We’ve got some continued Gloomhaven fulfillment updates today, more on the RPG front, and an exciting new product line announcement to share at the end!
Let's get into it...
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-GLOOMHAVEN FREIGHT & FULFILLMENT-
-United States
We were informed last week that Stord (previously Ware2Go) performed a backend system update JUST before commencing on our fulfillment wave. Unfortunately, this caused an issue with the backer data uploaded prior to this. While it took a little time, the error was fixed, but to ensure full fulfillment confidence, we scrubbed and re-uploaded our data before letting them commence fulfillment. While we’re glad we caught this before fulfillment actually began, we apologize for the delay and have given Stord direction to begin fulfilling orders. So please look for those tracking notifications!
On the ocean fulfillment side, 5 of the 6 containers have now arrived. ONE SWAN is the only remaining container needed to complete fulfillment and is still scheduled to arrive at port on Aug. 1st.
Note for U.S. Backers: If you have not yet paid the tariff fee or otherwise have a remaining balance, your order has not been uploaded. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions.
-Asia & South Pacific
Shipping to local hubs has commenced! Please be aware that it can take a couple weeks from arrival at the hub for individual orders to arrive. You can always get the most up-to-date information at VFI’s hub page under the “Gloomhaven” section.
China: Delivered to hub on Friday, preparing for local fulfillment!
Japan: Estimated Hub Arrival: 2025-08-10
Indonesia: Estimated Hub Arrival: 2025-08-30
Malaysia: Estimated Hub Arrival: 2025-08-15
Philippines: Estimated Hub Arrival: 2025-08-20
Singapore: Estimated Hub Arrival: 2025-08-08
South Korea: Estimated Hub Arrival: 2025-08-08
Taiwan: Estimated Hub Arrival: 2025-07-31
India, Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Thailand: In Consolidation to be shipped out.
-Europe, Mexico, & “Rest of the World”
With our customs holdup issue resolved, our containers took a few more days to get moved from the ship yard and begin their journey to Fulfillment Europe where our containers were received, unloaded, and staged last week for fulfillment to finally commence this week. Thank you all for your patience as we navigated these unusual red tape port delays!
-Canada
All pledges and backerkit preorders that did not have FoldedSpace(FS) items have fully shipped! FoldedSpace items have also hit land! These pallets are currently on the way to our CA fulfillment partner, once they arrive all remaining orders will be shipping out.
-Australia/New Zealand
Fulfillment complete!Please note that some items may still be in transit. If you have not received any type of tracking information at this time, please contact [email protected].
-United Kingdom
Fulfillment complete!Please note that some items may still be in transit. If you have not received any type of tracking information at this time, please contact [email protected].
-GLOOMHAVEN RPG UPDATE-
Please join me in welcoming back Danielle with this week’s RPG update where we will look more at standard playing card integration, character sheets, and backgrounds:
Hello mercenaries!
I see my last update left some confusion, and that’s on me for not being as explicit as I could have been. So, here’s a full breakdown of how we plan to implement the playing card solution and other modifier deck considerations.
The playing card system is being presented as the “main system” in the RPG book to be as player experience level agnostic as possible. While some people might have purchased the deluxe version or have all the cards, use apps, modify their board game cards, print something out, or write modifiers out on blank cards, we can’t expect people who have never encountered Gloomhaven before to be able to find and access any of those resources. We want them to see that this uses a standard playing card deck, and feel secure that all they need at that moment is that and the book.
When I say “poker cards” I mean a standard 52-card playing card deck (French suited for those in Europe) with 2 jokers.
When you create the modifier deck, you pull the specific cards from the standard playing card deck to create a 20-card modifier deck. The cards that aren’t used are reserved for Bless, Curse, and Perk cards. We’ve mapped face cards to Bless and Curse, making all 6 black suit face cards (Club and Spade J, Q, K) the Blesses and all 6 red suit face cards (Heart and Diamond, J, Q, K) the Curses. The remaining cards are mapped to individual Perks.
