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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3324384" data-attributes="member: 177">Rasyr, unfortunately, you miss the target on a major practical matter - discussion of anything has to happen in theplace where people would normally discuss things.  It isnt' that they don't want to go to the website of "a competetor" (not the EN world is a competetor of any major publisher), but they don't want to go out of their way at all.Here at EN Wolrd, we only create a new forum for a topic when there's a whole lot of discussion traffic on the subject.  There's a simple reason - putting such discussion in its ownlittle space segregates it from people's normal paths, and they have to go explicitly out of their way to see it.  That tends to reduce discussion.  The awards are not so important a part of most gamer's lives for them to go out of their way to get into it.  If White Wolf, ICE, or other fans want to discuss the awards, they ought to do it wherever they discuss gaming.  There is nobody here stopping them.  What little discussion that's happening here is being driven by the judge candidates and a small number of interested parties - it isn't driven by the board.You're supposed to know gaming, right?  What happens when you have a rule set in stone?  People start to try to "game the system".  You'll start getting "ENnies munchkinisms", workarounds and edge cases that play the rules like a fiddle. You have just stated the #1 way to make the ENnies bog down in red tape.  The gamign world is not particularly static - publishers come up wiht new products that don't fit well in old pidgeonholes.  We need an award system that flexes with the times and with the gaming world, and does so quickly - the process of dealing with the awards is already a great deal of work, adding more work to unpaid personnel is a good way to kill the thing entirely.</blockquote>

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