XYZZY Award for Best NPCs

Below, the winners of the award for each year are listed, followed by the other finalists for that year.

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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