Diana Jones Award
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| Awarded for | Excellence in gaming |
| Presented by | Diana Jones committee |
| First awarded | 2001 |
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The Diana Jones Award is an annual award for "excellence in gaming". The award is unusual in two ways: first, it is not an award for a specific class of thing, but can be awarded to a person, product, publication, company, organization, event or trend - anything related to gaming; second, it does not count popularity or commercial success as a sign of "excellence".
Nominees are circulated during the year to the committee, which is mostly anonymous but which is known to include Peter Adkison, Matt Forbeck, John Kovalic and James Wallis. The committee releases a shortlist of three to seven nominees in spring, and the award is presented to the winner at Gen Con in Indianapolis in August.
The Diana Jones trophy was created in the UK offices of TSR in the mid 1980s to commemorate the ending of their license to publish The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game. The trophy itself is a perspex pyramid containing the burnt remains of the last unsold copy of the game; all that is legible of the title is "diana Jones". (There is no relation of the award with fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones.) The trophy was liberated by the Diana Jones committee, and the award was first presented in 2001.
[edit] Past winners
- 2001: Peter Adkison, founder of Wizards of the Coast.
- 2002: Ron Edwards for Sorcerer.
- 2003: awarded jointly to Jordan Weisman, a founder of FASA and WizKids, and Nobilis second edition.
- 2004: My Life with Master by Paul Czege.
- 2005: Ticket to Ride, the board game by Alan Moon, published by Days of Wonder.
- 2006: Irish Game Convention Charity Auctions, at Gaelcon and Warpcon, for their generosity.
- 2007: The Great Pendragon Campaign, by Greg Stafford, a supplement for the Pendragon role-playing game (published by White Wolf, Inc.).
[edit] External links
- Diana Jones Award home page.
