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New Terrain Patreon

Added 2021-11-22 16:58:10 +0000 UTC

Hello Fellow Trappers!

I hope you had a great weekend of printing, painting, and playing! Today we want to present to you an idea we have and get your input on it. Recently we've been considering creating a new sister patreon to dragon trappers lodge that would focus exclusively on terrain and specifically larger scale terrain for fdm printers. So let us tell you what exactly we are imagining and why we want to do it.

The new patreon would feature only terrain and the the current DTL patreon would focus on miniatures. The current set would include our normal offering of minis and would continue to offer the smaller resin compatible scatter terrain we've been creating. The new patreon would include the resin scatter terrain from the main release in one tier, larger fdm specific terrain in another tier, and a third tier for both types. The terrain patreon would match the theme for the month of our normal release so if you wanted to pick up both you could get basically a whole encounter.

So why the change? Well there are two main reasons. One, we noticed that many of you don't print the fdm terrain at all. Our subscriber base largely sticks to resin with less than half our base even owning fdm printers. This means that with this most recent release there is a handful of models that over half our patrons can't even print. If we split it up we could provide minis for the people who want minis and terrain for those who want terrain and people who want both could get both. This would allow us to focus the main patreon on creating more minis each month and the terrain one on growing it's selection as well without putting out models that many of you can't or won't print. The second reason is that for both creative and financial reasons we want to expand into larger scale fdm terrain pieces. Creatively we would be able to explore more grand terrain that would be difficult to get cut for resin but would be designed to work great for fdm. Lodges, larger environmental terrain pieces, etc. Financially it would also allow us to tap into a new market of fdm printers that currently we are barely scratching. That means more growth and more models all around.

What would this mean for you? Well if you are someone who doesn't print any of the fdm or larger scale terrain it means the current patreon would be focusing more on minis, but you would still get your resin scatter terrain. Essentially you would see more models you will actually print. For the handful of you current patrons who only want the terrain it would give you an opportunity to only get that instead of spending money on minis you don't print and you'd be able to get more terrain than the current offering. And finally the main reason we are asking is because for those of you who like both it would become more expensive. You would have to subscribe to two patreons instead of one which means parting with more of your hard earned money, however, with the way it would be set up you could subscribe to just the fdm tier on the terrain patreon so you aren't paying for scatter terrain twice. Additionally while you are paying more you would be getting more as well. Each respective patreon would be able to provide more than what is currently being offered with just one patreon.

Now that we've made our case we want to know what you think? Do you want more variety and a wider range range of models or do you want things to stay the same? Please vote below and let us know what you think.