#sale update

[my-darling-boy]

A couple of vintage inspired Christmas cards for our degree exhibition shop!

[adelacreations]

Last day for sale!

END OF SUMMER SALE ☀️ Shares appreciated ❤️

Use code SUMMEROF85 for 15% off entire order from August 30th to September 8th!

SHOP LINK - adelacreations.bigcartel.com

🗡SHOP UPDATES 🗡

🩸NEW ITEM - Lord Billy is now a sticker!

🔪 RE8 charms pre-orders EXTENDED until Sept 18th until 11:59 PST

🌿 LOW STOCK ALERT - 11 Ivy Steve stickers left before they are sold out!

FFXIV Sticker packs are still available for those who love FFXIV! Get stickers based on the job stones from the game with a complementary Blue Mage vinyl sticker!

Limited Edition prints are still available ✨️ There are only 16 left! I will NOT restock these, once they are gone, they are gone forever!

[chellychuu]

New prints and stickers! 🌷

[oddarette]

Hellooooo it's shop update time! I have some new goodies as well as some restocks up in my shop!! I'm also having a little 10% off sale for the next two days 9/13-14! ✨SHOP LINK✨ Thank you so much for your support! <3

[archivebottles]

On the shores of oblivion.

Happy 1st anniversary to SIGNALIS one of my favorite games I've played in a while!!

[letterstoear]

reminder that the sale is ending in 5 days!!!

Summer sale event!!

As summer has finally arrived, my shop will be on sale from 6/24/2024 to 7/8/2024 to celebrate!! So, if there's a jewelry or keychain you've been eyeing my shop purchase it now while it's on sale. After all, you may never get another chance!

Shop link here: Shop — Letters to Ear (squarespace.com)

This sale includes a variety of items on my shop and is also a way for me to clear inventory! Meaning, once an item is sold out it more than likely will not be available anymore. *the only exception are the Twisted Wonderland bears*

[ryonello]

loba 🐺

[puppyeared]

i like him

[cicada-heart]

block printed cicada patches on sustainable felt 🌿

etsy

[shinonart]

CELEBRATION SALE FROM NOV 1st TO NOV 30th!

To celebrate becoming a full-time artist I decided to host a sale on Etsy! Everything except my original paintings and digital downloads is 25% off the whole month.

I have also added a few new items to the shop, go check them out!

SHIPPING When ordering multiple items and/or adding international tracking the shipping costs may accumulate weirdly due to how Etsy calculates the costs. If you end up with an abnormally large shipping cost feel free to:

contact me on Etsy (makes things a lot easier to have all correspondence in once place)

include your phone number in the message field when placing an order and write "Please review the shipping costs"

This way I can check if I can find a cheaper deal with another courier and refund any excess postages to you. I use the Finnish postal service by default. but other couriers require a phone number which is something Etsy doesn't collect automatically, hence the problem. The phone number is for the courier's use only.

HOLIDAY SHOPPING

If you are ordering holiday gifts please do so as early as possible. I cannot guarantee that orders placed in the end of November can make it before the holidays. International shipping is a nightmare this time of the year and shipping times may be up to 1-2 weeks longer than usual.

If you want to make sure your gift arrives on time (especially outside of Europe):

order early

choose tracked shipping

or message me on Etsy so I can try to find a faster/cheaper alternative

Thank you!

[littleevil0ne1]

Inprnts sale is over but mine isn't! Use code 9NTIZJ to get 10% off!!

HOLIDAY SALE

RUNS THROUGH JANUARY 2ND 2024

10% OFF PRINTS (on top of any inprnt sale or total if no sales are running)

$10 OFF YCH COMMS

$25 OFF PIN UP AND BUST COMMS

$50 OFF HALF BODY AND FULL BODY COMMS

[theresattrpgforthat]

How To Find Cool Games: On DriveThruRPG!

So disclaimer upfront: I don’t use the DriveThruRPG website nearly as much as Itch.io. Some of those reasons are practical (there’s no tagging system, the catalogue is rather D&D saturated,), while others are more… well, shallow (the website isn’t as pretty).

