Stand away from the doors, everybody! There's a stampede coming in!
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A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage, and a Kellogg in every Top 32! Huzzah!
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Congrats to the Top 32!
My favorite Jacob didn't make the contest, but I'm glad to see one of us in there. :)
Congrats all! Six repeats?
Wait, I'm a total newbie. What on earth does being an Alternate mean?
Congratulations to the Top 32 this year! It'll be a whirlwind!
I'm an alternate, woo! Nice place ya got here.
Wait, I'm a total newbie. What on earth does being an Alternate mean?It means if one of the Top 32 can't continue for some reason, you might get their spot.
It's a fairly common ocurrence, as a matter of fact. This said, the alternates are ranked 1 to 4 to see who gets the next available spot should any of the Top 32 drop out. This ranking is not public.
Oh man, this is going to be a crazy week! Thrilled to be in the top 32, wondering how the heck I'm going to explain this to my wife!
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Wait, I'm a total newbie. What on earth does being an Alternate mean?It means if one of the Top 32 can't continue for some reason, you might get their spot.
So, in other words, I really need to start working on that map anyway? Good to know.
Phew, a moment of calm before the map mayhem. :)
Congrats to the others in the top 32 and the alternates.
So, in other words, I really need to start working on that map anyway? Good to know.Wait, I'm a total newbie. What on earth does being an Alternate mean?It means if one of the Top 32 can't continue for some reason, you might get their spot.
Yes! If you submit it in time and someone else fails to meet the deadline, you could move to the Top 32, and your map would then be included in the Round 2 voting.
Yes, TealDeer. You guys submit as if you were a full contestant, but you won't get to know until Tuesday if anyone will see your entry. Of course, you've probably got a leg up on the mapmaking, IIRC.
Congrats and welcome to the top 32!
Hope you all make it to the next round!
Wait...that's not how it works...
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Mostly, I'm really proud that as a first-year newbie whose last Pathfinder game was in like... 2012, I still made it in as an alternate.
Six repeats?
Scratch that, I believe Matthew Morris is an homonymous.
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Also, arrghghghhgh the 23rd is MAGFest. So I really only have 2 days. Fjfjf well done, self.
Wow! Uh, hi, everyone! I'm quite shocked I made it here, but, nice to 'meet' you all again, more, er, formally?
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One suggestion I remember from previous years: When you get a chance (maybe after you submit on Friday, or if you need a break for a few minutes), Top 32, introduce yourselves. People want to know a little bit more about you.
I'd encourage you to put your intro in your profile, and link to any works you may have done now.
RPG Superstar 2015 Top 32, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
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Marathon Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8
aka Jiggy
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My name doesn't include my 2015 tag. :(
Also, funny thing:
My first year entering, I make a life/death flip/floppy kind of item and make Top 32.
Next two years, I fall short with a blasting item and a Diplomacy item.
Then I make another life/death flip/floppy kind of item, and crack the Top 32 again.
I guess that must just be my "thing", eh?
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Harsh!Congrats to the Top 32!
My favorite Jacob didn't make the contest, but I'm glad to see one of us in there. :)
Hear, hear! May the best remaining Jacob do honor to us all.
Congrats everyone! Good luck for the rest of the contest!
RPG Superstar 2015 Top 32
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Marathon Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Star Voter Season 9
aka mamaursula
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Thank you for finally letting me inside! I only entered this year to get into the Guildhall with all my other friends and now they tell me I have to draw a map? Who makes the rules in this place?! :-)
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Mine too!
Serious question: I've always used my avatar Cleanthes for everything on the boards, and never my actual name and profile. Should I start using my real name and put together a new avatar for use during Superstar? Or can I get some alterations made to my Cleanthes tag, like having my Superstar advancement included there?
And if this first hour is any indication, it's going to be hard for the rest of my life to get much out of me this week; I'm supposed to be grading papers right now :-p
If you try to post as Cleanthes, the system will do the rest (including your real name).
Scott -- your real name will always appear in the Superstar forum regardless of what avatar you post under (thank Gulga Cench for that).
EDIT: Ninja'd.
So I'm seeing! I wonder, is this true of every post I've ever done?
As an alternate, do I need to actually submit a map (I don't think I have a link for that), or have one ready just in case?
Words... not... working....
Oh, have to draw. Good.
Yikes!
Wow.
Thank you.
(Actually, first have to go to chorus rehearsal. Yikes again!)
So I'm seeing! I wonder, is this true of every post I've ever done?
