Announcements! [December 2020]

Happy 5th Wednesday! Our bonus episode is out today. It features Matt answering your questions about A Second Chance as well as a whole slew of announcements! These announcements include numerous ways we’re seeking to grow our... well, everything! The podcast, the discord, it all gets touched. We’ve got some big plans! Learn about them here or in the first 20 minutes of today’s episode.

Season of the Jerries [5th Wednesday Bonus] | https://dicepopuli.podbean.com/e/season-of-the-jerries-5th-wednesday-bonus/

Here’s a bulleted list of all the major announcements we’re making today. We’ll make a detailed post with links on January 6th when most of these changes go live! In the meantime feel free to join our Discord under the Community tab above!

SEASONS

  • Seasons will begin and end with 5W episodes

  • Season-timed events and updates include:

  • Discord giveaway

  • Discord channel updates

  • New charity recipient

  • New Community Reward Goal

  • First Charity: AbleGamers

  • First Community Goal: 500 New Listeners

  • First Community Reward: Jerry Merchandise

  • Season of the Jerries begins January 4th and ends March 31st

PATREON

  • $2/mo. “Adventurer” — Discord role, title voting, priority item submission,

  • $5/mo. “Hero” — “Adventurer” rewards, private Discord channel, bonus content feed, access to Entrenched

  • 75% of patronage will fund podcast expenses, 25% will go to seasonal charity beneficiary

  • The Patreon will add tiers and rewards as the community grows

DISCORD

  • Updated channels and artwork

  • Lifetime Ranks based on story beats

  • Seasonal ranks track engagement; highest rank in a season receives a giveaway (funded by Patreon)

  • Cast members and the previous season winner will be ineligible for Seasonal XP

  • Seasonal XP will be tracked by Auge (ArcaneBot)

ENTRENCHED

  • A $5 tier reward for Patrons

  • A monthly side-campaign run by Ryan and produced by Pat

  • Using the Quest system and the Eberron setting

MISCELLANEOUS

  • One-shots and one-page bonus episodes will be reserved for the Patreon bonus feed in addition to Entrenched

  • Website will be separated from CommonGeekingProgram.com and updated to be simpler and richer

  • All these things are slated for January 6th — subject to change

DICEY WATERS

  • Pat’s Adventure Locked & Loaded launches January 6th

  • Chowder is joining the cast

  • A new introductory episode with full story recaps — an easy starting point for new listeners that don’t want to binge to catch up!

Thanks everybody! Catch you all in a week 🖖🏻

— Colin Ketchen

Colin Ketchen