However, DriveThruRPG is a very good tool to have in your toolbox when it comes to finding cool ttrpgs, for a number of reasons, the primary one being that it’s for TTRPGS and only TTRPGs! Let’s get started.

The Search Bar / Categories.

You can start by doing a basic search for a game that you already know about, or by searching for a keyword, like “pirates” or “zombies”. You’ll get titles sorted by “relevance”, so things that have the keyword in the name will show up first. One of the biggest downsides of this strategy is that everything kind of gets lumped in here: supplements, maps, expansions, adventures, character sheets… the list goes on. However, you can narrow down what you’re looking for by using the toggles at the top of the website. I personally usually narrow down search results by selecting “Product Type” and then “Core Rulebooks”.

One nice thing DriveThru has compared to Itch.io is that you can combine categories, so if I wanted to brows say, Gothic Horror Core Rulebooks priced under $20, well I can do that! My favourite categories are for genre, but another set of categories that you may find very useful once you’ve familiarized yourself with some games is the Rule System category. There are categories for systems like the Year Zero Engine, Forged in the Dark, BRP (Basic Roleplaying), OSR, and so much more. There’s also “other systems” and “any system” categories if you want to find something that’s unique or that can be used across games.

DriveThru also has a lot of games published in different languages, and you can narrow your results to see what’s been offered in your language. I think there are more options on this website than there are on Itch, although you might benefit by finding one or two publishers in your language on DriveThru, and then check the publisher’s website from there.

The Homepage

Another reason to check out DriveThru regularly is the sales and promotions. The top banner of the homepage will typically advertise a few things: the Deal of the Day, current themed sales, and special offers that DriveThru RPG wants you to know about. Their homepage also has Bestselling Titles, Most Popular Games Under $5, Newest Games, Featured Titles, and, if you scroll down enough, Personalized suggestions. Unlike Itch.io, DriveThru does a lot of work to show you what’s new, what’s hot, and what’s a really good deal right now, which can all be really helpful things!

When you land on a game, you’ll be able to see whether or not DriveThru sells physical copies, some basic information like book size, rule system, publisher & author, and a blurb describing the setting and other general information about the game. DriveThru has a side panel with “Customers also Bought”, which is great for showing you things that you might like, either because they surround the same theme, they work for the same game, or they are in a similar genre. (Another thing that Itch isn’t quite as good at.)

You’ll also be able to see (and leave) reviews for game, including the ratings left by other people who have picked it up. Occasionally I’ll find really useful information in the reviews, as reviewers might talk about mechanics they love or loathe, or recommend styles of play that they feel the game matches.

Finally, like Itch, DriveThru will let you know if you’ve already bought the game, and provide you with a download shortcut.

Publishing House Pages

Larger publishing houses typically have their ttrpg content sorted very nicely for you on their publisher pages, to help you find the things that you want. Modiphius is a great example, sorting Star Trek, Dune, Fallout, and their 2d20 games all in special categories.

Many publishers also have a Community Content section, which is great if you’re looking for assets, new adventures, hacks of a game system and some very reasonably priced (or even cheap) game additions. Similar to Itch, DriveThru has a Pay-What-You-Want feature for many games, although, unlike Itch, most PWYW titles require that you pay a non-zero amount.

Newsletters

When you create an account on DriveThruRPG, you can sign up for various different kinds of newsletters. Some come directly from DriveThru itself: this includes the Follow Your Favourites and Deal of the Day options, as well as weekly/monthly newsletters carrying information about new releases, special promotions, and (often) a free ttrpg product of the month.

However, on top of that, when you purchase a game or follow publishing pages, you can also get emails about new releases specific to those creators, as well as updates if a new version of a game you bought has been added. Often if it’s a game you already bought, this means you own the new version too - something that DriveThru has in common with Itch!

The Follow Your Favourites announcements will line up with whatever you’ve chosen to follow on the website. I’ve asked for updates about new Core Rulebooks, and I also get updates from the Onyx Path and a few other places where I found games I really liked. I also check the Deal of the Day offers fairly regularly; sometimes there are really really good deals offered and if it’s a game you know or like, then you don’t want to miss out on a sale!

