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Monday, March 24, 2014

And the Winners of the First Round of the OSR Superstar Competition Are... (Part I of II)

So, an amazing thing happens when you ask 3 judges to prepare their personal "Best 16 Lists" out of over 330 entries - you get 3 lists that are almost each unique.

Of those 3 lists, only 7 entries made it on to 2 lists, and none made it to all 3 lists.

Soooo... those 7 will each receive $10 RPGNow Gift Certificates and one randomly chosen by +Tim Shorts last night gets the Crypts & Things PDF bundle curtesy of +Newt Newport and D101 games.

Who are those 7 you may ask and what were their entries?

+Gus L for Coward's Heart

Nathan Irving for Codex of Dungeons

Simon Hogwood for Meril's Marvelous Map

Welleron for Bag of Six Demons (Welleran will be receiving the Crypts & Things PDF Bundle)

+Joe D for Liber Rubigo Mortem

Dwayne Gillingham for Torvit's Amulet of Historic Viewing

Fred Bednarski for - Umarlak

Congrats to all of the above! I'll be contacting you in the next day or two to find out where to send your prizes.

As for the other entries? I discussed with Tim, and the idea we discussed was advancing everyone that made the lists. Which should be 34 entries in addition to the seven above (although I need to check to see if anyone made the list with more that one entry) moving on to round two.

13 of those 34 entries will get $5 RPGNow Gift certificates, to be determined randomly, but all 34 plus 7 will advance to the next round.

I'll work on that list of 34 for tomorrow night and will look to post the 7 entries that topped the list tonight.

Then round 2 will kick off later this and 41 fine folk will need to design some monsters ;)

13 comments:

  1. Props to all y'all!
    Can't wait to read 'em; they all sound ¡Awesome McPossum!

    But I am man enough to admit I'm mad I didn't win (yet?). Heh

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  2. Wow, I can't believe that my name is up there among the victors! Thank you to the judges and congrats to all those other 40 who I will be sharing 2nd round with :)

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  3. I was very pleased by all the entries. With so many too look at I'm not surprised that we only had a bit of overlap. All the entries were really well done.

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  4. Are you still compiling the magic items and releasing them as a pdf? Will you require artwork?

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    1. Mark Gedak / Purple Duck will be compiling the entries into a free PDF for us, as doing so in a timely fashion is beyond my ability these days.

      You would have to ask Mark the art question.

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  5. Congrats winners!
    I can't wait to see all these magic items!!!

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  6. So who am I sending d30 DM Companions to?

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    1. Initially it was the top 14 or 16; not sure if that's changed to 100% random or top 7+random or something else.

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    2. it will be the top 7 i do believe, as 41 is too damn large a number

      i will be awarding random $5 RPGNow GC for 13 of the 34 "1 vote getters" - if NBD wants to give to those too, that is great, if not they should use their credit to buy it.

      alright, back to cleaning and moving boxes

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    3. If you can swing it (and it might be a bit much), it'd be nice to give the d30DMC to the random (21?) that don't get a gift certificate rather than the 13 that do.

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