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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 2572031" data-attributes="member: 23937">The same thing I'd look for in any other adventure submissions: a good story, cool villains, and an interesting location for the adventure to take place in. Simply including psionics or epic level stuff in an adventure won't get it any special considerations. In fact, it'll probably get that submission an even more critical eye; since we don't do many psionic or epic adventures, we want to be extra sure that the adventure's really good.Tips for Psionic Adventure Proposals: Assume that at least one PC will be a psionic character, so make sure there's some treasure and plotlines that would intrigue such a PC. The main bad guy should utilize psionics in some way. You should probably use a few monsters from the psionics handbook, or perhaps include some new psionic monsters or psionic powers. And above all... make sure it's an interesting plotline that hasn't been overused in the magazine!Tips for Epic Adventure Proposals: Adventures in the 21-30 level range are more attractive to us than higher level ones. No matter what level you write the adventure for, include a sidebar with tips on how to adjust the adventure up or down for higher or lower level parties. The plotline should be epic as well, and should involve not only encounters with some really tough monsters, but should involve some really outrageous plot lines. Don't be afraid to name-drop famous villains, artifacts, or locations in an Epic adventure. We wouldn't really be interested in publishing an adventure in which an epic lich attacks a city. If that epic lich had 24 of the Teeth of Dahlver-Nar in his jaws and was attacking the city so he could collect the last remaining 8 teeth from an ancient vault buried below that city, and those 8 teeth happened to be in the possession of the imprisoned demon lord who slew Dahlver-Nar 1000 years ago and the lich is about to release that demon lord... that's more like it! I still probably wouldn't accept that adventrue proposal unless it had something else going for it, alas, since the "stop the evil lich" adventure's kinda cliche. Maybe if the city were a magic city balanced on a cliff overlooking the positive energy plane? Maybe if the ancient vault below the city was actually a living creature? The key with epic adventures is to just go completely wild, but at the same time keep it manageable.</blockquote>

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