Author: kobo1d
It’s the start of the holiday season! Those of us in the US are celebrating Thanksgiving this week, and there will be no regular post on Tabletop Builds. Instead, we wanted to provide a short status update for Tabletop Builds and thank you, the readers, for continued support and feedback.
Our website continues to grow as more people discover our little optimization blog.
It continues to be our goal to be a unique voice in the D&D 5E optimization community, to fill a niche that we don’t think has been filled. Much of the information we provide is already a known quantity, but not captured in a single place and presented cleanly. Some of the things we write, seemingly no one else is writing about at all, or is contrary to the prevailing consensus. We hope you have found our arguments in support of such controversial takes convincing.
Website Statistics
For those curious, here is a different type of statistics than we usually present. Since starting Tabletop Builds in April 2021, we have accumulated:
- More than 133,000 views…
- Over more than 73,000 sessions…
- By more than 37,000 unique users!
We have had more than 130 comments here on our posts, and our Discord has been very active, with more than 300 users joining to discuss character builds and optimization, ask questions to the Tabletop Builds staff or community, share memes and socialize with other optimizers.
Thank you!
So far we’ve been totally ad and monetization free, and we plan to keep doing this as a passion project no matter what, but if you ever feel compelled to thank us, we have added a donation link to the site in the sidebar menu. May 2022: We have removed the donation link for now, as our server costs are fully funded through 2023. Thank you for your generosity, readers.
Any donations would support Tabletop Builds by first helping to cover our ongoing server costs, which are currently about $125 US per year. Beyond that, we hope to eventually grow the site even more with targeted advertisement on social media and search.
We have now had 20 authors write for our site, and most of them are also active editors with an uncredited hand in each of the final articles we post. The entire Tabletop Builds staff works on this for free. In the long term, it would also be nice to occasionally buy the authors and editors a coffee or tea!
Lastly, if you would prefer to donate to a charity in lieu of Tabletop Builds, we would like to promote ProLiteracy.
We’re right in the midst of our Flagship Build Series and are currently working on getting the last four builds ready for print. These are our current highest priority, but we plan to continue to intermix our typical brand of smaller articles in between Flagship posts as we make sure the builds are just right.
We are planning for a renewed emphasis in early 2022 on finishing more Complete Class Guides so our Artificer Guide isn’t so lonely. The Complete Guide to the Artificer is one of our most consistently popular articles, and we can’t wait to release a dozen more. These are huge projects, so we are planning to experiment with releasing the Class Guides in smaller sections rather than try to finish the whole thing at the same time like we do with most articles. Once completed, the finished products should look the same, it just might change the way they look on release for the dedicated people like you checking back every week.
What else would you like to see on Tabletop Builds? Leave a comment or suggest your ideas in our Discord server.
Love the site! You guys have gone against the grain on a number of popular topics, and I find that very refreshing – especially since you provide solid reasoning for your rankings.
As for what I’d like to see going forward: the two articles I most frequently refer back to are the Optimized Race & Lineage Guide, and the Optimized Feat Guide. Having a bundle of choices plainly laid out and analyzed is very useful for decision making, and the format of those guides could be applied to other topics, like: spells, invocations, maneuvers, metamagics, fighting styles, and wild shape forms.
There’d be a bit of redundancy between those articles and the class-specific guides you’re already planning, but since there’s a lot of crossover of class features (though feats and subclasses), having dedicated pages for my examples would be convenient, IMO.
I agree those would be great separate posts. I think if we will be releasing the Class Guides in sections it makes it easy to do that.
Thank you for the reminder to keep working on the Invocation section of the Warlock class guide. It’ll be there in one whole section like the Races and Feats Guides. Same with the others, or at the very least coverage of the standouts. 😉
Just donated a year’s worth of server upkeep as a thank you for some of the most comprehensive, accurate, and intelligent optimization content I’ve had the pleasure of reading. I look forward to the future of ttb!
Wow! The words and sponsorship both mean a lot.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph thank you so much for the donation! Sometimes I wonder if what we’re doing is worth doing because it can be very frustrating to pore over every dang spell option/possibility for the builds but these words and the action mean a lot. Thank you again so much.
Love this blog, you guys rock! I have discovered you through Pack Tactics. Keep rocking.