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I see Fragged Empire got nominated for Best Setting and Best Cover. Good for them; that's a game that needs more exposure. I really should F&F it.Zereth posted:... Several hardcopies of one product, to one judge?
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The Ennies are judged by Bibliomancers. It's the only thing that explains a) their demand for multiple hardcopies and b) their complete and utter lack of taste in the actual content of the books.
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inklesspen posted:Some of this person's comments were left on a backer-only update instead of the main comment stream. Oh yeah, that's where the original posts are. I forgot kickstarter splits comments like that.
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The nominations for the first Indie Groundbreaker Awards are up, but there's a nom for World Wide Wrestling so they obviously know what they're doing: http://www.igdnonline.com/announcing-the-2016-indie-groundbreaker-awards-nominees/
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Jul 4, 2016 17:56
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WWW is such a good game.
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Most serious miniatures companies avoid the ENnies after the poo poo they pulled on Privateer Press. PP submitted an absurd number of $129 kits in 2011 (Khador gun wagons) which somehow found their way, unopened, directly to the auction tables. To add insult, they lost to obviously lower quality miniatures. Reaper's mouselings took gold and the reissue of 80's Battletech plastics won silver.
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Jul 4, 2016 19:56
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Mouselings are cute. Gun wagons aren't. 
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Jul 4, 2016 20:04
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moths posted:Most serious miniatures companies avoid the ENnies after the poo poo they pulled on Privateer Press. PP submitted an absurd number of $129 kits in 2011 (Khador gun wagons) which somehow found their way, unopened, directly to the auction tables. Remind me again why anyone gives a poo poo about the ENnies?
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Slimnoid posted:Remind me again why anyone gives a poo poo about the ENnies? Because most folks don't know about any of this stuff and just see "oh hey this won an award, it must be good." If you mean from a publisher perspective, well, I imagine that Paizo and WotC can afford to give away free books so it's cheap and easy publicity for them.
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Jul 4, 2016 21:25
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Reminder that the ENnies were the only awards to completely snub Monsterhearts.
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It's also the only game in town in terms of tabletop "awards". Yeah, there are other options, but the Ennies is the one everyone knows. And like Kai said, the people who don't follow this stuff as closely as we do don't know about the potential-scam factor or D&D/Pathfinder favoritism. It doesn't help that even the major developers will post things like "awesome, we were nominated!" even though they know that if there's a WotC/Paizo product in the same category it's probably going to win by default.
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General Ironicus posted:The nominations for the first Indie Groundbreaker Awards are up, but there's a nom for World Wide Wrestling so they obviously know what they're doing: http://www.igdnonline.com/announcing-the-2016-indie-groundbreaker-awards-nominees/ Hey Ironicus, who/what are igdn? Like I clicked on Members and there are a lot, including several names I recognized, but who is actually doing the work, and what do they do? I realize I might be asking the wrong person, and maybe I should just send them an email and find out.
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moths posted:Most serious miniatures companies avoid the ENnies after the poo poo they pulled on Privateer Press. PP submitted an absurd number of $129 kits in 2011 (Khador gun wagons) which somehow found their way, unopened, directly to the auction tables. Holy poo poo, is there a post/article about this? Between this and Fred Hicks stuff like this needs to get publicized more in tabletop.
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Without getting too grogs.txt-y the guy making GBS threads up the Blue Rose rpg looks to also be a backer for the 7th Sea 2.0 kickstarter and made sure to argue for the inclusion of slavery in neo-7th Sea. I wonder if he paid the $500.00-$1,000.00 to get an original character put in 7th Sea to fight the rising tide of social marxists there? Only time will tell....
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Nuns with Guns posted:Without getting too grogs.txt-y the guy making GBS threads up the Blue Rose rpg looks to also be a backer for the 7th Sea 2.0 kickstarter and made sure to argue for the inclusion of slavery in neo-7th Sea. I wonder if he paid the $500.00-$1,000.00 to get an original character put in 7th Sea to fight the rising tide of social marxists there? Only time will tell.... Well at least he's consistently lovely, I'll give him that.
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Jimbozig posted:Hey Ironicus, who/what are igdn? Like I clicked on Members and there are a lot, including several names I recognized, but who is actually doing the work, and what do they do? No idea! I just saw a tweet from Magpie Games celebrating their Urban Shadows nominations and thought people here might be interested.
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Evil Mastermind posted:It's also the only game in town in terms of tabletop "awards". Yeah, there are other options, but the Ennies is the one everyone knows. And like Kai said, the people who don't follow this stuff as closely as we do don't know about the potential-scam factor or D&D/Pathfinder favoritism.
