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 4/12/2025
- Fabula Ultima Atlas: Natural Fantasy
- Traveller: The Fifth Frontier: The Riverland
- Tome of Worldbuilding
- Kinks and Cantrips
- The Nomicon
Top News Stories
Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins to leave Dungeons & Dragons design team: Two major designers from the D&D team have decided to leave after the development and release of the new ‘2024’ core rulebooks. While the core staff of a game with as long a history as D&D shifts all the time, it will be interesting to see if Perkins and Crawford stay within the TTRPG world or if they move on to other endeavors. It will also be interesting to see how 5e evolves when one of the most impactful unofficial rulebooks was Crawford’s Twitter account.
From the Archives
3, 2, 1, let’s jam… with a throwback to this time last year, to the first episode of our Cowboy Bebop actual play, the Trifecta Tango!
Discussion of the Week
Italy’s biggest tabletop convention, Play, welcomes tens of thousands of attendees: It’s a great time to look outside of the US for hobby discussions, and on Reddit momatoes has brought a great report of Play along with some photos. The Italian scene has been growing like crazy in the last few years, both on the strength of Italian localizations of existing English games as well as new titles like Cowboy Bebop.
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