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 3/8/2025

1. Fabula Ultima Atlas: Natural Fantasy
2. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: High Elf Player’s Guide
3. Tome of Worldbuilding
4. The Final Riddle
5. Vox Profunda

Top News Stories

DriveThruRPG Warns Publishers Of Rising Print On Demand Costs In The US: It’s another topic from my day job leaking over into my hobby: DriveThruRPG has indicated they will raise print-on-demand prices 20-50% in the US and 3-4% in the UK. While there is a convergence of factors, the US prices are almost certainly related to the recent tariffs implemented by the White House. Depending on the supply chain, items like printed books could be hit 2-3 times with a 25% tariff, for example where the wood pulp is from Canada, processed into paper in the US, sent back into Canada to a print shop, and then exported back to the US. While every publisher’s supply chain is a bit different (those printing in Europe will see much smaller effects), 20-50% price increases on essentially everything with a North American continental supply chain should be expected unless the tariffs are definitively cancelled (as opposed to delayed).

From the Archives

Our wonkery on RPGs and considerations of how we play and use them to tell stories goes back quite a ways. Roughly six years ago we put out an article that began a long and evolving process of considering how narrative works in RPGs, why it works the way it does, and why people like playing the way we all typically play. From the archives this week is Level One Wonk: Narrative, an article about prescriptive and emergent narrative and how each comes about in the context of an RPG.

Discussion of the Week

Older gamers, how have you changed how you game, over the years?: Not a new discussion, but there’s almost always value in looking back and assessing how the hobby has changed and developed. Interesting note: There is starting to be a more distinct bifurcation between the earliest influx of new players from the 80s who have been playing for 35-45 years and those who came in with the 3e wave (like myself) but have been playing for 20-25 years.

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