Done.


RPG Superstar™ 2011 General Discussion

1 to 50 of 184 << first < prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | next > last >>

The Thingie wrote:

Thanks for entering RPG Superstar—good luck!

Your submission was received 5 minutes ago

And now? Now, I pummel myself with all the doubting madness of how stupid it was to post so early and why I didn't have <name a random acquaintance here> proof it beforehand and how it should've been sexier somehow and how I'm sure I've jinxed myself by submitting while sick and...

How `bout I just breathe, get some sleep, and start putting my archetype to paper, hmm?

How about you?

Silver Crusade Dedicated Voter Season 6, Star Voter Season 7, Star Voter Season 8, Dedicated Voter Season 9

Pathfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

I'm giving myself time to edit, reconsider, step away, come back to and re-edit my idea before submission. There's plenty of time and I'd hate to submit something that didn't get me into the next round because I wasn't careful enough taking all this time.

The next few rounds have a rapid turn over, so having such a long deadline is a rare buffer to enjoy so I'm making the most of it.

Until I go crazy from over thinking it and submit so it's out of my hands already.

RPG Superstar 2010 Top 32, 2011 Top 4 , Marathon Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Marathon Voter Season 9 aka DankeSean

That Old Guy wrote:
The Thingie wrote:

Thanks for entering RPG Superstar—good luck!

Your submission was received 5 minutes ago

And now? Now, I pummel myself with all the doubting madness of how stupid it was to post so early and why I didn't have <name a random acquaintance here> proof it beforehand and how it should've been sexier somehow and how I'm sure I've jinxed myself by submitting while sick and...

How `bout I just breathe, get some sleep, and start putting my archetype to paper, hmm?

How about you?

If it's any consolation, waiting to submit results in long nights lying awake in bed turning your item over and over in your head and resisting the urge to get up at 4 AM to do another edit because you might have figured out a way to rewrite sentence #6 just a SMIDGEN of a bit clearer while you were half asleep.

You are also spared a few weeks of having beads of sweat pop up on your forehead every time a judge so much as obliquely mentions having read some really good entries in the past day or two and convincing yourself that, that's IT, I've missed my shot, even if I submit it TOMORROW I've probably already missed my chance at being an early favorite and I'll be lucky if the judges even give it a second glance. (Even though that's not even remotely how the judging works, it's still easy to convince yourself of that...)
So yeah. There's massive psychological issues resulting from either side of the coin. Don't sweat it. At least it isn't dangling overhead anymore.

Grand Lodge Contributor , Dedicated Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8, Star Voter Season 9

I think I'll give myself another week to rewrite my item and listen to any advice the judges may give based on received submissions. Seven days, and I'll hit the submit button... unless I change my mind. :D

It's funny how I had ideas for over ten wondrous items, but the one I picked is the first item I wrote.

Good luck, everyone!

Dark Archive Star Voter Season 6

I think its better to have it done and dusted early


i finished mine and just knew it was awesome, had 1 gamer friend(who is also a grammer nazi) and 1 non gamer person (who is a phd student) review mine and both gave me the green light on my writing =)

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16, 2012 Top 32 , Marathon Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Marathon Voter Season 9 aka Epic Meepo

Serpent wrote:
...any advice the judges may give based on received submissions.

I sincerely doubt the judges will give any advice based on received submissions until all submissions are collected.

Paizo Employee Director of Brand Strategy

The only advice you're likely to see from us are things we wouldn't ding you for anyway, like the previous suggestion to make sure your item name is both the name of the thread and in the body of the post. We won't be telling people not to make certain item types or to steer clear of any design pitfalls based on things we're seeing among the entries.

