Yes, it's that time again, time to accept entries for the Three Castles RPG Design award, sponsored by the North Texas RPG con. This award was presented for the 2nd time at the 2012 NTRPG con, and the winner was the SF roleplaying rules system/supplement Stars Without Number by Kevin Crawford. Last year's winner Michael Curtis was in attendance and was able to present the award!

The award is given annually at the convention and chosen by a panel of five judges with roots in Role Playing Games.  It is our hope that the award will continue to showcase the best in small-press RPG design and shine the spotlight on up-and-coming designers who contribute to the hobby we love.

BTW, the critically acclaimed Three Castles Award winning The Dungeon Alphabet will soon be available in a 3rd printing, with new bonus content!

All the info about the award is online at the NTRPG con site. Basically, the item must have been published between September 30, 2011 and October 1st of this year. Three physical copies must be submitted for evaluation by the steering committee, and if you move onto the final round you'll be asked to supply five more copies (we'll try to recycle copies sent to the steering committee if we can to save you money, but that's not a given). Instructions on how and where to submit entries is on the website....you have until the end of the year to get these in, but why wait?

http://ntrpgcon.com/index.php?option=co ... &Itemid=75

The five final judges this year are Erol Otus, Steve Winter, Rick Loomis, Rob Kuntz and Peter Kerestan. These gentlemen, like the previous judges, represent a breadth of gaming and design experience that covers every part of the industry, from it's earliest days until now.

The award is a beautiful statuette that represents three of the most famous megadungeons from the beginnings of the game...Blackmoor, Greyhawk and El Raja Key.



If you have any questions, post here, PM me, or go to the NTRPG con website and post there. Thanks!

Mike B.

The Three Castles Awardâ„¢ was conceived by Robert Kuntz and with the able assistance of Douglas Rhea as an award to be presented to designers of the highest merit for outstanding work in the industry of Role Playing Game design. Only one such award can be given annually. And due to the exacting guidelines used for determining what qualifies as an exemplary design, only those designs that match or exceed the guidelines can qualify to be awarded. If no entry meets these criteria, no award is achieved for that year.

The entries are judged for form, presentation, organization, content, usefulness, design, playability, uniqueness and art.

If you are an aspiring game designer with a newly published, qualifying work and wish to enter it for consideration, please refer to the 3CA guidelines downloadable from: NTPRGCon.com