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Dragonroots is in desperate need of your art. If you are a fantasy artist or illustrator we would love to talk to you about your art. We are always on the look out for cover art and illustrations for the interior of the magazine. If you would love to show off your artistic side, send us an inquire at submissions@dragonroots.net
We are not greedy, like other magazines. By submitting, you are allowing Dragon Roots the rights to freely use your art as we see fit. This means for use in our magazine and maybe a future ad, that's it. However, you retain all right to your own work and may sell it other places as you wish. You must, however, disclose that we have rights to print it in our magazine and /or ads.
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Thanks for your interest in writing for Dragon Roots. Writing a magazine is hard work and, as the sub-title implies, we are looking for your articles. While we hope to attract more professional writers for a limited use in the future, we hope to always keep Dragon Roots a gamers magazine written by gamers. That means you.
It is upon you that the future road of the Dragon Roots magazine shall be paved. We want to hear from you and want you to write for the magazine. Anything D&D (3.5 and for the old schoolers even an odd AD&D article or two) is a given and it will be our primary focus. If we get enough interest in other areas, we would be glad to host an article, or even a full magazine, to that end.
If you have an article that you would like to share, please submit it in the main body of the e-mail to submissions@dragonroots.net. We want to get a continuity with each issue, so if you really want a good chance of having your voice heard, send us an inquiry along with a sample of your writing style and we will assign an article to you.
Right now, we can't afford industry leaders and established freelancers to put pen to paper. In fact, we can't afford you either. No one gets a paycheck at Dragon Roots until the magazine is stable. That's right, everyone who has written an article for the magazine so far has done it for love of the game and out of a desire to be apart of something bigger than themselves. Even the cover art was a contribution of a close friend from art school.
While we would be willing to offer a complimentary issue of the magazine for your efforts, until the magazine gets past the crucial first year, we can't offer pay in any form. However, when the magazine does take off, we will be more than happy to back pay all writers and artists for helping get the magazine off the ground.
Don't let the lack of pay be a deterrent from offering you contributions. This is your chance to get in on something on the ground floor. You have a chance to be apart of something great.
If you are looking for ideas for articles submissions, here a few suggestions:
Things like critical hits and fumble charts will always be welcome, I love those. I would love to do Monster Ecologies, but that is not my cup of tea. If you have a firm understanding of ecologies and want to make it your own, here is your chance. I would also love quick little one shot one encounter adventures. Something you could use as a DM for when the PCs want to wonder off the map.
List articles, things like, 100 things you could pick from a peasants pockets. One of the easiest and quickest ways to get in the magazine is to submit a Table Talk article. Table Talk is a short one page article detailing the words spoken around the table on game day. I would eventually love to share some of my fantasy writing, along with yours. New magic items, new uses for skills, new spells, new monsters, articles on how to have fun at the table, handle troublesome players, 101 fun tricks to tease your DM, things like that.
Articles pertaining to the forgotten realms, eberron, Grewhawk, Planescape, Dark Sun, etc., will be welcome additions to the magazine, but they will be printed sparingly since nothing we can print in that regard will be official. Hint, I really love Planescape, send it in.
The magazine is designed for content, not 28 pages of ads and another 28 pages of reviews, so things like reviews, D&D minis, etc are things for the future, but not now. Also, while I love the concept of feats, and they are fun to read, I really think there are too many feats in the game. Simple things that could be covered with variant gaming options are instead turned into complex feats that make no sense and clutter up the PCs limited choices. I will publish some feats, but I would rather see variant rules and options rather than cluttering up the magazine with yet, more feats.
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