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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BSF" data-source="post: 3323247" data-attributes="member: 13098">In years past EN Publishing has not been eligible for ENnie awards.  Or maybe you are referring to the fact that the ENnies are associated with EN World and Gen Con?  OK, by that definition aren't you kind of saying that once an award has gotten notable enough to actually be noticed it is no longer a 'fan' award?  Or maybe I am just missing something?  I admit I am preoccupied mentally at the moment.OK, so if you have ever done paid work with anything the relates to RPGs, then you can't judge right?  Anything, anytime, ever.  Yet, you would be OK with somebody that did something that was not for pay?  Like, say, playtesting?  I did a little playtesting back in 2006. It wasn't for pay, except I did get a copy of the rules out of it.  And hey, I got a copy of one of the supplements before it was released too.  So is that paid work?  According to the guidelines as posted, I am not eligible to be a judge this year.  Though if the guidelines follow history, I might be eligible next year.  However, would you assert that I should be permanently ineligible?  What about all the playtesters for 3.0?  Eligible or not eligible?  Playtesters for other systems?  Other RPGs?  Are they too professional?*shrug*  I tend to think that disclosure is the best way to handle it.  Then let the voting for the judges decide who the 'fans' want to pare down the list.  Of course, I tend to vote for judges with an odd sense of what I want to see.  I want to see people whose opinion I respect going through that list.   Preferrably one person that tends to have tastes similar to mine, and another who has tastes dissimilar to mine.  Then a few people that I may agree or disagree with, but who can communicate effectively enough that I know why I agree or disagree.  Then I look at the list of products the judges think are in the top and I vote on what I know in that list.  Sometimes there are products I have never even looked at on the list and I wonder what I missed when it was released.</blockquote>

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