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That said, I'd probably still pay attention to something awful's traditional games' golden dookie awards since short lists of things people think are cool are usually the only way to learn about new games that aren't completely crafted from a rat's anus im this hobby
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The point of awards is not to recognize and encourage excellence, it's to promote the field being awarded and boost sales of things that receive awards. The Academy Awards exist as a giant billion-dollar marketing exercise for the film industry and as something to provide a measurable revenue boost to awarded films. The purpose of the Ennie Awards is to allow some products to slap a "WINNER 2014 Ennie Award" logo on their cover so that browsing customers will be more likely to notice it and pick it up.
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The Diana Jones award isn't bad, in the sense that it's interesting to see what the industry insiders like.
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Haystack posted:The Diana Jones award isn't bad, in the sense that it's interesting to see what the industry insiders like. I keep forgetting about that one. The tastes of the judges align more closely with my own, at least.
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Also it has the best origin storyquote:What is the Diana Jones Award trophy? Haystack fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Jul 11, 2016 |
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FMguru posted:The point of awards is not to recognize and encourage excellence, it's to promote the field being awarded and boost sales of things that receive awards. The Academy Awards exist as a giant billion-dollar marketing exercise for the film industry and as something to provide a measurable revenue boost to awarded films. The purpose of the Ennie Awards is to allow some products to slap a "WINNER 2014 Ennie Award" logo on their cover so that browsing customers will be more likely to notice it and pick it up. The problem is that the industry is so small that either the consumer won't have heard of the ENnies, or the company that won can't afford a new print run with the logo on it.
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Kemper Boyd posted:The Ennies don't mean a thing so there is just one thing left to do. Nominate Chuck Tingle. Pounded in the Butt by a d20
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gradenko_2000 posted:Pounded in the Butt by a d20 Pounded In The Butt By Narrative Control: Turned Gay By The Growing Trend Of Storygames In RPGs
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Pounded In The Butt By Narrative Control: Turned Gay By The Growing Trend Of Storygames In RPGs Currently Smoking: The Ganja
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Kwyndig posted:The problem is that the industry is so small that either the consumer won't have heard of the ENnies, or the company that won can't afford a new print run with the logo on it.  It ia funny when things like the latest edition of the D&D Players Handbook win Ennie's. Yeah, WotC will be slapping that logo on there toot sweet, you bet. Some more focused RPG awards would probably work. Diana Jones is a good one,I could see a storygame award making sense and bringing attention to games that might otherwise languish in obscurity (same for an OSR-focused award)
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Kemper Boyd posted:The Ennies don't mean a thing so there is just one thing left to do. Nominate Chuck Tingle. Not gonna lie, it makes me sad that we've had the "vote for me to spite the SJWs" part of Sad Puppies but not the Tingle parts. You're missing the good bit!
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Ettin posted:Not gonna lie, it makes me sad that we've had the "vote for me to spite the skeletons" part of Sad Puppies but not the Tingle parts. You're missing the good bit! When I told you to get in contact with him for the rights to make a game of his work, I wasn't joking
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Mors Rattus posted:When I told you to get in contact with him for the rights to make a game of his work, I wasn't joking Buckaroo
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Wouldn't that just be a random chart of zany elements and the male orifices they might be inserted into? Then you could just translate the result into the d20 system, naturally, and play that out.
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You've also got frozen wife ghosts and black magic neighbors, as well as the horrors of the Void to write splats for.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Wouldn't that just be a random chart of zany elements and the male orifices they might be inserted into? I am 90% certain that if you got the license you could convince Tingle to write the fiction vignettes.
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Bieeardo posted:You've also got frozen wife ghosts and black magic neighbors, as well as the horrors of the Void to write splats for. can't wait for the devilmen villains splat
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Haystack posted:Also it has the best origin story Huh, I thought it was just associated with Diana Wynne Jones. That's really cool!
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Speak of the devil...quote:ANNOUNCING THE 2016 DIANA JONES AWARD SHORTLIST
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The Diana Jones Award is like Bloody Mary: 1. Speak its name three times and Google Alerts pings us and reminds us we should post the shortlist; 2. It'll help you feel a lot more clear-headed after a night at the ENnies.
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Thanks to the post here, I just bought that Fall of Magic scroll game because it looked interesting and fun. Here's to hoping it is!
