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Woohoooooooooo!!
Thanks again for the opportunity Creighton. =D
A little surprised to see I'm the only one that tackled the highest end of the encounter range, but hey I'm okay with that =)
Looks like a nice mix in here.
Woohoooooooooo!!
Thanks again for the opportunity Creighton. =D
A little surprised to see I'm the only one that tackled the highest end of the encounter range, but hey I'm okay with that =)
Looks like a nice mix in here.
Congrats Orthos. I think the limiting factor for me was that most of my higher level ideas, perhaps due to the creatures having more abilities, used up more of the word count. Nice job on pulling a higher level encounter off.
It was a bit tricky, and I did have to shave some of the abilities off the monsters or rewrite some of their abilities to take up less space. Particularly the Colour out of Space... man that thing's got so many special abilities with tons of text.
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I've just revealed the successful submissions for the Broken Freelancer Open Call over on my blog. Congratulations to the successful designers! As soon as Christmas is out of the way, I'l begin layout and development of the encounters with a view to releasing the supplement in late February.
Congratulations again to the successful designers. I'll be running another such open call next year as I've enjoyed this whole process immensely - and I've learned a thing or two along the way as well!
I want to thank you as well. It was fun, and the result is a much needed pick-me-up after a couple of really crappy months.
I also learned a lot, among other things that my English grammar is apparently better than my German. :/
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Congrats, everyone!
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Huzzah, the big reveal is here! Congratulations to everyone who made it.
I'm super excited to be part of this, especially since this officially the first time someone has offered to pay for something rpg-related I have written.
Can't wait to see the finished product.
Ah, well. Maybe next time. Sure, I had a forest encounter, but it had a pyrophone in it, which more than makes up for an overuse of location.
Thanks, Creighton, and congrats everyone!
Jacob 3, was amused to see the name of your encounter. I was playing around with something called "Lover's Leap" but just couldn't get it to work.
Congratulations Jacobs and everyone else!
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Congrats Orthos and all the other finalists!
If you didn't make it to the winner's pantheon, you've just got a little longer to polish and perfect an entry for next time (fingers and toes crossed) Creighton opens this up.
{switches to TV commerical voice} But bring your A game, because you'll also be competing against a slaad, and rezzing clerics don't take American Express. :) Hmmm, I think this potion of smacktalk still needs a lot of work.
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Hmmm, I think this potion of smacktalk still needs a lot of work.
Alot might know a guy.
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Raging Swan Press will be running another Broken Freelancer Open Call (probably starting in February for a May release).
I suspect this one may be even more competitive assuming everyone takes into consideration the feedback Creighton was kind enough to send out after the first go-around.
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I suspect this one may be even more competitive assuming everyone takes into consideration the feedback Creighton was kind enough to send out after the first go-around.Raging Swan Press will be running another Broken Freelancer Open Call (probably starting in February for a May release).
That works for me! I'd love to be able to print a collection of even more super awesome encounters than the ones I'm currently working on!
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Feel free to suggest one!
Btw, from looking at the chosen encounters I can see that I really need to put some more imagination into the encounter title the next time, jeez ;-)
Thanks, I'll give that some serious thought over the holidays! :-)
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Random Encounters: Wilderness is now available! Congratulations to all the freelancers - Jesper Andersen, Richard Bennett, Denver Edwards Jr., Jeffrey Erwin, Fabian Fehrs, James F.D Graham, Jacob W. Michael, Brian J. Ratcliff, Jacob Trier - who got their work featured within.
And fear not, if you fancy a chance at getting published Raging Swan Press will be putting out another open call in the next few weeks.
And fear not, if you fancy a chance at getting published Raging Swan Press will be putting out another open call in the next few weeks.
{PANICS}
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And fear not, if you fancy a chance at getting published Raging Swan Press will be putting out another open call in the next few weeks.{PANICS}
No need to panic - participating in the open call was both fun and educational. And it's a great way to kickstart a freelance career. I'm already hard at work on my next assignment for Raging Swan.
Keeping this listed so I can participate in it.
No need to panic - participating in the open call was both fun and educational. And it's a great way to kickstart a freelance career. I'm already hard at work on my next assignment for Raging Swan.And fear not, if you fancy a chance at getting published Raging Swan Press will be putting out another open call in the next few weeks.{PANICS}
{nods at reasonable advice, resumes panicking anyway} So many things I need to finish already...
I need to find out what pact SKR made with the Aeon Monad to gain the abundance of time to hit all his product deadlines.
