Setting Ideas Contest

[Lord_of_Me]

both

does it have wings or does it just float about?

[Entsuropi]

does anyone else get the feeling that me hasnt read much fantasy?
ffs, there are flying horses in warhammer apart from anything else! try looking in the GW store, under monsters or bretonian heros. they are called pegasi.

[Lord_of_Me]

yeah i know but they might be either!

[GuJiaXian]

Back on topic, WotC has pushed back the results of the contest (yet again) to the end of August.  Again, how many of you contributed to the contest?

[Fellfrosch]

I contributed four ideas of my own and one that I co-wrote with Eric. The co-written one was definitely the weakest, mainly because we were both too busy with other things and did it more out of blind ambition than anything else. Two of my other ideas, however, I consider to be very strong contenders.

[Lord_of_Me]

good luck!

[Spriggan]

Well Wizards notified the 11 people a week ago...Looks like noboby here got though.  

[Mr_Pleasington]

Not necessarily  If you were contacted and accepted you can't let anyone know about it.  So Fell might have gotten in.  If he didn't, I'd love to hear his proposals.

[Fellfrosch]

Nope, I was not contacted...at least not by Wizards...

[Mr_Pleasington]

I think ENworld is doing a good thing.  They're taking all the submissions weren't accepting them and putting them on their site so GMs looking for inspiration can read through them.  Morrus is also having some charity contest where one of the setting proposals gets published by Natural 20 Press with all the proceeds going to charity.

[Fellfrosch]

What's the link?

And I'm not so sure it's a good thing. If I remember correctly, we never signed away creative ownership of these ideas--we just promised to do so if we won and Wizards paid us. If I'm not getting paid for my settings, I'd rather save them and use them for future novels. I suppose this doesn't prevent me from doing so, but I think it's pretty under-handed.

[Mr_Pleasington]

I don't think Morrus at ENworld is trying to be underhanded...most people just submitted their homebrew worlds and were never going to do anything else with them.  I think the database is a good idea and the contest  is alright.  

If you're planning on using your setting commecially, though, then putting it up for public display would indeed be a bad idea.

ENworld is at http://www.enworld.org

IMO, it's the best 3E/d20 site on the net.  

[Slant]

Did anybody here ever find out the names or ideas of any of the winners?  Did they finally get a single winner?  I haven't heard anything on the topic for the longest time.

[Mr_Pleasington]

They've narrowed it down to the 3 (?) finalists.  Each has to submit a 100 page treatment on their world and I don't think they've hit the due date for that yet.

A lot of the ones who got eliminated in the last round shared a common theme of a "golden age"

Should be interesting to see what wins.  Well, hopefully it will be interesting to see what wins!

[Spriggan]

actualy they narrowed it down to 4.  they decided to add one more.  this happened about 3 or 4 weeks ago.  Now they have to write a 100pg manual describing the world.