At this past weekend’s PAX Unplugged, the winners for the inaugural Dicebreaker Tabletop Awards were announced.

The big winner of the event was Coyote & Crow LLC, who walked away with wins for Rising Star: Publisher and Best Roleplaying Game. Last year, a Kickstarter for Coyote & Crow launched with a massive $1 million earned from backers. The sci-fi game, which is led by a team of Native Americans, lands players in a world that was never colonized.

The full ceremony and well as a list of winners can be seen below.

Dicebreaker will bring back the awards ceremony for next year’s PAX Unplugged. More information about the awards can be found here.

Dicebreaker Tabletop Awards 2022 winners

Best Board Game

Flamecraft

•Designer: Manny Vega
•Artist: Sandara Tang
•Publisher: Cardboard Alchemy, Lucky Duck Games

Runner-ups: Crescent Moon, Three Sisters, Undaunted: Stalingrad
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Best Roleplaying Game

Coyote & Crow

•Designer: Connor Alexander (Cherokee Nation), William McKay (Manitoba Métis Federation), Weyodi Oldbear (Numunu), Derek Pounds (Samish), Nico Albert (Cherokee Nation), Riana Elliot (Cherokee), Diogo Nogueira, William Thompson (Cherokee Nation)

•Artist: Tate Allen (Choctaw), Kyle Charles (Whitefish Lake First Nation), Phil Cohen, Dale Deforest (Diné), Jillian Dolan (Métis/Cree), Sadekaronhes Esquivel (Kanyen’kehá:ka/Mexican Indigenous), Emma Flowers (Crow), Elijah Forbes (Waganakising Oadawak), Al Harris (Lumbee), Amélie Hutt, Mackenzie Neal (Quapaw Nation), Brian Roanhorse (Navajo), Heather Snell (Lakota/Dakota), Jesse Thompson, Wolf Tomoyaketu (Comanche/Apache), Charles Utting, Jeffrey Veregge (S’Klallam), Kameron White (Chahta/Tsalagi), Matthew Willetto (Navajo), Lawrence Willie (Paiute), Nala J. Wu

•Publisher: Coyote & Crow LLC

Runner-ups: Avatar Legends, Ironsworn: Starforged, The One Ring: Second Edition

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Best Ongoing Card Game

Flesh & Blood: Everfest

•Designer: James White
•Artist: Robbie Wen, MJ Fetesio, Sam Yang
•Publisher: Legend Story Studios

Runner-ups: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Revised Core Set, Magic: The Gathering - Dominaria United, Pokémon TCG: Sword & Shield - Astral Radiance

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Designer of the Year

Banana Chan

Runner-ups: Cezar Capacle, Colin Le Sueur, James Kniffen, Jeeyon Shim, Jonny Pac, Lynne Hardy, Paul Dennen, Will Jobst

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Publisher of the Year

Free League Publishing

Runner-ups: Games Omnivorous, Lucky Duck Games, Plus One Exp

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Rising Star: Designer

Lottie and Jack Hazell

Runner-ups: Connor Alexander, Duke Harrist, Gwendolyn Clark, Kavita Poduri, Mabel Harper, Mario Ortegon, N.L. Morrison, Seb Pines, Viditya Voleti

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Rising Star: Publisher

Coyote & Crow LLC

Runner-ups: Adder Stone Games, Birdwood Games, Chapbook Co-op, Dinoberry Press, Possible Worlds Games

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People’s Choice

Beam Saber

•Designer: Austin Ramsay
•Artist: Vincent Patrick, Hadrian, Atlas Sellman, Christine Blight, Jess Whitmore, Imani Kelker, No_Tables, Andrew Ferris, Roberto Zoreda Ichaso, Mal Peters
•Publisher: Austin Ramsey