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Weekend Update: 10/10/2026

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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.

RPG Top Sellers for 10/10/2026

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1.Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition RulebookDungeon Gestalts
2.WH40k Roleplay: Imperium Maledictum, Macharian Adversary GuideTeam Dynamics Seeder
3.Cosmere® RPG | Mistborn® HandbookSTRAHD MUST DIE
4.Mutants and Masterminds 3e: Vigilante’s HandbookA Feast for the Eye
5.Green OaksOh, the Humanity! Vol. 2

Top News Stories

The D&D team at WotC is unionizing: Both the D&D and Studio X teams at Wizards of the Coast have announced that they’re joining United Wizards of the Coast via the Communications Workers of America. They have called for Wizards of the Coast to voluntarily recognize the union by next Tuesday, October 13th. If you want to support the teams and United Wizards of the Coast, sign the petition to WotC by following the link above.

From the Archives

Around this time two years ago, we were partway through our Cowboy Bebop Actual Play, featuring Seamus, Aki, and Geni as a very mismatched groups of bounty hunters. From the archives this week is Cannibal Halfling Now Playing: Trifecta Tango!

Discussion of the Week

We gotta start using “homebrew” right: An interesting discussion about linguistic drift, another word besides ‘railroading’ that seems to be used more broadly than intended. Here, though, I agree that there’s a right answer: Homebrew is homemade, just like in beer.

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Articles, Editorial

itch.io Needs to Introduce Revenue Sharing

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itch.io is, in most ways, a great digital storefront. While it’s mostly associated with videogames, basically any kind of file can be sold there. It has become a popular place to sell ebooks, comics, music, and TTRPGs1. Unlike almost every other online storefront I can think of, I’ve never heard any horror stories about itch.io2 removing NSFW content in order to appease payment processors. Even if the site has received some criticism recently in relation to the speed with which they facilitate the formation of charity bundles, that doesn’t change the fact that itch.io has been used to raise a lot of money for various left-leaning causes.

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Articles, The Independents

World Ending Game – Saying Goodbye With Style

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“Think about screenplays and films, or the final episode of a television show that you know will not be renewed. Think about saying goodbye to friends who are moving away. Think about the last day of summer vacation. Think about funerals. Think about the restaurant that closed all those years ago, and the noodles they used to serve. Think about the best birthday party you ever had. Think about putting off the last chapter of a book until tomorrow. Think about grief, and relief. Think about the end of a world. Think about the feeling of emerging from a movie theater into a dark parking lot, under the stars.” Longtime readers might recall I’ve written about saying goodbye to characters before, but that was largely in a ‘how to remember and treasure them’ way. The reasoning behind that article is, however, the same one that drew me to check out the subject of this one: the attachment to characters that we’ve created and a desire for closure as we leave them, and the snapshot of their lives that we played out, behind. This is a look at World Ending Game by Everest Pipkin.

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Articles, Indie Frontiers

Zine Month 2024 Round-Up

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Lock your credit cards, hide your wallet, tell your banks to close early, because it’s February and that means a veritable deluge of new tabletop roleplaying game zines taking their shot at getting created with some crowdfunded help. Down the hall Aaron can be heard trying to keep his head above water with the first wave of ZineQuest projects on Kickstarter (there’s an alarming number of gargling sounds), but as has been tradition I’m taking a look beyond the white-green halls of the original ZQ to see what other excellent projects can be found in the wider Zine Month 2024.

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