I recently took the plunge and started my own Patreon! You
can find that page HERE!
The Patreon will focus on creating and posting gameable
content, mostly in the form of monsters, spells, magic items, and maps, with
some world-building stuff as well. System-wise it will probably be about 50% BX/OSR,
30% Dungeon Crawl Classics, and 20% system-agnostic. At least that’s what I
have planned for now. The future will tell how the numbers actually shake out.
I was reluctant to join Patreon for a while, because I’m philosophically
against putting the blogosphere behind a paywall, especially with the death of
G-Plus. But friends I trust and who have better business and creative senses than
me convinced me that it would be good for “my brand” as well as motivating me
to write more and different things. I can’t argue with that.
So how to balance these conflicts? Here’s my plan for now.
The Patreon is mostly going to be for developing stuff for zines and other
publications. The game stuff I publish there will mostly be content that I
wouldn’t post on the blog in the first place. It’s the “business” stuff.
The blog here will remain mostly unchanged. It’s where my
actual-plays will be. It’s where the world-building stuff my current home game
will be. Its where the not-for-publication stuff I’d be posting “for free”
anyway will remain. Stuff form the Patreon may wind up tricking onto the blog,
too, once an acceptable amount of time has passed.
That’s the plan, anyway!
So if you’re inclined, please float over Patreon and check
me out. While you're at it, go ahead and scope out some of my friends,
too!
- Steve Johnson is creating Blog Posts, Games & GamingContent, Books, Humor
- The Electric Team is creating thrillingadventure comics!
- Jeffrey Johnson is creating Illustrated Stories ofLove, Adventure, and Crafts