United Paizo Workers win the Diana Jones Award
Sometimes progress looks like a glass pyramid.
The United Paizo Workers have won the 2024 Diana Jones Award. During last night’s ceremony at the Slippery Noodle Inn in Indianapolis, several members of the tabletop RPG publisher’s union accepted the pyramid-shaped award “Excellence in Gaming."
The award has long served as an unofficial start to Gen Con, leading the biggest handful of days in tabletop gaming with a celebration of the best the industry has to offer—along with a more recent spotlight shined on rising talent via the Emerging Designer Program. This year’s finalists also included miniature wargaming convention Adepticon, Pink Tiger Games’ Ami Baio, Denmark-based convention Fastaval, and the TTRPGS For Trans Rights in Florida bundle.
United Paizo Workers formed in late 2021 to immediately combat underpayment and crunch conditions within the publisher and were quickly recognized by management, thanks in no small part to a work stoppage by a coalition of freelance contributors. Despite knowing the union wouldn’t cover them, the contract workers tossed their lot in with organizing workers. Like many tabletop companies, Paizo relies on freelance work to maintain a consistent publishing schedule.
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