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.
Continue reading Weekend Update: 5/31/2025Tag Archives: Zine
Crowdfunding Carnival: Zine Quest 2025
Welcome back to the Crowdfunding Carnival! Zine Quest this year has been very active, so we’ve got more zines to look at in the usual categories. In addition, I’ve done a brief look back at February of 2020, which in addition to having some mainline games was the inaugural year of Cannibal Halfling’s Zine Quest coverage.
Continue reading Crowdfunding Carnival: Zine Quest 2025Crowdfunding Carnival: February, 2025
Welcome to the Crowdfunding Carnival for February! You know what time it is…it’s ZineQuest time! Kickstarter’s celebration of small-format RPGs is settling back into a regular cadence, with 2025 being the second ‘normal’ year after two relatively abnormal ones given scheduling and, well, Web3. Just like last year I’m going to do a quick overview of the full-sized campaigns running and then dive headlong into the zines, categorizing them into full games, supplements, and RPG-adjacent or system-agnostic materials. In two weeks time we’ll do it all again, covering the zines we don’t get to or that haven’t started campaigning this week, and instead of covering major campaigns we’ll go over the five-year retrospective, looking at ZineQuest 2020.
Continue reading Crowdfunding Carnival: February, 2025Crowdfunding Carnival: ZineQuest 2024
It’s February, and that means it’s still ZineQuest! We saw a large number of zines in the first round of Crowdfunding Carnival at the beginning of the month, but there are more, oh so many more. I’ve brought together a whole second round of zines to make sure that everyone who wasn’t live in the first week of the month still has a chance to be highlighted.
In addition to the zines, I’m continuing with our Crowdfunding Carnival five year retrospective, which was just a bit too much in the first week with all the zines to go through. I’ve disappointed myself by not starting ZineQuest coverage in its first year, but there were still a number of campaigns and a fair amount to say about them.
But first, the zines. I’ve, in theory, strived to be more selective among the zine wilds; there are over 200 zine projects live now and I can’t possibly cover them all. So for today I’ve brought 40 more zines to the front. These have all caught my attention and, in a few cases, I’ve thrown some money at them. Like before we have three categories, dividing the zines into standalone games, supplements, and zines which are entirely system-agnostic.
Continue reading Crowdfunding Carnival: ZineQuest 2024Weekend Update: 2/17/2024
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.
Zine Month 2024 Round-Up
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.
The Ink That Bleeds Review – An Immersive Dive Into Immersive Journaling
“My friend Adam feel that bleed, and games that aim for it, are ‘comparatively cheap, short-term pleasures… a bit like jump scares.’ My experience is so the opposite.
I think immersive, bleedy journaling games are act of purging ourselves of narratives that aren’t in our interests and enlivening ourselves for the temporal world.
I’m totally going to show you how.”
So writes Paul Czege in The Ink That Bleeds – How To Play Immersive Journaling Games, and I’m going to show you some of what’s inside and what it made me think.
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Zine Month 2023 Round Up #2
A ride or die Filipino adventure where the indigenous magic and monsters still dominate the archipelago. A seaside vacation meant to both help your health and help you find love, provided you can solve the murder. Living a version of your life affected by ADHD. It’s down to the wire, but there’s still time to check out another batch of Zine Month creations!
Zine Month 2023 Round Up #1
A map for every adventure and an adventure for every map. The horror of magical academia. Making sacrifices to a river spirit. Last of Us a la Twin Peaks. Tracking down an entity that consumes time itself. Another February, another month of roleplaying game zines, and I’m back for more Zine Month spotlights!
Zine Month Round Up #5
Practicing a new (and literally newer than most) language via a roleplaying game. The exchange between the distance between two people and the people themselves. A doomed mech pilot trying to help the survivors of their people reach safety. Delving in the darkness, maybe never to return. Saving the Jewish people by masquerading as Queens. We’ve done it once, twice, thrice, and four times before, let’s check out one last batch of Zine Month games and make it five, then have a serious talk about itchfunding!
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