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 5/2/2026

1. Cyberpunk RED: Night City 2045
2. Fallout: Wasteland Wanderer: A Solo Roleplaying Game
3. Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms: The Northern Marches
4. Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Species Sourcebook
5. Bastion of Hope – A Daggerheart Campaign

Top News Stories

Magic: The Gathering Arena Team Unionizes At Wizards of the Coast: The development team for Magic: the Gathering Arena, a group of more than 100 employees, is unionizing under the Communications Workers of America. They notified Wizards of the Coast on Monday and put in a petition with the National Labor Relations Board; key issues the group is looking to address are layoff protection, remote work, and policies around generative AI. While press responses from WotC have been generally evenhanded and corporate, the first real response of the company was to retain Fisher & Phillips LLP, a law firm known for, for lack of a better term, union busting. This situation is developing.

From the Archives

It’s the beginning of May, so it’s time to start planning for Memorial Day barbecues and other summer social events that involve food. It’s also our closest Weekend Update to May the Fourth, so now is a great time to combine cookouts and Star Wars. Aki had the same idea back in 2018; from the archives this week is Party Survival Check: Star Wars Foods. The original images from the article may have gone the way of the Death Star, but the recipes are still there and worth checking out.

Discussion of the Week

Is there a major genre that RPG hasn’t explored?: While this is a case where there will always be some counterexample in the crevices of itch.io, the discussion here makes for some solid considerations of genres that are at the very least underrepresented at the gaming table. Sports is a genre that could certainly see more exposure, and high drama, while likely difficult to pull off on its own, is a good starting point for players and designers to think about how best to make games dramatic.

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