Strut your Numenera stuff! Today we’re pleased to announce that you can get Numenera T-shirts, mugs, phone and laptop skins, and more!
Back during the Into the Ninth World Kickstarter campaign, our backers unlocked a reward: We would offer Numenera T-shirts through a third-party vendor. We thought this would be one of the easiest rewards to fulfill: come up with some cool shirt designs, print cool shirts, and offer cool shirts to all of you! (Plus, selfishly, the MCG team really wanted Numenera t-shirts, so it was just a great excuse to do something that we were already pining for).
However, it didn’t turn out to be quite so simple. Whenever we’re making decisions behind the scenes, on ANY product, the first and most important question we ask is, “is this the level of quality that we’d be proud to put our name on?” If the answer is no (or even a “um…maybe?”), then we start over.
We did our research and scouted out what people recommended as the top places to get cool-looking t-shirts online. Then Bear made up some shirt designs, and we ordered some sample shirts… A LOT of sample shirts.
As they arrived, we looked at the make and feel of the shirt: soft? comfortable? true to size?
Then we looked at the print job: were the colors off? was the image stretched? were the details clear?
Then we washed and dried the shirts a whole bunch: did they shrink? did the printing wear off?
In the end, very few of the shirts we ordered made it through our quality control check unscathed. The most common failure was that the printing just wasn’t as beautiful as we wanted it to be. Other shirts were uncomfortable, didn’t fit right, or didn’t last the through multiple washer/dryer trials.
But there was one clear winner in the end, and that was Red Bubble. The shirts were soft and high quality and the printing was crisp and clean. There was also a lot of variety–great unisex and women’s sizes, as well as long and short sleeve options. So then we went a little bit crazy—we test-printed leggings, coffee cups, laptop sleeves, phone cases, and more. And the quality continued to make us very, very happy.
So with all of that, we are excited and proud to present Numenera Gear. We hope you love these as much as we do. Please send us photos of you showing your Numenera love out in the world—or bring your goodies to Gen Con (or another convention we’re at) and we’ll be happy to sign them for you!
