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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhu's Librarian" data-source="post: 1722759" data-attributes="member: 11064">I'm late getting to reply to this thread, but I've got some thoughts that I want to share, and some replies to previous posts.     Yes, I'm familiar with lots of other games. Currantly, I primarily play d20 games, but thats primarily because of the other people that I play with, not because I only play d20. I'm quite happy to sit down to GURPS, Buffy, Call of Cthulhu, Tri-Stat, RISUS, Fudge, or whatever happens to be at the table.   Most of the rest of these replies are to Dextra's posts. I have to agree with much of what she says, although I do have some differences of opinion, having been on the inside of the judging this year.      Yes. One of the top priorities if the ENnies are to go on and be successful      Well, GenCon supports the ENnies on site, but their is very little responsibility on their part to make sure that the things that need to be done are done. We had to fight to get our badges this year, and apparently the same thing happened last year. Nobody in the GenCon organization seems to know who or what the ENnies are. Those that have heard of us put us at the bottom of the priority pile. If they want us to be their awards, then maybe we should take be ranked as high as the other events that they support.      Yes, easily over $1000. But there are some ways to fix some of this. Publishers shipping directly to the judges would take care of a sizable chunk of that $.      While a good idea, and one that I have thought about, I don't know who would want to spearhead this. And where does the $ to get incorporated as non-profit come from in the first place?      I have no problems with this at all. If you want the job, I'm all for it, and would be very happy to help out however I can.      I don't like the ideaof an entry fee, although I can see how it will help in the funding. My biggest concern is if it would keep some publishers from entering. We received many items from small publishers, and I don't know if they would have entered if there was a fee for entry.      I like it.      I think this is going to be the way to go in the future. As for bribery, is it going to be an issue? The big SF awards have the books sent directly to the judges. When I worked at HarperCollins, we received a list of the judges for all the awards (Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, World Horror, etc) and shipped a package to each judge containing all the books that were eligible. If the big awards can do it that way, so can we.      I think that we need to have a file copy of all the entries kept in a library somewhere. If that's Russ's collection, so be it. But a collection of all the entries, or at minimum all the final nominees, is somehting that really should be done.   I'll get to Dextra's other two posts shortly.</blockquote>

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