Gen Con 2026: ENNIE Award Winners

On Friday 31st July, the 2026 ENNIE Awards ceremony was held at the Westin Indianapolis Grand Ballroom as part of the Gen Con. The ENNIE Awards, often known simply as the ENNIES, is an annual award ceremony for tabletop roleplaying games, honouring a wealth of products that were released in the previous 12 months.

Whilst the shortlist of nominees in each category is selected by a team of Judges, who themselves are voted one each year, the nominees are then voted for by the public, making the ENNIES one of the hobby’s largest fan-voted awards.

The ENNIE Awards have now been running since 2001, when they were initially set up by RPG news site EN World to celebrate and recognise d20 publishers and products in the wake of the releases of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition and the subsequent d20 boom. The awards have broaden considerably since then, and grown massively with hundreds of attendees watching the award ceremony, with the ceremony also live stream through the internet.

Congratulations to all of this years nominees, here are the winners of each category…

• Best Adventure – Long Form

  • Gold: Vaesen – City of My Nightmares (Free League Publishing, Author Kiki Pukk Harenstam)

  • Silver: Historica Arcanum: Serenade for the Damned (Metis Creative)

• Best Adventure – Short Form

  • Gold: Whispers of the Woods (Heltung Storytelling, Author Pawel Kicman)

  • Silver: The Bride of Pendle (Miskatonic Repository, Author Jayson Green)

• Best Aid/Accessory – Digital

  • Gold: The Crooked Moon Alchemy VTT (Avantris Entertainment)

  • Silver: Pathfinder 2e & Starfinder 2e on Foundry VTT

• Best Aid/Accessory – Non-Digital

  • Gold: The Crooked Moon Tarot Card Set (Avantris Entertainment)

  • Silver: Handouts – Ryoko's Lost Notes (Loot Tavern Publishing)

• Best Art, Cover

  • Gold: The Crooked Moon Standard Edition Hardcover (Avantrus Entertainment, Artist Xavier Collette)

  • Silver: Historica Arcanum: Echoes of Renaissance (Metis Creative, Artists Belgin Kaya, Yagmur Kiyal, Belix Baytok, Usame Bakar, Alper Bicaklar, Taha Hakan Arslan, Ishak Can Altun, Celia Tang, Ilker Serdar Yildiz, Ege Satirci)

• Best Art, Interior

  • Gold: Legend in the Mist – Core Book (Son of Oak Game Studio, Artists Alejandra Pinal, Mariusz Szulc, Mark Hretskyi, Zach Causey)

  • Silver: The Field Guide to Floral Dragons Box Set (Hit Point Press, Artist Kin Wald)

• Best Cartography

  • Gold: Dolmenwood Maps Book (Exalted Funeral Press, Cartographers Jonathan Newell, Glynn Seal, Arlin Ortiz)

  • Silver: Collection of Fantasy Maps II (Open Sesame Games, Cartographer Guillaume Tavernier)

• Best Community Content

  • Gold: Triangle Agency Fan Zine

  • Silver: The Bride of Pendle (Miskatonic Repository, Author Jayson Green)

• Best Family Game / Product

  • Gold: Dungeons & Kittens Starter Set (Edge Studio, Authors Clement de Ruyter, Trickytophe, Francois Cedelle, and John Grumph)

  • Silver: Dragon Town and the Darkness Below (Author JP Coovert)

• Best Free Game / Product

  • Gold: Daggerheart Quickstart Adventure: The Sablewood Messengers (Darrington Press, Authors Spenser Starke, Rowan Hall, and Mike Underwood)

  • Silver: Legend in the Mist Learn-To-Play Comic Book Adventure (Son of Oak Game Studio, Authors Amit Moshe, Eran Aviram, Itamar Karbian, Kelly Black)

• Best Game

  • Gold: Daggerheart Core Set (Darrington Press)

  • Silver: Legend in the Mist – Core Book (Son of Oak Game Studio)

• Best Layout & Design

  • Gold: Warhammer: The Old World Roleplaying Game, Player’s Guide (Cubicle 7 Entertainment)

  • Silver: Berserkr (Slightly Reckless Games)

• Best Monster/Adversary

  • Gold: Monsters of Drakkenheim (Ghostfire Gaming)

  • Silver: Dolmenwood Monster Book (Exalted Funeral Press)

• Best Online Content

  • Gold: Designing Dungeons Course: Or, How to Kill a Party in 30 Rooms or Less (Joshua McCrowell & Warren D)

  • Silver: The Solo RPG List

• Best Production Values

  • Gold: The Crooked Moon Ultimate Edition (Avantris Entertainment)

  • Silver: Legend In the Mist - Ravenhome Slipcase (Son of Oak Game Studio)

• Best RPG-Related Product

  • Gold: Beyond the Witching Ring: Dolmenwood Soundtrack Album 12” Vinyl LP (Exalted Funeral Press, Music by Tales Under The Oak)

  • Silver: Menagerie of Unbearable Things (Tania Herrero)

• Best Rules

  • Gold: Daggerheart (Darrington Press)

  • Silver: Legend in the Mist – Core Book (Son of Oak Game Studio)

• Best Setting

  • Gold: Dolmenwood Campaign Book (Exalted Funeral Press)

  • Silver: Ryoko's Guide to the Yokai Realms (Loot Tavern Publishing)

• Best Solo Game

  • Gold: SPINE: A Dark Solo TTRPG About Losing Yourself in a Book (Backwards Tabletop, Contributors Asa Donald, Furt the Goblin, Nala J. Wu, Holly Friberg)

  • Silver: The Bonsai Diary (Sticky Doodler, Author Gene Koo)

• Best Streaming Content

  • Gold: Get Your Sheet Together (Darrington Press)

  • Silver: Cozy RPG Reviews

• Best Supplement

  • Gold: Legend in the Mist – Action Grimoire (Son of Oak Game Studio, Authors Amit Moshe, Eran Aviram, Itamar Karbian, Kelly Black)

  • Silver: The Painted Wastelands Player's Guide (Agamemnon Press, Authors Tim Molloy, Christopher Willett)

• Best Writing

  • Gold: Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games (Gallery Books, Author Keith Ammann)

  • Silver: Rapscallion (Magpie Games, Authors Whistler, Elizabeth Chaipraditkul, Brendan G Conway, Mark Diaz Truman)

• Product of the Year

  • Gold: The Crooked Moon Ultimate Edition (Avantris Entertainment)

  • Silver: Daggerheart (Darrington Press)

• Hall of Fame : RuneQuest (Chaosium)

• Fan Favourite Publisher : Avantris Entertainment

You can see the full list of 2026’s Nominees on the ENNIE Awards website.

Images and photos courtesy of Son of Oak Game Studio, Cubicle 7 Entertainment, Chaosium, and the ENNIE Awards