The first ever Canada Roles Awards winners will be announced in one week. You can vote for your favourite nominee in 4 different categories.
For general information and links to vote, head to canadaroles.ca
Games were nominated by RPG enthusiasts at Terminal City Tabletop Con (Vancouver), Breakout Con (Toronto), and WPG RPG Con (Winnipeg). They were approved by the committee who also supplied some initial nomiees*. The winners will be announced at CanGames (Ottawa) on Saturday May 16th, 2026.
The webpage linked above has more details on each nominee and links. I expect to share a video tomorrow as well. Here is the list of all nominees and categories:
Visual Design
- A Fool's Errand — B Marsollier, Planet Arcana
- Ringmaster — Pascal Godbout, Spotless Dice Games
- Lady Dee's Grand Ball — Deanna Bird, The One True Ryan Khan
- We Shall Be Monsters — Seb Pines, Good Luck Press
Rules Design
- Dirtbags! — Jean-Luc Lariviere-Lacombe, The Dungeons Key
- A Fool's Errand — J Strautman, Planet Arcana
- Gambit RPG — Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Taloswind
- Nefertiti Overdrive 2.0 — Fraser Ronald, Sword's Edge Publishing
- Psychic Danger Society — James Kerr, Radio James Games
- Reanimated — Jed Doerkson, Trapped Chest
One Shot and Short Form
- Capricious — Ryan Khan, The One True Ryan Khan
- Going For Broke — Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony
- Kaiju Kontrol — James Kerr, Radio James Games
- First Date Update — Mat Copelli, Role Play Chat Press
- Sock Puppets — Kurt Riefling, A Smouldering Lighthouse
- Underneath — Seb Pines, Good Luck Press
Scenario or Supplement Design
- Join Their Ranks — Jed Doerksen, Trapped Chest for Reanimated
- Emergence — Carson Brown, Single Stage to Orbit Press for Mothership
- Field Guide to Floral Dragons — Verity Lane, Chris Pinch, Jordan Richer, Sebastian Yūe, Hit Point Press for Dungeons & Dragons
- Seven Sealed Spirits — Austin Holm, WatcherDM for Knave 2e
- Speed Run — Jordan Peacock, Sortilege for Cy_Borg
- The Skittering Mines — Lytha Hawkes, Bardic Inspirations RPGs for The Nullham Project
If you have played or read one of these and have thoughts, please share!
If you have a question about the awards, I'll do my best to answer.
*Compose Dream Games is "hosting" the awards site. I (Joshua) am the lead organizer (with input from a committee). Many are games we carry and distribute -- that in no means was part of the criteria for nomination.