Saturday, May 30, 2009

More entries

Ok, I'm going to try emailing this blog in from my phone. I've never tried it before, so if it turns out weird, my appologies.

I just opened the packages that came in today and I can't find a good way to update my list from work, so I thought I'd at least post what came in for now:

PCGen (which I made a mistake posting earlier as Sourceforge in my haste to update my list).
Amorphous Blobcast - Episodes 20, 24, 27, 29, and D&D4e Review
Order 66 Podcast - Episodes 37, 40, 50, 52, and 56
Open Game Table: Anthology of Roleplayng Game Blogs, volume 1

If these little micro-updates are a pain, let me know. I'm just trying to avoid going weeks without updating, as I have been known to do in the past.

Very quick update.

UPS came after I updated my blog yesterday, so I've added a few more products.

Notably there's a bunch of stuff on the list from Paizo now, and a few products from Fans of Mystara.

Two more podcasts (Play's the Thing and Narrative Control) were also added agter discovering and correcting a small error in the entry.

Oh, and I also added thecoremechanic.com to the website list.

Sorry this is so brief and disjointed, Saturdays are hugely busy for me, and I need to get some sleep before I run back into work for the night.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

A reminder

It has become apparent that my little list, because of my lack of updates, has done a little more harm than good, so I updated it as much as possible this afternoon. I can't garuntee that it's 100% accurate, given that it's a long list and it's always possible that I overlooked something, but I'd bet it probably is. I went book by book through the entries just to check. In fact, if the entry is in italics, that means it's one I have an entry form for, but didn't have at hand for whatever reason.

Now, if you sent something in the last couple days, chances are it just hasn't made its way to me yet, but if you think there's something that should be there that isn't, please let me know. I'll check the master list and get back with you right away.

Speaking of the master list, I just wanted to put out a quick reminder. I'm a judge for the awards, beyond that my affiliation is loose at best. I know and like the people within the awards, but I'm not in any sort of management or staff possition. I just read a lot.

That said, I do my best to try and help out where I can, with publishers and those who are submitting, so I am absolutely glad to be of help. The nature of my work, and the hours that I work makes me a bit more available than everyone else, so please feel free to comment here or email me, but if my list isn't exactly correct, that's my own oversight, and not neccesarily a failing on the staff memeber who does all the work, because honestly, Hans is amazing.

So, if there's a screw up, check with me first, chances are it's mine :)

Oh, speaking of Hans, in an effort to make my list as up to date as possible I simply posted everything I could. Our Submissions Coordeinator may not have had a chance to double-check these to make sure they're within the submissions period yet, since I posted stuff that just came in today, so there is a slight chance that one or two things may not qualify. I don't really expect anything not to, just thought I'd add the caveat.

Thanks for your patience. This weekend marks the end of the submission period. Once I stop getting three or four packages a day I'll be able to settle in and talk about some specific a bit more. In the mean time, I'd appreciate any questions about policy, procedure, or products that you might have.

Thanks.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

What's going on

So, obviously I've been quiet again the last couple weeks. We're getting toward crunch time, and it shows. The number of products I've gotten in the last few days is pretty staggering, and there are several more that I'm expecting in the next week or so.

The final day for submissions is fast approaching. Everything that is to be considered for this year needs to be in the mail and on it's way by June 1, just six days away.

I'll work on a list of everything that's come in since my last blog tomorrow, and I'll update the big list when I do. Today along I received four packages, including some more books from Fantasy Flight, Mouse Guard, and two more podcasts. I'd have to look at my notes, but I believe we have enough entries for a solid podcast award this year. Our only real worry at this point is the Website category, which is sorely lacking.

So, if you know anyone that has a site or blog that you'd like to see considered, please ask them to enter. It's easy for people to see all the great books and services that publishers put out, but forget the contributions of the community. I'd hate to see that happen. It's the community, not the companies, that make our hobby thrive.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Updated List

Here's the updated list of this year's entries. It's the same list as before (with the stuff from yesterday), just hopefully a little easier to read. As new products arrive I'll keep the list here updated.


