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There is a world of darkness below us. A world of tunnels and caverns, of entire cities of dark denizens. Shadows upon shadows…this is the Darklands! Few surface-dwellers have survived the dangers below, but yet strange tales exist of an inverted city ruled by evil fey; of the necropolis Nemret Noktoria, homeland of ghouls; of Zirnakaynin, the “Last Home of the Elves”. Stranger still are the rumors of deeper lands, the Vaults, and the great evils that dwell within them. Rumors, that is, from the mouths of madmen, screaming of places like Ilvarandin, the Midnight Mountains, and of sailing the Sightless Sea.
Perhaps you, brave Pathfinders, have information to share of these dark places?
Goal
The goal for the fanzine is to create a collection of fan-created articles and supporting art set in Paizo’s Pathfinder Campaign Setting world of Golarion.
The theme for Wayfinder #9 will be going underground...to the Darklands! Please use the Inner Sea World Guide as your main reference (as well as that handy-dandy PathfinderWiki)! In the case of a plethora of articles on similar subjects, preference will be given to articles that follow this theme. As always, crunch, fiction, and flavor articles are welcome!
In addition, writers can submit to one of several regular series featured in Wayfinder:
- Advice: Have some advice you want to pass on to new GMs or players to the world of Golarion?
- Bestiary: New creatures to terrorize your PCs with!
- Of Chance and Skill: Games, new to or adapted for Golarion, to play at your table!
- Prestigious: This article is devoted to a new prestige class for the world of Golarion.
- Realm Building: The Kingmaker Adventure Path introduced a lot of new goodies for building armies, cities and kingdoms. This column is focused on building upon those rules.
- Side Treks: Side Treks feature short outlines for a sidetrek adventure set in a particular Pathfinder adventure, from the products listed below. One sidetrek outline per submission for this column. Please reference earlier Wayfinders for the layout for this article. Submission size: 325 words.
- Tales from the Front: Fiction articles based on any of Paizo’s adventure modules or paths.
- Weal or Woe? Two NPCs (including statblocks), one helpful, one not so much. Include hooks for the PCs to know (or hate) this NPC and how to use them in a campaign. Include a boon (Weal) and drawback (Woe) for the NPCs in your article. Please reference earlier Wayfinders for the layout for this article.
Guidelines
- Thou shalt not disregard canon, thou shalt build upon it.
- Keep in mind thy audience. Keep it PG-13. No slash fic/porn fantasies, cheesecake/beefcake/fan service.
- Short and sweet. Unless otherwise specified, article sizes are 750 and 1,500 words. These are HARD targets, not a range, so come as close as possible to these targets. Coming in too far under or over these targets will likely result in the rejection of your submission. Anything over 1,500 words must be pre-approved by the Editor-in-Chief.
- Stick to the theme. An article on the golems of Quantium in a Darklands-themed issue is not going to make it. Sorry.
- Submissions used to defame, harass, or threaten board members are not tolerated.
Submission Instructions
- Conditions for Submissions. All authors and artists must agree to have their works reproduced for this and other Wayfinder products, be it for translations into other languages (we will be responsible for the truthfulness of the translations), special publications, or use on a Wayfinder website. All of Wayfinder’s publications are NON-PROFIT, and authors and artists will be given proper credit where due.
- Send all submissions to: wayfinder.fanzine@gmail.com with the subject line containing “Wayfinder #9 Submission”.
- All text submissions must be submitted in DOC or DOCX format (doesn’t matter if you use Office or OpenOffice). Note: Files sent in RTF, TXT, or any other format than DOC will be rejected.
- Do not use fancy fonts or colors or styles for formatting - these will get stripped out in the editing and layout process. Use the standard body font for the program you’re using - bold and italics are fine.
- For tables, please make them tab delimited. Fancy formatted tables just get reduced to this format anyway.
- Include your name and board name in your submission - example, “Liz ‘Lilith’ Courts”. Your entries will go through editing passes for clarity and concision. Depending on time constraints, you may or may not receive feedback on the editing process and your script.
