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We make games, we play games. Through #KiwiRPG you will discover a new constellation of world-class TTRPGs and actual play shows from Aotearoa New Zealand.

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KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· 27d

It's the EPIC Christmas in July sale at @drivethrurpg.com !! And because our friends at DriveThru kindly added a #KiwiRPG filter - we can link directly to all KiwiRPG titles that are part of the sale! Chur! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?fi...

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 10

The final day of KiwiRPG week 2026! We have two livestream games, MOUNTAIN RESONANCE at 12 noon, ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN at 4pm, and then a panel: PREPARING FOR PLAYTESTING at 7:30pm! Then Closing Ceremony at 10pm! Can't dream it's over!

KiwiRPG Week 2026 Day 8 Saturday 11th July
AP: Mountain Resonance
Sat 12pm NZST
Sat 1am BST
Fri 8pm EDT
AP: All According To Plan
Sat 4pm NZST
Sat 5am BST
Sat 12am EDT
Preparing for playtesting
Sat 7:30pm NZST
Sat 8:30am BST
Sat 3:30am EDT
Official closing
Sat 10pm NZST
Sat 11am BST
Sat 6am EDT

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Livestream Game
Mountain Resonance
Saturday 11th July
Sat 12pm NZST

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Livestream Game
All According To Plan
Saturday 11th July
Sat 4pm NZST

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Livestream Panel
Preparing for playtesting
Saturday 11th July
Sat 7:30pm NZST

With: Vex Chat-Blanc (Hunting Billionaires for Sport), Cam Banks (Cortex Prime), David Easley (All According to Plan)

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 9

Mānawatia a Matariki! Today is Matariki, the Māori New Year, a time to remember those who have died, look ahead to the future, and celebrate being together now. Two huge KiwiRPG livestreams today: 1pm, Māori creators gather for a chat 6pm, hilarious ghostbusting with Paranormal Christchurch

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Day 7 - Friday 10th July
Māori creators chat
Fri 1pm NZST
Fri 2am BST
Thurs 9pm EDT

AP: Paranormal Christchurch
Fri 6pm NZST
Fri 7am BST
Fri 2am EDT

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Livestream panel
Māori creators chat
Friday 10th July 1pm NZST
with Riwhi Kenny (Earth Mother Sky Father), Liam Stevens (Toa Tabletop), Sascha Stronach (The Dawnhounds), Te Aihe Butler (Fury of the Small)

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Livestream game
AP: Paranormal Christchurch
Friday 10th July 6pm NZST

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 9

This is an epic day for KiwiRPG week! * TTRPGs in academia panel at 1:30pm! * Working with publishers panel at 3pm! * d12Go! improvised game livestream at 6pm! Watch them all on www.twitch.tv/kemuwhakatau...

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Day 6 - Thursday 9th July
TTRPGs in Academia
Thurs 1:30pm NZST
Thurs 2:30am BST
Wed 9:30 EDT

Working with publishers
Thurs 3pm NZST
Thurs 4am BST
Wed 11pm EDT

Actual Play: d12Go!
Thurs 6pm NZST
Thurs 7am BST
Thurs 2am EDT

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Livestream panel
TTRPGs in Academia
Thursday 9th July 1:30pm NZST
with Shaun Garea (GRAIL Lab) and Dylan Horrocks (Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington), hosted by Kelly Whyte

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Livestream panel
Working with publishers
Thursday 9th July 3pm NZST
with Cam Banks (Cortex Prime), Grant Robinson (Shadowrun), Mike Sands (Monster of the Week)

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Livestream game
Actual Play: d12Go!
Thursday 9th July 6pm NZST

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 7

Have you ever thought about playing (or talking) TTRPGs for an audience? You need this. Just one KiwiRPG week livestream today & it's a doozy: four folks who know podcasts, YouTube, live streaming, live performance, and more, will drop some knowledge.

KiwiRPG week 2026 livestream panel
Makers of actual plays
Wednesday 8 July, 7pm NZST
with Julz Burgisser (Fate of Isen), AJ Pickett (YouTube), Vahid Qualls (Dice Legenz), Sero (Redgate & Wolf)

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 7

AJ will be with Julz and Vahid, two other creators with vast hands-on experience on lots of different aspects of show creation, in the livestream panel tomorrow at 7pm! All part of KiwiRPG Week! www.twitch.tv/kemuwhakatau...

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 6

KiwiRPG day 4! All about SOLO TTRPGs today with an incredible two-part livestream event! First a panel where the audience is invited to learn about solo RPGs and then design one together... and second, Ruby K steps in to play through the brand-new game we just made! www.kiwirpg.com/kiwirpg-week...

