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 10/4/2025

1. Cyberpunk RED: Single Player Mode
2. Phantasy Star Tabletop Roleplaying
3. Warhammer Age of Sigmar Soulbound Champions of Chaos: Core Rulebook
4. Daggerheart Corebook
5. Marvel Multiverse RPG Avengers Expansion

Top News Stories

Kickstarter United (OPEIU Local 153) on Strike: As mentioned earlier this week in the Crowdfunding Carnival, Kickstarter workers voted to go on strike starting on October 2nd. Per the press release, the last agreement expired in July, and KU has been attempting to negotiate with management since April with the primary goals being to codify the existing 4-day work week and establish a minimum salary that allows for a livable wage. Kickstarter itself, as management is wont to do, hasn’t wanted to budge at all on the wage and wants to be able to call people back in for five days at management’s discretion – without, of course, paying for the fifth day.

What’s vital to note is that the union isn’t calling for a boycott of the site: keep creating projects, keep backing the projects you love. If anything, throwing more work Kickstarter’s way while their workers are out may help add more weight to the strike. If you want other ways to help, here you go!

Solo RPG List Enters The Arena: Discoverability remains and will remain the most daunting challenge for any game designer/publisher lacking in megacorp funding, and that goes double for solo and duet games. They face all of the usual challenges while also not having the ‘have a game run at a con and try to attract players’ option. Not easily, anyway. There are some options out there like The Soloist, ScreamingWyvern, and, well, Solitaire Storytelling, but those are only highlighting specific games as they go. How do you easily find the rest of them?

For about a year there was the Tiny Table Index, but as Rascal reported last month the Index eventually shuttered under the sheer weight of its own workflow. TTI creator Luke Miller released the entire database, however, with the hopes that some folks would pick up the torch. The Solo RPG List opened just this week, with the pre-existing TTI archive already loaded up and open to new submissions. The front page even has a theme at the moment, “Various Vexing Vamps for Halloween!” The List also has affiliate links to DriveThruRPG for games listed there, which may help keep the project more sustainable (DTRPG affiliate links pull from DTRPG’s share of a purchase, just to be clear). May the list continue to grow!

From the Archives

Speaking of Halloween we’ve finally made it to the official spooky season, so why not spend the month dipping into the archives for spooky games and stories? This weekend, let’s open the final door to one of the scariest games we’ve reviewed, Bluebeard’s Bride.

Discussion of the Week

What is the purpose of a game book? Art object, reference document, a good read, teaching tool, collectible, cookbook? There are as many answers and combinations as there are upvotes.

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