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 10/12/2024
- Cyberpunk RED: Tales of the RED: Hope Reborn
- Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Dwarf Player’s Guide
- Lands of RuneQuest: Dragon Pass
- BattleTech Universe
- Aether Nexus: Fantasy Mecha Roleplaying Game
Top News Stories
Hurricane Helene’s (and Milton’s) Impact on Tabletop: Rascal’s Rowan Zeoli writes:
“In the last two weeks, a pair of catastrophic storms have made landfall in the southeastern United States. Helene and Milton, Category 4 and 5 hurricanes respectively, have caused immense amounts of damage across Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas; both from their direct impact and the subsequent infrastructure destruction of these climate change-induced catastrophes. While Rascal is a publication about games, it is also a publication about people who love them—their lives, their passions, their hopes, their fears—and to go without acknowledging the effect of these storms would be a disservice to them, to you—our community of readers—and to anyone who believes there is a possibility for a better world. We must know what we are up against and how we can come together to keep each other safe.”
It’s a damn solid article with first hand accounts, community efforts, justified alarm, calls to action, and genuine hope.
From the Archives
As discussed in the Crowdfunding Carnival this month, Onyx Path is campaigning Curseborne, a different twist on the urban fantasy that typifies the World of Darkness…which is also (at least in part) published by Onyx Path. From the archives today we’ll look at another design house which double-dipped into Urban Fantasy, albeit in the opposite direction. While Magpie Games is well known for releasing Urban Shadows, a fantastic PbtA take on World of Darkness style urban fantasy, they also released Undying, focusing more specifically on vampires and taking a different (diceless) approach to PbtA mechanics. Check out Aki’s review.
Discussion of the Week
Is this hobby just wildly inaccessible to dyslexics and non-readers?: This week’s OP is working with teenagers with different learning disabilities, and even in spite of these disabilities they’re still using RPGs as a core activity in their program. It may not come up with all (or even most) of our gaming groups, but it is important to remember that delivering a game experience as a big book or multiple big books does lock out potential players; potential players who would be perfectly capable of the actual act of roleplay itself. It’s hardly just RPGs where accessibility is overlooked, but it’s one place that we as hobbyists can give some hard thoughts to.
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