Commodore
*eyeroll*
The success of Bryce's Wavestone Keep contest results/No-Artpunk has me thinking that there's a lot of potential talent hungry for feedback; I think more than a $100 reward or a physical copy of a module, the primary motivator for me at least was the critical reviewing. There's no real shortage of opinionated old designers here, I was thinking of a forum contest where potential writers submit lairs/small dungeons:
-Small enough to stumble on in a hexcrawl or a city, call it 8-16 keyed locations.
-The location nonetheless has a story to it, with potential hooks/rumors, and would make a satisfying night's D&D session.
-Page limit of 10 pages including maps.
-At least one map, if using someone else's must be legal to use in a publication.
-Must be for some system, not "statless".
These submissions would be judged and most importantly reviewed with at least a solid page of reviewing, like Bryce or Prince or Melan manage. A pool of interested volunteer judge reviewers from the forums could be engaged; they'd be welcome to submit to the contest as well but they obviously can't judge their own work. Selection of the top 8 adventures would be ranked choice, which then get bundled into a free product on DrivThru, published under a creative commons attribution license (so it can be shared, but credit to to writers). This is similar to how the One Page Dungeon did it, iirc.
If Malerex or one of the bigger publishers here wanted to sponsor this that'd be fine, otherwise I'll just publish it as a free product under my label. I'll be happy to judge and write reviews.
-Small enough to stumble on in a hexcrawl or a city, call it 8-16 keyed locations.
-The location nonetheless has a story to it, with potential hooks/rumors, and would make a satisfying night's D&D session.
-Page limit of 10 pages including maps.
-At least one map, if using someone else's must be legal to use in a publication.
-Must be for some system, not "statless".
These submissions would be judged and most importantly reviewed with at least a solid page of reviewing, like Bryce or Prince or Melan manage. A pool of interested volunteer judge reviewers from the forums could be engaged; they'd be welcome to submit to the contest as well but they obviously can't judge their own work. Selection of the top 8 adventures would be ranked choice, which then get bundled into a free product on DrivThru, published under a creative commons attribution license (so it can be shared, but credit to to writers). This is similar to how the One Page Dungeon did it, iirc.
If Malerex or one of the bigger publishers here wanted to sponsor this that'd be fine, otherwise I'll just publish it as a free product under my label. I'll be happy to judge and write reviews.