The 2025 Australian Role-Playing Industry Awards (ARPIA) was held on October 8th at ACMI during Melbourne International Games Week, recognising outstanding contributions to Australia’s tabletop role-playing (TTRPG) scene. The event highlighted the growing creativity and professionalism shaping the country’s role-playing community.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Best Artwork

Bracing for the Storm Illustrated by Tara Willow & Tallulah Cunningham

A small collaborative inventory-management TTRPG, written by Pidj Sorenson, where you play hunters/gatherers gathering provisions as a storm approaches.

Best PDF Only Product

Revenant by Danielle Linder

A rules-light game of otherworldly horror and monster hunting using the Breathless SRD, created for the Breathless 2 Game Jam.

Best Emerging Creator

David Waldron

David writes scenarios for Call of Cthulhu and Pendragon and has held a number of Live Action Roleplays at the Ballarat Heritage Festival.

Best TTRPG Stream

Best Left Forgotten: Sunburnt Country by Nathan Quadrio, Miriam Fietz, and Jess Wolfendale

A short actual play podcast season based on Tether, an epistolary RPG by Adam Baffoni.

Best Scenario

Resort by Kat Clay

A Call of Cthulhu Scenario published through Miskatonic Repository. A group of ultra-rich people go to a tropical island for a new beauty treatment. They may or may not survive…

Best Game Jam Submission

Remember and Return by Pidj Sorensen

A swirling caravan of spirits tries once a year to regain their bodies. Players join them, using red, green, blue and wild tokens and a wheel spinner.

Game of the Year

Dark Vigil by Nicole Renner

A post-apocalyptic Victorian horror TTRPG, set in an eternally-dark world where the sun and stars have disappeared and strange creatures stalk the darkness. The players are Venturers, those bold and brave enough to leave the safety of town and venture out into the Dark in search of answers, supplies etc.