New design award to be awarded in 2011 at North Texas RPG Con The Three Castles Award™ was conceived by Robert Kuntz and with the able assistance of Douglas Rhea forwarded as an award to be presented to designers of the highest merit for outstanding work in the industry of Role Playing Game design. Only one such award can be given annually. And due to the exacting guidelines used for determining what qualifies as an exemplary design, only those designs that match or exceed the guidelines can qualify to be awarded. If no entry meets these criteria, no award is achieved for that year. The entries are judged for form, presentation, organization, content, usefulness, design, playability, uniqueness and art. If you are an aspiring game designer with a newly published, qualifying work and wish to enter it for consideration, please refer to the 3CA guidelines downloadable from: NTPRGCon.com Year 2011's 3C Award judges have roughly 200 years of game design and other far-ranging industry experience between them. Many of the judges have been nominated for, or won, awards for work in the industry. Their work as a whole has been noted for excellence and/or for raising the bar in game design or interrelated areas. They are: Dennis Sustare, Paul Jaquays, Steven J. Winter, Tim Kask and Robert J. Kuntz.
