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Banished_Babe · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:40 pm Post subject: Adventure Contest Winners

Thank you all for entering the Adventure contest. It was great fun to read your entries, and challenging to rank them! However, rank them we did, and we're pleased to announce the winners:

1st Place: Amelia Earhart and the Treasure of the Piranha Men
submitted by John Aynge

2nd Place: Inheritance
submitted by ShadowStalker

3rd Place: The Crystal Skull
submitted by Wolverine

4th Place: Silent but Deadly
submitted by Captain Muldoon

PRIZES:
Winners will receive their choice of 8 1/2 x 11 color prints of HEX artwork. First place gets first chioce, second place gets second choice, and third place gets third choice. Fourth place will get the remaining print.

Here are the choices:

A) http://www.slemonsillustration.com/Hollow/roaldamudson.html

B) http://www.slemonsillustration.com/Hollow/vonwartenbergco.html

C) One of the sample characters from the core rulebook (winner's choice).

D) 11x17 color print of the world map.

You get first pick, John, so think it over and let us know which one you'd like.

Congratulations and thank you, gentleman! If you would like to get your adventures cleaned up (that's the editor in me) and send them to Wolverine, he'll convert them to PDF's and we'll post them on the Exile site under the Downloads section.

Wolverine · Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:36 am Post subject:

Congrats, John! Nice to see that everyone gets a prize, too Very Happy

As for getting my adventure cleaned up, I think I'll go back and rewrite the end - taking John's notes into consideration - before passing it on to you, Melissa.
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Captain Muldoon · Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:24 am Post subject:

Well done John. I enjoyed reading all the entries, its good to see the game has so many dedicated supporters.
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HarrierPotter · Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject:

Congrats to all! In my absence, I missed the deadline myself Crying or Very sad

and haven't even had a chance to read the entries, but the titles all look intriguing.
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JohnK · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject:

Hullo, folks, Shawn,

Good stuff, Shawn! Smile

Scenario was quite lovely, and to all intents and purposes very entertaining to read, and looks great to run, which I shall be doing at a demo shortly.

A good job by all the writers of scenarios for this contest. I bow to their adventure scenario writing capabilities. ::bow, bow::
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John Aynge · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:25 am Post subject:

Thanks to everyone for their kind words regarding the Amelia scenario. It needs quite a bit of hard editing at this point, but I'll get on that ASAP and get it turned into or have someone turn it into a PDF.

As I'm editing it I would love any pointers or suggestions from anyone around here. The final version should have public domain photos, a map of the island, and some other GM/Expedition Guide notes and tips in the actual adventure.

What were the opinions on the specifics requests for skill rolls and listing effects within the body of the adventure (Example Ref Perception Roll: DC (2+), success notices I can't use grammar to save my life).

A special thanks to Harrier Potter on my behalf. Mr. Potter took the time to read, make suggestions, and offer to edit the first full attempt at a scenario for this contest (The Thule Death Ray Affair which is appearing as the PBEM in the TALES OF HOLLOW EARTH section, where I'm currently looking for a few more players). He was patient and happily gave me a plethora of pointers. The best one was to point out that the adventure in no way fit the theme of the contest. So, from that first attempt came Amelia.

After quite a bit of thought about which prize to claim I'd like to have a second map of for prop purposes, but I can buy one of those so I've decided to go with the MAD SCIENTIST on pg 96 (if that is a suitable option). If there is every a print or poster of the interior cover (the native and the female explorer looking over the waterfalls I would grab that in a heart beat).

Congrats to all the contestants and thanks for entering and making the contest so much fun. I'm hoping the next contest brings in even more entries.
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ShadowStalker · Expedition Leader - 3 months Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 10

Thanks to everyone at Exile Game Studio for taking the time to run this contest, as well as everyone that participated. It takes an active community to keep a good game going.

I'll get busy revising my entry. I'm looking forward to being ablt to expand it now, adding some of the handouts I had originally designed for it. I'm also going to incorporate John's comments to make a better ending (thanks, mate Very Happy

). I'm also going to try to add in stats this time.

While I'm here, if John is all set with his prize selection, I would like to have the 11x17 world map, since I'm kind of a freak about cartography.

JohnK · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:36 pm Post subject:

Hullo, Shadowstalker,

ShadowStalker · Expedition Leader - 3 months Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 10

JohnK · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:18 am Post subject:

Hullo, Shadowstalker,