Current print publishers

[ColonelHardisson]

The problem is, of course, that like everyone else I don't need many more rules supplements. If I'm going to spend my money on a D&D product, I want it to be something pretty special.

That's how I feel. I've been dazzled by all the neat-o variants and new ways to do things. Now something really has to be different and/or special to grab me. Either that, or it has to be really, really potentially useful to me, something that makes life easier for me as a DM. There are still a few things I'd love to see, but a lot of stuff that was on my wish list back when 3e was released has been covered by someone, somewhere...now I just need a group to game with, and I'm all set.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

That hasn't been done very well, has it? Monte has published the "Best of the Year" book, and Mongoose has made a lot of compendiums, but very little integrates or (more importantly) builds on what has gone before. I think this is an area with a lot of potential that has been completely missed.

Yup. It seems many (I won't say most, but I do feel very inclined to) publishers seem intent on coming up with their own ways to invent the wheel. We have the wheels, now let's see somebody start building all the Mustangs, dragsters, SUVs, and trucks...

Not sure how good that analogy is, but what the hey...

 

[Pramas]

Yup. It seems many (I won't say most, but I do feel very inclined to) publishers seem intent on coming up with their own ways to invent the wheel. We have the wheels, now let's see somebody start building all the Mustangs, dragsters, SUVs, and trucks...

The mustangs are out there: Mutants & Masterminds, Spycraft 2.0, Arcana Evolved, Grim Tales, and True20 to name few. These and many other products take the OGL base and build on it in new and interesting ways.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

The mustangs are out there: Mutants & Masterminds, Spycraft 2.0, Arcana Evolved, Grim Tales, and True20 to name few. These and many other products take the OGL base and build on it in new and interesting ways.

That's very true, and I was remiss in not mentioning that Green Ronin has been one of, if not the, leader in doing new stuff with the basic game. But it'd be great to see more companies do the same.

 

[Napftor]

They may not do print often, but Dark Quest Games is releasing my book Temporality in print this fall.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Bards & Sages is releasing the Koboldnomicon through Amazon as well as through the PDF publishing venues later this year. Since several of the contributors also post to ENWorld, it's probably of note to even those heathens who don't adore kobolds as a rule.

 

[Nellisir]

That hasn't been done very well, has it? Monte has published the "Best of the Year" book, and Mongoose has made a lot of compendiums, but very little integrates or (more importantly) builds on what has gone before. I think this is an area with a lot of potential that has been completely missed.

I think pdf publishers are best placed to take advantage of it. Unfortunately, there also seems to be, in my opinion only, entrenched hostilities towards the idea. I'm slowly poking towards reconciling some OGC, in my own way and time, but the venom in some of the threads I've been involved in has really soured me. Part of the reason my WotC buying has picked up is just because I feel I know where I stand with them.

That's all I'll say.