The ENnies are one of the RPG industry’s highest awards, and the power lies within your grasp to determine the winners! Voting ends on July 21st, so don’t wait, and be sure to ask your friends to vote. To celebrate, we’re running a raffle to give away a Black Cube, or any of our ENnie-nominated products in print or PDF! In this week’s Cypher Chronicles, we also give shoutouts to some of our favorite ENnie nominations, cool RPG projects, and articles.
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We’re honored to receive nominations for 6 products across 9 categories of the ENnie Awards!
To celebrate, we’re holding a raffle for a Black Cube (or any of our nominated products) in print or PDF. Spread the word, cast your vote for the ENnies, and perhaps be a lucky winner.
Our nominations are:
Invisible Sun
- Product of the Year
- Best Setting
- Best Art, Interior
- Best Production Value
Numenera Discovery and Numenera Destiny Slipcase Set
- Best Production Value
Numenera Ruin Deck
- Best Aid/Accessory, Non-Digital
Slaves of the Machine God
- Best Adventure
Cypher Play Season 18-2: Building Amber Keep
- Best Organized Play
Secrets of Silent Streets
- Best Layout and Design
While we feel so honored and pleased to be recognized for the labors of love that all these products were, a further joy is to see these nominations listed amongst a sea of other amazing industry achievements.
A few of my non-MCG favorites:
- Companion’s Tale (Best Product) by Laura Simpson has you craft stories involving a central protagonist through the eyes of their sometimes-companions. It’s beautiful, you make a map, and it hits all sorts of Bioware game companion quest beats. I love this game and am happy to own it.
- The Fall of DELTA GREEN (Best Setting, by Kenneth Hite) is a 1960’s investigative Lovecraftian horror game with some of the most evocative layout and page design that I’ve ever seen. You need to take a look at these pages!
- She’s a Super Geek (Best Podcast) is a podcast that has been one of my all-time favorites for years—a rotating cast of women GM one-shots on this delightful actual play by some amazing core hosts: Senda and Andi.
And the list goes on.
ENnie Award winners will be announced at the ceremony at Gen Con, but we hope you’ll vote and spread the word in the meantime.
If you’ll be attending Gen Con, come see us at our myriad events, particularly An Evening with Monte Cook Games . . . we have some really cool stuff planned that you don’t want to miss.
If you’re not going to Gen Con, join in the fun from afar by watching the streamed Guest of Honor talks with Shanna Germain and Monte Cook.
In the meantime, go shape the industry, you powerful voters!
- We love the Nerdarchy crew—they’ve covered a huge range of RPG topics on their YouTube channel, including interviewing Monte Cook about GMing tips for Your Best Game Ever and reviewing some of our major products. We’re really excited to see that they’re running a Kickstarter for a book of easy-to-use 5e encounters, so please check it out! Perhaps mix their encounters with your Arcana of the Ancients adventures . . .
- The Sun Will Eventually Boil The Earth. Have A Nice Day. — Forbes. ‘Nuff said.
- Shanna loved this article about fashion in games: What a character wears says so much about them, from their past and their personality to their occupation and interests. It’s one of my favorite parts of character creation, and I adore games that give me lots of choices.