It's true of every post you've ever done in the Superstar Forums. The rest of the messageboards should be normal.
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I can't concentrate due to anxiety, so... intro post, I suppose.
Hi, I'm Jensen Toperzer. I am the 4th alternate. I'm currently a freelance copy editor, editor, and layout specialist because I can't seem to get a steady job (LF JOB). I have a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Nonfiction. I'm a PAX Enforcer. In the past, I've worked for ZeniMax Online Studios on The Elder Scrolls Online (as a QA Functionality Tester, nothing glamorous) and Wired Magazine on a lot of things. My life is very strange.
It's been two years since I last played Pathfinder, so I think for that I didn't do so bad.
I first encountered tabletop RPGs when I found my mom's copy of the Holmes Basic set (3rd edition, 6th printing, published 1979 with Keep on the Borderlands instead of In Search of the Unknown)somewhere in the attic. The set was complete with dice, my mom's miniature, and two of her old character sheets, one of which was on the back of a playbill for a summer stock theater company she was in. She only ever played one game, to her knowledge, on tour with Oliver, and loved it so much that she bought the boxed set... only to find that she didn't have the time to play, and none of her friends were interested.
I immediately fell in love. I wanted to play so badly, but I didn't have any friends who were interested at the time, and my mom was too busy (she's a theater professor and an actor). Eventually though, in high school, I finally found a group of people through a summer camp who wanted to play 2nd edition. My first character ever was a 2nd edition Wild Mage named Blayze Auren.
I then picked up 3rd edition, and later 3.5, which is when the bulk of my playing took place, during college. My original DM decided that he hated 3.5 edition and stuck to 2nd. When 4e came out, my friends mostly played that, though some turned to Pathfinder. I dabbled in both, but then Graduate School Happened. I managed to get in a few more Pathfinder games, before getting sucked into the Old School Renaissance by said old "I hate 3.5" DM. I actually had a LOT of fun playing old school style D&D.
After leaving graduate school, I landed an amazing 6 month internship with Wired Magazine, my absolute dream job. After those 6 months... I couldn't hold down a steady job at all. A combination of dreadful family tragedy with health problems meant that I just couldn't deal with the pressures of the workplace. After my most recent disaster with trying to be A Good Office Worker, the very same "I don't like 3.5" DM suggested that I try to apply for the Paizo Developer position (he's since softened his views. he still doesn't like d20 games, but he respects the OGL and the system for what it is. Also, he loves 5th edition, so there you are).
I did, and... I failed! But Wes Schneider was kind enough to say that he felt I had talent and he hoped I stuck around. He sent me a few leads on freelance work. He suggested I go for RPG Superstar.
So... I went ahead and tried. Like I said, I haven't played Pathfinder in two years, and even when I did play it, it wasn't for very long. But as I said in other threads, the whole key to being a prolific freelancer is quickly adapting to rules you DON'T know... so I went for it anyway. I didn't expect to make it past cull--I knew I'd screwed up my formatting & certain other aspects of my item. I CERTAINLY didn't expect to be an Alternate. Yet here I am, typing to avoid the terror of reading through Pathfinder books to try to figure out what on earth I'm going to map.
I've been slowly picking up some freelance gigs in the meantime. I most recently re-did the layout of Adventure-A-Week's A08: The Search for the Tri-Stone. The new edition of A09: Rogue Wizard should be coming out... soon (some issues with the printer occurred). In terms of my OSR work, I edited Deep Carbon Observatory (though ugh, the original authors kinda un-did a bunch of my edits, and somehow misspelled my name in the final product x_X) and Under the Waterless Sea. Currently, I'm hoping to become a freelance copyeditor with Paizo (I did hear back from their freelance coordinator re: rates, but not yet on if they have any work for me. Here's hoping!) I might have a few other freelance gigs coming up, and I have some articles for ENWorld in the cooker (hopefully my editor will understand that Because Superstar, I'm going to be late...)
My screenname is TealDeer because I'm excessively long-winded. How could you tell???
TL;DR -- hello i am long-winded freelancer cranky grognard.
Sweet. Good to know, thanks Jacob!
As an alternate, do I need to actually submit a map (I don't think I have a link for that), or have one ready just in case?
You need to submit a map. Basically, until you see the Round 2 submissions posted on the site, consider yourself one of the Top 32. This goes for all the alternates.
RD: Yes.
And congrats, DeathQuaker! I didn't realize that was you.
