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 3/14/2026

1. Cyberpunk RED: Interface RED Volume 5
2. Traveller: The Core Expeditions
3. Outgunned Superheroes
4. Public Access
5. Traveller: Vehicle Handbook Update 2026

From the Archives

About this week seven years ago, we started taking a look at stories very closely, a thread that would wind its way across many articles and musings from then to now. From the archives this week is Level One Wonk: Narrative, a discussion of prescriptive and emergent narrative and likely the first time we reference simulation video games like RimWorld and Dwarf Fortress.

Discussion of the Week

Apologia for plain paragraphs: Sam Sorensen wrote a blogpost comparing heavily broken up, bulleted game text with minimally formatted prose, and based on the quote replies (linked above) it perhaps did not go the way that was intended. Reading through the post there’s two intermingled arguments: That RPG designers do bullets and secondary formatting poorly (likely true, requires bringing receipts) and that minimally formatted prose is better than highly structured bullets (non-falsifiable, controversial). As usual, the real answer is almost certainly to use both, and to learn the underlying layout skills that allow you to make both prose and lists as usable as possible.

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