Yay!

We just heard that Nordic Larp has been shortlisted for the 2012 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming! Let’s hope this news helps us spread the gospel of Nordic larp culture among the American tabletop role-playing scene.

The other nominees are Burning Wheel Gold by Luke Crane, the crowdfunding phenomenon pioneered by Kickstarter, Risk Legacy board game by Rob Daviau, and Vornheim, a Lamentations of Flame Princess supplement by Zak S.

The full press release:

Shortlist for 2012 Diana Jones Award Announced

RPGs, a board-game, a history of LARPs and crowdsourced funding vie for hobby-gaming’s most eclectic and exclusive trophy

The committee of the Diana Jones Award has announced the shortlist for its 2012 award. The list contains five candidates that in the opinion of the committee exemplify the very best that hobby-gaming produced in 2011. In alphabetical order, they are:

  • BURNING WHEEL GOLD, an RPG system by Luke Crane, published by Burning Wheel.
  • CROWDFUNDING, with particular acknowledgement to Kickstarter.
  • NORDIC LARP, a book by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola, published by Fëa Livia.
  • RISK LEGACY, a board game by Rob Daviau, published by Hasbro Inc.
  • VORNHEIM, an RPG supplement by Zak S, published by Lamentations of the Flame Princess.

The winner of the 2011 Award will be announced on Wednesday 15th August, at the annual Diana Jones Award and Freelancer Party in Indianapolis, the unofficial start of the Gen Con Indy convention.

About the Award

The Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming was founded and first awarded in 2001. It is presented annually to the person, product, company, event or any other thing that has, in the opinion of its mostly anonymous committee of games industry luminaries, best demonstrated the quality of ‘excellence’ in the world of hobby-gaming in the previous year. The winner of the Award receives the Diana Jones trophy.

The short-list and eventual winner are chosen by the Diana Jones Committee, a mostly anonymous group of games-industry alumni and illuminati, known to include designers, publishers, cartoonists, and those content to rest on their laurels.

Past winners include industry figures such as Peter Adkison and Jordan Weisman, the role-playing games Nobilis, Sorcerer, and My Life with Master, the board-games Dominion and Ticket to Ride, the website BoardGameGeek; and the charity fundraising work of Irish games conventions. Last year’s winner was Fiasco by Jason Morningstar.

This is the twelfth year of the Award.

More information is available at www.dianajonesaward.org or at the Award’s Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Jones_Award.

Contact

For more information or an invitation to the announcement of the 2012 Diana Jones Award you can contact a representative of the DJA committee: committee@dianajonesaward.org