ARCADIA 4! (Patreon)

Hello, incredible patrons!

James Introcaso here to hand you a heaping helping of ARCADIA 4. Its beautiful fallen angel cover was created by MCDM’s own in-house artist, Grace Cheung. I’m beyond lucky to work with the art team here at MCDM, which includes Grace’s amazing talents. You may remember her work from last month’s release, The Illrigger.

Here’s what else is inside ARCADIA 4:

Willy Abeel returns with Swimming through Sand to Sea: More Mounted Adventuring. You probably remember Willy’s work from “Jumping on Mounted Combat” in ARCADIA 1. This article brings forth four new mounts known for their burrowing and swimming prowess: the axolottle,* the chuul, the bulette, and the juvenile purple worm. Plus Willy made eight new magic items so you can take any mount out of its natural habitat and into a dank dungeon. MCDM’s staff artist and art outsource manager, Nick De Spain, makes these mounts leap off the page.

The Chained Library from Cat Evans gives you a new adventure location and organization that any GM can drop into their campaigns. Far from civilization, a cabal of mage librarians guards and studies tomes too dangerous for most mortal eyes. This article includes new magic items, creatures, NPCs, and story hooks to help you bring the Chained Library into your world. It includes art from Allie Briggs, Faizal Fikri, and Nick De Spain and maps by Miska Fredman.

In On-the-Road Encounters, game designer and cartographer Derek Ruiz brings you five encounters that you can drop into your game as the characters travel from one place to another. Combat, intrigue, and more can all happen on the road and bring your world to life. Art in this article comes from Kent Davis, Bruno Machado, and Elisa Serio.

This is our first issue back from our ARCADIA break, so please let us know what you think about it on Discord and Reddit.

What are we cooking up for ARCADIA 5? I can’t say too much yet. Someone might hex me if I give away spoilers…

— James and the ARCADIA crew

*A giant axolotl. A regular axolotl is too little. You can’t ride a little axolotl, you need a lotta axolotl.

FAQs

Q: Which tiers get access to all the back issues of ARCADIA?
A: Master of Ravens and Master of Locusts, currently. Download the previously released issues of ARCADIA here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50839035 

Q: How many future issues of ARCADIA are planned?
A: We're currently working on issues 5-11.

Q: How often will issues of ARCADIA come out?
A: Good question! We're pretty ambitious so our goal is to release an issue every month. We can't definitively say we're there yet (we did really good with issues 1-3, but we also started development on those waaaaay back in September/October of 2020). We're still working out the snaggly bits in our production pipeline and the team needs to finish discussing the patron survey results about what content you all liked and what wasn't as popular. We also have our own ideas about new stuff we'd like to introduce, but adding more stuff in means it'll take additional development time.

So this is a long way of saying: We're working towards a monthly cadence, but we have a tendency to bite off more than we can chew (the results usually speak for themselves though)! :D

Q: I need to cancel my pledge; how do I keep my ARCADIA PDFs? What if I need to redownload them?
A: Our recommendation is that when you download your issues, you save them to both your computer's hard drive AND a cloud storage service like Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. so you can redownload them later if something happens to your PC or you just can't locate where you saved it locally. If you're not an active patron, the posts that the files are attached to will become locked, so if you don't have the files backed up you'll need to re-pledge as either a Master of Ravens or Master of Locusts to regain access to those posts.

If you save the files to the cloud, please make sure that they're not publicly accessible or being shared with others! We've tried to make ARCADIA as accessible as possible, and piracy does significant damage to a small team like ours.

Q: I want to get ARCADIA, but I'm not interested in a monthly subscription model. Is there somewhere else I can get it?
A: Definitely, and we understand! When we release a new issue of ARCADIA to Patreon, we add it to the MCDM Shop at the same time. Issues 1, 2, and 3 are $7 each, or you can purchase the ARCADIA 1-3 bundle with the first 3  issues for $18. Make sure to look over the product page to see a description of what's inside each issue, and check out the preview pages too (if you hover over them, it's easier to read the text).

Q: I have a question and it's not one of the ones listed here. Where do I get in contact with you?
A: We don't regularly check our Patreon creator inbox, so if you need help please email our support inbox and we'll respond as soon as we can: 💌 hello@mcdmproductions.com

We've brought on some help to tackle our gnarly backlog of support tickets and are whittling our way through them in the order they've been received and really appreciate everyone's patience. Rest assured that when you hear back from us we will do everything we can to make sure you're taken care of! :)