The Diana Jones Award is an annual award created to publicly acknowledge excellence in gaming. The award was first made for the year 2000, and the first award ceremony was on August 4, 2001.
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- About the Diana Jones Award
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The Awards:
- The tenth DJ Award (2010)
- The ninth DJ Award (2009)
- The eighth DJ Award (2008)
- The seventh DJ Award (2007)
- The sixth DJ Award (2006)
- The fifth DJ Award (2005)
- The fourth DJ Award (2004)
- The third DJ Award (2003)
- The second DJ Award (2002)
- The first DJ Award (2001)
The Diana Jones Award 2007
The Winner | The Nominees | The Award Ceremony
The Winner
The 2007 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming has been given to The Great Pendragon Campaign, a role-playing game campaign book by Greg Stafford, published by White Wolf.
In terms of sheer scope, Greg Stafford’s Great Pendragon Campaign breaks new ground, presenting almost a century’s worth of continuous story with gemlike clarity; in almost fractal fashion, any given year can become its own campaign. Its greatest structural successes are those of Stafford’s Pendragon: a superbly compact yet never sketchy adventure format, seamless hard-wiring of characters into setting and continuity, and unprecedented emphasis on epic, generational storytelling. Thematically, it is a triumph of Arthurian art , the roleplaying form’s equivalent of Tennyson’s The Idylls of the Kingor Wagner’s Parsifal—a brilliant personal engagement with one of the foundation myths of Western fantasy.
Greg Stafford has worked in the hobby-games industry since 1975, when he founded the publishing company Chaosium. His seminal game RuneQuest was released in 1978, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential and inspirational designers in the history of the RPG field.
Also shortlisted for the Diana Jones Award this year were the pirate-based coin game Pieces of Eight designed by Jeff Tidball and published by Atlas Games; and Stefan Pokorny, the creator, sculptor and painter of the Master Maze line of miniature terrain from Dwarven Forge.