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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eyebeams" data-source="post: 3333954" data-attributes="member: 9225">I'm not really concerned with a d20 bias. After WotC everybody's in the same boat, and WotC (or any company) can still choose to not participate. If you get information from the companies ahead of time (which is already done) and post which products are ineligible, the remainder will reflect a bias toward games that sell, but that's not a big deal. 5 or so noms per category should cover that. I think there would be some advantages with respect to companies like SJG and Palladium, which have significant fandoms that are not at all represented by the awards.Now you're second-guessing the fans. If fans of a lesser-known product feel sufficiently strongly about it, they'll submit in a higher proportion than fans who just went through the motions with a popular brand. Why can't fans just do the noms themselves?If that's unworkable, then again, the ball bounces back to admitting that judges have a regulatory, non-democratic function, which means that tinkering with the parameters of that doesn't violate the principles of the awards at all.</blockquote>