The Final Four!

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Behold, our four finalists! They have navigated the surprise of creating a new category of magic item, diligently labored to create stand-alone maps, wrought creatures of the Darklands, and braved the travails of creating new and interesting encounters! Hundreds began this exhausting and arduous path, and now four have proven themselves the best of the year. As a benefit of being among the last group of finalists, each of our final four will have the opportunity to write for Paizo—Pathfinder Society Scenarios for the three runners-up, and an adventure for our Pathfinder Modules line for this year's RPG Superstar. Learn more about our Top 4 here!

RPG Superstar™ 2015 Top 4

Brian J. Fruzen Round 4 The Gloomsworn Path Round 3 Geomaw Round 2 Salvation's End Round 1 Pyrolastic Spike Monica Marlowe Round 4 The Hanging Gardens of Karexin Round 3 Narrick Round 2 Firebrand's Redoubt: Stronghold of Lady Delbera Axebringer Round 1 Spectre Blight

Kalervo Oikarinen Round 4 Fellforge Chapel Round 3 Dread Glutton Round 2 Ancient Cyclops Stronghold in the Icerime Peaks Round 1 Fate-binder Christopher Wasko Round 4 Darkblight Fallow Round 3 Deeplit Round 2 The Drowning Temple Round 1 Windstrider Mail

One more challenge remains to determine which of our finalists shall claim that grand prize, and it comes in two parts. First, each contestant must send a short pitch for their adventure idea to James Jacobs and myself to ensure the basic concept is something Paizo can publish. Once their pitches are approved, they must create a full adventure proposal, up to 3,000 words, to be judged and voted on.

Because this is the largest challenge of the contest, and they have to get approval before proceeding, we're giving our final four a bit more time than previous rounds. They have until 2:00 PM Pacific time on Friday, March 13th, to turn in their proposals. Each must be for a 32-40 page adventure for 5th level characters, set in Nar-Voth. Hopefully that allows the contestants to use the research they've done for rounds 3 and 4, so they can take the entire time from now until March 13th to craft and hone their perfect proposals.

Also, if you didn't have a chance to catch it this past Saturday, our Top 8 were featured in a Know Direction podcast. Check out their interviews here!

It's been a great contest so far, and I hope everyone will join me in congratulating the final four on their success making it to the final round, and thank all our contestants for the fabulous work and ideas they've provided us throughout the previous challenges.

Owen K. C. Stephens
Developer and RPG Superstar Host