Hero Nominated for Three ENNies!

[GestaltBennie]

Villainy Amok for best adventure, Hudson City for best setting, Dark Champions for best supplement, and honorable mentions to Valdorian Age and Hudson City for cartography.

Wahoo!

Full nominations here:

Best Fan Site
www.Againsttheshadow.org
buffy.velvet-edge.com
www.d20srd.org
www.modus-operandi.co.uk
www.planewalker.com
Honorable mention: www.paranoia-live.net/news.php

Best Cartography
City State of the Invincible Overlord (Necromancer Games)
Dungeons of Doom (Green Ronin Publishing)
e-adventure Tiles Dungeon Details vol 2 (Skeleton Key Games)
Temple Quarter: A City Quarters Sourcebook (The Game Mechanics)
World Map of Greyhawk (Paizo Publishing)
Honorable mention: Hudson City: The Urban Abyss (Hero Games)

Best Art, Cover
The Authority (Guardians of Order)
Beyond Countless Doorways (Malhavoc Press)
Blue Rose (Green Ronin Publishing)
Ex Machina (Guardians of Order)
Paranoia XP (Mongoose Publishing)
Honorable mention: Iron Kingdoms Character Guide-Full Metal Fantasy Vol 1 (Privateer Press)

Best Art, Interior
Dark Legacies Players Guide (Red Spire Press)
Dreaming Cities (Guardians of Order)
Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved (Malhavoc Press)
Vampire: the Requiem (White Wolf Publishing)
World of Darkness Ghost Stories (White Wolf Publishing)
Honorable mention: Ars Magica 5th Edition (Atlas Games)

Best Production Values
Ars Magica 5th Edition (Atlas Games)
The Authority (Guardians of Order)
Warhammer Fantasy RPG (Black Industries)
Werewolf: The Forsaken (White Wolf Publishing)
X-Crawl Color Edition (PandaHead Productions)
Honorable mention: Red Star (Green Ronin Publishing)

Best Writing
Iron Kingdoms World Guide: Full Metal Fantasy Vol 2 (Privateer Press)
Meddling Kids (Pandahead Productions)
Murchad’s Legacy (Parent’s Basement Games)
Valus (Different World Publications)
World of Darkness Core Book (White Wolf Publishing)
Honorable mention: Beyond Countless Doorways (Malhavoc Press)

Best Rules
Advanced Bestiary (Green Ronin Publishing)
Ars Magica 5th Edition (Atlas Games)
Blue Rose (Green Ronin Publishing)
Burning Wheel (Burning Wheel)
Capes (Muse of Fire Studio)
Honorable mention: The World of Darkness: Storytelling System Rulebook (White Wolf Publishing)

Best Adventure
DCC 11: The Dragon Fiend Pact (Goodman Games)
Maure Castle: Dungeon Magazine #112 (Paizo Publishing)
Slavelords of Cydonia (Bad Axe Games)
Trouble at Durbenford (Necromancer Games)
Villiany Amok (Hero Games)
Honorable mention: Danse de La Mort parts1-8 (White Wolf Publishing)

Best Adversary/Monster Product
Advanced Bestiary (Green Ronin Publishing)
Foes of Freedom (Green Ronin Publishing)
A Magical Soceity Beast Builder (Expeditious Retreat Press)
Monster Burner (Burning Wheel)
Old World Bestiary WFRP (Black Industries)
Honorable mention: Master and Minions 1: Swarm of Stirges (Behemoth3)

Best Campaign Setting/Setting Supplement
Black Company (Green Ronin Publishing)
Hudson City (Hero Games)
Iron Kingdoms World Guide: Full Metal Fantasy Vol 2 (Privateer Press)
Valus (Different World Publication)
X-Crawl Color Edition (PandaHead Productions)
Honorable mention: Valdorian Age (Hero Games)

Best Supplement
Advanced Gamemasters Guide (Green Ronin Publishing)
Beyond Countless Doorways (Malhavoc Press)
Dark Champions (Hero Games)
Temple Quarter: A City Quarters Sourcebook (The Game Mechanics)
Vampire: the Requiem (White Wolf Publishing)
Honorable mention: Werewolf: the Forsaken (White Wolf Publishing)

Best Aid or Accessory
Area of Effect Packages (Steel Sqwire)
Battlebox: Core Fantasy Set (Fiery Dragon Productions)
Conan Pocket Edition (Mongoose Publishing)
Dungeon Magazine (Paizo Publishing)
Future Tiles: Starships (Fiery Dragon Productions)
Honorable mention: Vampire: the Requiem Storytellers Screen (White Wolf Publishing)

Best Free Product or Web Enhancement
Danse de La Mort parts1-8 (White Wolf Publishing)
Dungeon magazine map and handouts (114-122) (Paizo Publishing)
Fort Griffin Echo Vol 1, number 1 (Dog House Rules)
Harphq.com (Iron Crown Enterprises)
A Magical Society: Guide to Monster Statistics (Expeditious Retreat Press)
Honorable mention: Necromancer Games web page

