ENnie Time, ENnie Place
Holy cats! I've just gotten my first ENnie Award nominations.
Trail of Cthulhu is nominated for "Best Writing" and "Best Rules," as well as receiving an Honorable Mention for "Product of the Year."
Pedantically, and for the purposes of resumes, I already have an ENnie Award, since Call of Cthulhu D20 won the "Best Game" Gold ENnie in 2002, and I wrote a chapter of it. But in all truth, that award goes rightly to montecook and revjohn (and ideally, to Dawn Murin, who art-directed and graphic-designed that wonderful look). In a similar spirit of piecemeal claimancy, I can note that Hobby Games: 100 Best is nominated this year in the "Best Regalia" category, though the ensuing regalia will rightly go to James Lowder in the happy event.
But I'll happily claim joint credit for Rules and Writing on Trail of Cthulhu with robin_d_laws, although in all honest truth, Sandy Petersen should get a big chunk of my chunk of the Best Rules nomination, since so much of the Trail design process involved me returning to Sandy's original vision for Call of Cthulhu.
Online ENnie voting apparently begins in ten days; there will be machine-style mobilization here when that happens.
But for right now, I'm just terribly pleased and terribly honored, as are, I'm sure, all the other worthy nominees, whom I congratulate heartily.
Trail of Cthulhu is nominated for "Best Writing" and "Best Rules," as well as receiving an Honorable Mention for "Product of the Year."
Pedantically, and for the purposes of resumes, I already have an ENnie Award, since Call of Cthulhu D20 won the "Best Game" Gold ENnie in 2002, and I wrote a chapter of it. But in all truth, that award goes rightly to montecook and revjohn (and ideally, to Dawn Murin, who art-directed and graphic-designed that wonderful look). In a similar spirit of piecemeal claimancy, I can note that Hobby Games: 100 Best is nominated this year in the "Best Regalia" category, though the ensuing regalia will rightly go to James Lowder in the happy event.
But I'll happily claim joint credit for Rules and Writing on Trail of Cthulhu with robin_d_laws, although in all honest truth, Sandy Petersen should get a big chunk of my chunk of the Best Rules nomination, since so much of the Trail design process involved me returning to Sandy's original vision for Call of Cthulhu.
Online ENnie voting apparently begins in ten days; there will be machine-style mobilization here when that happens.
But for right now, I'm just terribly pleased and terribly honored, as are, I'm sure, all the other worthy nominees, whom I congratulate heartily.