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<blockquote data-quote="Ghal Maraz" data-source="post: 7722439" data-attributes="member: 6693845"><p>To be honest, I'm not seeing that many mainstream publishers in the winners list. Apart from Wizards - which is present only in the publisher category -, what names should we consider mainstream? Cubicle 7? Modiphius? They certainly are growing (and bigger than Lamentations of the Flame Process) companies and they actually do good things, but they aren't on the same league of Wizards (nor Paizo). Not even Chaosium can be considered so much mainstream anymore, as the last ten-fifteen years kept on eroding its precedent good name - the new ownership is doing good things, but they can't do miracles in just a couple of years. What I'm seeing here is a lot of small-to-medium press and indie publishers, quite a lot of non-US games and/or publishers (and this particular thing I really love) and the continual impact of crowfunding on the industry. </p><p></p><p>As far as OSR goes, I would say that Raggi, while still fundamentally a one-man publisher, has managed to rise enough awareness of LotFP to put his company at the top level of his "niche", alongside perhaps Frog God Games, Troll Lord Games and, as of late, Sine Nomine Publishing, at least in term of visibility. Which is certainly quite an accomplishment unto itself, as those are the few names in the OSR segment that are heard outside of it. As a non-OSR player myself, I can easily say that Vornhein, Red and Pleasant Land, Maze of the Blue Medusa, Carcosa and Qelong are some of the most talked about stuff I've read online, together with Dungeon Crawl Classics, Swords and Wizardry or Godbound. </p><p></p><p>So. .. what am I actually trying to convey? That the RPG industry is composed of a juggernaut that comprises the most of it (in both its 3.X and 5th incarnations) and almost everything else is"tiny". And that this time around the juggernaut wasn't racing, thus leaving the competition free to actually be interesting and unpredictable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ghal Maraz, post: 7722439, member: 6693845"] To be honest, I'm not seeing that many mainstream publishers in the winners list. Apart from Wizards - which is present only in the publisher category -, what names should we consider mainstream? Cubicle 7? Modiphius? They certainly are growing (and bigger than Lamentations of the Flame Process) companies and they actually do good things, but they aren't on the same league of Wizards (nor Paizo). Not even Chaosium can be considered so much mainstream anymore, as the last ten-fifteen years kept on eroding its precedent good name - the new ownership is doing good things, but they can't do miracles in just a couple of years. What I'm seeing here is a lot of small-to-medium press and indie publishers, quite a lot of non-US games and/or publishers (and this particular thing I really love) and the continual impact of crowfunding on the industry. As far as OSR goes, I would say that Raggi, while still fundamentally a one-man publisher, has managed to rise enough awareness of LotFP to put his company at the top level of his "niche", alongside perhaps Frog God Games, Troll Lord Games and, as of late, Sine Nomine Publishing, at least in term of visibility. Which is certainly quite an accomplishment unto itself, as those are the few names in the OSR segment that are heard outside of it. As a non-OSR player myself, I can easily say that Vornhein, Red and Pleasant Land, Maze of the Blue Medusa, Carcosa and Qelong are some of the most talked about stuff I've read online, together with Dungeon Crawl Classics, Swords and Wizardry or Godbound. So. .. what am I actually trying to convey? That the RPG industry is composed of a juggernaut that comprises the most of it (in both its 3.X and 5th incarnations) and almost everything else is"tiny". And that this time around the juggernaut wasn't racing, thus leaving the competition free to actually be interesting and unpredictable. [/QUOTE]
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