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, something from the archives, and discussions from elsewhere online.
DriveThruRPG Top Sellers for 1/27/2024
- Exalted: Across the Eight Directions
- Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Tribes and Tribulations
- Wrath and Glory: Aeldari: Inheritance of Embers
- Alien: Building Better Worlds
- Shadowrun: Wild Life
Top News Stories
Evil Genius Games settles their lawsuit with Netflix: As we reported on a little while ago, Evil Genius Games, a design studio responsible for making a licensed RPG based on the Netflix film Rebel Moon, sued Netflix after the project was pulled for “breach of contract”. Evil Genius has reported they were able to ‘amicably resolve’ the suit, though the game still isn’t being released. Whether or not the ‘Cinematic Adventures’ mentioned in the link above is an aim to salvage more of the already completed work is anybody’s guess.
From the Archives
Product announcements are not usually what we consider news around here, but this is an interesting one: Darrington Press announced that they’d be publishing the Second Edition of Alex Roberts’s For The Queen, a collaborative storytelling game of escorting a loved (but maybe not beloved) monarch through danger originally published with Evil Hat Productions. The Second Edition will boast new art, an easier-to-use box, and some refined prompts, but our review of the original should still stand up to royal inquiry.
Discussion of the Week
Dungeons and Dragons turns fifty years old [yesterday]: D&D, and by extension the entire notion of roleplaying games as a published product, turned fifty years old on Friday. Jon Peterson first put a stake in the ground for January 26th back in 2014 for the 40th anniversary, but if you read his 40th anniversary post (linked in the fiftieth anniversary post that’s linked in the Reddit discussion), his actual benchmark was the last Sunday of January. In that case, D&D turns fifty tomorrow. Either way, the hobby has come a long way in that time. We toast our history, everyone that’s come into play (literally) since D&D started it all, and toast to the new changes and evolutions that will come in the next fifty years!
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