After five rounds of intensive competition, amateur game designer Mike Welham has won RPG Superstar 2012!
RPG Superstar is the largest annual tabletop roleplaying design contest. The popular vote of paizo.com's more than 200,000-strong fan community chose Mike Welham's Doom Comes to Dustpawn Pathfinder Module proposal. Welham will receive a contract to write the full adventure for Doom Comes to Dustpawn, which will be released in January, 2013.
On behalf of the judges and Paizo Publishing, as well as the many voters, congratulations again to the rest of our Top 4 contestants Steve Miller, James Olchak, and Tom Phillips.
Clark Peterson
Founder, Legendary Games & Publisher, Necromancer Games, RPG Superstar Judge
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Congrats to Mike!
And big props to the other top 4 as well, particularly Tom. This contest has never been this close, to my knowledge. It was CRAZY close. I think that speaks to how good all the submissions (and particularly those two) were this year.
The contest is such a long, grueling process. You all--all 4 of you--really should be very, very proud of yourselves!
I can't wait to see what you have in store for us, Mike. Congrats on the win and best of luck in your post-Superstar career. This will open doors. What you do with them is up to you.
I, for one, can't wait to see what you have in store for us!
Congratulations! I'm glad that I and others spoke up for you in round 2 to support your Monster Reformation Alliance so we could see you go all the way and produce a good product! :D
Congrats to Mike and all of the other contestants! What a great showing!
And a special thanks to Paizo and all the volunteers for being gracious hosts and judges. Working weekends to go out of your way to respond to customers and contestants is beyond good form!
waits patiently for Mike to finally write that long-promised adventure where the PCs get to play heroic zombies battling the corruption of the evil Rainbow Pony
Mike Welham
RPG Superstar 2012,
Star Voter aka taig
Wolfgang Baur wrote:
Congrats, Mike, really well done!
I look forward to this adventure, and to many more great books from you and Paizo.
Thank you, Wolfgang! Thank you as well for allowing me to get my start at KQ.
Mike Welham
RPG Superstar 2012,
Star Voter aka taig
Rite Publishing wrote:
Congrats to Mike, and damn Paizo for stealing one of my freelancers!
Seriously Mike deserves it having worked with him on multiple products, he is extremely talented and a consummate professional.
Steve
Thank you, Steve! Rite Publishing was the first place to actually pay me to do something I love to do. :)
I really do appreciate you taking a chance on me with Book of Monster Templates.
Mike Welham
RPG Superstar 2012,
Star Voter aka taig
Light Dragon wrote:
Congratulations! I'm glad that I and others spoke up for you in round 2 to support your Monster Reformation Alliance so we could see you go all the way and produce a good product! :D
Thank you, Light Dragon! I appreciate you and many others who saw *something* in my flawed presentation for the Monster Reformation Alliance to vote me into the next round.