A love note to the editorial staff of Dungeon Magazine…

[James Jacobs]

Creature Catalog proposals (and any monster article proposals) should go to Dragon, but if you send it to Dungeon and get a "please send this proposal to the other magazine" reply, don't worry, since all the editors for both magazines are kept in the same room here.

As for updating old monsters... that's a bit of a hazy realm. We can't just reprint a converted stat-block for an updated aurumvorax that appeared on the web, but we can print an updated stat-block for an aurumvorax that was built up all on its own. The resulting monster'll be similar to versions posted online, but it won't be the same. An entirely new monster that goes up on the web can't be submitted to the magazine. If you publish stats for a sharkmouth monkey on the web, we won't publish a sharkmouth monkey in the magazine. That said, parallel development happens all the time in this industry, so it's not uncommon to see variants of sharkmouth monkeys show up in multiple sources (especially if a movie called Sharkmouth Monkey came out recently). In general, it's best to constrain your submission to updated monsters from old editions of D&D or to entirely new monsters.

Mmmmm... aurumvorax animal companion...

 

[diaglo]

Mmmmm... aurumvorax animal companion...

Goldie the Gorger is an old idea from around 1983 or so.

 

[BOZ]

Man, what would really rock is if those creatures that first appeared in those three Creature Collection/Catalog books make their return! The Elder Wrym I tell you!

well, now that you mention it... i have converted a number of creatures from the articles mentioned above...

recently completed the orpsu, and now workin on the urisk from CC2. also have done the amitok, hamadryad, duleep, ghunna, utukku, avari, ekrat, alcor, and bichir.

 

[Shade]

...and don't forget the very monster he mentioned, the mighty Elder Wyrm. That is one of my favorite conversions we've done!

 

[Knightfall]

It's stayed that way; we still avoid publishing anything that's already seen print in another medium. That said, feel free to expand on the unpublished ideas & take them into new areas. (After you've submitted a querry about the article and recieved the go-code from the magazine, of course!)

And thanks for all the kind words, everyone!

By other media, I'm assuming ANYTHING that has been released online. Thus, I would assume the current conversions done by BOZ and posted online in the Creature Catalog forum wouldn't be able to be included in a Creature Catalog article.

However, I'm assuming that if the Creature Crew here at EN World built a series of "new" creature designs, unique from previous ones, that would be ok, correct?

And PLEASE DON'T move the Creature Catalog feature to Dragon Magazine. The feature is PERFECT for Dungeon Magazine and fits with the new format of Dungeon being the magazine for DMs. Monsters are for DMs. Dragon already has Winning Races, it doesn't need to control the creature articles too.

Cheers!

KF72

 

[ecliptic]

I would like to do this, but I don't know if I will. Ever since i sent my proposal to Dragon earlier this year and never got a reply back at all. I have not been so thrilled about spending the time again to write a proposal.

 

[BOZ]

By other media, I'm assuming ANYTHING that has been released online. Thus, I would assume the current conversions done by BOZ and posted online in the Creature Catalog forum wouldn't be able to be included in a Creature Catalog article.

However, I'm assuming that if the Creature Crew here at EN World built a series of "new" creature designs, unique from previous ones, that would be ok, correct?

i was kind of going under that assumption. even though scott greene gave me permission to use the creatures as-is, i saw the notes about not being able to use anything that had been posted online before. i can understand why WotC/paizo would want to protect themselves from reusing things, especially from a copywritten source such as the Creature Catalog. (Wizards may still own the IP, but the text & conversions themselves are owned by scott.)

besides, i don't mind redoing/reworking some of those creatures, especially the conversions that have gotten quite old and crusty, and i have gotten much better at doing this work over the years.