Yep, its ENnies time. Time time to vote from every McDonalds or library within driving distance. Wait, that's what they do in Chicago or something.
Here's The Tavern's Picks:
Best Adventure
Blood in the Chocolate (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) - its actually a damn good adventure that your PCs might survive.
Best Aid/Accessory
Kobold Guide to Plots & Campaigns (Kobold Press) - Kobold Press - need I say more?
Best Art, Cover
WGAF
Best Art, Interior
Baby Bestiary Handbook Vol 2 (Metal Weave Games) - amazing art - simply one of the best.
S. Petersen’s Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors (Chaosium) - also excellent
Best Blog
Gnome Stew: The Gaming Blog - To be honest, I never heard of the other four...
Best Cartography
The Cursed Chateau (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) - It is an OSR pick. We gotta represent.
Best Electronic Book
Hubris: A World of Visceral Adventure (DIY RPG Productions) - Stuffed full of inspiration. Savor the reading, as it is a five course meal and then some.
Best Family Game
Eh...
Best Free Product
What, no SWL?
Best Game
Not my bag, man
Best Miniature Product
Nope
Best Monster/Adversary
S. Petersen’s Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors (Chaosium) - Simply on of the best. Timeless
Veins of the Earth (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) - 66 fucking Euros? Holy shit! No wonder I hadn't heard of it before.
Best Podcast
Spellburn - Excellent podcast and unscripted. Can't say the same about others
Best Production Values
Call of Cthulhu – 7th Edition Slipcase Set (Chaosium) - a beauty to behold - it does justice and more for CoC
Baby Bestiary, Collector’s Edition (Metal Weave Games) - you need to see it to believe it
Best RPG Related Product
Call of Cthulhu: The Coloring Book (Chaosium) - I haven't seen it but I can imagine.
Best Rules
Adventures in Middle-Earth Player’s Guide (Cubicle 7 Entertainment) - If I only ran 5e
Veins of the Earth (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) - How much is 66 Euros in USC?
Best Setting
Le sigh
Best Supplement
The One Ring – Horse-Lords of Rohan (Cubicle 7 Entertainments) - Well, it is Tolkien
Best Website
Nothing to say
Best Writing
Veins of the Earth (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) - $75.32. Goddamn
The One Ring – Horse-Lords of Rohan (Cubicle 7 Entertainments) - Tolkien
Product of the Year
Veins of the Earth (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) Times like this is when retirement sucks.
Voting this year will take place from July 11 to July 21.
Don't forget to vote Frog God Games as Fan Favorite Publisher. Vote early and vote often. Well, I mean, get your friends, family and pets with an intelligence of 3 or higher to vote. Don't submit multiple votes yourself. That would be wrong. Neither Frog God Games nor The Tavern advocate ballot stuffing. Heck, the Frogs have no nominations and neither does The Tavern. Don't vote. See if I care.
Grumble... Grumble... Get off my lawn ya damn kids and take your peeing dog with you!
Age of Ravens is a good blog and has been chuggin away as long as we have.
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Gnome Stew is fine, but it wins Gold or Silver every year. They have a dozen or so writers and graphic designers. It would be nice to see one of the little guys winning.
I agree. Age of Ravens is a very good blog. Speaking as the person who owns and manages Gnome Stew, we'd be very happy to see others win. We're not going to hold ourselves back from being in the voting pool if that option is open to us, but it wouldn't be a bad thing if perennial content producers like us and Ken and Robin (the ones who win perpetually) were held back for a year to build other audiences and keep the field strong. This is my personal opinion, but it guides my decision when we point out the other competitors in the blog category in our ENnies pitch.
ReplyDeleteI want us to share our audience with other blogs, and I other blogs and podcasts to be acknowledged for their awesome content in the ways that help them increase their audiences and win awards so that their audiences come to us over time. If that means my blog doesn't make it into the ENnies the year after it wins a gold, that's fine on my end. - John Arcadian