0one Games:
The Great City: Campaign Setting
The Great City: Color Map Folio
0one's Black & White: Bandits' Trail
0one's Black & White: White Wyvern Inn
0one's Blueprints: The Great City, The Saltshacks
0one's Black & White: Medusa Hideout
Urban Adventures: A Pound of Flesh
The Road to Revolution: The Bloody Fix
Road to Revolution: Tides of Blood
Road to Revolution: Puncture the Blackened Vein

AEG:
Legend of the Burning Sands

Alea Tools:
Neo-markers Stackable Magnetic Markers

Arc Dream:
Dreadful Secrets of Candlewick Manor

Archaia Studios Press
Mouse Guard

Black and Green Games:
Under My Skin

Box Ninja:
3:16 - Carnage Among the Stars

Catalyst Game Labs:
Classic Battletech: Jihad Secrets - The Blake Documents
Classic Battletech: Technical Readout - 3075
Classic Battletech: The Corps - Battlecorp Anthology Vol. 1
Shadowrun - Unwired
Shadowrun: Ghost Cartels
BattleRun

Contested Ground Studios:
Hot War

Dark Matter Games:
Epic Roleplaying: Atlas of Eslin

Devil's Due
Worlds of Dungeons & Dragons, vol. 2

Dragonlance Nexus:
The Dragonlance Nexus Adlatum

Dragonroots:
Premire Issue
Gary Gygax

Dungeonaday.com
Dungeon-a-Day

Dwarven Sweatshoppe:
Dice Tray

Evil Hat Productions:
Don't Lose Your Mind
Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies

Expeditious Retreat Press:
1 on 1 Adventures 10: Vengeance of Olindor
1 on 1 Adventures 11: Unbound Adventures
World of Nevermore
Advanced Player's Guide
The Sarcophagus Legion
Lands of Darkness: The Swamp of Timbermoor
Lands of Darkness: The Woods of Woe
Lands of Darkness: Cesspools of Arnac
Lands of Darkness: The Barrow Grounds
Plague
The Seven Shrines of Nav'k-Qar

Fabled Environments:
Modern Floorplans: Craftsman Bungalow
Modern Floorplans: Victorian Mansion
Modern Floorplans: Rooftop Garden

Fan Products:
When Autochthon Dreams

Fantasy Flight Games:
Anima: Beyond Fantasy
Dark Heresy RPG
Dark Heresy: Creatures Anathema
Dark Heresy: Disciples of the Dark Gods
Dark Heresy: Inquisitor's Handbook
Dark Heresy: Purge the Unclean
Dark Heresy: The Game Master's Kit

Fat Dragon Games:
Dragonshire Starter Set
E-Z Terrain Cliffs & Mountains

Frontier Games:
Old Frontiers

Goodman Games:
Character Codex
DCC 53: Sellswords of Punjar
DCC 54: Forges of the Mountain King
DCC 55: Isle of the Sea Drake
DM Campaign Record
Haiiiii-Ya!
Master Dungeons Presents: Dragora's Dungeon
Points of Light
In Search of Adventure
Master Dungeons Presents: Curse of the Kingspire
DCC 57: Wyvern Mountain
DCC 58: The Forgotten Portal
DCC 59: Mists of Madness
DCC 60: Thrones of Punjar
Blackdirge's Dungeon Denizens
DCC 56: Scions of Punjar
The Random Esoteric Creature Generator
PC Pearls
Hero's Handbook: Dragonborn

Green Ronin:
Buccaneers of Freeport
Mutants & Masterminds: Deluxe Gamemaster Screen
Mutants & Masterminds: Wild Cards
Mutants & Masterminds: Worlds of Freedom
True 20 Adept's Handbook
Character Record Folio 4E
True20 Warrior's Handbook
Mutants & Masterminds - Freedom's Most Wanted
A Song of Ice and Fire RPG
Song of Ice and Fire Quick-Start Rules

