to describe the setting, and sufficient font size to help the judges read the description. The exact balance between these two goals varies from submission to submission, with an absolute lower limit of Font Size = 10 and 0.75" margins (my personal guess, based on what I've seen on these boards).
Heap Thaumaturgist
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Well, sent mine out a few minutes ago. 5pm Eastern it will be on its way to the local distribution hub, to be put on a truck to the distribution hub closest to WotC.
Agonized over it for the whole time. Didn't finish it until about 2:30pm today, the day before the deadline for postmarking. That means mine will be one of the last read. I wanted to mail it tuesday, hitting about center-mass on the submissions flood.
All in all, not bad. 368 words, 1753 characters. 11pt Times New Roman with 1.5 line spacing, an extra line between each question.
I typed each question verbatim from the website, numbered list, and dropped down, indented, and started typing. Meaning there is alot of white space along the left side, with clear beginings and ends ... my usual submissions practice is to use a 12pt Courier New with double spacing. When I edit, that's what I like to edit, so that's what I usually type in. You can edit a 12pt double spaced courier document until the sun don't shine and still be able to read it. Lots of useful whitespace. Figured a vw font would be okay this time, though, and easier on the eyes for quick scans and no marking.
My only complaint is, with the indent, my ethos sentence was only three words onto a new line. But, honestly, that's anal retentiveness to the extreme. It just makes it look a little broken.
Each question got about four lines of text, two to three complex sentences. This genre is, at its basis, a derivative art form. I tried to cut away as much "fantasy stock" as I could, leaving only what was new and what was useful.
Now I just sit back and wait for July 3. I'll probably continue waiting on July 4 and 5 "just in case it's late in the mail and they misspelled my email address".
--HT
Agonized over it for the whole time. Didn't finish it until about 2:30pm today, the day before the deadline for postmarking. That means mine will be one of the last read. I wanted to mail it tuesday, hitting about center-mass on the submissions flood.
All in all, not bad. 368 words, 1753 characters. 11pt Times New Roman with 1.5 line spacing, an extra line between each question.
I typed each question verbatim from the website, numbered list, and dropped down, indented, and started typing. Meaning there is alot of white space along the left side, with clear beginings and ends ... my usual submissions practice is to use a 12pt Courier New with double spacing. When I edit, that's what I like to edit, so that's what I usually type in. You can edit a 12pt double spaced courier document until the sun don't shine and still be able to read it. Lots of useful whitespace. Figured a vw font would be okay this time, though, and easier on the eyes for quick scans and no marking.
My only complaint is, with the indent, my ethos sentence was only three words onto a new line. But, honestly, that's anal retentiveness to the extreme. It just makes it look a little broken.
Each question got about four lines of text, two to three complex sentences. This genre is, at its basis, a derivative art form. I tried to cut away as much "fantasy stock" as I could, leaving only what was new and what was useful.
Now I just sit back and wait for July 3. I'll probably continue waiting on July 4 and 5 "just in case it's late in the mail and they misspelled my email address".
--HT
EOL
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As I'm sure many of you are I'm trying to estimate how many submissions WoTC will get. The only really hard numbers I have are the number of views these threads have recieved:
Main thread (this one): 75,634
Submission FAQ Thread: 2.772
So which is a more accurate gauge? Personally I would think that any serious submitter would take a look at the FAQ thread, probably multiple times (I know I've been there probably a half a dozen times) so let's say that on average the serious submitter looked at the FAQ thread three times, that would mean there are 924 serious submitters from enworld, how many total submissions does that make? I'm guessing that enworlders represent about 1/4 of the total and that people have submitted an average of 1.5 submissions, this would give us 5544 total submissions. Or pretty long odds, but you knew that already.
Thoughts?
Main thread (this one): 75,634
Submission FAQ Thread: 2.772
So which is a more accurate gauge? Personally I would think that any serious submitter would take a look at the FAQ thread, probably multiple times (I know I've been there probably a half a dozen times) so let's say that on average the serious submitter looked at the FAQ thread three times, that would mean there are 924 serious submitters from enworld, how many total submissions does that make? I'm guessing that enworlders represent about 1/4 of the total and that people have submitted an average of 1.5 submissions, this would give us 5544 total submissions. Or pretty long odds, but you knew that already.
Thoughts?
Charwoman Gene
Adventurer
My submission is finally in.
How much you want to bet that it is starting to look like the ending of Miracle on 34th Street at the WotC office?
How much you want to bet that it is starting to look like the ending of Miracle on 34th Street at the WotC office?
Avatar_V
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Thanks
I just wanted to thank everyone on this board for really helping guide me a lot with this submission. I've never visted EN World before this contest, but I found it when I was looking for information on the contest and it has been invaluable. I hadn't even considered that heroes might mean something other then 'prominent NPCs' before I saw the posts here. I also tend to be a pretty wordy fellow, so I was having trouble keeping the word count down and was playing with the idea of using size 8 font. Again, the posts here lead me to cut some stuff and make it 10. I just sent it in this afternoon and it ended up being 770-odd words, which I know is long but for me it's pretty good . I'm amazed at the brevity some of you have been able to get; I don't think I could possibly explain my setting in any fewer words then I did! Oh well, thanks again for the help.
I just wanted to thank everyone on this board for really helping guide me a lot with this submission. I've never visted EN World before this contest, but I found it when I was looking for information on the contest and it has been invaluable. I hadn't even considered that heroes might mean something other then 'prominent NPCs' before I saw the posts here. I also tend to be a pretty wordy fellow, so I was having trouble keeping the word count down and was playing with the idea of using size 8 font. Again, the posts here lead me to cut some stuff and make it 10. I just sent it in this afternoon and it ended up being 770-odd words, which I know is long but for me it's pretty good
. I'm amazed at the brevity some of you have been able to get; I don't think I could possibly explain my setting in any fewer words then I did! Oh well, thanks again for the help.ghettognome said:My final edit came to 666 words. I don't know how I should take that. If I had thought the check word count before printing it, I might have done something to change that.
Folks we have a winner! The real contest was to see who the first person was to send us a submission with exactly 666 words.
Woot! woot!
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