Gaming Ballistic Launches a Patreon
As part of a transition to making Gaming Ballistic my full-time role, I’ve launched a Patreon.
As always, the largest part of my business is going to be making and selling finished products. Whether for Dragon Heresy, The Fantasy Trip, Powered by GURPS products such as the Nordlond setting or the forthcoming Mission X RPG, delivering great content is my mission and passion.
The purpose of the Patreon is to allow those who want to help bootstrap the company onto a solid footing to do so, and to reward them by providing the opportunity to look at early access content.
An example? Sure.
The biggest priority for Gaming Ballistic in 2021 for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG is the Norðlondr Óvinabókin. The Nordlond Enemies Book. A bestiary.
A big one. Hundreds of creatures.
Here’s the cover!
But as I go through and work on monsters, well, there’s a lot to look at. And review. And comment. And test.
So as an example, the Tier 2 folks would have a chance to see this in development. The patronage would have allowed me to get the art you see above, perhaps. Or at least a start at it.
Other posts would be advance looks at future Reloading Press articles, or excerpts from forthcoming character books for The Fantasy Trip. And you darn well better believe I’ll be testing rules and mechanics for Mission X as I develop it, in the future. Periodically, I’m sure I’ll drop full products there as gifts and thank-yous in PDF format.
In any case: if you would like to help Gaming Ballistic better deliver a steady stream of quality product, I’d surely appreciate your support.
Go, Doug!
Soo…. I’ve got a question about the Patreon funding levels. I looked a them shortly after you announced this. It seems to me at that point it was 5/25/100 per month. I just happened to look at the patreon page today and now I see 5/10/100. So I’m curious if the change was due to the initial amount being a typo, customer/patron feedback or something else?
For reference that change takes it from “I can probably talk my wife into it if I try” to “She shouldn’t have a problem with this.” It also take my internal dialog from a “I really want the rewards for this but the price is a steeper than I was hoping” to “Yes! This is something I can do.”
Your last line summarizes it. In my mind, it was “If I can do all the things I’m planning on doing, that $25 will be more of a subscription than anything else!”
But between initial Patreon feedback and a reality check in terms of appealing to a diverse set of patrons, I decided that the best way to use Patreon was at the $5-10 tiers, trying to bring in lots of people, and being more reasonable in what I expect to accomplish in a month.
In short: while I’m still figuring this out, keeping the tiers more reasonable is the right way to go. I briefly flirted with only one tier at $5 but the same patrons that encouraged me to drop the $25 level convinced me to keep $10!
The $100 level is still fair for the time you’ll get from me, but I don’t expect a lot of folks to take it.