Vote for the 2026 Canada Roles Awards

Canada Roles Awards seeks to celebrate the games and art created by the Canadian tabletop Roleplaying Game Industry.

The inaugural 2026 Awards consist of four categories:

  Visual Design
  Rules Design
  One Shot and Short Form
  Scenario or Supplement Design

To be eligible a RPG title must meet the following criteria:

  Recipients must be Canadian residents or citizens. In the case of multiple contributors, the plurality of them must be Canadian (more than 50%).
  The product must have been released in print in the prior calendar year i.e. 2025. 
  Zero edition, ashcan, preview and pre-release games are not eligible.
  Generative AI's aren't humans and are not eligible for awards.

Visual Design

A Fool's Errand — B Marsollier, Planet Arcana GOLD	Use tarot cards to tell an expansive science fantasy story, both in the waking world and the surrealistic subconscious realms. Contend with calamity as you indulge or deny the gods. Paperback; 220 pages; colour
Ringmaster — Pascal Godbout, Spotless Dice Games SILVER	Descended from the Queen of circuses and the supernatural under the Big Top. 82 tarot-sized cards; colour
Lady Dee's Grand Ball — Deanna Bird, The One True Ryan Khan	A GM-less story game of secrets, songs, and social intrigue. Each scene unfolds in real-time to the length of a song. Zine; 20 pages; colour
We Shall Be Monsters — Seb Pines, Good Luck Press	A solo game of creation, obsession, and playing god to assuage your loneliness. Zine; Colour

Rules Design

Dirtbags! — Jean-Luc Lariviere-Lacombe, The Dungeons Key GOLD	Sci-fi shooter; play expendable troopers facing relentless tours of duty. This graffiti filled core rulebook is all you need to start your campaign. Paperback; 89 pages;
A Fool's Errand — J Strautman, Planet Arcana SILVER	Use tarot cards to tell an expansive science fantasy story, both in the waking world and the surrealistic subconscious realms. Contend with calamity as you indulge or deny the gods. Paperback; 220 pages; colour
Gambit RPG — Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Taloswind	Quick-playing adventure game with push your luck card mechanics. Box set; 2 booklets; 52 cards + 65 item cards
Nefertiti Overdrive 2.0 — Fraser Ronald, Sword's Edge Publishing	Ancient Egypt meets kung fu in the 2nd edition of this high-octane action RPG. Inspired by Cortex Plus system. paperback; 157 pages; black-n-white.
Psychic Danger Society — James Kerr, Radio James Games	A game of small town ladies making predictions and investigating murders. Pre-roll your 12 sided dice to spend across the evening. Paperback; 50 pages; black n white
Reanimated — Jed Doerkson, Trapped Chest	2d8 Key Powered System and Zombie apocalypse setting. Zine; 24 pages; black-n-white;

One Shot and Short Form

Capricious — Ryan Khan, The One True Ryan Khan	You are gods who destroyed the world, now create a new world in your image it in this GM-less worldbuilding game. Zine; 20 pages; black n white
Going For Broke — Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony	A fast-paced sitcom RPG about roomates scrambling to get enough money together. 12 roommate cards, 5 reference cards, in a sleeve box.
Kaiju Kontrol — James Kerr, Radio James Games SILVER	GMless 3 to 6 player game of humans with issues controlling Kaiju and smashing cities and monsters. Paperback; 60 pages; black n white
First Date Update — Mat Copelli, Role Play Chat Press SILVER	A lighthearted GMless roleplaying game, for 3 or more players, where you pretend to date and ghost your friends' characters. Short-form GMless game. Zine; 14 pages; colour;
Sock Puppets — Kurt Refling, A Smouldering Lighthouse GOLD	Make real, actual puppets to ruin a perfectly good puppet show, GM-less one-shot. Paperback; 39 pages; colour
Underneath — Seb Pines, Good Luck Press	Underneath is a solo game of what we encounter when we venture alone in the dark. Map and explore as a modern caver. Zine; 60 pages; black-n-white

Scenario or Supplement Design

Join Their Ranks — Jed Doerksen, Trapped Chest for Reanimated SILVER	Did your survivors die? Now they can play as the zombies. New rules and adventure The Last Train. Zine; 20 pages; black-n-white
Emergence — Carson Brown, Single Stage to Orbit Press for Mothership	Escape the Henkō Acquisitions Correctional Complex before the prison and its inhabitants destabilize. A funnel adventure for Mothership RPG. Zine; 32 pages; colour
Field Guide to Floral Dragons — Verity Lane, Chris Pinch, Jordan Richer, Sebastian Yūe, Hit Point Press for Dungeons & Dragons GOLD	Habitat and lore of Floral Dragons for 5e along with magic items, fungi and poison. Hardcover; 200 pages; colour
Seven Sealed Spirits — Austin Holm, WatcherDM for Knave 2e	A flexible island setting and adventure module for Knave 2e and other OSR/NSR systems. Zine; 32 packed pages; black n white
Speed Run — Jordan Peacock, Sortilege for Cy_Borg	A two-part heist for Cy-borg, the target Frodus Conglomerate International. Zine; 14 pages; colour
The Skittering Mines — Lytha Hawkes, Bardic Inspirations RPGs for The Nullham Project