This seems like a fun contest.

Quote from: Gib;733132It is a bandwagon, which is repugnant to me. I am not into joining or belonging. I'm a loose cannon who makes his own rules, man.

I am not sure you can deem yourself a loose cannon. It is like giving yourself a badass nickname......

Quote from: zarathustra;733167It's just a contest, you dickwads.

Well said.

Quote from: Sacrosanct;733163No, I meant I quite literally can't see the big deal.  I suspect it's because I'm missing something.

Oh, it seems that something was Paizo doing the same thing?

I think it is the whole OSR thing. "Be a superstar of un-creativity" as some view it.

That and the person hosting it seems to sometimes have minorly questionable motives?

Quote from: Omega;733201That and the person hosting it seems to sometimes have minorly questionable motives?

Oh, for Christ's sake.  Eric Tenkar's a perfectly decent and reasonable bloke.  His motive is to have a popular blog.

Quote from: Endless Flight;733127Hey, that's cool man.

I just think that there's a lack of games that aren't OGL/d20 based compared to the old days. It would be cool if some of these imaginative designers would create something other than clones. I love games like D6, etc.

I'm not sure how many of the OSR are actually into a new system.

Quote from: zarathustra;733167It's just a contest, you dickwads.

The contest title is lame, but its a good idea. Anything that promotes creativity in the hobby is a good thing, regardless of system.

As for the OSR being a bandwagon, well yeah, but its been a fun bandwagon with the many  interesting goodies, especially great free goodies.

Quote from: Omega;733201That and the person hosting it seems to sometimes have minorly questionable motives?

Huh?  Eric Tenkar doesn't seem to have any weird or hidden motives to me. What have I missed?

Quote from: P&P;733210Oh, for Christ's sake.  Eric Tenkar's a perfectly decent and reasonable bloke.  His motive is to have a popular blog.

Erik Tenkar is a grave-dancing dickhead and one of like three people in the OSR community I have on actual block.

As long as people participating have fun, and the contest prize is given out as promised, I do not see an issue here. The name seems a little bit silly, but I think that is intentional.

I think Erik's a decent enough chap, and I feel it's kind of rich to decry someone for baiting blog traffic on a forum run by, you know, RPGPundit, but he's got an active account on these forums and he can defend himself if he wants to.

As for the contest itself, I always thought the "superstar" thing was a send-up of Paizo's own "RPG superstar" thingie, the title of which (1) suggests that all RPG-playing people buy, play and care about Paizo product and (2) suggests that more than ten people (Brad's forty sounds too generous for me too) even remember who the fuck writes these modules. In Paizo's case I do think it's a vaguely dickish appellation but the contest itself's okay, I guess.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;733116A man has an idea. The idea attracts others, like-minded. The idea expands. The idea becomes an institution. . . . You know what they got now? OSR greeting cards. Isn't that precious? The idea has become the institution, boys. Time to move on.

Great movie.

Sometimes the main point is to have fun. Sometime you say "Hey! Let's do X" and get nothing but deafening silence. On the other hand sometimes you get "Yay let's do it!". The OSR Superstar contest is the "Yeah Lets do it category".

Is Tenkar promoting a blog? Well duh! Does it matter? Not really. Why OSR superstar? Well point was to do what Paizo does but with classic editions of D&D.

Don't forget that the OSR is a bunch of independent hobbyists and publishing all doing their own thing including Tenkar. Things like this only happen because people choose to support it. All of us participating decided it was a good idea and choose to support it in various ways.  

What about me? I contributed a $100 in prize money, and agreed to be one of three judges.

Why did I choose to participate? I have my reasons but mainly is because I like being part of the hobby and this was another opportunity to contribute.

So I have 300+ MI from 200+ participants to plow through and I am 25% the way of the way through.

Quote from: Endless Flight;733121If a 10th of the talented people involved in the OSR would crank out original games that didn't use the OGL, now that would be a real "superstar" contest.

So you go to Chess Club and them they are unimaginative for playing, publishing, or promoting chess? It old so it got to be broken and boring.

Quote from: The Butcher;733226As for the contest itself, I always thought the "superstar" thing was a send-up of Paizo's own "RPG superstar" thingie

...which, in turn, was some tongue-in-cheek reaction to all those casting shows on TV (Popstars, Pop Idol, [Country] got Talent).
At least that's how I read the name. (And I've never even seen one of those...)

Quote from: The Butcher;733226I think Erik's a decent enough chap, and I feel it's kind of rich to decry someone for baiting blog traffic on a forum run by, you know, RPGPundit, but he's got an active account on these forums and he can defend himself if he wants to.

Promoting one's blog is fine.

Turning one's blog into a one-man warpath fueled by cheap-shots and self-entitlement just because they make good linkbait isn't.

Fair enough  on the Pundit comparison, though I'd suggest says more about Tenkar than any one of us.

Quote from: estar;733232So you go to Chess Club and them they are unimaginative for playing, publishing, or promoting chess? It old so it got to be broken and boring.

I never said people who make OGL stuff are unimaginative. I said why don't some of those imaginative designers try and see if they can make truly original works not using the OGL.

Imagine if Chess was the only game in the world and we didn't have Candyland or Chutes and Ladders?? Now that would suck!

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;733234...which, in turn, was some tongue-in-cheek reaction to all those casting shows on TV (Popstars, Pop Idol, [Country] got Talent).
At least that's how I read the name. (And I've never even seen one of those...)

You're fortunate.