The deluxe edition box and the “All Cards” addon will have traditional Euro-sized modifier cards made specifically for the RPG. These cards will include the playing card iconography on them, so that if you’re using those, you won’t encounter confusion from seeing the playing card icons in the game book. They will be integrated together.
Every class has a perk list explaining which cards to add or remove to make up the Perk. We’ve already accounted for the additional cognitive load that Perks will present (for example, a 7 of clubs is different for every class), and have created class specific character sheets that include both the base modifier deck mapping and the Perk mapping. As seen below:
Bruiser Character Sheet
To account for the fact that having to reference the book for the Talents and Perks will probably be cumbersome also without cards, and writing every available power down might be rough, these class specific character sheets will also have all the Talents and Perks pre-printed on them. They will have check boxes to mark if your character has learned them, chosen them for the day, or used them.
As you can see here:
Bruiser Skills
-MINIATURES OF GLOOMHAVEN-
Not much to report here this week, but that's not to say work isn't being done. We're working on some larger organizational overhauls with our production partner in hope of achieving some better efficiency and have been actively revising and approving models so they can meet our quality standards. We'll be showcasing a lot of the in-progress miniatures at GenCon this week so keep an eye out for them on display across our social media feeds! We'll also be meeting with our partner here at GenCon too so hope to have an updated project tracker and better idea of timeline for you in the near future. Thank you all for your excitement and enthusiasm!
-INTRODUCING: GLOOMHAVEN MERCENARY PACKS-
Finally…we interrupt your normal Backerkit update to share some exciting news in the world of Gloomhaven: introducing GLOOMHAVEN MERCENARY PACKS!
Gloomhaven: Mercenary Packs are not only available for preorder, but are printed and on their way to regional fulfillment centers with fulfillment planned for September 2025. Learn more about them here!
Cephalofair has avoided taking on major new projects while crowdfunding obligations are still pending. We want you, our backers, to have full confidence that your investment is secure and that we will be fulfilling your pledges. When logistically sound, however, we must also look for opportunities to self-fund additional efforts with the support of our community of collaborators.
This strategy has risen to a new level of importance with the uncertain trade landscape created by U.S. tariff volatility. Tariff escalation brings shipping and manufacturing to a halt and the industries that share these resources are forced to pivot. While we are beyond confident that your investment here in the Gloomhaven: Grand Festival campaign is secure, and we’re excited to deliver Gloomhaven RPG and Miniatures of Gloomhaven to you, we also know that we have an obligation to continue putting ourselves in the best business position to maintain stability and continue delivering new products and support for legacy products into the future.
Inspired by our community members, these individual Mercenary Packs were originally conceptualized by the Cephalofair team in 2023 as a modular way to expand upon and enhance the investments that our community has already made in us and our games. Our core game design team began work on this project with the help of some additional collaborators once their obligations and contributions to Gloomhaven Second Edition were complete. We took this summer’s 90-day tariff pause as an opportunity to line up the remaining internal production and external manufacturing necessary to bring the project to life with the understanding that the road ahead remains volatile in this regard.
A tremendous thanks to our game designers (Alisandra Livingston, Drew Penn, Dennis Vögele, and Marcel Dragomir), playtesters, and our graphic design team (Layne Huber and Arch Anderson) for their hard work helping us create and complete this effort.
It has been absolutely wild to see the production of this project manifest over the last few months, and I’m so proud of how this has come together and to share that these new Gloomhaven Mercenary Packs are already manufactured and shipping to regional fulfillment centers NOW! (Fulfillment eta: Sept 2025) Our creative team is also really excited for what you might see come out of this sub-product line in the future too, so be on the lookout!
Pre-order Discount
In celebration of GLOOMHAVEN’S latest re-release, we are offering $5 OFF on the GLOOMHAVEN: MERCENARY 4-PACK BUNDLE through August 31st, 2025 when pre-ordered through our website: Mercenary Pack Bundle Page.
OPTION 2: You turn down Hail's offer. She seems no more indifferent than usual. Continue to "End of Update"
-END OF UPDATE-
And that's it for this week! Our team is split between the office (Fulfillment Support & RPG) and GenCon this week and as mentioned above will be showcasing a little bit of everything we've been hard at work on and meeting with production & retail partners. We'll be back in office next week, and back with your next update August 12th!
