Tribes, Loyalty Rewards, Patreon ...

Dear Patrons!

FYI not everything is ready to go just yet for all Tribes subscription tiers. Emmanuel is waiting on MMF to finish their part and provide him access to set it up. This post was to let you know what the general plan is, but some of the details (such as instructions for how best to subscribe on Tribes and cancel on Patreon) will be coming very soon. Emmanuel will be providing updates to this post as we have more details to share.

I wanted to thank you for following me during the past two years, even after Patreon raised the taxes that you pay. You have allowed me to make a living from my passion during this time, and that means so much to me.

I want to do so much for all of you to show my appreciation, but the amount of time I have to spend dealing with inefficiencies between Patreon and MMF is excessive, and it doesn't allow me to grow like I want. I know many of you have frustrations and limitations with Patreon, and I hope you understand that Patreon is even more difficult and time consuming for me as an artist. 

With Tribes on MMF I can take advantage of most of the menial tasks being automated so that I can focus much more on creating great sculpts for you. From earlier polls I understand you are looking for unique monsters, and now with Rob helping me to write about the creatures and give you stat blocks for each set I can finally give you what you really want. For the past couple of releases we started with more classical monsters to test out working with each other, but now we are ready to move forward together and give you some really unique and crazy monsters and provide the stat blocks, descriptions and background information to help bring these sets alive at your gaming table.

Tribes has several benefits over Patreon: 

- Automatically have your files in your library! With Patreon I have to collect the list of subscribers each month and have MMF load them, which sometimes leads to accounts not getting updated properly. It is also the reason some of the past releases haven't been loaded properly to your MMF accounts yet. I apologize for this issue, but it is out of my hands. Tribes solves this problem for all of us. 

- No need to download the current release by the end of the month...it's always available in your library to download when you want 

- Loyalty rewards and anything else I do in the future (perhaps stretch goals) will also be automatic

- If there are any future updates to past releases I can make those updates and they will automatically be updated in your account (fixes for supports, a missing piece, or even enhancements to past releases as 3D printers continue to improve). 

- More flexibility to provide better layouts so you can easily see the current release

- MMF is centered around the 3D printing community, so they will be listening to our feedback and adding new features to improve our quality of life...both for the artist and the subscribers (modifié)

Here is what I am planning to do with Tribes: 

- I am going to provide a single subscription tier ($7.90 early bird pricing for the first 1000) and I am giving all of you the first chance to pledge before anyone else knows about it. Those that are currently Monster Trainer subscribers will now get supported releases for the same price, and those that are currently Monster Master subscribers will get the same for a cheaper price. I am also looking at ways of expanding the welcome package to offer more to you.

- I already have a subscription tier for the Fantastic Plants & Rocks product line at $3.90. 

- I am going to provide a single merchant subscription tier ($25 early bird pricing for the first 200). Those that are currently subscribed at the $25 and the $35 tiers will get both Print Your Monsters and Fantastic Plants & Rocks product lines for $25.

I hope you understand how this will benefit us, and invite you to ask any questions you might have in the comments below. I look forward to building this community in Tribes, and I hope you will join us there.

Emmanuel and Rob