Are You The Next RPG Superstar?
Think you've got what it takes to compete in the fast-paced, hard-drinking, sleep-deprived world of professional tabletop RPG design? Well Paizo Publishing is giving you the chance to find out! Yesterday they announced RPG Superstar, a contest wherein would-be game designers run the gamut of d20 game design trials—from magic items and monsters to encounter creation. Each challenge is then judged by a panel of celebrity professionals, determining who advances to the next levels and who heads back to the obscurity of their parents' basement. The panel of dreammakers and dreambreakers includes Greyhawk scholar and Paizo's Publisher, Erik Mona; former Dragon editor and editor of Kobold Quarterly, Wolfgang Baur; and the cult leader of Necromancer Games Clark Peterson. In the end, the four most successful designers eventually advance to the final, most challenging round, wherein they submit a proposal for a complete adventure, vying for a chance at a paid commission to write a full, published module for Paizo's GameMastery line.
"With the end of the print editions of Dragon and Dungeon magazines, Paizo has lost a conduit to find new talent," said Lisa Stevens, CEO of Paizo Publishing, "so we decided to launch an RPG design contest similar to American Idol, giving unknown talent a chance to get noticed!"
The contest starts today, with participants being challenged to create the coolest wondrous item. Since this is a contest created to let some new stars shine, Paizo worked a nice little caveat in as their first rule: "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 been credited on Paizo's Pathfinder or GameMastery products are ineligible." You can check out the full rules and details on RPG Superstar on the official rules website.
So, if you've always wanted to get your foot in the RPG industry door, or even just said "My game's better than this," now's your chance to prove it!
Lectric Lich
Posted to Tabletop Gaming on 31 October 2007
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