Director of Games
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RELICS OF WAR “ITEM CREATION” CONTEST
Relics of War is coming and now is your chance to unearth some of these forgotten treasures. Every week, from now until the set releases on November 23rd, we’ll post one magic item card from the set. To win all you have to do is design a magic item to go along with the card, using any currently published game system, and post it to the contest submission thread. Each week, we’ll pick the best one and the winner will receive one display box of Relics of War item cards. There will be 5 winners in all.
Entries will be judged based on originality, clarity, grammar, and adherence to the game system’s rules. Entries must be no longer than 500 words in length and must be posted before 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on the day of the contest’s end. Relics of War is a set of 110 unique item cards for use with any fantasy roleplaying game.
WEEK 5
This week’s contest ends at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, Sunday, November 19, 2006.
Discuss entries in this thread.
To submit entries to the contest, see our messageboards.
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Hmm.. It is now Thursday and there are no entries as of yet. If this trend keeps up, looks like I will be getting a free display of boosters and nobody wants that (except me).
The contest ends this Sunday at 11:59pm PST. If you have not entered yet (and I guess that means everyone) now is your chance.
Jason Bulmahn
Item Card Lead Designer
Hmm.. It is now Thursday and there are no entries as of yet. If this trend keeps up, looks like I will be getting a free display of boosters and nobody wants that (except me).
The contest ends this Sunday at 11:59pm PST. If you have not entered yet (and I guess that means everyone) now is your chance.
Jason Bulmahn
Item Card Lead Designer
I'm disgusted! I'm going to enter, even though I can't win! It's time to make a mockery of other well-loved fantasy icons...either that or drag a page out of an Eddings or Jordon book and slap 'Ring of Protection +1' at the end of it...
The contest ends this Sunday at 11:59pm PST. If you have not entered yet (and I guess that means everyone) now is your chance.
I'm in!
But really only because I've been asked to keep the cards and their sharp edges away from Dragon Magazine staff =)
Good call... I could hurt myself on their rounded corners.. :)I'm in!
But really only because I've been asked to keep the cards and their sharp edges away from Dragon Magazine staff =)
We'll tape 'em up for you, tiger.
Keeping Cards Safe Is YOUR responsibility
Good call... I could hurt myself on their rounded corners.. :)I'm in!
But really only because I've been asked to keep the cards and their sharp edges away from Dragon Magazine staff =)
We'll tape 'em up for you, tiger.
Keeping Cards Safe Is YOUR responsibility
Usually you dress up in large plush costumes when you say things like that. You also give me long back massages and offer me strong drinks...
Usually you dress up in large plush costumes when you say things like that. You also give me long back massages and offer me strong drinks...
It doesn't sound like a complaint to me.
Hunh. Seems like the all-invalid contest this week.
(Pronounciation of "invalid" is left to the reader's discretion... *grin*)
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I'm still not sure if being a contributor to Dungeon makes me ineligible, but since others are entering anyway, I figure...what the heck. *shrug*
Besides, if I am eligible and do win, my players are the ones that really benefit. :)
It does not make you ineligible, they are reviewed without names attached.
Jason Bulmahn
Managing Editor of Dragon
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I'm inferring from the chatter so far that I'm the only eligable contestant who hasn't already won. If that is the case I may win by default. I'm ok with that, but my ego would like to know that I earned the win anyway. I can dress up in a costume and give my ego long massages with safety-taped, round-cornered cards though, since I'll be winning 180 of them.
This is my first entry only because I didn't know about the contest until yesterday. At that point I figured everyone had already entered and they were just not publicly available.
The more you know...
Usually you dress up in large plush costumes when you say things like that. You also give me long back massages and offer me strong drinks...It doesn't sound like a complaint to me.
It's more of a sly wink and a pat on the bum. You do realize that had we not won in previous weeks, the imagery born from this conversation alone would make us ineligible. We would need to wave a LOT of ham in front of people here to distract them for long enough to swipe the cards and make a run for it as it is....
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Ok, I just noticed the 500 word limit on entries. Am I out or can I post a shorter version?
Since you caught it, feel free to resubmit an entry that meets the 500 word limit. And, as an aside, you are not the only one who is eligible, Mr West has not won yet either. As of this moment, the two of you are duking it out.
Jason Bulmahn
Item Card Lead Designer
It's more of a sly wink and a pat on the bum. You do realize that had we not won in previous weeks, the imagery born from this conversation alone would make us ineligible. We would need to wave a LOT of ham in front of people here to distract them for long enough to swipe the cards and make a run for it as it is....
I think we need a new plan B. One that doesn't involve a border run and a string of ham related thefts.
Ham related thefts?!?!
At any rate.. this is your last chance to enter the Relics of War Item Card contest. If you have not done so already, now is the time. The last week of the contest closes tonight at 11:59 pm PST.
Good luck
Jason Bulmahn
Item Card Lead Designer
Tradgically, Ham-related thefts are the #1 cause of juvenile detention in the role-playing society. In the more third-world areas of role-playing (Utah, etc) there are stories leaking out about some poor gamers selling magic-cards to keep their ham supplies at a tolerable level.
Gen Con next year will be supporting a Telethon to take money to airdrop hams and christmas turkeys into Utah, Arizona, and Adelaide (Australia).
Ham related thefts?!?!
Tragically, Ham-related thefts are the #1 cause of juvenile detention in the role-playing society. In the more third-world areas of role-playing (Utah, etc) there are stories leaking out about some poor gamers selling magic-cards to keep their ham supplies at a tolerable level. Gen Con next year will be supporting a Telethon to take money to airdrop hams and christmas turkeys into Utah, Arizona, and Adelaide (Australia).
Every year homes around the world lose hams to callous ham-thieves. But it doesn't have to be that way.
YOU can help!
For $1 a day, $365 a year, YOU can put a smile on a child's face, bacon on their plate and ham in their sandwiches. So says Hammy the 'So No To Black Market Ham' Ham.
Tragically our delicious mascot Hammy has been stolen...by...uh...umm...a one armed man.....yeah...
<finishes ham off camera>