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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dextra" data-source="post: 2067877" data-attributes="member: 5705">latest version of the categories...CORE AWARDS1. Best Cartography-This is an award for an individual product containing the best cartography (maps and charts, evaluated for look and usability).someone please define cartography!2. Best Art (Cover)-This is an award for the book containing the best cover artwork.  The overall quality of the cover is taken into consideration- the quality of the art, the final look of the cover and how the title and logos are incorporated therein.3. Best Art (Interiour)-this is an award for an individual product containing the best collection of artwork between the covers.4. Best Graphic Design & Layout-This is an award for an individual product containing the best graphic design and layout throughout.5. Best Writing-This is an award for the book containing the best prose and descriptive text (ie. "cream").6. Best Rules-This is an award for the book containing the best game design and mechanics (ie. "crunch"). 7. Best Electronic Product -This is an award for the best product released electronically (PDFs, software, etc).  Products submitted for Best Electronic Product must have been primarily and initially released in electronic format.8. Best Aid or Accessory-This is an award for a product used to complement role playing game play.9. Best Fan Site-This is an award for best web site run by fans, for fans, ie. not by a publisher, not for profit.10. Best Adventure-This is an award for a product that is primarily an adventure, adventure ideas or seeds.  If under seven entries are received in this category, submissions will be considered for Best Campaign Setting or Setting Supplement or Best Writing.11. Best Campaign Setting or Setting Supplement -This is an award for a product particular to a campaign setting.  If under seven entries are received in this category, submissions will be considered for Best Writing.12. Best Monster or Adversaries Supplement-This is an award for a product of which the majority is dedicated to the description of the creatures or adversaries within the game.  If under seven entries are received in this category, submissions will be considered for Best Rules, or Best Campaign Setting or Setting Supplement as warranted.13. Best Free Product or Web Enhancement-This is an award for the best free product or web enhancement.  A company's entire site could be nominated so long as there was considerable updates and content added during the judging period.14. Best d20 Game-This is an award for the best book that uses the d20 license.  The Best d20 Game winner brings togther art, writing, rules, feeling- everything that makes up a role playing game, rolled up and printed with a d20 logo on the cover.  This is open to OGL, d20 Licensed games, and products with special D&D licenses.15. Best Game-This is an award for the best role-playing game book.  The Best d20 Game winner brings togther art, writing, rules, feeling- everything that makes up a role playing game.16. Best Publisher-This is awarded to a publisher whose body of work submitted from the year was deemed best overall, with other, often less tangible factors taken into consideration.  Customer support, quality and frequency of updates of their web site, their accessibility and contributions to the EN and gaming-in-general community will be all part of the qualities of Publisher.MUTABLE AWARDS(Depends upon what was released in the previous year, the whims of the judges, etc).17-18. Best ??? TBA-2 awards that each year will be decided upon and defined by that year's judges, depending in large part by the quantities of submissions and releases that year.  Some possibilities include:-Best Licensed Product-Best Periodical-Best n00B (a newbie is defined as a nominee whose first work(s) appeared in the judging year)?  -Special Award (for outstanding contributions to role playing gaming- this could be another write-in option, and could be an individual writer, publisher, artist, setting, or web site)?  "BONUS" AWARDS1. Peer's Choice Award- voted upon by industry professionals including but not limited to those who submitted products for consideration.  2. Fan's Choice Award- this is the winner of the "write-in" category, and the only category in which a publisher/designer can win, even if they didn't submit their works for consideration... so anyone could be a contender.  It has been suggested that we should probably automatically eliminate ENP and WotC from the running for fairness sake.</blockquote>

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