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hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 14 hours agopolygon.com/…/tabletop-panic-tariffs-on-china-lay…
The U.S. has a very small industrial capacity for manufacturing tabletop games — especially board games.
“The news is bad from every angle, but especially so for card games and RPGs printed in China,” they said. “The choice seems to be either 1) a massive price hike to pay the new import taxes, or 2) go to a direct sales model that removes the hobby distributors from the equation.”
artyom@piefed.social 13 hours ago
This is not a tabletop game, it’s a card game.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 10 hours ago
Card games are classed as tabletop games due to the top of the table being the place where they’re played.
TeNppa@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
You should check the definition of tabletop… Also the link provided refers directly to the card games.