2020 ENnie Award Winners
The following are the winners of the 20th annual ENnie Awards, held in 2020: Judges' Spotlight Winners * Benjamin Adelman – Sleepaway (game), Sleepaway, Author: Jay Dragon * Rachel Campbell – Glitter Hearts, Leatherman Games, Author: Greg Leatherman * Christopher Gath – Refractions in Glasston, Chaosium Inc., Authors: Taylor University PWR Press, Sam Guinsatao, Carson Jacobs, T.R. Knight, Joy Lemont, Elijah Oates, Rayce Patterson, Emily Pawlowski, J. Tucker White * Shauna Ratliff – Knarls Candy Compendium, Authors: Makenzie De Armas, Levi Phipps * James Surano – Hit the Streets, Defend the Block, Lost Highway Games, Author: Rich Rogers Gold and Silver Winners References {{ENNIE Awards 2020 awards, ENnies winners ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of List of islands of the United Kingdom, the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Satine Phoenix
Satine Phoenix is an American comic book illustrator, cosplayer, and model. She is the co-creator, with writer R.K. Syrus, of the graphic novel ''New Praetorians'' and the founder of CelebrityChariD20 (formerly CelebrityCharityDnD). Career Adult entertainment Phoenix was a stripper in San Francisco before entering the pornographic film industry in 2006. Phoenix was also very open about her interest in sadomasochism and bondage, and she came in fourth place for Best Comic Artist at the Bondage Awards in 2010.The Bondage Awards Hall of Fame . Retrieved November 22, 2011. In a 2006 report for the news website '','' journalist [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ironsworn
''Ironsworn'' is an indie role-playing game written and self-published by Shawn Tomkin. Its Ironlands setting is low fantasy, set in a rugged frontier. Rob Wieland for Forbes named Ironsworn one of his favorite RPG products of 2022 and one of the best fantasy tabletop role-playing games for solo play. System Character creation Player characters are built by allocating a specific number of points to the five different stats. These are edge, heart, iron, shadow, and wits. Apart from the starting stats, there are also trackers for health, spirit, and supply. Vows are the main mechanic by which a player can track progress and accomplish goals. Gameplay There are three ways to play ''Ironsworn''. * Guided: One or more players take the role of their characters, while a gamemaster (GM) moderates the session. * Co-Op: One or more players play together to overcome challenges and complete quests. No GM required. * Solo: One player portrays a lone character driven to fulfill vows in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Delta Green
''Delta Green'' is a contemporary era setting for the ''Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game created by Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, and John Scott Tynes, a.k.a. the Delta Green Partnership, of the Seattle gaming house Pagan Publishing. The setting first appeared in a 1992 RPG scenario and revolves around a secretive organization tasked with protecting the United States from paranormal and alien threats. ''Delta Green'' combines the classic 1920s Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft with modern conspiracy fiction. In August 2011, Arc Dream Publishing and the Delta Green Partnership announced development of a standalone ''Delta Green'' role-playing game. Funding began in 2015 and in 2016 the ''Agent's Handbook'' was released followed by the ''Handler's Guide'' in 2018. Arc Dream Publishing also made a partnership with Pelgrane Press to release a prequel named ''The Fall of DELTA GREEN'' using the Gumshoe System in 2018. Premise ''Delta Green'' is a contemporary settin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Magpie Games
Magpie Games is an American tabletop role-playing games publishing company. Their 2021 crowdfunding campaign to fund the publication of '' Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game'' raised over five million dollars, breaking the record for Kickstarter's highest earning tabletop role-playing game. Other notable publications include ''Bluebeard's Bride'' and a role-playing game adaptation of the board game ''Root.'' The publisher has won IndieCade, ENNIE Awards, and Indie Game Developer Network awards. In 2024, Magpie Games offered a discounted collection of their games on Humble Bundle as a charitable fundraiser for Child's Play. Awards Magpie Games won a 2018 IndieCade award for ''Bluebeard's Bride.'' Magpie Games has won the following ENNIE Awards: * 2023: Best Rules (Gold) and Best Family Game/Product (Gold) for ''Avatar Legends''; Best Free Game / Product (Gold) for ''Root: The RPG Talon Hill Quickstart.'' * 2022: Best Game (Silver) and Best Supplement (Silver) for ''Root: Th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Thousand Year Old Vampire
Thousand Year Old Vampire is a one-player tabletop role-playing game self-published by Timothy Hutchings, Tim Hutchings in 2019 in which the player describes the life of a vampire via a journal of memories. Description ''Thousand Year Old Vampire'' (''TYOV'') varies from other solitaire role-playing games such as the solo adventures of ''Tunnels & Trolls'' and the ''Fighting Fantasy'' adventure books, which used a series of numbered paragraphs, sending the player on a path through the adventure depending on what decisions are made at nexus points. Instead, ''TYOV'' uses an approach in which the player, prompted by words and phrases from the game rules, writes a journal describing the life of a vampire. The player first creates the vampire from a collection of keywords: * Skills, each of which can only be used once * Resources owned by the vampire such as a castle or a ship * Characters who will interact with the vampire Memories, and forgetting Memories, are the central part of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Asians Represent!
