What the heck is West Marches??? | Dungeons and Dragons style analysis 

The discord "market" idea is also a nice way to introduce downtime activities to keep players engaged and burning gold in between sessions.

I think if Wizards of the Coast were really on the ball with their ‘we need to monetize like a video game’ thought process they should have a stash of full time DMs on salary doing semi canonical adventures in a West Marches style. The pay model? Well each DM or Region would be named a different Adventurers Guild of which there are dues for entry and a nominal fee for events or if you join more than 3 adventurers a month or something…then they could open up revenue streams of merch for guilds, or books for the settings, or replicas of loot the parties could leave with.