Here are a few interesting things I just noticed:
1. The Nebula Awards have a category for Best Game Writing, and have had
since 2018
2. The last few years it was mostly video games in that category, with a
steady increase of RPGs
3. This year not only a roleplaying game won, but from what I see all
other nominees also were roleplaying games.
4. The winner this year by the way is Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announces-the-winners-of-the-57th-annual-nebula-awards/

Thirsty Sword Lesbians
by April Kit Walsh, Dominique Dickey, Jonaya Kemper, Alexis Sara, Rae
Nedjadi, and Whitney Delaglio (Published by Evil Hat Productions)
Winner, Best Game Writing in 2021


Also Nominated

Wildermyth by Nate Austin, Anne Austin, and Douglas Austin,
published by Worldwalker Games, LLC
Wanderhome by Jay Dragon, published by Possum Creek Games
Granma’s Hand by Balogun Ojetade, published by Balogun Ojetade and Roaring Lion Productions
Coyote & Crow by Connor Alexander, William McKay, Weyodi Oldbear,
Derek Pounds, Nico Albert, Riana Elliott, Diogo Nogueira, and William
Thompson, published by Coyote & Crow, LLC.


By the way the Nebula site is charmingly out of date. It doesn't seem to
know wether it's 2020, 2021, or 2022. Depending on which link you click
you end up on articles for different years.

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On 01/12/2022 18:55, kyonshi wrote:

    Wildermyth by Nate Austin, Anne Austin, and Douglas Austin,
published by Worldwalker Games, LLC

ah ok, I was mistaken, Wildermyth is actually a computer game. Still an
RPG, but not a tabletop one.

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On Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 9:55:18 AM UTC-8, gmk...@gmail.com wrote:

Here are a few interesting things I just noticed:
1. The Nebula Awards have a category for Best Game Writing, and have had since 2018
2. The last few years it was mostly video games in that category, with a steady increase of RPGs
3. This year not only a roleplaying game won, but from what I see all
other nominees also were roleplaying games.
4. The winner this year by the way is Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announces-the-winners-of-the-57th-annual-nebula-awards/

Thirsty Sword Lesbians
by April Kit Walsh, Dominique Dickey, Jonaya Kemper, Alexis Sara, Rae Nedjadi, and Whitney Delaglio (Published by Evil Hat Productions)
Winner, Best Game Writing in 2021

"In Thirsty Sword Lesbians, you play "angsty disaster lesbians with swords," telling queer stories with friend"

Wow. Just... wow.

Shades of a certain Netbook.

- Justisaur

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On 03/12/2022 21:08, Justisaur wrote:

On Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 9:55:18 AM UTC-8, gmk...@gmail.com wrote:

Here are a few interesting things I just noticed:
1. The Nebula Awards have a category for Best Game Writing, and have had
since 2018
2. The last few years it was mostly video games in that category, with a
steady increase of RPGs
3. This year not only a roleplaying game won, but from what I see all
other nominees also were roleplaying games.
4. The winner this year by the way is Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

https://nebulas.sfwa.org/sfwa-announces-the-winners-of-the-57th-annual-nebula-awards/

Thirsty Sword Lesbians
by April Kit Walsh, Dominique Dickey, Jonaya Kemper, Alexis Sara, Rae
Nedjadi, and Whitney Delaglio (Published by Evil Hat Productions)
Winner, Best Game Writing in 2021

"In Thirsty Sword Lesbians, you play "angsty disaster lesbians with swords," telling queer stories with friend"

Wow. Just... wow.

Shades of a certain Netbook.

- Justisaur

Eh, not really. Its mostly about roleplaying romance stories in a fantasy/science fiction setting. From what I have seen there was nothing
really explicit in the rulebook.
This game is much more of a storytelling game than it is a traditional
RPG. It seems more in the Powered by the Apocalypse vein.
That's not a genre of games I really care for, but if it helps the hobby
spread to a new generation that's hardly a bad thing.

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