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?
It would be a feature article...
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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?
As mentioned, it would be a feature article. The best way to submit this idea is to list out each monster, its CR and type, and give a brief (3-4 sentences at most) description of the beastie, what it does, and what role it fills. We might ask for just one or two of your monsters to add to a upcoming creature collection (or a later one).
*nods*
I see.
How many monsters should I propose in a single E-mail?
excellent question. :)
Does it ever happen that an article query gets split into several articles over consecutive issues to meet the word limit per article? (In my case, I submitted a query for nine monsters, and splitting the article, assuming all nine are accepted, into three sets of three monsters keeps down the word count nicely.)
most of the new monster articles that I send proposals for have between 4-6 monsters each (around 4000 words), they generaly ask to see about 1 in 3 that I send queries for.