Congratulations to the 2017 Gen Con EN World RPG Award Winners!

Tonight, at Gen Con in Indianapolis, the 17th Annual Gen Con EN World Awards (ENnies) ceremony took place. Congratulations go to all the nominees, and to this year's award winners! The ENnies are an annual award program celebrating the best that tabletop roleplaying games have to offer, created in 2001.

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2018 Judges Brian Nowak Denise Robinson Kurt Weigel Reece Carter Sean McCoy Best Adventure Gold: Blood in the Chocolate (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) Silver: Doors to Darkness (Chaosium) Best Aid/Accessory Gold: Call of Cthulhu Keepers Screen Pack (Chaosium) Silver: Kobold Guide to Plots Campaigns (Kobold Press) Best Cover Art Gold: Call of Cthulhu Investigator Handbook (Chaosium) Silver: Torment Tides of Numenera The Explorers Guide (Monte Cook Games) Best Interior Art Gold: Tales from the Loop Roleplaying in the 80s That Never Was (Free League Publishing) Silver: S Petersens Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors (Chaosium) Best Blog Gold: Gnome Stew The Gaming Blog Silver: Age of Ravens Best Cartography Gold: Call of Cthulhu Keepers Screen Pack (Chaosium) Silver: 7th Sea Map of Thah (John Wick Presents) Best Electronic Book Gold: The Things We Leave Behind (Stygian Fox Publishing) Silver: Hubris A World of Visceral Adventure (DIY RPG Productions) Best Family Game Gold: Bubblegumshoe (Evil Hat) Silver: Masks A New Generation (Magpie Games) Best Free Product Gold: 7th Sea Basic Rules (John Wick Presents) Silver: City of Mist Free PDF Starter Set (Son of Oak Game Studio) Best Game Gold: Tales from the Loop Roleplaying in the 80s That Never Was (Free League Publishing) Silver: 7th Sea Core Rulebook (John Wick Presents)

Best Miniatures Product Gold: Achtung Cthulhu Skirmish Servitors of Nyarlathotep (Modiphius Entertainment) Silver: Dungeons Dragons: Molzurs Marvelous Miniatures (WizKids) Best Monster/Adversary Gold: S Petersens Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors (Chaosium) Silver: Veins of the Earth (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) Best Podcast Gold: Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff Silver: Spellburn Best Production Values Gold: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Slipcase Set (Chaosium) Silver: Unknown Armies Deluxe Set (Atlas Games) Best RPG Related Product Gold: Call of Cthulhu The Coloring Book (Chaosium) Silver: The ABCs of RPGs (Hunter Books) Best Rules Gold: 7th Sea Core Rulebook (John Wick Presents) Silver: Adventures in Middle Earth Players Guide (Cubicle 7 Entertainment) Best Setting Gold: Tales from the Loop Roleplaying in the 80s That Never Was (Free League Publishing) Silver: The Dark Eye Aventuria Almanac (Ulisses North America) Best Supplement Gold: Pulp Cthulhu (Chaosium) Silver: 7th Sea Pirate Nations (John Wick Presents) Best Website Gold: Tabletop Audio Silver: Elven Tower RPG articles and cartography website Best Writing Gold: Tales from the Loop Roleplaying in the 80s That Never Was (Free League Publishing) Silver: Veins of the Earth (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) Fan's Choice for Best Publisher Gold: Wizards of the Coast Silver: Chaosium Product Of The Year Gold: Tales from the Loop Roleplaying in the 80s That Never Was (Free League Publishing) Silver: 7th Sea Core Rulebook (John Wick Presents)

 

[Cam Banks]

I'm going to give this more thought. There's a lot to unpack lately. More when I've got something better to put forward and not in this venue. Thread has been derailed enough.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[Giblet Blizzard]

Man this is turning into a week of burying hatchets and I really hope you two come to some mutually agreeable arrangement. That would be really really great.

Also: HELL YEAH TO ALL THE WINNERS!!!!!

 

[Zak S]

I'm going to give this more thought. There's a lot to unpack lately. More when I've got something better to put forward and not in this venue. Thread has been derailed enough.

Cheers,
Cam

I will leave you with this then, and try to be very kind:

Going on social media and going, in various ways "Be cool to each other" to your followers hasn't worked.

It didn't work when people harassed Shanna Germain, it didn't work for people harassing Kiel, it didn't work for people harassing Stacy Dellorfano, or Scrap Princess, or Sarah Horrocks, or Mark Diaz Truman or anyone else, ever.

Maybe my solution of saying "You harass creators and make personal attacks, I cease to help you" is too harsh for you, or simply so not in your personality it would hurt you to do it. But if you really want this to be over, there has to be something else besides subtweeting "Hey, be nice".

Maybe you have your own new solution--you're a game designer, you know rules and human behavior. Feel free to try it. But the current one is not effective.

 

[Lwaxy]

There need to be tougher rules on harassment in general.

I wasn't even aware of the controversy around the adventure, as I do my best not to bother with such vortexes of negativity and hate anymore. I'm so tired of the internet in that regard I even stay away from most forums nowadays.

Makes me all the more glad the adventure won though.

As for Tales of the Loop - is anyone going to pick it up (especially from those voting for it)? I already heard from my players that while they voted for it and it sounds cool enough, they are not particularly keen on going for yet another set of rules, but I still plan to get it eventually.

 

[Cam Banks]

Tales from the Loop is amazing. All of Fria Ligan's games are great, and this is no exception.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[JediSoth]

Congratulations to all the winners and congratulations to the nominees as well! It's always nice to see hard work recognized and if we can make someone's Gen Con a little better with a couple of hours and a medal, then it's time well-spent. In the nearly 10 years I've served as Submissions Coordinator for the ENnie Awards, I've seen a lot of changes in the industry and met a lot of great people.

Sometimes I feel like Bilbo Baggins: "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
Except I'm never really drunk enough to say something like that and definitely not cool enough (or old enough) to get away with it.

I hope everyone has a fulfilling 2018 and I look forward to seeing this season's submissions. I'll see you at Gen Con 51 (unless you see me at Gary Con or GameHole Con first)!

 

[Jonathan King]

Good job people

 

[soulcatcher78]

Blood in the Chocolate and Veins of the Earth are both incredible books! Not only are they well written (Veins has some deep (no pun intended) portions that will provoke thought) but beautifully laid out and constructed. Best purchases of Gen Con.

 

[Araboy]

This is actually dope. I'm so happy they've won it.
Best regards, John - writer at help with college homework service.