ENNIES Judge Applications open

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Applications to be a judge for the 2025 ENNIE Awards are now being accepted at https://ennie-awards.com/judge-application/

Judges are elected via online ballot held from July 12th to July 21st. Judges will review hundreds of submissions, electronic and physical, and then collaborate with each other to nominate 5 products for each of 23 categories. Online voting will then determine which of the nominated products takes home the Gold and Silver ENNIE.

Judges will need some experience with role-playing games, the ability to work as part of a team, excellent time management skills, and must be highly motivated, as many of the 900+ submissions expected will arrive in waves, and many will be submitted near the end of the eligibility period. Judges must be 18 years old, and may not have held any paid position with any eligible publisher for the 6 months prior to becoming a judge, and for 12 months after election.

The full rules for judges may be found at https://ennie-awards.com/mission-statement-and-participant-code-of-conduct/

Host for the 2024 ENNIE Awards Announced

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THE ENNIE Awards are pleased to announce Bridgett Jeffries as the host for the 2024 ENNIE Awards!

Bridgett Jeffries (she/her) is the founder and owner of Symphony Entertainment Gaming & Arts LLC, a horror club that focuses on horror based TTRPG systems. She also works full-time as Chaosium’s Community Coordinator, where she is an enthusiastically loud (very loud) coach, advocate, and cheerleader for community content creators. She also helps run Chaosium’s Organized Play program, The Cult of Chaos.

You can catch her rambling (and hysterically laughing) on the ENNIE Award Winning podcast, The Miskatonic University Podcast, where she and the other co-hosts discuss weird and horrific roleplaying games. When she’s not writing horror content, you can watch/listen to Bridgett on various podcasts and actual plays to include Chaosium’s Stream of Chaos, Ain’t Slayed Nobody, The Calyx, Red Moon Roleplaying, and more! Bridgett is a resident of Columbus, Ohio, USA. She has three dogs (Sony, Zoe, and Gabriel). They’re pretty cool. Actually, no… they’re awesome.

The awards will take place on Friday, August 2nd at 8 P.M.  EST at Gen Con in the Crown Plaza Union Station Grand Hall.  It can also be watched live via the ENNIE Award YouTube channel.

2023 ENNIE Award Winners Announced

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The winners of the 2023 ENNIE Awards were announced Friday, August 4th, live at Gen Con.  “Vaesen: Mythic Britain and Ireland” took home the coveted  Gold ENNIE for “Best Product”, while “Fabula Ultima” grabbed the Silver ENNIE.  A full list of the winners and nominees can be found at https://ennie-awards.com/2023-nominees/.  The 2024 Judges were also announced.  The awards ceremony was held at the Grand Hall at Historic Union Station in Indianapolis, and streamed live on the ENNIES YouTube Channel.

ENNIES Judge Applications Open

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Applications to be a judge for the 2024 ENNIE Awards are now being accepted at https://ennie-awards.com/judge-application/

Judges are elected via online ballot held from July 14th to July 23rd. Judges will review hundreds of submissions, electronic and physical, and then collaborate with each other to nominate 5 products for each of 20+ categories. Online voting will then determine which of the nominated products takes home the Gold and Silver ENNIE.

Judges will need some experience with role-playing games, the ability to work as part of a team, excellent time management skills, and must be highly motivated, as many of the 900+ submissions expected will arrive in waves, especially near the end of the eligibility period. Judges must be 18 years old, and may not have held any paid position with any eligible publisher for the 6 months prior to becoming a judge, and for 12 months after election.

The full rules for judges may be found at https://ennie-awards.com/mission-statement-and-participant-code-of-conduct/

The ENNIE Awards Believes that Black Lives Matter

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The ENNIE Awards believes that Black Lives Matter.  Inclusivity is important. The gaming industry is richer for it.  Racial injustice and discrimination have no place in a civil society or in the hobby we love and seek to elevate.

Below are opportunities to support racial justice within the gaming industry and some educational resources to help facilitate anti-racist conversations.

Donate directly to various programs that support racial justice and equality:

Black Lives Matter

Equal Justice Initiative

National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Children

National Bail Fund Network

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Community Bail Fund

National Bail Fund Network lists a number of bail funds by state, in case you want to support locally.

Black Trans Femmes in the Arts is partnering with Black Trans Travel Fund to raise money for emergency resources to assist those protesting.

 

Opportunities within the gaming industry via gaming bundles:

Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality – Running until June 16th.  All proceeds will be donated to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail Fund split 50/50.

Black Lives Matter Support Bundle – Running until June 17th.  All proceeds will be donated to Black Lives Matter and the National Bail Fund Network.

DriveThruRPG has several bundles  – Running until June 22nd.  They are also spotlighting black creators.

Dungeon Masters Guild has a few bundles  – Running until June 22nd.  They are also spotlighting black creators.

 

Here are additional resources that provide education to promote anti-racism:

Letters for Black Lives provides multi-lingual, culturally aware resources aimed at creating a space for open and honest conversations.

 is a Google Doc resource that provides learning resources and a plan to become a more informed, active ally.

Anti-Racism Collection provides a round-up of resources to aid in undoing racism.

How to Be An Antiracist by Ibran X. Kendi

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo