Three days left to vote for Eureka in the Golden Geek Awards
Our first book, Eureka, is currently nominated for a 2010 Golden Geek Award for Best Supplement, which is crazy awesome for a book with barely a quarter of sales under its belt.
Voting for the awards closes 10/31, and if you haven’t voted for Eureka already I’d like to ask you to take a couple of minutes and do just that. Here’s how it works.
You need to be a BoardGameGeek member and meet any one of three criteria: have a supporter badge from any year, have purchased an avatar, or pay a one-time 20 GeekGold fee.
If you don’t meet those criteria, fear not! Gnome Stew reader and BGG admin jmilum offered up the following:
Another way to qualify to vote is to have an avatar, if anyone would like to vote all they need to do is register at the site and send me a geekmail (the internal messaging system at RPG Geek) and I’ll spot you the GeekGold to get an avatar. My username there is jmilum.
The actual voting:
- Visit the Golden Geek Awards RPG voting page
- Click on the “Best Supplement” button up top
- Click on the box to the right of Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters
- Rate Eureka a “1” (the highest rating)
Easy-peasy! You just rate Eureka (along with any other nominees you like) and that’s that. There’s no submit button, and your vote will be counted once voting closes.
Thank you very much for voting for us!
I always feel conflicted on these things. On one hand, I love Eureka. It is a fantastic product. But it seems so disingenuous to vote in a category where not only have I need seen all the products, some I’ve never even heard of. Our industry seems too big and diverse to really handle these kinds of fan voting.
Or is that just me and my limited scope of roleplaying? Maybe the majority is more knowledgeable and can offer solid critics of all these works. I don’t know.
I’m less dialed in than some, moreso than others, and there’s no way I can play or even read everything out there. If I really don’t feel like I can give a category in fan awards (like the GGA or the ENnies) a solid vote, I skip it; if I have a favorite and don’t know jack about the others, I vote to support folks whose work I dig.
Just different strokes, I guess — I can certainly see where you’re coming from, and I’m sure you’re not alone in not wanting to vote without having some experience with all the entries. I just think of it like the Oscars: Alysia and I still have fun “voting” on the couch even when we haven’t seen all the movies. 😉