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 11/15/2025

1. Basic Roleplaying: Creatures
2. Cyberpunk RED: Single Player Mode
3. Shadowrun: Deus ex Arcana
4. Phantasy Star Tabletop Roleplaying
5. Vagabond \\ Pulp Fantasy RPG Core Rulebook

Top News Stories

Kickstarter United ends six-week strike with a resounding victory: “After 42 days of a sustained labor strike over failed negotiations with Kickstarter management, Kickstarter United announced that the strike has ended with a victory.   Workers at the crowdfunding platform successfully negotiated several clauses within their existing collective agreement. This includes establishing a minimum salary floor and improving pay equity, codifying a 32-hour, 4-day work week, and setting up protections for its workers against the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to replace their roles.”

You can check out Rascal’s article (no subscription required) for more details, but in any case it’s good to see the workers vital to one of the TTRPG industry’s cornerstones (for better or worse) get a badly needed win.

From the Archives

We’re in the middle of National Game Design Month, so if you’re in the middle of the fight or rallying to the cause, the advice on how to slay the NaGaDeMon still stands!

Discussion of the Week

On Criticism and TTRPGs: From Taskerland this week, Moreau Vazh is taking a (perhaps indefinite) break from reviewing RPGs. I highly empathize with this post, and it mirrors questions I often ask about continuing to write about and review RPGs myself. For now, the questions remain unanswered, and I highly encourage you to read the whole thing.

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