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 6/1/2024

1. Fabula Ultima Atlas: Techno Fantasy
2. Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Imperium Maledictum Starter Set
3. Fabula Ultima Game Master’s Toolkit
4. Cults of RuneQuest: The Lunar Way
5. Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook

Top News Stories

Dungeons & Dragons TV Series Not Moving Forward at Paramount+: After about a year and a half of development, Paramount has officially canceled their plans for a D&D TV show. The show isn’t completely dead, with Hasbro Entertainment planning to bring on a new creative team and shop the series around to other distribution platforms. We can’t help but notice that the same players keep trying this sort of push in both directions; Hasbro has of course had significant difficulties pushing into TV and movies given its shenanigans with eOne, but Paramount was the company responsible at throwing the money at Magpie Games for Avatar Legends, a game mostly known for how much money its Kickstarter made.

From the Archives

This week, R. Talsorian Games announced the pre-order date for the Cyberpunk Edgerunners Mission Kit, the expansion which will tie the tremendously popular anime into Cyberpunk Red and begin the expansion of the game line into Cyberpunk 2077. The cycle of Red’s development as well as Cyberpunk 2077’s development was a long one, technically dating back over a decade ago with the video game’s first announcement. From the archives today we have a warning issued back in 2019: ‘Pay attention to Cyberpunk 2077’. While Cyberpunk was already seeing renewed interest at that time, the release and redemption of the video game as well as the release of the anime have made capital-C Cyberpunk into the largest RPG property outside of D&D itself here in the 2020s.

Discussion of the Week

What does “be a fan of the player characters” actually mean in practice?: ‘Be a fan of the player characters’ is my favorite Apocalypse World principle (our favorite agenda is ‘play to find out what happens’). This discussion features some great explanations of what ‘being a fan’ of your PCs is, and why this principle applies not only to Apocalypse World and PbtA but across the RPG sphere.
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