Good day! This is Isaac coming at you with an off-cycle update about some notable errata for Gloomhaven, which is, of course, in mid-fulfillment. We wanted to let as many people know as possible as soon as we realized the issues to minimize the impact they have on people playing the game right now.
It was brought to our attention (thanks JamesyWamesy1) that it is not communicated in the game that a number of events should be unlocked when certain classes are unlocked. Basically, every time you unlock a new class, you should add one or two events to your event decks, but there's no indication in the game that you should do so.
And while we're at it, there was one more event card that should have been added at a specific point in the campaign that was also overlooked, but that fix is also taken care of with the updated campaign sheet linked above (in the first bullet of the "Additional Reputation Unlocks").
I apologize for the extra inconvenience of having to print out a new campaign sheet, but it is the easiest thing in the game to print out, as it is just a black and white A4 sheet of normal paper. And if you don’t want to print out a new sheet, you can just note the changes on your current sheet (marking all the event numbers along the bottom next to their corresponding classes and adding in the additional unlock for C-57).
We'll be back on July 29 with the next regularly scheduled update, which will include another segment from Danielle expanding on the modifier deck changes she mentioned in the last update. Catch you then!
We’re back this week with lots of Gloomhaven fulfillment updates and additional looks at how gosh-darn good this Gloomhaven RPG book is coming along!
But first….
Please join our communities!
If you haven’t already, we have some stellar Gloomhaven online communities you should check out and consider joining! Lots of great reviews, insights, questions, and fan content are being shared every day.
u/Gripeaway and u/Themris will be running a contest soon to win a copy of the Gloomhaven 2nd Edition Class Upgrade Kits, subscribe for details coming soon!
Frosthaven Digital: Early Access starting July 31st, 2025!
Now let’s get into…
-GLOOMHAVEN FREIGHT & FULFILLMENT-
-United States
With containers arriving last week we successfully ran pledge managers for U.S. tariff surcharges and have uploaded those orders for fulfillment starting THIS WEEK!
NOTE: We had approximately 400 failed tariff payment attempts, who were sent emails Friday, July 11th. Your order will need to be updated, and outstanding balance paid, before your order will be slated for fulfillment. Please email us at [email protected] once you have done so, and we will queue your order for fulfillment. Failure to do so may result in delayed delivery or possible pledge loss (with refund), as we can only store pledges for a reasonable duration of time before incurring losses. (If you did not receive the Friday email, and had a $0.00 balance due as of 12pm Pacific on Friday, July 11th, NO ACTION IS REQUIRED)
The first 2 containers have been delivered to the warehouse and unloaded. Three more containers have arrived at port and are on the way to the fulfillment warehouse, and ONE SWAN is bringing up the rear with about half a container scheduled to arrive at port on Aug 1st. Please note that fulfillment order is randomized and at the discretion of our fulfillment partner based on a number of factors including a) outstanding pledge balances (tariff charges), b) operational efficiency, c) bulk orders logistics, d) regional demand, etc.
-Asia & South Pacific
Shipping to local hubs has commenced! Please be aware that it can take a couple weeks from arrival at the hub for individual orders to arrive. You can always get the most up-to-date information at VFI’s hub page under the “Gloomhaven” section.
Japan: Estimated Hub Arrival: 2025-08-10
Malaysia: Estimated Hub Arrival: 2025-08-15
Philippines: Estimated Hub Arrival: 2025-08-20
Singapore: Estimated Hub Arrival: 2025-08-08
South Korea: Estimated Hub Arrival: 2025-08-08
Taiwan: Estimated Hub Arrival: 2025-07-31
China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Thailand: In Consolidation to be shipped out.
Monolith. Art by Mates Laurentiu
-Europe, Mexico, & “Rest of the World”
Both landed containers have been unexpectedly (and very frustratingly) held up in customs, meaning they haven’t started their short journey over to Fulfillment Europe just yet. We’re working with our logistics and import partners and believe this issue has finally been resolved as of today. We expect to see movement towards the warehouse for fulfillment to begin any day now.