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Has anyone here tried to become a judge for the Ennies? It could help lessen the Pathfinder/WOTC/etc influence if the panel of judges was better qualified.
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Libertad! posted:Holy poo poo, is there a post/article about this? Sadly, that would require competent games journalism. I can't even find anything regarding a more recent scandal: One judge received something like $500 in submissions to "evaluate," then resigned as a judge without returning anything. It's unimaginably unprofessional. One year I went back and reviewed the winners - There were only something like four total instances of a WoTC or Paizo product failing to win gold or silver. That is, if either company's product is in a category, it's almost guaranteed to win.
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clockworkjoe posted:Has anyone here tried to become a judge for the Ennies? It could help lessen the Pathfinder/WOTC/etc influence if the panel of judges was better qualified. That sounds like an incredibly thankless endeavor for something that, at the end of the day, is some of the smallest stakes imaginable. Plus the ENnies as an organization such as it is sounds hilariously rife with corruption and petty nerd politics and I can't imagine thinking to myself "yeah I totally want to get involved in that with my free time."
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moths posted:Sadly, that would require competent games journalism. That's because the actual awards are done via online voting. It's a popularity contest. Only the nominations really matter since that's from the panel of judges. Better judges = better Ennies, I think.
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moths posted:I can't even find anything regarding a more recent scandal: One judge received something like $500 in submissions to "evaluate," then resigned as a judge without returning anything. Yeah, that was what happened to Fred Hicks/Evil Hat.
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That seems right, I feel like they tried to screw Hicks for refusing to replace copies they mismanaged. There was also something else about digital product, I can't remember what that was though.
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Based on some G+ discussion, the digital thing might be that if you submit something for consideration, you can choose to provide either physical or digital evaluation copies to the judges, but your choice is for ALL the judges – it's not done on an individual basis. Edit: Was the resignation stuff this year or a a previous one? Auralsaurus Flex fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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clockworkjoe posted:Better judges = better Ennies, I think. Also it sounds like you get a ton of free books that you're not obligated to read. If you meet the criteria I say go for it. 
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Ettin posted:Also it sounds like you get a ton of free books that you're not obligated to read. If you meet the criteria I say go for it. I work in the industry so I am not qualified.
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Great qualifying questions:quote:The ENnies requires a major commitment of time and energy. What resources do you have that will help you discharge these responsibilities? Will your gaming group or other individuals be assisting you? Does your family support you?
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"accompanied by his faithful owl TRIGGER WARNING", he said with a straight face.
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Golden Bee posted:Great qualifying questions: My family and friends have abandoned me. All I have left are the ENnies.
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Golden Bee posted:Great qualifying questions:
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Evil Mastermind posted:It's also the only game in town in terms of tabletop "awards". Yeah, there are other options, but the Ennies is the one everyone knows. Whatever happened to make the Origins Awards lose relevance so drat fast in the 90s, anyway?
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Whatever happened to make the Origins Awards lose relevance so drat fast in the 90s, anyway? GAMA is run by a bunch of idiots.
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I'd love to hear more detail, since it seems pertinent to the thread.
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Jul 7, 2016 06:49
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Steven D. Russell, owner of a notable third-party Pathfinder company and creator of diceless system Lords of Gossamer and Shadow, died in a car crash. This is sad news, and was confirmed by CBS news of the traffic accident among other sources. I hope wherever he is, it's a better place.
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The ENNies are open, and Erik Tenkar is already encouraging ballot-stuffing. I'm kind of hoping to see more people take a rip on the ENNies, after their track record of many poor decisions over the years.
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We need a new award show. Anyone got photoshop, a server to host a site, and a lot of free time?
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At this point it should be asked if any RPG Awards are actually necessary beyond the feeling that the hobby should imitate "real" media (i.e. ones that make gobs of money) in order to become more "real." Can it be shown that the ENnies (or any other awards) actually result in increased sales and attention for the winners?
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The Ennies don't mean a thing so there is just one thing left to do. Nominate Chuck Tingle.
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Doesn't Palladium already have a rule that allows billionaire dinosaurs to make you gay?
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With how small the group of rpg players who explore outside their starting game is, and the even smaller group who are able to articulate what they see as important/good in tabletop rpgs, any awards that are handed out will always come off as self-satisfied backpats and will probably be awarded first based on nepotism and name-recognition. That's not gonna be any different from any other media, but the smaller scale makes it more painfully obvious.
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