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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 314551" data-attributes="member: 264">Hah!...talk about your Ill-informed assheads!.WotC shills indeed. The WotC stuff had very high production values and better than average content. That's all. The WotC stuff that's in there is in there because it deserved to be.What exactly do our critics think we owe WotC? Were they offering me a new car? a million dollars? what exactly?They entered stuff, it was good enough to get the nomination. Period.I'm not a Fanboy of any stripe, and to a great degree am not overwhelmingly positive toward WotC product (see any thread on a splatbook and look for my name)If I could be accused of leaning toward any one companies stuff this year, it would have to be S&S's Scarred Lands material.Guess why.Because it's good. Not becasue I'm a shill for them. I nominated their products for the same reason I nominated WotC's. They deserved to be there.I was chosen as a judge, by the EN World community because they felt my tastes to some degree would reflect theirs. I have no special abilities when it comes to gaming material, no great insight, no ability to produce it myself.What I have is an appreciation for good product. I showed that appreciation as best I could with the five slots open to me. It's been said before, but it bears repeating: there were a lot of ties for the fourth and fifth slots. But after much argument (and i mean a lo) we came up with the nominees we came up with.To imply that we were somehow shills, for nominating one product in five is just to precious. WotC nearly swept because of name recognition and product quality. You can argue that the former is unfair, but the latter certainly isn't...and let me assure you; both reasons figured into it.What didn't figure into it, however, was WotC shills amongst the judging comittee. Alan, Jeff, Charles, Eric and myself put untold hours of work into the judging (I took a week off work to make sure all products got a fair shake), and those hours were spent comparing notes, revising opinions and debating.Not shilling.</blockquote>

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