-Canada
All pledges and backerkit preorders that did not have FoldedSpace(FS) items have fully shipped! If you ordered Gloomhaven and FS accessories, your FS items will ship separately. If you ordered only FS + Gloomhaven Accessories (including the Class Upgrade Kit) your order will ship once FS items arrive. Canadian FoldedSpace items are estimated to hit port approximately one week from now.
-Australia/New Zealand
Fulfillment complete!Please note that some items may still be in transit. If you have not received any type of tracking information at this time, please contact [email protected].
-United Kingdom
Fulfillment complete!Please note that some items may still be in transit. If you have not received any type of tracking information at this time, please contact [email protected].
Candlekeeper Ollana Trice. Art by Phan Tuan Dat
-GLOOMHAVEN RPG UPDATE-
And now here is Danielle with a brief look at class spreads and modifier decks in Gloomhaven RPG:
Hello mercenaries!
I know we’ve been sharing some Gloomhaven RPG layout pages with y’all the past couple of updates, and we have another one for today, but I wanted to do a little more treatment on the game itself, how the development cycles are going, and some behind the scenes looks.
One of the things I’ve wanted since day 1 of stepping on this project is to ensure the game can be played by anyone just by picking up the book in their local game store and bringing it home. The nature of turning a board game into a tabletop RPG caused the game to ask for a lot of components.
We really like the modifier deck system, and a small tweak allowed us to use it to randomize both combat and non-combat situations. Choosing two actions at the start of a round, then adapting in the moment on your turn made combat feel more streamlined than most traditional RPGs I’ve played and run. But, these all use cards or feel best playing with cards.
If someone purchases this book but not the RPG card set, they won’t have the required modifier deck.
And what about class perks?
While we had some ideas for handling those, they were mostly impractical, and asked the consumer to purchase additional materials to play. So, we thought about how we could lessen that load.
I have been reminded recently that poker is still a thing (wildly popular too, who knew?), and most everyone owns at least one standard poker deck. So I thought, what if we map the modifier deck to a deck of traditional playing cards and provide clear representation so people can still use cards, but they don’t need a special product.
So, that’s what we did, and it turns out the base modifier deck’s Attribute numbers map pretty well to the base card numbers, and I could even vaguely map the negative attack modifiers to red suits and positive attack modifiers to black suits. That wasn’t perfect, but with a mapping reference, it’s pretty easy to recall that if I see a 2 of diamonds or hearts, it’s a -1 attack modifier. You can see the mapping below.
Modifier Deck Table
And here’s the layout page I promised. As you can see, we’ve upgraded the graphic elements and worked hard to make the actions easy to parse for casual and first time readers. Layne has been key in making this look as good as it does, and Arch’s eye for art has been fundamental in producing all the lovely assets you see employed across both spreads.
RPG Bruiser Class Spread
Bruiser Class Talens & Skills
-UPDATE END-
That's it for this week! We'll be back on July 29th with some more updates and a few small surprises!
"There are four types of Mercenaries in Casskia. Those who can count and those who can't." - Unnamed Savvas
Today is all about Gloomhaven fulfillment updates and the rollout of U.S. tariff surcharges. Important information below for all our backers, but especially our American audience. We also have a brief update from Danielle on the RPG with a quick look at a “Factions” page.
Just as a reminder, we’ve launched our 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!
-U.S. TARIFF SURCHARGES-
With our first containers fully imported, we’re now feeling more confident about our assessed, and to-be assessed, additional tax charges on U.S. orders.
As of today, we are implementing the following charges to U.S. pledges, which will need to be PAID via Backerkit Pledge Manager prior to your order being queued for fulfillment:
The above are flat fees that will be charged to any “Wave 3 - Gloomhaven” cart containing any of the above SKUs on a per unit basis. As a reminder, these U.S. tariff surcharges are a result of new import taxes on board games under the most recent U.S. administration’s trade policy and are out of our control. We greatly appreciate your assistance with these new taxes, as paying them is fundamental to the success of this project as a whole and our ability to fulfill our commitments to you.
