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)

 

[Desh-Rae-Halra]

Oh, and glad Chaosium won so many awards...maybe now they can start making things right towards their former author William Jones. They should have won a Hall of Shame award for the way they have treated him.

 

[TerraDave]

Fan choice was the only thing they WotC could win.

I am glad they did. Anyways...nominations aside, congratulations to all the winners.

 

[Queer Venger]

Interesting wins... yeah, quite interesting.
I think of the 'ennies' as the Razzie's of the entertainment industry ;-)

 

[Jester David]

I just find it interesting how WotC managed to snatch up best publisher away from Paizo. That was their category for years...

 

[JLowder]

Chaosium and freelancers

Oh, and glad Chaosium won so many awards...maybe now they can start making things right towards their former author William Jones. They should have won a Hall of Shame award for the way they have treated him.

We at Chaosium agree that William was treated badly in the past. However, almost two years ago the new management contacted William and we have been working to settle all debt and to fix any problems with his contracts. It has taken a long time because the problems were, as you note, very serious. We have completely resolved all outstanding issues with fiction projects and are in the process of getting the issues resolved on his RPG work. (Chaosium is once again selling William's terrific creator-owned fiction collection The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson, which would not be true if he were not satisfied with how things are now being handled.)

Chaosium brought me on as a consultant two years ago to specifically help the company reach out to creators who had such issues. I have since signed on in a formal role to help them relaunch the fiction line. William was one of my priorities because I am very familiar with all that he did for the company and for Call of Cthulhu. I'm glad to see others recognize that, too.

Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns.

James Lowder
executive fiction editor, Chaosium

 

[J.L. Duncan]

Congrats to the Winners... I was very surprised Savage Rifts didn't get something, and thought it should have.

 

[Zhern]

Well I'm pretty proud how many tiny tiny tiny OSR things with a fraction of the mileage behind them that mainstream products have managed to win this popularity contest.

I was really happy to see Veins of the Earth, Blood in the Chocolate, and Broodmother Sky Fortress getting recognized. The quality of product that Raggi publishes and the consistently top notch content (due to talented writers, artists, cartographers, etc.) pushed out by LotFP is astounding for being essentially a one man publishing operation. In my opinion, Veins, Blood, Broodmother, and Cursed Chateau were some of the best products to come out this year across the entire industry.

Nice to see the OSR get some love.

 

[Arilyn]

Well I'm pretty proud how many tiny tiny tiny OSR things with a fraction of the mileage behind them that mainstream products have managed to win this popularity contest.

Yes, the ennies work better when the mainstream F20 games are out of the picture. 5e is fun, and one or the better DnD versions, but there is nothing particularly innovative about it, but it swept the ennies the year it came out. Same is true of PF. Next year, might very well be Starfinder. I much prefer years like this one, where we can see innovation and originality shine. Tales from the Loop, for example, deserves all the attention it got this year, but what if it had been competing the same year as 5e?

Anyway, congratulations to all the winners. Keep on designing!

 

[Shemeska]

I just find it interesting how WotC managed to snatch up best publisher away from Paizo. That was their category for years...

My assumption is that with the judges placing virtually no Paizo products in the voting categories that a majority of Pathfinder-centric players simply didn't vote. I might be wrong, but that was my immediate take.

 

[Morrus]

My assumption is that with the judges placing virtually no Paizo products in the voting categories that a majority of Pathfinder-centric players simply didn't vote. I might be wrong, but that was my immediate take.

The judges are elected by the public. They then nominate five products in each category. The public then votes on those nominations.