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RPG Superstar Entries Due Today!

Friday, March 12, 2010

Today is the deadline for this year's Top 4 RPG Superstar competitors to hand over their adventure proposal. This weekend, the judges—including guest judge James Jacobs—review the proposals, and on Tuesday they go live for public voting.

Alexander MacLeod, Jim Groves, Matt Goodall, and Matthew McGee have been plowing through the rounds of the competition since December of last year. Now they're in the home stretch. It's been interesting watching them respond to the challenges and criticism each round, and I'm looking forward to their final submissions. Whoever wins gets a contract to write a 32-page adventure module for Paizo—and bragging rights for having the design chops to beat out the competition!

Sean K Reynolds
RPG Superstar Judge

Callous Jack (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber) Mar 12, 2010, 07:14 AM

Good luck to the final four!

Joshua Kitchens aka Draconas (RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16) Mar 12, 2010, 07:30 AM

In the end, there can be only one RPG Superstar but by this point you guys are all winners. Best of luck, Top Four!

Jim Groves (Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 4) Mar 12, 2010, 01:18 PM

Thanks guys.. And it is done here. I'm not a heavy drinker but I might partake this evening.

Gary Teter (PostMonster General) Mar 12, 2010, 01:24 PM

Hooray! Everybody's in.

Matthew McGee (RPG Superstar 2010 Top 4) Mar 12, 2010, 02:17 PM

Enjoy, guys! I certainly had fun! :)

Once more into the breach, everyone...

Alexander MacLeod (RPG Superstar 2008 Top 16, 2010 Top 4) Mar 12, 2010, 02:55 PM

The hand shakes. The pulse hastens. The sweat beads. And time marches on.

My thanks to all those who've supported me this far; now to the future!

Chris Mortika (RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16) Mar 12, 2010, 06:47 PM

I intend to vote for the entry with the greatest number of chickens.

Maybe I should have announced that earlier.

Jim Groves (Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 4) Mar 12, 2010, 07:34 PM

Chris Mortika wrote:

I intend to vote for the entry with the greatest number of chickens.

Maybe I should have announced that earlier.

Does that include the authors? 'Cause I'll be scared come Tuesday.

gbonehead (Paizo Charter Superscriber, Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber) Mar 12, 2010, 09:37 PM

Chris Mortika wrote:

I intend to vote for the entry with the greatest number of chickens.

Maybe I should have announced that earlier.

Jim Groves wrote:

Does that include the authors? 'Cause I'll be scared come Tuesday.

That would be the contest with the greatest number of chickens :)

Everyone DID see Clark's last minute addendum to the rules, right? The one that said any event with monkeys gets 5 bonus votes?

Alexander MacLeod (RPG Superstar 2008 Top 16, 2010 Top 4) Mar 13, 2010, 09:35 AM

gbonehead wrote:

Everyone DID see Clark's last minute addendum to the rules, right? The one that said any event with monkeys gets 5 bonus votes?

I should be good with my proposal for The Robot Dinosaurs of Pirate-Monkey Island (May Contain Ninjas), so I'm not worried!

Ryan Marsh aka Anry (RPG Superstar 2011 Top 16) Mar 13, 2010, 01:28 PM

You missed zombies. Tsk tsk.

Matthew McGee (RPG Superstar 2010 Top 4) Mar 13, 2010, 08:22 PM

Alexander MacLeod wrote:

gbonehead wrote:
Everyone DID see Clark's last minute addendum to the rules, right? The one that said any event with monkeys gets 5 bonus votes?
I should be good with my proposal for The Robot Dinosaurs of Pirate-Monkey Island (May Contain Ninjas), so I'm not worried!

Oh dear, Alex - your proposal sounds a little too much like "Dino-Pirates of Ninja Island" (www.dino-pirates.com). We might have to hoist the dreaded Amber Flag...

(If you guys haven't checked out Dino-Pirates, you should do it. It's awesome and hilarious. Hilariously awesome, one might say.)

DM Wellard Mar 14, 2010, 04:49 AM

Any submission that doesn't have a guest appearance by Gulga-Chench won't be getting my vote

Jim Groves (Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 4) Mar 14, 2010, 09:12 AM

It's all fun and games till someone designs a dung golem.

Oh no, don't worry. I learned my lesson with the caltops!

gbonehead (Paizo Charter Superscriber, Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber) Mar 15, 2010, 06:37 AM

Jim Groves wrote:

It's all fun and games till someone designs a dung golem.

Dung golem?

Can't quite place the reference but its name rings a bell.

Jim Groves (Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 4) Mar 15, 2010, 07:01 AM

gbonehead wrote:

Dung golem?

Can't quite place the reference but its name rings a bell.

Lol. I made it up to be funny (or I made it up to the best of my knowledge).

Though Kevin Smith's Dogma had a Poop Demon.

gbonehead (Paizo Charter Superscriber, Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber) Mar 15, 2010, 07:39 AM

gbonehead wrote:

Dung golem?

Can't quite place the reference but its name rings a bell.

Jim Groves wrote:

Lol. I made it up to be funny (or I made it up to the best of my knowledge).

Though Kevin Smith's Dogma had a Poop Demon.

Heheheh

My post was a (very) thin reference to a couple of really bad jokes:

bad joke #1 wrote:

"What sound does a bell made out of cowflops make?"
"DUNG!"

bad joke #2 wrote:

Too long to bother repeating, but it was about an armless bell-ringer, and the punch like was "I don't recognize him but his face rings a bell."

Like I said ... thin ... very thin.

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