Blades in the Dark, Harlem Unbound and Star Trek Adventures also among widely-shortlisted roleplaying games

The shortlist of nominations for this year’s ENnies – the annual awards show focused on celebrating tabletop roleplaying games – has been revealed.

Heading up the Best Game category are two acclaimed RPGs, Blades in the Dark and Delta Green: The RPG, which are joined by Zweihänder, Red Markets: A Game of Economic Horror and Vurt: The Tabletop Toleplaying Game.

Among its seven total nominations, Delta Green also picks up a nod for Best Rules, where it’s joined by a pair of fellow Lovecraftian efforts: Cthulhu Confidential and Harlem Unbound. Torg Eternity and Star Trek Adventures round out the list.

Harlem Unbound, the groundbreaking examination of 1920s racism that has also earned Chris Spivey a place in the running for this year’s Diana Jones Award for Gaming Excellence, extends its collection of nominations with recognition for Best Setting, Best Writing and Product of the Year.

One of the most widely-nominated games is Pathfinder sequel Starfinder, which collects a total of eight nods for its Core Rulebook in Product of the Year and Best Interior Art, Pact Worlds supplement and setting, Alien Archive monsters, First Contact – the free taster released last summer for Free RPG Day – cartography, and its GM screen in the awards’ accessory category.

For the first time, the ENnies will hand out a prize for Best Organised Play, with D&D Adventurers League adventure collection Lost Tales of Myth Drannor, Bleeding Gate: Amalgamation, End of the Line, Wreckers and Best Friends Forever fighting it out to be the inaugural recipient.

The winners of this year’s ENnie Awards will be announced on August 3rd during Gen Con.

Find a selection of the nominations below, with the full list and details available over on EN World.

Best Adventure

Delta Green: A Night at the Opera

The Two-Headed Serpent

Six of Swords

Seven Worlds Campaign Book

The Dark of Hot Springs Island

Best Free Game

Esper Genesis Basic Rules

High Plains Samurai: Legends

Modos 2

Forthright Open Roleplay Creative Commons Edition

Saga of the Goblin Horde

Best Game

Delta Green: The RPG

Blades in the Dark

Zweihänder, Grim & Perilous Studios

Red Markets: A Game of Economic Horror

Vurt: The Tabletop Roleplaying Game

Best Organised Play

Lost Tales of Myth Drannor

Bleeding Gate: Amalgamation

End of the Line

Wreckers

Best Friends Forever

Best RPG Related Product

Khan of Khans

Dresden Files Co-operative Card Game

Storm Hollow,

Friendly Local Game Store

#feminism

Best Rules

Delta Green: The RPG

Harlem Unbound

Cthulhu Confidential

Torg Eternity: Core Rules

Star Trek Adventures: Core Rulebook

Best Setting

Harlem Unbound

Freedom City 3rd Edition

Frostbitten and Mutilated

Predation

Starfinder Pact Worlds

Best Supplement

Shadowrun Dark Terrors

Reign of Terror

Doctor Who RPG – The Black Archive

Holy Crap: the Great Sects Change Operation

Starfinder Pact Worlds

Best Writing

Delta Green: The Way it Went Down

Harlem Unbound

Monsters

Frostbitten and Mutilated

Holy Crap: the Great Sects Change Operation

Product of the Year