Posted on April 28, 2022May 3, 2022 by morgue

It begins: KiwiRPG Week!

The first ever #KiwiRPG Week has arrived! Tabletop RPG creatives from all over Aotearoa are busily sharpening their dice and honing their microphones in excited anticipation. Are you excited yet? Here’s why you should be:

SALE BUNDLES! Two huge bundles of Kiwi games at a bargain price, one on DriveThruRPG, the other on itch.io!
EXCITING STREAMS! Eight live-play streams, some from studio tabletops, some played online, and some played live on stage in front of a live audience!
NEW STUFF! Two new TTRPG releases during the week, with more announcements to come!
TOUR DE BLOG! Explore #KiwiRPG with a series of blog posts across the week showing off the well-known, the should-be-known, and the nearly-unknown of the local scene!

And that’s not all:

MONSTER OF THE WEEK! If you’re a MOTW fan, you don’t want to miss the big announcement dropping on Wednesday!
BIG BAD ONLINE! Global RPG phenomenon Big Bad Con Online is hosting a KiwiRPG panel during KiwiRPG week!
CHARITY PREVIEW! “The Cult of Keviine” is a lead-in to the amazing YES, AND 24 Hour Charity Livestream!

Make sure you don’t miss a moment! Check out the week’s schedule, which is being constantly updated as new things are added to the programme.

Monster of the Week: The Faces Of TolTeTotl

Here’s a great way to kick off the week: On Sunday night (NZST), a team of stars from around the #KiwiRPG podcasting and streaming scene will gather to play legendary Kiwi game Monster of the Week!

When headless bodies start appearing on the outskirts of a rural NZ town, T.H.E.M. (Tasked with Hunting Extraterrestrials and Monsters) sends their top hunters to investigate this baffling string of deaths.

Watch the show on the Getting Dicey channel at twitch.tv/GettingDicey, at 7pm NZST on Sunday 1st May. That’s 8am if you’re in the UK! (It’s like 3am if you’re in the Eastern seaboard of the USA, so insomniacs welcome I guess?)

Tell your friends and find us on the socials:

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/kiwirpg

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/kiwi_RPG

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/kiwiRPG/

See you soon!

morgue and the #KiwiRPG crew

The KiwiRPG Logo

Posted on April 13, 2022 by morgue

The logo for Kēmu Whakatau o Aotearoa. The group's name is on the right hand side, along with #KiwiRPG. On the left is a K stylised to be reminiscent of Māori carving and tattooing practices.

The KiwiRPG logo is a visual marker of connection with this community. The files are made available here for anyone to use if they identify as part of KiwiRPG and they agree to uphold the values held precious by this community.

DOWNLOAD: ZIP file containing KiwiRPG logo files and PDF of branding guidelines

Usage Guidelines

KIWIRPG BRAND AND LOGO GUIDELINES, April 2022 * kiwirpg.com

This logo (device and wordmark) was created by Tim (@TimDenee) and Tim (@dreadconquest) and represents KiwiRPG, a role-playing game creative community for Aotearoa New Zealand.

Use this logo to distinguish role-playing games and related works that are made with the creative input of residents, citizens or friends of Aotearoa New Zealand.

It represents the values that we hold precious:

honouring and acknowledging Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its guiding principles of partnership, protection and participation
respecting and supporting the dignity of all, regardless of belief, race, gender/sexuality, or ableness
standing against hate and prejudice

If you also uphold these values and want to make use of this logo on your work, you may access these files directly. We ask that you let the KiwiRPG community know by using the contact form on the KiwiRPG website: https://www.kiwirpg.com/about-us/

Practical Guidelines

The entire logo (device and wordmark) is preferably used together in the form shown, but the device can be used independently if the entire logo also appears elsewhere.

In particular, the device can be used alone if the scale of representation would make the wordmark too small to be legible.

Please don’t break up, rearrange, or crop the text of the wordmark – it must all appear legibly and as shown.

The typeface can be altered to anything you like, even though this is direst branding heresy.

Keep a clear space around the logo at least equal to the x-height of the text. The device alone can be used on a solid background of white or black, or framed in a rectangle as shown. Please don’t use other frames or borders.

Yes Dylan, the logo can be redrawn by hand.

The logo should be used in black on white, or white on black, or in black or white on a colour, an illustration or a photo.

This logo represents our community and our values. Don’t use it in a way that brings the community into disrepute or conflicts with our values.

ENDS

Spotlighting TTRPG games from Aotearoa

Posted on February 20, 2022March 21, 2022 by morgue

Kiwi games, for everywhere.

Aotearoa New Zealand is home to a thriving creative scene for tabletop roleplaying games. We’re pretty small, but we turn that into a strength by watching the rest of the world closely and supporting each other to learn fast, chase our ideas hard, and stay kind.

close up of polyhedral dice. some are pink and some are sparkly — In the Southern Hemisphere, dice spin in the opposite direction. That’s a totally true dice fact. Photo: Vahid Qualls

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Spotlighting Aotearoa’s TTRPG Shows

Posted on February 18, 2022February 25, 2022 by morgue

Shows. We Got Them.

There are lots of exciting and hilarious TTRPG shows to discover in the #KiwiRPG community. Over the coming weeks we’ll introduce some of them in blog posts just like this one! Heck yeah, blog posts!

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Tabletop role-playing from Aotearoa New Zealand

Author: morgue

It begins: KiwiRPG Week!

Monster of the Week: The Faces Of TolTeTotl

Usage Guidelines

Kiwi games, for everywhere.

Shows. We Got Them.