I’ve already outlined the first four months or so of articles for 2024 and have Dan working on art for the first of them, due to release on February 7th. With the production of Annual 3, the Icons Patreon will have supported the creation of over 300 pages of Icons content, not including the regularly-updated FAQ and miscellaneous other bits and bobs posted to the Patreon here and there. I try and make it a point to give patrons in the upper tiers more of a personal monthly check-in on what I’m up to, what I’m working on, and things I’ve seen, read, or enjoyed in the prior month. Patron feedback and commentary has certainly inspired more than one article and will no doubt continue to do so. The Patreon also offers a community-well, more of a “focus group”-of supporters who are interested in what it has to offer (or, to be honest, are just just willing to support me and have no particular interest in the product, which I still appreciate). I don’t want that to happen with Icons, so I appreciate the Patreon keeping me focused month-to-month. I juggle a lot of things day-to-day, and if something isn’t prioritized, chances are it’s going to slip off my to-do list and get forgotten. Having a monthly release schedule means that Icons articles and material need to get done, so it’s harder for me to just push it off until later. The Patreon also helps to keep me on-task. So, even if it does nothing else, the Patreon lets me do that, which is no small thing. For one thing, I need to pay artist Dan Houser for his work: It’s one thing for me to defer payment until the final product gets sold and quite another when it comes to paying a fellow professional and long-time creative partner. That said, I do need the Icons Patreon, because without it, I simply wouldn’t be able to publish more stuff for Icons. Whether it’s freelance projects or self-publishing, that’s how I worked for a very long time and it’s still my comfort zone. I much prefer the scenario where I make a thing, sell a thing, and folks pay me for said thing, which they then receive. I’m sure it’s showing my age, but crowd-funding and patron-supported creative work is still awkward for me. Posted in Publishing | Tagged annual, icons, patreon, rpg, superhero Patrons, Assemble!Ģ023 marked the third full year of the Icons Patreon and, as I work on getting the proofs for Icons Annual 3, which is the result of it, I wanted to take a bit of time to talk about the Patreon and what it has meant for Icons Superpowered Roleplaying.įirst and foremost, since transparency and communication are key these days, I’ll just say it: I honestly wish I didn’t need a Patreon for Icons. All you need to do is sign up as a patron! You get monthly articles, behind-the-scenes looks, and access to the patron-only channels of the Icons Discord. ![]() If you prefer not to wait until 2025, the future contents of Icons Annual 4 is being created right now over at the Icons Patreon. Icons Annual 3 is on sale now over at DriveThruRPG! It makes a great companion volume to Annual 1, Annual 2, and other essay collections like Icons A to Z or Icons Presents to supplement your options for systems, settings, and supplementary material for your Icons game!įor those who prefer their Icons content “a la carte” you can also get the chapters of Annual 3 as individual PDFs on DriveThruRPG, although you save by getting the whole book at once, of course. Icons Annual 3 gives you a year’s worth of Icons content all at once in one, easy-to-reference book. Friends & Foes! Mixed-doubles pairs of heroes and villains, the star-spanning Champion Corps, the Denizens of the Deep-Earth, Police Archetypes, and the horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos to add to your game, along with the Icebox, a super-prison where heroes can send their defeated foes.Drop them into your own setting or build whole new worlds around them! Settings! Modular setting material for your games, ranging from super-powered fashion from the House of Dex to aliens among us on Earth-Omicron and the mysteries of the Iconosphere, the realm of the imagination.Rules! Expansions and in-depth looks at some of the core Icons rules, including more about the core Attributes and their uses and capabilities and optional setting rules. ![]() Icons Annual 3 is a collection of content for Icons Superpowered Roleplaying, created for the Icons Patreon online and supported by patrons and the Icons community.
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