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 11/14/2026
Discussion of the Week
I am tired of fighting: Combat is central to most RPGs, thanks to their wargame origins. That doesn’t make combat the best part of the activity, and the fight/encounter structure of games like modern D&D does grate on many, like it does on OP. One thing I find interesting is there is a distinct split in recommended games between those that diminish combat as the activity (FitD, PbtA) and those that make brutal or lethal combat into a failstate with an equally if not more detailed combat system (Delta Green, Mothership).
TTRPGs with official soundtracks: Many are tables that use music to enhance the experience, but some games don’t make you spend the time curating a playlist yourself – granted, that can be plenty of fun itself – and provide their own soundtrack or playlist. From old CDs included with the books to the latest hits, this thread gathers together many of them.
From the Archives
Are we tired of fighting in our games? Sometimes we are! We’ve even written on the topic. From the archives this week is The Trouble With Combat.
Speaking of games with tunes, you can jam out with Alice Is Missing (for a certain value of jam), Cuticorium, Fabula Ultima, and the theme song for Rom Com Drama Bomb (from BE/HOLD, who features quite a bit in the above thread).
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