----- Original Message ----- From: "woodelf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] OGF Awards
> >This does sound good but don't the ENnies accomplish a similar task? Perhaps > >it would be worthwhile to combine the two somehow or make the Ennies the > >official award of the OGF or do people think that there's space for two sets > >of awards focused on OGL products. > > the OGF isn't focused on WotCOGL products--unless i'm mistaken, the > ENnies are only concerned with D20 products (an even narrower subset > of WotC OGL products). while i'm the first to admit that, especially > if fan-voted, any winners of an OGF-sponsored award will almost > certainly be D20 products, or at the very least D20-compatible > WotCOGLed products (like Farscape), it seems to me that any product > that qualifies for the support of the OGF should qualify for the > preliminary selection of nominees for an award the OGF sponsors. > > something could easily be of significance to the open game movement, > and worth recognizing, without being a D20 product. for that matter, > i would hope the criteria for an OGF award would include something > about support/furtherance of open gaming, so something that is merely > good on its own merits (and thus passed over by the ENnies) might be > award-worthy to the OGF, and vice versa (since the ENnies don't care > at all about open game content, or anything of the sort--if it > qualifies for the D20 logo, it qualifies for th ENnies). > > -- > woodelf <*> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.home.net/woodelph/ > > If any religion is right, maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God > doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them. > --Sinclair You've convinced me, especially given that the Action System will likely be a nice non-d20 contender for open gaming products. It'd still be nice to link the awards with some kind of magazine that has a serious web presence and gets some traffic. Free20 seems the most committed to open content but has the same d20 focus. The OGF website would be a natural but it's too functional to count as a magazine. Steven Palmer Peterson www.Second-World-Simulations.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