RPG Superstar 2011 Top 16 , Star Voter Season 6 aka Shadow-Mask

Anyone else feel the world dropped out from underneath them or break out into a cold sweat once you could no longer take back the submission for "one more review?" Or am I a hopelessly anxious case? ;)


Shadow-Mask wrote:
Anyone else feel the world dropped out from underneath them or break out into a cold sweat once you could no longer take back the submission for "one more review?" Or am I a hopelessly anxious case? ;)

Nope, felt the same way. I hit submit and felt I needed to reread it for the 12th time to make sure I didnt miss something....lol


vikking wrote:
Shadow-Mask wrote:
Anyone else feel the world dropped out from underneath them or break out into a cold sweat once you could no longer take back the submission for "one more review?" Or am I a hopelessly anxious case? ;)
Nope, felt the same way. I hit submit and felt I needed to reread it for the 12th time to make sure I didnt miss something....lol

Ditto both. I sat on the preview/edit page for an hour before I just finally snapped and hit the button.

Additionally, I'm pretty sure my keyboard isn't going to survive my archetype work... Going to paper. :)


That Old Guy wrote:

And now? Now, I pummel myself with all the doubting madness of how stupid it was to post so early and why I didn't have <name a random acquaintance here> proof it beforehand and how it should've been sexier somehow and how I'm sure I've jinxed myself by submitting while sick and...

How `bout I just breathe, get some sleep, and start putting my archetype to paper, hmm?

How about you?

*Puts on armchair-psychologist hat*

You are experiencing anxiety related to opportunity cost, or the worrying and stress that accompany doubts as to whether or not the decision you made maximized your possible gains and minimized possible losses.

It is a very normal feeling to have, as a human.


Tanner Nielsen wrote:


*Puts on armchair-psychologist hat*

Great stuff, Tanner... Coincidentally, I'm kind of a professional armchair psychologist (which is to say that I do psych work for a living but am not a PhD) out here in the 3D world.


That Old Guy wrote:
Tanner Nielsen wrote:


*Puts on armchair-psychologist hat*
Great stuff, Tanner... Coincidentally, I'm kind of a professional armchair psychologist (which is to say that I do psych work for a living but am not a PhD) out here in the 3D world.

Great to hear! I'm about half-way through a doctoral program in clinical psychology, myself. Looking to practice in forensic examination.


Done. Submitted. Feel pretty good about it. Luck to y'all! On to my neglected chores...

RPG Superstar 2011 Top 4 aka Scipion del Ferro

I'm confident I didn't just shoot myself in the foot by submitting after just a few days. Right? Yeah...my item is totally awesome. It's so awesome it will be burned into the retinas of all the judges and they'll have to stop the counting early. You hear me universe?! It's great I tell you!

RPG Superstar 2013 Top 32 , Star Voter Season 6 aka Electric Monk

Done..... *gulp*

Dark Archive

I find that, once the submission is done, the stress and anxiety ends, and I go into this strange state where I kind of forget the whole thing, until the winners are announced.

I second-guess myself to hell and back up until I submit, but once it's done, it's out of my hands, and I'm super relieved to just take all that stuff and wad it up and toss it behind me.

Until next year, anyway. :)


Hey, my theory is: why have the entry period so long? Because there are a lot of entries and it helps the judges to spread them out -- so we're helping out the judges. Who wants to have a stack of 12,000 magic items to read on New Year's Eve? Also, if you get "kept" early, it will take a better item to knock you out, whereas if you submit later, you can't afford to be equal with an item the judges have already fallen in love with. My two coppers...


I throw my coppers in with Greyhorns line of thinking.

Scarab Sages Marathon Voter Season 7

I like to be done early too. For another thing it allows me to switch gears to other projects instead of dwelling on a single thing for a month.


I would like to submit around the mid of the month, still being one of the early ones and certainly not a deadline-rusher in either way, but still having all the time to decide on my item and polish it up.

Dark Archive Star Voter Season 6

yup, sent, dusted, and now slowly growing in the minds of the judges, and hopefully mindcontrolling them to let it pass to the next round...

