Hello Grand Festival Backers!
We’ve got exciting news this week of Gloomhaven fulfillment OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY in select regions, and others approaching fulfillment very soon....
Hello Grand Festival Backers!
Price here with this week’s update. We’ve got lots of important project updates for you this week on Gloomhaven ocean & land freight, Miniature...
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U.S. Freight Booked & U.S. Tariff Surcharges
Greetings Gloomhaven Grand Festival Backers,
Price Johnson here with an update primarily for our U.S. Backers of Gloomhaven 2nd Edition and those interested in U.S. tariff i...
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U.S. TARIFF UPDATE: 5/12/25
Good Afternoon U.S. Backers,
Price Johnson from Cephalofair here.
I just wanted to acknowledge the news today of the temporary tariff reduction from 145% --> 30% for the next 90 days, effective 5/14/25. (Still 30% more than Jan 1, 2025)
While this may offer some temporary ...
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Gloomhaven starting to ship
Good day! I (Isaac) am back in the update chair for some brief news on the projects.
Gloomhaven
We're going to start right off with fulfillment on Gloomhaven, which I know i...
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Planning our Initiatives (Tariffs Part 2)
Today’s project update will touch base on several aspects of our last major update “Tariffs & Tabletop” which if you haven’t, we’d invite and recommend reading HERE.
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Canadian and Australian/New Zealand Fulfillment Has Begun!
Hello Grand Festival Backers!
We’ve got exciting news this week of Gloomhaven fulfillment OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY in select regions, and others approaching fulfillment very soon. Scroll to the bottom of the update for miniature project updates and a brief recap of our Washington D.C. trip.
We also have the announcement of our official Cephalofair.com/Gloomhaven page which will serve as your primary game resource repository with features like:
After checking the above rulebook and FAQ consider dropping a question over in our official BoardGameGeek FAQ or Reddit r/gloomhaven FAQ threads!
Big shout out to William (@dwarf74), Cephalofair's official "Keeper of the FAQ", who will be bravely relaying all your uncertainties across our various design team members, replying, and adding to our FAQ over time.
So let’s get into it!
Fulfillment gets a star!
GLOOMHAVEN FREIGHT & FULFILLMENT
SUPPORT REMINDER: A friendly reminder that we are NOT ABLE to individually check fulfillment status or ETA for orders in a region until AFTER FULFILLMENT HAS BEEN COMPLETED (which we will confirm in our updates).
Requests sent to our support inbox prior to our signal of “FULFILLMENT COMPLETE” for a region will likely go unanswered and will slow down our response times on other and more urgent support requests.
Thank you for your patience and understanding!
-Forteller Backers
If your pledge containsForteller Audio Narration, redemption codes will be distributed digitally today/tonight following the publication of this Backerkit update! The team over at Forteller have done a beautiful job translating our game narrative into yet another compelling and attention grabbing audio narration. (In case you missed the announcement last week: Forteller will also be providing the audio narration for Frosthaven: Digital!)
UPDATE: Codes are still in the process of being distributed s of 6/18/25 due to an error we encountered on our end last night. These will still be distributed via the Backerkit Pledge Manager as soon as we've resolved.
-Preorder Backers Backerkit Preorders are included in "project fulfillment." Cephalofair.com webstore preorders will ship immediately following Backerkit fulfillment in their respective regions.
-Asia & South Pacific
We’ve been informed by our distribution/fulfillment partner VFI that a severe typhoon in their area has delayed all incoming projects—unfortunately including ours. We and our over-the-road freight partner are actively keeping in touch with them to schedule delivery ASAP. Thanks for your patience as we strive hard to bring you DRY pledges.
-Canada
FULTILLMENT HAS BEGUN! Congratulations to our northerly neighbors who are “first out the gate” for this fulfillment project, having officially started late last week. Orders have already started being received by backers. Special shout out to reddit user u/Levy99 who proudly posted their copy yesterday! We anticipate fulfillment of pledges+Backerkit pre-orders to be complete by the end of next week. With cephalofair.com pre-orders following shortly there-after.
Please note: FoldedSpace addons are still incoming to our warehouse and will be shipped separately. No need to panic if you don’t see it alongside your pledge at this time, or need to contact us until fulfillment is complete. This includes any orders of JUST FoldedSpace + Gloomhaven Accessories Only as well (no base game). Laserox addons will also ship independently directly from Laserox.
-Australia/New Zealand
FULFILLMENT IS BEGINNING TODAY! Our partner, Aetherworks, is scheduled to begin shipping orders imminently.
Please note: FoldedSpace & Laserox addons are shipping to you separately from their respective manufacturers directly. No need to panic if you don’t see it alongside your pledge at this time, or need to contact us until fulfillment is complete.
