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2022 ENNIE Award Winners
The following are the winners of the 22nd annual ENnie Awards, held in 2022: Judges’ Spotlight Winners Amelia Antrim – ''Dwelling'', Good Luck Press Author: Seb Pines Di – ''Stack of Goblins'', CobblePath Games Author: Jack Milton Christopher Gath – ''Shanty Hunters'', Molten Sulfur Press Author: Tristan Zimmerman Salim Hakima – ''Kobold Guide to Monsters'', Kobold Press Authors: Monte Cook, Wolfgang Baur, Mike Mason, Crystal Frasier, Mike Shea, Shanna Germain, Steve Winter Steve Winter (born December 8, 1957) is an American game designer who worked on numerous products for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game, which was originally published by TSR and later Wizards of the Coast. Early life Winter ..., and many more Shiny O’Brien – ''Wickedness'', Possum Creek Games Author: M Veselak Fan Award for Best Publisher: Darrington Press References {{reflist External links 2022 ENnie Awards ENnies winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ENnie Awards
The ENNIE Awards (previously stylized as ENnie Awards) are awards for role-playing game (RPG) products (including game-related accessories, publications, and art) and their creators. The awards were created in 2001 by Russ Morrissey of EN World in partnership with Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D Third Edition News. The ceremony has been hosted at Gen Con in Indianapolis since 2002. Since 2018, EN World is no longer associated with the awards. The ENNIES comprise two rounds. In the first round, publishers submit their products for nomination. Entries are judged by five democratically elected judges. The nominated products are voted on by the public in the second round. Winners of the annual awards are then announced at a ceremony at Gen Con. History The award ceremony initially focused on the '' d20 System'' products and publishers. It has come to include "all games, supplements, and peripheral enterprises". Since 2002, the awards have been announced at a live ceremony at Gen Con. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirsty Sword Lesbians
''Thirsty Sword Lesbians'' is a narrative-focused tabletop role-playing game that emphasizes telling "melodramatic and queer stories"."Thirsty Sword Lesbians". ''Kickstarter''. Evil Hat Productions. Retrieved August 6, 2022. The game was funded via a 2020 Kickstarter campaign and published by Evil Hat Productions in 2021. It uses a modification of the Powered by the Apocalypse game system. ''Thirsty Sword Lesbians'' was the first tabletop game to win a Nebula Award and the fourth winner in the " Best Game Writing" category. The game also won the 2022 ENNIE Awards for "Best Game" and "Product of the Year". Creative origins The game was developed by Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney April Kit Walsh and illustrated by Kanesha Bryant; Walsh began development in 2017. Walsh wrote that her "primary inspiration was urgently wanting to tell stories about dashing queers having adventures and connecting emotionally and finding that the game I wanted wasn't out there yet". Walsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modiphius Entertainment
Modiphius Entertainment is an RPG and tabletop game publisher based in Fulham, London. Modiphius was founded in 2012 by husband-wife team Rita and Chris Birch to publish their first game ''Achtung! Cthulhu''. The company have since published a number of product lines based on independent licenses and established brands. Games ''Achtung! Cthulhu'' In 2013 the company raised £177,000 through Kickstarter to create ''Achtung! Cthulhu'', a tabletop RPG set in the Second World War inspired by the work of H.P. Lovecraft. The game was well-received in the RPG community, and won several awards, including Best Roleplaying Game at the 2014 UK Games Expo. In 2018 a videogame based on the franchise - called '' Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics -'' was released by Auroch Digital. ''Mutant Chronicles'' In 2013 Modiphius released the 3rd edition of popular post-apocalyptic RPG ''Mutant Chronicles''. ''Fallout'' In 2017 the company acquired the license for Bethesda property ''Fallout'' and in 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Mercer
