Top 32 Announced!

Congrats to the Top 32 (and Alternates!)

Good job everyone! Now comes the next step; let's see what you're all made of!

Congratulations everyone! It's good to see both the familiar names and the new faces. You've all got your work cut out for you. If you're in the top 32+4, you probably shouldn't be reading this. Go work on your map!!!

Congrats! I'm looking forward to another great year (as well as scouting for some new talent).

Well done! Now heed Mike's advice and go work on your map... and don't forget to have some fun in the process.

Man, I love this contest. :)

Congratulations all! I see a lot of familiar names in this crop of Superstar hopefuls. Now roll your Craft (cartography) checks!

--Vrock Superstar

Congrats winners and alts, some good and imaginative items in there, you deserve your slots :)

Congratulations! Can't wait to see what next week brings!

Well done, everyone! Embrace and enjoy the mad rush of emotions running through you right now, then channel that energy into super submissions for the next round.

Very pleased to see some good friends and fellow Freelance Forge members represent on the list.

Congratulations everyone. Excited to see some of my favorite items on the list, and many of the others I expected to see given the exit poll. You all deserve to be here, looking forward to see what you make next!

Congratulations to everyone!

Congrats

Congratulations to all! Well done! :D

Congratulations, well done, and excelsior you Top 32 and alternates! Looking forward to seeing your R2 entries!

Congratulations to all the top 32 and 4 alternates.

That last hour was a long, long wait. I knew we all had a roughly 10% chance of progressing from the second post-cull pool, going purely on number of entrants remaining.
Enough of a chance, to force us to refresh the blog several times.

Next year, though! Next year!

Thank you, everyone. I feel greatly honored by this. I promise not to disappoint.

It looks nice to see the RPG Superstar tag next to my name!

Congratulations! I'm excited to see what you all bring in upcoming rounds.

Thanks for voting and congratulations!

*Rushes to continue mapworks"

Congratulations! Especially excited to see lots of newcomers in the list--welcome to the big show!

Congratulations!!!

Congrats to the top 32 (and alternates)! Good luck to you all in the next round.

Hategratulations, you lucky so-and-sos!

Grats!~

Congratulations!! See you in round 3! (Well, 50% of you ;-) work hard and make sure you are in the top half!)

Congratulations to the Top 32! :D It's exciting to see quite a few of my favorites make it on to the next round. I can't wait to see your maps!

Woot! Alternate! :D

Wow!
Congratulations to all of the top 32, I look forward to our competition! Its is a great honor just to be chosen!

Congratulations to everyone this year! I notice some familiar names and I also see some new folks as well. I can't wait to see what you all come up with for round 2! :D

It's been suggested that we should introduce ourselves a little, so here goes:
I'm a college prof, specializing in ancient philosophy; I teach Classics and Philosophy, and since a Google search makes it pretty easy to uncover this, I'll just go ahead and tell you that I teach at Santa Clara University. So I'm a published author, but not of stuff that most normal humans will want to read ;-)
I've been married for 18 years this May, and I have two kids, an almost-10 year old boy and an almost-8 year old girl, whom I've been raising as hard-core gamers to the best of my ability. My son recently started running me through Serpent's Skull as my DM, and you do NOT want to face my daughter at Munchkin; she's been playing since she was 3, and shows no mercy, especially to Dad.
My gaming days go all the way back to the D&D Blue Box in the 80's, but I stopped playing anywhere but on computers until just a few years ago, when I ended up (long story) running a Shackled City campaign for 9 of my students, most of whom had never played. (And 5 of them women! Particularly proud to have had a hand getting a few more women into gaming.) We played most every week for more than 2 years, until they all graduated, and I still DM a Kingmaker campaign for those who are still in the area. One of them has also become a magnificent DM himself, and I get to play now as a player in an online Rise of the Runelords campaign he runs for us. (We're just about to invade Jorgenfist!)
RPG's have also become a bit of a side business for me, since I sell a lot of prepainted plastic minis and other RPG stuff on Ebay. Most of the profits, though, just go to feed my gaming habit, including lots of terrain and minis; my long-suffering wife has been very patient with the accumulating pile of stuff this has involved. (If anyone has a real-life bag of holding, I'm willing to make an offer!)

Congrats to the new top 32 of this years competition, looking forward to see what comes of the following rounds.

Well Done top 2015 Top 32. Looking forward to the maps.

WOOHOO!

Congratulations to Top 32! There's an awesomely crazy road ahead (though some of you already know that... :)

WOOHOO!

Congratulations to Top 32! There's an awesomely crazy road ahead (though some of you already know that... :)

Victoria! Great seeing you! Can't wait to read the module.

Santa Clara University? About 20mins from where I live. Maybe I'll absorb the Superstar beams for next year.

Santa Clara University? About 20mins from where I live. Maybe I'll absorb the Superstar beams for next year.

Lol, I'll try to be as radiant as possible :-)

Congratulations, Top 32! Now buckle up, because you're in for a heck of a ride.

Congrats to everyone!

Well done all of you! And good luck for round 2.

Congrats to the winners! We're all looking forward to seeing your maps!

Victoria! Great seeing you! Can't wait to read the module.

Thank you! Good seeing you too! I'm around off and on, just usually lurky-lurky.

But I'm old news. ALL HAIL THE NEW 32 HOTNESSESES.

Congrats, Top 32! (and Alts!) Way to go!

Now, on to the map round...

Hey, Laik, don't forget to print your squirrel on a separate unicorn!
Or somesuch. :)

Congratulations everyone! Now get mapping!

Congratulations all!

Congratulations! Glad to see that so many of my favorites made it through. Definitely looking forward to your maps.

Petty Alchemy wrote:

Santa Clara University? About 20mins from where I live. Maybe I'll absorb the Superstar beams for next year.

Lol, I'll try to be as radiant as possible :-)

Close to me as well! And as a woman try to encourage more women to get into gaming (I'm a lecturer in CS/game design), I really appreciate your work with that! :)

Congratulations to the Top 32 and alternates.

Every entry that made it in had something special and SuperStar, so kudos!

Avengers Assemble!

No. Wait. That's not right.

Top 32 Represent!

No, seriously. Go represent some awesome Golarion locations with your maps. There's no time to waste with these tight turnarounds.

Go Supernova!

No. That's not right either.

Go Superstar!

Yeah. That's the ticket. Now punch yours and...

Also...

Big congratulations to the Top 32 and alternates! Way to go, Superstars! I'm looking forward to seeing your maps. Good luck to all.

Shine on, you crazy stars.

Congratulations, all. Best of luck moving forward.