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 6/21/2025

1. Daggerheart Corebook
2. Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Player’s Guide
3. Daggerheart NEXUS Corebook
4. Cyberpunk Red: Interface RED Volume 4
5. Somnus Domina: Dead Saint Record

Top News Stories

Today is Free RPG Day!: Free RPG Day is today (June 21st), so get yourself down to your friendly local gaming store to check out quickstarts, adventures, and other RPG materials from dozens of publishers. And hey, if you happen to wander into Pandemonium Books and Games in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the earlier part of the day, you might also see a wild Cannibal Halfling scurrying about…

Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins join Darrington Press: As a conclusion to the arc of D&D’s former lead designers, the two of them have ended up at Darrington Press as Game Director (Crawford) and Creative Director (Perkins). While this has already triggered speculation about what’s going on at Wizards as well as what Darrington is planning, this sort of move has a degree of precedent (see: 13th Age, designed by two D&D lead designers). What’s unprecedented, actually, is that Crawford and Perkins are the first modern D&D design leads to quit instead of being laid off.

From the Archives

Nowadays Rowan, Rook, and Decard is typically placed in a high echelon of RPG design houses, with Spire and Heart being intriguing and popular games. The company’s also known for publishing DIE and Legacy, Life Among the Ruins, further filling out their catalog. Eight years ago, though, RR&D was just spinning up, a couple guys riding the success of small and silly games like Goblin Quest and Honey Heist. From the archives today is our review of Unbound, Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor’s card-driven pulp RPG. While Unbound didn’t make it as big as Spire and Heart, it’s still a solid game that shows how much design talent is under the RR&D roof.

Discussion of the Week

Weirdest Indie/Self Published RPGs: If you just scroll past the self-indulgent slapfight about what ‘indie’ means at the top, the thread has some great recommendations for some weird little guys of the TTRPG world.

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