Saturday, September 01, 2001

Submission Guidelines

Last Updated: September 22, 2008

Due to lack of submissions, Fudge Factor proper is on indefinite hiatus. It may return in the future, it may not. But until further notice, it exists only in the form of featured pages in a special section of the Fudge Guide wiki and blog.

So you want to send us something?

That's great! Fudge Factor is nothing more than a name without the efforts and work of people like you. In order to make life easier for the FF staff (and thus to make it easier for your work to be seen), please note the following guidelines.

What we want
  1. We accept written articles as well as art.
  2. All submissions should either relate to Fudge in some way, or be of a non-system specific nature that will still be of use to Fudge gamers.
  3. You must be the legal owner of the work to submit something, and you remain responsible for your work.
  4. All forms of artwork are acceptable - hand drawn, computer generated, computer modified photographs, etc. - as long as it is converted to the proper image format for our use.
  5. Unless you submitted your art with an article, it will be included in another article. The appropriateness of your art for the articles requiring art will greatly affect the acceptance rate. While Fudge Factor may run articles that are collections of art with minimal text, ("Castle Maps through the Ages"), we don't expect to run art as an article.
  6. Material that has already been published (on a personal webpage, for example) is acceptable as long as it is not commonly known and there are no legal issues regarding our republication.
What we don't want
  1. We may run exceptional (in our opinion) fiction, but don't write any assuming you can convince us to run it.
  2. NPCs with background and/or adventure seeds are fine, but we aren't interested in hearing the exploits of your character(s). The more generally useful any such submission is to the average Fudge player, the more likely we are to run it.
  3. All submissions should be appropriate for a general audience. While we have our views on censorship, Fudge Factor strives to appeal to as many as possible while offending as few as possible.
  4. Please do not create a type, column, series, or class for your submission. Such things fragment our content, create an expectation of future material that may not manifest, and the material can usually stand alone on its own right anyway. If you are interested in writing a column or series of articles, please contact us with a detailed proposal before submitting any work.
How we want it
    • Create a page (or pages) in the Projects section of the Fudge Guide. You'll have to create a wiki account if you don't already have one.
    • You may edit your article as often as desired, or ask a Fudge Guide Gardener to help with editing/formatting if you need it. When you're happy with it, add the "fg_article" tag to put it under consideration.
    • Please run your article submissions through a basic spell checker.
    • There is no need to include the "About Fudge" or "Disclaimer" sections as required by the Fudge license -- these sections will be included in Fudge Factor.
    • All submissions (art included) should include a title
    • All submissions should include the author's real name.
    • If article submissions relate to the works of others (NAGS, Gatecrasher, etc) please make that clear in the article.
    • We cannot accept articles based on commercial works that are not _Fudge_ based roleplaying games.
    • Images should be .JPG or .GIF formats, and pre-scaled to fit our issues. We can and will make any scaling to fit, but the closer the original is, the better it will look and the better the odds of acceptance.
    • All graphics must include the artists signature or other defining mark.
    • Bits are free, so we have no enforced minimum or maximum word counts. However, we are still interested in quality material. The average article ranges from 1,000 to 5,000 words. If your count is over or under than, double check to make sure you're saying enough, but not more than enough.
Standards and Practices
  • "Fudge", not "FUDGE"
  • "Roleplaying", not "Role-Playing"
  • "Gamemaster" or "GM", not "Game Master" or "Game-master"
  • "Player Character" or "PC"
What you get
  1. You retain all copyright to your material, but grant Fudge Factor/Fudge Guide perpetual non-exclusive rights to publish your work online and to edit/update it as necessary.
  2. No payment or compensation is available for authors or artists (or staff for that matter). You may gain the awe and respect of your peers, but we aren't promising anything.
What happens next
  1. Depending on the length of the queue (which you can check by searching for the "fg_article" tag), your article may appear the following Monday, or it may take a few more weeks.
  2. When it comes up in the queue, it'll be moved to the Articles section, and be featured in the Fudge Guide Announcement blog.