The Origins Awards, presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design, are presented at the Origins International Game Expo for outstanding work in the game industry. Awards are given for the previous year, so (for example) the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 expo. Origins International Game Expo is one of North Americas most prominent annual gaming conventions, second in size only to Gen Con. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Originally, the Charles S. Roberts Awards were given out at the Origins Expo, in five categories: Best Professional Game, Best Amateur Game, Best Professional Magazine, Best Amateur Magazine and Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame. In 1978, the Expo also hosted the 1977 H. G. Wells awards for Roleplaying games and Miniature wargaming. Starting with the 1987 awards, the Charles S. Roberts were once again given separately, but they have since moved away from the Origins Expo. The Charles S. Roberts Awards (or CSR Awards) are given annually for excellence in the historical wargaming hobby. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ... This article is about traditional role-playing games. ... Three Warhammer 40,000 Miniatures. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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. A board game is any game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. ... History is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in geologic history of the Earth. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Collectible card games (CCGs), also called customizable card games or trading card games, are played using specially designed sets of cards. ... Three Warhammer 40,000 Miniatures. ... History is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in geologic history of the Earth. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... haha For other meanings see Fantasy (disambiguation) Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... This article is about traditional role-playing games. ... Play by mail games are games, of any type, played through postal mail or e-mail. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the very late 1980s and from 2000 and beyond. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ...

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." Detail of painting The Muses Urania and Calliope by Simon Vouet, in which she is supposedly holding a copy of The Odyssey In Greek mythology, Calliope (Greek: Καλλιoπη, beautiful-voiced) was the muse of epic poetry, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and is now best known as Homers muse... In Greek mythology, the Muses (Greek Μουσαι, Mousai : from a root meaning mountain) are nine goddesses who embody the right evocation of myth, inspired through remembered and improvised song and traditional music and dances. ...

Hall of Fame games and publications

• Ace of Aces
• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
• Axis & Allies
• Battletech Mechs & Vehicles
• Berg's Review of Games
• Call of Cthulhu
• Champions
• Cosmic Encounter
• The Courier
• Diplomacy
• Dragon Magazine
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Empire
• Fire & Movement Magazine
• GURPS
• Illuminati play-by-mail game
• Mage Knight
• Magic: The Gathering
• Middle-earth play-by-mail game
• Nuclear War
• Paranoia
• Risk
• Settlers of Catan
• Squad Leader
• Star Fleet Battles (Class of 2006)
• Strategy & Tactics
• Traveller
• Vampire: The Masquerade
• Warhammer

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Awards by year

• 2005 Origins Award winners
• 2003 Origins Award winners
• (For the complete official lists for all years, see External Links below)

The following are the winners of the 32nd annual Origins Award, held in 2006: Aaron Allston Jolly R. Blackburn Rodger MacGowan Dennis Mize (posthumous) Michael Pondsmith Star Fleet Battles 2005 Origins Awards 2005 and Hall of Fame Inductees Category: ... The following are the winners of the 29th annual Origins Award, held in 2003: [edit] Hall of Fame inductees Larry Bond Bob Charrette Ed Greenwood Reiner Knizia Klaus Teuber Loren Wiseman [edit] Hall of Fame Game inductees Squad Leader Warhammer 40K [edit] External links Origins Award Winners for 2003 and...

See also

• Charles S. Roberts Award
• Spiel des Jahres
• Diana Jones Award

The Charles S. Roberts Awards (or CSR Awards) are given annually for excellence in the historical wargaming hobby. ... The Spiel des Jahres (German for Game of the Year) is arguably the most prestigious board game award for German-style board games. ... The Diana Jones Award is an annual award for excellence in gaming. The award is unusual in two ways: first, it is not an award for a specific class of thing, but can be awarded to a person, product, publication, company, organization, event or trend - anything related to gaming; second...

External links

• Academy website
• All award winners, by year