Hopefully this won't betray my submission as mine and disqualify me.
I recently attempted to almost-submit my item. I had it sitting at the 'preview' stage (displaying my formatted & word-counted entry). I did not click 'submit.' I left the page alone for a while and came back to it and I had been redirected to the landing page for the entire messageboards.
Would I know if the forums had submitted my entry for me? I still see a link to make my submission - does this mean I have yet to make my submission, or is it a trap, luring me to submit twice and be disqualified?
Sorry for sounding paranoid --
but if anyone can shed some light on this it'd be helpful (the most simple thing would be, if someone else has already submitted and no longer sees an option to submit, please tell me!!).
Senior Software Developer
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You'll see something like this if your submission was received:
Thanks for entering RPG Superstar—good luck!
Your submission was received 3 hours, 42 minutes ago
Come back January 24 to find out who will advance to the next round!
If you still see the link to submit your entry, it hasn't been submitted yet.
Thanks a bunch. I remembered something like that from last year but I wanted to be sure. Cheers!
One question I have done artwork for Otherverse Games, and a piece for Super Genius Games does this disqualify me from entering?
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One question I have done artwork for Otherverse Games, and a piece for Super Genius Games does this disqualify me from entering?
http://paizo.com/rpgsuperstar/rules
Contest Rules
1. The contest is open to the general public, with the following exceptions: ... Anyone who has been employed full-time as a designer for a game company is ineligible. Anyone with a cover credit on a hardcover RPG book is ineligible. Designers who have cover credits on print editions of Paizo's Pathfinder or GameMastery products are ineligible...
http://paizo.com/rpgsuperstar/faq
Who is eligible to enter the contest?
Because we are trying to discover new talent, anybody who has been published in the RPG industry in a significant way is not eligible to enter. If you have been employed full-time as a designer for a game company, you are not eligible. If you have received cover credit as an author of a hardcover RPG book, you are not eligible. If you have a cover credit on a printed Pathfinder or GameMastery product, you are not eligible. If you were one of the Top 8 finalists of any previous RPG Superstar contest, you are not eligible. Everyone else is eligible to enter! You must have an account on paizo.com to enter the contest--visit secure.paizo.com/paizo/account to set up a free account.
RPG Superstar 2013 Top 32, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16
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Can two people work together to create one entry? My husband and I often work together to create items, settings, and stories for our games and we'd like to work on this together.
This question was answered in another thread just recently:
This was addressed in the forums a few years back - Team/Collaboration Entries, circa 2008.
Short answer is: nope. The competition is for individuals only.
Here's the money quotes:
If you want to use a consultant or whatever, fine. If you want to playtest your stuff, fine. If you want to ask your friends what they think of the submission before you submit it, whatever.
But one entry per person. We are looking for the RPG Superstar, not the RPG Superstar(s).
I certainly can't give an official answer, but if you think it through, team/collaboration entries would be difficult to process.
What happens if a team makes it into the top-32 for Round 1...and then they have a falling out in later rounds...and no longer constitute a team? Is Paizo still going to entrust the remaining member of the "team" with writing the final product? Would they be kicking themselves for allowing that "team" to advance when they could have accepted one of the other entries from a single person, as the rules state?
Personally, I know they allowed team entries for W3: Flight of the Red Raven, but I just think it's much more complicated to open it to teams for this particular contest. Besides, it's patterned after American Idol, right? And duo acts never make it into future rounds. Everyone gets evaluated on individual talent. Hence, it's RPG Superstar, not Superstars...
Now this doesn't mean you couldn't use each other as aids in brainstorming, proofreading, and/or playtesting, but only one name goes on the entry and this is a competition about individual talent not collaborative talent.