Post-Campaign (and June) Update! (Patreon)

Phew. Songs of the Spellbound Sea was a fantastic success on Kickstarter, coming in at $84,855. I'm delighted and just so, so excited. The dollars are going to enable some really cool things — and more than the money, I'm thrilled for 1446 people who are excited to get a copy of this book in their hands. If you backed on Kickstarter, thank you so much! You can expect updates through those channels. If you didn't, you can still join via Backerkit, but don't feel any pressure to - this patreon will still be a hub for following along with my work and getting sweet stuff.

Time for a June recap!

Kickstarter! This happened, it was awesome.

Patreon: We added quite a few free followers, and actually lost a fair bit of paid supporters. My guess is these folks backed the book and dropped the patreon at the same time, which is completely fair.

Subclasses:  Just one for last month, the Wanderlust Domain Cleric!

Feats: So Much Miscellany got an update, adding the new feats Ancestral Memory, Chaotic Caster, Quickdraw, and Tactical Adept, as well as the active martial feat Merciless.

Spells: Omega and I continue chugging away on SDS v13. We've made the substantive changes, but are incorporating/testing suggests from the Spellbound Sea editors. This'll also be an occasion for an update to the Foundry mod.

The plan for the rest of July!

Troubadour, Swashbuckler, Bloodrager: All three of these will receive releases with substantial revisions (smallest changes to the Troubadour, biggest changes to the Bloodrager). Right now's the time for substantial tweaks and idea tests, since we're in active playtest mode before locking stuff down for the book.

Subclasses: The Beastsouled Sorcerer won last month's poll, so look forward to it!

Spells: Last month's supporter poll was a spell pack, with a three-way tie between Transformations, Defense, and Machines. I'll probably do 2 from each set, but we'll see!

The plan for Patreon going forward! Honestly, I'm not 100% sure. I think I will start evolving it more towards an exclusive-content model. Not a lot of exclusive content, because I'm still very committed to releasing stuff for free, but a little. Obviously in terms of dollars, Patreon's dwarfed by the success of the Kickstarter (the KS made more money in its first hour than the Patreon has in its lifetime). But consistent, ongoing support is hugely meaningful in terms of maintaining an art pipeline, and long-term it'd be way more sustainable to find ways to grow the Patreon vs. building around an annual-KS model or something. I would love suggestions from supporters about what would be suitable rewards for paid supporters on here - stuff that's worth your time, dollars, and attention and that I can manageably do alongside creating the book.