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When The Walls Fall Review – Fallen Cities and Falling Dice

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The ancient city was originally founded as a place of study; a great library was its first building, and it remained ever its heart. However, the city grew to form the core of an unspeakable ritual…

on Tue, 8AM

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Weekend Update: 12/7/2024

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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, …

on Dec 7

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So You Want To Slay The NaGaDeMon

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Welcome to November! Welcome to National Game Design Month! A ‘NaNo Rebel’ that was spun off from NaNoWriMo* by Nathan Russell in 2010, National Game Design month is almost exactly what…

on Nov 3

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Discworld: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork Quickstart Review

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A world, and a mirror of worlds. Atop four giant elephants atop a giant turtle rests Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld – where the most dangerous barbarian is an old barbarian, where flee…

on Oct 18

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On Escapism

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I think I’m getting tired of cyberpunk. I’ve been deep into the cyberpunk genre since at least high school, reading, watching, and playing everything I could find. It was science fiction that actua…

on Oct 18

From cannibalhalflinggaming.com

We Need to Have Another Talk About AI

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For a lot of people I think talking about the negatives of AI is pretty exhausting and trite. In online bubbles that are primarily dominated by artists, you could be fooled into believing that only…

on Oct 1

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Rules-Lite Superhero RPGs Revisited: Part 1

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About two months ago I wrote a piece here on rules-lite superhero games. In the piece I talked about a bunch of games, and at the end I made a list of the games that I found most essential. I recom…

on Aug 30

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Clever Girl Review – Wretched & Together With A Raptor

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You probably know the story – a theme park where things go horribly awry, but instead of an accident on a ride or something there are real dinosaurs on the loose and they’re eating ever…

on Aug 16

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Crowdfunding Carnival: August, 2024

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Welcome to the Crowdfunding Carnival for August! We’re steaming right out of the gate with some big ones this month! There’s an old stalwart getting a new edition, and the next multi-million dollar…

on Aug 13

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The TTRPG Fleet

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If you hang around in bicycle spaces long enough, you’re going to hear someone say ‘n+1’. This is a joke among the cycling community: “The correct amount of bikes to own is n+1, where n is equal to…

on Jul 27

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Rules-Lite Superhero RPGs Revisited: Part 6 (Conclusion)

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A few months ago I wrote a survey of Superhero RPGs, and more recently I began looking into the best games from that survey in more detail. Here are links to Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Par…

on Jul 18

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System Split: War Never Changes

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The Fallout show on Amazon Prime is actually good, the latest video game property to successfully push back a decades-old curse that has sent similar adaptations plummeting to the bottom of box off…

on May 16

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Deathmatch Island Review

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Back in 2020 I reviewed the newest edition of John Harper and Sean Nittner’s Agon. Agon is a fascinating game, taking the characters on an Odyssey-like journey of myth through a number of islands. …

on May 8

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Stewpot: Tales from A Fantasy Tavern Backerkit Review

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The tavern is the fulcrum point of the adventuring lifestyle. It’s where wandering heroes can find food and shelter after weeks out in the wilderness, it’s where quests can often begin… and it’s wh…

on May 3

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Spooktacular Adventure Writing: Part 2

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Adventure Design Before we get started, here’s a link to Part 1 in case you missed it. There is an idea that rules-lite games don’t require adventures and scenarios the way crunchier games do. I th…

on Apr 19

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Black Sword Hack and the evolving OSR

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The Old School Renaissance is a microcosm within the RPG world. Although many (including myself) refer to the OSR as a whole, cohesive thing, the reality is that the movement is more the result of …

on Mar 28

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Daggerheart Preview

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Earlier this month, Darrington Press released the free playtest version of Daggerheart, their traditional fantasy RPG meant to go toe-to-toe with D&D. First with Pathfinder but now also with en…

on Mar 20

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System Hack: Using Playing Cards

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Welcome to another System Hack! Way back when I gave an intro to how to use dice and dice statistics in your game designs. This is in some ways a sequel to that article, but given the design assump…

on Mar 13

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Crowdfunding Carnival: February, 2024

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Welcome to Crowdfunding Carnival for February! Uh oh…it’s February already? You know what that means…ZineQuest! This month I (mostly) put the big games aside and look at all the different zine camp…

on Feb 9

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What can we say about RPGs?

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This is my eighth year of writing for Cannibal Halfling Gaming. On one hand, everything I’ve done here has blown up beyond my wildest expectations; the quantity, quality, and audience of my writing…

on Jan 21

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Meet the Campaign: Forbidden Stairs

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I love mashups. Whether in music, film, or elsewhere, a good mashup takes the best parts of its two (or more) constituent works and makes them even better by putting them in a different context. Ma…

on Jan 20

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System Hack: Advancement for GURPS

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As longtime readers of this site may be aware, I have a long history with GURPS. GURPS was the first game I GMed for what is still my primary gaming group, and I GMed GURPS for the majority of all …

on Dec 13, 2023

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Paranoia The Core Book Review

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It shocked me to learn that it has been six years since I last reviewed an edition of Paranoia; back in 2017 I did a System Split comparison between Paranoia Red Clearance Edition and Paranoia XP, …

on Dec 12, 2023

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Cannibal Halfling’s Reviewed Games at PAX Unplugged 2023

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Aki and I are both wandering around PAX Unplugged this weekend – Aki already put out a great guide to both the con and to the surrounding area, and I’ve been sending artificial intellig…

on Dec 3, 2023

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PAX Unplugged: A Local’s Guide (2023 Update)

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Ho adventuring gamers! We are on the eve of PAX Unplugged in downtown Philadelphia. After a few years of plague I have managed to shove a fist through the loose grave I was buried in and make my wa…

on Dec 1, 2023

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Shared Fantasy Review

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The era of the RPG historian started in the 21st century, but that’s not when the RPG history has its roots. In the last decade or so, Jon Peterson, Shannon Appelcline and Ben Riggs, among others, …

on Nov 8, 2023

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Eat the Reich (Backerkit Preview)

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The date: 1943. The location: Nazi occupied Paris. Your assignment: to climb into a pressurized steel coffin. Survive a drop from a few thousand feet. Make your way to the Eiffel tower, where the F…

on Oct 23, 2023

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On Modules

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My gaming group consists of roughly 10 adults, each able to commit to any given gaming session only when the vagaries of their schedule allows. We run two campaigns at a time, taking into account t…

on Oct 12, 2023

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TRANSIT: The Spaceship RPG

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Travel between the stars is no longer science fiction, but instead reality. No longer confined to one measly system, ships now move across vast interstellar distances in the blink of an eye . .. bu…

on Oct 4, 2023