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Regarding Plasma corruption: I strongly recommend Lost Cities of Golarion.
The chapter on the Sun Temple Colony (by the always-magnificent Brandon Hodge) has a boatload of inspiration for you. ^_^
I will delve into my vast collection of sci-fi, at least 6 books I own cover that idea directly and quite a few others touch on it. One of the early Golden Age books is where I am getting most of the idea from. But I will reread that chapter to be sure, now that I have been reminded of it.
Wayfinder, PaizoCon Founder
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If I have an article on a group, could I include an image for that group's symbol? Or is that something you'd rather just assign to an artist (if at all)?
So, if you have art or images, or art concepts (or if you have a location...a rough map) then, yes, submit it with your written entry. I will consider it when making art assignments. If it's really good, we'll use it. If it needs a bit more polish, or it's a nice concept, but we need to build on it a little more, I will assign to an artist.
Tim
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Timitius, here's an oddly specific question: When referring to word count, do you mean the literal number of words (as most folk would understand "word count" to mean) or do you mean something along the lines of the SFWA's publishing guidelines? Given the small size of each submission it doesn't amount to much of a difference, but I figured I'd ask.
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Definitely the simpler one.....I mean the literal number of words that Microsoft Word tells you are in the document.
The word counts are set up to accommodate the text, a quarter page sized piece of art, margins, and the title, byline text. In MOST cases, 750 words fit on a page. Now, when you throw in a fiction piece with short dialog.....that can cause things not to fit. Same goes for a long, complicated stat block (which is why we now limit Weal or Woe articles to Lvl 7 or lower).
But, in general, we've found it works out most of the time.
Tim
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If we were looking at submitting an Adventure Card Game article and we wanted to have custom cards for the adventure, would it be possible to add those in? (I've been fiddling around with various things but it's hard to capture the flavor of Numaria with the cards that have already been written.)
I only ask because the templates are Community Use, so Wayfinder may be able to do something with them. But I realize that it may be starting to push the comfort level of what you are able to do.
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Wayfinder, PaizoCon Founder
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If we were looking at submitting an Adventure Card Game article and we wanted to have custom cards for the adventure, would it be possible to add those in? (I've been fiddling around with various things but it's hard to capture the flavor of Numaria with the cards that have already been written.)
I only ask because the templates are Community Use, so Wayfinder may be able to do something with them. But I realize that it may be starting to push the comfort level of what you are able to do.
Good question! Putting in ACG scenarios is a new thing for us, and I am inclined to say that including custom cards is within the CUP allowances. However, I would probably want to get a confirmation on that from Paizo (Liz? Card Game crew?) before we'd run with it.
As for the card image...would you be making it and submitting with the article? Or would you be relying on Wayfinder to supply art for it? (Sorry, not familiar with the template use and availablity).
Tim
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Write ups on Numeria have focused quite a bit on the robot side of things,...
Not too many examples of android bards, unfortunately.
Though it did send me on a Gary Numan bender;I must try to make sense
Why our adventures commence
In bars
<ba-dump>
Bars
<ba-dump>
<doooooo ooeeoooo ooooo doo ooeeeeoooo ooo>
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Wayfinder, PaizoCon Founder
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So, if you have art or images, or art concepts (or if you have a location...a rough map) then, yes, submit it with your written entry.What file types, sizes, and resolutions do you want? Black and white or color?
Illustration specs are as follows:
File to be sent by email or file-sharing services to: wayfinder.fanzine@gmail.com.
Color or B&W (color preferred but not a must)
JPG or PSD file, 300 dpi (PSD preferred)
RGB color profile (even if the artwork is black and white).
Size: 1/4 page (4.25"x5.5") if your article is 750 words.
Half page (8.5"x5.5", or 4.25"x11") if your article is 1500 words.
Now, a note about this....I create an artist roster for each issue. These are artists who have expressed interest in helping out, and are ones that I feel best convey the style and quality of art that we want for the issue. Again, you are free to submit your own art, but since it is outside of the process for my art direction, I may decide to not use it, and go with another artist. However, your art, if not used, still would provide me with YOUR perspective on how you see your article's content, which could help me and the chosen artist to zero in on the look better.
I just want to be clear about this....I've had many authors submit art with their submissions, and be incredibly disappointed (and upset) that I didn't use their art piece. One even threatened to revoke his article if I didn't use the art! I don't like being backed into a corner, folks.
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I just want to be clear about this....I've had many authors submit art with their submissions, and be incredibly disappointed (and upset) that I didn't use their art piece. One even threatened to revoke his article if I didn't use the art! I don't like being backed into a corner, folks.
In the interest of getting on with my to-do list, I've decided to forego coming up with symbols and sending them in. That and I frankly don't have any good ideas for them in the first place.
Otherwise, two submissions sent!
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ATTENTION! ONE WEEK AND COUNTING.
42 submissions received.
