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 7/6/2024
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Kit
- Fabula Ultima Atlas: Techno Fantasy
- Traveller: Bounty Hunter
- Knave: Second Edition
- Fabula Ultima: Game Master’s Kit
Top News Stories
Dungeons & Microtransactions: Preorder bonuses, early access, the gradual nameshift to “D&D 2024” that certainly implies a ‘25, and a 26’, and… you get the idea.
It would be nice to be able to feel surprised.
ENNIE Awards 2024 Nominees Announced: The GenCon-concurrent award ceremony for the TTRPG sphere has announced the nominees for this year. Voting will take place from July 12th to July 21st, and the winners will be announced on August 2nd. Happily, that means we can grab some links –
From the Archives
– to see some familiar names. That includes Action 12 Cinema for Best Rules, Dragonbane for Best Cartography, and several categories-worth of Eat the Reich!
Discussion of the Week
What’s some Oral Tradition missing from specific TTRPG rulebooks? The rules as written are often not the entire story – lessons learned, problems discovered, what to actually do with all of this stuff, these are things discovered through experience and exchanged between players and GMs.
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