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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Dominus Playing Cards - KS
« on: May 18, 2016, 07:19:07 PM »
Quote from: Fes on May 18, 2016, 07:10:56 PM
Have to say, I like the way he handled that. I don't have a copy of the Indictus deck, the only NPCC deck in my possession at the moment is Branle. Which I have on my desk now and in my hands a moment ago, the other NPCC printed deck I had I can't remember the name is gone. They may have gotten better and changed stock since this deck was printed. Assuming of course that Indictus was done after this. Either way these decks in particular of the Dominus campaign feature some delicious art. If anyone is keen on the images in these decks other things are not hard to overlook in my opinion.

It was a good response, and I could have asked a lot nicer than I did. I am in for this and also Bone/Ebon for the art, we remain skeptical of the quality, we will see how they turn out I guess.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Bone & Ebon Playing Cards (KS)
« on: May 18, 2016, 06:43:40 PM »
Quote from: PrincessTrouble on May 18, 2016, 06:21:23 PM
Since the project creator is Roman Kotiv from NoirArts, I don't think he'll be swayed away from printing with NPCC.  ;-)

I dunno, I would never use the services of the company I work for...

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Playing Card Plethora / Black/Silver Monarch Special Editions for 'Now You See Me 2'
« on: May 18, 2016, 03:38:28 PM »
https://store.theory11.com/products/now-you-see-me-playing-cards

Promotional limited edition deck for the film Now You See Me 2. Black stock with silver foil tuck. Looks like traditional Monarch's cards from what I can tell.

$10+shipping

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Dominus (KS)
« on: May 18, 2016, 12:13:11 PM »
Quote from: Don Boyer on May 17, 2016, 09:01:18 PM
Contact the creator, express your dissatisfaction with the decks you have from NPCC and convince him to switch if he wants your backing.  MPC can't be that much more expensive, and with enough backing, Legends, Expert and even USPC aren't beyond reach.

"Justin
If you had held an Indictus deck in your hands right now, that concern of yours might not have been raised to begin with. It seems to me like you got your mind set that one company does wrong while the other does right. There are certainly different views on this. Every company has strengths and weaknesses, but I have no urge to list them here. My choice of printer is based on hands-on experience with both LPCC, USPCC, MPC, EPCC and NPCC as a project creator. There are many factors to take into account, but ultimately NPCC has the best overall score in my book. I am not interested in changing to any of your listed printer companies, if I can avoid it.
I hope for your understanding that I do not praise the concern you raise on fictional grounds, since you are neither a backer of Chivalry nor Indictus. Both decks that represent the technical capabilities of NPCC well.
Cheers"

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Dominus (KS)
« on: May 17, 2016, 06:56:48 PM »
Damn. I even commented on the other one, haha.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Dominus (KS)
« on: May 17, 2016, 02:46:24 PM »
Card faces

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Playing Card Plethora / Dominus (KS)
« on: May 17, 2016, 02:45:46 PM »

(Will link to KS project page)

2 limited ed. decks with metallic ink and gold foiled, embossed tucks. Vol. II in the 'Light vs. Darkness' series by Nicolai Aarøe.

Dominus illustrates the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek to gain power through activities related to the underworld and dark magic. Dominus seek to represent light and darkness with a mirrored 2-deck theme, Divinus and Obscura.

4 Knights (Jacks), 4 Queens and 4 Kings of European monarchies. All illustrated on their moral right paths in the Divinus deck, while the Obscura deck features the same rulers in their darker versions.

► Designed in collaboration with more than 600 backers!
► Limited Ed. (1.600 of each edition)
► Gold foiled and embossed tuck boxes (no printing)
► Numbered and matching tuck seals 
► Deluxe matte and sturdy tuck boxes
► 100% custom design of cards, pips and tucks
► Mirrored front and back designs
► Metallic ink with gold pigment on card backs + fronts
► 54 poker sized cards (52+2 jokers)
► Printed by NPCC with highest quality linen stock
► Vol. II in the 'Light vs. Darkness' series
► Savings on each deck with higher pledges
► All decks shipped to backers in protective boxes

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Bone & Ebon Playing Cards (KS)
« on: May 17, 2016, 02:33:08 PM »
I'm conflicted. I don't like NPCC, but I really love this art. I am having the same issues with Dominus (Dominus Thread), another NPCC KS deck but great artwork. I wish I could take their designs and start KS projects with a different printer.

