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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2885536" data-attributes="member: 19675">I'm more likely to base my decisions not to buy a product on the company than the author, and more likely to base a decision to buy a product based on author or system than company.To explain:  I buy a lot of RPG product, and purchased several Mongoose products for D20 early on...and was universally dissapointed.  Most of those products have now been sold off at Half-Price Books, and I stopped buying anything Mongoose put out- except their Paranoia XP products which have proven to be excellent IMHO.  At this point, Mongoose would have to give me a D20 product for me to own it, while I generally pre-order their Paranoia books.  Green Ronin (along with AEG and Atlas) products, OTOH, have proven to be generally useful and well written to me, so I tend to buy more of their stuff than other publishers.  That doesn't mean I buy everything they publish, only that for which I percieve a need.  If Green Ronin, WotC and Mongoose put out a D20 sourcebook on a given topic, WotC would be the marginal front runner, Green Ronin would get serious consideration, and I wouldn't touch the Mongoose product unless it came highly reccommended from a trustworthy source.Monte Cook and Bruce Cordell have a virtual free pass from me.  I'll buy almost anything they produce.  Meanwhile, I can't think of a single rpg designer who has offended me so much that I drop their products like hot coals.</blockquote>

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