Get Your Club Membership Today

This extremely enjoyable Friday (aka today) we will complete the transition to Patreon for club membership. For the last couple of years we have offered the literal best deal in all of tabletop wargaming but the process of managing it was cumbersome. Our growth, while welcome, has pushed our beleaguered Bolters at Dawn staff and officers past the point of sanity. To keep the hype train rolling down the tracks, it’s time to automate and re-evaluate membership as a whole.

Club Membership

We are moving away from the yearly billing and single-tier membership to a monthly and multi-tiered membership. Prices everywhere have gone up in pretty exponential ways over the last few years and we have to stay solvent to stay open! Our base Club Member pricing is going from $35 yearly to $5.69 monthly, which even though a near doubling in cost still provides the literal actual best value in tabletop wargaming.

By moving to Patreon, we can open up more tiers of membership for those members who want more features for more money! We’re offering a Club Member+ tier at $11.38 a month with premium perks like a shelf to store minis, priority access to events, and more. The highest tier is our Club Supporter tier at $20.20 monthly, which basically turns you into a VIP in our esteemed clubhouse halls.

As always, members are required to abide by our recently updated Technical Manual. The big update is rolling out our Bolters Ready Paint Standard. We’re formalizing it as a standard of the club across the board as opposed to including in event-specific guidance. More to come on this and it will be no surprise if you have been to our events in the past.

Discord & Patreon

The all-important Discord roles for being a club member will automatically managed by our beloved Servitor with guidance from Partreon. Without exception it is up to you to ensure the connection between Patreon and Discord is configured correctly. The process is three very precise steps:

1. Pick a tier in Patreon and complete the sign up flow. If you are existing member, you were sent a gift code that matches the length of time left on your current subscription, so please use that link. Otherwise, find us here: https://www.patreon.com/c/boltersatdawn/membership

2. Connect your Discord user to Patreon. Please make sure you use the same Discord handle that you use in the Bolters at Dawn server (if you are already there). Do that through Connected apps: https://www.patreon.com/settings/apps

3. Join the Bolters at Dawn server through Patreon. This is a SEPARATE step to connecting your Discord to Patreon above – you must now join our server. This is on the Discord specific settings page in Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/settings/apps/discord

Once you’ve performed the required steps above, our exacting bot aka ServitorFidelis will send you a love note via DM:

There is one manual step that will ALWAYS be required ➜ sitting down with a staff member, reviewing the Technical Manual in detail, and signing it to demonstrate you understand the rules of our club.

https://boltersatdawn.com/technical_manual/

The Technical Manual is a living document that gets updated from time to time, and that time has come! If you’ve already signed one, please take a moment to review the updates and let us know if you have any questions.

FAQ

What is Discord? Discord is at its core a chat/messaging platform. You join a server to chat with other people on that server. Using the app on your mobile device or computer (and even a web browser), you can join multiple servers and access all kinds of nifty features in Discord that layer on top of their chat-centric platform. We at Bolters at Dawn aren’t down with the social media hamster wheel and chose Discord to communicate directly with our valued club members. No algorithmic sorting, just straight hype straight to your eye sockets.

What is Patreon? Patreon is the go-to online platform for people to sell subscriptions to stuff on the internet (OnlyFans for normies). For people in the tabletop space it’s usually mini painters (like Kenny) and gaming groups (like Goonhammer) who provide extra goodies for paying customers. We at Bolters at Dawn use it to streamline managing our club membership and deliver even doper club experiences to our members.

Why is my Patreon/Discord not working? We rarely have seen things not work & Patreon support has been great, so please reach out to Bolters at Dawn staff via Discord or email IF AND ONLY IF YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE THREE ABOVE STEPS. Please include what email you signed up with and a screenshot of your Patreon settings for Discord that include your Discord username.

Onwards Forever

Now that we’ve got our post-BOLTERCON administration changes out of the way & our leagues are in full swing, the pace of blogging and announcing will be picking up! Make sure you’re seeing all the latest by joining our Discord, visiting our clubhouse and store, keeping tab on the schedule, and following this very blog!