A game jam from 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-29 hosted by Famout. The ??? Itch.io Desert Bus for Hope Game Jam is taking signups now! This game jam is both for fans of the charity run, and those who are only...

Welcome to Crowdfunding Carnival for October! I have to admit, autumn snuck up on me and I’m not quite in spooky season mode yet. That’s ok, because we have a wide range of games that designers are trying to bring to life, no necromancy required! Want to be a dinosaur? Roadtrip to Oregon? Have the gods try to ruin your life?

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

I'm back from vacation. Who knew having time to let your mind wander is so good for creativity?

Alt: Kylo Ren: I Don't Know If I Have The Strength

A bundle by Seamus Conneely, $19.17 for 5 games

Alt: Me, played here by Ron Swanson played by Nick Offerman, fleeing from Asa's increasingly frequent attempts to harvest my soul.

Alt: Radagast having a good time on that hobbit lettuce.

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.

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

Alt: Captain America: I Understood That Reference

An interesting thing I’ve noticed in the last few years is that another RPG term has been experiencing linguistic drift. I talked about this a little in the context of the term ‘heartbreaker’ a while back, and now the term that we’re seeing shift is ‘railroading’. At first I was thinking about this in terms of linguistic precision (and as such risking becoming an old man yelling at a metaphorical cloud), but the more I thought about it the more interesting I realized the implications were of the drift.

The Battle of Ettenmark was supposed to be the end of it. A great host of armies from the Eastern Kingdoms marching west, led by the divinely-blessed Chosen, to strike down the Cinder King and his …

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.

The thing that separates the TTRPG hobby from most others is commitment. The oft-stated platonic ideal of TTRPG gameplay, the long-running campaign, requires you and three to five other people to carve out time on at least a monthly (and preferably more frequent) basis for possibly years in order to play through a game of typical length. Although one-shots certainly exist, as well as con games where you need only bring yourself, fact is that if we talk about how mainstream RPGs are designed, the campaign is how they’re meant to be used.

A bundle of 75 modules for use in any TTRPG