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4 years ago ::
Aug 15, 2005 - 11:43AM
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Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't been very active here in the last month or so. Busy, busy, busy! :) So anyway, Dragon needs you! By the end of Gen Con (so, by Monday the 22nd of August, which is a week away) we would like to see some Mystara-related article queries/proposals. Send them to Jason Bulmahn at dragon@paizo.com and make sure to put "MYSTARA" (in all caps) as the first word of the subject line (else they might get lost in the shuffle). Keep in mind, as you think up ideas to send in, that you will have less than a month in which to write the article. So don't bite off more than you can chew in your proposal. Also, while the article should be intimately tied to Mystara it should have at least a little appeal to non-Mystara fans. Other than those guidelines it's pretty much open to whatever you might want to do. If you have any question about the query and submissions process check out our writers guidelines and feel free to post here (I'll check this thread once or twice every day this week). Oh, and don't bother querying for specific articles like Ecology, Spellcraft, or Bazaar of the Bizarre. We're talking features here. :)
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4 years ago ::
Aug 15, 2005 - 3:18PM
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sweet, get busy people - you know who I writing to, everyone
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4 years ago ::
Aug 16, 2005 - 6:46AM
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Mike,
Are you guys looking for monsters? ;)
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4 years ago ::
Aug 16, 2005 - 9:08AM
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yeah yeah, are ya are ya? me and shade are itching to get something printed. :D there are probably more unconverted Mystara monsters than from any other world...
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4 years ago ::
Aug 16, 2005 - 6:48PM
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Mike,
a question which I can't find a clear answer to in the guidelines. Can you propose an article that is already on public forum or website like the Vaults of Pandius? The guidelines say
Do not submit any manuscript simultaneously to DRAGON and to any other magazine, website, or d20 publisher.
but I don't know if putting something onto a public forum which is then put onto a website counts.
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4 years ago ::
Aug 16, 2005 - 7:41PM
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i think the policy is not to print something that is already on the web, at least not verbatim. if you posted an article on VoP, you would probably have to rewrite it for Dragon (and even then, it might be too similar).
for conversions, monsters that we have on the Creature Catalog site for example, we would have to reconvert and rewrite the flavor text. it's got something to do with copyright issues, and i don't even question it. ;)
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4 years ago ::
Aug 16, 2005 - 7:46PM
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i think the policy is not to print something that is already on the web, at least not verbatim. if you posted an article on VoP, you would probably have to rewrite it for Dragon (and even then, it might be too similar).
for conversions, monsters that we have on the Creature Catalog site for example, we would have to reconvert and rewrite the flavor text. it's got something to do with copyright issues, and i don't even question it. ;)
reconvert the monster, would you expect it to be different? Are the conversions on the Creature Catalogue site wrong? :D
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4 years ago ::
Aug 16, 2005 - 9:44PM
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there's nothing wrong with them at all. ;) at least the 3.5 ones; the 3.0 ones are just in need of an update. :)
the problem is that the conversions are copyright owned by Scott Greene. and other sites that post similar things also have copyrights on their content. for that and other reasons, Paizo needs to take a zero tolerance outlook on reusing things that have already been posted on the internet. even if Scott says he wouldn't sue Paizo for using our conversions, there is no guarantee that another site would not. thus, i'd have to redo conversions from the Creature Catalog site from scratch that i did in the first place if i want to see them printed. :)
someone from Paizo or WotC could probably explain all that better and more correclty than i can.
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4 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2005 - 7:51AM
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yeah yeah, are ya are ya? me and shade are itching to get something printed. :D there are probably more unconverted Mystara monsters than from any other world...[/quote]
I don't know if we're specifically looking for monsters, but on the other hand I'm not sure we're uninterested in seeing monster conversions. I've heard rumor that we're already running several monster articles in that issue, but I don't know if that means we wouldn't run more. All I can say is shoot a query to Jason (following the guidelines of my first post) and see what he says. :) Even if he doesn't accept the monster query for the Campaign Classics issue he might be interested in it for another issue later. I'm honestly unsure.
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4 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2005 - 7:54AM
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i think the policy is not to print something that is already on the web, at least not verbatim. if you posted an article on VoP, you would probably have to rewrite it for Dragon (and even then, it might be too similar).
for conversions, monsters that we have on the Creature Catalog site for example, we would have to reconvert and rewrite the flavor text. it's got something to do with copyright issues, and i don't even question it. ;)
This is all correct. Paizo buys full rights to our articles, which we can't do if it's already been published. (Don't ask me about the "Knights v. Samurai" article.) If you want to send in something that's already on the Vaults of Pandius you'll need to do enough of a rewrite to make it unsimilar enough that people don't recognize it as the same article. If that makes sense.
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