Greetings.
over 4 years ago
– Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 07:40:26 PM
Hello everyone,
I must admit that we had hoped to have an update sooner. Here’s how things currently stand, and we’re not going to try to sugar coat it.
As we stated in our December update we were waiting on the video of the completed bottle mold. Well, we are still waiting. Since that time there have been more delays with the mold production, and we are now well into January and the Chinese national holiday period. While the Answer mold may be complete, without the bottle all you have is a very poor (and hollow) d20.
To make things more complicated, there’s the matter of the Coronavirus outbreak. We at Noble Dwarf don’t know how much of an impact this has on the factory, but we are trying to be understanding. As cases have begun appearing outside of China, we urge everyone to take care. If you haven’t already, please visit the CDC website and learn more about the infection:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/index.html
With all that said, we are currently exploring options to find another factory capable of producing the bottle mold. We are also in talks with the original factory, and with our arbitrators in regards to potential redress, should it be required. Currently, our primary concern is to get the molds complete so that we can begin production and deliver this project.
If you have any specific questions please contact me directly via email at
[email protected]
Thank you and have a wonderful day!
happy Holidays
over 4 years ago
– Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 02:02:05 PM
Hello everyone! I hope the world is spinning in your direction.
As you can imagine a large part of projects like this one is wait time, I for one am not particularly good at waiting. I have been in constant contact with the factory throughout the molding process.
On that front I have great news to share, the answer mold is finished and producing great results! Check out these images.
The challenge comes from the bottle mold, apparently, the complexities of the bottle are proving more of a challenge than expected at the factory. They are on their 3rd iteration of the bottle molds and are expecting to wrap that up shortly and send us a video.
When we planned this Kickstarter we budgeted 2 extra months in our delivery time, if everything had gone 100% smoothly we should have had the bottles last week and be delivering them to you in February as planned with all your add-ons. However, once they receive the mold it is still a 20-day production time and at least 30 days at sea before we will have them in hand.
To add to the delays it's now the holidays and most of China is off a good portion of January and February for their national celebrations. Since they were supposed to be on a ship back in November we had not expected the holidays to be a concern but here we are.
As soon as we have a confirmation video of the bottle and mold we will begin production and I will update you again at that time.
On other fronts, the add-ons are coming along great! The adventure is in the works, the miniatures are printing well (1129 minis) just for the bottles, and we are just as eager to move forward with shipping as you are.
I am sorry that it was not all good news, but I think for the world we live in it is still moving along fantastically.
Some updates from the company as a whole.
We are thrilled to announce that we have finished updating our booth for conventions and that our application is under review to exhibit at Gencon 2020! For those of you able to make it to Garycon 2020 please come by and see us, we would love to put faces with names and talk about what we can do to elevate your game.
At the same time, we have negotiated the commercial rights to some amazing art that you will be seeing soon. New products from this art will include Earrings, Cufflinks, Tie-clip, Money-clip, and Enamel Pins. We now have the rights to produce canvas prints of ALL the artwork used for Exodus TCG and will be adding that to our website soon. Castillo Studios is adding nearly 100 amazing designs to their T-shirt selection on our website and we have just completed a new set of class art, all of this means we are moving forward and building the foundation to keep contributing to the community we all love.
Your continued support really does mean the world to us.
@NobleDwarf
Happy Halloween Everyone!
over 4 years ago
– Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 10:37:44 PM
I hope you had an enjoyable evening.
We have initiated the order locking process through Backerkit and will be charging the credit cards in the next few days once this process has been completed. There are still about 70 more surveys that need to be completed for those backers to receive their orders on time but we will not hold up the process for everyone else.
If you have not received a survey please follow this link and make that happen!
Please make sure your Kickstarter email is up to date so that you will continue to receive project updates as they are posted.
Have a great weekend
Noble Dwarf
