Thank you for your patience as our team and factory partners returned from Gen Con (Indianapolis) last week. We’re rested, re-engaged, and our voices are mostly back to normal.
Mass production is still underway for Gloomhaven RPG and Miniatures of Gloomhaven, but we’ve got some light updates to provide, let’s dive in!
Gen Con 2026 was a blast! We're...mostly....recovered ;)
Gloomhaven RPG
Mass production continues! No exciting updates or shenanigans, which is a good thing!
We had such a great time showing off the pre-production copy of Gloomhaven: The Roleplaying Game in person and received lots of great feedback from those of you in attendance. Whether you stopped by the booth or signed up for one of our RPG play events, thank you for stopping by and checking it out!
For those of you we missed, here are some photos of our showcase:
Jeff shows off the Casskia world map, which bookends the book on both inside covers.
The Gloomhaven RPG Deluxe Box Set - too big for one mortal display cabinet to showcase fully open...
Gloom Master Screen & Elemental Book Mark Trackers
The Gloomhaven: Playing Card Deck
Diving into Character Creation with the Gloomhaven RPG Book Display!
Miniatures of Gloomhaven
While we leaving for Gen Con, our factory partner let us know their engineers had discovered an issue that needed addressing surrounding our flight stands and flying monsters which has since been resolved and is currently being re-tested for quality.
As you are probably aware by now, our miniatures are plastic injected at mass quantities with molten plastic and steel molds. While this creates large quantities of high detail miniatures quickly, the variable factors (temp, plastic, timing, cooling, etc) can lead to quality inconsistencies without good controls and assurance checks.
We had performed flight-stand-fit testing throughout our preproduction efforts and called out models that a) fit their flight stand, b) were too tight to fit their flight stand, & c) fit their flight stand but less confidently. These had initially been addressed by the factory team who then kept (thankfully!) a very close eye on those miniatures as mass production kicked off.
Flight Stands - NOW UNDER RECONSTRUCTION (well....mold adjustments)
What they realized was even despite their modifications to the molds, they still weren’t happy with what was supposed to be a “consistent” fit across all flying models.
With quality of these miniatures being top priority, we asked them to revisit the mold modifications and fix them ALL consistently across the full line.
Over the last two weeks they have paused mass production to do just that, and I’m happy to say the new samples we received last night are much improved, more consistent, and ideally much less prone to accidental slippage or breakage.
While a delay isn’t ideal, we’d much rather deal with this issue now then have to send you replacement parts further down the line when you finally get to those scenarios with flying enemies.
We also took proactive use of this time to discuss further small tray modifications we could implement to improve the user experience out of the box, such as finger indents for smoother removal/replacement.
Production should be picking right back up here any day now once I get the confirmation from our factory that their further testing was successful.
In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this 360 degree look at the Miniatures of Gloomhaven: Summons Expansion Set:
Mercenaries Wanted
We know this is predominantly a place to update you on our remaining Grand Festival efforts, but we’d be remiss to quickly touch on a new Cephalofair project that will be featuring many of the characters you’ve come to know and recognize from our crowdfunding games like Gloomhaven, Frosthaven, and the Gloomhaven RPG.
If you attended Gen Con with us, or are subscribed to our INSIDERS NEWSLETTER, you may have heard we’ve announced our next brand new game, MERCENARIES WANTED!
(Prototype Only)
MERCENARIES WANTED ($24.99 USD) is a drafting game for 1-6 players designed by Cephalofair’s very own Dennis Vögele (Jaws of the Lion, Frosthaven, Gloomhaven (2025), Mercenary Packs, etc), and takes ~45 mins to play!
In Mercenaries Wanted, players won’t play adventurous Mercenaries this time around. No. Instead, you get to step into the shoes of an adventurous Mercenary HR Manager!
That’s right! Because what is running a company of freelance mercenaries OTHER than one giant human resources puzzle?
I won’t crowd this space with my musing about why I’m so excited, but if you’d like to read a bit more I’ve published a blog here full of post-Gen Con enthusiasm: "Mercenaries Wanted: Why I'm Excited as a Publisher"
Hire, Fire, & Promote Your Way to Victory as a Mercenary Company Recruitment Officer in MERCENARIES WANTED!
END OF UPDATE
Thank you all for your time this week and letting us share about the exciting (and non-exciting) progress being made on all fronts.
I'll be back in two weeks with a very, very, short update to confirm that mass production on miniatures is back up to speed and share any other brief updates.
