Apologies for the lack of update last week! Aaron moved house and it sent the entropy levels off of the dial. We’re back to our regularly scheduled update here.

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 7/19/2025

1. Daggerheart Corebook
2. Ashes Without Number
3. Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Player’s Guide
4. Flextale Campaign Generator
5. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Sea Wardens of Cothique

Top News Stories

Bankruptcy Court Moves Diamond Hearings Till After San Diego Comic-Con: As a result of appeals from comic book publishers, the bankruptcy hearings have been moved to August 5th, in part to determine the rights and status of all of Diamond’s ‘consignees’, that is the publishers whose stock they’re holding. This is good news, but both the absence of any mention of RPG publishers and the fact that the hearing now starts the Tuesday after GenCon kind of reminds you how little RPGs are factoring into this. The above link from Bleeding Cool has a great timeline of the whole Diamond bankruptcy saga below the main story.

From the Archives

Time travel is a favorite pet topic over here at Cannibal Halfling, with a few time loops showing up in games over the years. Turns out about seven years ago we even published something about it! From the archives this week is Time travel: Paradoxes as improv practice. As a note, we’re still looking for legitimate reprints or follow-ups to Continuum…

Discussion of the Week

You have to build whole campaign out of a single song. What do you choose?: Tons of fun answers here. People saying Dragonforce and Gloryhammer are obviously being low-effort, but Bohemian Rhapsody is an intriguing idea and the ‘Copacabana’ Cyberpunk campaign is phenomenal.

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