From the GURPS Girl Genius Kickstarter:
With supply chain issues across the world, we want to be sure we have plenty of room for error and delays and still meet the May estimated delivery date. One of the supply issues is paper. We have been communicating closely with the printer. There’s a possible future in which they literally don’t have enough of our paper stock to print as many copies as we now “fear” you might ask for, and still hit the agreed schedule.
If you look at the project reward levels, you’ll notice that every print reward now has a limit. We would rather limit quantities than make the project late.
If this possibly going to happen with paper (we’re one of the top five paper producers), it’s definitely going to happen with a bunch of other things. Buy your Christmas presents now, and make sure they’re coming from a place that can weather our supply problems with minimum disruption. Because this will get worse.
Just the way it is, sorry.
Moe Lane
I note that there are some kickstarters that do the thing where they have two reward tiers offering the same thing at two different prices, so that the first N people who sign up for it can get it cheaper. I wonder if it might be appropriate in cases like this to have a secondary award tier that offers the same thing for the same price “but it might be late”.
Having looked a bit more in detail at the kickstarter in question… yup. They were *way* ahead of me.
Not only are we one of the top 5, their specific area of the country has a much higher than normal concentration of production. “The Aroma of Tacoma” refers to paper mills, after all.
I’m pretty sure the Washington and Oregon governors have done everything possible to kick the timber industry under the color of Covid.
It’s been an ongoing thing for three decades, and as draconian as they’ve been about everything else, I expect industries their base *hates* got extra special attention.
Paper. Cut. To the bone.
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Mew
GROOAAAAANNN
And damn you for thinking of it first.