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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blacksad" data-source="post: 1039127" data-attributes="member: 1359">My perspective as a fan.I would like to see WotC enter all category like all publisher.Because after Deities&Demigods (and the ELH) I'm not keen anymore on buying their product blindfolded. It means that I'll miss some of their great product which would have given me lots of ideas in favor of specific product from smaller publisher which directly fit my needs. It isn't bad per se, but I do not like the idea of missing a great product.I think that the rating process would prevent them from winning every entries (just take a look at <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/reviews/" target="_blank">http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/reviews/</a> specificaly the reviews for Deities & Demigods or those for the Monsternomicon).I still want to keep the judge because in a direct fan vote you get weird result (as it used to in the reviews section of ENworld), with unknow book being selected because it has 2 or 3 fans while bigger books get eliminated because they get more bad critics.I don't know if the result prove it, but I guess that the voting process allowed a good repartition of the scoring of each book (i.e. if you try to have a graphic for each book with the number of vote for each score, they should have the same look with differing location for the peak, or so I hope, only Morrus know for sure.) meaning that each book deserve its award.I'm not sure that this apply as well to electronic product and agree with Vigilance on that point that free product or product which exist as print product should not enter all electronic category, though it would not be nice to those who provide great product for free, so it needs further discussion.Though, I do not like the idea of banning print product from entering several category, as with WotC, it means that I could miss THE great product (hey, I already had Monsternomicon, so I guess that I'll buy Freedom City now <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).While I think that the award should focus on D&D/d20, I do not know what should be done of products like Action! by Gold Rush Games, which are OGC. At first I would say keep the typical category open to D&D/d20 products, and add a few OGL category like best game, best supplement, best setting.Another thing is I don't know how setting book, from d20 line, but aren't d20, fit in the awards (I think that this has happened for the Scarred Land and Diomin) or books like Todd Gamble Cartography without opening the award to all RPG (perhaps requiring that the publisher has produced at least one d20/OGL book?).Tada! that's all folks!</blockquote>

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