Wishlists

DriveThru allows you to add games to wishlists to look at later, and even gives you the ability to sort your wishlists, although the process feels harder to look through than Itch does; I think it might be a UI issue.

However, because it acts like a wishlist, you can move games from the wishlist into your cart and vice versa, as well as move the games to another list. One really nice thing about the wishlist section is that DriveThru will alway show you when something you want is on sale, and how much it is normally - Itch does this too, but in this case, DriveThru is much easier to read!

I mostly sort my wishlists into Core Rulebooks and Supplements, because I don’t have nearly as many games bookmarked on DriveThru. If it exists on Itch, I store it on Itch - but there are plenty of other, “someday’ games, that I want to be able to find again in the future.

Your Library

DriveThruRPG has an app that you can download onto your computer or your phone, and it basically acts as a library that you can look through. In both the webpage and the app, you can sort your purchases alphabetically, from new to old, by publisher, by whether or not they were updated, and using similar categories as the search bar on the store front.

Free things can definitely be found here, even if they’re harder to look for. On DriveThru, most free products are things like character sheets, playtest games, or Quickstarts. However, some publishers do put up their stuff for free. Whenever I can get a Quickstart of something interesting, or if I find something being offered for free, I add it to my library. Free games are how I got started in ttrpgs, and QuickStarts are wonderful introductions to a system that usually give you a good idea of what the game is going to feel like.

Conclusion

Overall, DriveThruRPG is great for folks who like certain big publishing houses, and folks who like a good deal. I personally usually end up on the site because something in my emails caught my eye, which is the opposite of how I navigate Itch. DriveThru was my home base before I discovered Itch.io, so I still have a little fondness for the website, even if looking through it is a little bit of a slog.

One thing that might be a bit of an annoyance is that if you own something from a certain company, they might be able to send you a lot of emails for every sale and new product. If this becomes too much, you can choose to opt out from those publishers.

If you don’t want to have to actively engage with the website as much as say, Itch, DriveThru’s email system is also a big help. You can customize your subscriptions to match what you’re interested in, and then just check your emails once in a while to see what’s on offer. After a while you’ll also learn about yearly events, like the Summer Sale, which often provides big discounts on a lot of different games.

DriveThru is also a great place to start if you’re looking for print versions of games: I don’t know what shipping is like to places outside Canada, but I definitely appreciate that it’s an option, and sometimes all you need to do is find a game or publisher - once you know that it exists, you can google that publisher, check out their website, and figure out the best place to order from there.

[mad-serotonin]

What if we were both birds,,, and we uhh 👉🏻👈🏻 played volleyball together,,,🏐

Y’all get a sneak at some of the new Haikyuu prints I’m powering through for Metrocon!

[chellychuu]

New prints! 🎀

[oddarette]

Big shop update!! ✨💖✨

I've added my new Korean food cats, cursed bobas, and winking cat series to my shop! I decided to give the dedicated collectors the option to get all nine winking cats instead of having to order a bunch of random ones in the hopes of getting them all. I also restocked a bunch of popular stickers from past releases!

Shop Link!

Also, friendly reminder that you can also buy prints on my inprnt. I didn't realize how few people actually knew I had an inprnt. Typical bad artist marketing 🙃 Inprnt Link

[paradoxproductions]

This is been many years in the making and I’m happy to finally announce I have stickers available! Both my bugs, and some funny sarcastic star emoji stickers are available on my kofi shop! The bug stickers even has an add on to get the matching print for only $5!

I have been so excited to make these! So, if you’d like to help a very broke / low income disabled queer who’s art has been constantly stolen and sold as stickers on the internet by getting some legitimate stickers, that’d be awesome! The price is also super negotiable, and if you’d like some but can’t afford the price point just DM me and we can work something out!

Reblogging would also be cool and helpful to help me reach my target audience!

I will absolutely be making bigger and better themed sticker sheet sets very soon if this isn’t something you fancy, so stay tuned for that!

(Also please ignore how in all the photos the stickers are uncut and have some smearing. I’m still working out my printer settings and they’re uncut to show size reference, they’re printed on high quality 8.5x11 glossy sticker paper, and no A Grade orders will have any ink smearing and all stickers will be pre cut before shipping!)