The Business: The Colony Drop's Devastation Hits Sooner Than Later

Oh no, Conventional Play Cargo Cultists, you don't feel so good do you.

That impact could hit as soon as a few weeks from now, wiping out so many total trash tier people.

Nevermind what the tariff situation turns out to be; what matters is that most of these suck-publishers don't have the ability to deal with this. All because they treat Tabletop as a Lifestyle Brand business with useless crap to show off for clout instead of focus all attention and material resources on producing a crystal clear technical manual that tells the user what to do, how to do it, and why to do it that way- with exactly the number and type of illustrations required to reinforce the instructions of use therein and no further.

In short, This is a You Problem, Soup Aisle Suckers. You did this to yourselves, and I have no sympathy for you. Don't think that I'm overselling it either; the impact has already arrived.

Retail seller of tabletop games, Gamer's Guild AZ, confirms tariffs have already increased prices from distributors.

Tabletop retailers are preparing to pass these costs along to buyers of games because they have no choice.

There is going to be a rough period for gamers as the… pic.twitter.com/o8rx6wLt2v

— Grummz (@Grummz) April 8, 2025

You could have avoided all of this by just selling PDFs/ePubs/MOBIs and offering POD as an option, but no you had to get fancy and add on shit no one needed to play the game. You fucked around; now you're finding out.

Goodbye. You won't be missed.