As a printer I’m fascinated by this. I’ve never looked at the books/boards/ cards as a difficult set of products. OTOH the plastic miniatures and the apparent high amount of handwork required to assemble a game for sale looks, to me, to be unaffordable at American labor rates.
Shawn TomkinTariffs are potentially devastating for tabletop games. Especially board games, for which no manufacturing options exist in the US. Even if the US spent a decade or two ramping up facilities, the raw materials (such as plastics) would still need to be imported. www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/...