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 6/13/2026

1. Delta Green: The Millennium
2. Cyberpunk RED: Night City 2045
3. Umdaar: Rebel Broadcast Edition
4. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Destiny
5. WH40K Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide

Top News Stories

Paizo Restructuring – Diamond Bankruptcy Still A Nightmare: Due to Diamond’s bankruptcy and subsequent disruption of distributor channel book sales, Paizo has been forced to both lay off workers and restructure elements of its core business, including the slowing of Pathfinder/Starfinder Society scenario releases and pausing Foundry support for all subsequent scenarios. The only silver lining is that the United Paizo Workers union had been able to work with Paizo to secure a minimum of two weeks severance and recall rights for 18 months, so at least that’s working.

RPG Trader Offers Alternative Marketplace for Indie Creators: A challenger has appeared. Leaving public beta on June 9th, RPG Trader aims to create a marketplace with features creators have been demanding that are absent from itch, while modestly reducing the commission compared to DriveThruRPG (20% versus 30%). It’s early days yet, but on the surface RPG Trader seems promising – and if Diamond’s fallout above didn’t make it clear, it’s always nice to at least to have one more basket to put some eggs in.

From the Archives

On this day eight years ago, we were talking about…dice? Yes, this early entry in the System Hack series was perhaps optimistically named, but the entry does give a useful primer on four common dice mechanics. From the archive this week it’s System Hack: All About Dice.

Discussion of the Week

Game Masters/Dungeon Masters, What are your favorite and useful tools you use?: A solid and wide ranging thread of helpful things for the table, from websites with good random generators to software like Obsidian and Inkarnate to specific applications for dry erase mats and printouts.

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