Claimh Solais

Origins Awards

...have been announced.

Here are the nominees for the RPG categories with the winners bolded:

Best Role-Playing Game Nominees: (Role-Playing College)
Ars Magica 5th Edition - Atlas Games (Booth 612)
Dungeons & Dragons Basic Game - Wizards of the Coast (Booth 501)
GURPS Basic Set, Fourth Edition - Steve Jackson Games (Booth 509)
The Authority Roleplaying Game and Resource Book - Guardians of Order (Booth 614)
World of Darkness Storytelling System Rulebook - White Wolf (Booth 106 and 109)

Best Role-Playing Game Supplement Nominees: (Role-Playing College)
Dark Champions - Hero Games (Booth 925)
Eberron Campaign Setting - Wizards of the Coast (Booth 501)
GURPS Dragons - Steve Jackson Games (Booth 509)
GURPS Fantasy - Steve Jackson Games (Booth 509)
Unearthed Arcana - Wizards of the Coast (Booth 501)
Vampire: The Requiem - White Wolf (Booth 106 and 109)

Notice a problem? How much of this is actually something new and not a new edition of something previously released? None of the game nominees were anything original. The Authority is just new trappings for the Tri_Stat system and everything else are new editions.

In the nominees category, we have retreads in Dark Champions, GURPS: Fantasy and the new Vampire. I'm not sure how original GURPS Dragons or Unearthed Arcana is. At least Eberron was something new. I was pretty excited about it too.....until it came out and I flipped through it. I never flipped through a more boring looking book. Such a cinematic-sounding setting and all I saw in the book was page after page of maps.

Although Vampire is a new setting (with several changes from Vampire: The Masquerade) and I hear that Dark Champions is more like Danger International than the original Dark Champions, I'd like to see a little more originality.

Posted by Nuadha at July 3, 2005 5:28 PM