Ideas for New Tier Rewards

Allow me to lend my voice to vote for cut files. I would love to have them.

Rachel Reams

I'm starting a new party and one of the members is a penguin sorcerer with a backpack, it would be very nice of you to draw him xD The other members are a rogue elf, a halfling druid and a human warlock, who's desperately fallen in love with a succubus :D

Michelle Werth

Totally! I've been looking into making some scenery in more or less the manner you describe. It serves a double purpose for me as I'm finding I need some more fancy backdrops for the demo pictures I'm making when I release / show off the minis. In general though I think I can handle releasing any props/environments through the Tiers I already have; Free version without backviews, Tier 1 gets backviews, Tier 2 gets art variants, Tier 3 gets recolors options, and Tier 10 getting source PSD files.

PrintableHeroes

I might work my way to 3D paper models, but I'm planning to start out with simple facades and props. At the moment my intention is to release them in the sample manner that I handle normal minis: Free version without backviews, Tier 1 gets backviews, Tier 2 gets art variants, Tier 3 gets recolors options, and Tier 10 getting source PSD files.

PrintableHeroes

Yeah, cut files are coming down the pipe - since I use them anyhow to test print minis I just need to get a good process/format down that will work across multiple cut machines/software.

PrintableHeroes

I like the idea of dungeon dressing props, objects and perhaps some terrain? How about building facades like they used on the fronts of wild west towns? Normally, just a square box of a building but often with a fancy front. How about some simple stand-up items like caryatid columns, fancy entrance ways, piles of barrels or boxes or boulders. You could offer a set of dungeon trappings, a set for the torture chamber, a set for the castle dungeon or a cave system. What figures would I see if I had to stop at a farm for the night? Trees, rocks, a pier, how about some boats large or small? what other set pieces would be fun to have? Just a bunch of stufgf off the top of my head.

Dale Poole

What about 3D paper models like Fat Dragon puts out? Or terrain enhancements and dungeon features?

MNBlockhead

CUT FILES! Beyond that, to be honest, I'm foggy on the current tier levels and what is possible with Patreon. Generally, I'm not interested in recolors and variants. The exception is having multiple poses. I've purchased paper miniatures from One Monk and what I like about his offerings is that (1) cut files come standard and (2) he sells sets that can be used for building armies. These set tend to include a variety of posses so that all the minis in the army are not entirely uniform. Maybe you could partner with Arcknight and make your miniatures available as high-quality 2d plastic miniatures. That might make more sense as a Kickstarter though. I don't know that you would have enough high-level patrons to fund this on an ongoing basis.

MNBlockhead

Simple flames/in different colours, or stars, or even smoke?

DMofDhoom

Essentially miniature "Bling"? Ha, that could be fun. What kind of magical/borders do you have in mind? Might be difficult to do anything too complex since the border shape would change with each mini

PrintableHeroes

For a $5 tier reward, perhaps a custom effect highlight. Having a black border is great but surrounding the mini with magical or custom boarders would be a nice addition.

DMofDhoom

I like the Patron directed route. I agree with the I'd love more quantity, just so i can pepper my maps with multiple enemies sort of things.

Benn Hart

Yeah, I'll reconsider how I've been approaching setting up my source files and look into doing individual weapon/head elements. Not promising anything for it yet, but might be something I could start doing in the future without burning too much extra time.

PrintableHeroes

Yeah, what you describe for the treasure chest/mimic is how i'd probably do it, which i can handle within the tiers I already have; the mimic is a reskin of the chest and would fall under the tier 2+ rewards.

PrintableHeroes

Fair enough. At the moment I think adding a Patron Directed Mini a month tier will be the best of both worlds; more minis for everyone, and those that care to get more involved with the design process have an opportunity to.

PrintableHeroes

Alternate color borders would be neat. It would be cool to make a boss monster's outline red or another color. I also feel, if more obscure races (I'm partial to 5E Kenku) with various weapons and generic clothing as opposed to specific classes would make me more inclined to go from $3 to $10. I think a lot of your minis have potential to be used alternatively if they just had different held items and weapons

Andrew Cartwright

I agree on the race options bit. It'd be nice to get some minis of the more niche races.

