Submission tips?

[Mummolus]

Do they accept submissions for race articles and that sort of thing as well, or just adventures? The impression I get is that they take both, but I'm still brushing up on the guidelines and may have missed something.

 

[Herremann the Wise]

Well I just fired off 9 submissions, mostly Dungeon adventures. Wish me luck.

Wishing you luck!

I have a different source for you to look at here.[/quote] It is a link to the 2011 RPGSuperstar and at the moment the final four who have entered adventure proposals. Now yes, this is Pathfinder and so in terms of specific rules is different however what is an absolute gold mine for you are the comments from all the judges on crafting a publishable adventure (James Jacobs/Sean K Reynolds and Ryan Dancey amongst other excellent judges). Considering the high esteem that Paizo adventure modules are generally held in, I think this might be a beneficial source for you that you might not have come across yet. It will get you thinking in the mindset of someone looking to publish your adventure; even though it is obviously for a different system, all these guys were an important cog at wizards at one point or another. Hope it helps and best of luck achieving that foot in the door.

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise

 

[Quickleaf]

Do they accept submissions for race articles and that sort of thing as well, or just adventures? The impression I get is that they take both, but I'm still brushing up on the guidelines and may have missed something.

Dungeon has the Creature Incarnations articles, like the one for Living Spells in #175. I'm not sure if the Ecology articles are still going in Dragon since they re-focused Dragon as exclusively player material.

Wishing you luck!

I have a different source for you to look at here. It is a link to the 2011 RPGSuperstar and at the moment the final four who have entered adventure proposals. Now yes, this is Pathfinder and so in terms of specific rules is different however what is an absolute gold mine for you are the comments from all the judges on crafting a publishable adventure (James Jacobs/Sean K Reynolds and Ryan Dancey amongst other excellent judges). Considering the high esteem that Paizo adventure modules are generally held in, I think this might be a beneficial source for you that you might not have come across yet. It will get you thinking in the mindset of someone looking to publish your adventure; even though it is obviously for a different system, all these guys were an important cog at wizards at one point or another. Hope it helps and best of luck achieving that foot in the door.

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise

Thank you Herreman
I don't begrudge the RPG Superstar judges - they had some brilliant entries.

So I decided to clean up all these old brainstorms and bits on my laptop and make them into submission worthy material.

I'm going for 36 submissions (of all types) in 36 days, so by the end of April.

So far I've submitted 22 articles. Woohoo!

 

[tyrlaan]

Over on Critical-Hits.com, former WotC staffer Chris Sims offered up some advice on submitting DDI articles, and he used a bullet-point style.

Highly recommend this. I took Chris' advice to heart and feel the style and organization it engenders makes for a snappy submission, which I think is pretty critical.

FWIW, it worked for me - I just got my first article published on March 31 - the Sages of the Swan Tower

 

[Quickleaf]

[MENTION=20998]tyrlaan[/MENTION] Congrats! Do you have a link to that Chris Sims article? My format, for what it's worth, is to give a snapshot at the top with 3 cool feature of the article, then the full submission below.

 

[tyrlaan]

Found it!

Mailbag 3 – The Pitch : Critical Hits

 

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[MENTION=20998]tyrlaan[/MENTION]
Thanks! I was surprised Chris Sim's format is light on flavor and certainly doesnt show off Chris' writing chops. I wonder if this format would be as good for writers new to WotC?

 

[tyrlaan]

Well FWIW, I used his advice and my article is the first thing I've ever gotten published. YMMV of course.