ARCADIA 2! (Patreon)

Hey all! It’s James Introcaso, here to let you know that ARCADIA Issue #2 is here (with cover art by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe)! The three articles in this issue are:

Subclasses of the Seasons by Joshua Mendenhall. Make every part of the year epic with four season-themed spellcasting subclasses: the College of Springtide for bards, the Child of the Sun Bloodline for sorcerers, the Horned One patron for Warlocks, and the Order of Hibernation for wizards. Art by Marlowe Lune.

Periodic Table of Elementals from Makenzie De Armas. Lethal, reactive, and unstable...meet four new elementals that make encounters explode with possibility! Plus, rules for reactivities: extra powers an elemental receives when it teams up with a different, but complementary elemental ally. Art by Grace Cheung.

Well of the Lost Gods by Rich Lescouflair. Stop an ancient laboratory from creating hazardous magic in this short adventure for 8th-level characters. Art by Nick De Spain, Faizal Fikri, Jason Hasenauer, and Diana Muñoz.

You’ll notice little changes between issues #1 and #2 that should make the latter easier to navigate. We’ve got tags on the table of contents and blurbs on the title page of each article so you know exactly what you’re getting. This was thanks to your feedback, so please let us know what you think about ARCADIA on Discord and Reddit. If you missed issue #1, you can find it in the MCDM Shop.

We’re more than halfway through our ARCADIA experiment so far and things look great. We’re reviewing pitches for issue #4 and beyond. Right now, all signs point to ARCADIA continuing at least for the foreseeable future, but it still may take us several issues before we’re on a tight and regular schedule. Thank you for helping to make it a success!

We hope to get issue #3 to you in March. We’ll keep you posted.

The Arcadia Issue #2 PDF attached to this post will be removed when ARCADIA Issue #3 is posted (which will be sometime on or after March 19, 2021). Each issue of Arcadia is also available in the MCDM Shop as they are published.

—James and the ARCADIA crew

FAQs

Q: How long will I be able to download the ARCADIA PDF attached to this post?

A: You will have at least until March 19, 2021 to download the article from this post. Once ARCADIA Issue #3 is posted on Patreon, Issue #2 will be removed from this post. Please make sure to download your issue before March 19, 2021, and if you use a cloud storage tool like Google Drive or Dropbox we recommend you save it there for recovering it easily—especially if you need to access it from another device or if something terrible and unfortunate befalls your computer! Just please make sure if you save it to the cloud it's only you who can access its location.

Q: I didn't download the PDF on the post in time, even though I was an active Patron during the 30-day period! How else can I get a copy of my issue?

A: A few days after we remove the attachment from the post, we'll be compiling the list of Patrons who had active subscriptions while the Issue was available. Once we have that list, we'll email you a special, Patron-only discount code that works on the MCDM Shop; this way you can pick up your copy of ARCADIA for free and it'll get added to your account's order history which makes relocating it a breeze :) We'll be sending that message to the email associated with your Patreon account, so make sure to keep an eye out for it!

Q: I just joined but it looks like the previous issues have been removed from their posts before I became a Patron. Do new Patrons get back-issues? How else can I get a copy of ARCADIA?

A: First off, welcome and thanks for supporting us! Currently, you'll always be able to download the current issue of ARCADIA when you become a Patron until the next issue is published. When a new issue comes out, we remove the previous one and it becomes available exclusively through the MCDM Shop (that's where we plan to keep all the back-issues). As far as other content goes, you should now have access to all of our Patron-locked posts! There's quite a few of them and we hope you find some interesting stuff inside :)

Q: There's a lightning bolt icon that says a special offer is currently running for the MCDM Patreon—what's that about? Do I need to do anything if I want to get the special offer?

A: If you're already an active Patron in the $5 or $10 tier, then you're all set, you don't need to change anything!

The "special offer" is a new Patreon feature we're testing to help communicate that this sign-up period includes something special: ARCADIA #2! The special offer informs non-Patrons viewing the page that if they want to download the current issue of ARCADIA directly from Patreon without having to go through the MCDM Shop, they'll need to subscribe before the special offer expires.

We'll see if using this kind of feature is actually helpful; if it is we'll keep updating it to relay that important information to make it clear what's available right now :)

Q: I know someone who wants to get a copy of ARCADIA, but they don't want to use Patreon. Is there somewhere else they can get it?

A: Definitely, and we understand! That's why, when we post the current issue of ARCADIA to Patreon, we add it to the MCDM Shop at the same time :D. On the MCDM Shop an issue of ARCADIA is $7.

While we're on the topic of alternative ways to get your hands on ARCADIA… Piracy sucks extra hard for very, very small teams like us. We're only a handful of people, and most of us jumped from something familiar and stable into the wild world of tabletop game development and media! We've been so fortunate to be able to make dope shit like ARCADIA and we wanna keep making dope shit for the foreseeable future, and pay people we work with well enough that they can keep making dope shit, too! Products like ARCADIA are what keep the lights on and families fed, and this year that's extra important to everyone we think. Thanks to those who have shared their warmth by supporting our team, and we hope others who have gone down the path of darkness enjoy our work enough to reconsider.

Q: What is this... an FAQ for ANTS? I have a question and it's not one of the ones listed here!

A: Oh no! D: If you need help with anything MCDM-related, email our support inbox and we'll respond as soon as we can. We're looking forward to reaching the point where we can bring on a dedicated support team member to help everyone lickety-split, but until we get there we try to check for new messages every week or two. We've got many tools at our disposal, so rest assured that when you hear back from us we will do everything we can to make sure you're taken care of! :)

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