You two won the Superstar for your years and got to make a module. What was that experience like? What advice would you share with contestants who've never written a module before? What would you have done differently?
RPG Superstar 2013 Top 32, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16
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You two won the Superstar for your years and got to make a module. What was that experience like? What advice would you share with contestants who've never written a module before? What would you have done differently?
Neil has been a font of helpful advice and juicy nuggets throughout the contest so far.
We're still a long way from the next RPG Superstar being crowned and having the opportunity to write their winning adventure module. Right now, the contest is about these Top 32 and their next assignment for Round 2.
So, even if I have any advice regarding that endeavor, I'd prefer to wait until after the competition is done. And that's probably something to include in the RPG Superstar's "congratulations" thread...assuming it's even appropriate at all. After all, at that point, I think an RPG Superstar has a pretty good idea of what it entails on their own anyway. And it could come across mighty conceited on my part to offer that up uninvited.
But that's just my two-cents,
--Neil
Fair enough, although I'm sure a few of these contestants have that last step in the back of their minds.
Fair enough, although I'm sure a few of these contestants have that last step in the back of their minds.
Well, there's a HUGE difference between how to write an adventure proposal and how to write an adventure itself. The final round of RPG Superstar involves writing a winning proposal, and though it contains lots of ideas for an actual adventure, it needs to be written in such a way as to convince a publisher (or, in this case the voting public) to give you the "green light" to go off and write it.
With that in mind, I think I'll just point anyone who's interested in that kind of advice back to my adventure proposal thread from last year. Towards the end of every round, I always went back and explained my thoughts, strategy, and reasons for what I did and why. So that should suffice for now. But if people want more than that, I can refer them to some more general advice on adventures that I dropped in the PFS Submission messageboards back during one of the open calls. Maybe I'll repost that when we get to the final round this year.