2024 ENNIE Nominations

Morrus · Jul 7, 2024

Wofano Wotanto said:
And that award and about $3 will get you a cup of coffee these days.

You know who the awards are for? The writers, and artists, and editors, and all the other people who make a game. Because it's nice, once a year, to take the time to say to somebody "you did a great job!" Enabling that writer or that artist to say they're an award-winning artist. Because that moment on the stage when everybody is applauding you is magic. And hell knows that the life of a freelancer is often hard.

The 'monetary' value of an award to the publisher is irrelevant. Maybe some people try to make it about that, but that's not what it's about. We as fans can't give the all the freelancers and staff in the industry a ton of money and make them rich; but we can say "thank you". When I created the ENnies with Eric Noah (neither of us are involved with the awards currently) that was the goal. And our hope was that publishers would feel that giving that opportunity and recognition to their hard working staff and freelancers was worth the price of admission (which was the cost of 5 books for the judges).

It's about the people, not the companies. it's just about saying thank you to individuals who make this stuff. We always felt saying thank you was the least we could do.

(Note--I do not speak for the ENnies, and haven't done for years; this is just my personal opinion)

Wofano Wotanto · Jul 7, 2024

Sure, but not getting an award doesn't hurt anyone, Morrus. Which is a good thing, since they don't give out nearly as many of them as their are worthy recipients. Which is also why Dragonbane not getting into more categories isn't a horrible injustice. There just aren't enough slots to reward everyone who deserves it with a "you done good" every year, especially in today's busy hobby.

Scrying Dutchman · Jul 7, 2024

Wild seeing my name up there! Thank you Tom King for picking Gods of the Forbidden North as your spotlight.

Ghost2020 · Jul 7, 2024

Theory of Games said:
Elfking the Immortal RPG doesn't get nominated for Best Art?!?!?!?

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Likely because it's AI generated art.

Superchunk77 · Jul 7, 2024

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
Damn, Gods of the Frozen North looks completely badass. Heck of a campaign for OSE, which seems to mostly focus on one-shot adventures, many of them with an air of whimsy.

I may just pick that up the entire series when part 3 gets kickstarted. It looks dope.

Superchunk77 · Jul 7, 2024

The Outcast Silver Raiders boxed set is absolutely beautiful. So glad I snagged it when I could.

JoeBlank · Jul 7, 2024

Theory of Games said:
Elfking the Immortal RPG doesn't get nominated for Best Art?!?!?!?

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I do not believe they submitted.

Encourage your favorite creators to submit to the ENNIES!

Thondor · Jul 8, 2024

I'm always curious about how most people could feel like they are voting fairly, since few with have seen more than a couple of any entries. As a RPG marketplace and distributor in Canada and the UK, I get more exposure than most folks.

I'd also add in response to @Morrus post that awards do make it more likely that a retailer might try a copy or two of your book.

Here's what we stock or expect to stock on the list:

Eat The Reich — Best Adventure - Short Form, Best Cover Art, Best Interior Art, Product of the Year
The book is certainly striking (hot pink page edges), and it was flying from RDD's booth at UK Games Expo. It details a whole system but quite light and requires use of their (slightly hackable) pre-gens so I can see this being classed as an adventure. I'd call it a "scenario game."

Call of Cthulhu Alone Against the Static — Best Adventure - Long Form, Best Writing
This is a solo play hardcover and colour. Most of Chaosium's prior solo "Alone" series are softcover and black and white.

Heckna! Campaign Book — Best Adventure - Long Form, Best Setting
We normally carry all of Hit Point Presses stuff, but don't have this one in yet.

If I Were a Lich, Man — Best Family Game
ditto. I think Indie Press Revolution has copies . . . It's always interesting to see a game that tries to embrace theme with a different resolution method — dreidel's in this case.

Runecairn Bestiary — Best Monster/Adversary
I might be jumping the gun here a little bit but it looks like we'll be carrying By Odin’s Beard stuff. We had a nice chat about a game store in Edmonton, Alberta that we'd both been to among a number of other things at UK Games Expo. He has a couple solid short 5e D&D adventures that we got through a 3rd party in Australia.

A few I'll comment on:
Salvage Union — Best Game, Best Rules, Product of the Year
They were out of stock by the end of UK Games Expo (at the event anyway) or we might already have copies. Very nice to see this doing so well as I recall chatting with them last year before it had released.

Koriko: A Magical Year (Mousehole Press) — Best Cover, Best Production Values, Product of the Year
This gets a special mention because Jack and I were next to each other at the demo/press night at UKGE. It's a fine looking product -- particularly the box set which has custom tarot cards and wooden dice. I'm a fan of one of his other title's, Orbital.

If you want to find these from us go to composedreamgames.com/marketplace or composedreamgames.co.uk

Fenris-77 · Tuesday at 2:37 PM

You don't stock Shadowdark? Madness!

MacDhomnuill · Thursday at 2:38 PM

sevenbastard said:
That's a lot of categories. Yet I still don't own a single thing on the list.

I have some strong feelings on some of the choices, based on what I have read. Some positive and some negative. I won't vote based on negative things or positive things I have heard online, or to take a side in a controversy on a product I don't own.

I own five things on there but have only used 1 of them at the table. These things are mostly popularity contests.

2024 ENNIE Nominations

Judges’ Spotlight Winners​

Best Adventure – Long Form​

Best Adventure – Short Form​

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Best Aid/Accessory – Digital​

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Best Aid/Accessory – Non – Digital​

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Best Art, Cover​

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Best Art, Interior​

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Best Cartography​

Best Community Content​

Best Family Game / Product​

Best Free Game / Product​

Best Game​

Best Layout and Design​

Best Monster/Adversary​

Best Online Content​

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Best Production Values​

Best RPG Related Product​

Best Rules​

Best Setting​

Best Streaming Content​

Best Supplement​

Best Writing​

Product of the Year​

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