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WotC Seeking Your Setting Proposals (was "Big Wizard announcement")
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Story Line . . . ?
google: english latin translator
http://www.google.com/search?q=english+latin+language+translator&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1
Some of the translators are better than others, but most exist and work to satisfaction.
-Tim
Altmann said:
google: english latin translator
http://www.google.com/search?q=english+latin+language+translator&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1
Some of the translators are better than others, but most exist and work to satisfaction.
-Tim
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: aaaarrrrrgggghhhh
That would be incredibly stupid on the part of WOTC.
1. People who submitted are their core customers. If I were them I'd be sending out a form Thank-you letter. If they're really smart they would promise to later send a coupon for the first product released for the new campaign setting. Want to convince any potential sour grapes folks to buy the new setting!
River
Vaxalon said:
That would be incredibly stupid on the part of WOTC.
1. People who submitted are their core customers. If I were them I'd be sending out a form Thank-you letter. If they're really smart they would promise to later send a coupon for the first product released for the new campaign setting. Want to convince any potential sour grapes folks to buy the new setting!
River
NoOneofConsequence
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Re: What are people actually writing?
This was my feeling all along. Mine came out a lot more like the blurb from the back of the campaign setting box/book than a one page summary of a world. 'Course I could be completely wrong.
Many folks are talking about "explaining" their world within the given limits. I had a dreadful feeling that if I had to explain it, it shouldn't have gone in the one page. I felt that the one page should make them want to know more, not feel like they already understand it.
Of course, there's only one way to find out who is right and who is round filed. Bring on July 3.
Morgenstern said:
This was my feeling all along. Mine came out a lot more like the blurb from the back of the campaign setting box/book than a one page summary of a world. 'Course I could be completely wrong.
Many folks are talking about "explaining" their world within the given limits. I had a dreadful feeling that if I had to explain it, it shouldn't have gone in the one page. I felt that the one page should make them want to know more, not feel like they already understand it.
Of course, there's only one way to find out who is right and who is round filed. Bring on July 3.
Mouseferatu
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Wow. According to Bruce Cordell, who posted over on Monte's boards, at the rate the submissions have been coming in, he wouldn't be surprised if they "broke 20,000." 
Man, I expected some stiff competition, but yeesh...
Man, I expected some stiff competition, but yeesh...
Undead Pete
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1 in 10,000....mouseferatu said:Wow. According to Bruce Cordell, who posted over on Monte's boards, at the rate the submissions have been coming in, he wouldn't be surprised if they "broke 20,000."
Man, I expected some stiff competition, but yeesh...
1 in 20,000....
Still better than the lottery.
Morgenstern
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Number of entries greater than expected
Man, I just hope they up the number of 10-page slots somewhat proportionately to the number of responses they get. Reducing even 10,000+ entires to only ten second round competitors on only a week stinks of crap shoot rather than carefully considered review. I am fairly confident that 50 or even 100 of the most serious competitors would be willing to write a 10-page synopsis if that will increase the odds of their submissions being judged on merit rather than "this looked pretty good after 70 straight hours of reading these things..."
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I think a lot of people would write 10-pagers just for the practice of getting their thoughts together
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Man, I just hope they up the number of 10-page slots somewhat proportionately to the number of responses they get. Reducing even 10,000+ entires to only ten second round competitors on only a week stinks of crap shoot rather than carefully considered review. I am fairly confident that 50 or even 100 of the most serious competitors would be willing to write a 10-page synopsis if that will increase the odds of their submissions being judged on merit rather than "this looked pretty good after 70 straight hours of reading these things..."
.I think a lot of people would write 10-pagers just for the practice of getting their thoughts together
.Re: Number of entries greater than expected
How many times can you protect a caravan?
How many different ways can you write the word 'caravan'?
Not alot.
Alot of the worlds will be based on an archtypical setting. Most will be the same as 10%(guess) of the other entries. There might be 10(guess) major threads of entries.
There may be only 20(guess) unique types of entries out of 20000(guess) once major archtypes are considered and discarsded.
They then will have to whitle things down. Obviously, it would be better to have two writers per unique entry (since one might botch a setting up... that doesnt mean the setting is bad).
So there should be at least 20x2 settings that should make the second round: But it should all be dependant on how many unique settings there are, not how many entrants there are.
They probably thought that they'd get maybe 1000 entries... well.. hehe... they underestimated. They've got 10 days to cover 20000(guess) entries.
Thats 2000 entries a day.
Thats 300 per panel member per day. Thats 37 an hour, or 2 mins per entry.
So... they'll read the ethos, then they'll read the 'whats different', and if its good, then they'll put it asside as one of the few that they will review after work.
If they've got 10000 entries, they'll spend 3 mins on each. I'm assuming 6 panel members working a full 8 hours a day for 10 days. We all know that that will be difficult to do.
a) Either they get more panel members
b) Slip the July 3rd date
c) Do a bad job at reading everything
d) work alot of overtime
Its actually less time, since they need at least a day as a panel to whitle things down from 100 to 10~20.
-Tim
Morgenstern said:Man, I just hope they up the number of 10-page slots somewhat proportionately to the number of responses they get. Reducing even 10,000+ entires to only ten second round competitors on only a week stinks of crap shoot rather than carefully considered review. I am fairly confident that 50 or even 100 of the most serious competitors would be willing to write a 10-page synopsis if that will increase the odds of their submissions being judged on merit rather than "this looked pretty good after 70 straight hours of reading these things..."
I think a lot of people would write 10-pagers just for the practice of getting their thoughts together
How many times can you protect a caravan?
How many different ways can you write the word 'caravan'?
Not alot.
Alot of the worlds will be based on an archtypical setting. Most will be the same as 10%(guess) of the other entries. There might be 10(guess) major threads of entries.
There may be only 20(guess) unique types of entries out of 20000(guess) once major archtypes are considered and discarsded.
They then will have to whitle things down. Obviously, it would be better to have two writers per unique entry (since one might botch a setting up... that doesnt mean the setting is bad).
So there should be at least 20x2 settings that should make the second round: But it should all be dependant on how many unique settings there are, not how many entrants there are.
They probably thought that they'd get maybe 1000 entries... well.. hehe... they underestimated. They've got 10 days to cover 20000(guess) entries.
Thats 2000 entries a day.
Thats 300 per panel member per day. Thats 37 an hour, or 2 mins per entry.
So... they'll read the ethos, then they'll read the 'whats different', and if its good, then they'll put it asside as one of the few that they will review after work.
If they've got 10000 entries, they'll spend 3 mins on each. I'm assuming 6 panel members working a full 8 hours a day for 10 days. We all know that that will be difficult to do.
a) Either they get more panel members
b) Slip the July 3rd date
c) Do a bad job at reading everything
d) work alot of overtime
Its actually less time, since they need at least a day as a panel to whitle things down from 100 to 10~20.
-Tim
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