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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 1687656" data-attributes="member: 2855">Ahh.. but if the awards were chosen by a group of individuals whose own work you might know and respect, then that might get you to check it out. The thing with the Origins Awards is that they are peer awards, awards given by other individuals within the rpg industry.These are the people who create the games you play and enjoy who are saying that the winners are of exceptional quality. If you enjoy their work, wouldn't you think that you just might enjoy something that they think is a very good product?By your own definition, you should not care what won the Ennies either. You were not part of the panel of judges who selected the nominees. You are only one of possibly thousands who vote for one of the nominees. What are you going to say about the one that wins a category if it is not the one you voted for?I would like to point out that up until this year, the process for select the Origins Awards was virtually identical to that of the Ennies (and this year it was still extremely similar, with the Gamer's Choice being identical to the Ennies, and only the Peer awards differing by limiting the final voting to the GAMA members). Companies sumbitted products to the Academy (just like companies submit products to the Ennies judge's panel), then the Academy votes on the submissions (just as the Ennie judges do), and final voting is done by a larger corpus of voters. The main difference between the Origins Awards and the Ennies is that the Ennies is more focused on d20 products while the OAs encompass a much wider field of categories.Did the OAs have problems? Yes, many problems, from companies trying to game the system to Chairpersons who would change some of the underlying rules on a yearly basis. Last year Nicole Lindroos (Nickchick - or however she spells it hehe) became Chair of the Academy and tried to institute changes that would have made the awards much more codified. However, there were several people did their best to obstruct any changes she tried to get implemented, one of the loudest obstructionist being a person who wasn't even a member of GAMA at the time, and who made (at the very least) many damaging remarks about the changes Nicole wanted to make without even waiting to see if they would be an improvement or not.There is curently a task force (made up of one person) appointed by the GAMA board working on proposals (although he did create a mailing list open to whatever interested people wanted to join - effectively an idea generating list that has no real say in anything) for revamping the awards. Whether or not anything will come of this remains to be seen.</blockquote>

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