Here's my long-overdue picture guide to submitting your event.
This guide assumes that you are playing a home game (or small retail; convention entry is best left to professionals and alcoholics - sometimes both!). This also assumes that you do not have any new DCI/RPGA players to enter; should this not be the case just follow the prompts or, if there is enough interest, I can throw together a picture guide for that too.
On with the show!
1.)
First and foremost, you're gonna see this screen. Enter your DCI number and password to continue.
2.)
Next, see the circled bit that says "Event Reporting"? That's where we're headed.
3.)
Click the little bubble next to the event that we're going to report, and then click next. Yay, follow the circles! ;)
4.)
We have a choice to make at the bottom of the screen: are we canceling the event (and making sure we award no points, gold, or experience at all - to anyone!, or are we reporting the event? Choose wisely...
5.)
Enter the player and DM numbers in the appropriate boxes, and click the "Add Player" or "Add Judge/DM" buttons as appropriate. Note: a judge can also be entered as a player if there are multiple sessions for this reporting event.
6.)
If you see this, your player has indicated an invalid or non-existent DCI number. Feel free to pillage their village at your leisure. (that's right, I said it... and I'll say it again, too, when I get another bad DCI number! :P)
7.)
Review your player and judge names. If something is in error, such as that judge Alan being a big jerk that isn't allowed to judge anymore because he always tries to TPK his parties with gigantic flying aboleths and illithid vampires that weren't in the adventure (DME?), now is the time to change it. Otherwise, click the "Add Session" button and we'll marshal forward.
8.)
Here we see a couple drop-down boxes. When you click the black arrow in the "Adventure" box you will see a list of all the ordered adventures for this event (remember, for home events you're limited to two adventures total). When you click "Judge", you will get a list of people that you just entered under the judge heading, and the same is true for the "Player" boxes as well.
9.)
Here you can see that I have already selected the appropriate adventure from my drop-down menu, as well as giving that terrible DM Alan a chance to redeem himself. His players are indicated in their own drop-down menu, and I'm going to make darn sure that I credit the correct character for each player (as they're all indicated 1-Default Character, I'm hoping we're good but I can always check by opening that menu).
Be sure to record the correct total for the gold and XP gains/losses, as well as Bundle IDs and Certificates. These last two have their own vague but perfectly functional drop-down menus.
Finally, adventure questions. These should've been answered by the judge at the table - all you have to do is move those bubbles to this form. If the questions aren't answered, be sure to salt the judge's lands, and.... yeah. You get the point.
10.)
If you need to add another game session, now is the time to do so; simply repeat steps 5-10 as many times as needed until all your tables are entered. Otherwise, let's move on!
11.)
Profit!
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So, yeah, there it is. I even got to refer to myself in the 3rd person! Nobody's ever told me I'm a terrible DM, but I am pretty fond of aberrations. And undead. And undead aberrations.
Mmmmmm......
So let me know what we need the next guide to focus on, and as always: feedback is welcome and appreciated!
The images in this post are hosted on photobucket if you have access to the corporate firewall!
I'll copy/paste this to the FAQ later.
FYI - in step 9 you edited out the full RPGA numbers in the drop-down menu, but left it in the selector box, so the whole world has Ezra's number now.
Might want to edit that.
My family loves it when I use them as guinea pigs ;) (yeah, that's my father, two sisters and brother)