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Patreon Resumed: Quest Fronts #2 and Vaults & Vows on Production

Added 2022-03-12 00:50:31 +0000 UTC

There's a lot that will be going on starting this month: new products on the work, tiers additional rewards, rebranding, and new goals.

"Things are about to get Ironsworner", said our new partner.

CURRENT PRODUCTS IN PRODUCTION

After the release of the Deck of Many Fortunes and these two months of creative break, our artist Nando and I wanted to get back into working on Quest Fronts #2. The production of the second issue of the magazine will get resumed this month. It is worth noting that...

from this issue and on, the magazine will make use of the Starforged—yet to come—, SRD
this second issue will have 4 more quest fronts than the first issue
from this issue and on, the magazine will have a price tag, this would allow us to cover the art and pay any collaborative writer

Additionally, we partnered with Sofia Peralta to make her vision of an asset pack come to fruition: Vaults & Vows (V&V for short) will be a set of assets that will allow you to play the story of fantastical heroes in a highly magical setting.

These cards will be presented with a particularly colorful, yet sober, art style. I'll provide the layout, publishing work, and creative consultation, but the design of these assets is entirely hers; and I can vouch for her amazing design decisions. On the other hand, our great Nando will do his art magic. The presentation of the assets will be a key feature of the cards.

As always, once any of these products get released, we're giving complimentary digital copies to the active patrons at the time, regardless of their lifetime pledge, with the addition of providing them monthly with digital copies of the previous products according to their lifetime pledge.

ADDITIONAL BEHIND THE SCENES

There are two additional videos of Nando drawing the suit of pentacles for the Deck of Many Fortunes and the Horizontal Tarot. These will be posted this month as patron exclusives.

CURRENT PROGRAM OF CONTENT

All this means that we are getting back into our previous program of content: starting from this month, we're posting quest fronts and assets each month with additional behind the scenes as they come organically. However, unlike previous months, we'll be posting a minimum of 9 assets per month. This amount will potentially increase as the development of V&V gets steam. We will also make some of these assets available for non-patrons.

The development roadmap has been revamped to update our current status quo and to improve readability.

TIERS UPDATE

Tiers have been tweaked to offer more rewards to our patrons.

If you are in the Ally tier ($3), you can pitch us your asset or quest front to make it happen.

If you're in the Bond tier ($5), you can access as a free listener to our creative meetings on our Discord server. Be wary: we speak Spanish, though we always stream, and art and layout languages are pretty much universal.

REBRANDING

Given that I'm not just a single guy working in these endeavors, we decided to rebrand our working space, changing our presence in the market with a new name and new logo.

NEW GOALS (BASED ON PATRONS)

As part of our intention of growing and keep producing more robust content for the Ironsworn system and other system-agnostic materials, we have decided to add two more goals. However, we have changed the model from earnings-based goals community-based goals, meaning that our goals are now based on how many patrons we have.

The current goals are the following.

Art on the go

50 patrons: I will be able to pay my artist at the same time I produce content, so I would post said content fully illustrated, without the current artwork layout delay.

System-agnostic bestiary entry each week

200 patrons: Our team will make a bestiary entry each week, system-agnostic, taking the Ironsworn format as the basis; fully illustrated with color and in different art styles.