Recap and Upcomming Changes

Hey folks!

I hope you all had a truly spooky season during October. Overall, it was a pretty exciting month for us.

Important Changes

Before we get into the recap and other fun news, I wanted to inform everyone that I have changed this Patreon to work with Subscription Billing.

Realistically, this changes nothing for any current patreon. You will still be charged on the 1st of each month.

However, now, no new subscriber gets 'accidentally' charged twice. You can read all about subscription billing here.

This is how Patreon should have been from the beginning. I'm glad they've finally made this change, as sometimes some folks were getting charged a whole month just for 1 day, before getting charged again.

October Recap

With that out of the way, let's have a quick look at all of the fun stuff that happened in October.

In terms of releases, we had:

• The Rotten Roots oneshot adventure for our Space Fantasy series and the Blighted Living Ship map.
• The Necromancer's Basement for our Magical University series, complete with some peaceful and gory variants.
• Part 1 of the Broker's Shop which included a growlin drawn by Jess Testa also for our Magical University series, with a cute and clean summer variant.

We also took a poll reviewing the kind of content folks enjoyed the most, and whilst maps dominated the polling (no surprise) it was nice to see that folks enjoyed the adventures and rules supplements too.

Over on the discord we had some great community content generated, including some amazing work by Sprigglebear Studios converting my Blighted living Ship map into a multi-leveled version for their Strixhaven/Spelljammer campaign!

And speaking of polls and the discord...

Vote for the next BARbarian outfit!

As you might have seen, during October, I switched from our usual BARbarian:

To the Skullbarian across social media.

 There's not much opportunity for me to dress up in costume, so having themed outfits for Billybob (the little guy's name) is how I celebrate instead.

Right now, we're voting on the next outfit Billybob will have, during the winter period.

If you want to vote, head on over to the discord and check out the poll in the 'call-to-arms' channel. The poll is staying open for less than 24 hours, so go fast!

Note: The above drawings are just general themes and ideas. If you have any specific ideas for the next outfit, feel free to comment with them here, or over in the 'general-chat' channel in discord. I've already got some great feedback from folks so thank you very much!

Personal Update

I've enjoyed October, but with poor health, coming back from a trip, and family visiting - I'm looking forward to a more stable (and hopefully cheaper!) month ahead.

Unfortunately, that poor health (a dodgy knee!) is ongoing. This caused me to have no time or energy to run the community games, nor to hold any competitions. I'm actually gutted about this, because I'm so excited to start meeting with some of you and getting actual feedback on my maps, adventures, and play style. You've all been wonderfully understanding about this, though, so thank you.

My main goal before the new year is to try and get a buffer of at least one month's content for Patreon. This will hopefully make releases better paced, and open up more community involvement as we vote for the next month's content ahead.

Future Content

I have a real aversion to promising any content, as (like we saw with the community games) things can change or get pushed back. 

However, I just wanted to give some idea of what I am aiming for in 'the future' (hopefully sooner, rather than later).

Currently, I have two main posts I want to get out:

The first are the Modular Dorm Rooms for our Magical University Series. With the majority of the base maps I wanted complete, I can have time to go over these much requested maps. My players are already discussing which rooms they want to use their 'dorm points' for, and I can't wait to offer out this rules supplement, and modular maps, to all of you.

Also, I am working on further developing the Social Combat rules. I'd love to make some specific one-shots and maps themed around these rules, so that you can more easily get them into your games.

Amidst this there are some cool adventures I'd like to finish, like completing the Broker's Shop, doing more Space Fantasy maps, and maybe some festive content for the holidays. But ultimately I think I'd like to keep producing supplements for Strixhaven over on the DMsGuild too, as I'm really enjoying running it as a campaign, but gosh it needs some work!

That's all... for now!

And I think that's all I can think of to update you with. If you got through this absolute unit of a post, congratulations, and please have an imaginary Unicorn Biscuit.

If you have any feedback or input about anything discussed, or anything needs further clarification, let me know!

But most of all, just thanks again for your continued interest and support. I'm so excited about making TTRPG content and the ability to share it. It really means the world.

Cheers!

- Bonus.