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 6/6/2026

1. Umdaar: Rebel Broadcast Edition
2. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Destiny
3. Cyberpunk RED: Night City 2045
4. The One Ring™ – Hands of the White Wizard
5. WH40K Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

Top News Stories

Hasbro Launches AI Studio: Hasbro has launched an AI studio called Sixth Wall, introducing a concept called Behavioral Licensing. Behavioral Licensing is an attempt to copyright a character’s personality and mannerisms, essentially allowing a corporation to maintain copyright of character performances instead of individual voice actors. If you think that sounds bad, it’s likely because it is, though there is precedent for this sort of copyright in media broadly. The intent here is to be able to license existing characters for use in AI-enabled platforms; characters from the studio’s launch include Transformers, GI Joe, and others. Guess we’ll be looking for fully voiced NPCs in the next Renegade Game Studios licensed VTT package…

From the Archives

Typically “On This Day” posts at the beginning of the month are from our long and storied crowdfunding coverage and don’t necessarily make great jumps into the archives. When I saw the crowdfunding article from eight years ago, though, I noticed a gem that we covered and that Aki reviewed back in 2018. Since everyone’s talking about Fate thanks to Rascal’s most recent visit to the clickbait title club (Thomas’s interview is great, but come on, guys), it seems like the right time to look back at this wonderful nugget from Evil Hat’s first-party bench. From the archives this week is our review of Tachyon Squadron.

Discussion of the Week

Where do you all play? Where are the gamer-friendly 3rd spaces?: While the stereotype for decades has been running games in someone’s basement, fact is that having enough space for a gaming group of 4-6 people is not a given, especially if the whole group lives in a city. There are a lot of good suggestions here, but the top one is of course the most broadly applicable: Always check out your local library.

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