A Quick Update re: Patreon & Upcoming Publications

Hey folks, I hope you're all doing well! I wanted to get on here and provide a quick general update, an update re: the Archive's Patreon organization/tiers, and an update about the Archive's next publication

A General Update

My, what a summer it was. The last 4 months or so have been incredibly busy, for both the Archive and my personal life. The Archive was demonetized, then remonetized by YouTube, has almost hit a million followers on Instagram, and overall has continued to grow far larger and faster than I ever expected. As always, I cannot say THANK YOU ALL enough. Without you all, none of this would be possible. Every day I get to wake up and create worlds for you folks to explore and experience, and that is and will always be one of the greatest privileges of my life. This rapid growth has been incredible, but has also laid bare some areas that need more attention and caused a bit of light burnout on my end. I'm finally settling back into the creative rhythm, though, and there's a lot of cool stuff that I've been working on that I can't wait to share with you all. The Archive is begging to be something more than a small "creator" business, and it's my job to make sure that happens in a way that best serves you folks and all the worlds contained within the Archive. Stay tuned, folks - there's a lot more to come, and I can't wait to share what the Archive is becoming with every one of you.

Patreon Reorganization

As some of you may have noticed, I've spent the last few days trying to get all of the Archive's content onto Patreon in an organized fashion. I'm happy to say that this is coming along quite nicely - at the time of this posting, all of the Pale Lodge, Patchwork City, Interloper, Stride Guide, and Anomalous Preserves videos have been uploaded to Patreon. Later this week I'll be getting up the Travel Alert PSA's and old Voidstrider mission logs. After that, it will be a long slog through every other Archive Annex until ALL of the Archive's content is uploaded here for you to browse and explore at your leisure.

In the same vein, I've created a couple of new posts to help aid in that browsing. First, the Archival Index, which is accessible in the top menu bar of the Archive's page at all times. Once everything has been uploaded, this will serve as the primary "table of contents" for the Archive - every piece of the Archive's content will be linked here. Next, I made a "Welcome to the Archive" post that is pinned to the top of the page. This is a good post to check out if you're new here, as it links to all available content AND sorts everything by tier level, so that you should (hopefully) have no issues finding what the Archive has to offer you.

Thanks for everyone's patience as I've been working on this. This is the first step of many on the long journey of making the Archive an easy and fun place to explore. Lots more to come on this front!

Monthly Publication for Curator Tiers and Up

For Curators and Benefactors, I'm finally making good on my promise to provide you folks with monthly downloadable publications. This first ebook is an old one, just until I finish the next new one (see below). It's the Deep Space Explorer Handbook and Mission Log, a solo journaling RPG set in Universe B-3215D. Click here to download it! If you haven't read this before, I hope you enjoy it!

Architect - New Patreon Tier

I added a new tier for Archive super-fans - the "Architect" tier. Right now, the only benefit of this tier is access to the Archive's entire vault of downloadable publications, which, as of now, is only the first 2 Compendiums and the Deep Space Explorers Handbook. I'm playing around with some other potential benefits for this tier - stay tuned!

The Next Book/Publication

I'm in the final stages of writing the Pale Lodge's first Contract Catalog, a collection of expanded Pale Lodge Contracts that will be fleshed out as 5E-compatible playable one-shot adventures. I'm really excited about this one, and can't wait to share it with you all! I'm currently targeting a Mid-November release date, but stay tuned - it might be sooner!

As always, thank you all so much. The Archive couldn't exist without you. More to come soon!

With gratitude,

Your Head Curator