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.

It is in some ways perfect timing that only a month ago I was comparing Fate and Apocalypse World, and looking at their respective destinies. In 2013 the fourth edition of Fate, Fate Core, went from its Kickstarter to legitimately outstanding commercial success. Around the same time, Apocalypse World had just started on its inexorable upward trajectory not due to its own sales numbers but rather the adoption of its underpinnings, …

Adventurer! This new DIE RPG Bundle presents DIE, the tabletop roleplaying game from Rowan, Rook, & Decard based on – rather, created in parallel with – the DIE Image Comics series (20 issues, 2018-21...

This special bundle product contains the following titles. Transit: The Spaceship RPGRegular price: $20.00Bundle price: $16.00Format: PDF TRANSIT takes place beyond our home planet, allowing you to ...

It may be self-indulgent, but not long after running my most recent game of DIE I imagined my characters meeting each other, timelines be damned. This is the first part of that; I think I have three vignettes I want to write about Nat and Donnie meeting and becoming friends at their college orientation. This is very clearly a draft, but it's also helping me think about what I saddle my characters with when it comes to a game like DIE where you're almost expected to leave part of yourself on the page.

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.

While the focus in RimWorld is on the stretch of land that you’ve claimed for your base, the entire planet is available to you to explore. You can see the spread of different biomes and factions when you select your landing site at the beginning of the game, but really exploring and interacting with the broader world is dependent on either sending out risky caravans or developing later-game technologies like drop pods and (now with Odyssey) gravships.

"I didn't become a clown because all the serious roles were taken. I became a clown because all the serious roles were tainted." In all my years of role-playing, no character became as fully formed, as vivid in my mind, as Tickles the Clown. Tickles was a Rockerboy, a charisma-based character class from the Cyberpunk TTRPG. Tickles demanded that the world take him exactly as seriously as he intended, no more and no less.

This post is brought to you thanks to Lady Tabletop, who prompted folks to write about their own gaming experiences of the year and give out their own fun awards. Like Seamus I thought this was a neat idea, and was also glad (and relieved) that ‘The Endies’ weren’t trying to be yet another award given out because someone disagrees with the ENnies.

The RPG theory ship sails on unbidden, even as RPG networks of practice seem to be drifting apart. In November, there was a great post over on The Dododecahedron which bucked the trend and pulled theory work from outside of the author’s primary discipline, the OSR. Starting from a description written by Vincent Baker about the PbtA ‘conversation’, Dododecahedron author Rowan describes OSR play as an onion with four concentric layers: Character on the outside, then working inward to Mechanics, Procedures, and finally Adventure.

Welcome to Crowdfunding Carnival for December! Con season is well and truly over, with PAX Unplugged wrapping before Thanksgiving. That, combined with the upcoming holidays, has caused Kickstarter …

I wasn’t really one who was drawn to romance in my reading or media consumption for a very long time. Being a, well, cishet male, this may not necessarily come as a surprise to many people. That said, I did, much later in life, figure out that, at some level, it was something I was missing. In literature, romance is (or at least is marketed as) gendered, especially when you’re talking about genre fiction (as opposed to “literature” literature which is a whole land mine I won’t dig up at this point).

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.

Welcome to Crowdfunding Carnival for December! Con season is well and truly over, with PAX Unplugged wrapping before Thanksgiving. That, combined with the upcoming holidays, has caused Kickstarter to slow…turns out game designers need a vacation too! We don’t have ten campaigns to look at this month, but there are still a number of interesting games on the horizon which are worth examination.

The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.

It’s a new month, and that means another tarot pull. I’m doing another three card past, present, future spread, once again using my deck of the Bianco Nero Tarot, like last month. For the new year I’ll kick us off with a new deck, and from there we’ll move into some new spreads. We start with the Queen of Wands in the past position, followed with the Emperor reversed at present, and the Page of Swords reversed in the future position.

Ever feel like the world is out to get you? It is. Five radical teens with attitude should not be responsible for saving the world. You’re a bunch of god-damned teenagers. You might act like …

"After the locusts and pits and boiling seas. After the war in heaven and feasting on earth. After the seven years of blood and forty years of night. There is magic. Magic and bone. Where streets grow weeds and skyscrapers stand hollow. Where old gods wake and new gods form in the hearts of the wayward. Where cult and banner flourish.

I appreciate each and every one of you who read my story last week, hopefully it gave some entertainment or provoked some thought. As was likely obvious after reading the whole thing, Nat was my character in the most recent game of DIE I ran; the story itself both tied in to some events that happened in-game as well as attempted to give some background that explained the game’s conceit and gave Nat an impetus for getting everyone into DIE.