Congratulations to the 2024 ENNIE Award Winners!

Shadowdark--Product of the Year!​

The award ceremony took place on Friday night at Gen Con where the winners were officially announced.

Judges’ Spotlight Winners​

Joe Blankenship– The Wassailing of Claus Manor, Clear Keep & Plus One EXP
Author: Mike Martens, Michael Van Vleet, Brian Sago

James Surano – Essence 20 Roleplaying System Field Guide to Action and Adventure Crossover Sourcebook Power Rangers G.I. JOE Transformers, Renegade Game Studios
Authors: Ryan Costello, Ben Heisler, Ginny Loveday, Bryan C.P. Steele

Amelia Antrim – OBSCURE: Found Footage Inspired Horror TTRPG, Sunzenaut
Author: Tommy Sunzenauer

Tom King – Gods of the Forbidden North: Volume 1, Pulp Hummock Press
Authors: Robert Alderman, Chris Cotgrove, The Scrying Dutchman, Joel Hines

Shauna Ratliff – CHEW: The Roleplaying Game, Imagining Games
Authors: Pete Petrusha, Justin Forest, Justin Ford, Steve Dee, Joseph Weaver

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Best Adventure – Long Form​

Call of Cthulhu: Alone Against the Static, Chaosium Inc.
Author: B.W. Holland

Delta Green: God’s Teeth, Arc Dream Publishing
Author: Caleb Stokes

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Best Adventure – Short Form​

One-Shot Wonders, Roll & Play Press
Authors: Sam Bartlett, Beth Davies, Destiny Howell

Eat The Reich, Rowan, Rook and Decard
Author: Grant Howitt

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Best Aid/Accessory – Digital​

HEXROLL 2E, Pen, Dice & Paper

LegendKeeper, LegendKeeper / Algorific LLC

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Best Aid/Accessory – Non – Digital​

Hexcrawl Toolbox, Games Omnivorous

Arkham Investigator’s Wallet, H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society

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Best Art, Cover​

Koriko: A Magical Year, Mousehole Press
Artist: Deb JJ Lee

Eat The Reich, Rowan, Rook and Decard
Artist: Will Kirkby

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Best Art, Interior​

Ultraviolet Grasslands 2E, Exalted Funeral Press​

Artist: Luka Rejec

Eat The Reich, Rowan, Rook and Decard
Artist: Will Kirkby

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Best Cartography​

ALIEN RPG – Building Better Worlds, Free League Publishing
Stefan Isberg, Christian Granath, Dave Semark, Clara Fei-Fei Carija

Dragonbane Core Set, Free League Publishing
Francesca Baerald, Niklas Brandt

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Best Community Content​

The Well of All Fear (Miskatonic Repository)
Author: Kat Clay

Call of Cthulhu: Los Hobos and the Wolves of Carcosa, Critical Hit Publishing (Miskatonic Repository)
Author: Alex Guillotte

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Best Family Game / Product​

If I Were A Lich, Man, Hit Point Press
Author: Lucian Kahn

BREAK!! Tabletop RPG, Grey Wizard Press & Naldobean Games
Authors: Grey Wizard, Reynaldo Madriñan

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Best Free Game / Product​

Level 1 The Free RPG Day Indie RPG Anthology 2023, 9th Level Games
Author: Mark Kennedy, Dustin Blottenberger, KJ Lappin, CJ Lappin, M. Belanger, Rue Dickey, Nat Mesnard, Gabrielle Rabinowitz, Noah Lemelson, H. L. Black, Brigitte Winter, Sylvia Gimenez, Zak Eidsvoog, Ian Rickett, Goat Song Publishing, Helena Real

Rivers of London: The Domestic, Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Gavin Inglis, Lynne Hardy

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Best Game​

Outgunned, Two Little Mice
Authors: Riccardo “Rico” Sirignano, Simone Formicola
Art: Daniela Giubellini
Editing: Simone Formicola, John Marron
Layout/Design: Luca Carbone, Sabrina Ceccon

Shadowdark RPG, The Arcane Library
Author: Kelsey Dionne
Art : Lucas Korte, Brandish Gilhelm, Jessee Egan, Yuri Perkowski Domingos, Matt Morrow, Matt Ray, Mark Lyons, Abdul Latif
Layout/Design: Kelsey Dionne

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Best Layout and Design​

CBR+PNK: Augmented, Mythworks
Emanoel Melo, Raul Rinaldi

Shadowdark RPG, The Arcane Library
Kelsey Dionne

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Best Monster/Adversary​

(Tie)MONSTROUS, Cloud Curio
Authors: Kyle Latino, Kenny Webb
Art: Kyle Latino

(Tie) Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory Threat Assessment Xenos, Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd
Authors: Christopher Colston, Michael Duxbury, Chris Edwards, Chris Handley, Travis Legge, Ciarán O’Brien, Sven Truckenbrodt
Art: LJ Koh, Sam Manley, JG O’Donoghue, Stefan ‘Storykillinger’ Ristik, and Michael Savier

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Best Online Content​

Dave Thaumavore RPG Reviews

Alexandrian, Dream Machine Productions

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Best Production Values​

Koriko: A Magical Year, Mousehole Press

Arkham Investigator’s Wallet, H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society

