Patreon Launch Lookback (Patreon)

Hello everybody!First off, let me say I am enormously grateful for your support, for your enthusiasm, and for your eyeballs. It's super weird to make stuff and just assume people will like it; every day someone uses my work, or reads it, or even just pays attention and lifts one single idea they think is cool, I am stunned that I get the privilege to work on this.

Second, thank you so much for your actual financial support! If I count the folks on free trials, the launch week gathered 14 patrons for over $50/month. Is that an objectively large amount? No, not particularly, it's a bit more than two arts per year. Does that meet my hopes for launch day? Absolutely yes! I told myself I'd be delighted if it got to 10 patrons in the first week, and it has, as well as the big explosion of activity in the Discord. So I'm delighted. Absent some wild-fluke going-viral nonsense, this was the best launch I could have hoped for.

Third, the next phase of this project is two-fold. For my part, it's keeping the promises I've been making to you and to everyone else in the audience - reliably cranking out spells and subclasses and species, writing novel mechanics and new monsters and all kinds of other awesome stuff. And then the slow-and-steady growth phase; getting my work in front of more folks, attracting them to this Patreon and the Discord and all that good stuff.  That second part is where you can all be helpful; show my work to folks who might like it! And tell me what you would like to get out of Patreon membership - I will add any tier benefits that I can reasonably satisfy. More audience means more happy customers; more dollars means a smoother and faster art pipeline. Right now I'm working on a foundry module for the Troubadour, and some unique player options that'll have a free preview and a bigger patron-locked version.

Most of all, I just want to say I'm incredibly thankful for the support. It means the world to me, and it's so exciting to be part of keeping this hobby and this game vibrant and growing well into the future.