Question for Polyhedron

[CBS Brian]

Mr. Mona (or anyone else on Poly's staff),

I have been to the RPGA section of WotC's website, and read Polyhedron's submission guidelines. They seem to be somewhat out of date. Firstly they say only Guild-level members may make submissions, but IIRC RPGA membership is now free. Also, they make no mention of d20 mini-games even existing, much less what your criteria are or what you are looking for.

I also looked at the Dungeon & Paizo Publishing websites, but found nothing helpful (in regards to Poly) at either of them. Is there somewhere online where more up to date submission guidelines are posted? If not could you summarize them here?

 

[Erik Mona]

The WotC site is really out of date. Honestly, there are no writers guidelines for the current Polyhedron. The best advice is "look at what others have done, and do that." Otherwise, the Dungeon guidelines will answer most questions and style issues that should come up.

I'd like to write up some submission guidelines, but I honestly buy fewer than two dozen articles a year. Most of my content is taken up by Mini-Games, which vary so much from game to game that writing detailed guidelines would be pointless (not to mention extremely limiting). Plus, I simply don't have the time. As effortless as the magazine looks, we don't have a lot of time to do anything other than work on the issue at hand.

You don't have to be a guild-level RPGA member to submit. There aren't even guild-level RPGA members, anymore. Look for that RPGA site to get cleaned up some time in the near future.

The first step to writing a mini-game is to send a query to polyhedron@paizopublishing.com. Be patient, and I'll get back to you. Don't spend more than a couple paragraphs talking about your idea. That's all I'll really need to decide if it's worth more development for the magazine, and I'd rather not have people spending time on something I'm unlikely to buy.

Good luck.

--Erik

 

[CBS Brian]

Mini d20

Eric,

Thanks for the timely response! I never meant to impy that working on Poly was an effortless job; I'm the Editor-in-Chief of my university's small, weekly paper and I know it's tough working making everything come together.

One last question regarding mini-games, what are your attitudes regarding licensing? I'm mainly thinking that a d20 mini-game based on Frank Herbert's Dune series would be both cool and popular.

Thanks again,

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Erik - Now that Gamma/Omega World is out, what's the next minigame? I saw a thread where you said you might announce it at GenCon.

 

[Morrus]

Hey, Erik - are you gonna be mentioning the ENnies in Poly?

 

[thundershot]

Also, did the last non-Dragon issue of Living Greyhawk Journal ever ship? I never did get mine... Also look forward to the battlemat, especially since my wife paid for the 3 year RPGA subscription a while back (I think it was 3..).



Thanks!
Chris

 

[NeghVar]

Erik - Now that Gamma/Omega World is out, what's the next minigame? I saw a thread where you said you might announce it at GenCon.

Answered here:

What's in the next Polyhedron?
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19608

Looks pretty cool!