Encounters in the Darklands

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Voting for Round 4 has begun! You can now go check out the RPG Superstar Top 8's entries and vote for your favorites. This round will determine our Top 4, who will submit their own adventure pitches for the final round. The ultimate winner and RPG Superstar will be determined out of these Top 4, who will earn a contract to write their own adventure for our Pathfinder Modules line!

As with every round this year, we set the bar just a little higher with the Round 4 requirements. The contestants had to manage to provide an encounter with our tightest word count restrictions ever, along with using a monster from a previous round and adding a trap, and then setting the whole thing in Nar-Voth. They also had to produce their second map for the contest, placing an additional set of design requirements into the same deadline as their writing. All the contestants did a great job creating interesting and creative encounters that fit the bill, and now it's up to the community to decide who did it the best!

The contestants that move on to the last round have just one more design challenge to face, so I encourage everyone to take the time to look at their entries this round and decide who you think will write the best adventure to enter the canon of Golarion. To help make that as close to an apples-to-apples comparison as possible, I'll preview a little of the rules for the upcoming last round:

The contestants' final challenge will be to create pitches for an adventure set in Nar-Voth for 5th level characters. This will allow the Final 4 to get the greatest benefit of the research and design they've already done for the last 2 rounds, freeing them to take their time and focus on their writing.

Also, we are very excited to announce that some of our Top 8 will be featured in a Know Direction podcast this weekend! Be sure to mark your calendar for this Saturday, February 28, at 5:30 PM Pacific time.

The community is a huge part of what makes this contest such a big success and we thank you! Go ahead and vote and help us determine our next RPG Superstar!

Vote now!

Owen K. C. Stephens
Developer and RPG Superstar Host

PS: Our regularly scheduled Adventure Card Game blog will be up tomorrow afternoon, following our weekly Web Fiction!

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