Proposal to Make Maps

In light of today's earlier post, I have a puzzlement.  Some here are familiar with my attempt a couple years ago to apply myself to writing adventures on another blog, "Authentic Adventures," that sat behind a $10 patreon tier.  The motivation to add to the blog refuses to materialise ... so I intend to remove the tier from my patreon before it can mislead others who are hoping I'll continue to write there.  Sorry.  I just cannot get into the traditional production of a "module"-like adventure, no matter how non-module it might present.

The blog isn't going anywhere.  Someday, who knows?  Maybe I'll be hit with a building girder or a really big fish, changing my whole outlook on life.  In the meantime ...

I have an empty tier on patreon without anything in it.  I've wondered what to do with it.  It occurs that the mapmaking has been progressing apace, and that several readers have expressed a direct personal material with the content being presented.  The reader's request, for example, for me to create a map of said area south of Kyiv.

I could make an easy offer of one map section per month per person offering a set donation on my patreon.  This offer would be good for any part of the world that's rendered in 20-mile hexes on this map:

The map is a bit out of date.  I can also manage all of the British Isles and Iceland also.  I can do any part of the world above as easily as the maps I'm making now.

I'm not ready to do places not on this map, though perhaps some kind of negotiation could be arranged for the future.  In any case, a regular contributor could keep adding to an earlier map, expanding and expanding it into a large enough region to run in.

One thing.  I have a fair number of $10 donators, most of whom contribute without anything special in return.  Providing for all these is a good-sized ask ... but doable, given the amount of mapping I've been doing on the map-blog these last two months.  Mostly, it would interrupt the thread of work I've chosen for myself.  I don't believe it would be more work, depending on how many took advantage of the offer.

I do worry about getting more patreon contributors along these lines, however.  I have to think hard before deciding to go ahead.  Asking for a $15 donation instead of $10 is worth considering.

But this post is market research.  Seriously, if this sounds like something you'd want to advantage, you'd better speak up now, before it's too late.  I'm honestly happy to map anywhere, so the change in world-focus shouldn't worry you.  If you've been watching me map the Ukraine and you're not that interested in my mapping Bulgaria and Serbia, which will come next for more than a month, say something.  Make an argument for why it should be $10 and not $15; or make an argument why it should definitely be $15.

And please, raise your hand if you'd use this opportunity to get work done.  My best way of making a decision on this is to know in advance how much commitment I'd be accepting.

I'm listening.