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Gen Con 2025: And the ENNIE Award Goes to…

The 2025 ENNIE Awards were awards at Gen Con 2025 this past weekend. The awards highlights the best releases of the past year.

Winners will be in bold with GOLD and SILVER noted as to which they received. Congrats to everyone and this year’s winners were….

Judges’ Spotlight Winners

Best Adventure – Long Form

  • Crown of Salt, Tania Herrero  **SILVER WINNER**
    Author: Tania Herrero
  • Isle of Joy, Knight Owl Publishing
    Author: Gord Sellar
  • The Shrike, Silverarm  **GOLD WINNER**
    Author: Leo Hunt

Best Adventure – Short Form

  • The Dream Shrine, Brad Kerr  **GOLD WINNER**
    Authors: Brad Kerr and Skullfungus
  • Tides of Rot, Games Omnivorous
    Authors: Karl Druid and Brian Yaksha

Best Aid/Accessory – Digital

Best Aid/Accessory – Non – Digital

Best Art, Cover

  • MIR, Little Dusha  **GOLD WINNER**
    Artist: Metastazis
  • The Hidden Isle, Causa Creations Interactive Media GmbH
    Artist: Eliot Baum & Viv Tanner

Best Art, Interior

Best Cartography

  • Revolt!, Jason Price
    Chaim Holtjer

Best Community Content

  • Dead Beats (Miskatonic Repository)  **GOLD WINNER**
    Author: David Kirkby

Best Family Game / Product

  • Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast, Possum Creek Games  **SILVER WINNER**
    Authors: Mercedes Acosta, Jay Dragon, Lillie J Harris, M Vaselak

Best Free Game / Product

Best Game

  • His Majesty the Worm, Exalted Funeral Press  **SILVER WINNER**
    Author: Josh McCrowell
    Art: Bertdrawstuff, Emily Cheeseman, Charles Ferguson-Avery, Nicolas Evans, Gobert, Sophie Grunner, Gus L, HodagRPG, Tom Kilian, Amanda Lee, Frank, Savanna Mayer, Thomas Novosel, Gertrud Oberg, Caitlin Reid, Marcin S, Alec Sorenson, Emmy Verte
    Editing: Meledy Watson, Kennedy Gerber
    Layout/Design: Peter Borlace, Michael Strange
  • Last Train to Bremen, Caro Asercion
    Author: Caro Ascersion
    Art: Conner Fawcett
    Editing: Weaver Walker
    Layout/Design: Conner Fawcett
  • Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, Exalted Funeral Press
    Author: Brian Saliba, Craig Schaffer
    Art: Keith Lowe, Julia Bangert, Elliot Lang, Kyle Patterson, Zachary Pullen, Irina Shirokova, Andrew “Tiger Wizard” Bellury, David Hoskins
    Editing: Chant Evans, Ben Summer
    Layout/Design: Chris Doughman, Chandler Kennedy
  • The Last Caravan, Mythworks
    Author: Ted Bushman
    Art: Hayden Davis, James Firnhaber, Spencer Hawkes, Jeff Langevin, Galen Pejeau
    Editing: Graham Ward, Kristin Perkins
    Layout/Design: Graham Ward, Carson Wright
  • Triangle Agency, Haunted Table  **GOLD WINNER**
    Author: Caleb Zane Huett, Sean Ireland
    Art : Kanesha Bryant, Corviday, GC Houle, Ryan Kingdom, Kodesea, Nathan Rhodes, Michael Shillingburg
    Layout/Design: Ben Mansky, Michael Shillingburg

