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Origins Award Winners for 2003 and Hall of Fame Inductees
Posted 2004-06-25 20:45:53 by damonwhite

Origins Damon White Reports: Here they are the Origins Award Winners for 2003. We'll start of with the Game of the year and Hall of Fame inductees:

2003 Origins Awards Winners

Game of the Year: Indy HeroClix -- WizKids

Hall of Fame Inductees:
Ed Greenwood
Larry Bond
Loren Wiseman
Bob Charrette
Reiner Knizia
Klaus Teuber

Hall of Fame Game Inductees:
Squad Leader
Warhammer 40K


Abstract Board Game: Zendo -- Looney Labs
Board Expansion: Zombies 3: Mallwalkers -- Twilight Creations
Card Expansion: Game of Thrones: Fire & Ice Expansion -- FFG

Fantasy Minis Rules: WarMachine -- Privateer Press
Fantasy Minis Series: WarMachine -- Privateer Press
Fiction, Long: Book of Final Flesh -- Eden

Fiction, Short: Podo and the Magic Shield -- WizKids
Fiction, Graphic: Everybody Loves Gilly -- Dork Storm
Periodical: Dragon -- Paizo

Book Design: Redhurst Academy of Magic -- Human Head
Card Design: Bang! -- Mayfair
Board Design: A Game of Thrones -- FFG

Historical Board: Attack! -- Eagle Games
Historical Minis Rules: El Cid -- Warhammer Historical
Historical Minis Series: 28mm Ancient Celts -- Renegade Miniatures

Minis Accessories or Terrain: Aurora Class Drop Ship -- WizKids
PBM: Starweb -- Flying Buffalo
RPG Adventure: Black Sails over Freeport -- Green Ronin Publishing

RPG: Angel -- Eden
RPG Supplement: Redhurst Academy of Magic -- Human Head
Sci-Fi Minis Rules: Shadowrun Duels -- WizKids

Sci-Fi Minis Series: Mechwarrior Liao Incursion -- WizKids
TCG: .hack//enemy -- Decipher
Traditional Board: A Game of Thrones -- Fantasy Flight Games
Traditional Card: Bang! -- Mayfair


Gamers' Choice Awards

Board Game: A Game of Thrones Board Game -- FFG

Card Game: Munchkin Fu -- Steve Jackson
RPG: Savage Worlds -- Pinnacle
Minis: War Machine -- Privateer Press

Periodical: Knights of the Dinner Table -- Kenzer & Company
PBM: Middle Earth Play-By-Mail -- GSI
Game Aid: Bag o’ Zombies -- Twilight Creations

Electronic: Pyramid Online -- Steve Jackson
Historical: Settlers of the Stone Age -- Mayfair


The moment of the night was when all of the people in the Hall of Fame present at the show took the stage all at once. Approximately 20-24 Powerhouse Game Makers all in one Place.

Note: Corrections have been made due to mishaps during the ceremony.


 
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Re: Origins Award Winners for 2003 and Hall of Fame Inductees(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Jun 25, 2004 - 09:00 PM
W00t!!!

DRAGON and DUNGEON magazine did not win!!!

Take that, Paizo, for cancelling POLYHEDRON!!!


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Re: Origins Award Winners for 2003 and Hall of Fame Inductees(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Jun 25, 2004 - 09:29 PM
Ha-ha! No, really, where's the REAL list?


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Re: Origins Award Winners for 2003 and Hall of Fame Inductees(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Jun 25, 2004 - 09:03 PM
"Everybody Loves Gilly?" What the hell did that have to do with gaming? How old were the judges, Twelve?


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Re: Origins Award Winners for 2003 and Hall of Fame Inductees(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Jun 25, 2004 - 10:41 PM
Indy Heroclix for game of the Year? That nomination sure came with and invoice for sponsering much of Gama's/Origins activity this year.


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Re: Origins Award Winners for 2003 and Hall of Fame Inductees(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Jun 26, 2004 - 07:24 AM
Angel?

I'm sure it's well done and I love Eden stuff as much as the next gamer, but it's *yet another* Unisystem game and it's based on *yet another* TV show.

Do new ideas count for anything?



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Re: Origins Award Winners for 2003 and Hall of Fame Inductees(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Jun 26, 2004 - 10:30 AM
Why does the same stuff win every year? Dragon and pyramid have so many origins awards, do they need more? Why do they keep getting nominated. Can't they just say, sorry SJ, sorry Paizo, you each have like 20 awards for your magazine, we're gonna give someone else a chnace already.


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Re: Origins Award Winners for 2003 and Hall of Fame Inductees(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Jun 26, 2004 - 10:43 AM
Umm...actually, according to the Origins Awards site, Savage Worlds by Pinnacle/GWG won Gamers' Choice for the RPG. Angel only won the Origins Award.

Go Savage Worlds


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Re: Origins Award Winners for 2003 and Hall of Fame Inductees(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Jun 26, 2004 - 12:26 PM
There was a mixup at the ceremony, according to Nicole Lindroos from Green Ronin:

"Savage Worlds won the Gamer's Choice award for Best RPG, but because of a misprint on the script Angel was announced as the winner during the ceremony. Both the reps from Pinnacle and the reps from Eden were at the ceremony and the mistake was cleared up with them immediately afterwards with no problem."

Hence the mistake on the above list.


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Re: Origins Award Winners for 2003 and Hall of Fame Inductees(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Jun 26, 2004 - 05:56 PM
The selection and eligiblity process involved with the Origins Awards appears inefficient at best, corrupt at worst. It seems more a matter of who's on the board than who's best in order to have a chance at even being on the nomination block, let alone winning.


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heroclix(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Jun 27, 2004 - 06:34 PM
How does a game lose in the only category it is nominated for, yet win Game of the Year?


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Re: Origins Award Winners for 2003 and Hall of Fame Inductees(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Jun 28, 2004 - 06:58 AM
These awards continue to be a bad joke. Would someone at least tell the ballot-box stuffers that:
1. Settlers of the Stone Age is not a historical game. No more so than say "Life" or "Careers."
2. Attack! is also not historical (look up the word in the dictionary). Just because it uses a map of earth doesn't make it historical. Both of these are good games but a game based on actual human, earth, history should win this category. Maybe next year Stratego could win. Or those jigsaw puzzles where every piece is one of the states.
3. Shadowrun Duels sucked. No one played it more than once. Hence its quick, deserved, death. Ballot box stuffing at its finest.
4. Friggin' Indy Clix!? The Heroclix game with the lamest heroes? The worst-selling HeroClix expansion ever wins "game of the year." That's just delusional.

Next year I'm not even going to waste the 5 minutes of my life it takes to vote. This is almost as bad as when a couple of years ago a 1800s railroad game was in the running for Best Sci-Fi Game because it had rocket in the title.

Just pathetic.


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Re: Origins Award Winners for 2003 and Hall of Fame Inductees(Score: 1)
by WGPTrey on Jun 28, 2004 - 08:20 AM
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The correct spelling is Bob Charrette.

Also: you missed two inductees: Reiner Knizia and Klaus Teuber.

Eight people/games were inducted, in total.


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