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

[mirzabah]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Story Line . . . ?

I actually got the name of my world from my own mispronouncing the name on a street sign.

I had swapped two letters and added an extra letter by accident, and BOOM! My setting had a name......

I had a name I was pretty happy with, but before I submitted I thought I'd just do a quick search on Google to see if it was in use anywhere. Turns out it was the name of a crap fantasy book (good title, though ), so I thought about it some more and came up with a name that was tons better

 

[kenjib]

So, 20,000 entries at an estimated average of 2 hours a piece. What else could be accomplished with 40,000 man-hours of labor?

Hmmm....any ideas?

 

[mirzabah]

Anybody up for a race to 1000 replies?

 

[your father is]

Hmmm....any ideas?

Do you have any idea what kind of a pandora's box you are opening up here, kenjib? If anything has been proved around here in the last few days it is that we as a group are absolutely chocked full of ideas.

Would you like those ideas in singe page form?

 

[Duncan Haldane]

Re: As a side note...

Anyhoo, to break it down, without any extra income coming in, I calculated this at S/1 and got about $25K in federal taxes, and approx $10K for SS, and $9K again for Medicare. So out of the $120K you see about 75K.

That is assuming that the winner is from the US. WotC will receive a lot of submissions from outside the US.



Duncan

 

[Matt Black]

So, 20,000 entries at an estimated average of 2 hours a piece. What else could be accomplished with 40,000 man-hours of labor?

Hmmm....any ideas?

Two hours a piece?? If that was the average time spent on proposals, maybe I do have a chance
afterall. I think the average might be more like 12 hours. We spent maybe 30 hours on ours, but
then we're quite anal. How much time did other people spend?

MB

 

[Jamie44]

It took me a few hours each to type up mine. I had already been thinking about them, though.

 

[kenjib]

Two hours a piece?? If that was the average time spent on proposals, maybe I do have a chance
afterall. I think the average might be more like 12 hours. We spent maybe 30 hours on ours, but
then we're quite anal. How much time did other people spend?

MB

Good point. I spent more than two myself, but I figured I should account for the people who squeezed out some quick entries.

Okay, then how about 60,000 man-hours? Given 40 hour work weeks that's 1500 man-weeks of work, or approximately 28 or 29 people working for a year. Maybe not as much as it sounded like to me at first now that I break it down, but still alot.

 

[NoOneofConsequence]

Good point. I spent more than two myself, but I figured I should account for the people who squeezed out some quick entries.

Okay, then how about 60,000 man-hours? Given 40 hour work weeks that's 1500 man-weeks of work, or approximately 28 or 29 people working for a year. Maybe not as much as it sounded like to me at first now that I break it down, but still alot.

1500 person weeks of work? I think we just built a small town.

 

[damnit!]

Two hours a piece?? If that was the average time spent on proposals, maybe I do have a chance
afterall. I think the average might be more like 12 hours. We spent maybe 30 hours on ours, but
then we're quite anal. How much time did other people spend?

MB

I was just the editor, and I personally spent more than two hours. Then again, if English was my partner's primary language, maybe I would have spent less time. (Spellcheckers only make sure words are spelled correctly, not that they are used properly, or not repeated repetitiously... )