We will be running your Pledge Manager payment method automatically on Monday (July 7th) and again on Friday (July 11th) so that we can clear as many orders as possible for fulfillment beginning Monday (July 15th). No action is specifically required, unless you need to update your payment method.
If your card on file is declined, you will receive an email notification from Backerkit about the failed attempt alongside instructions to update your payment method. You can manually re-attempt your payment method, or wait for us to attempt to clear it again on Friday (July 11th).
NOTE: Any failed payments after Friday (July 11th) will result in your order not being queued for fulfillment, and you will need to contact us directly at [email protected] for fulfillment of your order. Failure to contact Cephalofair within a timely manner may result in additional charges, additional refund fees, and/ or loss of pledge as we are assessed monthly storage fees on all unshipped products and cannot hold onto incomplete orders indefinitely.
Reminder: Tariff surcharges are subject to local sales tax rates.
-GLOOMHAVEN FREIGHT & FULFILLMENT-
SUPPORT REMINDER: A friendly reminder that we are NOT ABLE to individually check fulfillment status or ETA for orders 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” 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
We’ve seen some confusion about how to retrieve/redeem your Forteller Audio Narration redemption codes, so wanted to provide some clearer instructions. Thank you to BoardGameGeek user Kobe S. for bringing attention to this and providing the following steps:
- on Backerkit, click on the avatar icon in the upper right corner
- go to ‘Your pledges & surveys’
- click on ‘Your surveys’ in the upper menu
- click on Gloomhaven Grand Festival
- scroll down to the link ‘Get your digital downloads’
Pledges have finally arrived at our partner VFI and our project has been added to their fulfillment queue. Orders are being scheduled and shipped in bulk by region for distribution and end point fulfillment, so we should finally have further completion progress by next update!
-Canada
All pledges and backerkit preorders that did not have FoldedSpace(FS) items have fully shipped! If you ordered Gloomhaven and FS accessories, your FS items will ship separately. If you ordered only FS + Gloomhaven Accessories (including the Class Upgrade Kit) your order will ship once FS items arrive. Canadian FoldedSpace items are estimated to hit port in about three weeks.
-Australia/New Zealand
Fulfillment complete!Please note that some items may still be in transit. If you have not received any type of tracking information at this time, please contact [email protected].
-United Kingdom
Pledges arrived at Spiral Galaxy last Thursday! Address confirmation emails have been deployed (check your email!), and fulfillment is scheduled to start before the end of the week!
-United States
PLEASE READ ABOVE “U.S. TARIFF SURCHARGE” SECTION ABOVE IF YOU HAVEN’T YET
The first 2 containers have arrived and cleared customs, we’re expecting them to arrive at our fulfillment warehouse on Friday, July 11th, with orders to start the following week.
The EVER FOCUS ship has three more containers and is scheduled to hit port on July 7th and ONE SWAN is bringing up the rear with about half a container scheduled to arrive at port on Aug 1st.
As a reminder, we’ve been booking freight as it’s become available from China to the U.S..The surge in the tariff situation has meant needing to book multiple container ships as they have become available, but we can now confidently say everything is on the water and moving towards our U.S. warehouse for fulfillment.
-Europe, Mexico, & “Rest of the World”
Both containers arrived in port (Hamburg) over the weekend. Once they clear customs, it will be a few days until it arrives at Fulfillment Europe and will be placed into the fulfillment queue!
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-GLOOMHAVEN RPG UPDATE-
And now here is Danielle with a brief look at “Factions” in Gloomhaven the RPG:
“We're still working hard on the layout and design aspects. Last week was curating the faction spreads. Here's an example of how they look using the Keepers of the Great Oak. We've been striving to balance lore and mechanics, giving you a clean spread with fun information to read, but easy to reference mechanical information. This is happening on all chapters, so while it seems like it's taking us a long time, this part is effectively the last finishing touches made to ensure the game has the best presentation for readability and accessibility.” - Danielle
Gloomhaven RPG Factions Page: Keepers of the Great Oak
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.