Greymalkin Designs:
Desolation RPG

Heroic Journey Publishing:
Bounty Head Bebop

HinterWelt Enterprises:
Freedom Squirrel: Nuts to the '70's

Imagination Sweatshop:
Trial and Terror: Supernatural Victim's Unit

Innsmouth House:
Lovecraftian Tales from the Table

Khepera Publishing:
Hellas

KNRPG Productions:
Empire of Dust

Lone Wolf Developement:
Hero Lab

Magnum Opus Press
Saving Stone
Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Midnight Syndicate:
The Dead Matter: Cemetary Gates

Mongoose Publishing:
Battlefield Evolution: World at War
Traveller: 760 Patrons
Wraith Recon

Mythmere Games:
Swords & Wizardy Core Rules

One Bad Egg:
Hard Boiled Armies
The Syrallax
Hard Boiled Cultures
The Witch Doctor
Shrouded Agendas: The Purifiers
The Shroudborn
Gods of the Shroud
The Death-Mother
The Unbroken
The Half-Dead
The Ape Lord

Open Design:
Kobold Quarterly #6
Blood of the Gorgon
Tales of Zobeck
Wrath of the River King
The Kobold Guide to Game Design, Volume 1: Adventures
Kobold Quarterly #9

Open Game Table:
Open Game Table: Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs (volume I)

Other Court Games:
Factions at War Revised
Kingdom of Ashes

Paradigm Concepts:
Witch Hunter: A Child's Game
Witch Hunter: Grand Tome of Adversaries

Paizo:
Pathfinder Chronicles: Campaign Setting
Pathfinder Chronicles: Second Darkness Map Folio
Pasthfinder Chronicles: Dragons Revisited
Pathfinder Chronicles: Gods and Magic
Pathfinder Adventure Path: Legacy of Fire: Howl of the Carrion King
Gamemastery Flip-Mat: Waterfront Tarvern
Planet Stories: Infernal Sorceress

PCGen:
PCGen

Q-Workshop:
Call of Cthulhu Dice Set

Relentless Publishing:
Prophecy: Player Manual

Rite Publishing:
A Witch's Choice

Spectrum Games:
Slasher Flick
Cartoon Action Hour Season 2

Status Artworks:
Dr. Wizard's Patented Elevation Indicator
Dr. Wizard's Patented Elevation Indicator Large Extender
Dr. Wizard's Patented Elevation Indicator Huge Extender

Tabletop Adventures:
Bits of the Wilderness: Into the Mountains
GM-fu Session Prep

Vaults of Pandius:
BA1: The Tomb of Thob Shanwood
GAZ F10: Kaarjala
MGAZ1: The Central Altan Tepes

Wandering Geek:
Geeks on Vacation

White Wolf:
Daeva: Kiss of the Succubus
Graceful Wicked Masques
Mehket: Shadows in the Dark
Scion: Ragnarok
Hunter: The Vigil
Night Horrors: Grim Fears
Celestial Directions: Underworld
World of Darkness: Inferno
World of Darkness: Innocents
Exalted: Legacy of Unconquered
Hunter Horror Recognition Guide
Exalted Art Book
Keys to the Supernal Tarot
Hunter: Deadly Prey
Dancers in the Dusk
Infernals
New Wave Requiem
Block by Bloody Block
Bad Night at Blackmoon Farm
The Rose Bride's Plight
Hunter Quickstart #1: The Hunt
Hunter Quickstart #2: One Year Later
A Night with Jack
ExXalted Censored
ExXalted Uncensored
Collection of Horrors: Introduction
Collection of Horrors: Razor Kids
Collection of Horrors: Host of the Clutter
Collection of Horrors: Frankenstein's Mobster
Collection of Horrors: Empty Space
Collection of Horrors: Gray Beard
Collection of Horrors: Frostbite Girl
Collection of Horrors: Getting her Back
Collection of Horrors: Body of Evidence
Collection of Horrors: Caveat Emptor
Collection of Horrors: No Escape
Collection of Horrors: Good for the Soul
Collection of Horrors: Serpent's Tooth
Collection of Horrors: Mother of All Wrong Turns
Collection of Horrors: Mother to Monsters
Collection of Horrors: Dead to Me
Collection of Horrors: Mr. Theleme