-United Kingdom
Your vessel, the HMM HOPE, is still on track for arrival to the port at the end of the week. Once unloaded, through customs, etc., it will be a short trek of a couple days over to Spiral Galaxy where we will be added to the fulfillment queue.
Please note: FoldedSpace & Laserox addons are shipping to you separately from their respective manufacturers directly. No need to panic if you don’t see it alongside your pledge at this time, or need to contact us until fulfillment is complete.
-United States
The first of two ships, the ONE FUTURE, arrived at port Thursday! This is the first two containers, once it clears customs, rail cars will be scheduled to have them shipped to our fulfillment warehouse. This can take 1-2 weeks, depending on rail car availability, but we expect to have it arrive by the end of the month. The second ship, EVER FOCUS, is still in transit and is currently scheduled to hit port near the end of the month.
Tariff surcharges are still pending implementation to your cart pending our first official customs clearance which will hopefully be any day now. We should have more information by or before the next update.
ONE FUTURE in port, waiting for unloading & customs.
EVER FOCUS due to port at the end of the month.
-Europe, Mexico, & “Rest of the World”
Your vessel, theCOSCO FORTUNE, has made some great progress and is looking to arrive almost 2 weeks ahead of schedule! Once it arrives and clears customs, it will be a quick hop over to Fulfillment Europe where they can start shipping out orders.
Please note: FoldedSpace & Laserox addons are shipping to you separately from their respective manufacturers directly. No need to panic if you don’t see it alongside your pledge at this time, or need to contact us until fulfillment is complete.
COSCO FORTUNE has arrived two weeks ahead of schedule!
MINIATURES OF GLOOMHAVEN
We’ve got an updated miniatures project tracker for you today and several more recently approved red wax samples below!
Several new Gloomhaven Summons samples approved and a few other SKU's update as well. 12 new PU samples arrived to our office this week as well!
CEPHALOFAIR RETURNS FROM WASHINGTON D.C.
Attendees included Robert Geistlinger, Arcane Wonders; Dustin Wessel, Arcane Wonders; Price Johnson, Cephalofair Games; Molly Zeff, Flying Leap Games; Matt Fantastic, Forever Stoked; Kevin Bertram, Fort Circle Games; Boyd Stephenson, Game Kastle College Park; Jason Matthews, JOE Design Studio; Kristin Looney, Looney Labs; Jordan McLaughlin, Rookie Mage Games; Curt Covert, Smirk & Dagger Games; Monica Rasso, Tabletop Enterprises LLC; Michael Piacsek, The Game Steward; GAMA President Nicole Robertson Brady; and GAMA Executive Director John Stacy.
Last week we put in a good amount of work with some really passionate and hard-working industry peers lobbying in the U.S. Capitol against tariffs on toys and games. Game designer Elizabeth Hargrave (Wingspan) was but one of our cohort and did a really great job summarizing our time in D.C. and recaps some of the data we shared with congressional representatives. I’ll link to her debrief HERE for those that may be interested.
The biggest call to action for those wanting to help support our industry is to call call/write your members of congress and let them know we are looking for the following assistance:
What we were asking for:
In general: Save Christmas by eliminating tariffs on toys and games -- either by exempting our industry, or by exempting small businesses more generally.
In the Senate: cosponsor S. 1593, the Small Business Liberation Act (exempting small businesses from paying tariffs imposed by Executive Order 14257).
In the House: introduce a companion bill to S. 1593.
U.S. Census 2022 - Toy & Game Jobs in domestic manufacturing vs. retail. This data speaks directly to the lack of widely available manufacturing options for small U.S. business & publishers. Source: Wall Street Journal
END OF UPDATE
That’s it for this week! We’ll be back in two weeks with more project and fulfilment updates.
I know I'm almost certainly misreading the situation, but is there any way of identifying a box as 2nd Edition, short of opening it? I received my box the other day, and it says "First Printing" on the carton. Upon opening it, nothing on the exterior of the large and heavy box appears to identify it as "Second Edition".
Just wanting to confirm what I ordered, as I already own a copy of GH 1st Ed (Second Printing), but I don't have access to it right now to compare, before I open it up and start putting stuff in the FoldedSpace and Map Archives.
Hi all, i'm don't use Backerkit very often and am having trouble understanding where the email is to change my shipping address for Gloomhaven Second Edition.
Can someone please provide the location and/or email address i am support to contact.
Please and thank you!
I received the CANPAR Shipping notification, I don't know if I should put the tracking number here; the status shows delivered, but the detailed tracking does not. (2025-06-26 10:36:21 Out for Delivery-Almost There!) I did not recieve the box, and I was home all day this day and the next. It shows "signed by NSR". I tried to file a claim, but they need the shippers info, which I do not have. I don't know how to email you directly, when I click on "email us" it doesn't.
