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.

RPG Top Sellers for 10/17/2026

	DriveThruRPG	itch.io
1.	Shadowrun: Anarchy 2.0	BOG – A Game of Frogs
2.	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Wrecker’s Point	The Trial of Hearts
3.	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition Rulebook	Armatures: Tactical Mech Combat and Pilot Espionage
4.	Lands of Runequest: Sartar	SubX – A Solo Player Sci-fi game
5.	Warhammer 40k Roleplay: Imperium Maledictum Macharian Adversary Guide	What doesn’t kill you…

Top News Stories

Wizards of the Coast Refuses to Recognize D&D and MTG Creators Joining Union: Surprising absolutely no one, Wizards of the Coast has refused to voluntarily recognize the creators of Magic: the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons joining United Wizards of the Coast. The next step is a union election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. As a reminder this was the same set of steps that happened when United Wizards of the Coast first formed with MtG: Arena workers, with Wizards initially refusing to voluntarily recognize and then having to recognize the union after an election. For now, United Wizards of the Coast is continuing to ask for support through signing their petition, located here.

From the Archives

On this day eight years ago, we reviewed the game that indicated R. Talsorian’s revival, nearly two years before we got a new Cyberpunk edition. From the archives this week is The Witcher RPG review.

Discussion of the Week

I wish more RPGs told me what happens on an ordinary Tuesday: Interesting thread that covers desires and recommendations for downtime, details, and even just subsystems that aren’t entirely and directly about adventuring. For what it’s worth, having ‘ordinary Tuesdays’ in your game may be helped by having downtime mechanics and the like, but it’s also highly dependent on your players wanting to sit in the quieter moments. I feel like my main group is appreciating this more, but there’s still a lot of ‘rush to the next adventure’ which is pushed both by player motivation and sense of urgency, whether created by the GM or inferred.

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