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Playing Card Plethora / Bone & Ebon Playing Cards (KS)
« on: May 17, 2016, 02:21:55 PM »

(Will link to KS project page)

54 Unique Custom Hand Drawn Playing Cards Portraying Modern World in Otherworldly Dark Aesthetics

The BONE deck was crafted with subdued shades of ivory, giving the figures the look of polished bone, with exquisite gold metallic ink accents and a unique ace of spades.
The EBON deck is signified by stark shades of ashen grey, giving the figures the look of hewn slate, with silver metallic ink accents and a unique ace of spades.

Shipping for Momento Mori backers will be packaged together and free on this project (Select the 'Special' tier for your reward)

•Artwork Created By Comics Artist – Noah Whippie
•Printed And Fulfilled By NPCC
•Metallic inks for both decks
•Kickstarter Exclusive
•Custom Courts, Aces, Jokers, Pips Layout, Backside And Tuck Box
•One-way courts to show maximum detailing of images
•Premium Cardstock With Linen Finish With Ultrasleek Card Coating
•Custom Shape Seals As Stretch Goal
•Custom Interior As Stretch Goal
•Embossing For Tucks As Stretch Goal
•Gold/Silver Foils For Tucks As Stretch Goal


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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Chicken Nuggets
« on: May 16, 2016, 12:33:45 PM »
Quote from: Don Boyer on May 16, 2016, 06:19:34 AM
Quote from: Justin O. on May 13, 2016, 12:22:54 PM
Quote from: PrincessTrouble on May 13, 2016, 12:13:54 PM
FYI, I asked Hanson if the printer that HCPC will use is the same Taiwan factory used by EPCC and LPCC.  He said no.

Thank you, that's what I was wondering.

I wouldn't worry too much about it.  It's actually less about the printer, more about the stock.  The best Asian printers tend to use stocks based from Europe.  EPCC and LPCC used European stocks.

USPCC and makeplayingcards.com use German stocks right?
And I know that makeplayingcards.com uses digital printers, and can't match press quality, but believe I read somewhere that they recently started using presses. I know that USPCC and Legends use presses, I assume Expert does as well..?

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: 5th & Laurel Playing Cards
« on: May 13, 2016, 01:00:19 PM »
I really wasn't interested in this deck when I first saw it, didn't get one, and am kicking myself for it now. The design has really grown on me and I wish I had a few now. Checking eBay regularly for reasonable resells.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Chicken Nuggets
« on: May 13, 2016, 12:22:54 PM »
Quote from: PrincessTrouble on May 13, 2016, 12:13:54 PM
FYI, I asked Hanson if the printer that HCPC will use is the same Taiwan factory used by EPCC and LPCC.  He said no.

Thank you, that's what I was wondering.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Chicken Nuggets
« on: May 12, 2016, 06:22:32 PM »
Hanson Chien Production Company? Does he have his own printer? Or is this part of the joke?

Speculation was USPCC based on them having printed the Jerry's Nuggets originally, but I don't know that that was ever confirmed by the creator. I believe.. Expert and Legends use a Taiwan printer..? Help me out here Don, I know I have seen you talk about this before but can't find where..

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Chicken Nuggets
« on: May 12, 2016, 05:58:41 PM »
Quote from: Don Boyer on May 12, 2016, 04:28:34 PM
...and how do you know there aren't MORE goals that just haven't been reached yet?

I do love those secret stretch goals!
And maybe it's silly of me to have an expectation of what 'Stretch Goals' means based on the way it has been nearly exclusively used on virtually every other Kickstarter project that uses the term, but I think it's somewhat reasonable to have expectations.
Is it so outrageous that the project creator might be even remotely culpable for using a term that has a generally accepted concept format based on it's history of use? I can't be that far removed from reality.


Quote from: Don Boyer on May 12, 2016, 04:28:34 PM
That's all him, no one else.

And c'mon now Don, don't patronize me, it's not just me, I believe CardFool above expressed the same irritation not even 8 posts back. As well as users at UC and I'm pretty sure I saw one person in the project comments express the same irritation.

