D20 Modern Open Call for Writers and Artists

[Dana_Jorgensen]

D20 Modern Open Call for Writers and Artists

I am currently developing a new D20 Modern product tentatively entitled "Modern Kyuujinjouhoushi". "Kyuujinjouhoushi" is a japanese word referring to the telephone book sized job placement magazines that can commonly be found in Japan's cities. They are also known as "shuushokujouhoushi". This product is meant to be a collection of new advanced and prestige classes for D20 Modern, as well as templates. New talents, talent trees and feats are also welcome. This product will be released in both PDF and print formats.

Submissions should be made in .TXT or .RTF formats, totalling 1200 to 1600 words for new classes or templates, up to 250 words for new feats or talents. If your submission is based on prior Open Gaming Content, note that in the first line of the submission and provide complete documentation of the source so that it can be independently verified as safe content (source product title & page numbers for each incident of OGC use within your submission), otherwise declare in the first line that no OGC is utilized.

Entries that have not met these criteria will not be considered. Writers will be paid $0.02 to $ 0.04 per word for their work, depending upon prior experience. All purchased material becomes the property of Alternate Realities Publications. All writers will receive a free copy of the book in PDF format. If more than 5,000 words are purchased from an individual writer or studio, the individual or group will also receive a complimentary copy in print.

As well as seeking new classes, feats and talent trees, we also need art. Artists are also welcome at this time to submit the URLs for their online portfolios, as well as pricing for 1/4 page black & white art.

Submissions are due by 01 JULY 2004. All submissions should be directed to arpsubmissions@bakabanashi.com

 

[s/LaSH]

I make offering of my artwork via email.

 

[mroberon1972]

What kind of entries do you want?

Sci-fi
Semi-Sci-fi
Modern normal
Heroic
Fantasy
NPC
Etc...

 

[afreed]

Genre?

What (if any) genre limits are there on submissions? i.e., should everything be strictly real world, or are you accepting psionics and arcana-related material, as well?

 

[mroberon1972]

What (if any) genre limits are there on submissions? i.e., should everything be strictly real world, or are you accepting psionics and arcana-related material, as well?

I hear an echo!

 

[Dana_Jorgensen]

I'll be accepting only non-fantasy material based on the D20 Modern rules.

In other words, no knights in shining armor, and no superheroes flying around in tights.

Mages with a modern spin are acceptable, masters of mind control and other psychic parlor tricks are acceptible (psionicists of all sorts), hell, even mutant bipedal dogs being secretly used by the government to hunt down terrorists in the mountains of afghanistan would be acceptible, as long as they are written in a way that makes them reasonably fit into a scifi setting, a cyberpunk setting, or the setting you see outside your window.

Along with feats, talents, and talent trees, new starting occupations will be accepted as well.

 

[Dana_Jorgensen]

As well as seeking new classes, feats and talent trees, we also need art. Artists are also welcome at this time to submit the URLs for their online portfolios, as well as pricing for 1/4 page black & white art.

At this time I would like to point this guideline out one more time. In the past several days, I have received submissions from over 30 artists. Thus far, only one of those artists is being considered, as he happens to be the only one who provided is rate for 1/4 page B&W art.

 

[Dana_Jorgensen]

For those of you who have responded, I would just like to take a moment to say that one of you has a freaking virus on your computer!

This particular virus affixes a .mx based return address to most of the email, and attaches a roughly 35 KB file to the email, claiming it is pictures of various sorts. Lame, lame, lame!

Anyway, you all need to do first update your anti-virus software with the latest virus definitions and then scan your computers. And consider switching to an email program like Eudora, which doesn't have all the infernal user-complacency based flaws that Outlook has.

 

[GiantInThePlayground]

I am all over this...I've had more than a few d20 Modern ideas kicking around in my head and no time to track down someone to publish them. Expect a few different pieces from me, I'd say.

Question: Would you say you encourage or discourage interrelated submissions? As in, say I submit a new talent tree and a new prestige class that requires a talent from that tree. Would that be any more or less likely to be accepted?

 

[Dana_Jorgensen]

I am all over this...I've had more than a few d20 Modern ideas kicking around in my head and no time to track down someone to publish them. Expect a few different pieces from me, I'd say.

Question: Would you say you encourage or discourage interrelated submissions? As in, say I submit a new talent tree and a new prestige class that requires a talent from that tree. Would that be any more or less likely to be accepted?

Neither. Each is treated individually.

It could be you produce a class that essentially duplicates a class from a competitor's products (happened once already, in a strange case of the right hand not knowing what the left was doing), in which case, you could end up with the class rejected, but the talent tree accepted.