Hey folks.

I'm doing some boxmaking and running into trouble with cutting circular holes. In my ideal build, I have a number of ~20mm (~3/4 in) holes. Unfortunately, it seems like the 2mm chipboard is too thick for traditional circle punchers. On the recommendation of another hobbyist, I picked up a hammer-driven punch traditionally used in leathermaking, but the tool doesn't seem to be a good fit for the job.

Has anyone tackled this before? I'm thinking about picking up a hole saw drill bit, but I'm worried I'll just tear the chipboard to shreds.

Would love to hear your ideas.

This Saturday at Canada's longest-running tabletop gaming convention^(1), the Canada Roles organizers announced the winners for the new award honouring Canadian TTRPG designers and artists. To be considered, the game had to be released in 2025, produced by Canadian residents or citizens, and not generated by AI.

Voting was open online to Canadian citizens and residents throughout the Spring, and in-person voting was held at Terminal City Tabletop Convention (Vancouver), Breakout Con (Toronto), WPG Con (Winnipeg), and CanGames (Ottawa).

I'll share the winners and runners-up here^(2). For the full list of nominees, see the website. Congratulations to all the winners, runners-up, and nominees.

Visual Design

Winner: A Fool's Errand,^(3) B Marsollier, Planet Arcana.

In A Fool's Errand, players use tarot cards to tell an expansive science fantasy story, both in the waking world and the surrealistic subconscious realms. Contend with calamity as you indulge or deny the gods.

Runner-up: Ringmaster, Pascal Godbout, Spotless Dice Games.

Rules Design

Winner: Dirtbags!, Lariviere-Lacombe, The Dungeons Key.

Dirtbags is a sci-fi shooter where you play expendable troopers facing relentless tours of duty.

Runner-up: A Fool's Errand, J Strautman, Planet Arcana.

One Shot and Short Form

Winner: Sock Puppets,^(4) Kurt Refling, A Smouldering Lighthouse.

Make real, actual puppets to ruin a perfectly good puppet show.

Runners-up: First Date Update, Mat Copelli, Role Play Chat Press; Kaiju Control, James Kerr, Radio James Games.

Scenario or Supplement Design

Winner: Field Guide to Floral Dragons — Verity Lane, Chris Pinch, Jordan Richer, Sebastian Yūe, Hit Point Press (for Dungeons & Dragons).

Habitat and lore of Floral Dragons for 5e along with magic items, fungi and poison.

Runner-up: Join Their Ranks — Jed Doerksen, Trapped Chest (for Reanimated).

Footnotes

^(1 - Next year is the convention's 50th anniversary. How wild is that? I love going to CanGames because there are kids just discovering the hobby playing beside people who've been retired longer than some of us have been alive.)

^(2 - I'm not affiliated with the awards -- just wanted to share. Though, uh, I did have an ulterior motivation; see note 4.)

^(3 - Most of these games are available through a variety of platforms and distributors -- itch, DriveThruRPG, IPR, etc. Since the awards were organized by the folks at Canada's indie RPG distributor, Compose Dream Games, I've linked their listings as a little thank you.)

^(4 - That's me! Yay! Let's all agree that it's cool and good of me to share these awards that I won one of instead of sneaky and cheeky.)