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drivingblind

For your consideration...

Jul 21, 2008 18:08

[Cross-posting with the Summer Revolution.]

So, the Ennies Voting is supposed to be live today, according to their voting page.It's not, yet, but I'll try to be patient ( Read more... )

ennies, spirit of the season

Comments 13

matt_m_mcelroy July 21 2008, 22:46:13 UTC

Thanks a ton for the Flames Rising nod.

drivingblind July 21 2008, 22:51:27 UTC

You guys deserve it. The category may have been sparse, but even with more competition I'd have a strong leaning.

comic_monkey July 21 2008, 23:56:07 UTC

Best d20/d20 OGL Product: Blue Devil Games didn't field a contender this year, for which I weep.

We should have something for next year (Don't mean to speak for Justin, but I'm the guy who wrote Dawning Star and I'm currently working on something for Blue Devil). Core concept: wuxia 16th century Europe where Queen Elizabeth ascends the throne by pulling Excalibur from the stone, Leonardo da Vinci leads armies of clockwork tanks against demons, and Templars empowered by the Holy Grail try to save humanity from the minions of the darkness between stars.

highmoonmedia July 23 2008, 18:43:45 UTC

Wasn't that Elizabethulu?
Regardless of, please finish so I can give money to Justin for it.

drivingblind July 24 2008, 13:15:42 UTC

Elizabethulhu was a d20 variant that transplanted D&D and its races into a Cthulhu-tinged Elizabethan alterna-verse.

This seems to share some attributes with it, but I'm not convinced it's exactly the same. :)

highmoonmedia July 24 2008, 14:33:33 UTC

I went rifling through my PDFs and indeed I have a copy of Elizabethulu. I thought it might be the same author, but it isn't. Lee's work in Dawning Star is fantastic, so I'm looking foward to this as well.

Besides, Cthulhu and Elizabethan England... sign me up!

zacharythefirst July 22 2008, 00:24:42 UTC

Interesting list! I hope some of the other small-press/indie publishers get the word out for their strong efforts. I'm looking forward to some exciting voting this year (whenever the hell it starts...technical difficulties, I hear).

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drivingblind July 22 2008, 05:11:20 UTC

Well, sure. I'm horribly biased in only one particular case, where I'm in direct competition with Jeff. :)

He and I lamented the fact that we're going head to head again, this past Origins.

chrishanrahan July 22 2008, 01:15:43 UTC

The podcasting situation from the ennies makes me sad. I certainly wouldn't pin this all on the greater podcastng community either. Last year, the way podcasts were required to be submitted was more than a little asinine. This year, due to a lotta that asinine-ery you didn't see too many submitted. I also am not much interested in submitting my work for an award. So were it to be done, it would have to be a fan nod, and not a publisher submitted nod. Podcasts are really a wonderful aspect of gaming evangelism, but have always had a little stigma to them...as we see here again.

Anywho. Just my $.02.