Big Update regarding the future of MonkeyDM's Patreon (Black Friday & More) (Patreon)

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.

I'm coming to you today with a very important update.

As the months have gone by, I've started to accumulate more and more content over here on Patreon, with weekly adventures, and (almost) monthly compendiums, I calculated and we broke 1000 pages total!

Now this Patreon journey has been absolutely amazing, and cannot thank you all enough for that!!
But with that being said I have to talk about the bad news.

As time goes on, more and more people come on Patreon, subscribe for a single month, download everything I have to offer, and then leave. This really doesn't feel fair to all the people who support me throughout multiple months and help me build the content and compendiums (know that I love you to death if you do so). In my eyes it feels similar to subscribing to Netflix for a month, downloading their entire catalogue of movies, and then leaving.

But I still want people to be able to download my content, because that's part of the nature of what I create. So instead I have decided that I will start removing some of my content from Patreon, and moving it to my website (www.monkeydm.com), and make it available only through there.

What does that mean for you as a subscriber? 

Compendiums: (such as the 10 Plagues, Secrets of Gravity Magic, etc...)

Initiates and Adepts will have access to the last 2 Compendiums. The other older compendiums will be moved to my website, where they can be purchased individually. Anything I sell on my website will be sold at a discount price to patrons (The discount will vary depending on the tier of subscription, with adepts getting the highest discount)

Tomes: (such as Tome of Vile Corruption, Guide to the Abyssal Depths, etc..).

Adepts will get access to the last 2 tomes, and the other older Tomes will be moved to my website, where they can be purchased individually. Adepts will get a 50% on any digital product sold on my website. This way this tier stays an extremely good deal, but it will mitigate a lot of the issue with people downloading everything and leaving.

Adventures:

Adventures which are older than a year will be moved to the Adept Tier, every other adventure will remain as they are. This always allow for roughly 30-40 adventures to be in rotation at a time, whilst the other ones are limited to higher tiers. Free adventures will remain free of course.

FoundryVTT Content:

My adventures are available in FoundryVTT format, which is reserved to Adepts. This will not change, but adventures that are over 1 year old, will have their FVTT format put on my website, or on the Forge, and only be accessible through there, discount price will still apply (at least for my website, I cannot guarantee the Forge discounts as the integration is still in early alpha at the moment)


Regarding the individual pieces of content that I release daily (subclasses, monsters, etc..) I have no clear idea what I will do to them just yet. They might be removed if the compendium/tome they are associated with gets removed as well, but that isn't sure yet.

 
For now, nothing is going to change, those changes will go live once Black Friday (possibly Cyber Monday) is over. This should give you all who are subscribed time to download everything you need, if you haven't done so already.

So for people who stay subscribed, they will basically see no changes, you'll get access to the content as it gets released, as per usual.

If you want to download any of my older content (notably compendiums and tomes), now is the time to do it, before it gets moved to the website.

If you have any question, let me know in the comments below!

Thank for taking the time for reading, and understanding where I'm coming from. I'm looking forward to creating more content for you, of better and better quality!

Take Care!