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One-Sentence NPC contest winners

August 21, 2008 by The Chatty DM

Way back in late June, Johnn Four and I launched a big contest to get readers from both sites to submit one sentence long NPC descriptions.  Summer vacations and Gen Con interfered and the results have been long coming.

Well, I’m back and tonight’s post will be to announce the winners and prizes for the readers of Musings of the ChattyDM (all winners were determined by random draw).  There were more than 700 entries!

So without any further ado, here be winners:

The_Gun_Nut: A Senior Patron Open Design account
greywulf: Pathfinder #9: Escape from Old Korvosa
Felonius: Pathfinder #7: Edge of Anarchy
Zelgar: Kobold Quarterly #4
Ben Overmyer: Kobold Quarterly #4
Kavonde: Hero Lab 2.0
Milarky: GM Gems book
Kaeltik: GM Gems book
Dave T. Game: 1 on 1 Adventures #9: Legacy of Darkness
Dadamh: 1 on 1 Adventures #10: Vengeance of Olindor

Congratulations to all! We’ll contact you through email to send you your prize.

As soon as Johnn and I meet again online, we’ll put up the combined entries PDF here and on his website. Thank you for your patience.

Speaking of contest, Gnome Stew is running one just now with one of the most original prizes I have ever heard of! You get to win your choice of professionally recorded Sound Effect/scenes for your games!

Register on their masterfully written blog and leave one comment on this post and you’re in!

All right, I’m off, have a nice weekend all.

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Comments

  1. Martin Ralya says

    August 21, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    Wooo — thanks for the pimpage, Chatty! And congrats to the winners of your joint Musings/RPT One-Sentence NPC contest — that was a really cool idea, and I can’t wait to see the PDF.

  2. The_Gun_Nut says

    August 21, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    Ok, wow. I won something? This is so rare as to warrent special attention. Usually I have to beat the odds (using a 2×4 with a nail in it) to win anything.

    Now I am so taken aback that I genuinely have no idea what to do next. (Create stuff for adventures? Snazzy.)

  3. greywulf says

    August 22, 2008 at 4:00 am

    O wow. I won sumfink!

    Congratulations to all (and thanks, Chatty & co!) for taking part 😀

    greywulfs last blog post..Bad Doggie

  4. Dave T. Game says

    August 22, 2008 at 11:01 am

    Sweet! I won! Congrats everybody!

  5. Johnn Four says

    August 24, 2008 at 10:29 am

    Hi Phil,

    When you have a sec, please e-mail the winners’ e-mails so I can send them off to prize sponsors. I’ll send you an e-mail right now with more details.

    I’m about 6,000 words edited on the 17,000 word NPC doc. Am chugging away persistently, but won’t promise an ETA to the community yet.

    Did you see Yax’s proposal for an epic marathon in Hawaii? http://www.dungeonmastering.com/gaming-life/rolling-20s-under-the-sun

    Will I see you there?

    Johnn Fours last blog post..Issue 412 – 6 Quick Game Master Organization Tips

  6. Geek's Dream Girl says

    August 24, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Congrats, wieners! 🙂

    Geek’s Dream Girls last blog post..Moradin’s Lass… is Dead.

  7. ChattyDM says

    August 24, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    Doing so right now Johnn…

    And no, I won’t make it to Hawai… at least not until I start getting paid for doing RPG stuff.

  8. David says

    August 25, 2008 at 7:39 am

    Woo, I won something! Though the way the post was phrased, it sounds like the winners were randomly selected.

    My faith in the dice was well placed.

    Still hey, great. I was wondering if this contest was going to get mentioned again, and winning something is fun times.

    Davids last blog post..Messing with Players

  9. ChattyDM says

    August 25, 2008 at 7:46 am

    As soon as Johnn is done Editing the more than 700 entries, we’ll make a PDf out of it and post it on our respective websites for free!

  10. Felonius says

    August 28, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    Congrats to the other winners. Hooray us 😉

    Thank you Chatty and Johnn for the contest. It was fun.

    (I never win anything…)

  11. Ian Winterbottom says

    August 31, 2008 at 7:10 am

    Phil, you and Johnn amaze me, I have known him (technically speaking!) for a year or so, even done some “bits” for him, but it was through him (and others) I found you, also among others! It is like having your own personal firework display! A whole crowd of people out there to get ideas from and shove them at, and see what happens. (The recent Character Portrait winner, Illusionist/Rogue Magnus, was Yours Truly, but WOW, did I get some ideas from you lot out there!) I just hope I supplied a few to you lot as well.
    A touch of the Jim Morrison and the Doors, “C’mon Baby, light my Fire!” Ideas being the name of the game, up to you to adapt them to your system or version. (Mine to now has been 1e/Old School, what I began on; may change as I am hoping to join a new group, 4e? Yay, Nook! (If he’s reading this he knows whom I mean!))
    Ian Winterbottom

  12. ChattyDM says

    August 31, 2008 at 7:40 am

    Dude! That’s the point of the whole thing!

    Light my Fire indeed!

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