Evil Hat Productions
CREATOR
about 2 months ago
Project Update: Production update + Tariffs
Hello folks,
Since the current administration seems intent on taking a flamethrower to a century of sensible economic policy, we feel we owe you a status update and explainer.
On tariffs:
Our books are manufactured in the USA and the price of this print run was locked in prior to the announcement of the tariffs. So in this instance we don’t expect to see cost impacts on the books themselves.
When it comes to whatever game we print next, we may be forced to raise the cover price - in return for zero additional value to you the consumer.
The only other possible exposure we have on this project in regard to tariffs are the “Hunter’s Coins” and “Slayer’s Dice”—they’re made in China. Our research suggests that will add roughly $3500 due to tariffs. At this time we have chosen eat that added cost on behalf of the backers who pledged for the coins or dice.
But let's be clear: As a small company that's positioned in the leisure segment of the economy, these ruinous and outdated policies threaten our ability to keep taking risks on the innovative indie TTRPGs you've come to expect from Evil Hat.
We encourage you to contact your congressional reps and ask them to reassert their authority over taxes and tariffs. Congress could easily end all of this fiscal chaos with a couple of votes.
In terms of the current timeline for production:
Since the current administration seems intent on taking a flamethrower to a century of sensible economic policy, we feel we owe you a status update and explainer.
On tariffs:
Our books are manufactured in the USA and the price of this print run was locked in prior to the announcement of the tariffs. So in this instance we don’t expect to see cost impacts on the books themselves.
When it comes to whatever game we print next, we may be forced to raise the cover price - in return for zero additional value to you the consumer.
The only other possible exposure we have on this project in regard to tariffs are the “Hunter’s Coins” and “Slayer’s Dice”—they’re made in China. Our research suggests that will add roughly $3500 due to tariffs. At this time we have chosen eat that added cost on behalf of the backers who pledged for the coins or dice.
But let's be clear: As a small company that's positioned in the leisure segment of the economy, these ruinous and outdated policies threaten our ability to keep taking risks on the innovative indie TTRPGs you've come to expect from Evil Hat.
We encourage you to contact your congressional reps and ask them to reassert their authority over taxes and tariffs. Congress could easily end all of this fiscal chaos with a couple of votes.
In terms of the current timeline for production:
- According to the printer both runs of the Hunter's Journal and Slayer's Survival Kit should be complete by the end of this month
- The Investigator's Casebook should arrive at the end of May.
- We have done a couple revisions on the Hunter's Coins to make sure everything has a proper fit and are awaiting final samples before we greenlight the full run.
Short version: We are still on track, if not ahead, of our July delivery date.
We'll get you another update in May as we receive deliveries from our printer and production of the rest of the rewards begins to firm up.
Finally, we wanted to end this fairly business-heavy update with some preliminary photos of the Hunter's Coins.
As we said earlier, we have asked for some minor tweaks but overall they're looking really great.
If you're getting physical copies of the books, there's still time to go into your BackerKit Survey and add the tokens and dice to your order for the same price we listed during the crowdfunding campaign.
Thank you again for your support, we'll have another update in May.
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