THE COMPANIONS - Steve Ellis Playmats & Tokens!

Good morning everyone - hello, here we are!

How hard can it be to make a playmat one asks? Unfortunately, much harder than it appears when it contains Wizards of the Coast IP & requires one specific supplier.

To be frank, we have failed on the communication end as we have been working on trying to get this fulfilled.

The main hangup was that we were under the impression that all of the artwork was cleared when it was, in fact, not. This threw up a roadblock we were not expected all the way back in early August which we still have not overcome. We are now finally exploring taking the originally unwanted action of ordering the playmats that are cleared, so we can get as many playmats into y'alls hands as possible asap. 

Unfortunately, as alluded to before, contact and lead times from the playmat manufacturer remain... long. However, that is not an excuse.   

To those of you who ordered APs, I have asked Jay (DefCat Productions) to pass them onto me so that I can work on shipping them myself to those who ordered them. 

Believe us, we want this campaign fulfilled as much as you guys do. 

I, Cal, am committing to weekly updates giving any information we have until fulfillment has started. The lack of communication of (unfortunately little) news is directly my fault, given it being my role on the campaign. I wanted to communicate more when we had more solid timelines in place, but the timelines kept moving farther and farther back. I apologize. 

Thanks, 
Cal

Hello & good evening everyone!
Apologies for the long radio silence over the last few months - we haven't had much to share but now things are moving along & we could have communicated that better! Here's where we're at!

- Playmat arts have been cleared & we're in the final stages of getting them produced via UltraPro. This has been the main hangup as they have been going through some periods of changes a company that have slowed things down.

- Steve has completed all Artist Proof add-ons & have passed them onto DefCat for fufillment.

- Token designs have been finalized, production has been finished & products are currently en route to us!

A note about the tokens - unfortunately, our original plans for a tuck box did not work out for the premium token pack - the number of tokens we were putting in them was too low and, also, designs we were trying we weren't happy with. As a result, they will come in normal shrink-wrap packaging.
We are pleased to announce, however, that we have been able to double the amount of tokens (2x of each design per token pack as opposed to 1x) available on both token packs. We hope you enjoy them!

Thanks for reading everyone! We're going to be more active moving forward here as we move towards finalizing all elements of production & getting shipping underway! Appreciate you all!

Thanks, 
DefCat Productions (& Steve)

Good morning everyone!

The Survey has been in your hands for about two weeks now & we're at 86% completion!

IF you have not completed the survey yet, we please ask that you do so asap! We're still planning on waiting until mid-May or so to get the full production machine rolling - but the sooner we get people in, the sooner we can get final counts on products & get those to our suppliers! 

As to those of you who purchased APs (and also have filled out your survey) - we'll be connecting you each individually with Steve this week in order to get that process started for you (using your email listed for the Backerkit campaign)!

Thank you so much for the support!

Cal, Steve, & Jay 

Good morning everyone! Thank you SO much for the support on this campaign!

Two items of note!
#1 - if you or a friend missed the campaign, but are still interested, we have a Backerkit preorder store available here!
https://the-companions.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders/

#2 - Surveys! Keep an eye on your email, starting next week we'll be sending out a Backer survey so you can decide what playmat you want & those kind of things! It'll be a several month process to ensure everyone gets in their information, we get your money, place orders for playmats/tokens/etc. but this is an exciting start!

Thank you all!

We hit $10,000 & following the Steve-Poll we've unlocked Marionette Apprentice for the $10,000 backer reward tier! Sorry to the Elf loving gamers out there, but it seems that artifacts continue to remain supreme.

We've got a little over an hour left in the campaign - thanks so much for the support! :)