British Game Awards

[Graham W]

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Angus runs Leisure Games in London and is the director of Cubicle 7 Entertainment, the publishers of the upcoming Doctor Who RPG.

Steve Dempsey

Steve Dempsey is the editor of Places to Go, People to Be, the respected gaming fanzine. He runs tabletop and LARPS at UK and American conventions and is a strong advocate of the indie gaming scene.

Simon Rogers

Simon Rogers runs Pelgrane Press, publishers of the Dying Earth RPG and the GUMSHOE system, including Trail of Cthulhu and Esoterrorists. He co-owns ProFantasy Software Ltd, creators of the industry standard Campaign Cartographer map-making software.

Graham Walmsley

Graham is the author of Play Unsafe, a book about improvisation and storytelling techniques in roleplaying games. He is a member of the Collective Endeavour, a collective of British game designers, and regularly runs LARPs at UK Conventions.


Thanks!

GrahaBritish Game AwardsAngus Abranson

Angus runs Leisure Games in London and is the director of Cubicle 7 Entertainment, the publishers of the upcoming Doctor Who RPG.

Steve Dempsey

Steve Dempsey is the editor of Places to Go, People to Be, the respected gaming fanzine. He runs tabletop and LARPS at UK and American conventions and is a strong advocate of the indie gaming scene.

Simon Rogers

Simon Rogers runs Pelgrane Press, publishers of the Dying Earth RPG and the GUMSHOE system, including Trail of Cthulhu and Esoterrorists. He co-owns ProFantasy Software Ltd, creators of the industry standard Campaign Cartographer map-making software.

Graham Walmsley

Graham is the author of Play Unsafe, a book about improvisation and storytelling techniques in roleplaying games. He is a member of the Collective Endeavour, a collective of British game designers, and regularly runs LARPs at UK Conventions.


Thanks!

Graham

[Eero Tuovinen]

So, can one nominate Leisure Games, being that Angus is judging the awards?

[Ron Edwards]

Eero, I think with a moment of thought you would have realized that it was far more polite and unloaded to ask that question this way:

Are games written and/or published by a judge eligible to be nominated?

The unpleasant social nuances of the way you did ask it are too numerous to list here.

Best, Ron

[Eero Tuovinen]

Well, I really do want to know whether I can nominate Leisure Games - as far as I know, they're one of the best parts of the British rpg scene. I'm sorry if I offended anybody.

Actually, I just now noticed that there's some guy from Pelgrane Press doing judging as well. It's going to be difficult to nominate anything if all great British rpg stuff I know of is already present on the panel in some form. Then again, what am I worrying about? I haven't even ever visited Britain, what would I know about good things to nominate over there.

[Arturo G.]

Eero, the nominations are not restricted to British rpg stuff.

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[Ron Edwards]

The question is whether works published by the judges of the contest are eligible for nomination.

Graham, can you help with that question?

Best, Ron

[Graham W]

Feel free to nominate anything.

Later on, we'll have to consider whether it would be appropriate to give awards to things we're involved in. For example, my book Play Unsafe won't be getting an award, because it'd look stupid to give myself an award.

But, at this stage, don't hold back from nominating things. We'll worry about recusing ourself from awards later.

Graham