Best Electronic Product
Sponsored by DriveThruRPG.com
Buy the Numbers (ST Cooley Publishing)
Counter Collection Digital (Fiery Dragon Productions)
Danse de La Mort parts1-8 (White Wolf Publishing)
Frontier town Ft Griffin (Dog House Rules)
PCGen 5.8.0 (PCGen)
Honorable mention: Campaign Suite Extended (Twin Rose Software)

Best Game
Ars Magica 5th Edition (Atlas Games)
Capes (Muse of Fire Studio)
Fireborn Players Handbook (Fantasy Flight Games)
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying (Black Industries)
World of Darkness Rulebook (White Wolf Publishing)
Honorable mention: Burning Wheel (Burning Wheel)

Best d20 Game
Blue Rose (Green Ronin Publishing)
Castles & Crusades (Troll Lord Games)
Dawning Star: Operation Quick Launch (Blue Devil Games)
Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved (Malhavoc Press)
X-Crawl Color Edition (PandaHead Productions)
Honorable mention: Masque of the Red Death (White Wolf)

Best Publisher
Fiery Dragon Productions
Green Ronin Publishing
Necromancer Games
Paizo Publishing
White Wolf Publishing
Honorable mention: Guardians of Order

[teh bunneh]

w00T! Something that the authors, artists, and layout team can be very proud of. DoJ does good work, and it's nice that they get some recognition.

Everybody party!

[Hermit]

w00T! Something that the authors, artists, and layout team can be very proud of. DoJ does good work, and it's nice that they get some recognition.

Everybody party!

Agreed :) Good luck guys

[Steve Long]

Thanx! As always, it's nice to be recognized. But it'll be even nicer if we win. ;)

[Blue]

Keith "CartographerHero" Curtis gets no respect. No respect at all.

[GestaltBennie]

Thanx! As always, it's nice to be recognized. But it'll be even nicer if we win. ;)

Can't argue with you there. :-)

Still, it's nice to be nominated two years in a row, and especially so for work for Hero Games; this is, I believe, the first time any of my Champs work has been nominated for a major award..

[Susano]

Best Adversary/Monster Product

No way!

This is a category?

*crosses fingers for HSAB in '06*

[Susano]

Congrats to DOJ/HERO and everyone involved!

(Didn't HERO win it all last year with the ENNies?)

[teh bunneh]

Indeed it did! Champions Battlegrounds won best adventure (and Shades of Black took the Silver); Turakian Age won best setting, Fantasy Hero won best supplement, and these very boards won best website!

And here's the proof:

[JohnTaber]

Hi Scott (and Others): How do the Ennies work? Does everyone get to vote? Can you post details or a link to details?

[buzz]

Be sure to vote!

http://www.enworld.org/ennies/index.php?do=vote

[Black Lotus]

::goes to vote::

[Darren Watts]

And last year, at least, free drinks at the ceremony (which was held in this cool old hall that used to be a train station.) The Ennies are rapidly becoming much more prestigious and professional (and I'd say that even if we hadn't won a fistful last year), and they're totally beating up the Origins Awards and taking their lunch money. I'll bet there's no damn belly dancers at this show... dw

[Black Lotus]

REMEMBER:

Head to the local library, log on to all the computers one at a time, and stuff the ballot box for HERO with every different ISP you can imagine. :)

[Lord Kilsco]

Thanks for the link.

I've just voted for the three nominated Hero System products, and a few others.

[Steve Long]

Caveat: before you vote, make sure you have a good connection! Assuming it works like last year, the ENnie folx are very strict about voting. They have a lot of security in place to prevent abuse of the system, and that means if you have a lousy net connection, or get timed out, or anything else accidentally happens to prevent you from finishing your voting, they will register you as having "voted," and that's that. Make sure you've got a stable connection and try to pick a time when it's not as likely they've got a lot of server activity.

[Blue]

Easy to vote. Turns out I'm not all tha familiar with the products in most categories, so I abstained from many.

But the Hero Products (Particularly DC) deserve the rub.

[keithcurtis]

Keith "CartographerHero" Curtis gets no respect. No respect at all.
Bless you. :)

Keith "Honorably Mentioned" Curtis

[Scifi_Toughguy]

How many did Green Ronin get nominated for? Holy cow! That hero got a few was nice... but look at that.

[CSgeekHero]

Hey, Indigo.
Yes, Fezzick?
I hope we win.

[Black Lotus]

How many did Green Ronin get nominated for? Holy cow! That hero got a few was nice... but look at that.

Green Ronin publishes for the d20 system (mostly). Anyone who publishes for the d20 system and does a halfway-decent job of it automatically has a larger fanbase than HERO. And nowadays -- as always -- "drive-thru" gamers greatly outnumber "crunchy" gamers.