RPG Superstar 2011 Top 16 , Star Voter Season 6 aka Shadow-Mask

Set wrote:

I find that, once the submission is done, the stress and anxiety ends, and I go into this strange state where I kind of forget the whole thing, until the winners are announced.

I second-guess myself to hell and back up until I submit, but once it's done, it's out of my hands, and I'm super relieved to just take all that stuff and wad it up and toss it behind me.

Until next year, anyway. :)

:D

That's what happened after I had a moment (or three) to feel like a fibberdy-gibbet. :)

Edit: Nice to know I'm not alone in the brief (or not) moment of "Crap! Too Soon!"


And I am in. This is year number three for me, I would have entered the first year but I was away from the forums for most of 2007 and found out too late.

Good luck to all my fellow contestants, may Crom smile on your creation!


done, too
we had a lot of time in before to prepare everything, so it shouldn't be too bad, to go in early

Marathon Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Star Voter Season 8, Star Voter Season 9

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

Good luck to everyone who has submitted so far. I wish I could muster up the nerve to hit the submit button. I've read my entry so many times I'm sure I could recite it word-for-word at this point.

Owner - House of Books and Games LLC , Marathon Voter Season 6, Star Voter Season 7

Jerett Schaufele wrote:
Good luck to everyone who has submitted so far. I wish I could muster up the nerve to hit the submit button. I've read my entry so many times I'm sure I could recite it word-for-word at this point.

I'd say just submit it. No matter how many times you read it and double-check it, once you submit it you'll read a post on the boards that makes you double-think it again.

So you might as well get it over with :)

Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 , Dedicated Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8, Dedicated Voter Season 9

gbonehead wrote:


I'd say just submit it. No matter how many times you read it and double-check it, once you submit it you'll read a post on the boards that makes you double-think it again.
So you might as well get it over with :)

Or just submit it, forget about it, relax and enjoy your Christmas break then come back in the New Year to a pleasant surprise, hopefully!

Dark Archive

Bother...

I was certain I'd seen "it's okay to do XYZ in your submission" in one of the threads. When I came to submit I couldn't find the post in question, but did XYZ anyway.

In re-reading around it turns out to be closer to "don't do XYZ".

Ah well... I shall claim that were it not for XYZ then my Wondrous Item of Astounding Awesomeness would have been so excessively superlative that I'd have been crowned RPG Superstar 2011 immediately after round 1 without needing to bother with the rest of the competition! :)

How long until the open call for 2012?

:)

Good luck everyone.


Callum Finlayson wrote:
How long until the open call for 2012?

`Bout a year.

If I were Callum Finlayson, though, I'd have an acrhetype idea on ice anyway... You never know, man. You might be the guy that XYZs his way right into "prove Sean's recommendations wrong" Superstardom.

RPG Superstar 2011 Top 4 aka Scipion del Ferro

Unless it was a wooden feather token of a vomitting squirrel that let you use shocking grasp at will, and can repeat all conversations it overhears as well as giving a +10 to all Use Force checks.

Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16, 2011 Top 32, 2012 Top 4

Scipion del Ferro wrote:
Unless it was a wooden feather token of a vomitting squirrel that let you use shocking grasp at will, and can repeat all conversations it overhears as well as giving a +10 to all Use Force checks.

You forgot the continuous true strike effect.


Tom Phillips wrote:
Scipion del Ferro wrote:
Unless it was a wooden feather token of a vomitting squirrel that let you use shocking grasp at will, and can repeat all conversations it overhears as well as giving a +10 to all Use Force checks.
You forgot the continuous true strike effect.

and that it gives you 3 levels in the Thief class.

Liberty's Edge Dedicated Voter Season 6

Azmahel wrote:
Tom Phillips wrote:
Scipion del Ferro wrote:
Unless it was a wooden feather token of a vomitting squirrel that let you use shocking grasp at will, and can repeat all conversations it overhears as well as giving a +10 to all Use Force checks.
You forgot the continuous true strike effect.
and that it gives you 3 levels in the Thief class.

