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 5/23/2026
- Cyberpunk RED: Night City 2045
- Warhammer 40k Roleplay, Imperium Maledictum: Adeptus Mechanicus GM’s Guide
- BattleTech: Hot Spots: Draconis Reach
- Call of Cthulhu: The Year of the Goat
- Somnus Domina: Zagalhta’s Exolunar Collection
Top News Stories
Digital elbow grease saves largest actual play database: Aggregation and curation is hard work, and digital aggregation is especially fragile, going from available to not in the blink of a site host’s eye. Rascal’s article on Series Seeker drives this home, covering Anne Monteverdi’s work to save the Actual Play aggregation site.
From the Archives
There’s been some discussion this week on the money you make as an RPG designer (TL;DR: you don’t make money). A few years ago I considered what it takes to truly be successful publishing RPGs, whether that means you’re writing your own or helping to distribute and promote games from other designers. Unsurprisingly, there are some challenges. From the archives this week is How do you become an RPG publisher?
Discussion of the Week
What does “exploration” mean in a TTRPG context?: Exploration is certainly part of what we think of when looking at the range of activities we undertake in an RPG, but what exploration actually means is often filtered through a very D&D-specific lens. This thread doesn’t necessarily change that, but it is a good discussion and consideration of how exploration as a concept shows up in games.
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