Aftre a couple of hectic server room nightmare days, I am now back at the item review mill - Crest of the Fallen now down.
Almost half way now - getting there :)
Gah! If I had any hair, I'd be pulling it out right now!
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Well, it's out there now...
I have submitted too. I can't wait to see what the rest of you did. I think we had the highest quality set of round 2 submissions that this contest has ever had, and I'm expecting the same from round 3. It's going to be very tough to advance.
So much for my idea of a museum encounter, where the painting of dogs playing poker is really 4 portrait phantoms all armed with deck of the hellwasps sting.
I approve of this use of my monster. Seeing the contestants using each other's creations, even as jokes, is part of what makes this competition awesome.
Mark, I don't know how you're doing this with your wedding so soon. I'm just trying to find a venue and that's time-consuming enough on its own. (Of course, it doesn't help that the snow keeps messing up plans.)
Mark, I don't know how you're doing this with your wedding so soon. I'm just trying to find a venue and that's time-consuming enough on its own. (Of course, it doesn't help that the snow keeps messing up plans.)
It's been a busy and stressful past month, for sure. Especially considering how difficult this encounter round is. Fortunately, we had the majority of our wedding plans finished by November. Also we are having a very small wedding to keep things simple for ourselves. But it's still been tough.
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Mark, I don't know how you're doing this with your wedding so soon. I'm just trying to find a venue and that's time-consuming enough on its own. (Of course, it doesn't help that the snow keeps messing up plans.)It's been a busy and stressful past month, for sure. Especially considering how difficult this encounter round is. Fortunately, we had the majority of our wedding plans finished by November. Also we are having a very small wedding to keep things simple for ourselves. But it's still been tough.
I think you should invite the top 16 and their guests to attend the wedding!!! I will be bringing a Filth Dragon as my guest. ;-P
Guttersnipes would make off with your presents. And cake.
I suppose a nafligo in the fountain might be OK...
ETA: If someone did an encounter around a wedding, they're grinding their teeth like mad at this conversation right now... :)
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ETA: If someone did an encounter around a wedding, they're grinding their teeth like mad at this conversation right now... :)
*Listens Carefully*
Is that what that noise is?
Hmm, any attempts at being zen about this whole process have kinda been for not. This competition is a whole new level of stress.
P.S. Everyone knows miscasters make the best party favors. Or the worst, I can never remember which.
Well, I just realized a stupid mistake in my submission...
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... And it's away! I think I know what the most probable criticism will be, but I'm hoping it will be seen as awesome-sauce rather than just rule-bending ;-)
Now begins the interminable waiting. And sleep. Hopefully some sleep this weekend. :-P
And I'm in, with hours to spare.
Now to walk the dog, buy groceries, catch up on the pile of bills and then start fretting until Tuesday.
And I'm in, with hours to spare.
Now to walk the dog, buy groceries, catch up on the pile of bills and then start fretting until Tuesday.
*whip crack*
I think you mean...
"and then start working on my proposal."
*whip crack*
This means all of you :P
*whip crack*
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Submitted it 15 seconds ago. Oh dear gods I'm relieved. :) The weekend may begin! (It's 7:17 pm here)
Have a good weekend, fellow contestants, and don't forget to send in your map as well!!!
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Submitted! And now for a well-deserved nap. Good luck, everyone!
More like a well-deserved map...!!!
Oh lord, is it Tuesday yet?
Submitted about an hour ago. It really is hard to hit that button. I remember working on my first product and though I really wanted to put out the best work I could, I wasn't really stressed out about whether people would like it or not. With RPGSS, the expectations seem so much higher. I'm trying to remain zen though.
I've done all I can to produce the best content possible in the time allotted. Nothing that is weighted so heavily will ever really seem finished. At a certain point, yet another go-through won't reveal anything more than the last, and you just have to let it go into the world to let others make of it what they will. I know I did the best I could, and I'm proud of that.
I hope everyone here feels the same about what they've managed to accomplish. What a ride!
Aaaand submitted, barely, because it took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out how to read the DPI on my map and change it.
Now all I have to worry about is the Internet eating the e-mail. Good times!
Edit: HOLY CARP there's mah name!
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Submitted about an hour ago. It really is hard to hit that button. I remember working on my last product and though I really wanted to put out the best product I could, I wasn't really stressed out about whether people would like it or not. With RPGSS, the expectations seem so much higher.
While the expectations do seem however higher I think it's more that you're out there without a net. As contestants we have to be designer, developer, and editor. The voters are looking for a publishing quality entry. And they should be: This is Superstar. Fact is though, we have to carry the weight of all of those jobs ourselves. Sure we may have a few alpha readers who can catch a few things but they aren't the same.
So I think you're totally valid in feeling more stress during RPGSS than when you are publishing.
Strangely though, I'm having a different experience. I'm still really calm (that isn't to say that there haven't been a few nail-biting moments) but it's nothing like 2012 was for me.
The release of my first 3pp PDF, on the other hand, has been twisting at me. Checking up on it was an even bigger temptation than looking for comments on my entries.
It's awesome. I can tell who you guys are now without a Search check.
Tripp, I'm sure they can; they added in my middle initial (which even though I think it sounds sort of pretentious is what I use with my name in print). Just send an email or PM.
Prestigious middle initials are the best.
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I have a feeling I may have been the last one to submit again! Although it I guess it could have been you, Victoria! But I don't mind, that just means I am in good company!
The DPI thing was messing me up as well. Hopefully my map is alright. I am no good when it comes to computer graphics and figuring stuff out. I just create the stuff and then send it.
I'm terrible too. I couldn't even handle the computer graphics and had to downgrade to scrawling on a piece of graph paper like some primeval barbarian. Got to steal my daughter's crayons, though.
I'm hoping the rules were very sincere about artistic merit having no bearing.
I think I was in 10 minutes before the cutoff, but I was sure Sean's veiled reference to the map arrival 2 minutes before deadline was me. Maybe not! :)
How's the blood pressure? Stress hormones easing up now? :)
Oh, hello, new pdf in my downloads. You're a nice surprise!
Looks like I know what I'm reading over the next 24 hours...
Ooo! Shinies!
So glad I didn't own any of these already...! Yes, personalize those PDFs, my pretties...
Really excited to see what we all came up with for Round 3! Best of luck to everyone!
Any of these? Dang, I only got one! (I assume the other was Cities of Golarion?)
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So I decided to break away from the grid paradigm with my map, and used a Jackson Pollock painting instead. How do you think that will play with the voters?
