A Guest Post from Joshua ‘Sanctum of the Fiery Ladder‘ Kitz.
Back in June, I won the 6d6 Fireball Adventure Writing Competition. Since then, I have spent a fair bit of time mulling things over and learning some new things as well. So here are a few tips and thoughts on the process, and a thing [...]
adventure writing competition
Five Things I Learned Writing a Competition Winning Adventure
July’s Winner – Gold Strike!
Winners of the July 2009 Adventure Writing Competition is Mitch Hamilton with Gold Strike! A tale of greed, dwarves, mines, ancient temples and what happens when you dig too far.
There was something about Mitch’s adventure that jumped out from the very first outline he sent. A desire to make the adventure more than just a [...]
Adventure Writers Group
One thing noticeable about the entries to the Adventure Writing Competition is that many writers encounter the same problems when making the leap from writing adventures for themselves to writing adventures for publication.
To help everyone, I’ve set-up a Google Group for adventure writers. The group is by invitation only but to get in, [...]
Coming Soon
Tomorrow I’m off on holiday to the Glastonbury festival which means there won’t be any thing new here for a week. But on my return, things get busy.
Starting on the 1st of July, 6d6 Fireball are hosting the Bloggers carnival. I’ve already got some articles lined up and as the subject is one that is [...]
June 2009 Winners of the Adventure Writing Competition
It is a bit odd announcing winners to a competition we’ve only just launched but version 1.0 of the competition started in April with a deadline in May. Despite the problems with the competition, a pair of writers kept working on their adventure, sending me regular updates and taking a keen interest in how version [...]
Open Playtest
As part of our Adventure Writing Competition, we are introducing the idea of the Open Playtest. As the name suggests, this is a way of play testing the adventures prior to publication that is open. And by open I mean it is open to everyone and that the results will be open for all to [...]
Bearded Devils
The first theme to our Adventure Writing Competition is Bearded Devils to coincide with the launch of our new figures.
Rob, our resident figure sculpture, wanted to do the devils because they are a versatile monster. For low level parties, a sngle bearded devil is a major challenge. At mid-level, a squad of four devils [...]
Adventure Writing Competition (V2.0)
6d6Fireball is pleased to announce the launch of its Adventure Writing Competition (version 2.0).
The rules are simple: Write a D&D 3.5 (or system neutral) adventure featuring our theme, Bearded Devils, and send it to us. All entries go into the pool and each month, the best adventure from the pool will be selected and released [...]
Competition News
Tomorrow I will be relaunching the Adventure Writing Competition which ran into problems after the changes at 6d6 Fireball.
The basic ideas and goals of the competition will be the same. i.e. produce a quality module where all the profits go back to the writers and give new writers a chance to break into the business. [...]
Adventure Writing Competition – A Rough Plan
Following some great feedback and ideas, I now have a rough plan as to how to develop the competition.
Monthly Deadlines
Rather than a big bang approach, the competition will now take place over a number of months and each month, I will publish one entry as a free PDF. When we have enough entries, hopefully in [...]
