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<blockquote data-quote="eyebeams" data-source="post: 3322903" data-attributes="member: 9225"><p>I think the ENnies are okay, but then again I co-wrote a game that won Best Writing last year<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Anyway, the ENnies have plenty of industry/commercial ties to them, so Mike's observations about the awards being "independent" don't really make any sense. The problem is that we curently have a number of awards that do not reflect the reality of the hobby. The ENnies is the closest to a good general award. </p><p></p><p>The OAs do a lot of things badly, mixing an award system for RPGs with ones for other games that don't have the same audience or market size. Somebody's always going to get screwed in an awards system where wargaming, CCGs and RPGs are side by side. Of course, there were also certain people that greatly harmed the integrity of the awards.</p><p></p><p>CCGs, War/board games and RPGs need separate awards. Wargames need the exposure afforded by specializes awards. CCGs don't need RPG hangers-on and RPGs are a broad enough category to get their own treatment. A good award should probably have one peer award category to recognize work that may have passed under the radar otherwise, but it needn't dominate the whole thing.</p><p></p><p>Back to the ENnies, some of the category listings were nonsensical last year. Many RPGs go with the core + robust supplement, and the Ennies folds them in with other kinds of supplements (except when it doesn't due to the subjective influence of people who are supposed to be representing fandom but may have a production credit or two under their belts). Mage and Shackled City had no business being in the same category, for instance.</p><p></p><p>If I was the boss of all of you, this is what I'd take RPGs out of the OAs. I'd make the ENnies the only RPG awards and add a "product of the year" peer award. For everything else, I'd get rid of the judges who kind-sorta have industry credits, no matter how tenuous or ancient they may be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eyebeams, post: 3322903, member: 9225"] I think the ENnies are okay, but then again I co-wrote a game that won Best Writing last year:-) Anyway, the ENnies have plenty of industry/commercial ties to them, so Mike's observations about the awards being "independent" don't really make any sense. The problem is that we curently have a number of awards that do not reflect the reality of the hobby. The ENnies is the closest to a good general award. The OAs do a lot of things badly, mixing an award system for RPGs with ones for other games that don't have the same audience or market size. Somebody's always going to get screwed in an awards system where wargaming, CCGs and RPGs are side by side. Of course, there were also certain people that greatly harmed the integrity of the awards. CCGs, War/board games and RPGs need separate awards. Wargames need the exposure afforded by specializes awards. CCGs don't need RPG hangers-on and RPGs are a broad enough category to get their own treatment. A good award should probably have one peer award category to recognize work that may have passed under the radar otherwise, but it needn't dominate the whole thing. Back to the ENnies, some of the category listings were nonsensical last year. Many RPGs go with the core + robust supplement, and the Ennies folds them in with other kinds of supplements (except when it doesn't due to the subjective influence of people who are supposed to be representing fandom but may have a production credit or two under their belts). Mage and Shackled City had no business being in the same category, for instance. If I was the boss of all of you, this is what I'd take RPGs out of the OAs. I'd make the ENnies the only RPG awards and add a "product of the year" peer award. For everything else, I'd get rid of the judges who kind-sorta have industry credits, no matter how tenuous or ancient they may be. [/QUOTE]
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