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Hello everyone in LJ-Land. Apparently, Conquest is open for writers to submit blurbs, although I assume that most people are using it for Arc at the moment. Anyway, I have a game (freeform) which I am hoping to run at Conquest, and would like to take this opportunity to ask everyone to criticise (positive, please) the blurb I currently have
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Mention that it is a "swashbuckling freeform based in the world of Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies," rather than a "swashbuckling adventure." Helps avoiding confusion by people expecting the tabletop (if they are familiar with S7S), and informs people who want to look for a bit more information a chance to practice their swashbuckling Google-fu. [Don't rely on where it is listed (programme organisers can get confused too), and there is nothing wrong with redundancy. Sometimes people forget to read.]
May the Chameleon Star spped your journey through The Ghost Sky!
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I suspect that you have reversed the intent of the scenario, which definitely means that the blurb might need work. I believe enkorvaks is intending that it be the pirates who are worried about the fact that their previously elusive Tortuga base is now vulnerable.
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I'm not so big on "swashbuckling freeform based in the world of Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies". Redundancy isn't bad, but flow is good, and that's a hell of a mouthful. If the name of the game wasn't so long, it'd be much better, but you can't change that. It might be worth finding a way to work in that information without winding up with such a long tag-line. A bit depends on the convention's standardised information. If you were submitting this for Arcanacon, our current stat-block would cover "freeform" and "Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies" prominently right underneath that last line of text, but I think Conquest's standard blurb formatting has been in a bit of a state of flux the last couple of years (and they don't have the 2011 blurbs in their web archive to check the most recent format).
I like the alternate name, because "The X of Y" is so overused (though sometimes you want to tap into the cliche... and other times you just can't get away from it. While only a minor variant on that form, the title of one of my Conquest ( ... )
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I fragging hope nobody is still trying to enter events for Arcanacon via AON. Arc opened for player registration almost a week ago. (Somebody did make first contact concerning an event after the announcement of rego opening for players. I shoved him in the direction of Conquest.) Come to think of it, I should probably put an announcement in aus_gamers. I did announcements via the mailing list, Twitter and Facebook, but have missed aus_gamers.
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Er, that is, I hope nobody is trying to enter events as in submit them as writers via AON. I do hope people are trying to enter events as in sign up to play them via AON.
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