Dorkland Giveaway with Open Design/Kobold Quarterly!

Thanks to our fine friends at Open Design/Kobold Quarterly we have a great prize giveaway for the gaming fans who follow this blog (and all of our friends on Twitter as well). Open Design has graciously given us three book (The Kobold Guide To Game Design vol. 1 & 2 and Zobeck Gazeteer Volume 2: Dwarves of the Ironcrags). One lucky winner on Twitter will get all three of these great books as a prize.

Above is a photo of the prizes given to us (forgive my fancy high-tech photo backdrop system). In order to win these books you have to do three basic things (and follow the official rules as outlined at the bottom of this post):

1. You have to have a Twitter account.
2. You have to follow @dorkland and @monkeyking on Twitter.
3. You have to tweet the phrase (without quotes) "I want @dorkland to pick me for the prize from @monkeyking"

That's basically it. The contest starts tonight at a minute after midnight and runs for one week. Only tweets during that time period will be considered as entries and only one tweet per Twitter account. Starting early is a bad thing also.

Hopefully this will be the beginning of something new here at Dorkland. I am already talking with a second publisher about the next giveaway, and ideally this is something that I would like to start doing on a monthly basis, with publishers of a variety of systems. If you are an RPG print publisher and would be interested in taking part in a giveaway, send me a Twitter DM at @dorkland and we'll talk.

Official Rules For The Contest

• You must have an account on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com) to enter this contest. As the winner will be notified via Direct Message through the Twitter website you must also follow @dorkland and @monkeyking in order to win. If you cannot be sent a DM because of this, a new winner will be picked. Only one attempt at notification will be made and if that fails a new winner will be picked.
• This contest is only open to people within the Continental United States. No exceptions to this rule. If the winner does not live within the Continental United States they will be disqualified and a new winner will be picked. The prize will be sent via USPS media mail with delivery confirmation. Is it the responsibility of the winner to provide a valid mailing address, and should the prize be returned or be unable to be delivered the winning of this contest will be declared null and void. Neither this blog, its owner nor Open Design/Kobold Quarterly take any responsibility for lost, mis-delivered or stolen mail. This prize is considered "as-is" in its condition.
• Only one tweet per contestant. This means only one tweet per Twitter account is allowed during the time period. A search will be made before announcing the winner and if it can be found that multiple tweets have been made from any account, that winner will be disqualified and a new winner will be picked.
• Only tweets containing the phrase "I want @dorkland to pick me for the prize from @monkeyking" will be considered. The tweet can contain additional language but it must contain that phrase to be considered.
• Only tweets made from 12:01am EST on February 4, 2010 until 12:01am on February 12, 2010 will be considered for entry in this contest
• Violation of any or all of these rules will make any entry null and void.

So, that's it. This is our first big giveaway. Good luck to whomever might end up winning it and thank you very much to Wolfgang Baur at Open Design/Kobold Quarterly for his great prize in this contest.

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