WotC's Campaign search - Storytime

[Furn_Darkside]

It's not a literal theft that I'm worried about, or even pondering over, it is the notion that wizards might be doing something underhanded or disingenious with it.

Do you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning?

Your mailman might be doing something to your mail.

Your boss might be doing something about your future in that business.

Who knows what your pet is doing behind your back.

FD

 

[Dave Blewer]

Sundered Skies

Rune,

Thanks for the kind words about my setting and please accept my apologies for not updating the storyhour... A series of RL problems, my group undergoing a change, an upsurge of freelance work and a certain setting proposal have effectively put an end to that game.

However I will be starting a new game in the same setting very, very soon and will start a new Storyhour when I do so.

On the subject at hand I do not feel any anxiety about my setting proposal (it would be very cool if I made it too the next stage, but certainly have no expectation that I will)... If any of my ideas get recycled into something that I recognise then that is great!

 

[WizarDru]

I am no fan of Limp Bizkit, but from what I understand, the accusation that they 'stole' material from their fans is skewing the information a bit. Guitarists were allowed to audition for the band as part of a publicity stunt, and signed forms that spelled out what would happen. The main reason they were asked to sign away those rights was to allow Limp Bizkit to make a video of the search. I sincerely doubt that the 60 seconds each one of the thousands of guitarists had is going to somehow create some sort of satori in the band, based on a poor rendition done in substandard settings with less than ideal equipment. Most of the dissatisfaction from the LB situation appears to be from people disgruntled that they didn't get what they consider a fair chance, and turning that anger on the band.

As for the WOTC situation, similar protections are needed for this competition. Furthermore, as has been mentioned, the single page summary isn't going to provide a masterful amount of material. If WOTC merely wanted to steal ideas, they'd just cruise the story hour threads, not hold a competition that makes them a target for such accusations. The one-page summary is as much a test of the writer as the setting. How well the writer conveys his ideas and hints at how well he can expand upon them is crucial. Given the limited parameters of the summary format, how many individual ideas do you actually think they've seen? I'd wager far fewer than you might think.

Now, if you want to spend time worrying about how people might be mistreating you, that's certainly a way to spend your time. I just have no intention of joining you.

 

[Someone]

 

[Desdichado]

Folks, don't feed it.

 

[Lucent]

Truth be told, I'm not actually worried to any degree about this or anything similar happening. It's just some guessing and trailed off thoughts that fell out of my ear while I work on other things to occupy my time between now and the final decision in the contest.

I think a good percentage of us here sent in a submission, and I think we all poured our hearts out into whatever we did. The idea that one of you had about WotC using this as both the setting search and a large poll on what people want to see at the same time is pretty damned interesting.

In fact, if you expand on that idea, you could almost think that the reviewers of the submissions would look over the documents, find a common ground that they may share, or something that they all mentioned that they would want to see, and then look through the submissions to see if one sent in matched those peramiters.

Almost like being judged by your peers without knowing it ^_~

But no, I'm not shaking in fear about this at all. It's just a shot in the dark for some conversation ^_^. But I would be really upset if something less than honest happened.