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PrintableHeroes Community Chat (Patreon)

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2016-09-28 22:57:29
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Hey Everyone! 

September has been a busy month and I have been blown away by all of the new faces! (You guys didn't even give me a chance to finish the Demogorgon before we hit $600! You all are amazing!)

So I just wanted to take a moment to welcome all of the new patrons and to check in with everyone to make  sure I'm aligning my resources correctly to live up to everyone's expectations :)

To that end, a couple questions for all you fine folks:

What brought you to PrintableHeroes? What were you most excited about?

What are you most looking forward to? Is there anything specific you'd love to see PrintableHeroes do?

Does anyone ever use the VTT tokens? - I'm considering dropping these as a reward and re-investing that time else where, but I'll totally continue doing them if people do find them useful.

Bonus Points for any other feedback, comments, questions, or concerns you may have :)

Thanks everyone!

-Marshall

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Nina Fjord

Just subscribed today. I saw a post about you on one of the DnD subs on Reddit. I love the artstyle and I've really been craving some miniatures that arent just lego blocks and beer bottle tops. I guess I'm mostly excited to see a bunch of monsters here. That way I can throw them at my players and avoid above miniature options. Being new I don't actually know what the VTT tokens are for, sorry to be of no help. Any other feedback: Keep on being rad!

Ian Nusbaum

Signed up the other day. I was actually looking at getting the worldworksgames paper minis, but I think they went under? Either way, i was looking for alternatives and found your stuff, which is hands down the best on the market. I have been toying with using VTT, but now that i have decent printable minis, i no longer see the need

knowerofthings

I first saw your paper minis in April and started supporting it through Patreon two months ago. I'm a big fan! I like your style and the variety of hero and villain minis. I would love to see some gnolls or hobgoblins in the future! I originally found your site because I was looking for VTT tokens. I personally enjoy the VTT tokens you've premade, though it's not too hard to just grab the images from the .pdfs themselves so it's not a big deal you find it takes too much effort to create the VTT tokens. I've found your minis work fantastic with isometric-style maps online. They help create an atmosphere portrait based round tokens can't quite capture. Here's just an example of some of your tokens in play online! <a href="http://imgur.com/a/x4W7N" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://imgur.com/a/x4W7N</a>

Scott Baird

Just getting back into D&D with my kids (12 and 17), sold all my stuff about 15 years ago, and needed an inexpensive way to get back into the game... You do amazing work, and we all love bringing you artwork to our table.... Thank you so much!!! One thing that I would love to see is having more of the minis in your collection on one page... I don't have photoshop to combine various collections together on one printed page... For example, having Patrons be able to print all of your Kobolds, Orcs, or Heros on one page would be awesome for those who want to print on photo paper or card stock... Downloading and organizing dozens of files can be tedious... Otherwise, you are doing amazing work, and me and my daughters are looking forward to seeing what you create next!!! Cheers, Scott

Brittany

What brought you to PrintableHeroes? What were you most excited about? - I was looking for printable minis to use with my gaming group (new gamers and new DM here) and found you that way. :) I'm most excited about your releases every month. ;) What are you most looking forward to? Is there anything specific you'd love to see PrintableHeroes do? - I'd love to see more of the creatures in the monster manual. I know that might be a tall order, and maybe unreasonable since that's copyrighted material, but at this stage in my DMing career I'm not really homebrewing monsters and pretty much taking them raw from the MM. It would also be cool if, as a PDF, there were layers added in for the different minis you publish that makes it easier for users to add variety color wise, especially if using mobs of the same creature. Again, might be a tall order, and something I consider a wish list item versus a /need/. :) Overall I feel pretty satisfied with what you release. Does anyone ever use the VTT tokens? - I'm considering dropping these as a reward and re-investing that time else where, but I'll totally continue doing them if people do find them useful. - I don't use a VTT right now but if I ever wanted to use your minis for one, I'm confident enough in my own GIMP abilities to make tokens out of them using a PDF.

MisterCheesy

Most looking forward to... I'd love to see more (and desparately need) bulk/horde creatures, like vikings, lizardmen, kobolds, zombies. Print and play is the best for the bulk stuff. Also, more commoners/extras like shopkeepers, blacksmiths,children, merchants. -I don't use the VTT tokens, yet. Like Tiffany, I could make them myself if needed.

Grant Anderson

Great minis is what brought me here. Love the ideas that come out and the awesome quality of the minis. Actually busy using a lot of them in a D&D coloring/activity book my 5 year-old daughter and I are building together :) I'm looking for some specific figures right now for the group I'm running: Dragonborn Paladin with full plate (no helmet), Human fight with full plate (no helmet), female cleric of Selune, Drow rogue, Female ranger, ex-Flaming Fist military :)

Pat

1 - I forget exactly what brought me here (it was about a year ago by now) but it was either a google search or deviantart browse for paper minis. What made me follow and support your work was the variety. Many other paper mini makers, even some at Paizo, will make one goblin mini and copy it across a page and say, "Twelve goblin minis!" while here I was getting unique faces for each one. When you started doing the "color-your-own" figures, I upped my pledge instantly. 2 - I liked when you did a few off-fantasy minis. The Star Wars ones spring to mind right away. As a part-time Shadowrun player, there is a very small selection of art usable as minis. A few sci-fi or superhero minis now and again would make me happy. = ) 3 - I haven't played on VTT yet. 4 - Congrats on your growing following!

