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 6/27/2026

1. Pendragon: Noble’s Handbook
2. Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game, Talagaad Adventures
3. Delta Green: The Millennium
4. Traveller: Singularity
5. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Destiny

Top News Stories

MTG: Arena workers vote to unionize: After a push that started back in April, the developers of Magic: The Gathering Arena have successfully voted to form a union, with a strong 83% of workers in favor of unionization. The next step is for Wizards of the Coast (and Hasbro) to recognize the union, and then from there for the two sides to agree to a contract.

Finland adds tabletop role-playing culture to its National Inventory of Living Heritage: Finland has added ‘role-playing culture’ to its National Inventory of Living Heritage, a UNESCO-supported collection of key elements of the heritage for each signatory country of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The inventory listing highlights not only the long history of roleplaying in Finland, but also Finnish language games like ANKH and events like Ropecon.

From the Archives

Back in the pandemic, we were all at home and, occasionally at least, had time to think big thoughts. For us, that sometimes meant thinking thoughts like ‘why are experience points so common in games’ and ‘why do so many D&D fans think all games have levels’? It appears that this exact week back in 2020, that’s what we were thinking. From the archives this week, it’s Level One Wonk: Advancement.

Discussion of the Week

Its half way through the year, how are your games so far?: A pretty simple ‘what have you been playing?’ thread, but an awesome reminder of how many games are out there. Lots of Redditors using interesting systems (some I had never even heard of) and playing a lot of games.

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