Lovefest

Question: I see the Donate Button, and I read that it goes to hosting and bandwith, but is that it? I want to donate because I love this site and love your vlog. Is there a minimum ammount you need to maintain to keep the site up and running and to provide for your games or vlogs?

Dear, dear friend, you are adorable and wonderful and we love you. The fact that you really enjoy stuff we do warms us down to our toes, and the fact that you want to help is like a delicious whipped topping of awesomeness. You rock.

I'm not going to do lots of financial math here because nobody cares about specifics and I'm sure many people are already scrolling past, but website, bandwith and hosting costs generally run us about $60 or so a month. Awesome, awesome people out there in the community help us out with that, so it's usually no problem. If we're about to run the well dry and not be able to keep things going for a little while, we usually make a small post to warn people, but that's only happened a couple of times ever, and each time winged angels of mercy swooped in and saved the day.

Outside of that, our game costs are mostly fringe stuff; paper and ink for our face-to-face games, food and caffeine for twelve-hour work marathons, gas for when we have to haul ourselves to a library an hour away for source material. Our local players are also fantastic pillars of the community, so they tend to show up at our house now and then with reams of cardstock or twelve-packs of soda like the champions they are. Between your and their efforts and our own, we don't see any reason this ship can't keep on sailing just fine for the foreseeable future.

Sometimes folks send in donations because they really liked something we just released, or because they know we're working on something they're excited about and want to encourage us, or because they're worried we live in a cardboard box somewhere (it's okay, guys, it's a sturdy box), or just because they feel like being amazing. We love hearing from you guys about what we're up to all the time, and donations are always encouraging as well.

If you feel like using the donate button, we love you. If you gave us a chunk of change and encouraging thumbs up, we love you. If you gave us five bucks, we love you. If you never donate but you hang out and participate in discussions and enjoy our stuff, we love you, too. Frankly, we love doing this and we love getting to talk to all you fine people about it, so while donations make us able to do more or do it more quickly, even without any we would keep right on trucking.

Did we mention that we think you're great? Because we totally do. Thanks for being an awesome group of players, Storytellers and people.