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2025 Origin Award finalists announced

March 11, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Origins Game Fair is at the Greater Columbus Convention Center from June 18th to 22nd.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awards, gama, Origins Award, Origins Game Fair

These are the 2023 Origins Award Nominees

June 6, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

GAMA, the Games Manufacturers Association, is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to look after hobby games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gama, Origins Award, Origins Game Fair

GAMA expells games publisher from the Origins Game Fair

September 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

GAMA say that they have had numerous concerns and examples of behaviour that they have deemed in breach of their code of conduct.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: gama, Origins Game Fair

RPG and tabletop convention news for 2021

January 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Here’s a look at just some of the early RPG and tabletop convention news from 2021.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: convention, Origins Game Fair, uk games expo

The Origins Awards 2020 winners

October 3, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Origins Awards 2020 happened even if Origins was first cancelled due to the lockdown and then Origins Online cancelled due to a lacklustre support of BLM.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Origins Award, Origins Game Fair, origins online

Last-minute surprises at the GAMA election

June 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Yesterday, GAMA met to discuss better than expected losses and to vote in people for four roles on the board.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: gama, Origins Game Fair, origins online

Origins Online cancelled over Black Lives Matter silence

June 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Origins Online was to be the replacement to the lockdown cancelled Origins Games Fair, but now this event has been cancelled as well.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: convention, Origins Game Fair, origins online

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #43

April 10, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Official rule changes to D&D, a look at the tabletop version of Dishonored and TTRPG news from around the web.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, Dishonored, Dungeons & Dragons, earthdawn, fasa, frostgrave, hunters entertainment, Modiphius Entertainment, Nightfall Games, Origins Game Fair, osprey games, red scar publishing, roll20, routinely itemised, savage worlds, sine nomine publishing, SLA Industries, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, wizards of the coast

Origins reschedules and introduces Origins Online

April 9, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The face to face convention is being rescheduled to October 7-11, 2020.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: convention, gama, Origins Game Fair, origins online

2020 Origins Awards nominees announced

March 13, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Origins Awards are designed to promote innovation and excellence in games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Origins Award, Origins Game Fair

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