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 12/9/2023
- Traveller: The Deep and the Dark
- Four Against Darkness: Treacheries of the Troublesome Towns
- Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound, Ulfenkarn: City at the Edge of Death
- Everyday Heroes: The Vault: Rules Compendium, Vol. 1
- D&D: Chains of Asmodeus
Top News Stories
Dicebreaker’s Tabletop Awards 2023 winners announced: The winners for Dicebreaker’s Tabletop Awards have been announced as of last weekend, including a number of games and designers from across board games, card games, and RPGs. Of note to the TTRPG audience is the Best RPG award, given to Women Are Werewolves from 9th Level Games. Also of note is the People’s Choice award which was given to an RPG this year, Fabula Ultima. Congrats to all the winners and to everyone nominated!
From the Archives
Big news this week has been MCDM’s new crowdfunding campaign on Backerkit, already raising well into seven figures for their heroic fantasy D&D alternative (and coming out mere days after the December Crowdfunding Carnival, unfortunately for us). From the archives this week we’ll go back to the January 2019 review of Strongholds and Followers, one of MCDM’s first hugely successful crowdfunding efforts.
Discussion of the Week
I’m not a forever GM anymore, but I’m not really having fun as a player: With GMing perceived as more work than just playing games, many groups have a ‘forever GM’, the one person willing to run games. When that person finally gets to be in the player’s chair, often the first thing they want to do is go right back to GMing! This thread explores perspective shifts from GM to player, and how GMing for a long time can strongly influence your expectations and behaviors once you get back to playing. I know this was something I personally grappled with when playing after being a primary GM for a very long time.
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I just recently stumbled into someone who has a relatively short stint in ttrpgs who went from playing as a 5e player to running Blades in the Dark as a GM. What I find interesting is how he described it as super easy to prep and run, almost just showing up to the table to play. Like a player. I think it’s important to communicate how different games have different requirements for GMs, feeling like a game and not a burden.
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