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 4/11/2026
- Shadow Scar
- Alone against the Zone
- Somnus Domina: Blade, Bone, & Benefit
- The Warren of the Ratkin
- Cyberpunk RED: Interface RED Volume 5
From the Archives
This week we talked about a TTRPG-adjacent video game that is well worth playing through. Several years ago, though, we were discussing a somewhat less adjacent video game and the lessons its design can teach GMs and designers. From the archives this week is Stardew Valley’s Closed World.
Discussion of the Week
On a scale of “Excited for Everything” to “Burnt Out,” how do you feel about RPG crowdfunding lately?: A good temperature check on crowdfunding in the hobby. From choice paralysis to AI to tariffs increasing prices, there are a lot of reasons many people are shifting towards the burnt out end of the scale.
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Hey, I commented on that Reddit thread! But my comment got buried because the comments section blew up.
For reference, I put myself on the scale as “Broke and Backlogged.” After so many years of discretionary income, I have a library, both physical and digital, full of TTRPGs, video games, and books, most of them unread and unplayed. While “broke” is an overstatement, I’m at a point where I can’t justify crowdfunding for games I might not play. Sure, I sometimes get hit by FOMO when I look at a campaign I past over, Dolmenwood for one, but it’s outweighed by the $100+ I instead put toward a ludicrous heating bill. And I’m saying this as someone who has a couple of hard-to-get items on my shelf, like the Yazeba’s crowdfunding set and Reach of the Road God.
And for all of this, what is my TTRPG play in practice? Well, it’s an every-other-week in-person group. We’re one session away from wrapping up a one-and-a-half year chronicle of Vampire: the Masquerade V5, and we’ll soon transition over to an online game of OVA. I own neither game. All other projects–a solo RPG playthrough, running my own campaign, even game design–are in the backlog.
This is all to say that perhaps I am burnt out. From the comments, it sounds like a lot of players are too. Could it be a sign of a downturn in TTRPG crowdfunding? I hate to see how many creators leave the industry during the next economic downturn.
The bright side is that I’m happy with the amount of tabletop roleplaying I’m doing right now. Simplicity triumphs over excess.
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