was conceived by Robert Kuntz and with the able assistance of Douglas Rhea forwarded as an award to be presented to designers of the highest merit for outstanding work in the industry of Role Playing Game design. Only one such award can be given annually. And due to the exacting guidelines used for determining what qualifies as an exemplary design, only those designs that match or exceed the guidelines can qualify to be awarded. If no entry meets these criteria, no award is achieved for that year.The nominees for the inaugural year of the award were:
- B/X Companion (Jonathan Becker)
- LOTFP Weird Fantasy Roleplaying (James Raggi)
- Stonehell Dungeon(Michael Curtis)
- The Dungeon Alphabet (Michael Curtis)
- The Majestic Wilderlands (Rob Conley)
- Dennis Sustare
- Paul Jaquays
- Steve Winter
- Tim Kask
- Rob Kuntz
Congratulations to Michael on his well-deserved award!
Congratulations Micheal and thanks for letting us know James.
ReplyDeleteOld school, new school, Dungeon Alphabet is awesome! Mazel tov, Michael!
ReplyDeleteWell deserved win in a tough field.
ReplyDeleteA worthy winner in a field of worthies. Congratulations, Michael!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Michael!
ReplyDeleteIt's a very awesome book and the award is well deserved!
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good job, MC!
ReplyDeleteMy memory must be lousy, because I thought this award was intended to be anti-OSR (Raggi in particular).
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Michael! What an amazing field of competitors, too!
ReplyDeleteA well deserved award, I must say!
ReplyDeleteI was hoping JB would win, so I could ride on his coat-tails, but the Dungeon Alphabet is a very deserved winner. Congratulations to Michael!
ReplyDeleteDungeon Alphabet totally deserved it; good for MC.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, all five of those products deserved it -- they are all "must-haves" as far as I'm concerned. But the DUNGEON ALPHABET is a concise, highly inspirational "classic" and Michael Curtis is highly deserving of this honor. Kudos to MC and to all the nominees!
ReplyDeleteMy memory must be lousy, because I thought this award was intended to be anti-OSR (Raggi in particular).
ReplyDeleteI think what you're remembering is that Kuntz and Kask both had an online tussle with Raggi and, to a lesser degree, with the whole notion of an old school renaissance. The award itself is independent of its judges (and its judges are rotated), so whatever their feelings might or might not be, it's not reflective of what the award is about.
The Dungeon Alphabet is a great book!
ReplyDeleteAdd my voice to the chorus. Great book!
ReplyDeleteJames: Fair enough, I guess this blog read to me as "No to D&D-clone work, yes to this award".
ReplyDeleteI must be the only one, but I found the Dungeon Alphabet totally useless. Of all the OSR products I have bought, this is the only one I have sold after one week. :(
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Michael, this was truly a well deserved win. We at the NTRPG Con were proud to have this work as our inaugural winner of the Three Castles award.
ReplyDeleteKudos to Michael, and to the other four nominees for also producing wonderful products, and to Rob Kuntz and Douglas Rhea for conceiving and executing this award. This is a good development all around.
ReplyDeleteReally? I see this as a total crock. Kuntz is a never-was (three castles, eh?), and Rhea is a dumb-ass richie with no self-esteem who's decided to buy himself a convention. How is this significant? And I'm with Antonio, the winning entry is next to useless.
ReplyDeletedhowarth, you're out of line. Think whatever you want about the award, its winner, and its sponsor, but express your opinion like a grownup.
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