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Article Summary
- Diamond has struck a deal with a group of publishers, including Paizo and Green Ronin, to reclaim inventory that has been held since January 2025 when the company first filed for bankruptcy.
- The group of publishers will, however, have to pay more than half a million dollars in fees to get the products released.
- Three group representatives will identify remaining inventory, then publishers have 30 days to pick it up or have it destroyed.
- Green Ronin lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in inventory with Diamond and had started a legal defence fund.
- Paizo reported a $2 million loss last year directly tied to the bankruptcy case, resulting in staff layoffs in June 2026.
After more than a year in legal limbo, publishers caught up in the Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy are finally getting a path to reclaim their own products. New court filings show that Diamond’s trustee has struck a deal with a group of comics and tabletop RPG publishers – including Paizo and Green Ronin – to release inventory that’s been sitting untouched in a Mississippi warehouse since Diamond’s collapse.
It’s a strange kind of victory: publishers celebrating the return of goods they already owned. But given how badly the bankruptcy has dragged on, and how much damage it’s already done, getting their own stock back counts as real progress. Below, we take a closer look at what happened and what comes next.
How did Paizo and Green Ronin lose their inventory to Diamond?
Diamond Comics – which was one of the largest tabletop game, comic book and pop culture accessory distributors in the world – officially filed for bankruptcy in January 2025. Publisher inventory sitting in Diamond’s warehouses, which was previously given over on to sell on consignment, got tied up as part of the proceedings, with some products even flagged for potential sale to help cover Diamond’s legal costs.
Litigation and procedural issues kept things frozen for months, and smaller publishers took the brunt of it. Green Ronin, publisher of tabletop RPGs including Mutants & Masterminds, Blue Rose and the Fifth Season – reported losing several hundred thousand dollars worth of products, even going so far as to ask fans to support a legal defence fund.
Paizo, publisher of the popular Pathfinder and Starfinder games, reported an even more dramatic $2 million loss last year directly tied to the case, which resulted in significant layoffs at the company in June of 2026.
What do publishers have to do to get their inventory back?
According to a report from Publishers Weekly, the Diamond bankruptcy trustee has now reached a legal agreement with a consignment group that includes Paizo and Green Ronin along with comic book publishers Ablaze, American Mythology, Avatar Press, Action Lab, Drawn & Quarterly, Fantagraphics, Green Ronin, Living the Line, Udon, Zenescope, Boom and Dynamite.
The deal isn’t free, though. The publishing group will have to forfeit more than half a million dollars in fees just to get their own products released. There’s also a tight clock attached: the group gets just three representatives to identify what inventory remains in the warehouse, and from there publishers have just 30 days to arrange pickup or have the stock destroyed. Anything left unclaimed after that window is treated as forfeited.
Final thoughts
For Paizo and Green Ronin, this is the clearest sign yet that there’s an actual endpoint to a process that has quietly strained the tabletop RPG industry for over a year. It doesn’t undo the financial hit already taken by both companies, but it does mean product that’s been gathering dust in a warehouse can finally get back into the publishers’ hands and, eventually, back onto shelves.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on this story in the days ahead and will update this page with new information as it’s made available.