Patreon Content Patch Notes (Patreon)

Hello dearest UC Patrons!

As you may have seen/heard in our Arc 7 Trailer (which I recommend checking out if you haven't already), we are approaching one year of Unprepared Casters! We never would have dreamed the podcast would reach the heights it has back when we started, and have been floored by the support from day one. We owe this anniversary to you all and your incredible support. It's a lot of work to make this show and make it good, and you make it possible.

As we move into our second year and seventh arc, we are making a couple adjustments to our regular Patreon content that we wanted to update you on.

DISCORD – We've made some light structural changes to our community Discord to make it easier to navigate and more clearly define where spoilery discussions can happen, as well as add a "Love List" channel to share compliments and shout-outs. These changes are minor, so this is mostly just an excuse to encourage you to join our Discord if you haven't already! It's a wonderful place to discuss our podcast with fellow community members, and far and away the most accessible way to interact with Haley, myself, and our dear guests. Even if you're a nervous lurker like myself, the weekly listening parties, fan art, memes, and more are wonderful sights to behold. And who knows, you may be able to find a D&D game of your own in there as well!

CHARACTER SHEETS – Providing more in-depth statistics and information on our characters has been an important Patreon perk that I personally love to share. However, it's caused many frustrations from a production standpoint – our guests (understandably) use different methods of tracking their characters, and using D&D Beyond to standardize sheets for patrons has caused consistent issues due to bugs, paywalls, and more. Therefore, to make things easier on our guests, we will no longer be providing D&D Beyond share links for character sheets. To make up for this, I have redesigned the display versions of the character sheets so that they are easier to read and provide more information. Hopefully this solution makes it so that it's easier than ever to quickly access all the crunchy information you need about your favorite characters, and any information that's not on the sheets can be supplemented by our conversations on the podcast and in the Discord.

THE VERBAL COMPONENT –  Episode 0s have always been tricky for our talkback show, since there's no D&D gameplay for us to talk about. For Arcs 2-6, Haley and I sat down for a patron-submitted Q&A session for our E0 TVCs. However, we also have another issue with Episode 0s, which is my and Haley's need to discuss our thoughts about the arc that just ended, from the perspectives of DM, player, cohost, and friend. Doing this at the top of Episode 0s is awkward and rushed, and could scare away new listeners who want to avoid spoilers. So starting with A7E0, we'll use the Episode 0 TVCs as Previous Arc Postmortems, giving us more time to talk through things in depth and make sure that the main feed episodes stay focused on the future. We are also making the Previous Arc Postmortems available to the public, so that everyone can still gain our big-picture insights as we continue to experiment and explore in the space of this podcast.

Thank you all so much once again for your astonishing support. We love you more than words can express. Here's to Year 2!!!

-Gus