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There are a whole lot of submissions for the 2022 ENnie awards this year; submissions started May 1st, of 2021 and ran all the way through April 30, 2022. So not only is there an entire years worth of submissions to consider, there is a years worth of content to sort through and attempt to muddle through what we think could be real contenders.
I think one of the coolest features about the ENnie awards is that it isn’t just limited to new games by publishers, but it also includes websites, blogs, podcasts, supplements, adventures, accessories, tools, and a very ambiguous ‘other’ category that publishers and content producers can submit to. However to keep things rather narrow in scope, I would like to focus on core rulebooks simply because we do support smaller and independent publishers and new game systems that haven’t broken through the big two’s dominate market position.
This year, there have been 246 core rulebooks submitted to the ENnie awards by 146 different pushlishers. A few of the publishers have submitted updated rule books such as second editions, while others have submitted entire catalogs of games that have been released since the ENnie submissions have began.
The ENNIES were created in 2001 as an annual award ceremony, hosted by the leading D&D/d20 system fan site, EN World in partnership with Eric Noah’s Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News. The awards were owned by Russ Morrissey until 2019. As the awards have grown, the ENNIES have expanded from an Internet-based awards selection to an annual award ceremony at Gen Con. The ENNIES have also branched out from their roots as an award ceremony focused upon d20 system publishers and products to celebrate the achievements of all tabletop RPGs and the publishers and products that support them.
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Some of my more recent favorite game systems have previously won the ENnie award, and some of my favorite games are actually up for consideration this year. Games like MÖRK Borg by Free League Publishing won in recent years, and Thirsty Sword Lesbians by Evil Hat Productions, or Wanderhome by PossumCreekGames are up for consideration in 2022
