If you enjoyed Paizo's RPG Superstar (TM) contest or love playing Binder characters, here is an opportunity to apply your creative juices...
Radiance House, publisher of Secrets of Pact Magic, is sponsoring a contest for fan-driven content for a follow-up supplement, Villains of Pact Magic.
In a nutshell, submit a spirit (AKA vestige, anima, demon) of your own design. If the voters love you, then your creation will be included -- with name recognition and compensation -- in the supplement.
We have 2 wonderful submissions already and a couple more folks reputedly working on more. We want your creativity!
The contest is held April 12 through May 23, 2008.
A public vote will be held from May 24 through May 31st.
The winners will be announced June 1.
The top 5 submissions will be illustrated.
Full contest guidelines here...
http://pactmagic.com/forum/index.php?topic=28.0
Note that new magic items, feats, and such are also welcome.
This is your opportunity to see your name in print and perhaps see your binder and his or her magic illustrated too!
The binder contest continues!
Have you submitted your creative endeavor (spirit, anima, vestige, demon) to win a spot in the upcoming Villains of Pact Magic?
So far you all have posted 10 wonderful legends with mechanics to boot for binder characters.
There are only TWO weeks left. You can have your name in print and a nice reward after a few hours of creative play this weekend (or next!)
To current submissions, post your own, or just roam around the pact magic site, visit:
Contest board here!
Note: You can find a PDF of Secrets of Pact Magic here at the Paizo store.
Sorry to hijack this thread, but in the email I got about this contest, I also read that you want to go 4e.
Is that final? It would mean that those of us who want to stick to 3e - those who bought Secrets of Pact Magic and made it the success it is, those who got it even though it's a 3e book and 4e has already been announced - are being left out in the rain when you start making only 4e Pact Magic material.
KaeYoss wrote: Sorry to hijack this thread, but in the email I got about this contest, I also read that you want to go 4e.
Is that final? It would mean that those of us who want to stick to 3e - those who bought Secrets of Pact Magic and made it the success it is, those who got it even though it's a 3e book and 4e has already been announced - are being left out in the rain when you start making only 4e Pact Magic material.
Thank you for your input, really. I haven't really made up my mind, and if there is more input and support like yours that continues, then I will stay with 3.5 (after all, I plan to stay 3.5 in my own games!) And I mean that. Of the dozen folks who've taken the poll, half indicated they were going to 4th Edition. If more folks say "nay," that will have an impact.
I'll be hawking SoPM as-is (3.5) and Villains of Pact Magic at GenCon for sure.
Interestingly, Scott Rouse at WotC claims that the no-3.5 clause is "not a poison pill." Uh, Scott, you're company's policy is poisoning relations with my readers, so it's a poison pill! What really gets my weregoat is that I would be unable to sell SoPM at PaizoCon next year. :-( if I went this route.
Again, thank you for bringing this up, and I will let everyone know shortly that the issue is unresolved.
Thank you for the reply!
And I agree with you about the Poison Pill matter: They make people choose instead of using both, like quarreling parents that make their children take sides. They force publishers to abandon one rules system or the other, and through that, abandon some of their fans, which will invariably lead to hard feelings.
Paizo and you yourself are two prime examples: Paizo would probably have given us 4e conversions of Pathfinder, or at least encouraged and supported others to do those conversions (and this community has more than a few very talented people who would have been more than up to the task!). But with the new GSL, Paizo can't do those conversions, and it's not unlikely that Wizards will discourage people privately doing those conversions and then making them avaiable on the net.
And Pact Magic could easily have been run in both systems - beyond the main book, which would have to be done twice (OGL and 4e), the other books could probably have been done dual system, with any crunch presented in two systems (I liked the Legend of the Five Rings RPG books that contained both L5R2e and d20 rules!), especially less crunch-heavy books.
Just let me tell you that I appreciate your efforts and trust that you will choose the game system that allows you to reach as many fans as possible - and if that should turn out to be a system I'm boycotting, any hard feelings will be directed at those who forced you to choose.
Just one thing: If you stick with OGL, I guess sooner or later you'll have to deal with Pathfinder RPG, since the 3e Books won't be around forever. Since the whole thing is supposed to be backwards compatible, you could probably support both 3e and PF at the same time with minimal fuzz.
Now I'll go terrorise my players, and later today, or more likely tomorrow, I'll try if I can enter that contest of yours - I have a nice idea floating around in my head, let's see if I can transform it into a full-fledged spirit.
Upon reflection, I would wait until after PaizoCon in 2009 to release a 4th Edition version. In light of play-testing, printing time, etc, I don't see how I'd get it out faster anyway. By then, the RP community will have a better idea of what's going on.
I hope to support Pathfinder RPG, and Paizo is signaling that will be pretty easy. The classes in Secrets of Pact Magic are on-par with the last few years of 3.5, and in any case the book provides advice in the GM Tools section on how to strengthen or weaken the classes. Each of the races would need a little boost, and I'll provide that when the Beta version comes out, at the latest. The one other element to update would be cleric domains. Personally, I like the way domains work in 3.5, but I'm sure I can convince myself to do a nice job of it.
Folks VOTING now!
A number of contestants are members of the Paizo community. :-)
Add your vote for your favorite stories and spirits here...
http://pactmagic.com/forum/index.php?board=5.0
The top 5 get illustrated in the upcoming Villains of Pact Magic.
Pact magic Contest winners...
Some of whom are Paizo board members!
Without further ado, the winners are...
1st) Vaukner, Champion of Valor (by Azazel)
2nd) Cornelius Button, Gardener of Dreams (by Jarla)
3rd) Moy, The Uncaring Queen (by Deper)
and tied for 4th and 5th place...
The Crystal Lady, Truth of the Earth (by Jarla)
Muse Istago, Painter of Paradox (by Serendipity)
Among the anima spirits, the highest votes when to...
The Ravenous Maw (by Azazel)
Lurker at the Edge of Perception (by Indigo), and
The Lovebird (by Azazel)
With numerous ties for the others.
The top 20 submissions will be included in Villains of Pact Magic, and the top 5 submissions will be illustrated. Because a number of entries are tied at 3 votes, and because the anima spirits are grouped together, I hope to include everyone's entries.
Wow... I SO never saw this. :(
Congrats to those who entered and won.
/off to check out the entries
fray wrote: Wow... I SO never saw this. :(
Congrats to those who entered and won.
/off to check out the entries
There will be 1 more supplement due for release either in Feb or April of 2009; ready for PaizoCon in any case. I'll be sponsoring another contest then.
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