Proper format for submitting monsters...

[pressuredrop]

Okay I've read the dungeon magazine writer's guidelines, and I see where it talks about proper format for NPCs in adventures. My question is, should I follow this same format for monsters I'm making for the Creature Catalog section, or (more likely, IMO) should I follow the same format used in the Monster Manual?

[James Jacobs]

For articles about new monsters, follow the formatin whatever the most recent monster book uses. For now, that's Monster Manual III (which is pretty close to the base Monster Manual). In fact... you can pretty much just follow the Monster Manual format and we can take care of any fine tuning if the article is accepted.

[Shawn Merwin]

James Jacobs wrote:

For articles about new monsters, follow the formatin whatever the most recent monster book uses. For now, that's Monster Manual III (which is pretty close to the base Monster Manual). In fact... you can pretty much just follow the Monster Manual format and we can take care of any fine tuning if the article is accepted.

James, if we are familiar with the new formatting (I used it for some things I've written for the RPGA), can our submissions include the new stat block formatting?

Thanks,

Shawn

[James Jacobs]

For now, new monsters done up for Creature Catalogs or as appendixes to adventures will continue to use the Monster Manual presentation. For anything else that uses actual stat blocks, we'd definately appreciate having them done in the new format.