Hello, and welcome to Good News Friday! At the end of each week, Hit Point Press staff internally share cool things that they’re building and highlight things they are excited about. These small celebrations used to be for the team only, but now we’re letting you in on the fun! This blog series is a weekly round-up of updates directly from us to you.
ENNIE Award Nominations
The ENNIE Awards announced their 2024 nominations and we’re up for consideration in five categories!
Our nominations are:
- Best Adventure - Long Form: Heckna! Campaign Book
- Best Family Game / Product: If I Were A Lich, Man
- Best Monster / Adversary: Big Bads - Yku
- Best Setting: Heckna! Campaign Book
- Best Supplement: The Griffon’s Saddlebag – Book Two
- … and you can vote for us in the Fan Favorite Publisher category!
The outcome of this award is determined by public vote. Voting is open now until July 21. Winners are announced at Gen Con on August 2. Click here to vote.
How to vote:
- Click on the category you are interested in.
- Find your favorite product and select “1” from the drop-down menu beneath its name.
- Find your second-favorite product and select “2” from the drop-down menu beneath its name.
- Repeat in sequence until you have ranked your favorites in order. You don’t need to rank every product in order to vote.
- Click “Submit.” You’ve now voted in that category!
Be sure to check out the entire list of nominees, which includes amazing industry peers and friends of Hit Point Press! In particular, we’d like to highlight:
Level 1 The Free RPG Day Indie RPG Anthology 2023 published by 9th Level Games (Best Free Game / Product). This year’s selection of games is based on the theme of “endings and epilogues”!
Salvage Union by Leyline Press (Best Game, Best Rules, and Product of the Year). You play mech pilots hunting for salvage in a post-apocalyptic world. Grow your community, craft mechs for you and your team, and resist corpo control!
Starshine Scribbles’ TTRPG Creator Resources Masterpost 2.0 (Best Online Content). This is an amazing collection of free and cost-effective templates, visuals, fonts, and more for industry creatives. If you’re working in TTRPGs, take a look!
The Kobold Guide to Roleplaying by Kobold Press (Best RPG Related Product). Intended for GMs who want to embody unique NPCs, this book features essays by TTRPG designers and roleplayers, including some past Hit Point Press collaborators!
Eat the Reich by Rowan, Rook and Decard (Best Art - Cover, Best Art - Interior, Best Adventure - Short Form, Product of the Year). Play as a team of vampires in 1943 Paris on a mission to drink all of Hitler’s blood!
Koriko: A Magical Year by Mousehole Press (Best Cover Art, Best Writing, Best Production Values, Product of the Year). This solo tarot-driven game has you take the role of a teenage witch in the unfamiliar city of Koriko!
Floral Dragons Proofs
Our dandelion dragon couriers dropped off a special delivery: proof copies of the standard and deluxe editions of the Field Guide to Floral Dragons! This is the fastest turnaround we’ve ever had for proof copies, and our team is combing through them to make sure the text and art are pristine. The books are gorgeous and we can’t wait to get them to you!
New Friends
We’re developing a plushie of a new critter named Risky, and this the prototype! Don’t worry, we’re tweaking his expression so that the final version will look a little less haunted by the crushing weight of existence. I wonder what project he’s for…
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That’s our good news for the week! Check back next week for more updates and good vibes!