Probably the most prestigious tabletop roleplaying award is inside your grasp and also you may not have ever even heard of it. What’s it?

An ENNIE.

Based by among the similar folks behind GenCon and EN World (though EN World is now not related to the award), the ENNIEs are an award ceremony for tabletop merchandise, publishers, and creators that’s been going robust since 2002.

World Anvil’s ENNIE Journey

One random day in 2019 our good pal Andi, Neighborhood Coordinator, and one of many first Anvilites ever, advised us about this little awards ceremony we must always apply to. It’s known as the ENNIES.

Don’t inform anybody, however on the time we’ve by no means even heard of the ENNIES earlier than. But when Andi says we must always test one thing out, we test it out.

So we stuffed within the utility and despatched off our product to the judges. The onerous half was choosing which tier to select. Though World Anvil is a full suite of instruments, we may solely decide a single providing to submit. Grandmaster it’s! Submit.

Maintain up! What do you imply if there are sufficient submissions in your class that your complete class is faraway from the awards? Oh no. Time to freak out.

No! Time to make our pals over at DungeonFog apply as properly. They usually did!

With slightly luck, a couple of others utilized in our class and we’re good to go.

Quick ahead a bit and we get the fateful e-mail… We’re Nominated! We made the lower! In our pleasure to get the votes rolling in we launched a borked video telling everybody to offer us only one vote as a substitute of 5… Not off to an awesome begin.

We pushed out one other video as rapidly as we may. Disaster averted. Shortlist achieved! We would even have an opportunity at successful the darn factor. That’s nuts!

Now it’s time to ebook a final minute flight to Indianapolis. Get diverted by means of New York round a horrible storm. Keep at an emergency lodge. Then attend our first ever huge gaming conference, and perhaps win an award for Greatest Digital Help or Accent.

Sitting within the crowd when it received to our class, they introduced that our pals DungeonFog had received silver. Until, the CEO, had requested me to simply accept the award on his behalf, which I did after first clarifying that “This isn’t mine”!

Shuffling off the stage to seek out our seat and immediately Hammer Time by MC Hammer begins blaring over the loudspeaker. Why? As a result of that’s the music we picked to play if we received. Wait? We received?

WE WON!

Naturally, once we took the stage once more, nonetheless holding DungeonFog’s silver award, this time saying “This IS mine!”.

You Ought to Completely Apply Subsequent Yr!

There’s no hurt in submitting your work, and it solely takes some minutes to finish the submission type. Should you’re within the TTRPG house, there’s greater than possible a class that you just match into. 

After all, having the ability to boast certainly one of their stunning awards shall be an awesome credit score to your writing and worlds, however even having the ENNIE Nominated tag in your work will assist elevate eyebrows and switch heads.

As a World Anvil consumer, there’s little doubt in our thoughts that you just’re not producing an incredible product that may enhance the TTRPG house. Making use of to an ENNIE is only some clicks away, and that’s just some clicks that would assure you a prestigious award to use to your work in 2023.

What It Takes to Win an ENNIE

Step 1. Make an awesome product.

Whereas anybody can submit their work to be thought of for an ENNIE, solely the perfect works and merchandise are chosen by the judges for nomination.

Step 2. Construct an viewers.

Fortunately, for the reason that ENNIEs have traditionally inspired and favored indie and area of interest publishers, you don’t want that huge of an viewers to take dwelling the prize.

So put your advertising and marketing hat on. Get your message on the market. Discover your folks. Construct your viewers.

Making an awesome product is just not sufficient to attain success on this world. You additionally must be good at advertising and marketing. You might be an incredible storyteller, however you must take into consideration how one can inform the story of your story to the lots.

Step 3. Activate Your Tribe

Name your tribe to motion. What motion? Go vote! For you.

Sage Knowledge

If reaching success in your writing or work is a critical aim of yours, then collaborating in awards and competitions is a good stepping stone in direction of that success, and we may help you get there.

One of many lesser recognized however most impactful advantages of turning into a World Anvil Sage is our monetization and advertising and marketing help, and ‘Sage Seminars’.

Sage Seminars are month-to-month occasions solely for these subscribed to our ‘skilled’ tier the place we go into nice element about all types of important matters and methods for reaching success on the planet of writing and worldbuilding.