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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dextra" data-source="post: 2119765" data-attributes="member: 5705">Best Rules awards the product for the quality of the rules only.  The Best Rules and Writing awards are among the awards set that recognize the varying factors that contribute to creating a good product (writing, rules, art, cartography, production values).  The reasoning behind the addition of the Rules, Writing, and Production Values awards were that they, too, are contributing factors in the creation and quality of an excellent product and deserve equal recognition with art and cartography.A product in this category could conceivably have the worst editing, art, prose, and production values, but have the coolest, innovative, most workable rules and get a nomination.  Best Supplementary Rules awards the product for not only the quality of the rules therein, but for all the other stuff that goes into a book.The Best Electronic Product, Best Adventure, Best Campaign Setting/Setting Supplement, Best Supplement, Best Adversary/Monster Product, Best Game and Best d20 Game (and to some extent Best Aid or Accessory and Best Free Product or Web Enhancement) awards recognize the best products in a given genre.  Chances are, if they're nominated for the genre awards, they'll also get a nod in the factors awards as well, but it's not a done deal.</blockquote>