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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 1719726" data-attributes="member: 87">These suggested categories are about individuals, not products.  Presumably they'd send what they felt their best work was. 15 was a cap on submissions per person NOT a cap on products worked on.And without commentary who is to say the editor didn't entirely rewrite it???While I like the principle of the inidividual awards, I'm not sure they can be executed fairly - if at all.To prevent a 40 page adventure and 30 pages of prestige classes and spells being called an adventure.  To prevent a campaign sourcebook with 3 or so sample adventures from being an adventure nominee.  80% in my mind allows enough sufficient supplemental material.  Still, admittedly, it is an arbritrary line.I don't see many prolific small guys putting more than 4 PRINT products / quarter unless they do it through a larger house (i.e. Game Mechanics publishing through Green Ronin). And in that case, I don't feel sorry for them, they have the resources of the larger house to draw on.This issue I'm sure is one of the most divisive, but I feel it is crucial.  ENWorld is a fan community, but not the only one. The best counter to the charge of favoritism towards d20 is to farm out some of the judge spots, though we should remain the only site that keeps multiple spots. (2 of the 5).The ENnies are a child of not one but two parents.  ENWorld the first, and Gencon second.  Becoming the Gencon award has given this award no small amount of prestige, but also grave responsibility. A fan award that caters exclusively to one group of rpg gamers (d20) isn't fair.  The one step (becoming the RPG awards) requires the second in my mind. That first step is a requirement of Peter's.Which sedgeways directly into my respose to DaveMageSorry, but this cannot be done.  Inclusion of non-d20 games is a requirement of our continued status as the Gencon Awards.  I, for one, do not want to go back to giving out the awards on mIRC.Again, not feasable. Fantasy is but one genre within RPG's, albeit a huge one. We cannot have 101 categories, else the awards become diluted.  It has become incumbent upon us to include all RPG's so we must do so as best we can.And I don't.  The ENnies are the child of ENWorld, but they've already stepped along a seperate path - one for the better I believe.I think that despite our limitations, we may be able to do just that.  Consider the following two possible categories...Best Medieval Fantasy ProductBest Sci-Fi/Modern Fantasy ProductYes, Both of these have multiple subdivisions, but they are distinct.  Added to the list above we'd reach 12, and subtract out the probably untenable individual awards and we stand at 9.</blockquote>

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