8 Bestiary
14 Class
5 Crunch
4 Flavor
3 Fiction
3 Side Trek Seeds
5 Weal or Woe
0 Magic Items. ZERO. UNACCEPTABLE.
Deadline is 11:59 PM Pacific, August 31.
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If we were looking at submitting an Adventure Card Game article and we wanted to have custom cards for the adventure, would it be possible to add those in? (I've been fiddling around with various things but it's hard to capture the flavor of Numaria with the cards that have already been written.)
I only ask because the templates are Community Use, so Wayfinder may be able to do something with them. But I realize that it may be starting to push the comfort level of what you are able to do.
Good question! Putting in ACG scenarios is a new thing for us, and I am inclined to say that including custom cards is within the CUP allowances. However, I would probably want to get a confirmation on that from Paizo (Liz? Card Game crew?) before we'd run with it.
As for the card image...would you be making it and submitting with the article? Or would you be relying on Wayfinder to supply art for it? (Sorry, not familiar with the template use and availablity).
Tim
I could submit card images minus actual pictures in the art. However I know I am not the best graphic designer. I've been using MagicSetEditor to proxy up cards and could bust out Photoshop and try laying out the cards on the templates given in the Community Use files to give a slightly more professional look than MSE. My Photoshopping is highly speculative, as I haven't actually tried to do this yet. My ability to create pictures for the cards is naught.
Sorry if I'm rambling. Hopefully that is understandable.
0 Magic Items. ZERO. UNACCEPTABLE.
I have one nearly complete tech item (~200 words) that I can send in this weekend. Hopefully, you'll get a few more from other designers, so that if mine is accepted, it won't be lonely.
It's unlikely, but if inspiration strikes and I have some free time on Sunday, there's a slim chance I could do another one or two, plus a fluffy intro to fill out a 750-word article.
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Creating alien creatures that arrived on the ship in the habitat modules is fun, because you can have creatures of the animal, plant or vermin types that have abilities or attributes not associated with those types with Golarion/earthly beasties, such as spitting a pyrophoric gunk that ignites into flames, or feeding on radiation, or any of the less-commonly-used abilities from Universal Monster Rules in the back of the Bestiaries, such as Poisonous Blood or Stench. (Not everything has to have Ferocity, Pounce or Rake!)
No magic (or tech) items from me, this time. I'm not really much of a gear person. You'd think I'd play more Monks. :)
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42 submissions received.8 Bestiary
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OK, that Bestiary submission count just went up by one!
I have a flavor/crunch article submission that follows the design of the "Magical Marketplace" book Paizo put out a few years ago.
It has a couple of magical items on it that are flavored for Numeria. I hope to finish it up tonight or tomorrow morning.
Good luck to all!
=)
ALERT! DEADLINE EMINENT. 27 HOURS, 35 MINUTES REMAIN.
54 submissions received.
11 Bestiary
15 Class
5 Crunch
5 Flavor
5 Fiction
1 Poetry
4 Tech Item
3 Side Trek Seeds
5 Weal or Woe
Still no magic items. Magic is dead. The robot revolution has begun.
Deadline is 11:59 PM Pacific, August 31.
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For reference to last issue: 63 submissions at 38 hours left.
Yes....#16 is lagging behind in the final stretch. Still time to make that up, though!
I'm a bit surprised, though. I figured Numeria was more popular than River Kingdoms.....maybe not. Maybe just more "weird".
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I'm a bit surprised, though. I figured Numeria was more popular than River Kingdoms.....maybe not. Maybe just more "weird".
I would have expected imaginations to run wild with tech items and alien monsters or alien PC races of funky types (like an ooze race), particularly with Starfinder fresh on people's minds.
I'm not particularly into tech, or magic items, for that matter, having sacrificed that muse on the altar of RPG Superstar, but the area seems rich for both, and, better, combination items, like magical attempts to replicate those hard-to-find and hard-to-maintain items, like energy pistols. (A magical attempt at a laser might only work during the day or in areas of bright light, and have dozens of miniaturized crystal lenses along a long rifle, magically focusing and re-focusing ambient light into a burning ray, for instance.)
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I hit the dreaded scenario, of finding someone else had already written something on a similar concept to my idea.
So I've had to strip it back to basics, and rebuild it in a different direction than I originally took. Hopefully it's a better fit for the region than the original.
This also meant amending a song I wrote to accompany the article, but again, I hope it's an improvement.
I expect to give it a final pass today, and have both in before the lock.
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I'm a bit surprised, though. I figured Numeria was more popular than River Kingdoms.....maybe not. Maybe just more "weird".I would have expected imaginations to run wild with tech items and alien monsters or alien PC races of funky types (like an ooze race), particularly with Starfinder fresh on people's minds.
I had a look at doing some items, the problem was that they either ended up being too magical in nature and not very Numerian or they went to the other extreme of being too technological with little to no magic about them.