That always points in you the direction you want to go, randomly determines a 9th level spell to cast during initiative rolling, and allows a DM arbitrary decision on some new creature with complete backstory and racial mythos, that asexually buds from the item.


you guys forgot that it takes up the knee slot and that when held up to the forehead it allows you to see when no one else can.

Sovereign Court RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8 , Star Voter Season 6

Set wrote:

I find that, once the submission is done, the stress and anxiety ends, and I go into this strange state where I kind of forget the whole thing, until the winners are announced.

I second-guess myself to hell and back up until I submit, but once it's done, it's out of my hands, and I'm super relieved to just take all that stuff and wad it up and toss it behind me.

Until next year, anyway. :)

That's me.

Then I get the 'holy frak! I made it?' shock and the stress starts all over again.

Hope you get to feel the same :P


vikking wrote:
you guys forgot that it takes up the knee slot and that when held up to the forehead it allows you to see when no one else can.

And has to be plunged into the still-beating heart of a seven-year-old seventh daughter of a seventh daughter to activate.

Shadow Lodge

This item has a +2 enchantment bonus, +4 versus grues and similiar creatures...

RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32 aka Sheyd

Well, I've taken my time, it looks pretty but now that I've submitted it I'm already beginning the 'second-guessing doubts'. At least I'm not on painkillers this year. It made editing it MUCH easier :) last year... "Oh man does 'to' have one silent q in it or three? Woah look at all the purdy colors..." Yeah not good.

Star Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Star Voter Season 8 aka Gio

Quote:

Thanks for entering RPG Superstar—good luck!

Your submission was received -REDACTED-

Now i'm all nervous and can't wait 'till 8/1 >_<.


Gio wrote:
Quote:

Thanks for entering RPG Superstar—good luck!

Your submission was received -REDACTED-
Now i'm all nervous and can't wait 'till 8/1 >_<.

ohh bad post, this could get your item rejected quick.

Star Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Star Voter Season 8 aka Gio

really? T_T I was trying to edit it after i realized what i did... no way to fix this? >_<

The date is wrong anyway, i copied what i sent long before i did the post, 'cause my internet went off for some days, so there is no actual way for knowing when i sent my submission if i do not clarify when i copied it. But, still, no way to edit it?, and avoid any confusion?


ask an admin/non-judge to remove it, is probably your best bet.

Star Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Star Voter Season 8 aka Gio

i'm new here, could you suggest me one?


Gio wrote:
i'm new here, could you suggest me one?

Actually Gio you should be able to go in and edit you text. Just go to the top of the box and take out the quote or delete it all together. You should have those options.

There should be several options at the top across from your name. Flag, list, delete, edit, and so on.

Star Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Star Voter Season 8 aka Gio

I think the edit and delete options are only available during the first hour after you post something. I don't have these options for that particular post, i do have them for the newer ones though >_<.

Contributor

Don't worry about it, none of us have time to crosscheck timestamps. :p

RPG Superstar 2011 Top 4 aka Scipion del Ferro

Gio wrote:
I think the edit and delete options are only available during the first hour after you post something. I don't have these options for that particular post, i do have them for the newer ones though >_<.

You are correct.

Contributor, RPG Superstar 2009, RPG Superstar Judgernaut

No worries, Gio. I've been reviewing items almost as soon as they hit the queue (gotta stay ahead!), so I likely already rendered judgement on it and even if you did manage to out yourself here, I wouldn't have gone back searching for you. So, no biggie. Just make sure you guys hold off on commenting about your item until the deadline. This is another one of thost "tests" on what it's like to be a freelancer.

1 to 50 of 184 << first < prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | next > last >>
Community / Forums / Archive / Paizo / RPG Superstar™ / Previous Contests / RPG Superstar™ 2011 / General Discussion / Done. All Messageboards

Want to post a reply? Sign in.