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 4/6/2024

1. D100 Space – Galaxy Builder (Book 2)
2. Traveller: The Fifth Frontier War
3. Essential NPCs
4. Dragonslayer RPG
5. Fallout the RPG Wanderer’s Guidebook

From the Archives

On this week’s Crowdfunding Carnival we saw a new edition of Zweihander in the mix with the other large-press campaigns. Cannibal Halfling first covered the original Zweihander back when it released, and its position as a retroclone of a game other than D&D. One thing that makes this particularly interesting is that the ‘edition drift’ between Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Second Edition and the current, Fourth Edition, is much smaller. Today from the archives we’re checking out our review of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fourth Edition. While the narrow career-based progression (of every WFRP edition and retroclone, mind) doesn’t jive well with my main group, if I were to run a grim world of perilous adventure tomorrow, it would probably be with 4e.

Discussion of the Week

Ten unanswerable evergreen discourses: Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club pitches up and tears down a whole lot of the big discussions (eternal discussions, as the title implies) in RPG discourse in one concise article. I admit we’ve played in the muddy water here, especially in the system/player divide, but Paul’s conclusion here is strong and decisive: these questions are unanswerable, so there’s no one discussion that will ‘solve’ them. There are tons of gamers and play styles out there, and theory wonks have to do a lot of heavy lifting to attempt to talk at a universal level instead of post hoc rationalizing their own play preferences.

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