Here are the nominees and Judges' Spotlignt Award winners for 2020.

Judges' Spotlight Winners

• Benjamin Adelman: Sleepaway
• Rachel Campbell: Glitter Hearts, Leatherman Games
• Christopher Gath: Refractions in Glasston, Chaosium Inc.
• Shauna Ratliff: Knarls Candy Compendium
• James Surano: Hit the Streets, Defend the Block, Lost Highway Games

Best Adventure

• A Pound of Flesh, Tuesday Knight Games *GOLD* Winner
• Trilemma Adventures Compendium Vol 1, Trilemma Adventures SILVER* Winner
• Book of Seasons: Solstices, Jessica Marcrum Writes
• Killer Kobolds from Outer Space, Oliver Clegg
• The Halls of Arden Vul Complete, Expeditious Retreat Press

Best Aid/Accessory

• Deck of Many Animated Spells, Hit Point Press *GOLD* Winner
• The Dungeon Books of Battle Mats, Loke Battlemats *SILVER* Winner
• DunGen.app, Dungeon Channel
• DungeonMorph Delver, Trailblazer, & Voyager 10' Battlemats, Inkwell Ideas
• Nights Black Agents Director's Screen & Resource Guide, Pelgrane Press

Best Art, Cover

• Call of Cthulhu: Berlin the Wicked City, Chaosium Inc. *GOLD* Winner
• The Ultraviolet Grasslands, Exalted Funeral Press *SILVER* Winner
• Harlem Unbound 2nd Edition, Chaosium Inc. / Darker Hue Studios
• Nibiru Corebook, Araukana Media LTD
• Witch+Craft, Astrolago Press

Best Art, Interior

• The Ultraviolet Grasslands, Exalted Funeral Press *GOLD* Winner
• Strata, Rowan, Rook and Decard *SILVER* Winner
• BFF! Best Friends Forever, Heart of the Deernicorn
• Dragons Conquer America: Core book, Burning Games
• Never Going Home, Wet Ink Games

Best Cartography

• Trilemma Adventures Compendium Vol 1, Trilemma Adventures *GOLD* Winner
• Jim Henson's Labyrinth, the Adventure Game, River Horse *SILVER* Winner
• Dungeon in a Box, Dungeon in a Box
• Nibiru Corebook, Araukana Media LTD
• Over the Edge Poster Map, Atlas Games

Best Electronic Book

• New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley 2nd Ed., Stygian Fox *GOLD* Winner
• Uncaged Vol III, Scribemind *SILVER* Winner
• BEOWULF: Hermit's Sanctuary, Handiwork Games
• Killer Kobolds from Outer Space, Oliver Clegg
• Wolves of Steadwick, Explorer's Guild Publishing

Best Family Game/Product

• Jim Henson's Labyrinth, the Adventure Game, River Horse *GOLD* Winner
• Kids on Bikes: Strange Adventures! Volume Two, Renegade Games/Hunters Entertainment *SILVER* Winner
• BFF! Best Friends Forever, Heart of the Deernicorn
• Quest, The Adventure Guild
• The Excellents: Excellent Princess Roleplaying, 9th Level Games

Best Free Game/Product

• TTRPG Safety Toolkit, Smooching Knife *GOLD* Winner
• Tunnel Goons, Highland Paranormal Society *SILVER* Winner
• BEOWULF: Hermit's Sanctuary, Handiwork Games
• Secret Science Sewer Siblings, Cloven Pine Games
• Sexy Battle Wizards, Rowan, Rook and Decard

Best Game

• ALIEN the Roleplaying Game, Free League Publishing *GOLD* Winner
• MÖRK BORG Artpunk RPG, Free League Publishing *SILVER* Winner
• A Cool and Lonely Courage, Plane Sailing Games Limited
• Royal Blood, Rowan, Rook and Decard
• Zombie World, Magpie Games

Best Layout and Design

• MÖRK BORG Artpunk RPG, Free League Publishing *GOLD* Winner
• A Pound of Flesh, Tuesday Knight Games *SILVER* Winner
• BFF! Best Friends Forever, Heart of the Deernicorn
• Quest, The Adventure Guild
• Trilemma Adventures Compendium Vol 1, Trilemma Adventures

