Hey, it’s time for the annual Big Contentious Popularity Gaming Awards again.
I won’t share my voting this year. But go check it out, it’s an excellent reminder of stuff that came out. The RPG coverage is uniformly terrible; they have no idea what’s out there. But boardgaming is solidly in their wheelhouse, of course.
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1731769/11th-annual-golden-geek-awards-nominees-announced
“All tabletop RPG awards are shit and they have always been shit, but you don’t see me putting in the work to create good ones” – me
Oh and Phil Lewis’s Wrath of the Autarch is up for their RPG of the Year. Against Brendan Conway’s Masks! Yikes.
Plus some other stuff nobody cares about.
I’m honestly kind of shocked there are a grand total of four rpgs for GotY. Maybe not many really care about this award? In any case, I’m happy to see WotA nominated!
Also, 75% of the GotY awards have strong ties to Albuquerque publishers. Maybe time to rename the award?
Huh. Of those four, I’ve only seen a significant amount of AP talk about Masks. I have seen zero discussion of FAITH beyond “look at that pretty box of stuff.”
Also interesting to compare these award things to data like: blog.roll20.net – Roll20 Blog
Diana Jones is the only award that matters.
I was kind of sad that #Feminism and Seven Wonders got broken into their component games – I doubt people recognized the individual games in the anthologies and both were such strong game products.