Hi! My name is Alex, and I was wondering how I can submit some of my campaigns into Dragon Magazine. I asked Wizards of the Coast, and they sent me here, and I'm hoping to have my campaigns published and reviewed. Someone please help me! The quickest way to reach me, is to send an answer to Drake_Knight2002@yahoo.com My e-mail. Thank you somebody, for future help!
Hi! My name is Alex, and I was wondering how I can submit some of my campaigns into Dragon Magazine. I asked Wizards of the Coast, and they sent me here, and I'm hoping to have my campaigns published and reviewed. Someone please help me! The quickest way to reach me, is to send an answer to Drake_Knight2002@yahoo.com My e-mail. Thank you somebody, for future help!
Go to the Dragon homepage: http://paizo.com/dragon
Scroll down to "resources"Click on the link for "submission guidelines".
The magazine also gives an e-mail address of dragon@paizo.com for submissions.
You mentioned Dragon magazine specifically, so that's the info I looked up, but campaigns are usually in Dungeon Magazine.
Also, read thru the thread "Is there a black hole in the submissions room at Paizo" under the Dungeon magazine messageboards. The response time is pretty long. You might also send the best chunk of the campaign as a single adventure proposal...I think the largest proposals that they consider is about 25000-30000 words and have stated that 10,000 words is the ideal size. Though the "Shackled City" and "Age of Worms" and "Istivin" campaigns ran for several issues, two of them had different authors for the individual adventures.
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For Dungeon, we prefer adventures in the 10,000 word range. We've got room for about 45,000 words of adventure per issue, and we aren't interested in printing less than 3 adventures per issue, and an adventure of less than 5,000 words is probably getting too short to be an adventure. While that sounds like we can accept adventures of up to 35,000 words... that's not the case. Short adventures are in super short supply.
As a general rule, each word over 15,000 words your adventure runs decreases the chances of seeing your adventure in print in Dungeon dramaticly. In fact, the only times we'll want to print an adventure that's longer than 15,000 words is in one of the two following situations:
1: We specifically ask an author to write a longer adventure.
2: We get in a shorter adventure and like it so much that we want the author to expand it.
You'll notice that both of those situations revolve around the editorial staff asking an author speficially for an adventure of over 15,000 words.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the longer your adventure is, the tougher it is to fit into the magazine. Short adventures tend to see print faster than long ones, since adventures seem always to run long and we'll often swap out a 10,000 word adventure for a 5,000 word one at the last minute, bumping the 10K adventure to the next issue so that we can run a longer adventure in its place (along with the shorter, 5,000 word adventure).
So, all that said... the best thing to do is to download the writer's guidelines and start sending in proposals! And be ready to be patient... it can take several months for us to get to your proposal (we're trying to speed that process up), and even once an adventure is accepted, it can often be more than a year before you see it in print.
Dragon prints a lot more articles per issue than Dungeon, so as a general rule, accepted submissions to that magazine genearally get into print faster. Although [i]Dragon rarely ever prints something over 10,000 words; most of their longer articles run at about 5,000 or so.