2016 ENnie Award winners

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2016 ENnie Award winners
Awarded forBest role-playing games of previous year
Country United Kingdom & United States
Presented by Gen Con
First awarded2001
Website Archive of 2016 ENNIE Awards
  2015 winners  · ENNIE Awards ·  2017 winners  

The following are the winners of the 16th annual ENnie Awards, held in 2016: [1]

Contents

Judges' Spotlight Winners

Gold and Silver Winners

CategoryGold WinnerSilver Winner
Best Adventure Curse of Strahd (Wizards of the Coast)Dracula Dossier – Director's Handbook (Pelgrane Press)
Best Aid/AccessoryAll Rolled Up – Dracula Dossier: The Black Archive (All Rolled Up)13th Age Game Master's Screen and Resource Book (Pelgrane Press)
Best Art, CoverCurse of Strahd (Wizards of the Coast)Achtung! Cthulhu: Shadows of Atlantis (Modiphius Entertainment Ltd)
Best Art, InteriorDragon Age Core Rulebook (Green Ronin Publishing)Baby Bestiary Handbook Vol 1 (Metal Weave Games)
Best BlogWorld BuilderCampaign Mastery
Best CartographyShadows of Esteren Cartography of Tri Kazel (Agate Editions)Maze of the Blue Medusa (Satyr Press)
Best Electronic BookMaze of the Blue Medusa (Satyr Press)Trail of Cthulhu: The Long Con (Pelgrane Press)
Best Family Game No Thank You, Evil! (Monte Cook Games) Ryuutama (Kotodama Heavy Industries)
Best Free GameDelta Green: Need to Know (Arc Dream Publishing)FAITH: the Sci-Fi RPG (Burning Games LTD)
Best Free ProductPathfinder Module: We Be Goblins Free (Paizo, Inc)Race to Starport (Pelgrane Press)
Best GameDragon Age Core Rulebook (Green Ronin Publishing)Feng Shui 2 Core Rulebook (Atlas Games)
Best Miniature ProductPathfinder Battles – The Rusty Dragon Inn: Bar (Paizo Inc.)Frostgrave (Osprey Publishing)
Best Monster/AdversaryPathfinder RPG: Bestiary 5 (Paizo, Inc)Baby Bestiary Handbook Vol 1 (Metal Weave Games)
Best PodcastKen and Robin Talk About StuffRole Playing Public Radio
Best Production ValuesNumenera Boxed Set Edition: Reliquary (Monte Cook Games)Cthulhu Britannica London (Cubicle 7)
Best RPG Related ProductKen Writes About Stuff Volume 3 (Pelgrane Press)Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Wrath of the Righteous (Paizo, Inc)
Best RulesFeng Shui 2 Core Rulebook (Atlas Games)Urban Shadows (Magpie Games)
Best SettingFeng Shui 2 Core Rulebook (Atlas Games)Southlands Campaign Setting (Kobold Press)
Best Software Roll20 (The Orr Group, LLC)Hero Lab for D&D 5th Edition on Windows, Mac and iPad (Lone Wolf Development)
Best SupplementThe Dracula Dossier: Hawkins Papers (Pelgrane Press)Delta Green: Agent's Handbook (Arc Dream Publishing)
Best WebsiteGnome Stew – The Gaming BlogSee Page XX: The Pelgrane Press Webzine
Best WritingThe Dracula Dossier: Director's Handbook (Pelgrane Press)Maze of the Blue Medusa (Satyr Press)
Product of the YearDracula Dossier Director's Handbook (Pelgrane Press)Curse of Strahd (Wizards of the Coast)
Fan's Choice for Best Publisher Paizo Publishing Pelgrane Press

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The following are the winners of the 17th annual ENnie Awards, held in 2017:

References

  1. "2016 ENnie Award Winners | ENnie Awards". www.ennie-awards.com. Archived from the original on 20 August 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2022.