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Coming Changes to Bonus Action Patreon - 2023
🕑 Added 2022-10-27 14:31:47 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
First of all I'd like to thank you for your patronage!
As I've already announced over on discord and back in august in this post. I've been planning on making some changes to the patreon to make sure Bonus Action can remain providing great content but also thrive! As I've created content over the years, the types and amount of content has expanded a lot and it all has been sort of dropped into different tiers, making it kind of hard to find out what you get at which tier. I hope these changes will also make that more clear and put everything at a fair pricepoint.
It has taken me a while to figure it all out but I think I've settled on the tiers you can see in the image of this post. I'll try to explain a bit here what will happen below. Again, these changes are planned for january 2023 (and not set in stone, so let me know what you think!). For 2022, the current model will stay the same for existing patrons, and you will get the same rewards.
Monthly rewards and archives. I've shifted to a monthly model at the lowest tier, where all the cards (digital and print and play) as well as item artwork can be acquired that are made in that month. A set of 100 'starter adventuring' items will give you a good base of items and every month a different volume of Relics of the Realms (a set of 52 items, both cards and pages) will be made available at this tier. Higher tier patrons gain access to complete archives of this content. I feel and hope this better reflects the amount of content you get for the price you're paying, but also makes it much easier for me to upload and update downloads. (Leaving me with more time to actually create content)
Collections, Supplements and New rewards. In the coming months I'm planning on making some more compiled pdfs and sets of content so you don't have to download so many single page pdfs. A creature book, a trap book and a book of random tables would be great. New additions will be added to these books so you can just download the new one and delete a previous edition. Like a few other changes, this will make the master index significantly easier to navigate so you can find and download what you need.
$2,- Tier. After long consideration, I've decided that the 2 dollar tier will be archived. This tier will already be archived this week. So no new patrons can subscribe at this level. If you are a $2,- patron at this moment, you will still get the rewards for the remaining months of the year. After that, you will be able to upgrade to 5,- dollar, or remain supporting me at $2,-. The rewards will be archived when the changes go through, so make sure you download everything before that moment. If you are a patron at this level, I'm considering to create a reward or download as a special thanks for supporting me at this tier, open to suggestions!
General Tier Shift. Because of the archiving of the 2,- tier, every tier name/color will get shifted, so you'll get a new tier name but your pledge will remain the same. e.g. if you are currently at Platinum 10,- tier, you will become a Gold 10,- tier.
Sea of Starlight Access. If you have access to the Sea of Starlight through your 5,- Gold tier membership on the 30th of december 2022, you will keep access as long as you remain a patron at this level (or higher).
Lifetime Sea of Starlight Access. If you currently are a patron of mine and have pledged over 300,- dollars in total (lifetime pledge) at the 30th of december, I will add you to the list of Lifetime access to the Sea of Starlight. This is a special reward for those people who have supported me throughout it all for so long. You definitely deserve it!
Questions? Remarks? Ideas? I'll be very honest that these (big) changes to my patreon are very scary for me, because honestly this is a part of my livelihood and I'm afraid of losing your support. So please give me all your feedback! I'm very curious about your thoughts and feelings (Especially if you are a patron of mine!)
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Bonus Action
Hey Ondrej, I think you got it yes! As long as you remain a patron, you'll have access to the Sea of Starlight. Just download the latest packs in december and grab all the releases every month and you should be good! The pdf pages will no longer be released at the 5,- tier, those will go to the 15,- tier. (except for new volumes of relics of the realms which will also be posted at Gold as the monthly edition.)
Ondřej Slezáček
Hi, I think you already answered this to Steven above, but just to check if I understand correctly - I am currently at Gold tier, which means that if need to keep the financial level - I will still continue having access to Sea of Starlight (as I plan to ride this subscription level out) and I will be getting the card updates every month - just need to pay attention to download the last master-file in December to have all the past releases. Correct? Thanks and good luck in the new model!
Bonus Action
Hey Steven, that would be correct, however, if you download the complete packs before the changes you will still have all the past cards as well. This is why I’m delaying these updates until 2023. (New) patrons can also subscribe 1 month at the 15,- tier to download the archive(s) as a one time download, and then go back to 5,- just to get the monthly new additions.
I am on the $5 tier now precisely because I can access all the current and past item cards. Am I reading this correctly to keep that access, I would have to go up to the $15 tier? If so, I would likely drop my subscription as well.
