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Chris Tulach]All content from Dragon and Dungeon is being generated
through R&D, just like a regular published product.

I think some people don't understand that the relationship between the
magazines and R&D is different than it was before. Under Paizo, Dragon
and Dungeon magazines went through an approval process at Wizards, but
they were in charge of the management and production of the articles.
Now, they are part of R&D wrote:

All content from Dragon and Dungeon is being generated
through R&D, just like a regular published product.

I think some people don't understand that the relationship between the
magazines and R&D is different than it was before. Under Paizo, Dragon
and Dungeon magazines went through an approval process at Wizards, but
they were in charge of the management and production of the articles.
Now, they are part of R&D; they're essentially finding another way to
deliver more options to you. There's no difference between a Dragon
article with a bunch of new powers and a book you purchase off the shelf
of your game store with new powers in it.

It is our intention to allow Dragon and Dungeon content into the RPGA. I
am going to have monthly reviews of content with the editor-in-chief to
ensure that a given month's content will be OK for RPGA use. I suspect
the vast majority of the content to be usable (maybe not 100%, but
probably 90%+). With regards to adventures (Dungeon content), all will
be sanctionable through the RPGA, although we will be selective with
what adventures will be adapted for a _specific_ campaign.

Gamer_Zer0 wrote:

Heyas,

Obviously, no magazine like Dragon or Dungeon could survive without the support of the RPG community. I am gonna check in with the editorial team and try and get a statement of their submission philosophy and post it here.

Thanks!
-Mike

Mike,

Politely saying so, it would have been nice for them to at least sent out form letters/emails for all those prior 3.5 submissions that tons of folks, myself included, sent in when they initially asked for queries months back. It doesn't exactly inspire freelancers to spend the time to come up with ideas to pitch when absolutely no reply is forthcoming (nor any reply to multiple questions over the next three months in the face of that).

I had the opportunity to contribute a nice number of articles in the last year that Dragon and Dungeon were actual magazines, and I'd been looking forward to doing the same with the online version (articles about certain IP can't be done for any 3rd party folks, ie Planescape stuff for instance). I'd even been asked to submit a full version of one 3.5 article that was a leftover from the Paizo slush pile... and then no reply at all after that point.

Communication really needs to improve or else WotC seriously risks a massively shallow writing pool for anything in the online magazines, because a lot of folks will just assume it's a lost cause that's only being done in-house or by the select few already cleared to work on 4e material. It may not mean a gigantic amount to me now, since my day job takes up most of my time (and I've done some freelancing for Paizo to fill what time I'd devote otherwise), but you guys need to do something different or you're not going to get the same interest from non-staff writers, and you'll potentially cripple the introduction of new folks into the writing pool by removing a nice avenue to getting your name out there and getting cool stuff published.

Mind you, if you ever need something on Planescape or its associated topical areas, I'd be keen to know and contribute.