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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mexal" data-source="post: 5237702" data-attributes="member: 6753">You've been chatting whilst I was asleep & writing a job application.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Blogs & Podcasts: as a webhead and e-learning specialist in 'real life' I think they are two different - and valuable - ways of building community and sharing information... two things which this hobby is all about and which the ENnies are intended to support and celebrate. So I have enjoyed reading & listening to the submissions, and think that it's appropriate for them to have 'Best....' categories in the awards. Given both the tools available for creating them and the wealth of talent in the 'fan' part of the community (that is, people who do not earn money publishing RPGs) I personally prefer to judge by product type rather than by who made it. Judging and Reviewing: I have been reviewing - on my own site, and on both OBS and Paizo - for a long time, but upon becoming involved with the ENnies this year, it quickly became apparent that 'Judging' is a very different process. Reviewing talks about a single product, what is good and bad in it, how it will contribute to your gaming experience. Judging is all about comparisions, exploring why one product is a better example of its type - ruleset, supplement, adventure, whatever - than the other contenders. In terms of personal favourites, I think all the Judges were able to advance, during our discussions, arguments for the inclusion of this product and that in the various categories. Sometimes agreement was speedy, sometimes one or more of us was sent scurrying back to re-read something to see why a fellow judge was raving about it, sometimes we'd quiz each other about why we wanted a particular product nominated. But we have reached a concensus, one which is due to be announced tomorrow - and that is the decision of us as a team. We'll be around in the next few days and willing to discuss why we chose to nominate the products we did - as for the rest, shall we just say that in most categories it was a struggle to reduce the list to the required 5 items plus an honourable mention. We had a wealth of wonderful stuff to consider!What we should not - and will not! - do is start saying "Well, I loved such-and-such but could not get the other judges to agree." We have to step up and take corporate responsibility for the nominations as we have agreed them.</blockquote>

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