Archives by Tag 'rpg awards'

From joy to work and back again.

This past month has seen an enormous increase in submissions. While I refuse to actually crunch the numbers, I’m confident 140% of all submissions were received from early April to now. On the one hand, this was very fun. It’s nice to come home to a package almost every day. As the packages continued to [...]

Read it, rank it, repeat.

I didn’t really have a review process in place when I became an ENnies Judge. I was new, after all, and hadn’t been through “the process” before. Of course, I have a process now (without some sort of review process, the submissions would be overwhelming). My process sort of came about organically. I have several [...]

The overlap between review and judging criteria

I’ve been actively reviewing for RPGnet for a little over four years now and in that time I’ve thought long and hard about what makes a great game.  Ultimately I’ve come to realize that a lot of different criteria come together to create a fun time at the table, and I’ve been talking about those [...]

Reading and Playing

Much like the other judges, I’ve been slowly working my way through the materials I received post-Gencon.  Now that over a month has passed, I’ve had an opportunity to look over a number of products and give them some initial playtime.  Since I don’t do published reviews or have a blog outside of the ENnies, [...]

And so it begins.

I’ve already read through a half dozen books of the 40ish I received shortly after Gen Con, and am either playing those games now or preparing upcoming playtest sessions. As an educator and attorney I have a pretty busy day, but my law background also causes me to view my role in the ENnies as [...]