Happy New Year! Release dates + plans for the coming year (Patreon)

Hi everyone!

Hope you are all doing well and had wonderful holidays! I am excited to step into the new year after a much needed break. I've been mulling over in my head what I want to accomplish this coming year, and while I cannot give any guarantees, these are the things that I would love to do:

1. I'd love to start releasing side-views of some of my maps. Beautiful, atmospheric environments that you could show to your players to set the mood before you throw them into combat. If I manage to find a way to do this, I will likely animate them as well. There are a few challenges for this one though, and the main one is time. I'd like to do them myself, but as things stand right now, there is just no way I could manage to add one more thing to my work load I do every month. I am thinking about how I could possibly restructure my work, maybe get some help with some things that I don't absolutely have to be involved in. We'll see. This would be a big goal of mine for the year though. I would absolutely love to do this.

2. Depending on how the year goes, I will likely be taking more time off occasionally. It is coming up on 5 years since I started this Patreon, and this whole time I've been burning the candle at both ends. This past holiday break really showed me that I need to start taking care of my mental and physical health way more, since I am starting to really feel the toll on my body and mind. I might take 1 or 2 more breaks during the year, which means you will likely get 3 instead of 4 releases that month. Unless something unexpected happens like me getting sick, I will always give you a heads up for when you could expect less than normal amount of releases.

3. Expanding Rising Tide. For those of you who are not familiar with Rising Tide - it is a support community for TTRPG creators that I started roughly about a year ago. Over the last year, our community has exploded! We are planning on further expanding our contribution to TTRPG creator successes this year as well! We have lots of things cooking, and if you are a budding creator (or a seasoned one), I encourage you to join the Rising Tide creator discord - we have monthly talks from TTRPG professionals such as DM Dave, Griffon's Saddlebag, B Dave Walters, Hit Point Press, and others. We also hold weekly support meetings, and have tailored channels to help you navigate the tricky waters of the TTRPG creator world. Plus our wonderful, supportive community is always there to help you! 

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4. Battle map time-lapses. I am going to start video recording my painting process and post them here as well as on YouTube. I don't think I will be able to do it for every single map (especially not the ones at the end of the month, because those are always a rush to complete), but I definitely want to do these time-lapses far more often than I used to.

5. Plans for this month are back to normal. I am planning on 4 full releases, 3 encounters, 2 animated maps, and all the other stuff that I normally do.

6. The poll for this month is a little bit different. I will return to the usual style of the polls next month, but to ease me back into the work mode, I am doing a simpler version of the poll: generic maps, vs dramatic / epic / boss fight maps. I already have an idea for the first map of the year though, so this poll will likely only apply to the next 3 releases.

7. Release dates: these are going to be roughly the dates I am thinking of for the releases. The release time might vary by a day or so:

January 12

January 18

January 24

January 31

And if you made it all the way down here after reading all of that, Good Job! Now please tell me what kind of maps you'd like to see this month!