WotC Setting Bible

[grodog]

Perhaps a quick email/PM to Scott Rouse would let us know if that info is able to be shared?

 

[Nellisir]

IF I recall correctly, there were 12 semi-finalists and 3 finalists. Dawnforge, Morningstar, and Eberron were (obviously) all semi-finalists; Eberron and two others were finalists. I think the semi-finalists had to produce a small (30 pages?) "bible"; the finalists had to produce the big 125-page one.

I'd be very curious to see what the other two finalists, and the missing 7 semi-finalists, were like (I've heard parts of the other finalists were merged into Eberron). Clearly the finalists were under a NDA, but the semi-finalists don't seem to be (or something was worked out with Dawnforge and Morningstar).

 

[theredrobedwizard]

Eberron certainly wasn't the huge hit WOTC thought it might be...

It's not a what now? Eberron books fly off the shelves 'round here. Sold way better than FR in the time I worked at a game store. The FLGS I go to orders twice as many copies of each Eberron book than they do any other book from WotC, and they still sell them out.

*shrug* YMMV, I guess.

-TRRW

 

[Moggthegob]

I know eberron is starting to pick up steam around here. The novels are helping. The lack of RPGA support urts around here becus when people go to a gaming store they see people playing greyhawk and greyhawk becomes the setting they take to be default. If there were a "Living" style Eberron that got played at game stores it would REALY take off here.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Where is 'here' exactly?

 

[jdrakeh]

It's not a what now? Eberron books fly off the shelves 'round here. Sold way better than FR in the time I worked at a game store. The FLGS I go to orders twice as many copies of each Eberron book than they do any other book from WotC, and they still sell them out.

That seems to be the way it works here, as well. I'm not certain that there are any consistent Greyhawk groups locally and I know of only one long-running FR campaign. Eberron stuff, OTOH, seems to sell really well for the larger game shops here (or at least, as a frequent visitor to those stores, that's my impression).

 

[Baron Opal]

I personally would love to see the outline scheme for the 10 page semi-finalists. Some kind of framework to organize my thoughts would be great. I don't think that I could use the 100 page outline. I don't think I could write a consice 100+ pages on my world without gratification beyond my own ego.

 

[Glyfair]

I personally would love to see the outline scheme for the 10 page semi-finalists. Some kind of framework to organize my thoughts would be great. I don't think that I could use the 100 page outline. I don't think I could write a consice 100+ pages on my world without gratification beyond my own ego.

From comments that Keith has made, I believe that the 100+ pages were done with input and help from the D&D design staff. So it's not like the 100 pages were all Keith. It was a collaboration, with Keith just being the central person.

 

[jdrakeh]

I believe that ENWorld's own Jurgen Hubert was one of the semi-finalists with his Urbis, so you may want to ask him about this (provided that he's not still under NDA regarding the submission process and internal procedures).

 

[Xyxox]

I believe that ENWorld's own Jurgen Hubert was one of the semi-finalists with his Urbis, so you may want to ask him about this (provided that he's not still under NDA regarding the submission process and internal procedures).

Thanks for that info as I would really like to see what the guidelines were, too.