Leading Producer of D20 Materials/Products?
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DaveMage
Slumbering in Tsar
Golem2176 said:
No, sales figures are generally not available for privately-held companies (unless they offer those figures themselves).
As for who is producing better products, they both have hit-and-miss products, so it's hard to give a general answer.
Now, if you want to compare, say, adventures, then since Necromancer Games is under the SSS umbrella, I'd say SSS. (And, of course, Mongoose doesn't make adventures.
)If you want to compare campaign books, I'd also go with SSS.
As for class-related books, Mongoose has produced far more options, so I'd say Mongoose on that one.
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Nightfall
Sage of the Scarred Lands
Diaglo,
Think you need to take off the glasses. d20 isn't ALWAYS WotC.
DaveMage,
I will agree for class books and even guides to monsters, Mongoose has more for it. Not sure about the quality always, but certainly their focus in that area is second to none. But yeah in the other areas, Necromancer and everyone under the S&SS umbrella are QUALITY people.
Think you need to take off the glasses. d20 isn't ALWAYS WotC.
DaveMage,
I will agree for class books and even guides to monsters, Mongoose has more for it. Not sure about the quality always, but certainly their focus in that area is second to none. But yeah in the other areas, Necromancer and everyone under the S&SS umbrella are QUALITY people.
that's why i said it was just a guess.
Desdichado
Hero
I only have a few each of Mongoose and SSS books; my top d20 companies are Green Ronin, Malhavoc Press, and Privateer Press. Fantasy Flight Games also do some top-notch stuff.
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Gez
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Remember two things when bringing Hasbro in discussions on d20 publishers and income.
1. The d20 business model is for WotC to produce book that sells, and to let the other publishers do the experimental and support publishing. It is especially noticeable for Dragonlance: WotC sells the core campaign setting book, and leave the support job to Sovereign Press.
2. WotC is not a d20 publisher. Their track record of d20 books for now include only the Monster Manual 2... And it's barely two pages worth of open game content! Unearthed Arcana should be a more generous gift, but it's not published yet. While every books for the d20 System published by WotC has the d20 system logo, WotC is not bound to obey its own d20 STL (since WotC don't need to license its own material to itself -- that would be kinda weird). And when people speak of "d20 publisher", they imply "publishers who have to follow the d20 STL".
1. The d20 business model is for WotC to produce book that sells, and to let the other publishers do the experimental and support publishing. It is especially noticeable for Dragonlance: WotC sells the core campaign setting book, and leave the support job to Sovereign Press.
2. WotC is not a d20 publisher. Their track record of d20 books for now include only the Monster Manual 2... And it's barely two pages worth of open game content! Unearthed Arcana should be a more generous gift, but it's not published yet. While every books for the d20 System published by WotC has the d20 system logo, WotC is not bound to obey its own d20 STL (since WotC don't need to license its own material to itself -- that would be kinda weird). And when people speak of "d20 publisher", they imply "publishers who have to follow the d20 STL".
Golem2176 said:
Atlas Games. As someone else said, both Mongoose and SSS have had a mix of products, some awesome, some not. Atlas has produced nothing but awesome RPG products (with the possible exception of Furry Pirates, and even that was good, just not awesome). They may not be as prolific, but it's all great stuff.
