ORIGINS AWARD WRITE-IN CAMPAIGN -- PLEASE HELP!

[Steve Long]

OK, folks, it’s time to get serious about the Origins Award write-in campaign that I’ve hinted at previously.

To briefly recap, Hero Games products, including 5E, were completely shut out of the nominations for the 2002 Origins Awards, despite the high quality and importance of our 2002 releases. We want to correct this grievous oversight by mounting a write-in campaign. To succeed, we need YOUR help — and the help of anyone else you can recruit to vote on our behalf.

If you’d like to know more, or would like to get directions on how to vote and other things you can do to help, please visit:

http://herogame.dans.cust.servlets.n...InCampaign.htm

That page has a brief recap of what has happened, and what needs to happen from this point forward. If you have any questions that site doesn’t answer, please feel free to contact me directly at SteveL@herogames.com.

For those who don’t want the whole explanation, here are the short-form instructions:

1. Go to http://www.originsawards.com

2. Click on the “Go Vote� link for “Public Voting.�

3. Place write-in votes for the following products:
—For Game Of The Year: HERO System 5th Edition
—For Best Game-Related Periodical: Digital Hero
—For Best Roleplaying Game: HERO System 5th Edition
—For Best Roleplaying Game Supplement: Champions

In all cases, list “Hero Games� as the “Source/Publisher.�

4. You may vote in the other categories if you want to, but it’s not necessary for your vote to count.

5. You will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your vote. Use the website link in the e-mail to confirm; do not reply to the mail. There have been some problems with just replying, and we don’t want to have any votes invalidated.

We need not just your vote, but every other vote you can wrangle for us! Get your gaming groups, spouses, kids, and friends to vote, too! Without a high level of participation, we can’t win.

If you’re interested in seeing Hero Games succeed, thrive, raise its profile, and most importantly keep publishing lots of great gaming products, PLEASE help us out with this! It’s very important to us for a whole bunch of reasons, and we’d really love to have your support.

[Bartman]

My vote has been confirmed.

I wish Hero luck on this. Frankly you all were robbed.

[Steve Long]

I almost forgot to mention:

The voting deadline is June 1, 2003.

[Hermit]

Originally posted by Bartman
My vote has been confirmed.

I wish Hero luck on this. Frankly you all were robbed.

The same here, and I agree. Happy to help.

[Doczero]

Happilly laying the Smackdown for Hero fans everywhere!

Ain't no body getting to ignore us!

Doc Z

[Steve Long]

Thanx, guys! We really, really appreciate your help and support.

[Jeff T.]

Vote confirmed.

[Balok]

Vote confirmed. I've emailed my gaming group as well as a couple of friends and relatives, and from them I expect a few more votes.

[Koshka]

Vote confirmed. I'm relaying the information to some other gamers I know.

On a sort of related matter, is there some reason they're not accepting write-ins on the .pdf ballot? I've got a couple friends I could probably talk into voting, but they don't have e-mail (and one has been in the hospital for a couple months, so even if he did he wouldn't have access).

[Syberdwarf2]

Votes confirmed for myself and the Misses. I've contacted a buddy of mine at work via email, so his vote should be added in soon.

[Crimson Arrow]

Vote confirmed. Good luck. I know some people I might be able to persuade, so I'll give it a go.

[Steve Long]

On a sort of related matter, is there some reason they're not accepting write-ins on the .pdf ballot? I've got a couple friends I could probably talk into voting, but they don't have e-mail (and one has been in the hospital for a couple months, so even if he did he wouldn't have access).

I'm not sure about that. They may be preparing another paper ballot with room for write-ins. In the meantime, I think it would count if your friends created their own write-in spaces on the existing ballot.

Thanx again for all your help, folx!

[gorman]

Voted.

[buzz]

Okay, I confirmed my vote and sent the URL for the write-in campaign to all my gaming buddies.

I tried going back to the ballot a second time (just to see if I could, mind you) and I got a ballot with about 20-30 entires for every award, including entries for HERO and Champions. Do write-ins get added to the ballot or something?

Weird. They need a more secure, reliable voting method.

[argent]

My vote is confirmed. My wife will be voting within the next 48 hrs.