Baileywiki Tier and Pricing Changes

Hi everyone,

There will be lots of questions, excitement, and confusion around the new pricing and tiers. Hopefully this helps orientate you to the changes and decide where you fit best going forward.

Guiding Principles

• Maintain a "lower than average" price in the market
• Maintain an equivalent level of spend for equivalent content
• Offer flexibility to start, pause, or accelerate anytime
• Offer flexibility in content choices
• Be generous with content

Why the Changes?

Truing Up. I haven't changed my pricing in almost 2 years, when I started this project. Compared to any other Foundry creator, I'm at least half the price but also with unlimited flexibility to come and go as a subscriber. This means up to years of content for essentially the cost of a single month. I love it, but it's also overdue for at least some adjustment.

Increased Costs. Despite the stable pricing, my costs have gone up exponentially in that time. I now have 2 staff members, lots of commercial license costs, and growing hosting and distribution costs.

Additional Content. Finally, I am introducing more and new kinds of content on top of the content you're already used to seeing, namely 3D at the moment. These are exciting frontiers, but not everyone needs it. But it's still twice the effort and cost. So that extra content has to have it's own tier.

Overview of the Tiers

You can now choose the content you'd prefer, starting with these tracks:

• Channel Supporter. $3. A good place to park.
• Foundry Basic. $8. What you're all use to, minus the Dungeondraft content.
• Foundry Advanced. $14. Extra Foundry stuff, namely 3D and Landing Pages atm.
• Dungeondraft only. $6. Getting a massive injection of resources now

Combined Tiers

If you want more content types, you can choose a combined tier:

• Foundry Basic plus Dungeondraft. $14. Combined track. Many of you were near this level already ($12) so you'll essentially keep the same benefits but now with more Dungeondraft assets coming your way regularly
• All the Things. $20. All the content. Foundry. Foundry Advanced. Dungeondraft.

Foundry Mastery Tiers

For learning Foundry quickly. Includes all content as if you had All the Things tier.

• Level 1: $25. Special discord channel support. Asynchronous but resourced. Expect an answer to your questions.
• Level 2: $100. + Office Hours support. Real time.
• Level 3: $250. + Dedicated, one on one help.

The Practical Change for Most Subscribers

Most $7 subscribers will go to $8 and enjoy the same benefits, namely Foundry content. Losing Dungeondraft content, yes, but that was rare anyway and not used by most subs. Going forward, DD content is getting a massive investment now so it deserves its own track and tier.

Most $12 subs will go to $14 and either get additional Advanced Foundry content or additional Dungeondraft content. To get both, it's $20. That's still much lower than anything equivalent on the market.

Dungeondraft-only subs will save money, going from $7 to $6.

Most annual subscribers will transition like the monthlies, just paying a prorated portion of any cost increase for whatever months are left in your annual subscription. You will still benefit from the 15% annual subscriber discount.

What Should You Do Now?

All old tiers are now locked from others joining. You've got the next month (Sept 2022) to decide what you want to do. This means either cancelling, or moving into a tier that you like. If you stay in your current tier, you just won't get any benefits next month or until you switch over.

Existing Patrons will continue to get benefits for this month, meaning you'll get the new 3D portions of the release and also the Dungeondraft assets "for free" for Sept. New Patrons as of last night will need to sign up for the new tiers to get the same benefit.

Flexibility to Set Your Own Budget

Flexibility to set your own budget is a hallmark of our content. Want to save 50% on all the new content? Just take off a month and pick up all the changes the next month. It's more for you to manage, yes, and it means waiting, but that's the trade-off to give you all the awesome stuff we do at the price you can handle.

Foundry Mastery Tiers. What Are They? Wow, Seems Pricy.

New GMs and those who want more dedicated handholding have had to beg for help in random community discords, piecing together help and struggling with the learning curve of Foundry. Or they have to endure 100 hours of Baileywiki tuorials... blech!! We want to offer a more streamlined alternative.

So new GMs can now join Foundry Mastery tiers. These are intentionally short-term tiers and will be covering, in part, the direct cost of those Foundry Masters delivering the coaching.

We expect most people to buy the $25 or $100 tier for one month, get their worlds established, and then drop to a normal content tier after that.

These tiers all include full Baileywiki content, All the Things level.

If you'd like to be considered for a paid Foundry Master role, reach out to myself or Zephyr.

Coming Next

We intend to provide more streamlined installation and update process, but we don't quite fit the current boxes. So we're working with Foundry, Moulinette, Forge and others on the best option moving forward. Whatever we choose, we will be absorbing new costs and don't intend to change the tiers.

Questions and Feedback

We want to hear from you. Message Baileywiki directly or join any threads or sessions where we're discussing. Or comment to this post.

Just keep it respectful and constructive. We're all people and have feelings. I appreciate you all very dearly and look forward to many more years of exploration with you!