Posting submissions

[Amanchanamun]

Hello everybody .

I am dming nearly for 15 years and by the opportunity coming with 4th edition dungeons dragons magazines, to write things about 4th, I write many things to wizards and some other companies which has gsl licence as well.

It has passed for a while ( about 30days ) and no reply. How many submissions do wizards receive do you think ? It has discouraged me since i still think there are very nice ideas among them.

I also think to produce a campaign with new rules , a new world. But apart from rules and game systrem, i am giving so much importance to the story and role play options as well.

There wont be classes and races , there will be inherited lineage and clans. There wont be many gods, there will be one god who is called the one that not interfere in.
There will be the devil and ancestory of demons . There will be undeads and humans struggle for their lives.

Main idea is like to mix the best parts of vampire and dnd 4th with many elements of role play inside. And put inside some ravenloft taste.

There will be ancient world and the new world. New world will be in modern days both.

Any help will be highly apreciated both to devolope to publish to write for or to draw for. What ever even to critique.

 

[Merkuri]

No offense, but if your submission to WotC looked like this post they probably put it aside for having such bad grammar. I don't work in the industry, but I was a creative writing minor in college and I know enough about it to know that if you have a lot of typos or bad grammar they'll put your idea aside without even bothering to read past the first paragraph. They're not going to publish anything that looks like your post above and they don't have enough time/money to get somebody to copyedit it for you.

I take it from your location that English isn't your first language. If you really want to submit something to any English publisher you really need to get somebody who naively speaks the language to proofread it first and take out all of the obvious grammar errors and typos. You could have the best ideas in the world, but if your writing looks like that they're not going to look at it.

 

[Amanchanamun]

ofcourse not

Thank you. Ofcourse i do not. Although, I am working in an export department of a company here, english is not my native language and it can be a reason.

However, there could be a reply for a nice idea with an answer.

" we want your adventure to be translated in proffesional way."

I dont know. Maybe it will be better for me to find a solution of making and publish everything in my country in my own language.

I am more discouraged now. I was playing nice basketball although i am not long enough. In the university, i had to leave it and play for only hobby since i was 5 10" only. I felt now what i felt those days.

Keep on playing soccer

 

[Engilbrand]

It sounds like you want to create a new campaign setting that is loosely based on 4e rules. Wizards has enough on their plate as it is.
I would recommend finding an online RPG company in Turkey and talking to them. If your stuff is good, they might be interested.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Hello everybody .

I am dming nearly for 15 years and by the opportunity coming with 4th edition dungeons dragons magazines, to write things about 4th, I write many things to wizards and some other companies which has gsl licence as well.

It has passed for a while ( about 30days ) and no reply. How many submissions do wizards receive do you think ? It has discouraged me since i still think there are very nice ideas among them.

Well, I think the feedback is both slow and I am not sure even guaranteed. If they take it, you will definitely hear from them at some point, but it might take (far) longer then 30 days.

Ensuring good grammar and orthography is still crucial, even if your ideas are great.

Otherwise, the suggestion of trying to work with an RPG publisher in Turkey might work better, too.

 

[Mighty Halfling]

Actually, Mustrum, last I heard is that WotC would not respond to queries it wasn't interested in. I think the 30-Day window was for them to respond. If they didn't respond in that time, then they wouldn't respond at all. That being said, I'd wait 60 days to six months before you take your idea elsewhere. A 30-Day Window is awfully optimistic given that they probably get hundreds of submissions a week.

 

[Amanchanamun]

how much time does it take

Is there anybody here whose submission is accepted ? or refused after the manuscript ? Can he tell how is the procedure going on ?

It says 60 days for a confirmation for to go on making manuscript.

What about after manuscript ?

 

[teach]

I would say, if a company has not responded in 30 days, and you are serious, send them another email withdrawing your submission, and send it somewhere else. You will get a lot more rejections than acceptances, and your best bet is just to keep sending out your stuff until someone accepts it.

I write short stories on the side and my writer's group and I send out stories all the time, and if we don't hear back in a reasonable amount of time (30-60 days) we send it on to the next publication.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

Actually, Mustrum, last I heard is that WotC would not respond to queries it wasn't interested in. I think the 30-Day window was for them to respond. If they didn't respond in that time, then they wouldn't respond at all. That being said, I'd wait 60 days to six months before you take your idea elsewhere. A 30-Day Window is awfully optimistic given that they probably get hundreds of submissions a week.

According to these guidelines (which admittedly haven't been updated in a while) it's a 60-day waiting period.

 

[Shemeska]

Is there anybody here whose submission is accepted ? or refused after the manuscript ? Can he tell how is the procedure going on ?

It says 60 days for a confirmation for to go on making manuscript.

What about after manuscript ?

Back initially when they were looking at the ex-Paizo slush pile, they asked for a finished piece from me, and then never gave any sort of feedback. Neither did they reply to a few followup emails I sent asking about it spaced about a month apart after that.

Based on that, and zero replies on a half dozen queries I submitted afterwards, I'm somewhat jaded about coming up with more queries to submit. More feedback and communication is really truly needed if they want to get new writers.

Now, that said, I would expect that now that they're charging money for it, they could afford to actually have enough manpower to give (at a minimum) a form rejection email if they're just not interested. That would go a long way.