At the Origins International Game Expo held over the past weekend in Columbus, Ohio the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design announced the winners of the 33rd Annual Origins Awards.  This year retailers voted on nominees presented by game manufacturers at the GAMA trade show (see 'Origins Awards Include Retailer Votes') and the five entries in each category that received the most votes became the finalists (see 'Origins Finalists Announced'). 

 

This year's winners included both Dragon ('Best Non-Fiction Publication of the Year') and Dungeon ('Best Fiction Publication of the Year') -- awards that may well have represented a fond farewell to the two publications, which were recently cancelled (see 'Dungeon & Dragon Magazines to End'), and which have meant so much to the world of adventure gaming over the years.

 

Other key awards went to Looney Labs' Treehouse (Board Game of the Year), Privateer Press' Hordes: Primal (Miniatures Game or Expansion of the Year), WizKids' Pirates: Davy Jones' Curse (CCG or Expansion of the Year), Burning Wheel's Burning Empires (Role-Playing Game of the Year), Mayfair's Settlers of Catan Event Deck (Game Accessory of the Year), and Wizard of the Coast's Colossal Red Dragon (Miniature of the Year).

 

Here is a complete list of the 2007 Origins Award Winners:

 

Board Game or Expansion of the Year

Treehouse (Looney Labs)

 

Miniatures Game or Expansion of theYear

Hordes: Primal (Privateer Press)

 

Miniature or Miniatures Line of the Year

Colossal Red Dragon (Wizards of the Coast)

 

Non-Collectable Card Game or Expansion of the Year

Munchkin Impossible (Steve Jackson Games)

 

CCG or Expansion of the Year

Pirates: Davy Jones' Curse (WizKids)

 

Game Accessory of the Year

Settlers of Catan Event Deck (Mayfair)

 

Fiction Publication of the Year

Dungeon Magazine (Paizo Publishing)

 

Non-Fiction Publication of the Year

Dragon Magazine (Paizo Publishing)

 

Role-Playing Game of the Year

Burning Empires (Burning Wheel)

 

Role-Playing Supplement of the Year

Deadlands Reloaded (Pinnacle/Great White Games)

 

Origins Vanguard Awards

(see 'Piece of Eight Wins Vanguard Award')

 

Play By Mail Game of the Year

Starweb (Flying Buffalo)

 

Historical Miniatures Game of the Year

Vlad the Impaler (Warhammer Historical)

 

Historical Miniatures Line of the Year

40mm American Civil War Line (Sash and Saber)

 

Historical Board Game of the Year

Command & Colors Ancients (GMT Games)