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The ENnies nominations are live and here are the nominations for Paizo:
Best Adventure - RotRL AE
Best Cover Art - NPC Codex
Best Miniature - Bestiary Box
Best Monster/Adversary - Inner Sea Bestisary & NPC Codex
Best Setting - Magnimar, City of Monuments
Product of the Year - NPC Codex
Paizo-related Nominations:
Best Free Product - Wayfinder #8 (Paizo Fans United)
Best Miniature - Shatter Star Gargantuan Blue Dragon (Wizkids/NECA)
Not bad, all in all. I tried to find the list of everything Paizo submitted this year, but no luck finding it yet (the full list of submissions was on their website last week).
Voting runs from July 22-31 this year.
-Skeld
All of the 2013 ENnies nominees that are available on Paizo.com are conveniently located here for easy perusal. :D
Hm. Who makes the nominations? Because there are a few products that I think should be added to that list.
Hm. Who makes the nominations? Because there are a few products that I think should be added to that list.
Publishers submit products for consideration to the ENnies judges, who then narrow down the choices to the nominations (if I'm remembering the process correctly).
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Hm. Who makes the nominations? Because there are a few products that I think should be added to that list.
I'm a former ENnies judge (2010 & 2011). The Judges make nominations by consensus. Judges are self-nominated and 5 are elected by the ENnies voting public.
Publishers (such as Paizo) submit products to the ENnies for consideration by the judges. The judges read all the material, use it, play with it, etc. then discus amongst themselves which products to nominate in the various categories. After that, the at large PRG community votes on those nominees and selects and Gold and Silver winner for each category. At the same time, judges for the upcoming year are elected.
Since publishers submit their own materials to the competition, they're allowed to make choices as to what products they want to represent them. I can't find the list of products Paizo submitted, but it wasn't a very long list(there's some gamesmanship involved because you don't really want multiple products nominated to the same category because those products will have to compete against each other for votes). There's a good chance that whatever Paizo products you're looking for in the nominations might not have been submitted at all.
-Skeld
Ah, that was very informative! Thanks!
Also makes a lot of sense.
That pooched the excellent PF #71 then, didn't it...
Edit: glad to see below from JJ about #71 for 2014!
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Pathfinder #71 came out too late to be part of this year's nomination list—it thus could well be a nominee (or at least a submission by us) for next year's Ennies.
Right. The cut-off date was May 1st or May 8th, I don't remember exactly.
In the past, Paizo has submitted the 1st installment of an AP to the ENnies. I think RotRL AE was a no-brainer this year. Submitting an adventure from the middle of an AP would be risky for the simple reason that, without previous adventures, you loose some context about the specifics of the storyline. From a judging standpoint, that would be like watching the middle half-hour of a movie (because you can't assume the judges have read any of the previous adventures). First installments are more likely to be self-contained because they have a definite starting point and ending point.
-Skeld
It would be a crime against fiction not to nominate Rasputin Must Die! next year. Best module since I've started collecting AP's, IMO.
There would have to come along something incredible to beat it out. Well, I can hope that Wrath of the Righteous will be so awesomesauce that I'll all forget about Brandon's module (which would be a happy occurance for me, given how I will GM it in the near future). ^^
Vote Rasputin 2014. A man we can believe in.