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 8/2/2025

1. Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game, Gamemaster’s Guide
2. Daggerheart Corebook
3. Cosmere RPG | Stormlight Handbook
4. Ashes Without Number
5. Cosmere RPG | Stormlight World Guide

Top News Stories

The Diana Jones 2025 Award for Excellence in Gaming is… a tie? Indeed, at the announcement on July 30th it seems the committee couldn’t bear to just pick one this year. One winner was author Rose Estes, specifically for her work on the original Endless Quest series of choose-your-own-adventure books published by TSR. The other was Daybreak, a game about addressing the climate crisis with an inspirational perspective, accurate science, and green components. You can check the DJA link for more information and links on both!

The 2025 ENNIE Awards Winners: The Silver and Gold winners were announced just last night – the website hasn’t even updated yet. Notables from our own archives include Yazebas’s Bed & Breakfast winning Silver for Best Family Game and Best Cover Art, Triangle Agency winning Gold for Best Rules, Best Writing, and Best Game, Mothership’s Deluxe Edition winning Gold for Best Production Values, and Grimwild’s Free Edition winning Gold for Best Free Product.

You can check their linked social for the rest of the winners, but two other notables stand out for us as particularly interesting. First, Mike Pondsmith was inducted into the ENNIEs Hall of Fame. Second, the Gold winner for Best Online Content was the One Page RPG Jam, the 2025 version of which is currently ongoing until August 17th!

From the Archives

This isn’t an anniversary many people track closely, but on August 2nd, 2018, Paizo released the playtest docs for Pathfinder second edition. From the archives this week we have our preview of that very playtest, and discussions about how the game would be able to evolve from being a reaction to D&D Fourth Edition, at least among the playerbase.

Discussion of the Week

A shout out to all the TTRPG publishers who make printable PDFs: Although the tariff hikes have been delayed yet again (to August 7th), the cost of shipping from overseas has brought discussions of both print-on-demand and home printing back to the fore. This one is the latter, and underneath the shout-out for the good old ‘Print Friendly Version’ is some discussion about the challenges of home printing and even a little thread about trying to make the PDF format itself work better.

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