New "Vampire Hunter" Adventure Tier, removing "Essentials Bundle" and upgrading "Starter Bundle"

Hey all!

We're excited to announce our new Adventure Tier, a Foundry VTT Premium Content only tier where each month we will be making and releasing content for a specific Adventure/ Campaign Setting, including remakes of an adventure's official maps that are reimagined for Foundry VTT, and new supplement maps and written content to add extra content to the campaign. All maps will be made in The MAD Cartographer art style and using third party modules to make dynamic elements as you've all come to expect of our Foundry content.

Flat maps of content released in these Adventue Tiers will still be available to All The Things™ patrons as well as the Foundry VTT module. These Adventure Tiers are for those folks who are running a specific campaign and only interested in content that supports it, so might not need all the other thematic maps and content we release through the Patreon.

Our first Adventure Tier is Vampire Hunter and will take folks through the mists to the dreaded domain of Barovia, providing official map remakes and unofficial supplement content for Curse of Strahd. Many of you will have seen we've previously released maps for CoS, a long time ago, so we've gone back over them and given them a face lift to bring them up-to-date with our current style and textures as well as adding canopy elements and dynamic 3rd party module features (that didn't exist when we originally made these maps!). This is just our first Adventure Tier, and we have plans of releasing more as the months go on!

New content for the Adventure Tiers will be rolled out alongside the monthly themed map releases; so three times a month we'll make Content Release announcements and tell you what's new!

Note: During this new transition the non-Foundry maps are not uploaded to pCloud yet, but will be with the next content push and Foundry module update. Gallery will be added tomorrow with a showcase video so as not to spam everyone today!

Retiring "Essentials Bundle" and Upgrading "Starter Bundle"

It has become increasingly clear to us that the majority of people aren't using the Essentials Bundle, and so to avoid Tier Bloat with the introduction of new Adventure Tiers (where navigating the different tiers becomes a bit complicated), we've decided to retire the tier altogether. People who are in it will not be removed and will continue to get the same content, but new people can't sign up for it.

Instead, all the content that was offered in the Essentials Bundle, including all the themed maps and assets (and Dungeon Draft packs) in a month, and non Foundry VTT content, will be made available to the Starter Bundle. As we know all too well that times are hard financially for folks, we're keeping the price of the Starter Bundle exactly the same (anyone in the Essentials Bundle can change their tier if they want to save a few dollars.)

So to summarize how this tier change affects you:

• Starter Bundle. You don't need to do anything, you now get A LOT more for the same price.
• Essentials Bundle. You can change your tier to the Starter Bundle and get the same content, or you can stay in the tier if you want to throw a few extra dollars to support the team each month.
• All The Things™. You continue to get everything, including the new Adventure Tier content (which even if you don't play Curse of Strahd will still be relevant and useful). The Vampire Hunter Foundry module is a single module, so you'll be able to just update it every month while you remain a Patron.

We hope ya'll are excited for these changes as much as we are, and if you have any questions then ask us down below or on our Discord!

Keep rollin' those 20s folks!
Alex, Harrison & Team MAD