Submission Guidelines

The View is looking for articles on a variety of topics, as well as original artwork and photographs. In addition to being featured on this website, content will be published Quarterly, in PDF form and a physical magazine form.

Artwork and Photographs should be submitted through this website. We accept .jpg, .gif, and .png files, but please try and keep file sizes below 1 Meg.

Articles are also submitted through the website.

Anyone wishing to submit to The View should create an account on this website, and notify me via email that they wish to be able to submit content.

Submission Deadline is the 1st of a given Month. So, to be in the September issue, you must have your materials in by September 1st.

Articles become the property of The View From Valehaven, but a request to take down or revise the content may be submitted by the original author.

Photographs and Artwork are the property of their individual owners.

Ideas for Articles:

We're looking for articles in any of these subjects:

CONDUCT
Unwritten Realms Etiquette
Attending an Event
Getting There - Ridesharing, Timing, Parking
Basic Survival/Rules to Live by
Safety/First Aid -w/Disclaimer about proper First Aid training
Common Courtsey: Set-Up & Break-Down (site and/or group)
Don't trash the site

CRAFTING
Jewelrymaking
Weaponsmaking
All classes/types
Garbmaking
Basic
Intermediate
Advanced
Cooking
Cheap And Easy
Feast Cooking
Maintenance
Weapons
Garb
Armor
Leather

ECONOMICS
Purchasing
Real World
In-Realms
The Economy in the Realms
Money
Barter
Magic/Stealable Items
"For what it's worth...": Navigating the Trade-Route
(Skills and Services in the Realms)
What works, what doesn't, how to tank your reputation
By not delivering

NEWCOMERS
Character Creation
Starting out
"Hello, my name is..." (Making a name/persona)
Magic
Alternates
Garb
Being a Spellcaster
Suggestions
Components
Creativity
Your Spellbook
Fighting
Learning to Fight
Practices
Fighting Styles
Joining a Group
Like-minded people
Local versus long distance
Positives & Pratfalls
Glossary of Terms

LEADERSHIP
Running a Nation/Group
What is a Group?
Practices/Meetups
Gathering the Flock
Garb, Banners, and Devices
Issuing Currency
Marshalling
Tournaments
Quests
Magic Marshalling
Throwing an Event
Before Anything Else (ie: Are you SURE?)
Acquiring a Site
Co-Event-Holding (ie: Your foot in the door)
Feasts
Tournaments
Quests
Night Quests
Treasure

BACKGROUND
Knighthoods/Groups
Who, what, where, when, why, how, heraldry, history
Fiction
Stories
Player Histories
Historical Accounts (PC's, Old Events, Old Plots)
Interviews
Players
Event Holders, Post-Event "Dead Dog" discussion
Magic Items
Picture, Purpose, Powers, History, Issuer

IMAGERY
Artwork
Drawings, Photographs
Heraldry
Pic of the Week:
Mideval Stuff in Mundane Stores (cam pics!)