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Best RPG Related Product​

KOBOLD Guide to Roleplaying, Kobold Press
Authors: Keith Ammann, Ginny Di, Clint McElroy, Erin Roberts, Michael E. Shea, Gail Simon, B. Dave Walters, Bryan Camp, Luke Hart, Chris Kluwe, Christopher M. Cevasco, Sage Stafford, Basheer Ghouse, Shanna Germain, Shareff Jackson, Luke Gygax, Rajan Khanna, Curtis C Chen, Sharang Biswas, Scott Lynch, Robert Mason, John Joseph Adams

So You Want to Be a Game Master: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure for Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, and Other Systems, Page Street Publishing Co.
Author: Justin Alexander

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Best Rules​

Pathfinder Player Core, Paizo Inc
Authors: Alexander Augunas, Kate Baker, Logan Bonner, Jason Bulmahn, Carlos Cabrera, Calder CaDavid, James Case, Adam Daigle, Eleanor Ferron, Steven Hammond (II), Joan Hong, Vanessa Hoskins, James Jacobs, Jenny Jarzabski, Jason Keeley, Erik Keith, Dustin Knight, Lyz Liddell, Luis Loza, Erik Mona, Patchen Mortimer, Dennis Muldoon, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Mikhail Rekun, David N. Ross, Michael Sayre, Mark Seifter, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Mark Thompson, Clark Valentine, Andrew White, Landon J. Winkler, Linda Zayas-Palmer

Shadowdark RPG, The Arcane Library
Author: Kelsey Dionne

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Best Setting​

The Valley of Flowers, Phantom Mill Games
Authors: Jedediah Berry, Andrew McAlpine

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Tian Xia World Guide, Paizo Inc
Authors: Eren Ahn, Jeremy Blum, Alyx Bui, James Case, Banana Chan, Connie Chang, Rick Chia, Hans Chun, Theta Chun, Hiromi Cota, Dana Ebert, Basheer Ghouse, John Godek III, Sen H.H.S., Joan Hong, Michelle Jones, Joshua Kim, Daniel Kwan, Dash Kwiatkowski, Jacky Leung, Jesse J. Leung, Monte Lin, Jessie “Aki” Lo, Luis Loza, Adam Ma, Liane Merciel, Ashley Moni, Kevin Thien Vu Long Nguyen, Andrew Quon, Danita Rambo, K Arsenault Rivera, Christopher Rondeau, Joaquin Kyle “Makapatag” Saavedra, Kienna Shaw, Philip Shen, Tan Shao Han, Mari Tokuda, Ruvaid Virk, Viditya Voleti, Grady Wang, Emma Yasui, and Jay Zhang

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Best Streaming Content​

William Bailey’s Haunted Mansion; A Call of Cthulhu Adventure.- Ballarat Heritage Festival 2024, Tales from Rat City

The Party, Swiss Squared

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Best Supplement​

The Griffon’s Saddlebag – Book Two, Hit Point Press
Authors: Griffin Macaulay, Willow Christensen

ALIEN RPG – Building Better Worlds, Free League Publishing
Authors: Andrew E.C. Gaska, Dave Semark

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Best Writing​

Cloud Empress: Land of Cicadas, worlds by watt
Author: watt
Editing: Roz Leahy

Call of Cthulhu: Alone Against the Static, Chaosium Inc.
Author: B.W. Holland
Editing: James Coquillat & Mike Mason

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Product of the Year​

Outgunned, Two Little Mice

Shadowdark RPG, The Arcane Library

 

[Reynard]

Shadowdark is a GREAT game and deserves every award it received.

::goes back to prepping tonight's SD session::

 

[sevenbastard]

Best Monster/Adversary​

(Tie)

I mean it's a book on monsters there wasn't a way to Thunderdome the toughest creature from each book and find a winner?

But seriously I'm cool with a tie.

 

[MGibster]

Delta Green: God’s Teeth, Arc Dream Publishing
Author: Caleb Stokes

Not for the faint of heart. An excellent, heart wrenching campaign. Definitely check with your players before running it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Congrats, @Helena Real!

 

[Helena Real]

Congrats, @Helena Real!

Thank you! Did I win something? I'm totally off the loop

EDIT: I just realized that Level 1 2023 won a Silver ENnie and I have a microgame there ☺

 

[Helena Real]

Shadowdark deserves every single award it got—and then some more! I wish I was into dungeon crawls just to be more motivated to run it, that's how good it is!

 

[The Soloist]

Outgunned, best game of the year and best product. Color me curious!

 

[Weiley31]

The Valley of Flowers seems like it would combo well with Dolmenwood.

 

[Dr. Bull]

Kelsey Dionne and the Arcane Library artists deserve all the praise they can absorb!

Great product, great layout, great art, great product... Best game of the year, no doubt.

BTW: Although it is designed for dungeon-crawling, ShadowDark can easily run psychological, political, or geographical campaigns. It is a universal fantasy rpg. The 68 pages of tables cover all of the elements of fantasy adventure. Just add your favorite map and the game/campaign is complete!

- Dr. Bull