Best Layout and Design

  • Doomsong, Caesar Ink
    Chris Cæsar, Moritz Krebs

Best Monster/Adversary

  • BIG BADS Box Set, Hit Point Press  **SILVER WINNER**
    Authors: Jennifer Adcock, Nadine Amami, Keith Ammann, Charlotte Ashley, Beth Ball, Jasmine Bhullar, Andrea Bruce, David Castro, Ty Christensen, Yubi Coates, Ricardo Evangelho, Jess Go, Joshua Heath, Michael Hollik, Benjamin Huffman, Jay Jackson, Matt Key, Kat Kruger, Verity Lane, Jason Levine, Son M, Jessica Marcrum, Christopher L. Medina, Jake Michels, Christopher Pinch, Jordan Richer, TR Rowe, lan Spiegel-Blum, Lulu St. Janmes, Frederic Walker, Rob Wieland, KandiJ. Williams, Bailey Wright, Ty Christenstatt, Holly Conrad, Verity Lane, Christopher Pinch Jordan Richer, Theo Surette, Sebastian Yüe
    Concepts: Rajaa Al-Subairi, Emily Beckett, Ty Christensen, Holly Conrad, Ricardo Evangelho, Graeme Fotheringham, Liam Gregg, Rosemarie Halim, Verity Lane, Christopher Pinch, Jordan Richer Meredith Smallwood, Theo Surette, Sebastian Yüe
    Art: Rajaa A1-Subairi, Mark Behm, Elliot Bouriot, Shafer Brown, Justin Chan, Anna Christensen, Kayla Cline, Nicholas DeLuca, Lexxy Douglass, Isabela Duffles, Riley Easter, Kristina Gehrmann, IIse Gort, Dave Greco, Kelley Harris, Joel Holtzman, Avery Howett, Will Kirkby, Marby Kwong, Elliot Lang, Holly Lucero, Sam Mameli, Jen C. Marshall, Thabiso Mhlaba, Felix Miall, Jeff Miracola, Sean A. Murray , Kathleen O’Hara, Dimitrios Pantazis, Svetoslav Petrov, Brittany Pezillo, Federico Piatti, Dominique Ramsey, Jenn Ravenna, Jordan Richer, Henrik Rosenborg, Samantha Rustle, Axel Sauerwald, Faith Schaffer, Ameera Sheikh, Joe Slucher, Kim Sokol, Sovereign, Alex Stone, Mariah Tekulve, Sally Thordarson, Marija Tiurina, Lauren Walsh, Russell Werges, Yoshi Yoshitani, Nataly Zhuk, Josiah Cameron, Fez Inkwright, Steve Argyle, Mike Bakker, George Bennett, Andrea Bruce, Josiah o Cameron, Sidharth Chaturvedi, Hannah Comstock, Jessica Desjardin, Anna (Newt) Douaová, Jason Engle, Felipe Escobar, Jonathan Juanieve Fernandes, IIse Gort, Matt Harris, Ralph Horsley, Avery Howett, Fez Inkwright, Kurt Jakobi, Victoria Jeffery, Sara Katch, Shel Khan, Will Kirkby, Felix Klaer, Jack Kozita, Ashly Lovett, Barbara Lucas, Holly Lucero, Chuck Lukas, Andrew Mar, Gina Matarazzo, Julia Metzger, Jeff Miracola, Derek Murphy, Mythir, Alexander Ngo, Dimitrios Pantazis, Eleonor Piteria, Livia Prima, Jason Rainville, Jordan Richer, Izaak Rodriguez, Samantha Rustle, Daria ShestakOva, Joe Slucher, April Solomon, Alyse Stewart, Mariya Sviridova, Patricia Kelen Takahashi, Jarel Threat, Randy Vargas, Tyler Walpole, Brian Scot Walters, Anthony Scott Waters, Mark Zug
    Co-op Student Artists: Rhoan Collins, Shauna-Lee Foster, Theo Surette
  • Uncle Ernie’s A.R.M. Summer Catalog, 23rd Century Productions, LLC
    Author: Anthony Oliveira, David Soruco, Michelle Soruco, Kurt Willis, Alb’, Marcus Holder
    Art: David Chen, Miguel Alejandro Lozano Durán, Stuart Ellis, Breno Girafa, Teaghan Gokey, Ray Hedman, Nick Jizba, Ky Kie, and Katinka Thorondor
  • Wilderfeast, Horrible Guild
    Author: KC Shi
    Art: Xulia Vicente, Francisco Riolobos Blanco, Cecilia Lonnie, Zeno Colangelo, Alessandro Corradi, Julien Cittadino, Sara Soler, Vincenzo Puglia, Benedetta Fiore

