If you've been keeping an eye on your favorite indie RPG publishers lately, you may have noticed something unusual: delayed Kickstarter fulfillments, price hikes on hardcovers, and a wave of publisher statements about something that feels decidedly un-fantastical — import tariffs. It turns out that geopolitics rolls a natural 20 whether we want it to or not, or, to put it in Daggerheart terms, always succeeds, usually with Fear, and the sweeping US trade policy changes of 2025 have landed squarely on the tabletop gaming hobby we all love.

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