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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9628774" data-attributes="member: 7035894">Pulp and paper are the least of the issues facing companies like Hasbro - if Hasbro is reduced to relying on printing books, it is already bankrupt. It's still primarily a toy company. If these tariffs become the new normal, American toy companies, and gaming companies, are in big, big trouble, as many folks who work in those industries are pointing out.Yes, RPGs mostly rely on printing, but miniatures, tokens, dice, etc. almost all come from China, one way or another. There's no way to shift that to the US at the scales required in the short term, or even in the long term without massively increased costs from labour alone. A lot of companies will just be doomed. Setting the high cost of labour aside, American industry does not have the expertise or equipment to make most of the products that have long since been outsourced, or were never made in America to begin with.Take Dwarven Forge - a company that I love and heavily support. Their entire business model is built around plastic manufacturing and finishing (painting, etc.) that, expensive as it is, is only feasible because it is all done in China. All of their moulds are held by the Chinese factory that produces their terrain; those moulds alone are a huge capital investment. DF, like more and more companies in the gaming space, is supported by a Kickstarter model, but that probably just went out the window. I think they have no future unless a deal is struck, and they are just one example. And that really sucks.</blockquote>

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