2023 Nominations – ENNIE Awards
2023 Nominations – ENNIE Awards
The ENNIE Awards (the “ENNIES”) are an annual fan-based celebration of excellence in tabletop roleplaying gaming. The ENNIES give game designers, writers and artists the recognition they deserve. It is a peoples’ choice award, and the final winners are voted upon online by the gaming public.
The ENNIES were created in 2001 as an annual award ceremony, hosted by the leading D&D/d20 system fan site, EN World in partnership with Eric Noah’s Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News. The awards were owned by Russ Morrissey until 2019. As the awards have grown, the ENNIES have expanded from an Internet-based awards selection to an annual award ceremony at Gen Con. The ENNIES have also branched out from their roots as an award ceremony focused upon d20 system publishers and products to celebrate the achievements of all tabletop RPGs and the publishers and products that support them.
With award categories recognizing the components that make a game great to the types of products fans have come to love, categories for fan-based websites and much more, the ENNIES are the best way for fans to acknowledge outstanding effort from and to say “thank you” to the creators, publishers, designers and artists who make this hobby great.
This has me itching to get my copy of Trophy to the table, and to pick up Swords of the Serpentine. :)
(Though, not to be a downer, I always take the ENNIEs with a grain of salt after Zweihander won both Product and Game of the Year.)
The ENNIES is a popularity contest after all so the tastes of the masses is often dependent on who has the better (social) media coverage. And that Zweihander guy was good at social media back then.
I wouldn't have heard about SoS if I hadn't stumbled on someone's review of it, and then I went and got it. Sword and Sorcery is by far my preferred fantasy genre . Haven't had the time to read that much of it but I have enjoyed what I have read so far. Also it being a Gumshoe game means it is easy to port to some other system, the meat and bones of it is in procedures.
That's true, but I also suspect there was a lot of astroturf. I mean, it beat out Blades in the Dark, which (in my admittedly subjective experience) had WAY more of a splash with a significantly larger audience. I'm not saying the ENNIEs did anything sketchy, but that I suspect the voting system is susceptible to abuse. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyway. On a brighter note, I'm also a big fan of sword & sorcery, and the fact that it manages to use the Gumshoe framework (and by all accounts very successfully!) makes it extremely intriguing. :)