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I do know what you meant. But the fact that you considered yourself to be in a position to offer it is indicates that you weren't a bunch of guys out of the blue. You had site traffic you hoped to leverage into successful awards, which you named after the site. They weren't called the d20 Awards...

Here's one: All of the judges are associated with a nominated product through companies that contributed to a bundle it is sold in. PDF merchants are rather entangled in spots. Of course, the temptation will be to try and use this one off as the criterion by which to measure everything else I'm...

"Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we did that?" *is* a motive. People don't come up with promotional campaigns in evil boardrooms. They usually think it would *be cool if they did* something. The nature of promotion is to find things that would be cool if one did them.

I think the ENnies should be a fan award. Plus, too many people know each other; I can see situations where *every* judge has to recuse themselves. That'll either grind things to a halt of the judges will cheat. On the other hand, I think a certain amount of bias is necessary because it goes...

Did you also know that when other companies have contests, they don't let themselves win and it still counts as promotion? I know, I know -- it beggars the imagination.

Before that it was ENWorld's promotional tool.

You seem to be mistaking my one-off opinion about Shackled City with the point I'm making, which is: 1) The ENnies aren't a fan award by reasonably strict definitions of the term. They're a publisher award. 2) That even though there's a good reason for the systemic biases in the awards, they...

That's odd. Falling damage was probably the single most contentious part of the rules in the 80s, largely because people who played other RPGs mocked them all the time.

I think Shackled City's double selection was a mistake, so I respectfully beg to differ. In any event, it wasn't a debate, then. If it's the voting system working then . . . well, that's my point.

S'all I'm saying. I think you do have to consider what the intended design was. One of 2e's problems was that they didn't revise weapon damage to fit with no or optional armour adjustments, so it ported over 1e's design problems there -- but those were only design problems if you ignores some...

Thanks. Anybody else?

Didn't he just say he ignored all the judges and almost never talked to anybody? How does that reconcile with "top voice" exactly? In any event, that policy led to those decisions. And trying to separate Morrus from the awards is still most fundamentally contradicted here by Morrus himself...

I do wish 2e had added the 20s repeat 5 times feature from the tables.

As a judge last year, you share responsibility for double-dipping Shackled City -- something you were able to do because of the regulations set by those people. That appears to be a major source of Tim's gripe, which he seemed to find just *hilarious*. Right?

The only rules I noticed ever being universally adopted were massive death thresholds and proficiencies. And proficiencies were the first stab at a skill system for the game. They made Int a power stat for non-M-Us for the first time, too. Actually, no. Those *aren't* 1e's rules. They're...

I submit that "feel" was mostly the product of good DMs adapting a poor rules set. Combat is one of the central elements of any edition of D&D. 1e's combat rules were utterly borked, to the extent that most games ignored around half of the rules. If you're having fun with 50% of the combat rules...

I would like to know if any of the candidates have done paid games industry work, ever.

Influence doesn't just consist of activity. It's a whole bunch of processes. Morrus saying, "It's my awards and this is generally how I want it to be," counts, whether or not there's a specific followup. What you are perhaps missing, though, is that I think Morrus' desire to keep the awards...

No, I'm thinking 1e vs. 2e RAW. People talk about their love for 1e but I'm willing to bet that virtually none of them ran 1e RAW compared to 2e. I remember reading in Dragon just before 2e's release that among TSR staff Skip Williams was the only one who ran by the book 1e.

That's really a absurd parody of the other position. The awards are obviously set up to have a bias. This is for a good reason, because otherwise, the awards wouldn't work. But it's not arising spontaneously from the pure-hearted sentiments of unblemished fandom. Really? Did the fans pick the...