MerpCon is an acronym for "Middle-Earth Role Playing Convention", a role playing game convention dedicated solely to role-playing gaming in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
 The event is held annually on the last weekend of July and runs for 3 days from Friday, through to the end of Sunday (and sometimes a little into the following Monday morning).
 To date MerpCon has been held each year in Spokane, WA, USA.
 Beginning in 2009 MerpCon began to transition to being called Tolkienmoot as this convention's venue began to expand to include more Tolkien-related activities, events, and guests beyond just role playing in Middle-earth.
Living Campaigns are a gaming format within the table-top role-playing game community that provide the opportunity for play by an extended community within a shared universe.
 In contrast to traditional isolated role-playing games, living campaigns allow and encourage players to develop characters that can be played at games run by many different game masters, but which share a game world and campaign setting, as well as a plot line that is overseen by a central core of professional or volunteer editors and contributors.
 Many living campaigns serve a dual role of providing a creative outlet for highly involved volunteer contributors while also serving as a marketing tool for the publisher of the game system that is the focus of the living campaign.
 While the earliest living campaigns were run by the RPGA (Role Playing Gamer's Association), now a division of Wizards of the Coast, many groups around the world run active living campaigns which are independent or sponsored by other publishers.
Imagine (printed under the long title Imagine: Adventure Game Magazine) was a monthly magazine dedicated to the first edition "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" and "Dungeons and Dragons" role playing game systems published by TSR UK Limited.
An online text-based role playing game is a role-playing game played online using a solely text-based interface.
 Online text-based role playing games date to 1978, with the creation of "MUD1", which began the MUD heritage that culminates in today's MMORPGs.
 Some online-text based role playing games are video games, but some are organized and played entirely by humans through text-based communication.
 Over the years, games have used TELNET, internet forums, IRC, email and social networking websites as their media.
Role-playing game software, as opposed to role-playing video games, is a software intended to assist in developing and running of role-playing games.
 It does not allow the game to be played entirely within the computer.
 Such software assist in the drawing of maps, player character and non-player character creation, generation of monsters, and provision of dice rolls and their results.
 The software may be specific to a single role playing game system, or flexible enough to be applied to multiple game models.
Crafty Games is an American publisher of role-playing games based on espionage and fantasy themes, particularly Spycraft.
 The company was founded by the creative team behind the Classic Spycraft and Spycraft 2.0 RPGs, shortly after both lines were shut down by then-publisher Alderac Entertainment Group.
 Since its inception, Crafty Games has published over 50 products in print and PDF format, both through Mongoose Publishing's Flaming Cobra imprint and e-book vendor OneBookShelf.
 Crafty Games' work on Spycraft 2.0 has won nominations for the Diana Jones Award and 4 ENnie Awards in 2006.
The Aethra Chronicles - Volume One: Celystra's Bane or The Aethra Chronicles (also known as Aethra for short) is a classic 1994 MS-DOS shareware computer role playing game.
 The game was based on the Rolemaster game system, a Pencil & Paper role playing game.
 It was developed mostly as a one-man project by Michael Lawrence with some help from others for the graphics and sound/music.
Reveal Fantasia (リーヴェルファンタジア～マリエルと妖精物語～ , Riberu Fantajia Marieru to Yousei Monogatari ) Is a Fantasy role playing video game released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 console by Victor Interactive Software, Inc. in Japan.
 The game involved an innovative concept of a role playing game involving no battles or fighting.
 Its game play shows some influence from dating simulation games.
 The game was never released outside Japan.
The Mistborn Adventure Game is a pen and paper role playing game that was published in 2011 by Crafty Games and is a licensed release based on American author Brandon Sanderson's "Mistborn" novel series.
 Sanderson was involved in the game's creation and the game is set in Scadrial; the World created by the "Mistborn" series.
 The initial "Mistborn Adventure Game" book was released on December 16, 2011.
 Since 2011, two supplementary material books have been published.
 The first supplement was released March 2014 and is called "Terris: Wrought of Copper".
 The second supplement was released on August 3, 2014 and is called "Alloy of Law", not to be confused with the fourth "Mistborn" book called "".
The Cortex System is a generic RPG system based on the "Sovereign Stone System ", and was developed by Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd for the Serenity Role Playing Game.
 It was subsequently used for their licensed "Battlestar Galactica" and Supernatural RPGs, and brought out as a stand-alone system in the "Cortex System Role Playing Game" book (also called the "Cortex Classic System Role Playing Game").
 Serenity, using the Cortex System, was the 2005 Origins Award Gamer's Choice Role Playing Game of the Year.

Question:  The Mistborn Adventure Game is a pen and paper role playing game by an american publisher of role-playing games that won nominations for awards in what year?
Answer: 2006