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Publishers?

Started by Varaj, February 28, 2006, 02:38:58 PM

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Varaj

#15
February 28, 2006, 04:02:27 PM
Quote from: ColonelHardissonYeah, SJG does great work. I'm always proselytizing about their GURPS sourcebooks, and with good reason. I don't like the game, but love the resource material. Plus, they revived Traveller after the demise of GDW. And then there's OGRE...

I have many source books from them for reference purposes as well.  I am glad I am not the only one that does that.
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ColonelHardisson

#16
February 28, 2006, 04:09:25 PM
Quote from: VarajI have many source books from them for reference purposes as well.  I am glad I am not the only one that does that.

Hey, Teflon Billy also raves about how good they are as general sourcebooks.
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4e definitely has an Old School feel. If you disagree, cool. I won\'t throw any hyperbole out to prove the point.

Krishnath

#17
February 28, 2006, 04:17:46 PM
WotC, Necromancer Games, Green Ronin, White Wolf's Warcraft D20 stuff.
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PWD

#18
February 28, 2006, 04:30:13 PM
I also quite enjoy the "Powergamer's Strategy Guide" series from Goodman Games.  There are always a few good ideas in there.   I'd really like to see more in the series.
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Vermicious Knid

#19
February 28, 2006, 04:44:34 PM
Like: WOTC, Malhavoc, Green Ronin, Expeditious Retreat

Loathe: Chaosium (a pox on them for Dragon Lords!), Bastion, most Mongoose (Conan is admittedly very good)
 

ColonelHardisson

#20
February 28, 2006, 05:03:21 PM
Chaosium I love and hate at the same time. Dragon Lords of Melnibone was an early d20 effort, so I don't fault them for it - I fault them for not even bothering to try to revise it or really support it beyond, what, one adventure? They tried half-heartedly with Call of Cthulhu d20, so I can't give them too hard a time about that - at least the big book and the GM screen are good.

Call of Cthulhu stuff is uniformly good. That's what I love about 'em.

What I hate about 'em is the way they have fantastic games and then kinda let them slip away from them. I also hate them for having licenses they have a death grip on and seemingly refuse to do anything with. An example of the former (two examples, actually) - Pendragon and Runequest. An example of the latter - the Elric license. I also wish they'd either get the license back for Ringworld or someone else would get it and republish some of Chaosium's material for it. From what I gather, the Ringworld RPG was a very well-done adaptation, but that was, like, 25 years ago. Let's see some of that stuff - the eBay prices are fucking ridiculous.
"Illegitimis non carborundum." - General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell

4e definitely has an Old School feel. If you disagree, cool. I won\'t throw any hyperbole out to prove the point.

yangnome

#21
February 28, 2006, 05:09:01 PM
I enjoy stuff put out by Malhavoc, Privateer Press, Green Roninn, FFG, WW, WotC, Chaosium & Pagan in no particular order.
 

Reefer Madness

#22
February 28, 2006, 05:12:30 PM
I really dont have a love hate of anyone, the only thing i dont like is book designes with tons of fluff that has nothing to do with the rules...think of it like all the fluff is about cyborgs, and the rules are about cowboys...
Turning all of our children into hooligans and whores its Reefer Madness.
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kanegrundar

#23
February 28, 2006, 05:15:17 PM
I forgot to mention PDF publishers that I like: Ronin Arts, RPGObjects, Silverthorne Games, Blue Devil, LPJDesigns
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howandwhy99

#24
February 28, 2006, 05:50:58 PM
Like: Judges Guild, Goodman Games, Necromancer, Emperor's Choice, Paizo, Kenzer, Paradigm Concepts.

Dislike: Mongoose, WOTC.

Teflon Billy

#25
February 28, 2006, 06:44:40 PM
Like...

  • Mongoose
  • Green Ronin
  • Guardians of Order
  • White Wolf
  • FFG

Dislike...

  • FFE
  • Louis Porter Jr.
 

Dacke

#26
February 28, 2006, 08:58:17 PM
Quote from: ColonelHardissonI also hate them for having licenses they have a death grip on and seemingly refuse to do anything with. An example of the former (two examples, actually) - Pendragon and Runequest.

Poor examples. I'm pretty sure I read that some company (Green Knight or something like that) had bought the rights to Pendragon from Chaosium, and I know that Mongoose are making a new edition of RuneQuest.
 

obryn

#27
February 28, 2006, 09:50:48 PM
I'm currently running an Arcana Evolved game, so Malhavoc has my love.  It runs smoothly and gorgeously.

Other than that, I confess to hardly ever using anything non-WotC.  I may own it, but haven't used it.

GoO deserves kudos for Game of Thrones, however.

-O
 

francisca

#28
February 28, 2006, 11:06:29 PM
Quote from: ColonelHardissonYeah, SJG does great work. I'm always proselytizing about their GURPS sourcebooks, and with good reason. I don't like the game, but love the resource material. Plus, they revived Traveller after the demise of GDW. And then there's OGRE...
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Cyberzombie

#29
March 01, 2006, 01:01:31 AM
I own half a shelf of FFG books.  I guess I'm their bitch.  :)
 
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