Tintenteufel

Paperminis are great, I really like your style and the wide approach you seem to take. With "wide approach" I mean: not strictly Pathfinder and not strictly DnD 5E. I would love more dwarves and giants! I would love, love some Tome of Beasts-goodness!! I would love, love, love premade VTT tokens for Roll20 and my upcoming SKT-campaign. Where can I find the already existing VTT tokens?

WIlliam Shaw

1. I stumbled onto your work and was immediately in love. I love the variety and level of detail in every mini. 2. I'd really like to see some more of the basic monsters. 3. VTT minis look super sweet and are great to use! 4. Is it possible to "commission" or request a specific race/class combo?

Michael Waldorf

1) I found some of your miniatures browsing tumblr and found that I loved the style. 2) I would love to see some of the lesser done/variant's (genasi, deep gnomes) 3) i don't currently mostly because my groups are local. 4) are you going to do a spooky something for halloween?

Michael Devoe

1. A reddit post brought me to your site 2. Selfishly I'm running Storm King's Thunder and would love more of the characters/monsters from that 2a. More sets like the Goblin set, lots of different classes/poses of the same mosnter 3. Don't use VTT 4. I'm a big fan of your work, glad I've found this resource.

Nina Fjord

I commented above, but I thought of some feedback. You should add more goals. I personally love seeing that little counter tick up and I know for some people it's the first thing they check on a Patreon page. I think constantly having 3 or 4 unmet goals would be really cool. They don't have to be every 200 dollars or even huge things. Stuff like "I'll revisit this specific old set" or "I'll do 5 zombies and 5 skeletons" would work too.

Andrew Thomas

1. Reddit brought me here. 2. I think what i would want would be a general mini of every character race. They don't have to have weapons or specific armor. Otherwise you would need to draw a bazillion versions of each race with each class. 3. I don't use the VTT 4. I'm loving the work that you do and I especially love the more epic monsters (ie dragon)

Alex

1. Reddit's /r/dnd. 2. Agree with Andrew Thomas above. I'd love to see each class/race combo. Someday maybe even a monster manual A-Z :P 3. I don't personally use them. 4. Would love to see some sort of 2.5d figures, similar to those of other artists that you've shared. I absolutely love the way you do the new .PDFs with the cycling-on-click. If time ever permits, it'd be nice to get the older models rendered into PDFs similar to these new ones, along with black borders. Finally, your work's incredible, thank you!

Jack

1. Looking for minis, but this is much more affordable. 2. Druids. Lots of druids. 3. If druids :)

Teddy Heitz

1. I also was brought here from reddits /r/ dnd

Teddy Heitz

2. right now I'm looking for a rakasha 3. I haven't used the tokens I usually attach them to binder clips instead

TearableMonsters

I've been involved with the papercraft gaming community and paper miniatures for a few years now and had an admiring eye on your fantastic artwork for quite awhile but once you started putting back views on your minis they really got my attention. I'm happy to be a supporter and can't wait to see what you come up with in the future! Love the reskins and recolors, and my kids who I DM for, (8 & 10) love seeing what minis I pull out from behind my screen. I can't wait to see the look on their faces when I plop down the Giants or the demigorgon.

Alex Selador

1. Came here when I was intrigued by your art. Papercraft actually works almost better than 3D models in pen and paper roleplay. So much more handy. 2. I want more underdark creatures (obviously since I am doing the Out of the Abyss campaign), but also, as mentioned before, look forward to seeing the 4 core elementals and more :) 3. I think you should drop the VTT until the need for it grow even more and you find more time. Focus on the majority needs. 4. Moar epic bosses!

Javier Tellez

I saw you on Tumblr when you were just starting and been fallowing ever sence, and since use Roll20 for all my games so 3D minis are useless, and is hard to find good 2D tokens on Google images. I been looking forward to more PC tokens, of all the normal classes, races, and genders, so I can give more options to my players and make interesting NPC with a token to go along with them, and that's what i been using the VTT tokens for, sometimes they look different enough that they can pass as NPCs or PC tokens.

