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 7/4/2026

1. Twilight Sword – Core Rulebook
2. Pendragon: Noble’s Handbook
3. Delta Green: The Millennium
4. Cyberpunk RED: Night City 2045
5. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Destiny

Top News Stories

ENNIE Awards Nominees for 2026 Announced: Amidst the normal hubbub of award nominees is an interesting historical note: the creation of a new category, this time for Best Solo Game. Interesting to see the single-player side of the hobby continue to gain ground! Among the nominees are several games we’ve highlighted here, including SPINE for Best Solo Game and Legend in the Mist for a whopping seven different categories. 

KiwiRPG Week 2026 Begins: The annual celebration for TTRPGs from Aotearoa New Zealand has begun! Running from July 4th through July 11th the event includes actual plays, discussion panels, the creation of a solo game with audience participation, and three bundles on DriveThruRPG, itch, and RPG Trader (each with a unique roster). From our perspective here there’s obviously some timezone shenanigans – kindly, the schedule at the link features timestamps for NZST, London, and New York so you can better figure out when things are live.

From the Archives

Another nominee for the new Best Solo Game category is Song of the Scryptwyrm from Dan Bronson-Lowe, and while we haven’t gotten to that game ourselves we have looked at another game set in an infinite and ever-changing Great Library. Song of the Scryptwyrm is standalone, but can serve as a sequel to The Librarian’s Apprentice, which itself won a Best Solo Game accolade in the CRIT Awards for 2024.

Discussion of the Week

The ENnies are simultaneously the most prestigious award in the TTRPG space and the most controversial; by virtue of the massive numbers of designers and games being put out, it is impossible for any group of judges to read them all. This then puts a bad taste in the mouth of many who realize the inherent conflict between, say, trying to be comprehensive and also requiring that any game or supplement being considered for the ENnies must self-submit (including copies of the game). Dr. Emily Friedman, one of a small number of academics studying and writing on the RPG space, has a smattering of insightful commentary on the ENnies on Bluesky. Key posts here, here, and here.

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