Now you can collect "Experience Points" toward Drivethrurpg.com or Amazon.com gift certificates!  Select purchases and activities will award experience points.  For every 5000 experience points collected, you qualify for a $5 Drivethrurpg.com or Amazon.com Gift Certificate.  You can earn points two ways:  through purchases and through participation in Bards and Sages projects.
Send an e-mail to us with your name and preferred e-mail address.  If you aren't already a subscriber, we'll sign you up for our free monthly newsletter and send you a confirmation e-mail worth 1,000 XP to get you started.  Watch the monthly newsletter for special point opportunities for participating in surveys, contests, discussions, and more.  Make sure the e-mail address you enroll with is the same one you use for your Drivethrurpg or Amazon purchases, because it is the e-mail address your gift certificates will be sent to. 
Save your "thank you" notes from your Bards and Sages purchases through RPGNOW.com, Drivethrurpg.com, and Lulu.com.  These notes will have XP values.  When you've saved enough points, print your notes (with full headers) and mail them to us to turn in for your gift certificates.  Please note:  the e-mails MUST be from your registered e-mail address in order to be valid.  If the e-mail note submitted is from a different address, or appears to have been altered or tampered with, it will be invalidated.  You can combine your purchase XP with your participation XP to get your gift certificates.

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Get involved with Bards and Sages and earn points!  Watch the monthly newsletter for more point opportunities, or earn points now with a variety of activities like writing book reviews or submitting poetry.  When submitting items for participation points, you must submit from your registered e-mail address.  If your submission is accepted, you will get a confirmation e-mail with your XP.  When you've saved enough points, print your confirmations and mail them to us to turn in for your gift certificates.  Please note that any confirmation that appears to have been altered or tampered with will be invalidated.
Current Participation Point Offerings
Earn 250 XP when you submit an approved book review to be posted on the Bards and Sages website.  Reviews must be your original work and must be previously unpublished.  You grant Bards and Sages an exclusive 60 day right to the review.  After that, you may repost the review elsewhere.  Reviews will remain archived on the Bards and Sages website.

Earn 250 XP when you submit an approved poem to be posted on the Bards and Sages website.  Poem must be your original work.  Previously published poetry is accepted..  You grant Bards and Sages an exclusive 60 day right to the review.  After that, you may repost the review elsewhere.  Poems will remain archived on the Bards and Sages website.

Earn 1000 XP when you submit an approved short story to be posted on the Bards and Sages website.  Reviews must be your original work.  Previously published stories are accepted.  Stories will remain archived on the Bards and Sages website.

Earn 1500 XP for designing free RPG downloads to share with others through the Bards and Sages site.  Single prestige classes, NPC write-ups, jungle monsters for the Neiyar setting are examples of good freebies.  All RPG material must adhere to the Open Game License.  Submissions must be your original work.  You grant us the right to make the work available on our website, however all other rights remain with you.  The only exception to this is in the case of Neiyar related material.  You may use Neiyar closed content to create materials for submission, but such submissions become the property of Bards and Sages. 

All submissions must adhere to our
standard submission guidelines, however submissions should be sent directly to the Points e-mail address.  Please send submsissions from your registered e-mail address to ensure proper credit.  Submission is not a guarantee of acceptance.  Points only awarded for accepted submissions.  These guidelines only affect free material posted to our Bards and Sages website.  They have no affect on our standard submission guidelines regarding products to be sold.

Earn 150 XP for posting articles to our Bards and Sages Gather Group.  This is a moderated group.  Only articles, photos, and video approved for the group will earn XP.  Share videos of your gaming group, photos from conventions, gaming stories, and more.  To earn points through the Gather group, please include a link to your Gather.com profile when you enroll in the points program so that we can make sure you are credited correctly.  Earn points for each approved article, photo, or video you post to the group.  You won't have to print your approved articles, just follow the instructions of the claim form.  If you are not already a member of Gather.com, you can join by clicking here.
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