Penultimate Final Update on the 2003 Indie RPG Awards

[Andy Kitkowski]

Hey all, as most of you should know, the Indie RPG Awards went down on Wednesday night before GenCon.  That was the actual ceremony.  The next morning, my lovely wife and lovelier design consultant uploaded the winners to the site.

And... blah.  Update.

However, I wasn't quite done. I had some layout and formatting errors to fix, I had photos to upload, I had more to say about Luke. And most importantly, and what was holding me back from releasing the regular "PR Flood" (which will happen this weekend on GamingReport, etc), was that I wanted to do justice to last year's entries and participants by getting the "2002 Registrants" and "2002 Winners" links working again.

The only thing broken at this point, which will be fixed tonight (eench Allah) is that the 2002 Human of the Year award (which went to Ron) points to the 2003 Human Power of the Year page, which is Luke. But I'll hopefully have that fixed soon.

Anyway, just wanted to let you guys know that this is pretty much it, the RPG Awards in all their glory, ready to be gander'ed at.  Also, wanted to explain the lack of me throwing PRs out there.

In approx 1 week, I will be gathering feedback from the voters of the 2003 Indie RPG Awards, and I plan to present some relevant results here in the upcoming Feedback Thread, and ask for your feedback as well for next years' awards.

Consider this the "Hey guys, Congrats!" thread.

EDIT: Duh.  www.rpg-awards.com

[Luke]

That's right, LUKE CRANE has been STRIPPED of the INDIE HUMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD

HEY!

um...

he is definitely not human.

Hey!

2003 Indie Power of the Year

Er...

I, uh, accept? Do I get to have a super-power now? Can I be a ninja like Andy?

::poof, eggshell grenade::


Thanks Andy et omnes.
-L

[Marco]

Rock on, Andy. Great job--seriously.

I'm very, very glad you decided to include free games/supplements as you did. You are the man (come to Florida and the beer's on me).

-Marco

[Keith Senkowski]

I, uh, accept? Do I get to have a super-power now? Can I be a ninja like Andy?

::poof, eggshell grenade::


Thanks Andy et omnes.
-L

Wait a second... Luke is a ninja now?  This isn't fair.  Now he isn't going to strike from the shadows with copies of the Monster Burner flying into the back of my head...

Congrats Luke.

Andy, you did a damn fine job.  I look forward to next year's awards.

Keith

[Ben Lehman]

Understand that I say this with no particular ill-will towards the Indie RPG Awards:

This is one of those times when the award itself is honored by the recipient at least as much as the recipient is honored by the award.  It's just that *right*

The only question is: Ron and Luke ... who's next?

yrs--
--Ben

P.S.  I also have to say that I'm superglad that FATE won at least some awards in a year (rightfully) dominated by MLwM.  It's an awesome game.

[Paul Czege]

Yikes...through the grapevine it seems there's some confusion about the cash award. If you left the award ceremony thinking, "Holy shit! Who donated that cash award?," I offer a point of clarification.  The award was not $6000. It was ¥6000 (that's $55 to us Yanks).

Paul

[Ed Cha]

Great job on the awards, Andy.

Also, good job on detecting the true nature of The Abzu. There was a lot of question about the "human" part in certain circles.