Best Monster/Adversary

• Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio, Volume 1: Monsters Malevolent and Benign, Wizards of the Coast *GOLD* Winner
• Big Bad Booklet 1-6, Hit Point Press *SILVER* Winner
• Icons Rogues, Ad Infinitum Adventures
• Magimundi Bestiary 5th Edition (5e), Learn Larp, LLC
• Worm Witch, Knight Owl Publishing

Best Online Content

• The Monsters Know What They Are Doing: Combat Tactics for DMs, Saga Press *GOLD* Winner
• RPG Writers Workshop, Scribemind *SILVER* Winner
• DNDSPEAK - The Official d100 Website, DNDSPEAK
• Old-School Essentials Generators, Necrotic Gnome
• Molten Sulfur Blog, Molten Sulfur Press

Best Organized Play

• Stygia Untamed, Greasy Snitches, Paul Gabat *GOLD* Winner
• Where Can She Be, Robbie Pleasant *SILVER* Winner
• Jaunt to the Center of Faerun, Noah Grand
• Protégé of the Trampling Forest, Ma'at Crook
• The Only Way to be Sure, Jason Panella, Jim Parkin

Best Podcast

• Asians Represent! *GOLD* Winner
• Red Moon Roleplaying *SILVER* Winner
• Appendix N Book Club
• Plot Points
• Roll for Persuasion

Best Production Values

• Thousand Year Old Vampire, Petit Guignol *GOLD* Winner
• Humblewood Box Set, Hit Point Press *SILVER* Winner
• BFF! Best Friends Forever, Heart of the Deernicorn
• Icarus, Renegade Games/Hunters Entertainment
• The Yellow King RPG, Pelgrane Press

Best RPG Related Product

• Absinthe in Carcosa, Pelgrane Press *GOLD* Winner
• Session Zero, Bullypup Publishing *SILVER* Winner
• Encounter Theory: The Adventure Design Workbook, Plot Points Productions
• Inhuman Conditions, Mythical Normal
• Shadowtide: Recipes From Aldea, Green Ronin

Best Rules

• Thousand Year Old Vampire, Petit Guignol *GOLD* Winner
• Zombie World, Magpie Games *SILVER* Winner
• Icarus, Renegade Games/Hunters Entertainment
• MAZES The Polymorph RPG of Dungeons and Dangers, 9th Level Games
• Score, Gila RPGs

Best Setting

• Call of Cthulhu: Berlin the Wicked City, Chaosium Inc. *GOLD* Winner
• Arkadia: The Greek Setting for 5e, Arcana Games *SILVER* Winner
• Americana, Sandy Pug Games
• Dead Halt, Zonware
• Rakehell Issue One: The Rift of Mar-Milloir, Goatman's Goblet

Best Supplement

• Delta Green: The Labyrinth, Arc Dream Publishing *GOLD* Winner
• Ironsworn Delve, Shawn Tomkin *SILVER* Winner
• Doctor Who: 12th Doctor Sourcebook, Cubicle Seven
• Witch+Craft, Astrolago Press
• Zombie World: The Mall, Magpie Games

Best Writing

• MÖRK BORG Artpunk RPG, Free League Publishing *GOLD* Winner
• The Monsters Know What They Are Doing, Saga Press *SILVER* Winner
• Electric Bastionland, Bastionland Press
• Quest, The Adventure Guild
• Visigoths vs Mall Goths, Lucian Kahn

Product of the Year

• MÖRK BORG Artpunk RPG, Free League Publishing *GOLD* Winner
• Thousand Year Old Vampire, Petit Guignol *SILVER* Winner
• BFF! Best Friends Forever, Heart of the Deernicorn
• Deck of Many Animated Spells, Hit Point Press
• Quest, The Adventure Guild
• Royal Blood, Rowan, Rook and Decard
• The Excellents: Excellent Princess Roleplaying, 9th Level Games
• Trilemma Adventures Compendium Vol 1, Trilemma Adventures
• Witch+Craft, Astrolago Press
• Zombie World, Magpie Games

Fan Favourite Publisher: Free League Publishing

2021 Judges:

• Amelia Antrim
• Abigail H.
• Salim Hakima
• Shauna Ratliff
• James Surano

Complete Submissions List

Page last updated: 8 August 2020