Tenkar's Tavern: Eenie, Meenie, ENnies....

Monday, July 19, 2010

Eenie, Meenie, ENnies....

Its that time of the year again, where all good publishers hope to get their products the recognition that an ENnie awards gives. So, on that note, I'll be highlighting my favs from the list of nominations:

Best Adventure
The Grinding Gear (Lamentations of the Flame Princess)

Best Aid or Accessory
er, don't know, don't rightly care

Best Art, Cover
Eclipse Phase (Catalyst Game Labs & Posthuman Studios)
Pathfinder Bestiary (Paizo Publishing)
Rogue Trader Core Rulebook (Fantasy Flight Games)

Best Art, Interior
Pathfinder Core Rulebook (Paizo Publishing)
Rogue Trader Core Rulebook (Fantasy Flight Games)

Best Blog
guess i dont read the big ones

Best Cartography
and don't now much about the final picks

Best Electronic Book
not one of the finalists are on my digital bookshelf... sigh

Best Free Product
amazingly enough, I don't know anything off this list either... and I LOVE free

Best Game
Pathfinder (Paizo Publishing)
HM: Labyrinth Lord (Goblinoid Games) Honorable mention isnt bad, but I'd have preferred a vote ;)

Best Miniature Product
I dont really do minis these days

Best Monster/Adversary
Pathfinder Bestiary (Paizo Publishing)
Pathfinder: Classic Horrors Revisited (Paizo Publishing)

Best Podcast
I listen to like 4 podcasts a year, so my vote doesn't count

eh, there's more, but I'll post it later tonight

3 comments:

The Hopeless GamerJuly 19, 2010 at 8:57 PM
You beat me to the punch! I'm hoping to have my picks up by this weekend over at The Hopeless Gamer. I'm thinking that I'll have a lot of similar reactions (for instance, I guess I don't read the popular bogs either :).

I like what you did by not limiting yourself to just one choice on some of these, and I look forward to seeing the rest of your picks!
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TenkarJuly 19, 2010 at 9:14 PM
Was hoping to get the rest up tonight but it looks like tomorrow.

I won't vote in a category I don't have a good feel for... then again, my favs are my favs, so I can vote for more then one on my blog.

looking forward to your picks too. should be fun
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AndugusJuly 21, 2010 at 9:27 AM
Clearly there is a disconnect with this Ennies thingie-ma-bobber. I didn't see The Nine Towers listed under best writing or best adventure!?!
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Why "Swords & Wizardry?"

Believe me when I say I have them all in dead tree format. I have OSRIC in full size, trade paperback and the Player's Guide. I have LL and the AEC (and somewhere OEC, but I can't find it at the moment). Obviously I have Basic Fantasy RPG. Actually, I have the whole available line in print. Way too much Castles & Crusades. We all know my love for the DCC RPG. I even have Dark Dungeons in print, the Delving Deeper boxed set, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls

So, out of all that, why Swords & Wizardry? Why, when I have been running a AD&D 1e / OSRIC campaign in Rappan Athuk am I using Swords & Wizardry and it's variant, Crypts & Things, for the second campaign? (Actually, now running a S&W Complete campaign, soon to be with multiple groups)

Because the shit works.

It's easy for lapsed gamers to pick up and feel like they haven't lost a step. I can house rule it and it doesn't break. It plays so close to the AD&D of my youth and college years (S&W Complete especially) that it continually surprises me. Just much less rules hopping than I remember. (my God but I can run it nearly without the book)

I grab and pick and steal from just about all OSR and Original resources. They seem to fit into S&W with little fuss. It may be the same with LL and the rest, but for me the ease of use fit's my expectations with S&W.

Even the single saving throw. That took me longer to adjust to, but even that seems like a natural to me now. Don't ask me why, it just does. Maybe it's the simplicity of it. At 45 52, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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Eenie, Meenie, ENnies....

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