1995 Origins Awards Winners

The Origins Awards are determined by a vote of the gaming public. Products published the previous year (in this case, 1994) are eligible. After the companies themselves pick their best products for eligibility, members of the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design cast nominating ballots to determine which products make the final ballot. The winners were announced Saturday, July 15 at Origins '95 in Philadelphia, PA. The Graphics and Halls of Fame categories are voted on by the Academy, not the general public. The winners are:

1. Best Historical Figure Series

Daimyo Samurai Figures, Reaper Miniatures
Sculptor: Bob Charette

2. Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Figure Series

AD&D Personalities, Ral Partha
Sculptors: James Johnson, Dennis Mize, Jeffrey Wilhelm

3. Best Vehicular Series

BattleTech: Vehicles & Mechs, Ral Partha
Sculptors: Chris Atkin, James Johnson, Richard Kerr, David Summers, Jeffrey Wilhelm

4. Best Miniatures Accessory Series

Mountainscape, Geo-Hex
Designers: Kieran Rohan & Daniel Arteaga

5. Best Miniatures Rules

Blood Bowl, Games Workshop
Designer: Jervis Johnson

6. Best Game Accessory

Legends, Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast
Designers: Steve Conard & Robin Herbert

7. Best Role-Playing Rules

Castle Falkenstein, R. Talsorian Games
Designer: Mike Pondsmith

8. Best Role-Playing Adventure

Council of Wyrms, AD&D, TSR, Inc.
Designer: Bill Slavicsek

9. Best Role-Playing Supplement

The Encyclopedia Magica, Vol. 1, AD&D, TSR, Inc.
Designer: slade
Development: Doug Stewart

10. Best Graphic Presentation of a Role-Playing Game, Adventure or Supplement

Planescape, AD&D, TSR
Graphics Coordinator: Sarah Feggestad
Graphic Design: Dee Barnett & Dawn Murin
Art Coordinator: Peggy Cooper
Cover Art: Robh Ruppel
Conceptual Art: Dana Knutson
Interior Art: Tony DiTerlizzi

11. Best Pre-20th Century Boardgame

Roads to Gettysburg, Avalon Hill
Designer: Joseph M. Balkoski

12. Best Modern-Day Boardgame

Australian Rails, Mayfair Games
Designer: Peter Bromley

13. Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Boardgame

Roborally, Wizards of the Coast
Designers: Richard Garfield & Mike Davis

14. Best Graphic Presentation of a Boardgame

Roborally, Wizards of the Coast
Graphics: Maria Cabardo, Daniel Gelon, Anson Maddocks, Tom Wanerstrand

15. Best Card Game

Illuminati: New World Order, Steve Jackson Games
Designer: Steve Jackson

16. Best New Play-By-Mail Game

Forgotten Realms, Reality Simulations, Inc.
Designer: Paul Brown

17. Best Play-By-Mail Game

Illuminati, Flying Buffalo
Designer: Draper Kauffman

18. Best Fantasy or SF Computer Game

Doom II, id Software

19. Best Military or Strategy Computer Game

SimCity 2000, Maxis
Designers: Fred Haslam & Will Wright
Art Director: Jenny Martin

20. Best Game Related Fiction

Cthulhu's Heirs, Call of Cthulhu Fiction Anthology, Chaosium, Inc.
Editor: Thomas M.K. Stratman
Authors: Scott David Aniolowski, Craig Anthony, Arthur William Lloyd Breach, Crispin Burnham, Daniel M. Burrello, Ramsey Campbell, Hugh B. Cave, D.F. Lewis, Gordon Linzner, Victor Milon, Gregory Nicoll, Cary G. Osborne, Dan Perez, Robert M. Price, Marella Sands, Charles M. Saplak, Darrell Schweitzer, Jason van Hollander, David Niall Wilson, Michael D. Winkle, T. Winter-Damon

21. Best Professional Gaming Magazine

Tie: Dragon Magazine, TSR, Inc.
Associate Publisher: Brian Thomsen
Editor In chief: Kim Mohan
Assistant Editor: Wolfgang Baur
Associate Editor: Dale Donovan
Fiction Editor: Barbara Young
Art Direction: Larry Smith

Tie: The Duellist, Wizards of the Coast
Publisher: Wendy Noritake
Editor: Kathryn Haines
Art Director: Amy Weber

Honorable Mention: Shadis, Alderac Entertainment Group
Publisher: John Zinser
Editor: Jolly Blackburn

22. Best Amateur Adventure Gaming Magazine

Mech, Jim Long/AWOL Productions
Editor: Jim Long

23. Hall of Fame -- Products Division

Risk
Dragon Magazine

24. Hall of Fame -- People Division

Julie Guthrie
Nigel Findley
Jordan Weisman