Best Online Content

Best Production Values

Best RPG Related Product

Best Rules

  • Triangle Agency, Haunted Table  **GOLD WINNER**
    Authors: Caleb Zane Huett, Sean Ireland

Best Setting

  • Doomsong, Caesar Ink
    Authors: Morgan Finley, Jack Caesar, Chris Caesar

Best Streaming Content

Best Supplement

  • ARKYVR, Alewood Games
    Author: Rhodrick Magsino

Best Writing

  • The Bird Oracle, Shing Yin Khor
    Authors: Shing Yin Khor, Mya Worrell, Geoffrey Golden, Younès Rabii, Tallis Clark, and James Wright
  • Triangle Agency, Haunted Table  **GOLD WINNER**
    Authors: Caleb Zane Huett, Sean Ireland
  • Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast, Possum Creek Games
    Authors: Mercedes Acosta, Jay Dragon, Lillie J Harris, M Vaselak
    Editing: Dominique Dickey, M Vaselak

Product of the Year

Gen Con 2024: And the ENNIE Award Goes to…

2024 ENNIE Awards

The 2024 ENNIE Awards were awards at Gen Con 2024 this past weekend. The awards highlights the best releases of the past year.

Winners will be in bold with GOLD and SILVER noted as to which they received. And this year’s winners were….

Judges’ Spotlight Winners

  • Shauna Ratliff – CHEW: The Roleplaying Game, Imagining Games
    Authors: Pete Petrusha, Justin Forest, Justin Ford, Steve Dee, Joseph Weaver

Favorite Publisher

  • Free League Publishing

Best Adventure – Long Form

Best Adventure – Short Form

Best Aid/Accessory – Digital

Best Aid/Accessory – Non – Digital

Best Art, Cover

  • Eat The Reich, Rowan, Rook and Decard – GOLD
    Artist: Will Kirkby

Best Art, Interior

  • Eat The Reich, Rowan, Rook and Decard – GOLD
    Artist: Will Kirkby

Best Cartography

Best Community Content

Best Family Game / Product

  • BREAK!! Tabletop RPG, Grey Wizard Press & Naldobean Games – GOLD
    Authors: Grey Wizard, Reynaldo Madriñan
  • Little Game Masters, Randall Hampton Art and Design
    Authors: Randall Hampton, Conor Napier, Adam Johns, Hunter Fell, Devon Chulick, Dr. Megan Connell, Lauren Urban
  • Pinebox Middle School Box Set, Pinnacle Entertainment Group
    Authors: Scott Woodard, Preston DuBose, Ed Wetterman, Tracy Sizemore, Jameson McDaniel, Shane Hensley

Best Free Game / Product

  • Level 1 The Free RPG Day Indie RPG Anthology 2023, 9th Level Games – SILVER
    Author: Mark Kennedy, Dustin Blottenberger, KJ Lappin, CJ Lappin, M. Belanger, Rue Dickey, Nat Mesnard, Gabrielle Rabinowitz, Noah Lemelson, H. L. Black, Brigitte Winter, Sylvia Gimenez, Zak Eidsvoog, Ian Rickett, Goat Song Publishing, Helena Real

Best Game

  • Not The End, Mana Project Studio
    Author: Claudio Pustorino, Fabio Airoldi, Claudio Serena
    Art: Pietro Bastas
    Editing: Claudio Serena
    Layout/Design:  Claudio Pustorino
  • Outgunned, Two Little Mice – SILVER
    Authors: Riccardo “Rico” Sirignano, Simone Formicola
    Art: Daniela Giubellini
    Editing: Simone Formicola, John Marron
    Layout/Design: Luca Carbone, Sabrina Ceccon
  • Salvage Union, Leyline Press
    Author: Panayiotis Lines, Aled Lawlor
    Art: Alex Connolly, Hamish Frater, Francesco Silva, Aled Lawlor
    Editing: Jarrett Crader (MRC), Panayiotis Lines
    Layout/Design: Aled Lawlor
  • Shadowdark RPG, The Arcane Library – GOLD
    Author: Kelsey Dionne
    Art : Lucas Korte, Brandish Gilhelm, Jessee Egan, Yuri Perkowski Domingos, Matt Morrow, Matt Ray, Mark Lyons, Abdul Latif
    Layout/Design: Kelsey Dionne

