THE COMPANIONS - Steve Ellis Playmats & Tokens!

Good evening gamers!

All of the backers who pledged for a penciled, inked, or painted AP from Steve have had those sent along!

The random APs for first 150 backers (aka all backers haha) have not gone out - apologies about that misunderstanding. 

The playmats have been paid for (three weeks ago now) and we are waiting for a final date as to when we are going to have them in hand. We haven't heard anything from UltraPro in this regard. 

Thanks all!

Good morning gamers -

Wanted to check in this week with at least one piece of news. I, Cal, have all of the artist proofs from this BackerKit in my possession & will be shipping them out to their recipients on Monday, seperate from the rest of their normal pledge. If they have tokens, I'll be sending those along as well. 

In that vein, if you ordered just tokens: Good news! Those orders will be going out as well. 

We have the playmat order on the books, we're just waiting for a solid date from UltraPro as to when we will actually have them in hand. 

Thanks y'all!
Cal 

Good evening gamers - some good news. 

The mat order is officially with UltaPro - as in they've fully signed off on it & so we have we & so has Steve & so has Wizards on all of the art. We don't have a final print date from them yet, but we should have one soon. 

For those of you who bought artists proofs! We are also mailing these individually very soon so that y'all will have them in your hands.

That's it for this week's quick updates - but they are two quite excellent pieces of news, if I do say so myself.  

Thanks all, 
Cal 

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)