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, discussions from elsewhere online, and something from the archives.
DriveThruRPG Top Sellers for 8/10/2024
- Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Core Rulebook
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Kit
- Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound: Ruins of the Past
- Star Trek Adventures – Second Edition – Game Toolkit
- Knave Second Edition
Top News Stories
United Paizo Workers win Diana Jones Award: For one last note from GenCon, one of the first workers’ unions in the TTRPG industry took home this year’s Diana Jones Award for “best [demonstrating] the quality of ‘excellence’ in the world of hobby-gaming in the previous year.” Other finalists included a couple of gaming conventions, game designer Ami Baio, and the TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Florida charity bundle.
Discussion of the Week
I’m obsessed by the idea of soundtracks for TTRPGs: u/RPDeshaies (whose Breathless system was the basis for The Facility, for reference) makes this declaration and namedrops a few examples like Wildsea and Death in Space before asking for more examples – and receiving plenty! There are a good few more familiar names, like Fabula Ultima, Deathmatch Island, and Salvage Union, and we just tossed Cuticorium into the mix! This segues perfectly into
From the Archives,
as soundtracks are great examples of Soft Prep. – whether it’s an official one from the game designers, gaming-themed music, or something you put together yourself!
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