The Three Castles Award is an award given every year at the North Texas RPG convention (NTRPGCon) in Dallas IWell, Irving, within sight of the Dallas/Fort Worth airport. It is awarded to Old School RPGs/ Revival/ Renaissance/ Reformation projects (OSRs for short). The category of OSR is not reserved to just early editions of D&D, but include a wide variety of related works, other elder games and derivative projects thereof. The award's steering committee put together a short list, and it went out to a team of esteemed designers..
I am one of those esteemed designers this year. I will leave it to others to identify themselves, should they see fit. We have received detailed instructions on judging Presentation, Organization, Content, playability, Uniqueness, and Art.
Why yes, we take this seriously.
The candidates for this year's awards are:
A Time For Sacrifice by Ben Burns, Brian Courtemanche, Jonathan Bagelman, For Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition, New Comet Games
Moon Daughter's Fate by Alive Peng - for 5th Edition Compatible, Necromancer Games
An Occurrence at Howling Crater by Levi Combs, for 5th Edition Compatible, Planet X Games,
Seekers of the Un-K'Nown by Louis Hoefer, for MCC RPG, Dand Y Line Games
Crypt of the Science-Wizard by Skeeter Green, for DCC RPG and MCC RPG, Skeeter Green Productions,
The Basic Rules for the Majestic Fantasy RPG, By Robert S. Conley, Bat in the Attic Games.
I'm not going to review them in this space - that is reserved for the award ceremony itself, but the convention is June 2-5, 2022. I cannot make it, but there are a lot of people who can. So we'll see what we/they decide when the day comes.
More later,
