ENNIE Awards

Role playing game awards

The ENNIE Awards (previously stylized as ENnie Awards) are awards for role playing game (RPG) products (including game related accessories, publications, and art) and their creators. The awards were created in 2001 by Russ Morrissey of EN World in partnership with Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D Third Edition News. The ceremony has been hosted at Gen Con in Indianapolis since 2002. Since 2002, the awards have been announced at a live ceremony at Gen Con. It is now considered a "signature part" of the convention. The nominees are chosen by a panel of judges, and the winners are voted on by the public and presented at an award show done in collaboration between Gen Con and EN World. In 2007, the ENNIES were sponsored by the corporation Your Games Now, followed by Avatar Art in 2008. In 2010, 2011, and 2012, they were sponsored by both Indie Press Revolution and DriveThruRPG. From 2013 to 2016, they were sponsored by DriveThruRPG alone. In 2015, Campaign Coins made the medals as a sponsorship; Lone Wolf Development became a sponsor in 2017. The awards were run and owned by Morrissey until 2019. In 2015, the awards disqualified the unofficially licensed Mass Effect RPG for copyright violations. In 2020, Massif Press withdrew its RPG Lancer from the competition over a 2017 controversy, where a game module for the Lamentations of the Flame Princess system titled Blood in the Chocolate received a Gold award in the Adventure category, despite being widely described as 'offensive', 'particularly icky', and 'simply ridiculous' by press, industry members and the publisher itself. Charlie Hall commented for Polygon in 2020: text=The Ennies are unique among gaming awards. Judges are volunteers, who follow a strict set of ethical guidelines. Chief among them is the vow not to have any professional relationship with any RPG publisher in the lead up to the awards. They help ensure that the Ennies aren’t just a popularity contest by winnowing down the dozens upon dozens of submissions to only the very best. Once the short list has been created, voting on the final winners is open to all.

The ENNIE Awards bestow a Gold Winner and a Silver Winner for 1st and 2nd place winners, respectively.

This category was first introduced in 2007 as Best Product and changed to Product of the Year in subsequent years.

Year Product Publisher(s) 2010 Pathfinder Paizo Publishing Eclipse Phase Catalyst Game Labs, Posthuman Studios 2011 Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Player's Guide Paizo Publishing The Dresden Files RPG Evil Hat Productions 2012 Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Beginner Box Paizo Publishing Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Basic Game Margaret Weis Productions 2013 NPC Codex Paizo Publishing Shadows of Esteren Book 1 Agate Editions 2014 Numenera Corebook Monte Cook LLC Fate Core System Evil Hat Productions 2015 Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook Wizards of the Coast A Red & Pleasant Land Lamentations of the Flame Princess 2016 Dracula Dossier Director’s Handbook Pelgrane Press Curse of Strahd Wizards of the Coast 2017 Tales from the Loop Roleplaying in the '80s that Never Was Free League Publishing 7th Sea: Core Rulebook John Wick Presents 2018 Zweihander Grim & Perilous RPG Grim & Perilous Studios Delta Green: the RPG Arc Dream Publishing 2019 Masks of Nyarlathotep Gamer Prop Set The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society Inc. Forbidden Lands Retro Open World Survival Fantasy RPG Free League Publishing

Year Product Publisher(s) 2020 MORK BORG Artpunk RPG Free League Publishing Thousand Year Old Vampire Petit Guignol 2021 Alice is Missing Renegade Game Studios Brancalonia Spaghetti Fantasy Setting Book Acheron Games 2022 Thirsty Sword Lesbians Evil Hat Productions Call of Cthulhu Classic Prop Set H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society 2023 Vaesen RPG Mythic Britain & Ireland Free League Publishing Fabula Ultima Core Rulebook Need Games