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 8/24/2024

1. Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Core Rulebook
2. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Kit
3. Knave: Second Edition
4. Shadow Scar Starter Set
5. Fabula Ultima Atlas: Techno Fantasy

Top News Stories

Meguey Baker vs Cancer [BUNDLE] For Sale: As Meguey Baker (of Apocalypse World, Psi*Run, and more) continues her fight against cancer the community’s efforts to help continue in turn. This time it means a bundle on DriveThruRPG including comics, game design history book Designers & Dragons: The 00s, and of course games like Alice Is Missing, Under Hollow Hills, and Night Witches. Of the Bundle, Meguey writes:

“I have a hope and goal in life to be a weaver-of-stories and by doing so, be a weaver of people. Vincent and I have spent the last 33 years tending our part of the web that connects us all, trying to catch and comfort those we could. I am humbled and beyond grateful to realize the web holds us, holds me, as well. I just want to find some way to give back to all of you who are showing up and showing love.”

From the Archives

Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere RPG Kickstarter campaign has beaten Avatar: Legends for the largest RPG crowdfunding campaign ever, currently sitting at $9.8M. Sanderson is a popular enough author that he gets to live the dream: Write out his own sprawling fantasy setting and then make a game in it. More accessible to the rest of us is the reverse: Writing a novel about your RPG character’s exploits. It’s tougher than it sounds to make this work, though. From the archives this week we have “I’m going to turn my campaign into a novel!”, an article from 2020 about the pitfalls of converting games into fiction, and how some of the best known authors who have done it actually did it.

Discussion of the Week

What niche system did you really enjoy but most people have never heard of?: A solid Reddit list of not the usual recommendations. I will caveat that it’s not that ‘niche’, I had to scroll down about a dozen threads before I found a game I hadn’t heard of, but you will likely find a few new things if you don’t spend as much time as I do lurking the RPG internet.

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