I’m more than happy to current the second twenty fifth anniversary addition to our store, the brand-new “RPGFan Transitions” design that illustrates the six main brand designs we’ve got had all through our historical past. And whereas I intend to share a little bit of the story behind this design (it’s right here!), first let’s cowl the necessities!

Since this design celebrates this yr’s twenty fifth anniversary of RPGFan, it should solely be obtainable till the top of the yr! Since our web site has traditionally solely had a darkish background (till 2019), it made sense to solely supply it on just a few chosen darkish shades. It’s obtainable throughout most of our store lineup — t-shirts, cellphone circumstances, mugs, and extra. Right here’s a preview of some choices, with essentially the most notable being the debut of our very first entrance & again print t-shirt!

The RPGFan Transitions merchandise can be found now, and for the subsequent three days, our traditional tees are solely $16 USD, and the whole lot else is as much as 35% off!

We like how the design turned out, however it felt like it could ideally be a again print, despite the fact that our companions at TeePublic typically supply front-only prints like many producers. Coincidentally, as this design was being finalized, TeePublic began providing entrance & financial institution printing. It was clearly meant to be.

You possibly can see the design on all merchandise for your self by shopping our store, however I need to spotlight some extra choices right here to provide you a style:

Personally, I’m fairly keen on the cellphone circumstances! Like a lot of you, little doubt, I’m very specific with my cellphone circumstances. It actually has to have the precise really feel and never too cumbersome, or it isn’t going to work for me. Early on, I bought one in all our personal cellphone circumstances for myself, as a result of I actually needed to verify we have been promoting one thing I may get behind. Since I haven’t used one other cellphone case in over a yr, I’m blissful to say TeePublic makes stable cellphone circumstances, with a surprisingly sturdy print; my case nonetheless appears to be like like new.

The Story

Okay, in case you’re nonetheless studying at this level, you need to know extra, proper? Proper. This isn’t an extended story, however it’s been a enjoyable course of, and I need to present how a lot work went into this merchandise. For those who’ve been studying RPGFan for a very long time — or have merely learn our twentieth anniversary characteristic, Historical past of the RPGFan Emblem — you’ll acknowledge these older logos. However the older ones have been by no means meant to be seen at a big measurement, nor did print-quality resolutions even exist for them!

The oldest-school orange and inexperienced RPGFan brand got here from an unknown 3D textual content impact app someday in early 1999, and my later designs would typically be displayed at, say, 200 pixels throughout. For reference, print art work for our merchandise must be 5,000 pixels extensive. Even AI upscaling alone wasn’t going to bridge that a lot of a niche alone, however consider me, I attempted! The older logos have been upscaled, refined, adjusted, with some elements rebuilt only for this product launch.

It’s not essentially the most time-intensive RPGFan mission I’ve labored on this yr — however that’s a narrative for later — but when we have been going to launch one thing to commemorate our web site being on-line for over twenty-five years, I needed one thing worthy of such a feat.

Whether or not you’ve been with us for all 25 years, otherwise you discovered us 25 minutes in the past, I’m glad you’re right here, and hope you want RPGFan no less than partly as a lot as I do. We have now some thrilling issues within the works that I can’t wait to share with you past this, however for now, I’ll shut out with this humble request:

(And did I point out for the subsequent three days, our traditional tees are solely $16 USD, and the whole lot else is as much as 35% off? As a result of it’s true.)