The Indie RPG Awards were annual, creator-based awards for Indie role-playing games and supplements. They were established in 2002[1]: 143 by Andy Kitkowski. The final round of awards was given in 2017.[2]
For the purposes of the Awards, there exists a following "definition" of an Indie role-playing game:[3]
The following categories for nominations have been used throughout the history of the awards:
Additional categories were awarded in the first years of the awards: