What did Dungeon do when a Writer didn't turn in his / her work?


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As the Subject above says. What'd the TSR/Paizo staff do if one (or more?) of its writers couldn't submit their work in time?


I have it on good authority that James Jacobs threw Nick Logue, screaming, to the bunyip under Thistetop when Nick asked for an extension (so he could add more Graul creepiness to "Hook Mountain"). That's why Logue hasn't written any more Paizo adventures lately.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

This didn't happen very often, honestly, since many of the adventures we printed in Dungeon didn't even go on the schedule until we had the manuscript in house. For the non-adventure path stuff, we relied VERY heavily on unsolicited freelancer writing or proposals sent us from authors we'd worked with many times before, and we generally had enough adventures to schedule things many, many months in advance.

The adventure path adventures were an exception; they were assigned and the authors had to provide them by specific deadlines. In a several cases, their adventures came in late enough that we didn't have time to send it back to the author for rewrites and I had to rewrite portions (sometimes significant portions) of the adventure to make it fit the AP and do what it needed to do. We only had on author bail on an adventure, and in that case we luckily had the time to go to a more reliable author to get the adventure written in time.

The same thing happened recently in Pathinder, and again, I was lucky to find a writer to take the project home and finish it.

But some day that won't happen, and the way that'll get solved is I'll stay up to 3:00 AM for a dozen nights in a row and write the thing myself and then turn it over to be edited and then crawl under a rock to sleep it off, I guess.

Grand Lodge

ummm I like your stuff... so just do that anyway... not like you really need to sleep :)

I mean, what your job is 98% sitting at a desk playing Pokemon card games telling other people to work... come one we have you pegged!

Seattle Slackers! :)

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Sometimes I wonder if you cut James if instead of blood all that would spurt out would be liquid caffiene...

Grand Lodge

Savage_ScreenMonkey wrote:
Sometimes I wonder if you cut James if instead of blood all that would spurt out would be liquid caffiene...

almost showed my age...

I was going to say caffeine and ink... but who writes with ink anymore... so 20th century!

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I think that if James got screwed over by a writer again he might just go Jigsaw style (from the Saw movies)on their ass. Kidnap them, put them in a freaky warehouse full of bizare death traps, and then sit back and enjoy the show...

The Exchange

Savage_ScreenMonkey wrote:
Kidnap them, put them in a freaky warehouse full of bizare death traps, and then sit back and enjoy the show...

the very edited show, let us not forget!

Scarab Sages

"Do you expect me to write?"

"No, Mister [spoiler], I expect you to DIE!"

Scarab Sages

Savage_ScreenMonkey wrote:
I think that if James got screwed over by a writer again he might just go Jigsaw style (from the Saw movies)on their ass. Kidnap them, put them in a freaky warehouse full of bizare death traps, and then sit back and enjoy the show...

Strap them to a bed, James Caan-style, then dance round the room in a Kathy Bates costume, singing Anthrax's 'Misery Loves Company'...?

"I can hear you, I can hear you, lying
I can see you, I can see you, faking
I don't think you're, I don't think you're, working
I want you to
I want you to, I want you to...

Write for me, and only me
A really extra special story
Make it mine, every line
Don't make me sorry
It's what I want, it's what I want
And I'll tell you what
You know me, and I can be
A very, very vicious critic

Another fan's appreciation
A do-be, don't-be situation
Drag me down into your hatred

Misery loves company
I'm your number one fan
Misery loves company
Misery
Misery loves company
I'm your number one fan
Misery loves company
Die with me

I'll take good care, I'll take great care of you
Listen to me, listen to me you fool
Body and soul, body and soul, you're mind
I want you to,
I want you to, I want you to...

Write for me, and only me
A really extra special story
Make it mine, every line
Don't make me sorry
It's what I want, it's what I want
And I'll tell you what
You know me, and I'll show you
How to keep your filthy mouth shut

Another fan's appreciation
A do-be, don't-be situation
Drag me down into your hatred

Misery loves company
I'm your number one fan
Misery loves company

Misery
Misery loves company
I'm your number one fan
Misery loves company
Die with me

Take, take, take, take, another pound of my flesh
I'm givin' blood
You, you, you, you, should only have the best
I'm givin' blood

What the hell is, what the hell is happening ?
I'm the one that made you into the king
Don't turn your back on, turn your back on, my help
I'll kill you, I'll kill you, I will
I'll kill you, I'll kill you, I'll kill...

Write for me, and only me
A really extra special story
Make it mine, every line
Don't make me sorry
It's what I want, it's what I want
And I'll tell you what
You know me, and I can be
A very, very vicious critic

Another fan's appreciation
A do-be, don't-be situation
Drag me down into your hatred

Chorus"


Savage_ScreenMonkey wrote:
I think that if James got screwed over by a writer again he might just go Jigsaw style (from the Saw movies)on their ass. Kidnap them, put them in a freaky warehouse full of bizare death traps, and then sit back and enjoy the show...

You say "Jigsaw" and I think of the Punisher enemy...


I'm scared of that level of Anthrax...I'm much more "wait out the day, burn in the sun, creep in at night and kill everyone...."

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