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 6

And tomorrow is a solo RPG special event, with a panel to make a game and then another to play it! Both events on twitch here: www.twitch.tv/kemuwhakatau... #KiwiRPG #SoloRPG

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Livestream Panel
Let's Make a Solo TTRPG
Tuesday 7 July 1pm NZST
with Sam Robson (Vampire Year, Haunted Heart) and Sero (Monster Camper, the Solo RPG List)

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Livestream game
The solo TTRPG we just made!
Tuesday 7 July 6pm NZST

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 6

You can watch for yourself in the d12Go! livestream on Thursday! All KiwiRPG week livestreams are here: www.twitch.tv/kemuwhakatau...

KiwiRPG livestream game
d12Go! The Universal RPG
Thursday 9 July, 6pm NZST

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 5

KiwiRPG Week Day 3! An incredible panel with #TTRPG industry insiders and great creators diving deep into art and layout - and then a wild game of native birds getting up to all kinds of mischief in Tui: Birds of a Feather! www.kiwirpg.com/kiwirpg-week...

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 5

45 minutes until the livestream of #FiveEvil Fiendish 5E Horror, featuring THE ROAR... in the deepest NZ bush, some hunters have run into trouble and the emergency teams are called in. Will they survive what they find out there? www.twitch.tv/kemuwhakatau...

KiwiRPG Week 2026 Livestream game
FiveEvil 5E Horror
Sunday 5 July 7:30pm NZST

Text: THE ROAR. It's killing season.
Picture of a bull stag with red eyes and red-tipped antlers.

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 5

Rave will be running TUI: BIRDS OF A FEATHER, with many more shenanigans, live on stream Monday evening!

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Livestream game
Tui: Birds of a feather
Monday 6 July, 7pm NZST

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 4

KiwiRPG Week Sunday brings the scares! Monster of the Week livestream at 1pm NZ time! FiveEvil 5E Horror at 7:30pm NZ time! www.kiwirpg.com/kiwirpg-week...

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 4

GAME BUNDLES! An outstanding bundle of #KiwiRPG games over on itch! Dwarves! Mountains! Running away! Moar! itch.io/b/3773/kiwir...

Screenshot of a big pile of Kiwi games on sale at itch

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 3

GAME BUNDLES! There's a great #KiwiRPG bundle on @drivethrurpg.com RIGHT NOW! Downing Street! Papercraft! Lyncanthropes! And more! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

KiwiRPG Week 2026
15 Kiwi Products for $15
All KiwiRPG Week
July 4-11

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 3

Iwā's game Yous Are Broken Too? is leading off our week of livestream games and panels, check it out at 1pm tomorrow (NZ time) - find all links at www.kiwirpg.com/kiwirpg-week...

KiwiRPG Week 2026 Livestream game
Yous are broken too?
Saturday 4 July 1pm NZST

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 2

This is going to be a great watch! #ActualPlay #TTRPG

KiwiRPG Week 2026 Livestream Game: Mountain Resonance, Saturday 11 July, 12 noon NZST

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 2

Next: a worldbuilding game founded in Te Ao Māori (a Māori understanding of the world), led by designer Riwhi Kenny. Watch live at KiwiRPG on Twitch www.twitch.tv/kemuwhakatau...

KiwiRPG week 2026 livestream game: WHAKAWHITINGA
Saturday 4 July 7pm NZST

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jul 2

Saturday #KiwiRPG week schedule! www.kiwirpg.com/kiwirpg-week... Starting with the opening ceremony at midday Aotearoa time!

KiwiRPG Week 2026 schedule for day 1 Saturday 4th July

Opening Ceremony 12pm NZST (1am BST, Fri 8pm EDT)
AP: Yous are broken too? 1pm NZST (2am BST, Fri 9pm EDT)
AP: Whakawhitinga 7pm NZST (8am BST, 3am EDT)

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jun 30

Attention artists in the #TTRPG industry! Expert advice on getting your portfolio into the best possible shape! (from the quoted link)

Kia Ora, my name is Paul Tobin. I have been a professional artist and graphic designer for over 20 years. My experience began in the film industry as a concept designer and Art Director at Weta Workshop, before moving onto independent projects through my board game company, Arkus Games. Most recently, I work as an Art Director for Chaosium Games. I’ve been playing TTRPG’s since the 80’s and my art has been featured in Earthdawn, 13th Age, Trinity Continuum, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Curseborn and Pendragon.

As an Art Director I actively commission artists for work and receive many portfolios and questions around how an artist can better improve their portfolio and chances of getting hired. It’s a big topic – one we will likely cover in more detail on our upcoming panel – however, for this blog, I thought I could pass on some simple tips around how you can better present your portfolio for TTRPG work.

