Calling All Dungeon Masters

Well, this is not really in Slashdot's main focus, but heck, it's a rare nerd who hasn't at least dabbled in D&D. Wizards of the Coast is looking to build a new campaign world, along the lines of Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms, and they're offering cash prizes. Their document (.doc file; Abiword reads it; try here if that link doesn't work) sums up the contest. Comments in this thread suggest they're looking for medieval fantasy settings. Show some writing flair and creative ability and take home enough cash to buy literally dozens of lead figurines AND a few new D30's... Update: 06/07 20:38 GMT by M : WOTC has the contest on their site now.

Comments

Re:Say wha?

[Eg0r]

nah... D30 is way to old, what you really want is a D60 or maybe a 1D... or am I missing something? :-)

Re:this

[anonymous cowfart]

This is not funny

Wizards

[grokBoy]

"All one page submissions that meet the requirements will be reviewed blindly by a panel of Wizards experts."

Will they be casting a sight spell at some point, or relying on braille, I wonder ...

SlashWorld

[David E. Smith]

In which many valiant warriors battle an army of trolls.

Obviously it'll need to be expanded a little bit, but I think it can be turned into a setting easily enough.

Re:SlashWorld

[Peter Harris]

Yes, and if you had a *cluster* of heroes who fight trolls that would be .....

Re:SlashWorld

[RealisticWeb.com]

It would need a whole new alignment system. You would hear things like "I'm more 'Insightfull' than 'Flamebait'".

And how bout races?

• Anonymous Coward
• Script Kitty
• Admin
• Uber Hacker
• Cowboy Neil

Legalese

[4thAce]

After reading the lawyerese on that form, I just like saying:

"Do not breach a contract with Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to litigation."

I have a D1e10

[edremy]

Weighs 16 pounds. I take it out sometimes and throw it at some wooden pins at the end of alley to see what number I get.

I thought it was about Burger King...

[Bodrius]

... promoting fish fillets for all Dragon Masters.

I guess that's what happens after two days with no sleep and watching that Triumph video a couple times too many.

Quick, Jon Katz!

[Gannoc]

You can write a D&D universe where adventurers cope with slaying dragons in a post-9/11, post columbine, post-getting-your-ass-kicked-daily-in-high-school world.

Ohhh... Nice "dept." line!

[UncleAlias]

A "Munchkin" quote? How much did Steve jackson pay you for that one?.. 8-)

Re:offtopic but still WOTC related

[Tackhead]

> We did terminate Tom Fenderling WotC senior vice president and severed our relationship with a quality assurance consultant Gene Maddox. We have filed law suits against both of these individuals alleging improper purchasing practices and the falsifying of expense reports.

New AD&D thief subclass for purposes of WOTC game submission:

Fraudster! Gain one experience point per dollar successfully l33ch3d from shareholders in the form of embezzled funds, falsified expense reports, improper derivatives trades, or just plain lousy accounting."

experience : Rank
0-100 : Office Supply Cabinet Raider
100 - 999 : Expense Account Padder
1000 - 9999 : Spammer
[ ... ]
? - ? : WOTC executive (1)
[ ... ] 100,000,000 - 999,999,999 : Rogue trader
zzzzzzzzzzzzz - zzzzzzzzzzzz : Rogue trader of the Order of Leeson (2)
over zzzzzzzzzzzzz : Arthur Andersen!

(1) - To Be Determined

(2) - a Rogue Trader of the Order of Leeson must both inflict a loss of over $1B and the collapse of a major financial institution. The Order is named after Nick Leeson, who broke his employer, Barings Bank, with $1.3B derivatives loss.

(3) - Title chosen by the reigning champion. Former winners have included Bre-X ($4B scam re: nonexistent gold mine supported by faked ore samples) and current leader Enron at over $60B (740M shares outstanding at $83 at the peak) in vaporized market cap.

The title is currently in contention, with executives from Tyco (TYC) making yet another strong showing this morning by racking up almost 9 billion experience points as TYC trades down to $10.12 (-$4.48) on further allegations that alleged personal improper accounting may have also affected the company. While TYC had appeared to be coming back from its lows in recent weeks, these revelations have taken Koslowski's score from ~60B experience points to 80B experience points, and he currently stands at 90B.

(And before you go off in a huff and claim that capitalism has somehow failed - despite these egregious examples, the market's full of thousands of good companies out there run by good people out to make an honest buck by providing a service or good for money.

And more importantly, all of these scandals combined still barely make a dent against the multi-trillion dollar pyramid scam called "social security". The people who purchased ENE or TYC did so of their own free will. The same cannot be said for the unlucky "participants" in the Social Security game.)

Re:Wha?

[grytpype]

>First of all, if Slashdot HAS a focus (main or otherwise) I'd just love to see someone take a stab at describing what it is.

It might be easier to define what Slashdot is NOT focused on:

1. Sports.
2. Clothes (wearable computers excepted).
3. Grooming and dating tips.

Basically, Slashdot is the complement of GQ.

Re:Is M:tG still going?

[Anonymous Coward]

Holy fuck! You must be ancient! What the hell are you doing posting on Slashdot!?