I had a quick question about which sources were 'fair game'. I was working on a weal and woe combo where the connecting link is dream spiders from Curse of the Crimson Throne. They don't seem to have ever been given a true Pathfinder treatment (a shame). But its Paizo IP and Golarion, so I would think its OK. Am I right?
JJ, if you want monster tactics, go right ahead and write it! I already started looking for places to write about by the time I saw Tim's reply.
Mwahahaha, excellent.
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Disemboweled prophet finally cut down to the expected wordcount and sent. I hope it won't start to regrow again in the mail and clog the internet.
LOL, Sorry Paris. I wasn't asking Wayfinder specifically, but the community at large if there is an interest.
It is dear to my heart, but I have discovered my heart's interests skew quite a bit from the norm. :)
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Huh... Wow... I'm a jerk, I apologize. I should re-read this threat a lot more. Kalindlara, I do apologize. I was honestly trying to help. :_( Forgive me.Alright, I was too shy to put up my list originally... but I'm getting better. ^_^
So, cards on the table:
Article 1: a particularly evangelistic kyton philosophy. All flavor; no new game rules or full stat blocks. Focuses on flavor/use in campaigns. Written, in editing.
Article 2: hags and covens. Crunch-focused; new hexes, feats, and a witch archetype (for hag-raised changelings). Written, in editing. Debating cutting some of the weaker content for some magic items.
Article 3: an account of a delve into a Jistkan foundry, and dealing with the undead and golems there. Focused on new magic items, many related to golems or ancient Jistka. Partially written, debating how to frame content for monster-centric theme. Might scrap for now.
I'd love to do something with medusae, or maybe erinyes. Does anyone have any suggestions, or something they'd especially like to see?
I believe your supposed to e-mail these to an e-mail on the first page. Them submission guidelines get me EVERYTIME.
Don't worry about it! We all make little mistakes from time to time - nothing wrong at all. ^_^
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Heh interestingly enough, the first article I wrote was on Sverenagati a city that used to be... the capital of the (former) serpentfolk empire. Seems like I was really in the mood to write abut reptiles this issue.
And as it turns out, serpentfolk ARE monstrous humanoids while lizardfolk are humanoids with the reptilian subtype. Now the true question remains :3 What makes one monstrous and the other reptilian. The world may never know.
EDIT: They just keep coming... I realized that my outline contained references to other reptile related subjects.
Looks like I am a Slytherin after all.
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So I'm working on a couple of things, and one of them is poetry.
I'm used to seeing poetry submissions requested by the line rather than the word, and I'm a little worried that if I hit the appropriate word count (325) that I'll blow past the intended space.
Current target for this piece would be 36 lines and 175 words.
I don't doubt I can hit 325 words...but is 60 lines too long? Which length would you prefer?
What I'm working on, but the way, is the tale of the Pact between Baba Yaga and the Winter Wolves, as told by the Winter Wolves.
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For poetry, perhaps we should have indicated "up to 325 words", since poetry formats take up space in an entirely different way. Certainly 60 lines would encompass an entire page, and may leave a little room for art.
I'd aim for 45-50 lines.....?
Also, good to know that poetry submissions should have line limits and not word count limits. We will make that adjustment for future issues....Thanks!
So, the tl;dr version of this is: if you can write an article that provides a...
Thanks for the response Paris! I agree, cursed items are MUCH better as story related (and when used as a thing for interesting characters). Alas, I don't know if I'll be able to get something together in time with the move I just made!
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UPDATE!! 40 submissions received.
Advice: 1
Bestiary: 11
Class: 8
Crunch: 3
Fiction: 8
Flavor/Fluff: 4
Magic Items: 0
Poetry: 2
Side Trek Seeds: 2 (although one might be flavor-ish)
Weal or Woe: 1
Needs? Hard to say what will be coming in within this last week.
We can definitely use more Magic items, even if they are not full articles...we can add them to a general magic item article if need be.
We also seem to be lighter than usual on Weal or Woe. Usually we have at least 3-4 of them by now.
Both the Crunch and Flavor categories are light as well, and could stand to see more there.
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I've got a Magical weapon for Giants coming...