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Chicken Nuggets
« on: May 12, 2016, 02:58:24 PM »
Quote from: Don Boyer on May 12, 2016, 01:37:22 PM
That right there is the key.  Since you were promised nothing more than "a stretch goal," you only have yourself to blame for getting one and being disappointed in it.  Now if he'd promised free decks, gold doubloons, loose women, etc., then I can see how you'd be justified...  But he didn't!

To be fair, he did pluralize it, 'goals'. I take responsibility for my entitlement and expectations, but I feel like there is at least... 20% blame on the creator at least..?

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Chicken Nuggets
« on: May 12, 2016, 12:15:25 PM »
Quote from: Don Boyer on May 12, 2016, 08:21:20 AM
Some people aren't happy no matter what you give them...

I'm a little entitled, sure, but the creator shouldn't bullshit me by saying 'stretch goals here!' then not listing any. By teasing a backer gift and giving us a single card. By claiming that the project has reached 800% of it's goal and saying thank you for allowing me to pocket all of this extra money, here's an expensive deck, but it's ok because 'super limited!', and you even get one for free if you've already spent over $100. /rant

I've been spoiled by other creators for sure. I will throw the extra card away and I'm not going to buy a black deck. I know that I only have myself to blame for my expectations, but that doesn't make me feel any less irritated, regardless of whether it's justified or not

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Chicken Nuggets
« on: May 11, 2016, 07:10:48 PM »
I'm a little irritated (maybe I'm just being entitled) that at over 400% of his goal his big gift to the backers is just a different colored card in the deck and a 20$ recolor you can add on

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Dominus Playing Cards - KS
« on: May 11, 2016, 07:08:31 PM »
Quote from: Don Boyer on May 11, 2016, 06:53:10 PM
Noir Arts is getting more print work it seems.  Has their quality improved at all?  The last I heard, it wasn't that great.

Comments in this guy's last project seem to confirm that it still is sub-par. I, rather critically, asked if he had any plans to stretch-goal a better printer and he made it clear he wasn't, that he was happy with NPCC's quality (read: price)

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Design & Development / Re: Dwarfs First time around, early art work.
« on: April 27, 2016, 03:40:48 PM »
I don't understand the significance of the smeared hand print behind the pips?

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Chicken Nuggets
« on: April 27, 2016, 12:29:04 PM »
In for two, will likely upgrade for a few more, love the homage.

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The Pasteboard Bazaar - Sales, Trades & In Search Of (STISO) / Re: [eBay] Selling the remainder of my collection
« on: April 21, 2016, 12:52:27 PM »
These all appear to be ended, please update

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Playing Card Plethora / ICONS Sacred Ed.
« on: April 19, 2016, 05:58:10 PM »
"The deck features gold metallic ink on the faces, gold and silver metallic on the back and an intricate tuck case that was amazingly stamped on 2-sided color "metallic" stock, pushing the limits of detailed foiling.

600 numbered decks will become available out of the 700 produced and ICONS “SACRED” will never be reprinted.


As it was technically very demanding, and before I go to the press for IMPERIAL edition's final print, I decided to “sacrifice” this deck and use it in order to test my new printer’s efficiency and also to experiment with various production aspects from cutting methods and metallic inks’ behavior to playing card finish.

I used my own varnishing formula which has a feel that I like but appears a bit sensitive to rubbing and should be handled with care. That said, crafted with much love, devotion -and some risk-, ICONS SACRED is an experimental deck, more an art object than a deck for playing games.
But who can actually play games with the Sacred? That would be a sacrilege…"

$20 +shipping

http://www.halfmoonplayingcards.com/#!shop/c20f2

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Playing Card Plethora / Re: Pink Fontaines
« on: April 19, 2016, 01:21:29 PM »
I like them, I like the look of the Fontaines in general, but not for that price.

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Playing Card Plethora / Pink Fontaines
« on: April 18, 2016, 04:22:45 PM »
http://www.fontainecards.com/

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Design & Development / Re: Binary/Circuit deck - In development
« on: April 07, 2016, 12:25:28 PM »
Really loving the circuitry designs so far, spot on! The binary designs aren't quite grabbing me though, too... Matrix-y? Maybe... I'm not sure...

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