Welcome to the Cannibal Halfling Weekend Update! Start your weekend with a chunk of RPG news from the past week. We have the week’s top sellers, industry news stories, and discussions from elsewhere online.

DriveThruRPG Top Sellers for 9/30/2023

1. Traveller: Adventure Class Ships
2. Cities Without Number
3. Fabula Ultima Atlas: High Fantasy
4. Cyberpunk RED: Danger Gal Dossier
5. M20 Lore of the Traditions

Top News Stories

Evil Genius Games sues Netflix over the Rebel Moon TTRPG: Earlier this year, Netflix signed an agreement with Evil Genius Games to make a tie-in TTRPG to the upcoming movie Rebel Moon. As of May of this year, the agreement was binned for arguably spurious reasons, despite the fact that the game was already done. Now, no matter what you think about licensed RPGs or licensed RPGs made from Zac Snyder movies, this was an underhanded move by Netflix and isn’t something they should get used to getting away with. Given all the one-season cancellations in their portfolios, you can bet their lawyers have pulled similarly slimy moves elsewhere to weasel out of exit clauses and other contract protections. Let’s help put sunlight on all this.

Discussion of the Week

What is so sexy about a sandbox campaign?: A sandbox campaign is the lofty ideal of placing PCs down in a world and giving them the ability to go anywhere and do anything. What makes this discussion interesting is it starts hashing out what most people mean by sandboxes. Are you literally looking for a completely pre-prepped setting? Is a game like Burning Wheel, where the PCs drive where the game goes, a sandbox? What does sandbox mean besides “the opposite of railroad”?

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