The Adventure Gaming Hobby's 1984 Origins Awards were recently presented at Origins 85 in Towson, Maryland. They are an international series of awards aimed at recognizing outstanding achievements in Adventure Gaming. They consist of the Charles Roberts Awards for Boardgaming, and the H.G. Wells Awards for Miniatures and RolePlaying games. An Awards Committee, coinposed mainly of independent hobbyists, directs and administers the awards system. The nomination ballot, which is available in February, is open to all interested gamers. A final ballot is prepared by the committee and voted on by members of the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design. Academy membership at $3/year is open to active, accomplished hobbyists, both pro and amateur. Direct correspondence and requests for membership guidelines to: Awards, 3304 Crater Ln, Plano, Tx 75023. H.G. Wells Awards Winners (For excellence in Miniatures and Role-Playing) 1. Best Historical Figure Series, 1984 25mm Colonials (Ral Pa.rtha Enterprises) sculpted by Tom Meier 2. Best Fantasy/SF Figure Series, 1984 25mm Personalities (Ral Paxtha Enterprises) sculpted by Tom Meier 3. Best Vehicular Series, 1984 1/3900 Star Trek Starships (FASA Corp.) sculpted by Ab Mobasher & the GHQ design team 4. Best Miniature Rules, 1984 Sword and the Flame, revised (Greenfield Hobby) Larry Brom 5. Best Role-Playing Rules, 1984 Paranoia (West End Games) Dan Gelber, Greg Costikyan & Eric Goldberg Twilight 2000 (Game Designers' Workshop) Frank Chadwick, John Astell, John Harshman, & Loren Wiseman 6. Best Role-Playing Adventure, 1984 Live & Let Die (Victory Games Inc.) Gerard Christopher Klug 7. Best Professional Miniature Magazine, 1984: The Courier (Courier Publishing) editor Richard Bryant 8. Best Professional Role-Playing Magazine, 1984 Dragon (TSR, Inc.) editor Kim Mohan 9. Best Play-By-Mail Game, 1984 Star Web (Flying Buffalo Inc.) Charles Roberts Awards Winners (For Excellence in Boardgaming) 10. Best Pre-20th Century Boardgame, 1984 South Mountain (West End Games) Richard Berg with Jon Southard 11. Best 20th Century Boardgame, 1984 Vietnam (Victory Games Inc.) Nick Karp 12. Best Science Fiction Boardgame, 1984 Web and Starship (West End Games) Greg Costikyan 13. Best Fantasy Boardgame, 1984 The Lonely Mountain (Iron Crown Enterprises) Coleman Charlton 14. Best Professional Boardgame Magazine, 1984 The Wargamer (World Wide Wargames) editor Keith Poulter 15. Best Adventure Game for the Home Computer, 1984 Carriers at War (Strategic Studies Group) Roger Keat- ing and Ian Trout 16. Best Amateur Adventure Gaming Magazine, 1984 Alarums & Excursions (Lee Gold) editor Lee Gold 17. Best Graphic Presentation in an Adventure Game, 1984 Vietnam (Victory Games Inc.) Ted Koller 18. Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Winner, 1984 Frank Chadwick Back to Table of Contents -- Game News #7 To Game News List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1985 by Dana Lombardy. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com