Best Layout and Design

BREAK!! Tabletop RPG, Grey Wizard Press & Naldobean Games
  Grey Wizard, Reynaldo Madriñan

CBR+PNK: Augmented, Mythworks – SILVER
  Emanoel Melo, Raul Rinaldi

Not The End – Corebook, Mana Project Studio
  Claudio Pustorino

Shadowdark RPG, The Arcane Library – GOLD
  Kelsey Dionne

TEETH, Big Robot Ltd
  Marsh Davies

Best Monster/Adversary

Big Bads – Yku, Hit Point Press
  Author: I-Hsien Sherwood
  Art: Thomas Fowler, Lucas Elliott

MONSTROUS, Cloud Curio – GOLD
  Authors: Kyle Latino, Kenny Webb
  Art: Kyle Latino

Runecairn Bestiary, By Odin’s Beard RPG
  Author: Colin Le Sueur
  Art: Goran Gligović, Brandon Yu, Kim Diaz Holm, Felipe Faria, Jeffrey Koch, Dean Spencer, Perplexing Ruins

VR Dead, Space Penguin Ink
  Author: Daniel Hallinan
  Art: MACKLE, Neetols, Ben Guldenhoys, Manos Lagouvardos

Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory Threat Assessment Xenos, Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd – GOLD
  Authors: Christopher Colston, Michael Duxbury, Chris Edwards, Chris Handley, Travis Legge, Ciarán O’Brien, Sven Truckenbrodt
  Art: LJ Koh, Sam Manley, JG O’Donoghue, Stefan ‘Storykillinger’ Ristik, and Michael Savier

Best Online Content

Best Production Values

Best RPG Related Product

Experience Points – The Lost Chapters from Monsters, Aliens, & Holes in the Ground, Exalted Funeral Press
  Authors: Stu Horvath, Ed Coleman

KOBOLD Guide to Roleplaying, Kobold Press – SILVER
  Authors: Keith Ammann, Ginny Di, Clint McElroy, Erin Roberts, Michael E. Shea, Gail Simone, B. Dave Walters, Bryan Camp, Luke Hart, Chris Kluwe, Christopher M. Cevasco, Sage Stafford, Basheer Ghouse, Shanna Germain, Shareff Jackson, Luke Gygax, Rajan Khanna, Curtis C Chen, Sharang Biswas, Scott Lynch, Robert Mason, John Joseph Adams

My Little Kobold Plush, 9th Level Games

RPG Stamps, Weird Works

So You Want to Be a Game Master: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure for Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, and Other Systems, Page Street Publishing Co. – GOLD
  Author: Justin Alexander

Best Rules

Action 12 Cinema, Plus D12 Games
  Author: Michael K. Ross

Not The End – Corebook, Mana Project Studio
  Authors: Claudio Pustorino, Fabio Airoldi, Claudio Serena

Pathfinder Player Core, Paizo Inc – SILVER
  Authors: Alexander Augunas, Kate Baker, Logan Bonner, Jason Bulmahn, Carlos Cabrera, Calder CaDavid, James Case, Adam Daigle, Eleanor Ferron, Steven Hammond (II), Joan Hong, Vanessa Hoskins, James Jacobs, Jenny Jarzabski, Jason Keeley, Erik Keith, Dustin Knight, Lyz Liddell, Luis Loza, Erik Mona, Patchen Mortimer, Dennis Muldoon, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Mikhail Rekun, David N. Ross, Michael Sayre, Mark Seifter, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Mark Thompson, Clark Valentine, Andrew White, Landon J. Winkler, Linda Zayas-Palmer

