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 12/6/2025

1. Curseborn Core Rulebook
2. Orbital 2100 Third Edition
3. Vagabond \\ Pulp Fantasy RPG Core Rulebook 
4. ALIEN RPG Evolved Edition Core Rulebook
5. Dragonix’s Deadly Denizens III (5e)

Top News Stories

Mongoose licenses Traveller for 5e version: We try not to treat product announcements as news, but hearing that Mongoose is licensing the Traveller IP to World’s Largest RPGs for a 5e version is an important indicator of the consolidation in the industry as the pandemic boom fully closed, and what a monopoly looks like in its biggest, ugliest form. Luckily, this will not replace the Mongoose version.

From the Archives

The Apocalypse World: Burned Over Kickstarter has a couple weeks to go, and with a final push may reach 10x the original pledge level. We covered the campaign in November’s Crowdfunding Carnival, but the big changes made to Apocalypse World 2e for Burned Over were first shown in the Burned Over hackbook, which is over three years old at this point. From the archives this week is System Split: Apocalypse World and the Burned Over Hackbook, so you can get up to speed on how much Apocalypse World has changed and is changing.

Discussion of the Week

Why doesn’t Traveller get the love it deserves: Although the interest in making a (ugh) 5e Traveller does indicate the opposite, it can be hard to remember that Traveller is in the pantheon of most influential 70s RPGs (alongside RuneQuest and D&D itself) and is probably RPG #2 in terms of presenting something wholly different from TSR and having it stick. The discussion provides some good context; while first edition Traveller with the little black books probably is the second most well loved original edition RPG of the era (once again after D&D itself), the intervening editions between the first one and Mongoose’s revision were (to put it kindly) all over the place. Still, a good reminder to open those little black books and dream of the stars.

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