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 7/26/2025

1. Daggerheart Corebook
2. Ashes Without Number
3. Cosmere RPG | Stormlight Handbook
4. Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game Player’s Guide
5. Cosmere RPG | Stormlight World Guide

Top News Stories

Gamefound acquires Indiegogo: In what is arguably an odd turnabout, board (and RPG) crowdfunding company Gamefound has acquired Indiegogo, the older and much larger crowdfunding site that emerged from the original push for the idea along with Kickstarter. Indiegogo has apparently been looking for an acquisition partner this year, in part likely spurred by its declining relevance in the space and annoyance on the part of their venture backers, who have now gone more than ten years without an exit (which in VC terms is almost certainly considered a failure). Gamefound is going to push its tech stack over to the Indiegogo site, but the two will continue to operate separately, though Gamefound campaigns will all be discoverable on Indiegogo. With the eyeball injection of 38 million Indiegogo members, Gamefound could hurdle up the crowdfunding charts to rub shoulders with Kickstarter.

From the Archives

The Cosmere RPG is out, and discussion has started to bubble up in Reddit and in other RPG circles. While the new game is as lore-heavy as one would expect and designed to be accessible to a large pool of players, it’s not the first Cosmere game by a long shot. From the archives this week is Seamus’s review of the Mistborn Adventure Game, a much earlier (and somewhat different and interesting) take on an RPG set in Sanderson’s world. As the new game is releasing the Stormlight books first, finding an old copy of this may tide you over until the Mistborn sourcebooks are released.

Discussion of the Week

The game that made the hobby “click” for you: It’s no surprise that the first answer in this thread is D&D, but overall there are a lot of good answers about what systems got the gears to start turning. Also an interesting observation: Many of the D&D stories were classic stories of puzzling through the Red Box or other Basic edition over weeks or an entire summer, while the more instantaneous ‘click’ stories tended to be more modern games.

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