Basically, HERO is crunchy, HERO publishes for its own proprietary rules system, we have a relatively small fan base compared to say, d20 or White Wolf... and the fact that HERO even gets nominations at all proves how much it kicks ass.

[Darren Watts]

It also helps that GR is very active over on the EN boards- kind of a home field advantage. Not that they don't deserve the notice- they do very nice books and are friends of ours. dw

[Black Lotus]

It also helps that GR is very active over on the EN boards- kind of a home field advantage. Not that they don't deserve the notice- they do very nice books and are friends of ours. dw

Yeah, my favorite of theirs is The Red Star Campaign Setting. A good publisher, they do indeed deserve recognition.

[JohnTaber]

Along the same lines...

I think most of the nominations seemed appropriate to me. I have several of the non-Hero products on this list and they are pretty darn nice. For example, a couple of weeks ago I picked up Arcana Evolved. I was impressed. It is a nice book. ;)

NOW...the Origins Award...those nominations are [deleted four letter explative]... :sick:

[Lord Liaden]

Green Ronin publishes for the d20 system (mostly). Anyone who publishes for the d20 system and does a halfway-decent job of it automatically has a larger fanbase than HERO. And nowadays -- as always -- "drive-thru" gamers greatly outnumber "crunchy" gamers.


You know, people always make that assumption, but without hard sales numbers (which us peasant fans aren't privy to) it's difficult to say. Certainly I've seen lots of d20 products languishing on game store shelves.

About the only thing we can say with confidence about the whole d20 spectrum is that D&D has a bigger fanbase than HERO. And anyone else in gaming for that matter.

Of course ENworld is devoted primarily to d20, so any of those games will have heightened exposure there. M&M being a very good game doesn't hurt it, though. :)

[buzz]

About the only thing we can say with confidence about the whole d20 spectrum is that D&D has a bigger fanbase than HERO. And anyone else in gaming for that matter.
You could probably say that any d20 product inherrently targets a bigger audience than a HERO product, as that's one of the purposes of d20. Whether it reaches a large audience is another question. Any d20 product has to compete with a host of others (that may cover the same subject matter), whereas a HERO product doesn't compete with any other HERO products (though it may compete with other RPG products, as all RPG products do).

Anyway... HERO is in very good company among the Ennies nominees, a testament to HERO's quality. I also find it very interesting that, unlike Origins, GURPS didn't get nominated for anything, yet HERO did.

[Lord Liaden]

Anyway... HERO is in very good company among the Ennies nominees, a testament to HERO's quality. I also find it very interesting that, unlike Origins, GURPS didn't get nominated for anything, yet HERO did.

This question also came up on RPGnet, and the person in charge of the nomination/ voting process for ENworld stopped in to answer. According to her Steve Jackson Games didn't submit any products from the past year to the ENnies for consideration, so they couldn't be nominated. Apparently a publisher has to make the effort to put themselves in the running.

[buzz]

This question also came up on RPGnet, and the person in charge of the nomination/ voting process for ENworld stopped in to answer. According to her Steve Jackson Games didn't submit any products from the past year to the ENnies for consideration, so they couldn't be nominated. Apparently a publisher has to make the effort to put themselves in the running.
Ah, yes. I'd forgotten about that.

Still, it's nice to see that the most popular RPG community on the 'Net has a strong HERO fan contingent. HERO books get reviewed there all the time, and the talk surrounding it is usually positive.

[Scifi_Toughguy]

Insightful comments all, I thank ye.

[Polaris]

Congratulations DOJ! :):)

It is great that your company is getting some of the recognition it deserves, and the artists and authors that work for you! :)

Polaris

[BobGreenwade]

I saw this right away, and have been putting off saying anything for reasons I do not know.

Congratulations to all concerned! :thumbup:

[GestaltBennie]

Just thought I'd bump this for those who hadn't voted yet. :-)

[buzz]

I've got a good feeling about DOJ's chances. If last year's Ennies were any indication, there's a lot of HERO-love in the ENWorld community.

Granted, I would be really happy if Burning Wheel swept its nominations, too.

[AlHazred]

I just voted. We have until Monday to get the votes in.

[Samuraiko]

*loud whistles and applause*

Congrats on getting nominated... and here's hoping that you win, too!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko

[GestaltBennie]

*loud whistles and applause*

Congrats on getting nominated... and here's hoping that you win, too!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko

Thanks Michelle.

Only a few hours left to vote - if you haven't done so, please do it now!

[rjcurrie]

I've got a good feeling about DOJ's chances. If last year's Ennies were any indication, there's a lot of HERO-love in the ENWorld community.

Granted, I would be really happy if Burning Wheel swept its nominations, too.

The thing to remember is that last year had most of the awards separated into d20 and non-d20 categories. This year, I believe the only area of separation is that there is a separate category for best d20 game, so I'm not sure that last year's performance at the Ennies can be used to determine much about this year's.