Trend of Companies heading away from d20

[JoeGKushner]

I feel just the opposite. After all my purchases, the last thing I want to do is learn new and different systems.

I am all for a change of pace with some alternate game setting; not for a change of rules. Too much effort there, and I am getting too old and stuck in my ways to have that kind of variability in my life .

For me, it's I don't want to see new and different systems when the current system could be used. Saw some fantasy setting with it's own rules that had elves, dwarves and dragons and I thought, "Why the hell didn't they use d20?"

 

[jaerdaph]

Don't forget Margaret Weiss Productions will be publishing Ed Greenwood's Castlemourn, which is d20.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Croaker designed Warhammer 2e? That would make a lot of sense....

Sorry, bad joke. I thought the name was Black Industries, not the Black Company, the last Free Company of Khatovar.

I would agree that there has been less of an emphasis on d20 recently. I'm glad to see some diversity emerging again in the RPG market.

Also on the list of non-d20 products, Flying Buffalo has Tunnels & Trolls, and TLG still has Lejendary Adventures.

And Warhammer is technically by Black Company. Green Ronin is just helping them out I think.

 

[jaerdaph]

The Black Company is a Green Ronin True20 Setting

Green Ronin publishes Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay for Black Industries.

 

[Psion]

The Black Company is a Green Ronin True20 Setting

Black Company isn't True20. It's a D&D variant (thankfully for me... that makes it about 1000 times more useful.)

 

[rgard]

Margaret Weiss Productions did Serentity and, yes, will be doing BSG with the same tepid system we are told.

But Atlantis: The Lost World was done by Morrigan Press, the latest keeper of the Talisman license and who also did the Terran Trade Authority game. Though A:TLW has/uses some OGC stuff, other than their TalD20 book they made to cash in on d20 stuff, they haven't really been much of a d20 company.

Thanks for correcting my spelling of Margaret's last name. Serious faux pas on my part. Anyway, do you remember what in the A:TLW is OGC?

Bad news on the BSG system. Yuck.

Thanks again,
Rich

 

[atomn]

AEG's 3rd Edition Legend of the Five Rings goes back to the d10 roll and keep system. It's a top notch system and is the best one that I've seen which promotes well rounded characters.

 

[delericho]

Thanks for correcting my spelling of Margaret's last name. Serious faux pas on my part.

It's spelled Weis on all my Dragonlance books.

 

[wingsandsword]

Margaret Weiss Productions did Serentity and, yes, will be doing BSG with the same tepid system we are told.

Frack. . .

I had high hopes when I saw a BSG RPG would be done. . .now I figure maybe I'll pick it up for setting information, and build something myself with d20 Modern/Future.

 

[Pramas]

Holy confusion, Batman! Allow me to clarify.

Green Ronin still supports d20 but it's not all that we do. Our most active d20 line is Bleeding Edge, which specializes in short adventures. The first two, Mansion of Shadows and Beyond the Towers, are in stores now and the third and fourth (Dirge of the Damned and A Dreadful Dawn) are at print now and will be released in January and February respectively.
http://www.greenronin.com/catalog.php?cat_id=18

We just released the Deck of Many Things, a d20 accessory.
http://www.greenronin.com/catalog/grr3004

We are re-launching our Freeport setting in 2007 and that will have d20 support as well (most notably the d20 Freeport Companion). Crisis in Freeport, a d20 adventure that resolves the succession crisis, came out over the summer.
http://www.greenronin.com/catalog/grr1902

We also have current and active lines for two stand-alone games that use the OGL, Mutants & Masterminds and True20 Adventure Roleplaying.
http://www.true20.com
http://www.mutantsandmasterminds.com

And we are the design house for the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying line for Black Industries, which is part of Games Workshop's publishing wing (BL Publishing).
http://www.greenronin.com/warhammer_fantasy_roleplay/

Lastly, Black Company was a d20 campaign setting we published, based on Glen Cook's classic series. We also did a d20 adaptation of Thieves' World and a Thieves' World Gift Set with all four original books plus a brand new adventure set in the classic era is coming out in January.
http://www.greenronin.com/catalog/grr1409
http://www.greenronin.com/catalog.php?cat_id=15