Rebuilding Patreon a Bit

The tier as written.

I am making some changes to my Patreon, which might lose me some supporters but I hope not.  I am officially taking down the tier for the trade tables and the tier for the maps.  Both are still available for the same coin that they were before, $10 for the tables and $20 for the maps, but I haven't updated either for a time and I don't see myself doing any work on either in the near future.  I have had some complaints about not doing updates, and some of those angry.

This is a good time for me to make these changes, so I've gone ahead and done so.  In their place I have added one tier for the wiki, reflecting the post I wrote on April 5th.  While my wiki is free, I am giving specific supporters the option of requesting specific posts on specific subjects, so long as those subjects are things that I'm also interested in writing.  Obviously, I'm not interested in making rules for 3e, 4e or 5e.

There is so much potential material for D&D, and so many base subjects that can be endlessly expanded, I feel this is still a wide enough range of topics to interest my readers.  There are hundreds of things I am interested in writing about, that I may not get to for years and years.  This is the readers' chance to have me address these things this month.

After April 3rd, I only had three persons step forward to make a request.  All seemed satisfied with the results.  I could not make a wiki page for Pandred's requests about spell research, because frankly there are just too many options open on the subject, and it is hard to make a direction page for spells that don't actually exist except in the player's mind.  But I'm sure Pandred was satisfied.

As such, I don't expect to be swamped.  If I am, I expect I'll be able to make arrangements for content extending past the end of May, while limiting the number of requests per month or raising the fee.  But I see that as a ridiculous notion at the moment.  Supporters, so far, just haven't shown any interest in this.

And if anyone sees some error in the description of the tier as shown, please give me a poke and let me know.  I don't have an editor and occasionally I need a day or two of looking at it again before noticing that I've spelt "can't" with a "u."

I guess that's pretty simple.

Basically, I want to give something for those people who support me, and for the most part I can never think of what.  I don't draw maps, I don't make adventures, I don't sell cups and t-shirts, I'm a writer and I do most of that for free.  RedMoon offers a bonus podcast where they answer your question for $1, and early access to raw content for $10.  I write all my content online raw and publish it for free as soon as I come to the end of the post.  Most everything else is so raw its gobbledegook until I'm ready to publish it for free on the blog.  And I'm always ready to answer anyone's question.

Storybrewers offers designer notes (I don't write notes, I just design), plus art (I'm not an artist), plus free games.

The Esoteric Order of Roleplayers will give you a shout out on their podcast for $2, and a thanks for $5.  Doesn't seem like a good deal.

RPGtoons will let you chat with them for $3 through Discord (I can't get people to chat with me for free on facebook), and Quest Packs for $6.  I have no certain idea what a Quest Pack is, but I'm sure I'm not interested in making them.  For $40 you can join the bi-monthly Forgotten God campaign run on Discord.

I guess I should finally find out what Discord is, huh?

Here's what I can do.  For free, I'll just let the reader know there will be a third follow up to the DMing Fundamentals posts I've just written.  Just letting the second one sink in.

Keep in touch.