April's Schedule and News Updates (Patreon)

A hearty welcome to everyone that's joined us this past month and a warm hello to old friends who've been supporting us for longer.  

At the start of each month we let you know everything that will be happening here on our Patreon (unless we forget, which, erm, we sometimes do), but before we get to that, here is some news and reminders. Skip to the end to see the monthly schedule!

--Claiming Patron Benefits/Reward Bundles--

We've had a bit of a surge of new patrons, so thought we would remind everyone how we deliver patron benefits (ie, all the maps you'll be getting).

We use DrivethruRPG to deliver our reward bundles.  On Rewards Day (usually the 5th of the month), all of the maps you help fund are uploaded to DrivethruRPG. Then we'll send you a set of codes for your maps. Clicking these codes will claim the maps and add them to your Drivethru account for free. You can then download any of your maps whenever you choose - they'll stay in your account at Drivethru forever. We just ask that you click the codes and claim the maps within 2 months of receiving the code.

--Bundle contents--

Every month your support helps us make a bunch of amazing maps and supplements. The content you'll receive in your bundle every month is:

• Map of the Month - a fantasy map, at least 20x20 in size, but almost always bigger
• 3 Variants - three thematic variants of the MotM
• Alt-Version - suggested by you, and voted on by you, a re-imagining of the MotM
• The Third Map - a completely different, exciting fantasy map, usually picked from Patron ideas.
• A megadungeon level - a level from the current 6-level megadungeon
• A multi-page adventure supplement for the MotM and a resource page for another map

Our Sci-Fi tier supporters also get:

• A Sci-Fi Map of the Month
• A level from the current Sci-Fi 6-part MegaMap

--Kingdom Project--

If you haven't seen our recent post detailing our 6-month themed map project, you can check out all the details here. It starts this month and you'll get the first maps and resources in your May bundles.

-- Patreon Schedule --

5th April - Rewards: April's reward bundles will be ready for download.  Everyone that had their payment processed by Patreon at the beginning of this month will receive their map reward codes for DrivethruRPG.  The adventure supplement and the one page GM resource are uploaded to Patreon for download.

7th April - MotM: We'll preview your May Map of the Month! It'll be the first installment of our Kingdom Project maps and is something we've been meaning to make for a long time. We'll also ask you for suggestions for the Alt-Map, an alternative version of the MotM.

9th April -  Poll: 48hr poll opens for the Alt version of the Map of the Month. You decide what we turn the MotM into.

15th April - Sci-Fi: We'll reveal May's Sci-Fi map for our $8 tier patrons. We planned this today and are excited to get making it!

17th April - Variants: You'll see previews of the three variants of the MotM.

20th April - Alt-Map: We'll upload a preview of your May Alt-map.

24th April - Third Map: We'll preview the finished Third Map. Usually we take suggestions for this, but this month we've got something we want to make for you as part of the Kingdom Project.

28th April - MegaDungeons: May's MegaDungeon and Sci-Fi MegaMap levels will be ready to preview. It's level 5 this month of 6.

And that's everything. Aside from all the maps we make for you here, we'll be continuing our work on the Candlekeep Mysteries this month and getting back to Lou Anders' Thrones & Bones setting, putting together some more maps for Kickstarter backers.

Thank you all so much for joining us here again and supporting us for another month!

Joe & Sarah

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