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KUBLACON HOSTS OUR FIRST EVER
KUBLACON GAMING AWARDS!!
The KGAs are something different, something very in the style of KublaCon. The qualities the KGAs represent are: fun, sincerity, and excellence.
- FUN: Each year the awards have a different focus, described in the awards title. One year the Tabletop Awards might be "Best dang meeple or bit". Next year it might be "The coolest dice in the world". We keep it light and changing.
- SINCERITY: While the titles of the awards change every year, and they may be silly or tongue-in-cheek, that actual games awarded are ones that deserve an award. There will not be „worst game‰ awards, degrading awards, nor will awards be given to games undeserving. Our goal is to have the people receiving the awards to be pleased to get them and for everyone to have fun during the process.
- EXCELLENCE: The games awarded will be fine examples of what we, as game lovers, enjoy in a game. If we feel there are no games deserving in a category in a year, we won‚t give out an award for the category that year.
Here are the winners from this year's 2007 awards!
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Category: CCG
Award: "Holy crud, we wish we had created this"
Winner: Pirates of the Mysterious Islands
Publisher: Wizkids
Designer: James Ernest, Mike Selinker
Comments: Even after all this time, it is still a fun and interesting process to take out the cards and put together the ships. It still feels inventive and new. So Pirates of the Mysterious Islands gets the KGA nod.
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Category: Tabletop
Award: "Best dang meeple or bit"
Winner: Heroscape Marvel: the Conflict Begins
Publisher: Hasbro
Designer: Craig Van Ness, Rob Daviau, Stephen Baker
Comments: Everything in Heroscape is a bit, and every piece is fun to play with. People actively buy this product for the terrain, for goodness sake. This latest release is no different - wonderful bits we want to play with.
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Category: Historical Miniatures
Award: "Best new miniature wielding a rifle, musket, laser carbine, gauss rifle (or pistol), flame thrower, handgun, rocket launcher, blow gun, atlatl, bola, chakram, bow, crossbow, blunderbuss, throwing dagger, and/or shuriken"
Winner: Cowboy Wars
Publisher: West Wind Production
Artist: (None listed)
Comments: Great 25-28mm figurines - all brandishing pistols or rifles. Floppy hats on the banditos, racing horses for the sheriffs, top hats on the townsfolks - we love the time period and the details.
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Category: Miniatures/CMBG
Award: "Best new fig (and though we prefer metal, we looked at plastic figs, too)"
Winner: Anima Minis
Publisher: Edge Entertainment and Anima Project Studio -
Artist: (None listed)
Comments: Gorgeous white-pewter figurines of exquisite detail. Our favorites were in the neutral faction. YMMV.
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Category: RPG/LRPG
Award: "Best game that doesn‚t include elves or vampires"
Winner: The Zorcerer of Zo
Publisher: Atomic Sock Monkey Press
Writer: Chad Underkoffler
Comments: A fun, interesting world to play in, but the added strength of this release is the monumental quantity of design notes included in the book; giving us all a closer look into Chad Underkoffler's head and the evolution of this RPG. Very nice!
Close seconds in the RPG/LARP category:
Runners-up: Shab-al-hiri Roach
Publisher: Bully Pulpit Press
Writer: Jason Morningstar
Runners-up: Shock: Social Science Fiction
Publisher: Glyph Press
Writer: Joshua A.C. Newman
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Category: General Award
Award: "Best game by a company at KublaCon 2007"
Winner: Science-Fusion the Elements of the Scienauts
Publisher: Edge Games
Designer: (None listed)
Comments: This small company got the con goers more excited than any other company. Their interesting game, with lots of great artwork, made them the most popular game of the dealer's room in 2007.
Award: "Best game by a company who was not at KublaCon 2007, and whose publisher needs to join us next year to receive this award!"
Winner: Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot Perfectly PINK Booster
Publisher: Playroom Entertainment
Designer: Jeffrey Neil Bellinger
Comments: The Pink release looks to be the most fun expansion since the earliest ones. Congratulations Playroom Entertainment.
Award: "Best barely-gaming-related thing"
Winner: The Gamers (Director's Cut)
Publisher: Dead Gentlemen Productions
Director: Matt Vancil
Comments: Take the already-great The Gamers and add in some improv, sketches, and Revamping Doyle? Great! And great fun.
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Category: Honorary Award
Award: "Delightful reference of Kubla, KublaCon, and/or Kublaconia in
their product"
Winner: Dungeon Majesty, Episode 5: Enter Kalmox
Publisher: Dungeon Majesty
Writer: Dungeon Majesty
Comments: Our favorite gang of adventurers (and DM) filmed at KublaCon! How cool is that.
Winner: Temple of Kubla Khan, Tomb of Kubla Khan, and The Dungeons of Kubla Khan
Publisher: Troll Lord Games
Writer: Casey Christofferson
Comments: For three years Troll Lord Games has brought us wonderful Kubla-related d20 modules. This is another in a long line of "Thank You!" from us here at KublaCon.
Winner: 2006 KublaCon Die
Publisher: Chessex
Designer: Chessex
Comments: Delightful d6 with "KublaCon" and the date. (Must... complete... set...)
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Items on track to win an honorary award next year
Winner: 2007 KublaCon Die
Publisher: Chessex
Designer: Chessex
Winner: Monkey vs Squid, First Edition
Publisher: Wargolem Games
Designer: Damon Gregory
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