Matthew Christopher Miller (born June 29, 1982), better known as Matthew Mercer, is an American voice actor. He is best known for his work with Studiopolis, Funimation, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Viz Media, and NYAV Post in anime, cartoons, and video games. In anime, Mercer voices Kagaya Ubuyashiki in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba'', Levi Ackerman in ''Attack on Titan'', Kiritsugu Emiya in '' Fate/Zero'', Jotaro Kujo in ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', Aikurō Mikisugi in '' Kill la Kill'', Kanji Tatsumi during the second half of '' Persona 4: The Animation'', the second voice of Yamato and Pain in ''Naruto'', Trafalgar Law in the Funimation dub of ''One Piece'', Hit in ''Dragon Ball Super'', and Leorio in ''Hunter x Hunter''. In video games, Mercer voices Leon S. Kennedy in ''Resident Evil 6'', Kurtis Stryker in ''Mortal Kombat 9'', Chrom and Ryoma in ''Fire Emblem'', Jack Cooper in ''Titanfall 2'', Espio the Chameleon in ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', Deadshot in ''Injustice 2'', C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Hite
Kenneth Hite (born September 15, 1965) is a writer and role-playing game designer. Hite is the author of Trail of Cthulhu and Night's Black Agents role-playing games, and lead designer of the 5th edition of '' Vampire: the Masquerade''. Education Hite holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree in Cartography from East Central University. Career Kenneth Hite has been designing games part-time since 1981 and full-time since 1995. Some of his early design work was featured in the ''Nephilim'' role-playing game for Chaosium before the line closed down in 1997. After a freelance career, Hite came to Last Unicorn Games and joined the developers working on the "Icon system" for their line of licensed ''Star Trek'' role-playing games; to get '' Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game'' ready for GenCon 31, Hite was flown out to Los Angeles for two weeks. After ''Icon'' was completed, Hite was made the line developer for the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Ivey
Shane Ivey is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Shane Ivey worked for Pagan Publishing. After the release of '' Godlike'' in 2002 Dennis Detwiller and Ivey founded Arc Dream Publishing. Ivey and Detwiller formed Arc Dream Publishing at a time when Pagan Publishing was shutting down its main operations; their original intent was to publish supplements for ''Godlike''. Detwiller and Ivey produced ''Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity'' (2010) and resurrected ''The Unspeakable Oath'' with issue #18 (December 2010). Through Arc Dream Publishing, Ivey edited and published other games including ''Monsters and Other Childish Things,'' ''Wild Talents,'' ''Puppetland,'' and ''Better Angels.'' Ivey contributed to the books ''Rivendell,'' ''Horse-lords of Rohan,'' and ''Oaths of the Riddermark'' for Cubicle 7 Entertainment's J.R.R. Tolkien-based roleplaying game ''The One Ring Roleplaying Game''. Ivey cowrote ''Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Detwiller
Dennis Detwiller (born July 12, 1972) is an American video game designer for Hothead Games and a role-playing game designer, writer and artist. Career Dennis Detwiller started volunteering at Pagan Publishing after seeing an issue of '' The Unspeakable Oath'' magazine in 1991 and talking to John Scott Tynes. Tynes moved the company to Seattle in the mid-1990s, and Detwiller agreed to move there as well. Detwiller worked at Pagan as art director where he co-created the Origins Award-winning game ''Delta Green'' in 1997 with Tynes and Adam Scott Glancy;I'm Holding This Game For Ransom! Bruce Baugh, September 20, 2008, Tor.com Detwiller wrote a series of three chapbooks (1998–2000), and with Tynes and Glanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arc Dream Publishing
Arc Dream Publishing is a small role-playing game publishing company founded in 2002 by Pagan Publishing veteran Dennis Detwiller and editor Shane Ivey after their first roleplaying game '' Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946'' was published by Hobgoblynn Press. On June 9, 2003, Arc Dream became the sole publisher of ''Godlike'' and all other products in the Godlike game line. Beyond ''Godlike'', Arc Dream has also released '' Wild Talents: Superhero Roleplaying in a World Gone Mad'', which is an extension of the ''Godlike'' system and world. As of October 29, 2015, a Kickstarter Campaign by Arc Dream Publishing funded a series of new ''Delta Green'' products, converting the setting into a standalone role-playing game. On February 26, 2016, a quick-start rulebook ''Delta Green: Need to Know'' was released for free download with the ''Agent's Handbook'' following soon after on April 27, 2016. The ''Handler's Guide'' was released October 31, 2017 in PDF an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banana Chan
