Trophy Gold Incursion Contest

UPDATE: Due to the life disruptions many are experiencing because of the novel coronavirus, we have extended the submission deadline for the contest from April 13th, 2020 to May 15th, 2020.

We are holding an incursion-writing contest for Trophy Gold! To enter, you should write an incursion (scenario) for Trophy Gold of no more than 5000 words, following the guidelines linked below. Entries need to be sent t0 gauntletpublish@gmail.com by 11:59 PM Eastern on May 15th, 2020. 

Details:

• The core rules for Trophy Gold are linked below in the Resources section.
• Your incursion can take place in the default Trophy Gold environment of a subterranean dungeon, or it can take place in a different environment. Additionally, your incursion can be in the default dark fantasy setting or you can drift it into an entirely different setting (modern day, historical, cyberpunk, etc.).  
• Entries will be judged on creativity, writing quality, and how well they evoke the chosen theme word. Entries should generally follow the writing guidelines linked in the Resources section, but they will not be judged on how closely they follow them. 
• Entries will be judged blind, meaning the judges won’t know the names of the authors when judging. 
• Entries should be submitted as a link to a Google Doc. The Google Doc should be 11-pt., Arial, with no special formatting (bold, italics, bullet points, and numbered lists are fine). Please do not include your name anywhere on the Google Doc. 
• Entries should be no more than 5000 words. 
• Entries should be sent t0 gauntletpublish@gmail.com by 11:59 PM Eastern on April 13, 2020. Subject line: GOLD CONTEST
• The winner and runners-up will be announced in late May via a special episode of the Trophy podcast. 

Resources:

• Writing Guidelines
• Sample submission: Hester's Mill
• Trophy Gold rules
• Set Goal Generator

Prizes:

• Everyone who submits an entry will receive a pair of custom light dice plus 3 metal Hunt Roll tokens.  Joke entries or non-substantive entries that were clearly submitted solely for the purpose of getting this prize will be ignored. Please note: folks outside the U.S. have to pay shipping if they want this prize. 
• 1 winner will receive $500 USD plus a slipcase set of the Trophy core books: Trophy Dark, Trophy Gold, and Trophy Loom (which will be shipped anywhere in the world for free).
• 2 runners-up will receive $100 USD each plus a slipcase set of the Trophy core books: Trophy Dark, Trophy Gold, and Trophy Loom (which will be shipped anywhere in the world for free).

Publication and text ownership:

• Entrants own their text and are free to publish it wherever they wish. 
• We are not actively seeking to publish any entries (the contest is just for fun) but if something catches our eye that would be a good fit for our publishing plans, we will make a formal publishing offer to the entrant. If the winner or a runner-up receives a publishing offer from us, we will pay our publishing rate in addition to their prize. 

Community:
You can discuss the contest on our Discord server or on this Forums post.