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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xath" data-source="post: 3329142" data-attributes="member: 17040">Both.  I think that the ENnies should establish a codified set of rules for judging categories, but I think those rules should be subject to review each year by the new judge panel.  That way, we have a list of criteria to give to publishers so that they know how they will be judged.  But since the rules would be revised each year, it could prevent abuse of the system.  But I believe that there should be a trump card that rules over all of the other rules: common sense.  Maybe.  But if you notice, every judge nominee so far visits multiple RPG sites.  The Board of Directors is intrinsically linked to the site, but they run the business aspect of the awards, and don't really decide the voting policy.  And even the board is not D20-centric.  II mean, everyone everywhere has a bias towards something and RPGs are no exception.  The jobs of the judges are to try to put their bias on a shelf while they're judging.  I think that over the past three years, I've watched the ENnies make remarkable progress towards moving away from being D20. Here's the thing.  Everyone who works with the ENnies is a volunteer.  Which means, we're only capable of doing the things that we have volunteers for.  Michael Morris does a great job at doing the coding we need when he can, but setting up a completely independant system takes time and effort.  The ENnies made a great start this year by getting their website hosted off of the ENWorld server.  They're even trying to get the code for judge voting operational.  But again, this takes time.  I'm sure that if you'd like to front the money to hire a programmer to code us a state-of-the-art website that can handle all of the things that the ENnies needs to do, that would be greatly appreciated.  But while we're operating on a volunteer basis, you need to have some patience.   Not if we continue to pimp it on every RPG messageboard we can find.</blockquote>

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