Pitches wanted (fantasy RPG) | 10 cents per word

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: SIDEQUEST

Deadline: 15 July 2022

Anto Cerrato, Editor at Sidequest, is looking for pitches:

Hello writers, and welcome to the July Pitch Call for SIDEQUEST magazine.

This newsletter lets you know what I am actively seeking for future issues of SIDEQUEST.

If you have an idea that isn't specifically called for, feel free to send it over unless it's on the "Do not pitch me" list.

Before pitching, please familiarize yourself with the rules for submission over on patreon, and check out the article index to make sure what you are pitching hasn't already been published.

The pitch deadline is Friday, July 15th. After this time I will review all pitches and decide which ones will progress to the outline stage.

DO NOT PITCH ME

• Full Classes or Subclasses (with the exception of those asked for below)
• Repeated material: Please do not submit work you have published elsewhere on the internet, and look over the article index to make sure you're not pitching thematically similar things to previous articles.
• Spells
• Magic Items (other than those listed below)
• Previously rejected pitches. If we are interested in something you have previously pitched and had turned down, we will contact you.

PLEASE PITCH ME

• Horror/Spooky Themed Fantastic Locations: Up to 2,000 words talking about a fantastic location that can be placed into any campaign setting. A evocative name is critical here. No one wants to go to Jim's Tower when they see it on a map. But they will be desperate to go to the Tower of Shattered Time. If your pitch doesn't have an evocative name that immediate grips me, it's unlikely to move to the outline stage. These should be the kind of locations players could get excited by when seeing them on a map. These articles are high-level macro descriptions of locations, not room-by-room encounter based locations. See the attached example to see the kind of thing we're looking for.
• Horror Themed Subclasses: We are looking for monster-hunting themed subclasses that would fit into a "ghostbusters" style party of adventurers focused on fighting creatures of the night. Please do not pitch more than 2 subclasses at a time.
• Magical Flora: We are looking for a collection of magical plants that game masters can use to make their world feel more alive, and players could potentially harvest for spell or potion components. Final entries should be approximately 100 words per plant, and give a description of the plant, it's distinctive features, and its possible magical applications in vague terms (we're looking for things such as "the leaves of the Apter plant are used in divination spells" rather than "this plant grants a +2 bonus to X)
• Monsters: Feel free to pitch monster ideas that meet the criteria specified in the monster template attached.
• "Random" Tables: These can be almost anything, I'm happy to see lists of taverns, NPCs, trinkets in a giant's pocket. The only thing I care about is that they are thematic and interesting!

HOW TO PITCH

Please email your pitches in a separate email with the subject line "SIDEQUEST Pitch, [Pitch Name], [Your Name]". If I like your pitch I will ask you for an outline and we will proceed from there.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

I can't wait to see your pitches.

Kind regards
Anto

CONTACT INFORMATION (please do not share the email address publicly):

• Questions / submissions: info@icarusminiatures.com
• Website: https://www.patreon.com/icarus_games

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: SIDEQUEST is a monthly RPG Magazine filled with content to use for Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition games, as well articles to inspire creativity. The magazine has 3 pillars of content: usable content, advice content, and content to inspire.
• Review the submission guidelines here.
• Check out our collection of pitch excerpts on this page and find more sample pitches at The Open Notebook Database and at SuccessfulPitches.com.
• Do not forget to end your pitch with (1) a short introduction about yourself; (2) a paragraph highlighting your writing experience, relevant credentials and publication credits; and (3) links to your strongest work or portfolio, and online profile.

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