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[thebitterguy]

http://www.aagad.org/origins awards/

Time to vote, kiddies.

Observations: Well, no Precedence products are nominated. I'll let that slide. Exalted seems to have been snubbed (do the companies pick the products for nomination? Did White Wolf pick Adventure! over Exalted, or was that a choice of the nominators?). Someone is gonna scream that Ragnarok!got an art nomination for its cover. Heh. Don't let them say electrical tape is unappreciated. Alderac's d20 stuff got ignored, which is a shame, because I love UnDead.

Vote for Unseen Masters. It's for a good Canadian boy.

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[tenzil.livejournal.com]

I get the impression that WW as an organization doesn't contribute particular picks to the committee. I know that I (as well as several others) put Adventure forward. If I could have nominated a book I didn't work on as well as one I did, I probably would have nominated Exalted. It's a very enjoyable game.

The only AEG d20 book I have is War, and it stinks. Anybody who wants to pay shipping for it can have my copy free. So I have no opinion about Undead.

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[thebitterguy]

I didn't like War all that much either (I'm not gonna say it stinks, but I had issues with it), but Undead just hit one of my tickle buttons.

What are the nomination rules? Can only one product per company be nominated in a category?

[tenzil.livejournal.com]

As a creator, you can nominate a book you worked on, just one book in each category. I don't know how companies do it precisely. I know that companies can have more than one game represented in a category (Green Ronin has two in "Best Adventure," I believe, and they're both even Freeport books).

[maliszew.livejournal.com]

Here's the deal:

1. Each company who's eligible can nominate one product for each category. That's all.

2. Anyone involved in the creation of a product can likewise nominate their product for the appropriate category. This means that, in some cases, a publisher can effectively get multiple nominations for a single category, such as when WotC nominated Wheel of Time last year and Bill Slavicsek or whoever (as author) nominated Star Wars. Note, however, that the one nomination per category still applies, so if an author wrote multiple RPGs in a single year, he could only nominate one of them.

3. These first-round nominations are voted on by Academy members (basically, any boob with meager gaming credits who pays $30 membership fees). The highest five in each category are then put forward as the final nominees for public voting.

4. Public voting and ballot stuffing by popular game companies with large fannish followings ensues.

5. HackMaster wins.

6. I weep and then kill a few people.

[tenzil.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. Of course, if Adventure wins, that's because of a whole mess of individually discerning, thoughtful, and tasteful voters all selected it as superior to the other alternatives, which they also carefully measured.

But if Hackmaster or Wheel of Time wins, yeah, it was fanboy ballot-stuffing.

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[thebitterguy]

Ohhh. Can I change my vote to HackMaster?

[maliszew.livejournal.com]

>Ohhh. Can I change my vote to HackMaster?

Feel free, if you wish to be the person I kill.

[shara.livejournal.com]

It's all about write in orders!!!

And Precedence only deserves the award for most inevitable bankruptcy. :P I'm not sure Sack Armies, Rifts or.... wait, they couldn't manage to get anything else out this year... deserve squat.

Another good Canadian vote: Steve Tassie's Grave Robbers From Outer Space!

-charlotte

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[thebitterguy]

It's all warner brothers fault.

GROS was my vote, yep.