Make it easy to find and see
Get your work onto a website or dedicated portfolio site. It sounds so obvious, but...

Make it easy to find and see
Get your work onto a website or dedicated portfolio site. It sounds so obvious, but occasionally artists just send me a link to a folder of images, which means I need to download them and then open them up to review. AD’s are typically very time-poor,
especially when it comes to reviewing an artist’s work. It’s best to make finding, evaluating and even saving some of your work as easy as possible. Using password protection can be an option for some work which might be more commercially sensitive.

What kind of Website?
Dedicated portfolio sites are often a pretty easy approach. For TTRPG nearly all artists that send me work have an ArtStation or CARA site. Having your own WIX, SquareSpace or even Google Site, however, is also fine. The key thing is to ensure that
you pick a site that has good templates or customisation for displaying art images.

How do I display my work?
With as few clicks of the mouse as possible. My ideal portfolio is a link: I click once and I’m presented with a home page that is a mosaic of great art that I can just scroll through with a roll of a finger.

Typically AD’s just want to get a sense of your style, technical ability, genre and areas of speciality: ie: characters, story driven art, environments etc.

If I like what I see, then the next thing I’ll do is open up a few of the images and take a closer look at the art. What I’m also looking for is some very short bit of context.

Is it personal work or client work? If it’s client work, I want to know the company – I may know someone there who could give me a character reference.

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jun 30

Join Paul Tobin and other incredible folk for the Visual Arts and Games panel: Monday 6 July 1:30pm NZST (Same again but with some of Paul's art added to the share image!) #KiwiRPG

Two inset images by PAUL TOBIN (fumigators at work and a battle in the ice)
KiwiRPG Week 2026 livestream panel
Visual Arts & Games
Monday 6 July 1:30pm NZST
with Tim Denee (Blades in ’68), Stacy Longstreet (art director D&D 4e), Paul Tobin (art director Chaosium), Matthew Wills (Swords webcomic)

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jun 30

Join Paul and other incredible folk for the Visual Arts and Games panel: Monday 6 July 1:30pm NZST #KiwiRPG

KiwiRPG Week 2026 livestream panel
Visual Arts & Games
Monday 6 July 1:30pm NZST
with Tim Denee (Blades in ’68), Stacy Longstreet (art director D&D 4e), Paul Tobin (art director Chaosium), Matthew Wills (Swords webcomic)

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jun 30

KiwiRPG week starts this Saturday! #TTRPG Awesome livestream actual play! Incredible expert panel discussions! New Zealand accents! Full schedule at: www.kiwirpg.com/kiwirpg-week...

KiwiRPG Week 2026
Livestream events all week!
Saturday 4 July to Saturday 11 July
kiwirpg.com #kiwiRPG

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jun 25

"GMs and players from some of Aotearoa’s popular actual play shows will dive into amazing Kiwi games, from global hits like Monster of the Week to cutting-edge new designs like Yous Are Broken Too?" KiwiRPG week starts Saturday July 4!!

Cover of "So Yous Are Broken Too? An indigenous roleplaying game about Bleed" shows a youthful figure spraypainting a message reading F**K OFF

Cover of Monster of the Week RPG shows two people outflanking a big weird spidery monster

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jun 18

More games lined up for livestream during the week!

Cover of Paranormal Wellington A Silly, Spooky Role Playing Game

Cover of whakawhitinga a worldbuilding RPG

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jun 18

Livestream actual play: we have a bunch of awesome games to share! #KiwiRPG

Cover of Mountain Resonance Alpine Survival Horror RPG

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jun 18

It's coming! #KiwiRPG Week is back for 2026! Discover the best in roleplaying from Aotearoa! We have everything you love: * Actual Play! * Panel Discussions! * Bundles of great games! * Self-deprecating deadpan humour delivered with flat affect! www.kiwirpg.com/kiwirpg-week... #TTRPG

Promotional image for KiwiRPG Week 2026
July 4-11
Kiwirpg.com
The best in roleplaying from Aotearoa

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Jun 9

We don’t usually see each other’s headers. Here’s mine Quote with yours (if you feel like it)

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· May 8

FSpace RPG was one of the earliest Kiwi #TTRPG s, released as a book and (very 90s) on CD-ROM! This SF game is still supported with new releases now. Some early FSpace items are up on TradeMe at incredible bargain prices - grab some #KiwiRPG history! www.trademe.co.nz/a/search?mem...

Selection of auction items for FSpace RPG, including miniature starships, a rulebook, and a CDROM

KiwiRPG@kiwirpg· Aug 20

500 followers! Thank you everyone! #KiwiRPG loves it on bluesky even though I forget to post here sometimes! Make sure you follow lots of KiwiRPG creators to see the coolest game stuff from the edge of the world!