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 8/3/2024
- Star Trek Adventures Second Edition: Core Rulebook
- Star Trek Adventures Second Edition: Game Toolkit
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Kit
- The One Ring: Moria Through the Doors of Durin
- Knave: Second Edition
Top News Stories
It’s GenCon!: GenCon is going on as we speak, having started on Thursday and going through tomorrow. GenCon also means the ENnies, and the winners are all compiled in this handy Reddit thread. Congrats again to all the nominees and of course the winners.
From the Archives
August is GenCon season in the RPG world, no doubt, and that means a shift in focus towards the new and the big. This year especially, all eyes are on the new D&D sourcebooks, Wizards of the Coast’s largest marketing push update for the game in a decade. Five years ago, though, we were making sure to put out indie RPG content even in the month of GenCon; contributor Jason Brown was hard at work making sure we didn’t get distracted by all the awards and shiny mainstream publications. From the archives we have his review of For the Queen, a game that has since gone on to get a second edition with even more incredible artwork in its card deck.
Discussion of the Week
RPGs where everyone has spells?: A solid recommendation thread that’s narrow enough to get some good answers. I’m running a game right now where everyone is a wizard (in Burning Wheel!), so checking out other systems based on this conceit is personally interesting. Looks like I’m going to have to take another look at RuneQuest.
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