Fan's Choice for Best Publisher Nomination Thread

Dextra

Social Justice Wizard
Due to the excessive pain in the butt factor in coding and counting a write-in feature for the Fan's Choice for Best Publisher, I am hereby opening this thread as well as threads on a few other boards for nominations for the Fan's Choice Award for Best Publisher.

Here's the rules:
-One voice, one vote. This means you can either nominate or second a publisher once per board. Pick wisely. If a publisher gets nominated once on ENWorld and once on another board, then I'll consider it seconded- unless it's obvious that it was the same person posting the nominations.
-Any publisher who released product during the eligibility period (June 2004-May 2005) is eligible to be nominated whether they entered the ENnies or not.
-At 11h59 EST Sunday, July 24th, I will close the thread and compile its contents with those of the other designated threads to create the nominee list.
-Monday, July 25th, voting will begin on ENWorld to determine the fan's choice. Just as with the other ENnie categories, you don't have to be an ENWorld member to vote- votes are tracked by IP. The voting period will last 3 weeks.
-Upon closing of the polls, the top five publishers will be notified and be asked to make plans for attending the Award Ceremony.
-The winner will be announced live at the ENnies ceremony Friday, August 19th at Gen Con Indy.

When selecting Best Publisher, try and take into consideration not only the quality of product, but also involvement in the roleplaying gaming community at large and customer support. Feel free to explain why you have chosen a particular publisher for nomination. If you are a publisher, you may nominate another publisher, but not yourself. Please don't waste your voice- any nominations for ENPublishing will be gracefully declined. A publisher need only be nominated and seconded, so you don't need to do third votes. You're very welcome to elucidate upon why you approve of a selection that's already been seconded, and then nominate someone else.

To make it easier on tracking, here are the nominations thus far from ENWorld, The Forge, Gen Con, and RPGnet. (Entries in bold have been seconded):
  • Adamant Entertainment
  • Atlas Games
  • Atomic Sock Monkey
  • Bad Axe Games
  • Bastion Press
  • Black Industries
  • Blue Devil Games
  • Burning Wheel
  • Columbia Games
  • Contested Ground Studios
  • Fantasy Flight Games
  • Flying Mice
  • Goodman Games
  • Great White Games / Pinnacle Entertainment Group
  • Green Ronin
  • Guardians of Order
  • Hero Games/DoJ
  • Hinterwelt Enterprises
  • Iron Crown Enterpirses
  • Issaries
  • Living Room Games
  • KenzerCo.
  • Malhavoc Press
  • Mongoose Publishing
  • Morrigan Press
  • Necromancer Games
  • Paradigm Concepts
  • Paizo Publishing
  • Privateer Press
  • Red Spire Press
  • Ronin Arts
  • RPGObjects
  • SkeletonKey Games
  • Steve Jackson Games
  • Troll Lord Games
  • White Wolf
  • Wizards of the Coast
  • WorldWorks Games
 
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OK, I'll start by nominating Malhavoc Press. Monte (though this year it's been mostly Mike Mearls and assorted other freelancers) have released high-quality stuff for both Arcana Unearthed/Evolved and general d20, and have shown some nice support for us customers. For example, when that whole DriveThru thing first went down, Monte made sure that White Wolf sold un-DRMed PDFs through their regular online store as a response to customers.
 



I nominate KenzerCo.

They consistently support their DnD realm Kalamar, the best Atlas and race books in the business. The second best DM shield, second only to HackMaster shield.
They also publish HackMaster for all the 1e 2e lovers, and keep that well supported.
Knights of the Dinner Table is always a favorite.
And they publish some fun games as well.
 

I nominate Hero Games. They deliver the goods on products that remain useful references when using other game systems, and the amount of personal attention Steve Long puts into answering rules question is unheard of this side of Steve Kenson.
 

I'll nominate Troll Lord Games. Their Castles and Crusades settings has garnered a huge following (and not a little controversy) and they actively support it with super-friendly customer service, and an active community to boot.
 




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