After a record number of votes in this year's Round 2, sixteen amateur game designers have advanced to Round 3 of Paizo Publishing’s RPG Superstar, the largest open-call tabletop roleplaying design contest in history. Ryan Dancey, father of the Open Gaming movement, joined celebrity judges Sean K Reynolds and Mark Moreland from Paizo and RPG Superstar 2009 winner Neil Spicer to critique 400-word class archetype concepts submitted by the top 32 Round 1 survivors, and a public vote resulted in 16 advancing submissions. The finalists must now create backgrounds and Pathfinder RPG stat blocks using one of 32 preselected villain images and an archetype, either from a previous round or from any published Paizo product.
congratulations to the top 16 for making it to the next round of the contest.
and to the other 16 for making it that far in the contest. you already beat countless others.
Congratulations everyone! I've been out of the loop for a while and only just getting a chance to look through things, but looks like a lot of great work has been done in Superstar this year already.
Top 32 placers, you retain the envious Superstar board tag :P. An honorific many have aspired to and have failed to grab.
Top 16, given some of your archetypes I look forward to some dastardly villains.
Cody Coffelt
RPG Superstar 2011 Top 4
aka Scipion del Ferro
Thank you to everyone who voted for all of the entries. I think we all look forward to presenting you with our villains in a weeks time.
Ryan Marsh
RPG Superstar 2011 Top 16,
Star Voter aka Anry
WOO! Thanks to everyone that voted!
(B#$++#&s, can't find a single clip I wanted to attach...Mole from Atlantis "I'm so excited"....or Wallace doing his excited hands from Wallace and Gromit.)
((Wow, that's a good filter.))
Eric Hindley
RPG Superstar 2010 Top 32, 2011 Top 16,
Marathon Voter aka Boxhead
Thanks to everyone who voted! Congrats to my fellow Top 16, and condolences to those who fought and fell. It gets better with time, I promise, don't give up now!
Congratulations to the top 16! To all of you, I'd like another helping of awesome please!
To those who did not advance, be proud. You did well amid some stiff challenges and should wear your "2011 Top 32" with pride. I envy your getting the industry feedback on your writing but am genuinely happy for your progress this year.
I totally missed the voting because I was stuck at work late. Yet at first glance the folks I wanted most to continue on are among the top 16. I can't wait to see what you come up with next! :)
Congratulations everyone! I can't wait to see some villains!
John Bennett
RPG Superstar 2011 Top 8,
Dedicated Voter aka John Benbo
Thanks to everyone who has participated in the contest (from the hundreds who submitted to the hundreds who voted) for making it a great contest! New England is getting buried in snow this winter but there is a bright side, work has already been canceled for tomorrow in anticipation of 18inches of snow so more time for me to finish crafting a villain.
Joel Flank
RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16,
Star Voter aka JoelF847
John Bennett wrote:
New England is getting buried in snow this winter but there is a bright side, work has already been canceled for tomorrow in anticipation of 18inches of snow so more time for me to finish crafting a villain.
Ha - you're lucky you don't have a work laptop, I'll be working from home (though probably sneaking more time into my villain that I would be able to on a normal work day.)
Just curious, do they publish the vote totals? I'd be curious to see what they are...
No. They don't.
Cody Coffelt
RPG Superstar 2011 Top 4
aka Scipion del Ferro
You could look at Tikael's exit poll. It accurately predicted 15/16 of the Top 16. Pretty impressive from a sample size of about 30 voters.
Sean McGowan
RPG Superstar 2010 Top 32, 2011 Top 4,
Marathon Voter aka DankeSean
Wow, this is a thrill. Thanks, everyone. I don't care what the polls say; I'm never comfortable until the results are actually published.
And now: another week of intense stress. Yee-ha! :-)
Excellent Job all, most impressive... Now, if only they had taken photographs of Paizo employees to use as the inspiration for the villains... Muahahhahaa
Cody Coffelt
RPG Superstar 2011 Top 4
aka Scipion del Ferro
Ottovar wrote:
Excellent Job all, most impressive... Now, if only they had taken photographs of Paizo employees to use as the inspiration for the villains... Muahahhahaa
There are pictures of most of them. They all have beards. Except Lisa.
Excellent Job all, most impressive... Now, if only they had taken photographs of Paizo employees to use as the inspiration for the villains... Muahahhahaa
Excellent Job all, most impressive... Now, if only they had taken photographs of Paizo employees to use as the inspiration for the villains... Muahahhahaa
There are pictures of most of them. They all have beards. Except Lisa.
A trend easily remedied. I have a vial of Grecian Formula Quik-Gro Solution in the bathroom. I bet enough of us together could hold Lisa down to get a good coating on her chin.
Excellent Job all, most impressive... Now, if only they had taken photographs of Paizo employees to use as the inspiration for the villains... Muahahhahaa
Congratulations to the top 16! Well done, hope you're all ready for more.
And to all the top 32 who didn't make it: You already made it. You're all heroes and role-models for years to come in my book, your entries read and re-read for that spark of genius. Slip into your deserved comfy break-chairs, sip a drink, and join us in putting the pressure on the poor contestants!
Great work everyone. An especial congratulations for those I didn't vote for, because you can't please all the people all the time but you clearly pleased most of the people most of the time :)