Announcing the GLoGgies 2025
You've heard of the Bloggies? I don't usually go in for award shows, but I enjoy reading through all the nominations each year. Plus, its fun watching the rolling fistfights over campaigning and category taxonomy that break out across the community.
Well, over on Phlox's Discord we've been discussing running our own awards - the GLoGgies. We discussed it so hard I started a series of digest posts recording potential nominees. The goal is to celebrate all the imaginative, engaging, sometimes-haunting writing that churns through the glogosphere. This may be a niche of a niche, but its ours and it happens to play host to some of the best games-writing going.
What then is the structure that best reflects our scene? Perhaps something like this:
The Format
- Write a blogpost with nominations by January 5th. Anyone can write one. Submit one nomination for each of the categories that follow. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like about each post, but please include a link.
- Voting will be open from January 6th to January 12th. Some folks wanted to vote, so here's your opportunity. I'll collate all the nominations into a poll. You'll have the opportunity to vote for your top 3 favorites in each category in a single round of voting.
- I'll announce the winners January 13th! From there we can vote to award the coveted Golden Gretchling.
The Categories
- Best Dungeon Post
- Best Class Post
- Best Monster Post
- Best Rules Post
- Best Lore Post
- Best Theory Post
- Best Other Post (for posts that don't fit into any of the other categories!)
FAQ
I may update this as questions actually emerge organically, but here are a few I can anticipate:
- What is eligible for nomination? Any post published to a blog between January 1st and December 31st, 2025 that either is about GLoG or was shared to a GLoG server.
- Do I need to nominate a post for every category? No. Feel free to cherrypick if only a few jump out to you.
- Can I nominate my own work? I don't see why not, but it had better be a damn good post, don't you think?
- I don't have a blog; how do I participate? Make one! Get on in here! Or hang out until voting starts and chip in then?