Salvage Union, Leyline Press
  Authors: Panayiotis Lines, Aled Lawlor

Shadowdark RPG, The Arcane Library – GOLD
  Author: Kelsey Dionne

Best Setting

Dead Air: Seasons, The World Anvil Publishing
  Authors: Luca Vanin, Federico Scattolin, Enrico Pasotti, Tommaso De Benetti

Heckna! Campaign Book, Hit Point Press
  Authors: Ashley Warren, TR Rowe, Ryan Servis, Jordan Richer, Jay Jackson, Verity Lane

Outcast Silver Raiders Box Set, Esoteric Ludology LLC
  Author: Isaac VanDuyn

Pathfinder Lost Omens: Tian Xia World Guide, Paizo Inc – GOLD
  Authors: Eren Ahn, Jeremy Blum, Alyx Bui, James Case, Banana Chan, Connie Chang, Rick Chia, Hans Chun, Theta Chun, Hiromi Cota, Dana Ebert, Basheer Ghouse, John Godek III, Sen H.H.S., Joan Hong, Michelle Jones, Joshua Kim, Daniel Kwan, Dash Kwiatkowski, Jacky Leung, Jesse J. Leung, Monte Lin, Jessie “Aki” Lo, Luis Loza, Adam Ma, Liane Merciel, Ashley Moni, Kevin Thien Vu Long Nguyen, Andrew Quon, Danita Rambo, K Arsenault Rivera, Christopher Rondeau, Joaquin Kyle “Makapatag” Saavedra, Kienna Shaw, Philip Shen, Tan Shao Han, Mari Tokuda, Ruvaid Virk, Viditya Voleti, Grady Wang, Emma Yasui, and Jay Zhang

The Valley of Flowers, Phantom Mill Games – SILVER
  Authors: Jedediah Berry, Andrew McAlpine

Best Streaming Content

Best Supplement

ALIEN RPG – Building Better Worlds, Free League Publishing – GOLD
  Authors: Andrew E.C. Gaska, Dave Semark

Corpus Malicious – The Codex of Evil for 5E, Dream Realm Storytellers LTD
  Authors: Alican Develioğlu, Ekin Topanoğlu, İzel Irem Aydin, Bartu Ağca, Barkin Tokalak, Eyüp Emre Erdem

Not The End – Stories, Mana Project Studio
  Authors: Claudio Pustorino, Fabio Airoldi, Claudio Serena, Andrea Felicioni, Andrea Buzzi, Chiara Listo, Giuseppe Vitale, Andrea Rossi, Andrea Lucca, Alessandro Savino, Luca Carbone, Edoardo Cremaschi, Roberto de Luca, Alice Luidelli, Genitori de Ruolo, Dario Lazzari, Enrico Pasotti, Tommaso de Benetti, Martu Palavrini

The Griffon’s Saddlebag – Book Two, Hit Point Press – SILVER
  Authors: Griffin Macaulay, Willow Christensen

This and That Collection, Sneak Attack Press
  Authors: Matthew J. Hanson, William Fischer

Best Writing

Call of Cthulhu: Alone Against the Static, Chaosium Inc. – GOLD
  Author: B.W. Holland
  Editing: James Coquillat & Mike Mason

Cloud Empress: Land of Cicadas, worlds by watt – SILVER
  Author: watt
  Editing: Roz Leahy

Kobolds Ate My Baby – The Orange Book, 9th Level Games
  Authors: Chris O’Neill, Bug Boll, Jon Maness
  Editing: Heather O’Neill, Adriel Wilson

Koriko: A Magical Year, Mousehole Press
  Author: Jack Harrison
  Editing: Neil Kingham

Musketeers Vs Cthulhu, Nightfall Games
  Authors: Bill Heron, Benn Graybeaton, Mark Rapson, Chris McAuley, Claudia Christian
  Editing: Benn Graybeaton

Product of the Year