One Shot Podcast Network is a network of podcast series about tabletop role-playing games, with many shows dedicated to actual play, interviews, and discussion. It was founded by James D'Amato to showcase a wide variety of games and systems, including indie role-playing games, as an alternative to actual play shows that focus exclusively on Dungeons & Dragons. The network has won multiple ENNIE Awards. As of April 2023, the network was funded by collective monthly contributions of $6,699 per month from 1,046 users on Patreon. Shows Current shows One Shot is the flagship show of the network. D'Amato typically runs a self-contained actual play of a different game system each week, with occasional multi-episode storylines. Episodes last about an hour. Em Friedman for Polygon recommended One Shot as one of the best actual play podcasts that don't use DnD. In 2020, fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss collaborated with One Shot to produce an actual play series set in the world of The Ki ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
''The Monsters Know What They're Doing'' is a book series by Keith Ammann, published by Saga Press since 2019, consisting of unofficial supplements for fifth-edition ''Dungeons & Dragons''. Contents ''The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters'' provides gamemasters with tactical recommendations for most of the creatures in the fifth-edition ''D&D'' ''Monster Manual''. Publication history The content of the initial book is based on Keith Ammann's blog of the same name, started in 2016. It was extended into a series with similar topics, with ''The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters'' (2019) followed by ''Live to Tell the Tale: Combat Tactics for Player Characters'' (2020), ''MOAR! Monsters Know What They're Doing'' (2022) and ''How to Defend Your Lair'' (2022). Reception SyFy author James Grebey called the seminal blog "a valuable resource for DMs who want to give their players a challenge and make their game feel t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mörk Borg
''Mörk Borg'' (Swedish: literally ''Dark Castle'', officially translated ''Dark Fort''), stylised ''MÖRK BORG'', is an apocalyptic fantasy role-playing game published by Fria Ligan in 2020 that features dark themes inspired by heavy metal music, frequent character death and a doom metal playlist. Its popularity resulted in a large number of expansions, supplements and adventures created by the fan community. Description ''Mörk Borg'' is a fantasy role-playing game set on a harsh world where the upcoming fulfillment of seven prophecies will bring the world to an end. RPG historian Stu Horvath described the central theme of the game as "what player characters do in the last days —— speed them up, work to stop them, or just try to get rich and enjoy themselves before the lights go out." The end of days is so close that players do not have to bother to name their characters. To add to the general darkness of the game, the world is one of corruption, horror and nihilism. As ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Roleplaying Game
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'') ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kids On Bikes
Kids on Bikes is a tabletop role-playing game system, and a series of games that use that system. It has won multiple ENNIE Awards. Publication history The first game in the series, ''Kids on Bikes'', was inspired by 1980s coming-of-age movies like ''The Goonies''. In 2022, the second edition of ''Kids on Bikes'' raised $182,049 on Kickstarter from 2,793 backers. There are three other games in the series: the space-themed ''Teens in Space,'' a game about a school for wizards and witches called ''Kids on Brooms'', and a forthcoming superhero game called ''Kids in Capes.'' On February 10, 2023, the designers held a charity sale of ''Kids on Brooms'' with all profits donated to transgender rights organization Sylvia Rivera Law Project. This was part of a larger boycott movement against ''Hogwarts Legacy'' due to the anti-transgender activities of author J. K. Rowling. Reception ''Kids on Bikes'' won the 2019 Gold ENNIE Awards for Best Family Game / Product, and ''Kids on Bikes ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Uncaged (anthology)
''Uncaged'' is an adventure anthology series for the 5th edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. Each volume contains various adventures which feature the subversion of classic female mythological creature and monster tropes. The project was created by Ashley Warren and features the work of over 100 writers, illustrators, and editors. Four collections, titled ''Uncaged: Volume I'' through ''Uncaged: Volume IV'', were published in 2019 and 2020. A fifth volume, titled ''Uncaged: Goddesses'', was published in 2022. The books were published on the Dungeon Masters Guild (DMs Guild) under the open game license; they are not considered "official" ''Dungeons & Dragons'' material. Contents ''Volumes I-III'' each contain 25 different one-shot adventures which range in difficulty tier. ''Volume IV'' contains 16 one-shot adventures which range in difficulty tier, a "Grimoire" section which contains various character options such as a new character class, spells ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |