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1996 Origins Award winners

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The following are the winners of the 23rd annual (1996) Origins Award, presented at Origins 1997:

Category Winner Company Designer(s)
Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Figure Miniatures Series of 1996 Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Games Workshop Developer: Robin Deus - Designer: Jeff Goodwin
Best Vehicular Miniatures Series of 1996 Battletech: Mechs & Vehicles Ral Partha Enterprises Developer: Chuck Crain - Designers: Chris Atkin, Jim Johnson, Robert Kyde, David Summers, Jeff Wilhelm
Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Miniatures Rules of 1996 Warhammer Fantasy Battles Games Workshop Designers: Andy Chambers, Bill King, Rick Priestley
Best Pre-20th Century Board Game of 1996 Age of Renaissance Avalon Hill Designer: Jared Scarborough
Best Modern-Day Board Game of 1996 Harpoon4 Clash of Arms Designer: Larry Bond, Chris Carlson
Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Board Game of 1996 Settlers of Catan Mayfair Games Designer: Klaus Teuber
Best Card Game of 1996 (three-way tie) Legend of Five Rings: Battle of Beiden Pass Five Rings Publishing Designer: Dave Williams
Best Card Game of 1996 (three-way tie) Lunch Money Atlas Games Designer: Charlie Wiedman
Best Card Game of 1996 (three-way tie) Mythos Chaosium Designer: Charlie Krank
Best Roleplaying Rules of 1996 Deadlands Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Inc. Designer and Writer: Shane Hensley
Best Roleplaying Adventure of 1996 The Complete Masks of Nyarlathotep Chaosium Designers and Writers: Larry DiTillio, Lynn Willis
Best Roleplaying Supplement of 1996 Six Guns and Sorcery R. Talsorian Writers: Edward Bolme, James Cambias, Eric Floch, Angela Hyatt, Jim Parks, Derek Quintanar, Barrie Rosen, Mark Schumann, Chris Williams
Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement of 1996 Deadlands Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Inc. Graphic Designers: Tim Link, Jay Lloyd Neal, Charles Ryan
Best Game Accessory of 1996 Cthulhu for President Chaosium Designers and Writers: Shannon Appel, Les Brooks, Charlie Krank, Paul Lidberg
Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Computer Game of 1996 Master of Orion II Microprose Designers: Steve Barcia, Ken Burd
Best Game-Related Fiction of 1996 The Cthulhu Cycle Chaosium Editor: Robert M. Price - Authors: Donald R. Burleson, Leonard Carpenter, Pierre Comtois, August W. Derleth, Lord Dunsany, Alan Dean Foster, C. J. Henderson, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, Will Murray, Steven Paulsen, David C. Smith.
Best Professional Game Magazine of 1996 Shadis Magazine Alderac Publisher: John Zinser - Editor: Rob Vaux
Best Amateur Game Magazine of 1996 Mechforce Quarterly Publisher: Mech Force Editor: Jean Rabe
Best Historical Figure Miniatures Series of 1996 Daimyo 25mm Reaper Miniatures Designer: Bob Charrette
Best Historical Miniatures Rules of 1996 Hostile Aircraft 2nd Ed. Goblintooth Enterprises Designer: Brian Reddington-Wilde
Best Miniatures Accessory Series of 1996 Wild West Hollow 25mm House Tactical Conflict Systems Designer: Leo Walsh
Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game of 1996 Battletech 4th ed. FASA Corp. Art Director: Jim Nelson
Best Play-by-Mail Game of 1996 Middle Earth Play-By-Mail Game Systems, Inc. Designers: William B. Feild, Jr., Peter G. Stassun
Best New Play-by-Mail Game of 1996 Starship Command Elite Simulations Designer: Brian Hansen
Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1996 Wooden Ships & Iron Men Avalon Hill Executive Producer: Mike Daninnella
Best Graphic Presentation of a Card Game or Expansion of 1996 Middle Earth: The Dragons Iron Crown Enterprises Graphic Designers: Pete Fenlon, Jason Hawkins, Nick Morawitz, Jessica Ney-Grimm
1997 Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Inductees Darwin Bromley
1997 Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Inductees Advanced Dungeons & Dragons TSR, Inc. Designer: E. Gary Gygax
1997 Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Inductees Cosmic Encounter Eon Products, Inc. Designers: Bill Eberle, Jack Kittridge, Bill Norton, Peter Olotka
1997 Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame Inductees Traveller Game Designers Workshop Designer: Marc Miller
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