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Crossposting from the 13th Age thread: Almost-exactly-three-years late KS The Reliquary just sent out the completed PDF to backers. It seems to have ballooned a bit from the original "here's 60 magic items" to a 400-page tome with "298 new magic items, 40 item sets, 38 new feats, 26 adventures, 20 NPCs, 10 new spells, 5 new races, 5 random tables, 1 new cleric domain, 1 new wizard talent, and hundreds of plot hooks". With no index, table of contents, or page numbers. quote:You won’t find an index in this book. Nor page numbers. Nor a glossary. The book is laid out in no particular order, but instead is arranged in a peculiar order. This book is intended to be leafed through, to be searched, to be delved into… in short a sort of page-based dungeon of ideas. I give you no map, but only hints. Similar ideas are grouped together. NPCs that have a relationship to each other are found together. Marginalia gives a new twist to the main text, but it doesn’t always directly relate to the page that it is on, and it often links to something else nearby. It's 2016, how are people not getting that RPG books are reference materials. What good is a rulebook I can't look something up in?
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Jesus, that's just the elfgames version of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
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"It's like, a book of stuff to use in your game. Except we don't actually want you to use it in your game. Just like, think about using it in your game."
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Evil Mastermind posted:Almost-exactly-three-years late KS The Reliquary just sent out the completed PDF to backers. It seems to have ballooned a bit from the original "here's 60 magic items" to a 400-page tome with "298 new magic items, 40 item sets, 38 new feats, 26 adventures, 20 NPCs, 10 new spells, 5 new races, 5 random tables, 1 new cleric domain, 1 new wizard talent, and hundreds of plot hooks".
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That's completely unusable. I always include page references next to my spells/items/feats so I can go look them up since I usually end up summarizing on my sheet to save space. What the gently caress happened to that game?
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I wonder how long it will take for the less savory parts of the community to disassemble the PDF version and then reassemble it in a coherent order. It's not something any of us should condone, because the creators of this still deserve some sort of take as artists/designers, but this sort of nonsense is exactly the point of that one image macro on digital piracy. If you make your product unnecessarily obnoxious to use, you're unwittingly encouraging folks to pirate your work considering that the pirates will rip all that stupid poo poo out before redistributing it. And no, it's not the elfgames version of the Bathroom Reader series. At least those actually have indices, tables of contents, and supplementary categorizations should you be looking for a particular type of article. Edit: Rehosted the image myself. 
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ImpactVector posted:That's completely unusable. I always include page references next to my spells/items/feats so I can go look them up since I usually end up summarizing on my sheet to save space. I mean, this is for 13th Age, an RPG that has one of the best indexes ever written because it's comprehensive and has a glossary built into it so index entries include the quick summary of what you're looking up. And this project was written by one of the 13th Age guys! I just don't get it.
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It's a PDF... so it has page numbers. It's just that the pages themselves don't have numbers on them. It's still dumb as poo poo.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Not sure if that's a backfill or not, but I'd imagine not since I don't think a ToC or index is something you can just slap together into a finished PDF. Then again, I'm not a publisher so I really don't know. Wait, but didn't you say before it was literally bragging about not having one?
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Yeah, that occurred to me after I posted. Like, that text I quoted above is was taken from the introductions. I guess they are backfilling then. Which is still dumb in a "then why'd you leave it out in the first place" way, but at least they're trying to fix it.
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I've seen plenty of badly organized elfgames before but kudos to whoever the hell these guys are for putting a fresh new spin on things by claiming that lack of organization is, in fact, a feature and not a bug, good job everyone.
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My local store runs a business blog, and they are also a PokeGym in the Pokemon Go! app. The dude is already seeing increased traffic from Pokemon Go players, and he's optimistic that it will add to their already healthy Pokemon category sales. I wonder if other stores are seeing the same.
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Been hearing about restaurants putting up lures and getting increased business + tips.
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SilverMike posted:Been hearing about restaurants putting up lures and getting increased business + tips. There's a coffee shop near me that is keeping a lure up whenever they're open. From a business perspective, the things are cheap enough that it only takes a couple extra sales to make it worth while. Doing some quick calculations, if you're open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, it's $120/wk to have a lure up all the time. If your average sale nets you $4.50, you'll make profit starting on your fourth extra sale each day. It wouldn't take much analysis to improve that further by looking at peaks and lulls.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Not sure if that's a backfill or not, but I'd imagine not since I don't think a ToC or index is something you can just slap together into a finished PDF. Then again, I'm not a publisher so I really don't know. If there are no hyperlinks then it wouldn't be too hard in a normal book. But it says it's arranged in no particular order, so what the gently caress TOC could it really have? "1. Introduction; 2-400. The Rest"? This sounds amazingly dumb and that is some astoundingly unsubtle backpedaling going on there.
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I can somewhat understand the other things, but how in the hell can you not have page numbers? You can have some random intern do it in an hour or two.
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Aaod posted:I can somewhat understand the other things, but how in the hell can you not have page numbers? You can have some random intern do it in an hour or two. What the hell kind of indie RPG author has interns?
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