We’ve been remiss in our failure to post this sooner, so here goes: the 2007 ENWorld/GenCon RPG Awards (aka the ENnie Awards) have announced their final nominees for this year’s categories. Voting just opened today though, so we aren’t late for that. Go here to weigh in anytime before voting
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Origins Awards happen
That alone strikes me as news at this point. Moreover, they happened strictly via in-person vote at the show, and this seems to have produced sensible results all while not falling over or catching fire. Kudos! Highlights include the accepter of Paizo’s periodical award for Dragon Magazine thanking WotC for
Audio Report: Roleplay free or die
Assuming you got to a participating store on Free RPG Day, of course. In this episode recorded last week, I met up with Free RPG Day founder Aldo Ghiozzi and Gary of Black Diamond Games to get their respective takes on the event. Our crew also gets into other recent
Diana Jones Award shortlist announced
This year’s nominees for the Diana Jones Award are public info, and as usual, they’re interesting picks: The Great Pendragon Campaign by Greg Stafford (White Wolf) Pieces of Eight by Jeff Tidball (Atlas Games) Stefan Pokorny, creator, sculptor and painter of Dwarven Forge’s Master Maze terrain As always, the committee
Hail Gleemax! WotC creates marketing initiative that actually makes some sense
Here’s the news version, and here is the somewhat less comprehensible thing itself. The announcement talks pretty big talk about a new social hub for gamers, and frankly, WotC’s assessment of the problem they face is dead on. “We’re slowing down in terms of recruiting that next generation of hobby
WotC games patents, patents game
By virtue of the madness of patent law and a product they once insinuated wildly in their catalog but never produced, Wizards of the Coast has patented constructible strategy games. The filing dates back to 2002 and, to be fair, is narrow enough to exclude anything that doesn’t involve losing
It’s neuron-donation time again: do your part for meaningful data in the tabletop games industry
That’s right, the OSU Games Research Project is back for another round of mayhem and web-based surveys. As I write this, I haven’t taken the new survey yet, so I don’t know how it’s different, but I do know you should probably take it now.
Audio Report: one GTS 2007 wrapup, partial
OgreCave lackey Steve Kani got himself out to GTS ’07… for one day. What jumped out at him while doing his rounds as a retailer? Listen to our GTS post-show show and find out. Also, a question for roleplayers: how has party unity been a factor (or not) in your
Origins Awards nominees announced for 2007
Though underannounced and hard to find (as usual), the 2007 Origins Awards top nominees are decided. ‘Tis an interesting batch this year, with many expected titles (Ptolus was a no-brainer), and some surprises as well (Shear Panic? Really? Huh). The list also contains a few endangered or extinct products, such
GTS: A report from the floor
That title sounds like someone collapsed, doesn’t it? But no, Lee Valentine of Veritas Games Company did not falter under the weighty task of reporting on the GAMA Trade Show 2007 (while staffing the Veritas Games booth simultaneously!), and has provided OgreCave with a lengthy overview of this year’s show.
Select droplets from the GTS news trickle
Yeah, it doesn’t look like much of anyone has a well-oiled journalism machine in operation at GAMA this year. GR (which does not mean Green Ronin) has , here’s some annotated-for-your-convenience highlights and extra bits: New TITAN. Yes, that one. These folks are bringing it but nothing’s on the site
Dragonlance license not renewed to Margaret Weis Productions
Rumored at GTS yesterday, this post by Margaret Weis at Dragonlance.com (copied below) confirms that Wizards of the Coast has not renewed the Dragonlance RPG license that was with Margaret Weis Productions. As Weis mentions in her statement, her company “will be releasing new Dragonlance RPG product through the end
Dragon and Dungeon Magazines will return to Wizards, go electronic only
Rumored for a while now, today it was officially announced that Paizo Publishing will no longer be publishing Dragon Magazine or its sister magazine, Dungeon. This doesn’t seem to be by Paizo’s choice, as Wizards of the Coast jointly announced the conclusion of Paizo’s license to publish the magazines –
Games Quarterly sold, MSM shuts down
As we mentioned in a recent Audio Report episode, it was plainly apparent that Games Expo, the trade show produced by Matthews Simmons Marketing, came up short in achieving its goals. What we didn’t expect was Friday’s announcement (below) of MSM closing down and the sale of Games Quarterly Catalog
Paizo to launch line of novels
When our next Audio Report goes up, you’ll hear how Wizards of the Coast’s latest product catalog is rather heavy on novels. Not to be deterred, Paizo Publishing has announced a “new line of classic science fantasy novel reprints” starting this August. Called Planet Stories, the sci-fi and fantasy line