Banana Chan is a Chinese Canadian game designer and writer. Career Chan has written for many games, such as the third edition of ''Betrayal at House on the Hill'' (2022) and Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021). Chan and Sen-Foong Lim wrote and designed '' Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall'', which was published in 2021, and was covered by outlets such as ''Huffington Post'', ''Forbes'', and ''Dicebreaker''. She is the owner and co-founder of the tabletop publishing company ''Game and a Curry''. Awards and Nominations Awards In 2016, Chan won Best Pervasive Game for her live action roleplaying game ''They’re Onto Me''. In 2022, Chan won the title of Designer of the Year from Dicebreaker's Tabletop Awards. The same year, she won three ENnies Awards: '' Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall'' (Silver Ennie for "Best Setting"), ''Questlings: RPG'' (Silver Ennie for "Best Family Game / Product"), and ''Dune – Adventures in the Imperium: Core Rulebook'' (Gold Ennie for "B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobold Press
Kobold Press, also known as Open Design, is an American game company that produces role-playing games and game supplements. History Wolfgang Baur launched Open Design in 2006. Open Design funded projects using a crowdfunding model dubbed "patronage," with the resulting products available exclusively to backers through PDF releases and limited print runs. The first product published by Open Design was ''Steam & Brass'' (2006), a steampunk-themed Adventure (role-playing games), adventure module using the d20 System. ''Steam & Brass'' was also the first product set in Baur's setting of Zobeck, later known as ''Midgard''. In 2007, Baur launched ''Kobold Quarterly'' through Open Design, which filled in the gap in the role-playing industry left by the end of Paizo Publishing's run on the magazines ''Dragon (magazine), Dragon'' and ''Dungeon (magazine), Dungeon''. Unlike previous projects from the company, ''Kobold Quarterly'' was available to the public. ''Kobold Quarterly'' ran for 23 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The One Ring Roleplaying Game
''The One Ring Roleplaying Game'' is a tabletop role-playing game set in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, set at the time between ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. Designed by Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi, the game was initially published by Cubicle 7 in 2011 under the title ''The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild''. Cubicle 7 continued to publish the first edition of the game until 2019. Nepitello and Maggi developed the second edition, which is published by Free League Publishing under the same title, ''The One Ring Roleplaying Game''. History The game was first published in 2011 under the title ''The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild''. This first edition core book (more exactly two booklets in a cardboard case) and the majority of subsequent products supported play in the portion of the region of Rhovanion known as "The Wild", the setting of the later portions of ''The Hobbit'' east of the Misty Mountains. That was due to the proje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evil Hat Productions
Evil Hat Productions is a company that produces role-playing games and other tabletop games. Chief among them is the free indie RPG, ''Fate'', which has won numerous awards. History Fred Hicks had been working with Lydia Leong, Rob Donoghue, and others to run LARPs at AmberCon NorthWest starting in 1999, and came up with the name Evil Hat for themselves. While on a trip to Lake Tahoe, friends Hicks and Donoghue developed a new game based on a conversation about running another ''Amber'' game and fixing some problems with ''FUDGE''; the result was ''Fate'' which Hicks and Donoghue would publish under the name Evil Hat. Donoghue and Hicks released a complete first-edition of ''Fate'' through Yahoo! Groups (January 2003) then cleaned up the technical writing and slightly polished the system for a second edition (August 2003). Hicks and Donoghue began work on the licensed '' Dresden Files Roleplaying Game'' in 2004, but publication was held up because they decided to use ''Spir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
