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 12/20/2025
- Warhammer 40k Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus Player’s Guide
- Traveller: Cluster Truck
- Warhammer: The Old World RPG Starter Set
- Curseborne Core Rulebook
- 13th Age Second Edition Combined Heroes’ Handbook and Gamemasters’ Guide
Top News Stories
Bank pulls the plug on Diamond: We discussed the Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy earlier this year as many small companies that made comics and RPGs were finding that they were at risk of losing inventory under consignment, essentially never getting paid for the books that were placed in the care of Diamond. The case has been a mess all year, and Diamond’s main creditor has decided they’ve had enough. The bank is requiring the bankruptcy case move to Chapter 7, which means the business will be taken completely apart and sold for parts. This may not make a huge difference to all those Diamond customers (the consignment inventory is still considered ‘disputed’), but it does assure that Diamond will be out of business permanently after this.
From the Archives
Another throwback to 2017 this week, with a discussion of some of the most loved (and maligned) settings of the 80s and 90s. Consult with the Cyberpapacy and get ready to jump through a Rift, from the archives this week is Level One Wonk: The Kitchen Sink.
Discussion of the Week
Which Photoshop features should we count as AI when submitting new games?: The use of large generative models (somewhat inaccurately called ‘generative AI’) is best known for whole-cloth generation of text and images, but the technology is being used in other, more subtle places. In some cases, the use of GANs and other generative software predates the release of ChatGPT and the emergence of ‘generative AI’ into public consciousness. Adobe’s use of ‘generative AI’ means that we have to be having a more nuanced discussion about what “AI” means. Tools like upscaling and content-aware fills are absolutely dependent on generative algorithms, but they don’t look like the things that most people are thinking about when they say ‘AI’ or ‘AI art’. The future will not be defined by more slop images, rather by continually blurrier lines.
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The discussion of how the “AI” label getting slapped on everything blurs the line between the automated plagiarism machines that fuel “spicy autocomplete” and algorithmic tools like upscaling and content-aware fills (which have been around in some form for a while) is a really interesting one to me.
I don’t care for the thoughtlessly generated slop I’ve seen take over certain parts of the internet, but a tool like Context Aware Fill has helped me do things like repair cracks or remove text from public domain images I want to use.
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