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This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read on a messageboard.

Chaos Disciple, what do you make of everyone on this thread disagreeing with your statements? I would suggest that you come up for an expalantion of this social phenomenon before you post anymore. If I'm in a situation where everybody states that whatever I'm proposing is either laughable...

I'm glad the OP has raised this issue but I didn't find the poll questions were very useful for representing my approach. So, instead, I'll answer in long form: I don't know what "powers" are in this context but, in my view, the GM is the host of a game. So his responsibilities are those of a...

Screen Name - fusangite Real Name - Stuart Parker Board Logo #1 - ENnies Board Logo #2 - Circvs Maximvs Additional text - 2007 ENnies Judge No avatar, please.

One of the biggest problems we faced this year was companies waiting until the last minute to submit their products. The spectre of having to get copy to Australia in time for judging mught actually scare those submitting into mailing their products ahead of time. Of course, it's Dextra's call...

As I say in my ENnies bio, I was sent to a child psychiatrist when I was nine and he prescribed the Basic D&D boxed set. Once I started reading it, I was hooked.

Okay. Now that "cancelled" can mean "the network and public wanted more but the producers refused to make them" I think we're lifting off from the normal meanings of words in discourse about TV.

Exactly. So, waiting until BSG's underlying cosmology and physical principles seems kind of important.

By that logic, Fawlty Towers was cancelled. I see a flaw.

There is room for more than one awards ceremony at Gen Con. Indeed, there is more than one awards ceremony at Gen Con. If, as you suggest, these non-RP games receive insufficient recognition at Gen Con, the question then becomes whether the more efficient solution to this problem is for the...

As we know from real world elections, the results of an election years ago, or, even more significantly, five cycles ago is, at best, an extremely poor predictor of the next election's results. Had you applied this principle to past judge elections, you would not have predicted that the two...

By that logic, we should disqualify Green Ronin for next year then. And then kick out the next most successful publisher every year following. I think that people will value the awards more because they will feel that the small presses who do win went toe-to-toe with the very best in the...

I'm curious but not optimistic here. I react to it the same way I react to the Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire RPG. How can you design a system representing a universe in the middle of a series that is gradually revealing the nature of the cosmology and the laws of cause and effect? This...

That's funny because publishers who have won prominently display our logo on their products. Many who meet us at Gen Con report increases in sales resulting from them winning awards, most recently, the publishers of Shadowrun at last year's convention. Hundreds of people attend the awards and...

If percentages are whata excites you, this is true. On the other hand, if you're looking for classless systems for high fantasy, Warhammer doesn't excactly fit the bill. EDIT: And I say this as someone who has just nominated truckloads of Warhammer stuff for awards.

Nope. But I do own all the books and have read them. Like Old RQ, it produces different play and advancement dynamics than standard D&D. That stated, in many respects, new RQ D&D-ifies Runequest with non-simulationist experience mechanics, less lethal combat and opposed checks in place of...

I'm currently in the Salt Lake area if you want to celebrate with a judge before Gen Con.

As the resident voting systems expert, I think that some of this can be attributed to the different list length for the categories. For instance, when we ran the judge elections, had we been electing seven judges, Xath would have placed second but because we were electing five, she placed sixth...

As a judge, let me just say that all of these categories were very tough to judge. There were many very strong candidates for which individual judges lobbied very hard. Nobody got their way on everything and there were many products that all the judges felt should be honoured that we...

I don't start out deciding that my setting will be circumscribed by the OGL. I make a setting and then decide whether it is D20, OGL or something else. Also, my setting design is not modular, and it's pretty clear that this release-as-you go style doesn't really fit with how I make settings.