Diana Jones Award Announced

Every year, the night before Gen Con starts, the Diana Jones Awards take place in a secret location in Indianapolis. Or, rather, one award - there's only one each year, selected by a secret panel of industry judges. This year's shortlist included College of Wizardry, Designers & Dragons, Guide to Glorantha, Mysterium, and Torchbearer. And the winner, announced last night, was....

Guide to Glorantha, a role-playing sourcebook by Greg Stafford, Jeff Richard, and Sandy Petersen, published by Moon Design Publications.

Congratulations to the Moon Design crew!

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[jamesjhaeck]

What's the Guide to Glorantha? I haven't heard of it before.

 

[JeffB]

Deserves it.

 

[Desalus]

What's the Guide to Glorantha? I haven't heard of it before.

Two massive books detailing the fantasy world of Glorantha. The Kickstater for it raised over $260,000.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/224590870/the-guide-to-glorantha/description

 

[Sir Brennen]

What exactly is a Diana Jones Award? Best Kickstarter? Prettiest book cover? Nicest publisher to have drinks with?

 

[Morrus]

What exactly is a Diana Jones Award? Best Kickstarter? Prettiest book cover? Nicest publisher to have drinks with?

It's a single industry award for tabletop gaming, voted each year by a secret industry academy. Anything can win - a convention, a web show, a game, etc.

I don't know much more than that!

 

[thexar]

What's the Guide to Glorantha? I haven't heard of it before.

Instead of typing this in a forum and waiting for an answer:
http://letmebingthatforyou.com/?q=What's the Guide to Glorantha

 

[Morrus]

Instead of typing this in a forum and waiting for an answer:
http://letmebingthatforyou.com/?q=What's the Guide to Glorantha

Conversation is a perfectly reasonable, and often pleasant, way to casually ask for information. You, yourself, of course, are welcome to choose whatever medium you prefer.

 

[Balesir]

Richly deserved - a magnificent pair of tomes, best enjoyed with the Argan Argar Atlas...

 

[redrick]

From their website: http://www.dianajonesaward.org/about-the-diana-jones-award/

What is the Diana Jones Award trophy?
The Diana Jones trophy was originally created by the UK office of TSR Hobbies in the mid-1980s, to commemorate the expiration of that company’s licence to publish the Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game and the subsequent destruction of all unsold copies of the game. It was liberated from TSR Hobbies by forces unnamed and subsequently came into the custody of a member of the Diana Jones committee.
The trophy is a four-sided pyramid made of Perspex, standing ten centimetres high and mounted on a wooden base. Sealed within the Perspex are the burnt remains of the last copy of the Indiana Jones RPG, including two still-recognizable cardboard ‘Nazi™’ figures, as recorded in gaming folklore.
The Diana Jones committee believes that a trophy that embodies the destruction of the last copy of one of the games industry’s most unloved and least-mourned products is a suitable symbol for the aims of the Diana Jones Award.

Who is Diana Jones?
Nobody. The only visible part of the Indiana Jones logo within the trophy has been burnt away so that it reads Diana Jones, and the award takes its name from that.

Beyond that, it appears that the award is given for "excellence in gaming," a criteria which is subjective and variable from year to year.