so... in between writing for an NRP, we thought of a nice contest of sorts that could in theory work well on this forum...

[h3]a CS writing contest.[/h3]

Basic premise of it is that someone provides a CS template, and then whomever desires to participate writes a CS based on it. Then the people who feel like it, can judge the sheets based on a variety of parameters (lingual quality, level of detail, Mary sue testing, feeling of the character being "alive", etc...)

each round could have different templates (and maybe setting, if applicable?). A useful effect we imagine of such a contest is that prospective GMs can use to figure out how they want their CS templates to be, how to avoid pit traps and such in it.

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Another concept:

CS design contest - design the "best" template.

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Thoughts about these concepts?