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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 3329148" data-attributes="member: 2">Additional answers:13. How long have you been gaming? I've been gaming since 1979-80, and I'm a fan of dozens of different systems. I expect that helps with comparative analysis when comparing game presentation and rules. It also allows me to make boring, long-winded rants about how we used to walk up the hill both ways in the snow to pull pips out of a cup because they hadn't invented dice yet. Hey, everybody wins.14. Game design experience. I'm a video game designer by trade nowadays, and I've done both professional and personal game design (RPGA adventure writing, personal adventure writing for cons, and homebrewing). I've also done some unpublished board game and card game design. The design experience definitely affects how I look at a product. It also means that I understand more subtleties of game playability and balance than I do of graphic presentation.15. ENnies Rules. Having unchanging and strictly defined rules that persist across years would seem to rob the awards of flexibility. The RPG industry continues to change and morph; I believe that the ENnies stays pertinent by responding to those changes in products and categories. A good example of this is last year's Special Judges' Award for Innovation, won by Dread.16) Potential bias. I've been a judge twice since the awards began, and have MCed the awards ceremony several times. I've never seen any sign of bias, and non-d20 games have typically been given equal scrutiny to d20 games. I'd say this is evidenced in the awards; take a look at <a href="http://www.ennieawards.com/2006.html" target="_blank">last year's winners</a> and note the number of non-d20 games.17) Should all aspects of the ENnies in 1 single central location?I'm neutral. It doesn't partiocularly matter to me where the judges' discussion takes place. I have no problem with the discussions happening here, though.18) Do you think moving the ENnies off EN World would cause a drop in the overall number of voters? I can't see how it would.19. Have done paid games industry work? Yes. I wrote Of Sound Mind in 2001, I've written some text in a Scarred Lands supplement, and I've edited both Skull & Bones and Grim Tales. I don't believe this has affected my impartiality in the past.</blockquote>

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