Ticket to Ride (a professional board game) has won the Diana Jones award for “Excellence in Gaming”, beating the two other nominees, two small-publisher (“indie”) roleplaying games, Dogs in the Vineyard and Code of Unaris.
Now, I blame berevity: calling it an award for “Excellence in Roleplay Gaming” would be too clumsy, even though that was sort-of how the thing was interpreted in past years, as far as I understood the results.
The broadness of the thing does make it look a bit silly, like nominating two indie graphic novels and a cofee-table photography book for an “excellence in visual art” award.
(Shiffer snarked about the award here).
[ via OgreCave ]