In a surprising turn of events so unfounded that it is, in fact, not founded - you have arrived at Challenge! The SDRP writing exercise competition thing! Step forward and win fabulous Stuff!
See the Challenge Announcement for past Challenges.
The School of Dedicated Roleplayers guild Captain (mule account) turned 10 years old this March but we don't really know much about him. We want to get to know him better so we're asking you to find out who he is. We'll even pay you for it!
Your task is to develop an interesting and appropriate personality and backstory for the School of Dedicated Roleplayers guild Captain. You should keep in mind that he is Dean of the Academy (SDRP tutoring program and setting for event RPs) and generally a nice guy but otherwise you should be creative and have fun!
The best submission will be adopted as the character we use in guild RPs and its creator will be awarded bragging rights, 4,000,000 gold, a spot on our Featured RPs list, and an MC Letter for March 2014 (currently valued at 75,000,000)!
But that's not all. Thanks to some super generous donations we will now be giving out a Lets Party chance item (currently valued at 20,000,000) to EVERYONE that submits a valid entry - at least the first ten cuz that's all we've got.
Other prizes may be added as funds permit.
How it Works
- Just write a description of what you think our Captain should be like and detail a few important events in his life then submit your entry as a reply to the contest thread <- which is that link there and not this thread.
Your entry should be long enough to fully develop the character (at least 300 words) but, please, do not go over 1,000 words. Inappropriate length will make your entry invalid.
Run your entry through a spell check and try to use decent grammar. Bad writing will make your entry invalid.
We will be accepting entries until June 1st.
Judges will pick the best character from the entries and winners will be announced by June 15th.
Prizes will be awarded the week of the 15th and all trades must be accepted by August 1st or the prize is forfeit.
Until then, feel free to ask questions or wish us a happy birth-month in this thread.
What We're Looking For
- We want a well developed, interesting but appropriate character. He should be a good person and a bit of the professorly type for being Dean but you come up with everything else.
His history should make sense for the Dean of a roleplaying university (you should probably read up on the Academy for this) but you come up with how he got there.
He is an adult (you come up with the exact age but somewhere between 30 and 60) so some mature-ish elements can be used, just keep it within ToS, which is PG-13.
Your backstory should be mostly summary with a few interesting parts told in greater detail. Be sure to include how he got to the Academy world and how he became Dean of that strange school. Keep in mind this is an RP setting, not the guild itself.
Your descriptions should be detailed enough for us to get to know him well but not so long as to be a chore for us to read, we've only got two weeks to judge these after all.
Don't worry about how the avi looks, we're having another contest to redress him to fit the personality once it's chosen.
