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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BOZ" data-source="post: 2088204" data-attributes="member: 1241">If you’ve been paying attention around here at all, we at the Creature Catalog forums (well so far, just me, Shade, and Knight Otu) have been working articles into the Dragon magazine staff to get printed in their upcoming Creature Catalog feature!As of this writing, we have completed an article based on creatures related to mind flayers.  If you submit some of your own original creations, that will give us more new monsters to work with, and you stand a chance at getting them published!If you wish, you may submit 1, 2, 10, 100, or a million of your original creations.  They must be something that you created out of your head (or helped with, if the other collaborators are willing to share it), and cannot be IP of any company other than WotC, and cannot be the creation of someone else that you are just slapping your name on.  Either post them here in this thread, or post a link to them.  BUT before you do that, read below for the risks.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />First of all, if the monster is printed in an article, it becomes property of WotC and you lose all rights to it other than to say “I made this!” to people you know.  That’s the big one – not my choice, simply the way it works.Second, if you do volunteer a creature, it may be edited nine ways to Sunday.  First off, me and anyone else working on the article may be picking at it like vultures and rearranging things as we see fit, but giving you the benefit of the doubt if you wish.  Then, after we are done with it, if Paizo accepts our article submission, they may likely edit it to death all over again.  So, your critter may come out looking a lot different than you originally wrote it.Third, we may not be able to credit you for the monster, unless you become a “full partner” in the article, and help with the writing.  We’ll try to get your name mentioned, but I can’t promise anything.There may be other things that I can’t think of at the moment.  Make sure to leave your name (or the name you wish to be credited as) here or e-mailed to me, and/or your current e-mail address.So, with all that in mind, submit away.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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