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Last year, after breaking several freelancers, Raging Swan Press launched its first open call. We received over 50 entries and the eight very best of those submissions made it into Random Encounters: Wilderness.
Today, we are at it again! If you want to break into freelance game design, or fancy adding Raging Swan’s scalp to your portfolio, you’ll want to get involved with Broken Freelancers II! Follow this link to learn more about the open call, grab all the downloads you need to get started and to discover what fabulous prizes could be yours!
Good luck. I look forward to your submission.
dottin
I have a question regarding the requirements.
By "should not need a map" does this mean that the environment should be discernible by description only?
Soooooo dotting.
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Are you sure you want the scenario to be one that "the average GM would find hard to run off the cuff"? Just want to be sure before I set to working on a submission utilizing obscure rules. ;)
EDIT: you also mention a "downloadable template below", but I am not seeing any link to a template on that page ... or I am overlooking it and will promptly kick myself for posting this edit.
EDIT EDIT: kick kick kick kick ... found it.
Hazards, grappling specialists, and Inner Sea Bestiary OH MY!
I have the perfect thing for this! I will refine and submit. Yay! :)
Would multiple submissions be allowed? I have a few different ideas for this. Also, do traps count against the limit of three stat blocks?
Are you interested in submissions from people who had scenarios published last time, or are you just looking for new folks, Creighton?
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Also, remember to follow the template everyone (look for the invisible text!) as that caught a few people up last time. This is a great opportunity; I had my scenario published last time, and I'm working on a Dungeon Dressing now for Creighton!
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I have the perfect thing for this! I will refine and submit. Yay! :)
Would multiple submissions be allowed? I have a few different ideas for this. Also, do traps count against the limit of three stat blocks?
Up to two encounters per freelancer please. As to the traps, if they are crazy complicated, they count as a stat block. If they are simple like a pit trap, they are not. Hope that helps!
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Are you interested in submissions from people who had scenarios published last time, or are you just looking for new folks, Creighton?
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Also, remember to follow the template everyone (look for the invisible text!) as that caught a few people up last time. This is a great opportunity; I had my scenario published last time, and I'm working on a Dungeon Dressing now for Creighton!
People who were successful last time can absolutely have another go. That said, previous success is no guarantee of victory this time around.
Hazards, grappling specialists, and Inner Sea Bestiary OH MY!
Be sure to check the requirements for the assignment very carefully.
If you open the provided template (which you should familiarize yourself with very carefully), you find the following info:
OGL SOURCES
- The majority of the material you use in the encounter should come from Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook or Bestiary 1.
- Note the title of any book you use that is not the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook or Bestiary 1.
- Only use material from Advanced Player’s Guide, Ultimate Magic, Ultimate Combat, Ultimate Equipment and GameMastery Guide.
- Do not invent any new spells, feats, magic items and so on.
So...no Inner Sea Bestiary.
People who were successful last time can absolutely have another go. That said, previous success is no guarantee of victory this time around.
Now, that sounds like a challenge to me...
Thanks Jacob...that was really my poor attempt at a joke in regards to Z's "obscure rules" line :)
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What about aquatic? The ocean is, after all, just a desert with the life underground. :)
What about aquatic? The ocean is, after all, just a desert with the life underground. :)
Took me a few seconds, but I got it.
I did wonder about an antarctic-style cold desert, but I'm fairly sure that's out.
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What about aquatic? The ocean is, after all, just a desert with the life underground. :)
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I missed the first one; I won't make that mistake again. Even if I'm not chosen I'd be truly honored just to be in the company of such great talent. I need to get some typing done PRONTO!
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OK, no aquatic ...
... then I think I'll have the PCs come across a caravan that's all shot up and a bunch of slaughtered halflings. At first it looks like it's the local sand people, but they'll quickly realize the arrow shots are far too precise, and the tracks are side-by-side, not single file.
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I've been staring at this for days, looking for a break in my schedule. Now's a perfect time to decide what I want to write up.
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In the event we include a creature which has multiple forms, if only one is relevant to the encounter, do we need to include all the alternates?
If only one is relevant, I can live with one form. Normally, I shoot for all a creature's forms but in the case of lycanthropes (for example) that can eat word count.
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OK, no aquatic ...
... then I think I'll have the PCs come across a caravan that's all shot up and a bunch of slaughtered halflings. At first it looks like it's the local sand people, but they'll quickly realize the arrow shots are far too precise, and the tracks are side-by-side, not single file.
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You had me at slaughtered halflings...
Thank god I saw this when I did.
So we can only use the first Bestiary?
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Thank god I saw this when I did.
So we can only use the first Bestiary?
I prefer keeping mostly to core because it means that almost every GM can use the encounter in his campaign. It also dramatically speeds up the sorting process - and when you have 50+ entries anything that speeds things up is good!
So, in short I prefer you to use the Bestiary. If you absolutely have to use Bestiary 2, 3 or 4 I can live with it.
You happy with haunts?
In the event we include a creature which has multiple forms, if only one is relevant to the encounter, do we need to include all the alternates?If only one is relevant, I can live with one form. Normally, I shoot for all a creature's forms but in the case of lycanthropes (for example) that can eat word count.
Tell me about it!
Can we add class levels to creatures in the bestiary that normally don't have them, like a Magical Beast for example?
Real Life prevented me from participating in the previous open call, so I hope to be able to participate in this one.
Grmbl, discovered too late........
Is the 1,500 word count a target number, or a maximum? I may come up a couple hundred short, and I'd hate to just pad it to make the word count.
It was a ballpark last time, with 10% give or take one way or another, though if you have to miss you're probably better to undershoot for obvious reasons ;)
Good luck everyone! Busyness with other things (among them a RS project, by happy coincidence) is keeping me from jumping in for a second run =)
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Is the 1,500 word count a target number, or a maximum? I may come up a couple hundred short, and I'd hate to just pad it to make the word count.
+/- 10 is absolutely fine! I look forward to you submission. (Sorry, I didn't see this earlier - I've been on a short holiday!)