The Awards 2024 is back for another year of artsy weirdness
The Awards 2024 is gearing up for a third year of plumbing the depths of the hobby for the weirdest, artsiest, coolest things out there.
The world’s most SEO-friendly TTRPG awards show is back for another year! Yes, The Awards 2024 is gearing up for a third year of plumbing the depths of the hobby for the weirdest, artsiest, coolest things out there.
What is The Awards?
The Awards was founded in 2022 by Joe DeSimone and has been going strong ever since under the stewardship of the current Coordinator, Nico MacDougall. We are an indie TTRPG awards show dedicated to finding the weirdest shit out there and bringing it to you, the tabletop enthusiast. Unlike other award shows, The Awards doesn’t have categories or rankings. Tabletop role-playing games are a holistic medium, composed of writing, layout, visual art, recorded media, physical artifacts, and so much more, so why would we try to separate out each of those elements to be judged individually? Our panel of judges instead sifts through the submissions we collect and chooses 20 submissions to win on their overall artistic merit.
Judges
We are looking for a diverse panel of 12 judges who can articulate strong opinions about games. Applications for judges will be open until April 30, 2024.
To qualify, you must:
- Be able to read English
- Be willing to read through a high volume of submissions in a timely fashion
- Have Thoughts and/or Opinions about TTRPGs
If you're wondering whether you're qualified to be a judge, don't worry: you are, and your perspective is deeply desired.
Submissions
The submission window for The Awards 2024 is open until May 31, 2024. Submissions must meet the following requirements:
- Published between June 1, 2023 and May 31, 2024
- Have an English version available
- Have a digital version (.pdf, .epub, .doc, etc.)
- Be your own work or work that you contributed to
- Cannot have used AI/LLMs in any part of the art or writing
This year, submitters will be limited to 3 submissions OR 50 pages of material, whichever is reached first.
The Timeline
- April 1: submissions and judge applications open
- April 30: judge applications close
- Early May: judges chosen
- May 31: submissions close
- June-August: judges read through and vote on submissions
- September: judges convene in a Discord server and discuss finalists
- Early October: judges vote on finalists and select 20 winners
- Mid- to late-October: The Awards 2024 winners livestream (platform TBD)
