Article Fields

Articles are, essentially, a table of contents for the magazine (including any author names and short summaries). All articles for the issue should be included though possibly eliminating recurring columns like the fan mail bag, etc. To add a new Article to an existing Issue, navigate to the Issue and you will see an Add Article hyperlink above the list of articles already in for that issue. The summary of articles will show at the parent [issue] level. We show the page number, the article title and the first 120 characters of the article description.

An article has the following fields:

Name
The title of the article. If you are dealing with a column that has both a "recurring title" and a "episode title", add both of them, separated by a colon: recurring title: episode title. For example, for some period Dungeon Magazine included a column called Critical Threats (the recurring title). For Dungeon #106, the contribution in this column was called Evard - Debased Information Broker (the episode title). So, this article gets the name Critical Threats: Evard - Debased Information Broker in our database.

Description
A short description of the article. If the Table of Contents of the periodical includes small 'blurbs' for each article, you should use these for the description. If no such blurb is available, we suggest you start the description with the following:

• For an adventure (or module, or scenario) - List the # of players, the levels (if any) and general theme. Example: "Short fantasy adventure adventure for 2-5 players lasting 3 hours".
• For an article, editorial or story - Mention the author and what it's about. Example: "Gary Gygax takes a look at how the Paladin summons his mount"
• For a review - Mention the product being reviewed by name. Example: "Review of Mouseguard RPG by Jan Smith"

If can of course elaborate on the description, but since the first 120 characters are displayed in the summary, we like you to list this short description first.

Start Page No.
The page of the issue on which the article starts. If the issue does not use page numbers, this is not required.

Article Index
The position of the article in the issue. The first article gets Article Index 1, the second article gets Article Index 2, etc. This is used to sort the articles.

Author
The author(s) of the article. Artists/Cartographers do not get listed. See the section on [designers] [artists] and [production staff] on the main page for more information on adding persons to the database.

Category
A categorisation of the article. Select the most appropriate option:

• Adventure
• Article
• Comic
• Editorial
• Fiction
• Maps
• News
• Reader/Fan Mail
• Review
• Setting

If the article matches none of the other categories, it should probably belong in the generic Article category.

RPG Item, RPG Series, RPG Setting
Links to any RPG Items that this article expands, requires or reviews, as well as links to any series or setting it relates to.

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