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Here is a list of the 2014 ENnie Award winners. If I have a comment you can find it under the entry..

Best Adventure

• Trail of Cthulhu: Eternal Lies – Pelgrane Press *GOLD*
• Razor Coast: Heart of the Razor – Frog God Games *SILVER*

My Take

Eternal Lies is good stuff. 🙂

Best Aid/Accessory

• Numenera Creature Deck – Monte Cook Games, LLC *GOLD*
• Fate Dice – Eldritch Dice – Evil Hat Productions *SILVER*

My Take

I have the FATE dice called Antique. These new FATE dice sets are nice.

Best Art, Interior

• Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Gods – Paizo Publishing *GOLD*
• Numenera Corebook – Monte Cook Games, LLC *SILVER*

Best Art, Cover

• Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Mythic Adventures – Paizo Publishing *GOLD*
• Achtung! Cthulhu – Keeper’s Guide to the Secret War – Modiphius *SILVER*

Best Blog

• Gnome Stew *GOLD*
• AaWBlog (Adventureaweek.com) *SILVER*

My Take

Gnome Stew has kicked tail for a long time. Highly recommended.

Best Cartography

• Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Wrath of the Righteous Poster Map Folio – Paizo Publishing *GOLD*
• Numenera Corebook – Monte Cook Games, LLC *SILVER*

Best Electronic Book

• Player’s Guide to Emerald City – Green Ronin Publishing *GOLD*
• Broken Earth (Savage Worlds) – Sneak Attack Press *SILVER*

Best Family Game

• Fate Accelerated Edition – Evil Hat Productions *GOLD*
• Hobbit Tales from the Green Dragon Inn – Cubicle 7 Entertainment *SILVER*

My Take

I just finished reading FAE a little while ago. It is the first product in a while that has made me react with, “This is really something special.” FATE took several awards this year and they are all well deserved.

I’ll have to look up the Hobbit Tales…never heard of it until this year. 🙂

Best Free Product

• Pathfinder Module: We Be Goblins Too! – Paizo Publishing *GOLD*
• Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Quickstart – Chaosium Inc. *SILVER*

Best Game

• Fate Core System – Evil Hat Productions *GOLD*
• Numenera Corebook – Monte Cook Games, LLC *SILVER*

My Take

Really glad that this category came down with FATE for the gold and Numenera for the silver. I think FATE is a better product that is a LOT more accessible than Numenera. Botha are fantastic but I give the edge to FATE.

Best Miniatures Product

• Pathfinder Battles: Wrath of the Righteous – WizKids Games/NECA *GOLD*
• Pathfinder Battles: Wrath of the Righteous Gargantuan Demon Lord Deskari – WizKids Games/NECA *SILVER*

Best Monster/Adversary

• Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 4 – Paizo Publishing *GOLD*
• The Ninth World Bestiary – Monte Cook, LLC *SILVER*

Best Podcast

• Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff *GOLD*
• Numenera: The Signal *SILVER*

My Take

I just adore Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff. It has quickly emerged as my favorite RPG podcast and I listen to a ton of them. I’ve reviewed several of Ken Hites’ DunDraCon seminars in the past and my opinion of Ken still holds true. Folks should really listen when Ken opens his big trap…I mean mouth. 😀

Best Production Values

• Numenera Corebook – Monte Cook Games, LLC *GOLD*
• Trail of Cthulhu: Eternal Lies – Pelgrane Press *SILVER*

Best RPG Related Product

• Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords Base Set – Paizo Publishing *GOLD*
• Strange Tales of the Century – Evil Hat Productions *SILVER*

Best Rules

• Fate Core System – Evil Hat Productions *GOLD*
• 13th Age – Pelgrane Press *SILVER*

My Take

Two STRONG entries in this list. I already gave my opinion on FATE but I think 13th Age is a GREAT RPG with enough crunch and story driven elements. Very nice RPG.

Best Setting

• Numenera Corebook – Monte Cook Games, LLC *GOLD*
• Deadlands Noir – Pinnacle Entertainment Group *SILVER*

My Take

Right here is the category where Numenera excels. The setting is a wonderful mix of sorcery as science with a dash of post-holocaust goodness. A very complete and detailed setting.

Best Supplement

• Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign – Paizo Publishing *GOLD*
• Fate System Toolkit – Evil Hat Productions *SILVER*

Best Software

• Roll20 – The Orr Group LLC *GOLD*
• Realm Works – Lone Wolf Development *SILVER*

My Take

Interested that Realm Works won here even though it is fairly new. If I was not so hooked on OneNote it might be worth giving it a go.

Best Writing

• Numenera Corebook – Monte Cook Games, LLC *GOLD*
• Achtung! Cthulhu – Keeper’s Guide to the Secret War – Modiphius *SILVER*

Best Website

• RPG Geek *GOLD*
• Fate SRD *SILVER*

My Take

SO glad RPGGeek won here. I am such a fan of their site. I just LOVE having my entire collection and want list managed on their site. Their news entries were “upgraded” recently and they rock. Highly recommended site.

Product of the Year

• Numenera Corebook – Monte Cook Games, LLC *GOLD*
• Fate Core System – Evil Hat Productions *SILVER*

My Take

As I mentioned above I would reverse these but either way these are both wonderful.

2015 Judges

• Annah Madrinan
• Jakub Nowosad
• Kayra Keri Kupcu
• Kurt Wiegel
• Stacy Muth

2014 Judges’ Spotlight Winners

• Hooper: Hobomancer Companion – Hex Games
• Kayra Keri Kupcu:  Deep Magic – Kobold Press
• Stacy Muth: Rocket Age RPG – Cubicle 7 Entertainment
• Jakub Nowosad: The Demolished Ones – Chronicle City/Rite Publishing
• Kurt Wiegel: Weird Wars Rome – Pinnacle Entertainment Group

  My Take

  Weird Wars Rome is super cool. I think this Savage Worlds setting is more creative than Deadlands Noir but again…it is like comparing Mozart and Bach. Both are great in different lights.

  GAME ON! 😀