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Thanks for your great work, Creighton, for giving us a chance and for introducing the freelancers by name and bio in your product. You are the kind of publisher every freelancer dreams of working for :-)
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No need to panic - participating in the open call was both fun and educational. And it's a great way to kickstart a freelance career. I'm already hard at work on my next assignment for Raging Swan.And fear not, if you fancy a chance at getting published Raging Swan Press will be putting out another open call in the next few weeks.{PANICS}
Likewise =) Should be wrapping up the last of it this weekend, maybe some revisions over the next week.
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I'm beginning to contemplate Raging Swan's next open call. It, thus, seemed a jolly good time to ask if anyone had any feedback on the Broken Freelancer open call. Was it great? Did you find things confusing? Do you have any suggestions as to how to make it better? If you do, please let me know here as I'll be putting the finishing touches to the next open call over the next two weeks!
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There was nothing confusing about it.
I just found out about it way too late. ;)
As I recall, the information you needed was on a page with multiple links to other pages with information, as well as the templates. Perhaps it would be better to stick with just one master page full of all relevant info.
Other than that, no - nothing confusing about it. :-)
I didn't participate in the last open call, but looking at everything now it all looks pretty clear. I'm looking forward to this one.
I had no problems, and the few inquiries I had were answered here quickly. So long as that field of information is still open I see no issues for participants in the second go-through =)
I was thrilled with it. No problems at all, IMO.
I think my main problem was that my OpenOffice broke whatever math calculators you had set into the templates, or just ignored them entirely.
Yeah, mine did that as well. Don't think OpenOffice likes whatever Word Creighton uses.
The Open Call was indeed great, and is strongly recommended.
As Jesper points out, some of the info that the freelancer needs to take into account is spread out over several documents and templates, and gathering it in one document/web page might prevent a few slips.
I've been checking this forum regularly now, so hopefully I'll have something for your next open call.
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If it helps, most other companies ask for and prefer freelance assignments in manuscript form. They certainly give word count limits and the like, but rarely if ever do you work directly in any kind of layout template.
I absolutely understand why you do this, and it certainly must be efficient on your end (when the template works for the freelancer :) However, I suspect that as you work with more different freelancers, you may find you need to abandon giving the template out up front and begin allowing standard Word manuscripts
Put me in the category of confused by the guidelines and a single source would be nice. I think I followed one example and another had additional guides that I missed.
Looking forward to it Creighton.
Awaiting, though I'm not sure where I'd see the announcement.
I've missed Mr Broadhurst's open calls before; I'm bound and determined not to miss the next one. I've gone through old threads and this one as well as the site; while there may be some template issues I don't fully understand as I haven't submitted in the past, I'm sure I can get things in the right format for final transmission. Even if not the one finally submitted it would be an honor just to compete for this excellent company. On a personal note RSP's "Dungeon Dressing" PDFs are some of my favorite inspirations, especially portcullises. I'm considering one of the traps books next.
Thank you Mr Broadhurst for your blogs, your products and your advocacy.
Where do we look to find the announcement? I have their website but I don't see any signs of older announcements.
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I've missed Mr Broadhurst's open calls before; I'm bound and determined not to miss the next one. I've gone through old threads and this one as well as the site; while there may be some template issues I don't fully understand as I haven't submitted in the past, I'm sure I can get things in the right format for final transmission. Even if not the one finally submitted it would be an honor just to compete for this excellent company. On a personal note RSP's "Dungeon Dressing" PDFs are some of my favorite inspirations, especially portcullises. I'm considering one of the traps books next.
Thank you Mr Broadhurst for your blogs, your products and your advocacy.
Thanks very much Mark for the kind words about the Dungeon Dressing line. I love that particular subject ever since I found the tables in the back of the 1st edition DMG.
I hope you take the time to send in a submission this time around! The call will be going live next week so check back then!
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Perhaps, Creighton, an example of one encounter that you eventually chose in the last competition and why, to highlight what exactly suits RSP?
Cheers
No probs, old chum!
The web page for Random Encounters: Wilderness has an example of an encounter that made it into the final compilation. For me, this ticked all the boxes:
It was atmospheric.
It had an interesting mix of monsters given the setup and the terrain.
It was something most GMs could not come up with on the fly.
It includes everything the GM needed to run the encounter.
Things that also helped:
The freelancer used the template and followed the guidelines. (I'm aware some designers had technical issues with the template - I'm not "marking down" for that).
The turnover was on time and included the freelancer's details.
The turnover was very clean - it had few spelling or grammatical errors.
I hope that helped!
Looking forward to the next Open Call as well.
I will likely toss my hat in the ring when the call goes out.
Open call?