2006 Origins Award winners
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The following are the winners of the 33nd annual Origins Award
, held in 2007:
Origins Award
The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins.The Origins Award is commonly...
, held in 2007:
| Category | Winner | Company | Designer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play By Mail Game of the Year | Starweb | Flying Buffalo Flying Buffalo Flying Buffalo Incorporated is a Scottsdale, Arizona game company that publishes role playing games, card games, gaming materials, and runs Play-by-mail games.... |
Rick Loomis |
| Board Game or Expansion of the Year | Treehouse Treehouse (game) Treehouse is a game in which players try to get their configuration of Icehouse pieces to match the central configuration, shared by all players... |
Looney Labs Looney Labs Looney Labs is a small game company based in College Park, Maryland, USA. It is named after its founders, Andrew Looney and Kristin Looney.- Card games :... |
Andrew Looney |
| Miniatures Game or Expansion of the Year | HORDES: Monstrous Miniatures Combat | Privateer Press Privateer Press Privateer Press is an award-winning role-playing game and miniature wargame production and publishing studio founded in 2000 by Brian Snōddy, Matt Staroscik and Matt Wilson. Mike McVey joined the partnership early on as Miniatures Director... |
Matt Wilson |
| Miniature or Miniatures Line of the Year | Colossal Red Dragon | Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games... |
Andy Collins Andy Collins (game designer) Andy Collins is a game designer whose writing credits include numerous books for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Early life and education:Andy Collins grew up in Olympia, Washington... , Jesse Decker Jesse Decker -Biography:Decker began playing Dungeons & Dragons in 1983 during recess at his elementary school. During the summer of 1996, he began doing "temp work" for Wizards of the Coast, before returning to finish college that fall. After finishing college, he returned to Wizards of the Coast, where he... , David Noonan David Noonan (game designer) David Noonan is an author of several products and articles for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from Wizards of the Coast.-Role-playing games:... , Chris Perkins; Art Directed by Robert Raper |
| Non-Collectable Card Game or Expansion of the Year | Munchkin Impossible Munchkin (card game) Munchkin is a card game by Steve Jackson Games, written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic, that has a humorous take on role-playing games, based on the concept of munchkins .... |
Steve Jackson Games Steve Jackson Games Steve Jackson Games is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid.-History:... |
Steve Jackson Steve Jackson (US) Steve Jackson is an American game designer. After working for many years at Metagaming Concepts designing such games as Ogre and The Fantasy Trip, he left to found Steve Jackson Games in the early 1980s... |
| Collectable Card Game or Expansion of the Year | Pirates: Davy Jones' Curse Pirates of Davy Jones' Curse Pirates of Davy Jones' Curse is an expansion set for the constructible strategy game Pirates of the Spanish Main produced by WizKids. It expanded on The Cursed Faction and was released on May 31, 2006.-Set Details:... |
WizKids WizKids WizKids, Inc. is an American New Jersey-based company that first made its mark in the game industry producing collectible miniatures wargames. WizKids was purchased by and is a subsidiary of National Entertainment Collectibles Association. The company was founded in 2000 by Jordan Weisman, a... |
Mike Mulvihill |
| Game Accessory of the Year | Settlers of Catan Event Deck | Mayfair Games Mayfair Games Mayfair Games is a publisher of board, card, and roleplaying games. They also license German-style board games and publish them in English throughout the world... |
Klaus Teuber Klaus Teuber Klaus Teuber is a German designer of board games. He won the Spiel des Jahres award four times, for The Settlers of Catan, Barbarossa, Drunter und Drüber and Adel Verpflichtet. He retired from his profession as a dental technician to become a full-time game designer in 1999. , he lives in ... |
| Fiction Publication of the Year | Dungeon Magazine Dungeon (magazine) Dungeon Adventures, or simply Dungeon, was a magazine targeting consumers of role-playing games, particularly Dungeons & Dragons. It was first published by TSR, Inc. in 1986 as a bimonthly periodical. It went monthly in May 2003 and ceased print publication altogether in September 2007 with Issue 150... |
Paizo Publishing Paizo Publishing Paizo Publishing is an American publishing company in Redmond, Washington that specializes in game aids and adventures for "the world's oldest fantasy roleplaying game" and its flagship spin-off game and setting, Pathfinder... |
Published by Erik Mona Edited by James Jacobs |
| Roleplaying Game of the Year | Burning Empires Burning Empires (role-playing game) Burning Empires is an American science fiction role-playing game, designed by Luke Crane and published by Key 20 Publishing in 2006. The epic game is based on Christopher Moeller's two critically acclaimed Iron Empires graphic novels, Faith Conquers and Sheva's War... |
Burning Wheel | Chris Moeller, Luke Crane, Thor Olavsrud, and Radek Drozdalski |
| Roleplaying Game Supplement of the Year | Deadlands Deadlands Deadlands is a genre-mixing alternate history roleplaying game which combines the Western and horror genres, with some Steampunk elements. It was written by Shane Lacy Hensley and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group.... Reloaded |
Pinnacle/Great White Games | Shane Lacy Hensley and B D Flory |
| Historical Miniature Game of the Year | Vlad the Impaler | Warhammer Historical | John Bianchi, Steve Schifani, Dan Minculescu, and Rob Broom |
| Historical Miniatures Line of the Year | 40mm American Civil War | Sash and Saber | Sculpted by Chris Hughes |
| Historical Board Game of the Year | Command & Colours Ancients | GMT Games GMT Games GMT Games, probably the most prolific of the wargame companies in the 1990s and 2000s, was founded in 1990. The current management and creative team includes Tony Curtis, Rodger MacGowan, Mark Simonitch, and Andy Lewis... |
Richard Borg, Pat Kurivial, and Roy Grider |
| Origins Vanguard Awards | Larry Bond's Harpoon 3 | Matrix Games Matrix Games Matrix Games is a publisher of computer games, specifically strategy games and wargames. They are based out of Staten Island, New York.Their focus is primarily but not exclusively on war games and turn-based strategy... |
Advanced Gaming Systems |
| Pieces of Eight | Atlas Games Atlas Games Atlas Games is a company which publishes role-playing games, board games and card games. Its current president is John Nephew.Games published include:... |
Jeff Tidball |