Award Shows are Good Actually
The Ennie awards have just been awarded for another years, and as is tradition, this means that there has been a load of chatter about award shows and their merits. This year saw a bumper crop of nominees , including several of my Blogger colleagues . Some of them even won! While I hesitate to claim total Blogging cultural victory, we're getting there. The Ennies are of course not the only award concerned with TTRPGs - there are also the Diana Jones award , the Sprinties , the Rammies , The Awards ,, the CRIT awards , the Bloggies , and the Lizzies (as well as various categories in other awards, like the Origins Awards and the Nebulas , and I am sure I am missing some). Most award shows bill themselves as recognising and rewarding excellence in their field, which is a noble goal, but also almost entirely subjective. Excellence according to whom? In awards decided by a panel of judges, it will always be according to their opinions, with or without a judging rubric, and when y...