Origins Awards Nominees Include Alien, Pathfinder, And More!

This year's Origins Award nominees have been announced. In the role-playing games category, we have Alien, Over the Edge, Pathfinder 2E, Star Crossed and Teens in Space.



Role-Playing Games

• Alien: The Roleplaying Game | Free League Publishing | Tomas Härenstam
• Over the Edge (3rd edition) | Atlas Games | Chris Lites, Jonathan Tweet
• Pathfinder Core Rulebook (2nd edition) | Paizo Inc | Logan Bonner, Jason Bulmahn, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Mark Seifter
• Star Crossed | Bully Pulpit Games | Alex Roberts
• Teens in Space | Renegade Game Studios / Hunters Entertainment | Jonathan Gilmour, Doug Levandowski

The Origins also have categories for board and card games, miniatures, and more. You can see the full list here.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Star Crossed!!!!

 

[hawkeyefan]

The Alien game gets a lot of love...I’ll have to check that out.

I’d somehow never heard of Over the Edge....and now I need to know more.

 

[CoreyHaim8myDog]

The Alien game gets a lot of love...I’ll have to check that out.

I’d somehow never heard of Over the Edge....and now I need to know more.

I wrote it with Jonathan if you have questions.

 

[atanakar]

Glad to see 2 indie games in the selection. Hope one of the two wins!

Always curious about Over the Edge. Too many games. Not enough time.

Aliens: That would be a compulsive buy. I have the excellent Coriolis Third Horizon already. Same system. Didn't play enough games.

Pathfinder: Nothing to say except «Welcome to the joys of edition wars suckers!»

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I bought OTE because I have other two editions. I haven’t read it cover to cover, but the setting and premise are excellent. Sadly this is probably one if those games I will never get yo the table with my regular groups. Maybe a con one-shot.

 

[hawkeyefan]

I wrote it with Jonathan if you have questions.

Okay.....so I picked up a digital copy! I've started reading it, and its mechanics are very....loose(?), which I think is cool. I like the traits and trouble and especially the question mark. I like games that examine character like this.

I haven't gotten much further yet, but will be diving in more as soon as I can. In the meantime, what other games might you compare it to, mechanically?

The setting seems really interesting, and I think once I get into that, it will help understand how the characters fit into the world better.

 

[mach1.9pants]

It's great. It's currently my go-to for F20 games.

What is F20?

 

[Morrus]

What is F20?

Fantasy games using the d20 engine or a variation of. Pathfinder, D&D, 13th Age, etc.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Aaaah, that's just d20 to me, everything else is the variation!

 

[Retreater]

Wonder if Origins is going to happen this year? My fiancee and I were planning to go as a part of our honeymoon. Now it's even looking like our wedding is getting cancelled.