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 1/20/2024

1. Exalted: Across the Eight Directions
2. Wrath and Glory: Aeldari: Inheritance of Embers
3. Alien: Building Better Worlds
4. Cyberpunk RED
5. Cities Without Number

From the Archives

Bundle of Holding has a deal on The Sprawl going on through January; you can grab the game and every supplement for $18. Even though I had the core rules already I picked it up; this is a solid deal on some solid cyberpunk PbtA. As a result, today from the archives we look back at a 2017 article comparing The Sprawl with The Veil. Despite both being cyberpunk these games couldn’t be more different, with The Sprawl taking on a structured heist scenario for its sessions and The Veil providing a sprawling portfolio of playbooks to interrogate every literary theme the designer thought was relevant to the genre. It’s also interesting to go back and see how things have changed since this review; The Sprawl especially is a fascinating design example when viewed after its more popular heist cousin Blades in the Dark came out.

Discussion of the Week

Is it just me or are Solo TTRPGs becoming more popular?: While the sentiment creates a mild consideration that the OP has been under a rock the last 18 months, this discussion of solo RPGs covers a lot of the appeal of the medium as well as the history; solitaire rules for RPGs have existed almost as long as RPGs have.

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