I just want to get it as close to perfect as I can.
Still writing feats/talents... With possible sprinkling of hexes, maybe a rage power or two...
So, question—I remember a while back getting the idea to send in some "variant goblins" like the ones shown here.
If I submit some, would you recommend I just write up a few and go into decent detail on each, or go with the "one-paragraph list" format and list a whole bunch? Alternatively, heeding the "avoid creatures from the Monster Codex" term, should I just avoid submitting this altogether? :P
Do you want more advice columns?
Question totally unconnected to submission questions: Will there be more "Monsters" issues in the future? This is such a great, vast subject compared to "Ustalav" or "Darklands", so I'd be sorry if we never got the chance to revisit it.
I've got 4 magic weapons in the works and expect to submit some of them individually, or grouped together in a short article.
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So, question—I remember a while back getting the idea to send in some "variant goblins" like the ones shown here.
If I submit some, would you recommend I just write up a few and go into decent detail on each, or go with the "one-paragraph list" format and list a whole bunch? Alternatively, heeding the "avoid creatures from the Monster Codex" term, should I just avoid submitting this altogether? :P
I think goblins have been done nearly completely by Paizo (and others). I'd like to see something less completely covered, honestly.
However, if that's what you've got, and you feel strongly about it....sure, whip it up as a submission. The thread looked pretty good.
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Do you want more advice columns?
Again, if you're feeling inspired to write an advice article, and it fits the monster theme....sure.
The key here is not necessarily what I want (although I would a more even representation from all categories), but want YOU are really feeling the writing bug to get on paper and into the issue.
This is your chance to show your gaming chops....so do something you really WANT to write up. Just stay on theme, and consider some of the feedback we've been giving in this thread.
Tim
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Question totally unconnected to submission questions: Will there be more "Monsters" issues in the future? This is such a great, vast subject compared to "Ustalav" or "Darklands", so I'd be sorry if we never got the chance to revisit it.
I really don't know what theme we will do until about the time we need to post a call for submissions. It's largely based on what Paizo products have been out, and are ripe for expanding on further by the fan-base. I really like selecting older APs and making the theme fit the country/region it is based in. That way, new fans get introduced to the older APs, and established fans get to revisit and create new material around it...thus breathing new life into a dusty AP that people have shelved.
These Open Themed issues usually have struck every 7 issues though. (WF 1, 7, and now 14)....
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Well, I simply cannot seem to fit an extra 750 words in this "Golarion Gazetteer" without it feeling forced (and believe me, I saw the draft where it had 1500 words). I suppose I am going to rework it slightly and submit it as a Flavor article with a mere 750 words.
Shame too. The Maiago River is such a great place. I suppose I could see if I could come up with a few magic items or spells to go with the region as well to bring it up to 1500.
Okay, did that monstrous army piece. Anybody else have an idea I can steal?
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Okay, did that monstrous army piece. Anybody else have an idea I can steal?
Random thoughts from when I was choosing my own focus;
Monsters that haven't been as heavily focused on;
Aranea, Barghest, Centaur, Dark Folk, Doppleganger, Gargoyle, Gibbering Mouther, Gnoll, Lamia, Naga, Salamander, Shoggoth, Sphinx
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Weal & Woe
Hobgoblin Fighter/Brawler (master of the chain he was once enslaved with, paradoxically both pro-slavery and pro-slaves-breaking-free, an unlikely ally to abolitionists *or* slavers, as he’s all about strength, with those not strong enough to break free, as he did, deserving to remain slaves)
Bugbear Rogue/Shadowdancer (red-furred brute, claims the shadow that follows her around is a conglomerate of the terrorized souls of her victims, unique Sanguine Highway feat allows her to shadowstep 'free' whenever she drops a foe, possibly even continuing iterative attacks at her destination, leaving a visible trail of blood in her wake)
750 words each? Ha. I can't get a statblock plus flavor text in under 1000 words, with even a boring humanoid, let alone something *fun* like a neh-thalggu sorcerer or aranea oracle! The bugbear shadowdancer also would be over 7th level, between racial HD and prereqs for Shadowdancer, unless I whipped up an archetype that granted a shadow companion sooner.
