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This episode, Dan and Chad talk about their experiences at GenCon, and we catch up on a ton of industry news. The episode was recorded on August 16, 2018.
Campus Crier
The Diana Jones Award went to “Actual Play”
Darker Hue Studios won three gold Ennies for Harlem Unbound:
Best Cover Art
Best Setting
Best Writing
In related news, Harlem Unbound is getting a second edition as a Chaosium book - with more scenarios and maps and art.
Chaosium to publish second edition of the critically-acclaimed Harlem Unbound
AND the book is on the syllabus for a course on American Horror this coming semester at Johnson C. Smith University, a Historically Black university in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu awards:
Best Supplement -- GOLD: Reign of Terror
Best Monster/Adversary -- SILVER: Down Darker Trails
Fan’s Choice, Best Publisher -- SILVER: Chaosium Inc.
Arc Dream/Delta Green awards:
Best Rules - GOLD for the DG RPG
Best Game - SILVER for the DG RPG
Product of the Year - SILVER for the DG RPG
Best Production Values - GOLD: Delta Green: The RPG
Best Electronic Book - GOLD: A Night at the Opera
Best Adventure - SILVER: A Night at the Opera
This year’s award harvest marks the 10th ENnie for Delta Green since 1996, as outlined on the Arc Dram site.
http://theunspeakableoath.com/home/2018/08/delta-green-wins-its-10th-ennie-award/
Sidebar news: The ENnies announced after GenCon that it was going to be “reviewing the awards structure” to make them better - specifically citing “more secure voting systems, changes to the ways the judges are nominated, and more.”
Announced on the GenCon panel “Cool of Cthulhu” were a few odds and ends.
There will be a Call of Cthulhu collectible card game in digital form using Blockchain.
Cthulhu Chronicles content lead Sam Riordan was there to talk about the interactive fiction game, which was being demoed at the Chaosium booth, and you can see an extensive blog interview on the Chaosium site.
Mark Morrison ran a new Reign of Terror scenario on Twitch TV's “Saving Throw Show”
Issue #25 of The Unspeakable Oath has been released. It’s 68 pages of TUO #25 in both PDF and print via DriveThruRPG, now. It has artefacts, tomes, and scenario seeds for Call of Cthulhu...four Delta Green scenarios. Delta Green features on privacy (or the lack thereof) and tactics for agents... and more.
The Delta Green panel from GenCon was posted on the Unspeakable podcast.
Chaosium has recruited renowned role playing author Robin Laws (Feng Shui, Hillfolk) to write an updated version of the RuneQuest supplement Pavis & Big Rubble.