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 5/25/2024
- Fabula Ultima Atlas: Techno Fantasy
- Fabula Ultima Game Master’s Toolkit
- Cults of RuneQuest: The Lunar Way
- Traveller: The Fifth Frontier War – Flashpoints
- Traveller: Starship Operator’s Manual
Top News Stories
Dicebreaker Purchased by IGN, Immediate Consequences: ReedPop went looking for a buyer, and they finally found one – IGN has purchased the entire Gamer Network family of sites which includes Dicebreaker as well as Eurogamer, GamesIndustry, Rock Paper Shotgun, and VG247. Monopolists gonna monopolize, and there is already word of layoffs burning their way through the Network. Right away, the Tabletop Creators Summit Dicebreaker was going to run at MCM Comic Con London this weekend has been canceled due to “unforeseen circumstances.”
From the Archives
This past week, Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast was officially released, and is now available from Possum Creek Games. From the archives we’re taking a look at Seamus’s Kickstarter review of this interesting nugget of game design.
Discussion of the Week
Just had a disaster of a session: OP tried to run a game at a local meetup, and it crashed and burned. The discussion thread is a good mix of lamenting the risks of running games for strangers, reassurance that good GMs still have bad games, and additional bad game night stories. They aren’t all going to be winners, but it’s still important to get back out there, not to mention appreciate your main group if you have one.
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