Apocryphal Information - Writers and Artists Guidelines

We've only got a few simple guidelines:

All submissions (except for reviews and feature articles) must be as generic as possible. They should be specific to no particular game system (especially TSR systems), but should be easily translatable to any system. In the Features section you can find an article on Envoy created by Peter Adkison of Wizards of the Coast, that was originally published by Steve Jackson Games in issue #3 of Pyramid. Please use those standards for creating entities for Apocrypha.

If you write an article, monster, item, etc. for a specific gaming system (which can not be any TSR system), make sure you follow the publisher's copyright requirement. Many of them allow you to publish as long as you acknowledge their copyright.

Spell check all documents and use good grammar and writing style. If you are unsure of what this means, buy Strunk and White's Elements of Style. It should be available in most bookstores and all college stores.

Reviews must be more than "this game sucks" or "this is a great supplement." Explain why it is good or bad, what it adds to the gaming experience, how it could be used by GM's or players, how you used it, etc.

All submissions will be by electronic mail. E-mail all submissions to me (alesh@pobox.com) either in plain text or uuencoded Microsoft Word of Windows compatible documents. Artwork should be scanned (if hand drawn) or created on the computer, uuencoded and then e-mailed to me. If you do not have access to a scanner or encoding software, send me an e-mail describing both your difficulty and a description of what you want to submit and we will work something out.

All the following are needed:

I will respond within two weeks to any submission. If you have any questions, please e-mail me.

To download an ASCII version of the guidelines, click here (2.5K).

I look forward to hearing from you!