Sam Robson

a game about relationships, joy, and overcoming birthday struggles!

'you are a kākāpō and it is your birthday' is a solo-journaling game about being the world's only flightless parrot, and knowing that anyone else would mess up your birthday party, so you have to throw it yourself!

You'll create your kākāpō character, lay out your forest relationships, and use those relationships to overcome problems that crop up in throwing the best party ever.

Inspired by this picture:

Live your kākāpō bday dreams here:

I know it's not quite 200-word RPG season, but I was feeling inspired! Check out my free game Doomed Destinies: a play-to-lose game about the time the superheroes lose.

Now available on RPG Trader!

Do you like vampires? Would you like to play heroic-leaning, but potentially morally ambiguous, vamps 'protecting' their city from hunters & other threats?

Bloodthirst is a rules-light vampire ttrpg built on the LUMEN system. Toss a handful of d6s to shoot, claw and bite your way through waves of enemies. Sanctuary upgrades let you take on more and more adversaries as you play- culminating in bosses like Mirabel, Forsaken Witch and Opal, Callous Slayer.

Interested? This game is currently crowdfunding on Backerkit! Get the complete game (due November 2026) for a special Backerkit price of 20 NZD (about 11 USD or 10 Euros), or explore low-cost early access options.

My new PbtA-influenced, solo journaling game dropped today! A free preview of things to come.

Do you like games about befriending monsters? Do you enjoy exploring themes of isolation, loss, and the nature of personhood? Vampire Year is the game for you!

This free preview covers the first three months of the titular year and introduces you to the core cast, including:

Lady Crimson, the quiet sister

Elena, the outgoing sister

James, their long-suffering parental figure and grieving widower

Maycair, the hedonistic problem child

Jaunty, a cat

If you've enjoyed the preview or want to support the project, please check it out!

It's Kiwi RPG Week! While ideally you'll hear about kiwi ttrpg content year round, this is the week where we really focus on sharing the cool stuff made by our community- from standalone games, to supplements, to actual plays.

This year, I'm going to introduce a kiwi-made rpg each day! Today we have:

Cortex Prime nā Cam Banks (Rusty Sellsword Design)

(Ko tangata tiriti ia)

Cortex Prime is a multigenre ttrpg published by Dire Wolf Digital. It's the system behind Tales of Xadia and, as of 2026, is an option for designers who wish to create and publish their own games using the framework. This program is managed by the system's designer, Kiwi RPG's own Cam Banks.

Do you like vampires? Would you like to play heroic-leaning, but potentially morally ambiguous, vamps 'protecting' their city from hunters & other threats?

Bloodthirst is a rules-light vampire ttrpg built on the LUMEN system. Toss a handful of d6s to shoot, claw and bite your way through waves of enemies. Sanctuary upgrades let you take on more and more adversaries as you play- culminating in bosses like Mirabel, Forsaken Witch and Opal, Callous Slayer.

Interested? This game is currently crowdfunding on Backerkit! Get the complete game (due November 2026) for a special Backerkit price of 20 NZD (about 11 USD or 10 Euros), or explore low-cost early access options.

It's Kiwi RPG Week! While ideally you'll hear about kiwi ttrpg content year round, this is the week where we really focus on sharing the cool stuff made by our community- from standalone games, to supplements, to actual plays.

This year, I'm going to introduce a kiwi-made rpg each day! Today we have:

Cortex Prime nā Cam Banks (Rusty Sellsword Design)

(Ko tangata tiriti ia)

Cortex Prime is a multigenre ttrpg published by Dire Wolf Digital. It's the system behind Tales of Xadia and, as of 2026, is an option for designers who wish to create and publish their own games using the framework. This program is managed by the system's designer, Kiwi RPG's own Cam Banks.

Do you like vampires? Would you like to play heroic-leaning, but potentially morally ambiguous, vamps 'protecting' their city from hunters & other threats?

Bloodthirst is a rules-light vampire ttrpg built on the LUMEN system. Toss a handful of d6s to shoot, claw and bite your way through waves of enemies. Sanctuary upgrades let you take on more and more adversaries as you play- culminating in bosses like Mirabel, Forsaken Witch and Opal, Callous Slayer.

Interested? This game is currently crowdfunding on Backerkit! Get the complete game (due November 2026) for a special Backerkit price of 20 NZD (about 11 USD or 10 Euros), or explore low-cost early access options.

Of Tea & Twilight is now available on Itch!

Use a deck of playing cards to travel the land and heal dangerous revenants while avoiding becoming one yourself. Each time your deck is depleted, take a rest and write to the mysterious Umbral about the day's events. Is it becoming more human the more you write to it?

Surely that's just your imagination! 

Do you like vampires? Would you like to play heroic-leaning, but potentially morally ambiguous, vamps 'protecting' their city from hunters & other threats?

Bloodthirst is a rules-light vampire ttrpg built on the LUMEN system. Toss a handful of d6s to shoot, claw and bite your way through waves of enemies. Sanctuary upgrades let you take on more and more adversaries as you play- culminating in bosses like Mirabel, Forsaken Witch and Opal, Callous Slayer.

Interested? This game is currently crowdfunding on Backerkit! Get the complete game (due November 2026) for a special Backerkit price of 20 NZD (about 11 USD or 10 Euros), or explore low-cost early access options.

don't mind me doing new baby photoshoots with my game...

have u checked out shadow / giant 2e yet? my new 2 player TTRPG in the wolf & cub trope a la the mandalorian, the last of us, logan, arcane, telltale's the walking dead, stranger things, and as one middle aged mom enthusiastically added, brother bear?

critics* are raving about it, if you consider critics to include local grandmothers and non-nerdy neighbors who ask "that's a videogame thing right?"

you can find digital copies on my itch page or get the physical 60-page full-color zine online (or in person at gencon!!) from plus one experience

you'll even get to see art by @prose-n-scripts ... plus it includes digital downloads like trifold character sheets, safety worksheets, a digital set up randomizer, a digital prompt card puller, and even an npc trait table bookmark (some of these downloads are even free on itch)

and if all that isn't enough: sales go directly to keeping my dog in supply of treats and so she doesn't level the block with her psychic powers**

*fr tho if you are a reviewer hmu and i'll gladly get a copy to you

Bloodthirst is a rules-light vampire ttrpg I've been working on for the past couple of months. With a handful of d6s you'll shoot, claw and bite your way through waves of enemies. Sanctuary upgrades let you take on more and more adversaries as you play- culminating in bosses like Mirabel, Forsaken Witch and Opal, Callous Slayer.

Interested? Next month I'll be running a two-week Backerkit campaign- follow along at the below link for more updates!

Bloodthirst is a rules-light vampire ttrpg I've been working on for the past couple of months. With a handful of d6s you'll shoot, claw and bite your way through waves of enemies. Sanctuary upgrades let you take on more and more adversaries as you play- culminating in bosses like Mirabel, Forsaken Witch and Opal, Callous Slayer.

Interested? Next month I'll be running a two-week Backerkit campaign- follow along at the below link for more updates!