MNBlockhead

1. I support a number of other TTRPG-related creators on Patreon (DMScotty, EN5ider, Forge Studios) and you came up as a recommended creator. I already use a lot of paper miniatures and terrain from One Monk Miniatures, Fat Dragon Games, and others, so I was excited to find a creator of quality paper minis on Patreon. 2. I'm most excited about having quality paper minis "come to me" on a regular basis and gradually build up my collection, while also having access to your back-catalog. I would, however, really like to have cut files for all the minis. I use a Silhouette paper cutter to create large numbers of perfectly cut minis and terrain. I can create the cut files myself, but it is not something I enjoy, and would happily increase my support level to have cut files included. Cut files are far more desirable to me than alternate skins for the minis. 3. No. And if I did, I would want more pog-like circles for VTT battlemaps. Just doesn't seem like your core offering. I think it would be far more useful to paper-miniature customers to have cut files for the products they came to you for than additional items for an entirely different media. 4. If you don't use cutting machinese yourself and are not equipped to make cut files, perhaps you could make a forum available where fans can post cut files they made for your minis. Fat Dragon Games is one example of a paper terrain creator that does this.

Allen Burnett

1, A friend of mine told me about your minis and I was excited to have a cost effective set of minis that have really nice art. 2. I am looking forward to seeing what comes out next. I would love to see a few things: 1) different gender versions of the giants to use with STK. I honestly would like to see worgs, dire wolves, and other creatures, as I have had to use other paper minis and I don't like the art style. I would prefer to just use you and trash mob. 3. I love the vtt tokens. I just started doing a second game on roll20 and would love to have equivalent virtual minis to use. But if they take too many resources away from getting more minis I would rather you focus on doing more minis.

Elmo K44

1. Looking for minis a few yeas back and came across your tumblr. 2. I'd love to see more variants on the Mind Flayer & Body Tamer Illithid you did since their my favorite monster as well some larger variant Beholders with a mix different body and skin types. 3.I don't really use them I prefer in person when playing D&D. 4. I liked the old way of getting the minis instead of the select type in pdf ones released the last few times even though it is more convenient. I don't own a printer and go to a print stores near my place as well as sometimes I'll combine some minis to get more on a page when I print to save on costs.

Brett Lee

1. Love the art style and ease of use 2. I'd love to see some mounted humanoids (knights, barbarian raiders, mounted patrols etc. on riding horses, warhorses and/or other riding beasts - goblins on worgs??). Actually just a lot of humanoids - elves, hobgoblins, orcs, vampires and the like. 3. My group is all tabletop, so my preference is print all the way! 4. I preferred the old style as well, since interactive PDFs can be finicky with non-Acrobat readers Keep up the fabulous work!

PrintableHeroes

I do need to try my hand at some mounted minis, gonna have to think on the best way to approach it. I'm hoping to pick up the pace on getting some more humanoids created. For the PDFs have you tried Adobe Reader? It's a free download and should work with interactive PDFs. I'm hesitant to move away from my latest PDF format as it's the most condensed way I've found to handle optional borders and multiple color options. But if there's something I can possibly improved I'm open to looking into it. Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the feedback!

Elmo K44

I don't know how to reply on here so I'm making another post. I usually just load the pdf in photoshop then select and copy to make multiples of a mini on the page. The individual mini PNG files would be helpful.

Laurie K

1. I am excited about the prospect of high-quality, stylish paper miniatures. 2. I'm looking forward to a male elf wizard for one of my players. 3. I don't use the VTT tokens. 4. I find it really difficult to neatly cut the round bases out. Is it possible to have rectangular ones?

Jeffrey George

I've already posted about how I found Printable Heroes, etc., but I did want to say that personally, the VTT tokens aren't very useful--I'm using your minis on tabletop maps. I'd guess that the overlap between VTT users and physical miniature users is pretty small--they're two very distinct styles of play, and probably very separate markets. That's not to say there isn't a market for VTT tokens--just that they probably don't add much value for people subscribing for printable paper minis.

Rod Salm

Great work. More pirates needed. I'm a little biased as I have a pirate campaign going. :)

Skjalg Kreutzer

Hey, brand spanking new patron here. I found this project through a simple Google search for "paper minis." I've only just begun my journey into the world of printable paper minis, and I have to say your work here is the absolute best, even better than Paizos own paper minis. I am in love and awe. As for what minis I would like to see in the future.. I'm a huge fan of Cerulean Seas, and I would absolutely just die of joy if you did some aquatic minis.

Guillaume Ries

Hello ! To answer your questions, no i don't think tokens are useful. What i' am looking for ? I like all you did so far but it's too bad old files don't get bold outline like last ones (would it be possible to remake the files with the same color and bold system you use now ?) I think it lack choice as heroes, all class are not there. One more suggestions, maybe you'll need a package with ALL the files (one for each tier) since the beginning as it is long to search for all the files to download.

VC

Hi! I was looking for paper minis which I like, and yours are absolutely amazing, cannot wait to make them! You are my first pledge on patreon ever. As for requests - I would really like some viking/frozen themed monsters and NPCS, as I am currently running a Hellfrost (Savage Worlds system) campaign, Aslo, is there a way I can access patreon's versions of free miniatures?

Ben Howe

I would love to see some more Drow pc classes