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Article on the Hobgoblins of Kaoling, and their focus on finesse weapons, and fighting styles / tactics that take advantage of their elf-like dexterity and dwarf-like constitution (and eschewing of brute force / strength-tactics, since they are no stronger than any other medium race). Complete with a throwing weapon-based ninja archetype and swift weapon property (iteratives for these light or finessable weapons, or darts or shuriken, are every four, instead of every five).
I love this idea, but it might fly in the face of every hobgoblin picture ever, which portrays them as hugely muscular, despite them being no stronger than an elf... Why must the mechanics and the text / flavor so often fight each other?
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Barghest sorcerer bloodline, including adaptations for a goblinoid, barghest or worg(!) taking this bloodline.
1/2 barghest template for goblinoids, hellhounds, wolves, dire wolves and worgs. Hellbood template (adding hell hound abilities) for barghests.
New sorcerer bloodlines are pretty formulaic at this point... I actually finished this one (apparently in my sleep, since I just discovered it lying around), but it's not worth taking up a submission slot I might use for something more interesting.
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How did those researchers At the Mountains of Madness learn to read the Old One pictograms so quickly? Because proto-humans were programmed in ancient days to understand the commands of their betters! Even a half a million years later, their descendants have faint traces of this programming, and some Aklo-speaking aberrations like the Mi-Go and Neh-Thalggu can take a feat to use a non-magical (Ex) command like ability on humans, speaking the 'masters tongue' that humans (and other terrestrial life, such as animals) instinctively understand and obey, although they know not why.
It's a single feat, for aberrations. Really not much to build an article around...
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Eight new beasties for Arcadia, based on central American mythology. Some mere variants, like variant Quicklings in blue stone armor that can two-weapon fight and moveby attack, with small blue wings that allow them to fall and leap great distances, and similar other beasties inspired by Mictlantecuhtli, Tezcatlipoca, etc.
Stat blocks for monsters are huge. Even making half of them variant Quicklings (Huitzilopochtli's warlike 'left-handed hummingbirds') or variant Otyughs (based on the Eater of Filth) or variant Lantern Archons didn't help.
I've got a Magical weapon for Giants coming...
I just want to get it as close to perfect as I can.
I'm submitting some weapons in a similar vein, and look forward to seeing yours. If our items are accepted, perhaps they'll be grouped together.
Just about done with my submission. Gonna try to trim it down a bit so it's not so much skirting the thresholds, then it's off.
A hundred words more to write...
And then possible the third article. But I also need to fit a blogpost before end of the month.
*grumble-grumble* Stupid real life.
1510? It will have to fit...
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And sent.
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Edited once more and sent. :)
Also, a sewage elemental might be a thing now...
As it should be...as it should be...
And off goes Monstrous Masterpieces for a second go-around. I adjusted a lot of it for the new subject, but I couldn't resist leaving hobgoblins in there. Their masterpiece just didn't feel like it fit any other race quite as perfectly, and I didn't want to force it only someone like drow or derro.
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Submitted a single magic item. Starting Small.
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I just submitted my 2nd entry for this issue. That's it, unless I become suddenly inspired this evening.
Good luck to all of you that submitted something, especially to Tothric and those of you submitting for the first time!
Waiting to hear if you made it in can be nerve-wracking, but whether you make it in or not, it's a fun process to create and write, it's rewarding to complete your own formal design, and it's a good way to practice your design-chops.
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I just submitted my 2nd entry for this issue. That's it, unless I become suddenly inspired this evening.
Good luck to all of you that submitted something, especially to Tothric and those of you submitting for the first time!
Waiting to hear if you made it in can be nerve-wracking, but whether you make it in or not, it's a fun process to create and write, it's rewarding to complete your own formal design, and it's a good way to practice your design-chops.
Thank you Ignotus. I appreciate it.
Ahhhhhh! The floodgates have opened!
drinking from the firehose of submissions!
There are more on the way! And don't forget there's an extra second tonight. Does that count as before or after the deadline?
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Drink it, Tim. Drink it all up.
Ahhhhhh! The floodgates have opened!
drinking from the firehose of submissions!
Were you expecting otherwise?