Favorite Game Companies?

[JustaPlayer]

Malhavoc
Green Ronin
Wizards


I use to like me some Mongoose but it just seems things keep getting worse as time goes by. I've for the most part dropped Conan now and Lone Wolf hasn't had any publications in a long time.

Necromancer turned me away with Tome of Horrors III. I found it largely uninspiring.

I would still buy Mystic Eye if they published.

Fed up on AEG. Gonna get Warlord then cut and run. (due out in 5 days)

FFG Doesn't really do much with Midnight.

S&S can turn a great setting like Ravenloft into the most bland work I've seen in quite some time.

Yep, the pretty much leaves only the three I listed, and Wizards is close to the axe. Not to say someone can't climb back on. For a while I largely ignored Green Ronin.

 

[Arnwyn]

My favorites (ie. the only companies I purchase from):

- WotC (FR books and adventures only)
- Paizo (Dungeon mag and Dragon mag only)
- Necromancer Games (their adventures only)

Minor considerations:
- Green Ronin (Freeport stuff and adventures only)
- Goodman Games (DCCs only)
- Malhavoc (uhh... only Ptolus)

Every other company is completely off the radar for me.

 

[dragonhead]

WotC, hands down. without WotC, then there would be no d20 system to ask "who is your favorite?". I just wish someone would kill Hasbro for distroying the sanctity of the gaming world by puting in my little poney dolls in WotC store across the world.

 

[Wombat]

Malhavoc & Green Ronin are my top fave companies for D20ness.

Atlas is my favourite company in general, because of Ars Magica.

WotC is fairly well down the list.

 

[B9anders]

Steve Jackson Games. I always know it is a quality product I am gonna get from them and I feel like they genuinely care about their customers.

I was unfortunate enouhg to buy a 1st printing of the GURPS Basic Set where the pages fell out and have been sent a new one free of charge after emailing them, even though I live in Denmark. Top top service.

 

[Maggan]

Favourite d20 publisher at the moment: Privateer Press for Iron Kingdoms!

Perennial favourite d20 publisher: WotC for D&D and Star Wars

Contender for perennial spot: Paizo for Dragon, Dungeon and the hardcovers!

Favourite non d20 publisher at the moment: Black Industries for WFRPv2

Perennial favourite non d20 publisher: Chaosium for CoC and Stormbringer

Contender for perennial spot: West End Games (the old guard) for Star Wars d6

Mad props to GDW as well for Traveller!

/M

 

[Wasgo]

My favourite is Troll Lord Games for their amazing C&C line.

Second would be Green Ronin for Mutants and Masterminds and True20.

And my distant third is Necromancer Games which I have a love/hate thing with since I still feel very, very annoyed by the Tome of Horrors revised issue.

 

[Kunimatyu]

Right now, it's Green Ronin in the front, because I dig True20, Freeport, and the Advanced Bestiary.

Wizards is a very close second. I love the miniatures line in particular.

After that, it's a pretty close toss-up between Necromancer and Malhavoc.

While I've heard great things about Goodman Games, I just haven't had the chance to use any of their modules(since I'm not really a 'module' DM).

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Ones I like:

Necromancer Games - Wilderlands, modules, Ancient Kingdoms: Mesopotamia, etc. Lost of coolness.
Malhavoc - some great stuff: the Iron Heroes line is awesome in its coolness, and Malhavoc produced two of my all-time favorite RPG books - Requiem for a God and When the Sky Falls
Green Ronin - for so much - the Mythic Vistas line (Medieval Players Manual in particular), Black Company, Warhammer (OK, non d20, but very cool), etc.
Mongoose - Wasn't a big fan of theirs for a while, but then they went and hit it out of the park with Conan, and hey, Babylon 5 is also good. But they began their trend of goodness with Slaine, in my opinion.
Paizo - Dungeon and Dragon both are mainstays in my enjoyment of the hobby.
Goodman - Dungeon Crawl Classics, 'Nuff said.
WotC

Ones I was saddened to see either go out of business or stop doing d20:
Chaosium - had they revised their Dragonlords of Melnibone book with as much loving care as Green Ronin put into, say, The Black Company, I think they'd have had a hit on their hands.
MEG - Love Bluffside.
Atlas - I think their stuff was generally top-notch. Still, their Ars Magica stuff is very, very good, so it works out.
Avalanche - despite the constant drubbing they took over their covers, the actual books were pretty decent, especially the background material for various historical eras.

Much lamented - game companies that went under before the advent of d20:
FASA - I saw someone post that FASA still exists in a nominal way, but effectively, as far as RPGs are concerned, they're gone. I always liked their Star Trek RPG material.
GDW - the game company I miss most. The original Traveller (and the Journal for the Traveller's Aid Society), Twilight: 2000, Space: 1889, Dark Conspiracy, 2300...plus all the various starship combat games they produced. Man, do I miss that company.

 

[Sledge]

With regards to FASA the new company is Fanpro. Responsible the release of many many products, including SR4e last year, and a new update of the battletech ruleset this year. Earthdawn has some grassroots supporters as well iirc.