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 3/29/2025

1. Fabula Ultima Atlas: Natural Fantasy
2. Tome of Worldbuilding
3. Cthulhu by Gaslight: Keepers’ Guide
4. The Nomicon
5. Warhammer 40k Roleplay: Imperium Maledictum, Macharian Requisition Guide

Top News Stories

Rascal News Zine Anniversary Preorder: Normally we wouldn’t have any sort of just-product as news, but this one’s a fair bit unique. Rascal is doing excellent work in the space – they have Thomas over there now, a verifiably good move on their part – but subscriptions can be scary even if they’re worth it. If you’d rather make a one-time payment that isn’t for a single article, and like something on your shelves to boot, this may be worth a look.

Discussion of the Week

Role-playing Games Are Either High Art or Fanfic: More of a discussion starter than our usual fare, Kieron Gillen (of DIE) had some shower tea thoughts:

“I just stared into the middle distance and thought “all role-playing games are either High Art or Fanfic” with a force that made me know that it was fundamentally true – which meant, on some level, it must be fundamentally false.”

There are some interesting thoughts here about designer intent, about community, and about the meaning of a game.

“To know what your game’s about requires you to know what the game is about.”

From the Archives

Yes, I rearranged the order, sue me. On the one hand, the Rascal zine is being published via moreblueberries, most recently seen around here dropping a Rom Com Drama Bomb. On the other, Gillen’s ‘blathering’ (his category for the above article, not ours) plugs pretty nicely into the designer side of “why this game exists.”