Malhavoc Press

Malhavoc and Monte Win at the ENnies!

8/12/02

If Thoughts Could Kill won the Best Adventure award at the 2002 Gen Con & EN World d20 System awards, and Call of Cthulhu d20 Roleplaying Game netted the Best d20 RPG award at a presentation held Friday night at Gen Con.

Bruce Cordell, author of If Thoughts Could Kill, couldn't make it to Gen Con this year, but he was elated when Sue called him from the ceremony with the news. (He later said it was pretty hard to hear the exact news with all the background noise, but it sounded good, so he took a guess.)

Monte accepted the Call of Cthulhu d20 award on behalf of the entire design team and Wizards of the Coast. The book also received the award for Best Graphic Presentation, thanks to fabulous work by the illustrators and art director Dawn Murin.

We're particularly pleased to see If Thoughts Could Kill recognized this year. It went up for sale as a PDF the week Wizards opened the d20 psionics rules, making it the very first 3rd Edition d20 psionics support title published. Bruce R. Cordell, who also authored the Psionics Handbook, did a terrific job! You've seen lots of other cool products bearing his name as well: The Epic Level Handbook, Manual of the Planes, The Sunless Citadel, Tome and Blood, Heart of Nightfang Spire, and Return to the Tomb of Horrors, all from Wizards of the Coast.

If Thoughts Could Kill was also among the nominees for Best Interior Art, thanks to a terrific job by illustrator Kieran Yanner. Designed by the Unseelie Court and produced by Monte and Sue Cook, our website MONTECOOK.com was nominated for Best Official Website as well. Malhavoc Press received "honorable mention" for Best Cartography (If Thoughts Could Kill), Best Rules Supplement (Book of Eldritch Might II: Songs and Souls of Power), and Best Publisher.

Thanks to all of you for voting for If Thoughts Could Kill and Call of Cthulhu! Your continued support means so much to us. We just hope we can keep on producing more of the great products you want to see.

Have a look at our photo gallery from the awards ceremony.

Peter Atkison welcomes us to the awards presentation.	EN World host Russell Morrissey (Morrus) reflects on how far the awards have come in only one year.
Sue and Monte accept the award trophy (a big 20-sider on an engraved base) for Best Adventure on Bruce's behalf.	Monte calls the design of Call of Cthulhu d20 a real collaborative effort. (Eric Noah's at left and MC Ryan Dancey's at far right.)
Accepting the award for Best Monster Book for Sword & Sorcery's Creature Collection II are developers Anthony Pryor, Joseph Carricker, and Clark Peterson.	Our pals Erik Mona and Chris Thomasson, in accepting the Best Magazine award for Dungeon/Polyhedron, acknowledge the support of their publisher Johnny Wilson.
Monte praises the art and graphic design of Call of Cthulhu d20. In accepting the Best Graphic Presentation award on behalf of Wizards' art staff, he noted, "The cover still kind of creeps me out."	Peter presents Ryan, the father of Open Gaming, with a special award for his contribution to the success of the d20 System.