Announcing the 2025 ARPIA Awards Shortlist

The Australian Role-Playing Industry Awards (ARPIA) are proud to announce the shortlist for the 2025 awards. The ARPIAs celebrate the creativity, innovation, and passion of Australia’s tabletop role-playing game community, recognising the designers, writers, artists, and storytellers whose work inspires players around the world. This year’s shortlist highlights the extraordinary breadth of talent across our…

Decaying Orbit – 2023 Game of the Year

Decaying Orbit is a storytelling RPG about a failed space station falling into a faraway star. As you play, you’ll piece together the mysteries, joys and horrors that occurred on board. Created by Sidney Icarus

ARPIA Celebrates 2023 Winners!

The third annual Australian Role Playing Industry Awards (ARPIA) has concluded with a flourish, honouring the pinnacle of talent and creativity in the table-top role-playing games (TTRPG) arena. Hosted at ACMI as part of the illustrious Melbourne International Games Week on 4th October, the ARPIA ceremony underscored the dynamism and innovation shaping the future of…

ARPIA 2023 AWARDS NIGHT

Running as part of the Melbourne International Games Week in 2023 The Awards Night is:6:00pm (AEDT), Wednesday 4th October 1st Floor ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne. Keynote Speaker: Tim Westhaven, Program Leader for the Bachelor of Game Design, at the Australian College of the Arts. Ticketing yet to be arranged.