David Ramey

Also, as for what you mentioned about cutfiles, I was actually thinking about investing in a cutting machine just because I found out about paper minis and now it's sort of blown up. I would most definitely pay extra for the option to have them.

Jess R

I would actually gladly pay an extra $1 a month for customization options on the minis. I really liked the hairstyle on the recent cleric mini with the staff but wanted the hammer and shield as weapons. So I guess if I could choose between different hairstyles or even a sword instead of a hammer that would be worth it in my opinion. I think I would also be willing to pay $2-$3 more for some race options.

Jess R

I'd actually like some object minis, that's a pretty cool idea. Makes it easy to start crafting your own dungeon tile set, because all you need are the tiles, then you can print out bookcases, desks, and chests. Also of note is that the Mystic was just released in full 20 levels, so maybe some psionic characters at some point?

David Ramey

I suspect most people interested in your work don't have cutting machines, so cutfiles seem sort of unnecessary. Patron-directed minis, on the other hand, allow patron input, which should please everyone involved on this end. I second the vote for inanimate objects; I don't fully understand how your concern about higher-tier monsters applies to them, but you could always make important things like treasure chests or coffins low-tier, and give mimic reskins at a higher tier. That way everyone gets to use the objects, and people who want mimics can either use the objects as they are, or pay extra for the real deal. Is that the sort of thing you were hoping for?

thelibraryghost

The quality is great and I think right now the only desire for me is more quantity. I'd prefer you focus on getting more minis out each month and not slow the process down with support for additional tiers. Maybe add borders to those earlier minis and package them into pdfs.

If I understand your question correctly, then yes. If you're already subscribed to a higher tier then you'd get access to any new tiers that were created at a lower tier then the one you already subscribe to.

PrintableHeroes

I like the idea. Would these fall into tiers that we already pay. I'm in the 10 a month because I love your work.

Andy Green

Yeah, I'm just not sure how to best include props/tiles/extra minis into tier rewards without making them feel too exclusive - the situation I want to avoid is where I end up doing a monster or something for a higher tier reward and so i never get around to doing a free/lower tier version for everyone else to use because I'd already created it, but I can't release the original one because then that cheapens the reward for the higher tier patrons :/

PrintableHeroes

Absolutely! The goal for me would be to try to include patrons in the whole process and run a poll/vote for all of the major decisions from subject, pose, all the way through to what reskin and recolor options.

PrintableHeroes

I like the idea of patron directed mini's. Maybe you provide a few rough drafts that can then be voted on and most votes win

Totally, I'd foresee this falling under and being a part of the Patron Directed Mini process.

PrintableHeroes

This kind of fits into the "MOOAR MINI'S"... but some small terrain items would be nice to have. Rocks, tree's, maybe small ruins.

DnDice

Perhaps each month/set there'd be a patron-voted reskin/recolor?

Sean vas Terra

+1 for Cutfiles! Not that I even own a cutting machine... maybe one day! But its the only painful thing about these fantastic mini's.

DnDice

Hey Travis, are you thinking a compiled sheet released each month of previously released minis? At the moment my temporary fix for this is to include the individual PNGs so you guys can mix and match them to fill out your own sheets - however this does require some software that is capable laying out multiple PNG files.

PrintableHeroes

Maybe at the $5 mark you could have compiled sheets? Unless I missed the ability to do it now but having 4 mages is not incredibly useful to me, but having a mage an assassin and a owlbear (or whatever) in a single sheet would be useful.. or even just one large PDF with all current works to date.

Hey Mark, were you able to try the cutfiles I'd attached to this post? <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/paper-cut-files-8063390">https://www.patreon.com/posts/paper-cut-files-8063390</a> If how, how'd they work for you?

PrintableHeroes

I think more animal or monster enemies like wolves and giant bars eagles ECT...

I'm interested in the patron-directed minis

David Ramey

I'm definitely interested in cutfiles.

Mark Kissinger