WildFire:
CthulhuTech
CthulhuTech: Vade Mecum

Windmill Games:
12 Dread, Tales of Terror: Issue 1: Wastelands

Wizards of the Coast:
Player's Handbook 4e
Monster Manual 4e
DM's Guide 4e
Star Wars : Clone Wars Campaign Guide
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide
Star Wars: Scum and Villainy
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide
Dungeons and Dragons Roleplaying Game Starter Set
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Starter Set
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Booster Pack
Star Wars: Imperial Entanglements Booster Pack
Star Wars: Legacy Era Campaign Guide
Wizards of the Coast D&D Insider (http://www.wizards.com/dnd/insider/)
Halls of the Giant Kings Dungeon Tiles
Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide
King of the Trollhaunt Warrens
Player's Handbook 2
Adventurers' Vault
Dungeon Delve

Bone Scroll RPG Blog (http://www.bonescroll.net/)
Cav Command Console (http://www.cavcomcon.com/)
Chgowiz's Old Guy RPG Blog (http://oldguyrpg.blogspot.com/)
Cultures of Play (http://culturesofplay.com/)
Dungeon's Master (http://dungeonsmaster.com/)
Geek's Dream Girl (http://geeksdreamgirl.com/)
Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons (http://hamsterhoard.blogspot.com/)
Kobald Quarterly.com (http://www.koboldquarterly.com/)
Musings of the Chatty DM (http://chattydm.net/welcome/)
Robertson Games (http://robertsongames.com/)
RPGPodcasts.com (http://www.rpgpodcasts.com/)
Rust Monster Ate my Sword (http://rustmonsteratemysword.blogspot.com/)


Podcasts:
3.5 Private Sanctuary - Episodes 34, 41, 47, 65, and 66.
All Games Considered - Episodes 83, 90, 92, 98, and 101.
Amorphos Blobcast - Episodes 20, 24, 27, 29, and D&D4e Review
Animalcast Podcast - Episodes 46, 58, 60, 71, 84
Brilliant Gameologists- Episodes 16, 18, 25, 28, and 36.
D&D Podcast
Have Games, Will Travel: For a Few Games More - Episodes 28, 31, 33, 35, and 37.
Master Plan - Episodes 31, 33, 40, 41, and 44.
Narative Control - Episodes 1, 5, 8, 17, and 22.
Order 66 Podcast - Episodes 37, 40, 50, 52, and 56.
Game's the Thing - Episodes 45, 48, 50, 52, and 54.
Podgecast - Episodes 8, 12, 20, 35, and 37.
Return to Northmoor Podcast - Episodes a1, a2, w1, w2, and w3.
Roleplaying Public Radio - Episodes 14, 20, 25, AP Wushu, and AP Fear Itself.
This Just in from Gencon - Episodes 1, 5, 8, 10, and 11.
Virtual Play - Episodes 28, 29, 35, 37, 38, and the theme.
Voice of the Revolution

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Just a quick update

If it seems that I'm quiet here, I am. I'm really sorry about that, and I'll make an effort to do better. Part of the reason I think is because I've tranferred a lot of my immediate thoughts to Twitter, in case anyone is interested. https://twitter.com/MotG

More importantly, I've started a thread over at RPGnet discussing the products people would like us to take a special look at. http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=452709

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Busy Weekend

A ton of new stuff came in over the weekend and it made me decide to redo the list of entries I posted the other day in a format you might actually be able to read. In the mean time I'm going to at least list all the new stuff that came in.

0one Games:
01 The Great City: Campaign Setting
02 The Great City: Color Map Folio
03 0one's Black & White: Bandits' Trail
04 0one's Black & White: White Wyvern Inn
05 0one's Blueprints: The Great City, The Saltshacks
06 0one's Black & White: Medusa Hideout
07 Urban Adventures: A Pound of Flesh
08 The Road to Revolution: The Bloody Fix
09 Road to Revolution: Tides of Blood
10 Road to Revolution: Puncture the Blackened Vein

Alea Tools
11 Neo-markers.

