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I would also like to know this, and to know which editor/department would be appropriate for homebrew creatures.

Does the "one item per slot or one item per creation feat" rule still apply? Does the latter include such bland things as scrolls, potions, and wands (how can you submit something original with only one spell effect?)? What about the new "craft construct" feat?

Cancelling creature compendiums for Dragon to ensure monster manuals are bought seems like the same kind of folly that let Japanese Cars get ahead of american ones. If people don't like the monster manuals, they won't buy them. Narrowing their options will just make customers turn to 3rd party sources for their creature needs. Frankly though, I think monster manuals are the only core rule book "sequel" that is justifyiable, and one for which the market is potentially inexhaustable. After all, it's just a colleciton of monsters.

And if so, are they likely to accept queries/submissions for it?

If our queries aren't responded to, how long should we wait before we try resending?

I sent in a ghoul query February 4, 2006 and an "Assorted creatures" query March 28, 2006. I haven't heard anything since the polite refusal of a mismatched creature complilation including dire turkeys which was over a year ago.

I tried that link several times and got
"There is an error opening this document. The file is damaged and cannot be repaired"

Does anybody have the submission/query form for sending material to Dragon Magazine? Also, does anybody know a good way to submit monsters or spells for use en masse?

*nods*
I see.

How many monsters should I propose in a single E-mail?

I was looking over the Dragon submissions guidelines, and I can't seem to find a section detailing how to go about submitting compilations of homebrewed monsters.

Is there part of the guidelines that I overlooked, or are new creature collections the domain of a different magazine. If the former, please direct me to the section in question. If the latter, which magazine is it?

I was pondering submitting a collection of christmas-themed critters to Dragon when a question popped up.

If I'm submitting material with a particular month in mind (like dire turkeys and turkey variants for november), how far in advance should I submit it?

Dire Turkeys would certainly make Thanksgiving a bit more interesting...and would be great in the April issue, I think!

Were-Turkeys, Fiendish Turkeys, Half troll-turkeys....oh boy, I'm sorry, I'll stop.

The turkeys were aimed for maybe a thanksgiving article. I also must assure you that I'm a guy who takes things seriously. I made a thread of giant animated militant donuts and I took them seriously.

one thing I can add is that the editors prefer that the creatures be linked by some sort of a theme... whether something like geogpraphical location (ei. Jungle monsters) or something else, some sort of link should exist... I have trouble seeing a link between good aligned undead, aquatic undead and turkies, perhaps the editor had a similar lack of vision?

I should back up and explain that each of these were submitted as a seperate thing. The Oceanic Undead where the bloated drounth, skeletal drounth, and drounth lord, all in one document. The good aligned undead had three different undeads, one for each good alignment, and a template. The turkies was a november-timed document with a normal wild turkey, a dire turkey, and the magical firefall turkey.

I recently submitted a few dungeons and dragons creatures to Dragon Magazine (in case you're wondering, they included some oceanic undead, good aligned undead, and an assortment of turkeys with wild turkey, dire turkey, and a turkey with fire-magic). I recieved a polite refusal saying the creatures where not what dragon magazine wanted at this time, and directing me to this website.

What does Dragon Magazine want at this time, and how can I go about discovering this?