- DEADLINE: March 31, 2013, 11:59 Pacific. All entries will be handled on a first come, first serve basis. Some articles may be rejected depending on the final size of the PDF.
Advertising
- Third party publishers wishing to advertise their Pathfinder Roleplaying Game-compatible projects in Wayfinder #9 can make a donation for advertising space. available for 1/4, 1/2 and full page ads.
- Fan projects operating under Paizo’s Community Use Policy are welcome to advertise their websites and materials, as well.
- Email wayfinder.fanzine@gmail.com for questions about placing an ad. Be sure to include “Wayfinder #9 Advertising” in your subject line.
- DEADLINE: April 30, 2013
Dotted.
Woo hoo!
Aboleths too.
EDIT: And that underground ghoul kingdom.
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Mmm.
Sightless fungus-infected blight sorcerers who worship the great Mu Spores of the Midnight Mountains?
New secretive Dark Folk varieties, such as the divine spellcasting Dark Acolyte or the arcane Dark Warlock?
The Rovagug worshippers of the Pyramid of Kamaria, still revering the unquiet remains of the only Osirioni Pharoah to openly worship the Rough Beast, and serving as a go-between to the most brutal elements of the surface world and the grimlocks, ghouls and skum of the Bloodcleft, Nemret Noktoria and Ulat-kini who use the pyramid as their interface with the surface world?
Oh yeah, lots of fun possibilities.
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Oh, I should also mention new article types like Heroes Hoard (magic items), and Golarion Gazetteer (articles about places). These are new, fun categories, folks!
Also, recipes. Although I need more than 2 to make a decent article....and I'm not really sure I want to eat something based on the Darklands.....
Okay... a dhampir witch doctor tending to a mongrelmen tribe is coming... I think.
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Oh, I should also mention new article types like Heroes Hoard (magic items), and Golarion Gazetteer (articles about places). These are new, fun categories, folks!
Also, recipes. Although I need more than 2 to make a decent article....and I'm not really sure I want to eat something based on the Darklands.....
I'm sure there's plenty of mushroom based recipes out there.
Not that I'd eat them. Eating fungus is unnatural.
Oh, I should also mention new article types like Heroes Hoard (magic items), and Golarion Gazetteer (articles about places).
Those are not on the list, Tim, glad you mentioned them!
Ruyan.
I'll have to keep a eye on this thread.
If anyone want's an idea, an article on the various demon lords/patrons could be fun (in a evil sort of way). Could invent new ones, or write more about those already established.
3 Things Not To Poke When in the Darklands.
Only three?!
You could probably change the title of that article to "Don't bother bringing your 10 foot pole; it's not worth the trouble."
3 Things Not To Poke When in the Darklands.
Only three?!
You could probably change the title of that article to "Don't bother bringing your 10 foot pole; it's not worth the trouble."
It would be "3 Things not to poke when in the Darklands but which you could eventually poke and still have a chance of survival".
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3 Things Not To Poke When in the Darklands.
Only three?!
You could probably change the title of that article to "Don't bother bringing your 10 foot pole; it's not worth the trouble."
The researcher didn't make it far enough past the entrances to find more than three.
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The researcher didn't make it far enough past the entrances to find more than three.
3 Things Not To Poke When in the Darklands.
Only three?!
You could probably change the title of that article to "Don't bother bringing your 10 foot pole; it's not worth the trouble."
Ah, posthumous publication of the manuscript. Gotcha.
The Homunculus got away...
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Short and sweet. Unless otherwise specified, article sizes are 750 and 1,500 words. These are HARD targets, not a range, so come as close as possible to these targets. Coming in too far under or over these targets will likely result in the rejection of your submission. Anything over 1,500 words must be pre-approved by the Editor-in-Chief.
I am going to be remembering this one. Learned my lesson with my last submissions.
*Edit*
I have been working on an underground kingdom building rules set for my own Kingmaker group. They wanted a kobold city in one of the mines. I am polishing it up and working it to be at one of those two word limits.
Should anyone feel interested in helping me get some input and play testing done, I will be more than happy to let a couple of people read it over in a rough draft form.