Windmill Games:
12 Dread, Tales of Terror: Issue 1: Wastelands

Tabletop Adventures:
13 Bits of the Wilderness: Into the Mountains
14 GM-fu Session Prep

Open Design:
15 Blood of the Gorgon
16 Tales of Zobeck
17 Wrath of the River King
18 The Kobold Guide to Game Design, Volume 1: Adventures
19 Kobold Quarterly #9

Podcasts:
Virtual Play - Episodes 28, 29, 35, 37, 38, and the theme.

Websites:
http://www.gnomestew.com/
http://www.cavcomcon.com/

I also got a couple of really nice letters of introduction from publishers, which I can't tell you how much I appreciate.

Up to this point I had finished the initial read-through on all the products I had received, but all these are new, and the only one I've read is Dread, Tales of Terror, which I received first. I'll probably knock out the rest over the weekend.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

The Entries

It's pretty early to call this a final list. Last time we got about a third of our entries in the final month of submissions, but I thought it was a good time to start the list, so here's what I have. There are a couple other entries that others have that I haven't gotten copies of yet, but as I get m hands on them I'll add them here.

AEG Legend of the Burning Sands
Black and Green Games Under My Skin
Catalyst Game Labs Classic Battletech: Jihad Secrets - The Blake Documents
Catalyst Game Labs Classic Battletech: Technical Readout - 3075
Catalyst Game Labs Classic Battletech: The Corps - Battlecorp Anthology Vol. 1
Catalyst Game Labs Shadowrun - Unwired
Contested Ground Studios Hot War
Dragonroots C.E. Rocco
Dwarven Sweatshoppe Dice Tray
Evil Hat Productions Don't Lose Your Mind
Expeditious Retreat Press 1 on 1 Adventures 10: Vengeance of Olindor
Expeditious Retreat Press 1 on 1 Adventures 11: Unbound Adventures
Expeditious Retreat Press World of Nevermore
Fantasy Flight Games Anima: Beyond Fantasy
Fantasy Flight Games Dark Heresy RPG
Fantasy Flight Games Dark Heresy: Inquisitor's Handbook
Fantasy Flight Games Dark Heresy: Purge the Unclean
Fantasy Flight Games Dark Heresy: The Game Master's Kit
Frontier Games Old Frontiers
Goodman Games DCC 53: Sellswords of Punjar
Goodman Games DCC 54: Forges of the Mountain King
Goodman Games DCC 55: Isle of the Sea Drake
Goodman Games DM Campaign Record
Goodman Games Haiiiii-Ya!
Goodman Games Master Dungeons Presents: Dragora's Dungeon
Goodman Games Points of Light
Green Ronin Buccaneers of Freeport
Green Ronin Mutants & Masterminds: Deluxe Gamemaster Screen
Green Ronin Mutants & Masterminds: Wild Cards
Green Ronin Mutants & Masterminds: Worlds of Freedom
Green Ronin True 20 Adept's Handbook
Greymalkin Designs Desolation RPG
HinterWelt Enterprises Freedom Squirrel: Nuts to the '70's
Imagination Sweatshop Trial and Terror: Supernatural Victim's Unit
KNRPG Productions Empire of Dust
Midnight Syndicate The Dead Matter: Cemetary Gates
Mongoose Publishing Battlefield Evolution: World at War
Mongoose Publishing Traveller: 760 Patrons
Open Design Kobold Quarterly #6
Paradigm Concepts Witch Hunter: A Child's Game
Paradigm Concepts Witch Hunter: Grand Tome of Adversaries
Relentless Publishing Prophecy: Player Manual
Innsmouth House Lovecraftian Tales from the Table
Dragonlance Nexus The Dragonlance Nexus Adlatum
Expeditious Retreat Press Advanced Player's Guide
Expeditious Retreat Press The Sarcophagus Legion
Expeditious Retreat Press Lands of Darkness: The Swamp of Timbermoor
Expeditious Retreat Press Lands of Darkness: The Woods of Woe
