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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 7826471" data-attributes="member: 926">It's just a reprehensible situation that people are forced to go to crowd funding to cover medical expenses they need just to stay alive.I live on disability income, which makes things extremely hard to do anything (andmy father died suddenly last week, making things even harder on our household and now we don't know how we're even going to make it.)  I have Degenerative Disc Disease and have had to undergo 3 surgeries on my spine since I was 19 (I'm 43 now) with a neurogenic spastic bladder and permanent nerve damage in several other locations resulting from the DDS, Tourette Syndrome with tics that have given me arthritis in my elbows and wrists, ADHD, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, clinical depression, social anxiety problems, and I'm in the middle of being tested for the Autism Spectrum.  If I didn't have medical insurance provided by the government (US, in live in Pennsylvania) I would have died years ago, after first becoming paralyzed from the waist down and then suffering through however many years of agony as my bladder killed me.  I would have died in agony without that help.We all need to try to help the people who make the games that we love and give us hours and hours of joy.  I think D&D has exploded in popularity the past few years because people have grown sick of all their communications with friends being online through social media, and instead want real face-to-face interactions with a structured environment/game.  I've done what I could in the past through Patreon to help give money to the creators I love the most (such as Michael Swaim's Small Beans, made up mostly of people formerly from Cracked, and Team Four Star, the creators of Dragon Ball Z Abridged, although that will unfortunately have to end due to my family's current situation.)  But as great as Patreon is, I think it's just a stop-gap and not a permanent solution; I just read an article about the creator of Patreon, and hope I'm wrong and the platform can grow into something wonderful to provide permanent funding home for creators, but I don't know.</blockquote>

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