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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whisper72" data-source="post: 1538039" data-attributes="member: 17339">Hmm... on the community supporter idea, you could create 'tiers' of supporters (i.e. silver, gold and platinum membership), with varied access to the stuff you put out. Problem with this is however the timing issue. If the membership is a yearly charge, then as a long time platinum member, I'd be pissed if someone went platinum some years down the line, and downloaded all the cool stuff on a single year's membership fee.Another idea is to have the membership be a discount to your products. I.e. silver gets 20%, gold gets 40% and platinum gets 60% (figures natch only 'for example'). This way, through the memberhsip fees you have a guaranteed income stream from which to pay running operating costs. Now all you need to do is make some forecasts of expected sales and costs to establish the costs of these memberships such that membership provides a significant bonus for being a member without giving away everything for too little.On the shareware/cocreation, I think Eosin's statement that many cooks make a poor stew is very true. Sure, some great stuff may be brought on, but you'll spend alot of time reviewing and editing to make everything fit together and of the right quality level. All of this will detract from precious time you should be spending on putting out money earning products... If you want input from fans, you can always run contests etc. (worked fine for WotC!). The Forge has one now, where ppl can enter locales for example.Not a bad idea, if you want to flesh out the world with fan-input, ask ppl to write up a country / province / whatever, and take the same road as WotC did. First ask for a small, straightjacketed description (saves you time reading through hundreds of pages of stuff), and then ask a select few who show they 'have the stuff' in terms of quality and style to mesh with your campaign world, to write their ideas out in more detail.As reward you can either give a free membership or royalties to some spin-off products (or just give some of your pay-for products to them for free).Anyhoo, enuff talk, time to show us your stuff!!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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