Expeditious Retreat Press Lands of Darkness: Cesspools of Arnac
Expeditious Retreat Press Lands of Darkness: The Barrow Grounds
Expeditious Retreat Press Plague
Expeditious Retreat Press The Seven Shrines of Nav'k-Qar
Green Ronin Character Record Folio 4E
Green Ronin True20 Warrior's Handbook
Green Ronin Mutants & Masterminds - Freedom's Most Wanted
Green Ronin A Song of Ice and Fire RPG
Green Ronin Song of Ice and Fire Quick-Start Rules
White Wolf Daeva: Kiss of the Succubus
White Wolf Graceful Wicked Masques
White Wolf Mehket: Shadows in the Dark
White Wolf Scion: Ragnarok
White Wolf Hunter: The Vigil
White Wolf Night Horrors: Grim Fears
White Wolf Celestial Directions: Underworld
White Wolf World of Darkness: Inferno
White Wolf World of Darkness: Innocents
White Wolf Exalted: Legacy of Unconquered
White Wolf Hunter Horror Recognition Guide
White Wolf Exalted Art Book
White Wolf Keys to the Supernal Tarot
White Wolf Hunter: Deadly Prey
White Wolf Dancers in the Dusk
White Wolf Infernals
White Wolf New Wave Requiem (Electronic)
White Wolf Block by Bloody Block (Electronic)
White Wolf Bad Night at Blackmoon Farm (Electronic)
White Wolf The Rose Bride's Plight (Electronic)
White Wolf Hunter Quickstart #1: The Hunt (Electronic)
White Wolf Hunter Quickstart #2: One Year Later (Electronic)
White Wolf A Night with Jack (Electronic)
Devil's Due Worlds of Dungeons & Dragons, vol. 2
Mythmere Games Swords & Wizardy Core Rules
Fat Dragon Games Dragonshire Starter Set
Fat Dragon Games E-Z Terrain Cliffs & Mountains
The Bone Scroll The Bone Scroll RPG Blog (www.bonescroll.net)
Chgowiz's Old Guy RPG Blog Chgowiz's Old Guy RPG Blog
Wizards of the Coast D&D Insider
Obsidian Portal Obsidian Portal
Goodman Games In Search of Adventure
Goodman Games Master Dungeons Presents: Curse of the Kingspire
Goodman Games DCC 57: Wyvern Mountain
Goodman Games DCC 58: The Forgotten Portal
Goodman Games DCC 59: Mists of Madness
Goodman Games DCC 60: Thrones of Punjar
Goodman Games Blackdirge's Dungeon Denizens
Goodman Games DCC 56: Scions of Punjar
Goodman Games The Random Esoteric Creature Generator
Goodman Games PC Pearls
Goodman Games Hero's Handbook: Dragonborn
Wizards of the Coast Player's Handbook 4e
Wizards of the Coast Monster Manual 4e
Wizards of the Coast DM's Guide 4e
Wizards of the Coast Star Wars : Clone Wars Campaign Guide
Wizards of the Coast Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide
Wizards of the Coast Star Wars: Scum and Villainy
Wizards of the Coast Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide
Wizards of the Coast Dungeons and Dragons Roleplaying Game Starter Set
Wizards of the Coast Star Wars: The Clone Wars Starter Set
Wizards of the Coast Star Wars: The Clone Wars Booster Pack
Wizards of the Coast Star Wars: Imperial Entanglements Booster Pack
Northmoor Podcast Return to Northmoor Podcast
A Bunch of Exalted Fans When Autochthon Dreams
Wizards of the Coast Star Wars: Legacy Era Campaign Guide
Other Court Kingdom of Ashes
Other Court Games Factions at War Revised
Podgecast.com The PodgeCast
One Bad Egg Hard Boiled Armies
One Bad Egg The Syrallax
One Bad Egg Hard Boiled Cultures
One Bad Egg The Witch Doctor
One Bad Egg Shrouded Agendas: The Purifiers
One Bad Egg The Shroudborn
One Bad Egg Gods of the Shroud
One Bad Egg The Death-Mother
One Bad Egg The Unbroken
One Bad Egg The Half-Dead
One Bad Egg The Ape Lord
Evil Hat Productions Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies
Rite Publishing A Witch's Choice