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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 303677" data-attributes="member: 63">First of all, no, you will not take WotC out of the awards arbitrarily.  If you did that, the awards would lose any credibility they have gained this year.  The best suggestions I think I've seen so far are these:*Medal the categories, so we give out 1st and 2nd and possibly 3rd places.  This, however, reduces the value of being nominated as one of the finalists.  Right now, just being chosen by the judges is a great honor, but if 3 of those 5 won awards, it would make the nomination less meaningful.  Perhaps just a 1st and a 2nd place award.*Make the awards open only to products released under the Open Gaming License (OGL).  That would knock WotC out of every category, especially now that they no longer own Dragon or Dungeon.  Of course this might convince them to make their products Open Gaming Content, though it won't.  But hey, I don't like this idea.  I want someone to beat WotC, fair and square!  Hell yeah.*Have some sort of weighting to the award, with maybe an academy of professional publisher folks.  But as people have pointed out, we want these to remain fan awards, since the Origins already exist for professional awards (or so they say; I personally know nothing about Origins).*Add in a few awards.  Best writer, best artist, best short adventure (under 75 pages), best campaign adventure (75 pages and above), best addition to the D20 rules system, best first-time D20 writer.So, there are some good ideas.  But I'm still wondering what Eric's idea is.</blockquote>

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