I have a couple of archetype ideas, and a couple of monster ideas and will likely think of an item or two too - BUT - my focus at the moment is on RPG Superstar, I would like to donate an article or two, but my ability to do so is likely to be affected by whether I progress in Superstar or not.
I have a couple of archetype ideas, and a couple of monster ideas and will likely think of an item or two too - BUT - my focus at the moment is on RPG Superstar, I would like to donate an article or two, but my ability to do so is likely to be affected by whether I progress in Superstar or not.
I'm sure that's going to be the case for a lot of us. I'll try and submit something fluff-y this time for Wayfinder - I haven't done anything that didn't include a bunch of rules content yet.
Will be submitting, for sure.
I was always telling my friends that I wanted more detail on the duergar in Pathfinder. I guess now's my chance to live up to my complaining!
Submitted.
Bat wing crunchies
Might as well serve them with that delicious Mu spore sauce of yours.
Ruyan.
Do you have any need for specific art pieces to support articles? I'd be willing to do one or two depending on the detail intensity. You can view a gallery of work I've done in the past (it hasn't been updated in forever) if you're curious.
If there's some specific pieces you want/need, just post them here or PM me. I should be able to get one or two done between now and the end of February so that you can come back with any retouches you may need.
I also have a Norgorber-themed submission for Prestigious and an aboleth-themed submission for Side Treks that will be in during the same time. If there's any particular articles you're bereft of submissions for, let me know. I'd be interested in filling in any obvious gaps.
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I am worried about doing a Realm Building article and have the basic system changed upon the release of Ultimate Campaign, which comes after the submission deadline and before the Wayfinder publishing.
As for the kingdom-building rules, some things were changed a little, some were changed a lot, some things stayed the same. Some things will change further during development. Hopefully the final result is something that pleases most!
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On a different note, some paper minis based on the Darklands would make for some cool art! Just sayin'...
Are archetypes accepted? Cause I've got one finished. And I'm working on a monster.
So, question: Are the darklands under Tian Xia fair game as well, or are we sticking to the western side of life?
I think I remember Tim explicitly mentioning the potential of the unknown Darklands regions below Tian Xia when he announced the new Wayfinder theme on a Know Direction podcast last year, but don't quote me on that...
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I think I remember Tim explicitly mentioning the potential of the unknown Darklands regions below Tian Xia when he announced the new Wayfinder theme on a Know Direction podcast last year, but don't quote me on that...
I watched that podcast last night, and yes he did say that it would be "interesting" to see what people come up with.
Duergar Spider Cavalry Cavalier archetype anyone? (Don't forget to read the Steeder Ecology in Dragon mag)
Tim, I sent you a message some days ago- when you have time to answer please do, so I can start writing my piece a way or another.
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So. Lucent, I would be delighted to give you an assignment for Wayfinder #9. The thing is....I'm not going to MAKE those assignments for illustrations until after our due date, when I sit down and figure out what articls we are going to use.
Once I get the selection, I review all the artists that have expressed the willingness to illustrate for Wayfinder, and I make the assignments. I try to give artists at least 1 month (if I can, more) to complete assignments.
So, it's likely going to be April that I need artists to be free to draw.
Do you have any need for specific art pieces to support articles? I'd be willing to do one or two depending on the detail intensity. You can view a gallery of work I've done in the past (it hasn't been updated in forever) if you're curious.
If there's some specific pieces you want/need, just post them here or PM me. I should be able to get one or two done between now and the end of February so that you can come back with any retouches you may need.
I also have a Norgorber-themed submission for Prestigious and an aboleth-themed submission for Side Treks that will be in during the same time. If there's any particular articles you're bereft of submissions for, let me know. I'd be interested in filling in any obvious gaps.
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Tim, I sent you a message some days ago- when you have time to answer please do, so I can start writing my piece a way or another.
Bardess, although I recall seeing a message from you, I cannot seem to locate it, nor remember what your idea was.
Please go ahead and sent it again...to the wayfinder email.
Thanks
Tim
Hero's Hoard submission sent.