*** August 2010 Challenge Voting - In the Beginning: A Campaign Starter ***

[RecklessEnthusiasm]

A vote for Jax's Yurt and Mearrin69 from me. The former because I like the idea and the goat, the latter because I am a huge sucker for flavor text and the wild west. I actually liked the colored version better though! I also love the idea of a balloon reconnaissance unit.

[Ramah]

I'm actually going to hold off on voting for a day or so to give me time to consider. There are actually four I would definitely like to vote for and possibly five. :S

Good work everyone, you've really put me in a quandry.

[Djekspek]

wow! VERY nice entries agains guys!
Crayons: love the concept of the map telling a story (you got me inspired here) combined with the battlemap
Icestorm: I could almost build a little campaign on this one: great detail+story!
Jax: creativity+humor rules! also i really like the handdrawn paintery style you did here
Cereth: very pretty pretty! Love the blue/orange color scheme
Ravs: Great idea! Collaborative creation can be real fun!
Mearrin: this one is looking very good! Love the style, overal composition and the map looks very good too.
tilt: concept is really cool (I really dig this kind of campaign starters... throw the party in a seemingly hopeless situation right from the start, too bad it doesnt seem quiet finished yet)

oh yeah, votes, hmm.... they all shouting 'pick me!'.... ok I picked Mearrin and Cereth... but great job all and thanks for entering... and have some rep
cheers!

[Jaxilon]

I knew I should have had Mongolian cheer leaders in there chanting "Go Yurt, Go Yurt!"

[mearrin69]

I heard 'em Jax...or was it the devil rug? Not sure but I felt strangely compelled to vote for your entry. In fact, that might be why I only placed one vote. That's it. The devil made me do it...not my inability to read and follow simple instructions.
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[geamon]

I voted for tilt and mearrin69. Tilt's vote was based off me reading The Serpentwar Saga by Raymond E Feist recently and I do love a good hanging because of it. Mearrin had an awesome concept and went for it. Good submissions everyone!

[Icestorm008]

Thank you all for the praise and rep! I was delighted to use this challenge to improve my cartography skills and further develop this campaign I've been working on. I know Judenaia was not as specific or well designed as the other entries, but I hope some of the flavor of my imagination has sparked you all in some way. I plan to continue constructing the rest of the Empire Above and revamping some of the maps that were rushed along already =) If you are interested, the next map in the campaign, Tuls, is in the WIP section, and I plan to get back to working on that (and polishing off Judenaia, time permitting). Again, thank you for all your help and congratulations to all the other finalists!

[im_sparticus]

Cereth almost got my vote, but I couldn't tell where--however nice the map is--the PCs started (a planet seeming a little large for a starting location to me).
Ice almost got a vote on the plot hooks alone. Great imagination.
Tilt might have had me if he had had some time to clean up the map a bit (parts of the path still looked like they had seams).
For me the fluff of Mearrin's map did it, although the sepia map/photo was still beautiful.
My other vote went to Crayons for the pictographic map as a hook more than the battlemap starting point.

Good job everyone, I defenately could learn a lot from each of you.

[ravells]

Didn't get the chance to finish mine, and it wasn't intended for voting but no matter. Great work all! I went for mearrin and Cereth. Great presentation both. Hard choice as the other entries were really good as well. Well done everyone!

[Marken4]

Ok, I would either start at Tilt's, Jaxilon's or mearrin's map if it were a game. And since I think that mearrin and Jaxilon's map looked best they get my vote.