You may want to consider creating your own community, specifically made for creators to share their announcements. It the same as allowing users to opt-out of newsletters really: either they are interested in potentially spending money on creations, or they would never consider doing so.

If you go this route, you would definitely be in your right to create a post here to announce the creation of such a community. It's not an ad, it's information linking to a new community which will be a self-promoting platform for creators.

I am making some assumptions based on some of your other answers, so please correct me if I am wrong.

I love independent creators, especially when they are generous enough to hand out some free content. It certainly wasn't free to create! I would love to have engaged creators in any community.

However, it seems like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what community engagement should look like. A bunch of posts talking about your products even with some freebies thrown in isn't community engagement, it's advertising.

A better way would be to respond to questions asking for recommendations with info about your products, while also disclosing that you are the author, or maybe even someone else's product of that might be a better fit for their needs.

An even better way to engage is to respond to other people already recommending your products with a thanks and some links to your latest freebies or a note about a upcoming release/Kickstarter.

If you want to be a part of the community then be a part of it, don't just view it as a marketing opportunity. The key is that you shouldn't only be here to sell your stuff.

I'm just confused by what you are asking. Are you asking if this community is OK with you self promoting D&D related stuff you made and want to sell? If it were up to me, I would say yes within reason, no one wants this community to become one loud ad. But I'm not sure the moderator would agree and it is up to them. I don't see a no self-promotion rule yet but maybe message them directly?

If you just want to share content you found and generally participate like normal then I am absolutely sure you are wanted here.

One direction to take this conversation is to legitimize a formal ads platform and move the technology in that direction. It's not a concept that has had airtime in federated social(open source, anti-corporate and all) but it fits into the model of enthusiast communities to have a magazine that is "both articles and ads".

I think that for many users, the situation is not that different compared to back on Reddit, even there sharing things as a Creator was accepted, but only in a limited and reasonable way. Often subreddits required you to share some new free assets, and in that post you could then also promote your Patreon or store. But those assets should be high quality and usable, and not low effort or unusable stuff that is just used as an add.

Sharing Kickstarts is probably more difficult, I guess within the right community that would be fine. But except for the few larger kickstarters by the very large Creators, most D&D players would definitely consider those adds.

Apologies I somehow missed this thread. We are working on a solution to this issue at the moment and will be posting about it very soon. TLDR yes you will be able to self promote, with some caveats on how you go about doing that. This will make more sense soon so please stay tuned.