DM: Do you allow Mongoose Publishing Books into your game?

[Grapeshot]

I really like the line of Mongoose Publishing books. Our DM, since no one was using them except for me, recently decided that they will not be allowed anymore.

Do you allow them into your game?

 

[Tsyr]

That's... pretty vague... With as much stuff as Mongoose has out, I can't see lumping all their works together just because they were published by the same company.

 

[Crothian]

Of course I do. Mongoose has some of the best class books out there. Not everything fits because of the game and style we are playing, but I would no sooner disallow all Mongoose books then disallow all Green Ronin, FFG's books or even Wizards books.

 

[Derulbaskul]

"Let your yes be yes, and your no be no"

No.

Nope.

Nup.

No way.

I apply a variation on the "three strikes and you're out" rule: the first three books by Mongoose that I saw were not good, and that's the end of them in my games. Ditto for AEG's "one word" books... although it was two strikes for them.

Cheers
D

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Seas of Blood is very good.

But I can easily see the confusion here between publisher and author. Mongoose doesn't always put their authors on the front cover of the book. So the purchaser has no idea who wrote the thing. Therefore all products get associated with the publisher.

 

[ForceUser]

I've bought two Mongoose books - a seafaring book and a book on conjurers. The seafaring book was mediocre and the conjurer book a waste of paper. Doubt I'll ever buy or use any Mongoose stuff again.

 

[Crothian]

Wow, that's a brutal policy. I don't think there is a single compnay that has yet to put out less then three books that weren't good.

 

[MerricB]

No.

The first book of Mongoose I saw was the Complete Druid, and I was terribly unimpressed. It really harked back to the bad old days of the 2E Complete books.

Cheers!

 

[Derulbaskul]

Wow, that's a brutal policy. I don't think there is a single company that has yet to put out less then three books that weren't good.

True, but there is enough good stuff in the WotC and Malhavoc products to last me for the next few years.

Cheers
D

 

[MerricB]

Wow, that's a brutal policy. I don't think there is a single compnay that has yet to put out less then three books that weren't good.

The context of that policy was interesting: it was the first three books - not three bad books over the line.

Three is fairly generous, actually. Many publishers only really get one chance to impress. Neither the Complete Druid nor the Complete Elf has impressed me much.

Cheers!