The Origins Award is commonly referred to as a Calliope, as the statuette is in the likeness of the Muse of the same name. Academy members frequently shorten this name to "Callie."
Since the first ceremony, the game categories have widened to include Board games (Traditional, Historical and Abstract), Card games (Traditional and Trading), Miniature wargaming (Historical, Science Fiction and Fantasy), Roleplaying games and play-by-mail games. There are additional categories for Graphic Design, for game expansions and accessories, and for game-related fiction. During the 1980s and 1990s awards were also given to Computer games. Starting in 2003, the Origins Awards began a new category called the Vanguard Award, which honored highly innovative games.
Dungeons & Dragons and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons were deemed different enough to be inducted on separate occasions.
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He has also written for White Wolf, Inc., Pinnacle Entertainment Group, and worked for various video game companies, providing storyline and dialogue. He has written two regular on-line columns: The Game Designer's Journal (for The Gaming Outpost) and Play Dirty (for Pyramid Magazine).
Wick served as L5R's Continuity Editor for the Emerald Edition, Obsidian Edition, and Jade Edition sets, including the Shadowlands, Forbidden Knowledge, Anvil of Despair, Crimson & Jade, and Time of the Void expansions. He was also the primary source for storyline, flavor text and character for The Scorpion Coup set.
Wick left the L5R design team shortly thereafter to work on AEG's forthcoming 7th Sea project.
Wick wrote and developed much of the project, including the 7th Sea Players Guide, Game Masters Guide, Avalon Sourcebook, GM Screen, and Knights of the Rose and Cross sourcebook. He left AEG after his work on the Avalon Sourcebook was finished.
The game was illustrated by Thomas Denmark.
The pre-order for the limited edition version of Houses of the Blooded sold out in exactly one week. There were 100 copies available on the Indie Press Revolution website on May 5, 2008 and they were all gone by May 12. Wick was apparently surprised by this turn of events.
Wick released a soundtrack with the new game, focusing on "ven blood opera," an in-game element. Songs from the opera can be heard on the Houses of the Blooded website.
Wick is keeping an open log of his design of this game in his LiveJournal. He has stated his intention to release several stand alone supplements that will detail various aspects of the world of Shanri. Each book would allow players to play a different role in Shanri and, as he stated in his livejournal, "almost feel as if they're playing a different game." The books mentioned so far are a 'Slumming' book where players play ven nobles from cities (as opposed to 'country' ven detailed in the main book), a Wilderness book where vassals of the ven nobles fight off ork, explore dungeons, and possibly kill dragons, as well as a Suaven book where details regarding the Ancestor worship religion of the ven will be revealed.
Wick teamed up with British games publisher Cubicle 7 Entertainment for a mass market release of the game in September 2009.
1997 Origins Award Best Roleplaying Game
1997 RPGA Gamer's Choice Award Best Roleplaying Game
Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game (Design Team and Story Editor)
1996 Origins Award Best Collectible Card Game (Battle at Beiden Pass)
1997 Origins Award Best Collectible Card Game Expansion (Time of the Void)
7th Sea Roleplaying Game (Creator, Co-Author, Lead Designer)
1999 Origins Award Best Roleplaying Game
7th Sea Collectible Card Game (Co-Creator, Design Team, Story Editor)
1999 Origins Award Best Collectible Card Game
Orkworld (Author and Designer)
2000 Best Game Fiction (How Bashthraka Lost His Spear) (nominated)
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