Trench Crusade is a finalist for the Diana Jones Award!

Trench Crusade is one of the finalists for the 2026 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming!

For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming has existed since 2001. It is presented annually to the person, product, company, event, movement, concept or any other thing that has, in the opinion of its committee, best demonstrated the quality of “excellence” in the world of hobby-gaming in the previous year. It has been described as “the Nobel Prize of gaming.”

The Diana Jones Award committee is a mostly anonymous group of over 50 tabletop games industry professionals that includes game designers, publishers, creatives, and consultants.

Past winners of the Diana Jones Award include industry figures such as Peter Adkison, Jordan Weisman, and Eric Lang, the boardgames Dominion and Ticket to Ride, the roleplaying game Fiasco, the YouTube show TableTop with Wil Wheaton, and the concept of streaming tabletop RPGs known as Actual Play.

Being nominated for such a prestigious award is already a wonderful thing, but the true honor here is getting to stand beside the other finalists: exceptional people and companies whose work has had a real, meaningful impact on both the gaming community and the world at large. Here at Trench Crusade, we believe that gaming is both an art form and a force for good, and the other nominees are perfect examples of that. We highly encourage you all to check out their incredible work and stories on the Diana Jones Award website.

The winner will be announced July 29th!