Good news! The four Sabbat preconstructed decks and Anthology I are reprinted and should be shipping by the end of March. This means all our ten current Vampire: The Eternal Struggle products will be ready for your local game store to stock.
Yes, it is true. With Drivethrucards.com, you can now create your own cards for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle. Choose artwork, card names and effects, then have the cards printed and sent to you.
Dear Community,
Black Chantry Productions have discovered that the new Vampire: The Eternal Struggle cards (pre-constructed decks and Anthology I) produced by our printing partner Cartamundi have a 5 mm corner cut rather than 3 mm.
How this happened:
Cartamundi made an error copying their instructions from their sales order side to their factory. They are very apologetic about the error and so are we – this is not how we want to celebrate new cards being out in the community.
What this means:
The cards will require opaque sleeves to make them tournament legal when mixed with cards of other editions.
How we avoid this in future:
1. Cartamundi will now provide hardcopy proofing to enable spotting of cutting errors, rather than the digital proofs we currently have (which does not allow us to spot such mistakes).
2. Cartamundi have added additional notes to our customer file to ensure all orders go through as 3 mm corners.
All future print runs will have the 3 mm corners, and note that cards produced by DriveThruCards do not have the cutting error.
In the meantime, you can look forward to a new set of promotional cards that will be sent out to distributors and retailers to enable support for the community.
Thank you,
Black Chantry Productions
1) Black Chantry Productions now have our first US distributor for the European printed products: KGS Cards, found at www.kgs-cards.com. More distributors are interested and are hopefully added soon!
2) We continue to do print-on-demand on Drivethrucards.com, and now we also test providing the “European” tuckboxes for these print-on-demand products. The test will apply for Anthology I, available February 16th. We love feedback on the tuckboxes, as they cost more to produce and are not optional for the buyer. Comment on Facebook, Twitter or contact@blackchantry.com.
For more information about distribution: Buy and sell our products
Recently the deck lists for the four upcoming Vampire: The Eternal Struggle preconstructed starter decks have been revealed at Blackchantry.com. We are delighted by all kind and appreciative words about these – it is a joy working with this game and its fans! If you missed the decks, please have a look here:
Den of Fiends – Clan Tzimisce
Libertine Ball – Clan Toreador antitribu
Pact with Nephandi – Clan Tremere antitribu
Parliament of Shadows – Clan Lasombra
Yet some individual new cards and artwork have not been spoiled – keep an eye on Blackchantry.com and our Facebook and Twitter channels for this in the coming weeks.
The official release date for the decks are February 16, 2019.
UPDATE: Anthology 1 will also be available for sale February 16, 2019.
If you are a distributor or a store owner and want to sell these products, please mail us at contact@blackchantry.com
If you want to discuss the contents of these decks with us and other VTES players, visit the forum or Facebook-group of V:EKN, the official player organisation of the game.