I personally found it very difficult to strike the magic/tech balance, and I wont submit something I am unhappy with - Wayfinder and its readership deserve only my best work.
For reference to last issue: 63 submissions at 38 hours left.Yes....#16 is lagging behind in the final stretch. Still time to make that up, though!
I'm a bit surprised, though. I figured Numeria was more popular than River Kingdoms.....maybe not. Maybe just more "weird".
Me too, I expected to be having more ideas earlier but I had a creatively dry period and some of the ideas I had I decided not to develop further... 15 class articles already?
Writing some technological items now, though, after an old idea came back to me recently.
Unfortunately mine Tecno-kobolds article is not ready. Too busy on mine current thesis development.
Se you in the next #
Two technological items sent.
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For the record, I personally love to see the flavor/fluff category more. Gazetteers. People/places of interest articles. Organizations. That kind of thing. I gaze at the maps of Golarion, and see so many places that have only a line or two in the books and supplements, and think "I wonder what THAT place is like?"
It is also the category least submitted to....but what we DO get is usually full of awesome.
Just my thoughts....with 16 hrs to go.....
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
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Wayfinder, PaizoCon Founder
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I had a look at doing some items, the problem was that they either ended up being too magical in nature and not very Numerian or they went to the other extreme of being too technological with little to no magic about them.
I personally found it very difficult to strike the magic/tech balance, and I wont submit something I am unhappy with - Wayfinder and its readership deserve only my best work.
Most of what I'm seeing come in is pretty much that...entirely tech or magic. And THAT'S OK. Numeria is a weird place, so I don't expect the norm on this issue, anyway.
Uh, I just discovered that in Pathfinder keen weapon property can be placed only on a melee weapon... Why?
I'm a bit surprised, though. I figured Numeria was more popular than River Kingdoms.....maybe not. Maybe just more "weird".Me too, I expected to be having more ideas earlier but I had a creatively dry period and some of the ideas I had I decided not to develop further... 15 class articles already?
I love Numeria/Iron Gods and (what we know so far about) Starfinder. I have several things (class archetypes and bestiary/critters) that have been 80% done for 6 weeks+... but I've been mentally constipated, so I have nothing to submit this issue. Sorry. :(
Working on some magic items...
No other magic items? Eh, it means I need to write 750 words of those to fit a page.
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For the record, I personally love to see the flavor/fluff category more. Gazetteers. People/places of interest articles. Organizations. That kind of thing. I gaze at the maps of Golarion, and see so many places that have only a line or two in the books and supplements, and think "I wonder what THAT place is like?"
You know what? Good point. Let me see what I can do. ^_^
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RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
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I hit the dreaded scenario, of finding someone else had already written something on a similar concept to my idea.
Hopefully it wasn't corruptions, as I didn't like how they turned out and scrapped them for another idea. Which I still have to finish. Overtime at work sucks...
- Bestiary: New creatures to terrorize your PCs! Each creature counts as a separate submission. Submission size: 750 words per creature. However, because multiple creatures are combined to form a single bestiary article, smaller entries will be considered as long as they are complete. (i.e., a hard target word count of 750 words does not apply to bestiary entries. See the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary for examples of proper formatting and content.)
Just to double check here since I woke up with a sudden flash of last minute inspiration, for monster formatting you want something like this, right?
Aboleth
Four long tentacles writhe from this three-eyed fish-like creature's flanks, and its green body glistens with thick, clear slime.
ABOLETH CR 7
XP 3,200
LE Huge aberration (aquatic)
Init +5; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +14
Aura mucus cloud (5 feet)
DEFENSE
AC 20, touch 9, flat-footed 19; (+1 Dex, +11 natural, –2 size)
hp 84 (8d8+48)
Fort +8, Ref +5, Will +11
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For the record, I personally love to see the flavor/fluff category more. Gazetteers. People/places of interest articles. Organizations. That kind of thing. I gaze at the maps of Golarion, and see so many places that have only a line or two in the books and supplements, and think "I wonder what THAT place is like?"
I hope you like barbarians. And not technology. ^_^
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I hit the dreaded scenario, of finding someone else had already written something on a similar concept to my idea.
Hopefully it wasn't corruptions, as I didn't like how they turned out and scrapped them for another idea. Which I still have to finish. Overtime at work sucks...
No-one here, as I don't know what they've done.
This was a third party book, that had been sitting in my Drive-Thru library for over a year, till I had the free time to catch up on my reading. Then 'Dammit!'.
Magic items sent.
Done and done.
We had so much extra time to submit this time, I allowed myself to percolate ideas and notes for weeks. It finally started coming together a few days ago and now...We will see?
=)
I can hope can't I??
OH wait...how long will we have to wait to hear an answer?
Drat...patience! My most dreaded enemy.
Submitted! Sent in some feats and a fiction article. I suppose it'd be fiction, anyway- that one got weird.