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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9627430" data-attributes="member: 5948">We might see a shift towards selling STLs rather than finished minis in the miniature sector, at least. Some producers (Trench Crusade for example, even Steamforged with the old Iron Kingdoms line) are moving in that direction already (though GW are by far the big dog in the yard and they certainly won’t)Not sure what this means for me here in Aust (other than the obvious ‘a lot less stuff makes it to market to buy’). I buy most of my gaming on Kickstarter. Often fulfillment for us is through Asia, which should bypass tariffs, but it’s far from unknown for material to be printed in China, shipped to the publisher in the USA, then sent on. I’ll have to pay a lot more attention to what fulfillment plans are before backing, postage here is often a significant proportion of the cost of the product, and that’s about to get a lot worse. Plus, I think many publishers will likely bump the base price of their products to spread the load, rather than apply an eye watering shipping charge on US shipments and risk scaring away the biggest market in the world through sheer sticker shock. Those of us outside the US could easily find ourselves partially subsidising US customers.This is going to destroy a lot of people in the KS sector though, especially very small presses, first-timers etc. Since covid most campaigns will just have a ‘shipping charges calculated later’ clause, for very understandable reasons, but this is really going to push the limits of that. Especially is you’ve got lots of add-ons and are having to pay tariffs on dice, bookmarks, badges, minis, and goodness knows what else to get into the USA before you package it up on your kitchen table and start charging shipping. A lot of passion projects are going to ruin lives.</blockquote>

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