Best NPCs
Another of the original awards, the award for Best NPCs recognizes particularly appropriate, amusing, and well-written casts of non-player characters.
- 2011: Cryptozookeeper by Robb Sherwin
- Cana According To Micah by Christopher Huang
- The Play by Deirdra Kiai
- Six by Wade Clarke
- Zombie Exodus by Jim Dattilo
- 2010: Aotearoa by Matt Wigdahl
- Gris et Jaune by Jason Devlin
- Hoosegow by Ben Collins-Sussman and Jack Welch
- Rogue of the Multiverse by C. E. J. Pacian
- 2009: Broken Legs by Sarah Morayati
- Blue Lacuna by Aaron A. Reed
- Make it Good by Jon Ingold
- Dead Like Ants by C. E. J. Pacian
- 2008: Everybody Dies by Jim Munroe
- April in Paris by Jim Aikin
- Gun Mute by C. E. J. Pacian
- Snack Time! by Renee Choba
- Violet by Jeremy Freese
- 2007: Child's Play by Stephen Granade
- An Act of Murder by Christopher Huang
- The Chinese Room by Harry Giles and Joey Jones
- Lost Pig by Admiral Jota
- Slap That Fish by Peter Nepstad
- 2006: Floatpoint by Emily Short
- Aunts and Butlers by Robin Johnson
- Delightful Wallpaper by Andrew Plotkin
- Moon-Shaped by Jason Ermer
- The Baron by Victor Gijsbers
- 2005: Vespers by Jason Devlin
- All Hope Abandon by Eric Eve
- Bolivia by Night by Aidan Doyle
- Flat Feet by Joel Ray Holveck
- Gilded by John Evans
- 2004: Sting of the Wasp by Jason Devlin
- Blue Chairs by Chris Klimas
- Future Boy! by Kent Tessman
- Luminous Horizon by Paul O'Brian
- Necrotic Drift by Robb Sherwin
- 2003: City of Secrets by Emily Short
- Narcolepsy by Adam Cadre
- Risorgimento Represso by Michale Coyne
- Shadows on the Mirror by Chrysoula Tzavelas
- Slouching Towards Bedlam by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
- 2002: Lock & Key by Adam Cadre
- Foverer Always by Iain Merrick
- The Frenetic Five vs. the Seven Deadly Dwarves by Neil deMause
- The PK Girl by Robert Goodwin
- Tookie's Song by Jessica Knoch
- 2001: Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short
- Best of Three by Emily Short
- Fallacy of Dawn by Robb Sherwin
- Textfire Golf by Adam Cadre
- You Are Here by Roy Fisher
- 2000: Being Andrew Plotkin by J. Robinson Wheeler
- Galatea by Emily Short
- Heroine's Mantle by Andy Phillips
- Kaged by Ian Finley
- Punk Points by Jim Munroe
- Rameses by Stephen Bond
- 1999: Varicella by Adam Cadre
- A Day For Soft Food by Tod Levi
- The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man by Neil deMause
- The Mulldoon Legacy by Jon Ingold
- Worlds Apart by Suzanne Britton
- 1998: Once and Future by G. Kevin Wilson
- Guilty Bastards by Kent Tessman
- Mother Loose by Irene Callaci
- Muse by Chris Huang
- Photopia by Adam Cadre
- 1997: The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang by Neil deMause
- Everybody Loves a Parade by Cody Sandifer
- I-0 by Adam Cadre
- She's Got a Thing for a Spring by Brent VanFossen
- Zero Sum Game by Cody Sandifer
- 1996: Kissing the Buddha's Feet by Leon Lin
- Lost New York by Neil deMause
- Small World by Andrew Pontious
- The Underoos that Ate New York by G. Kevin Wilson
- The Wedding by Neil Brown
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