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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8042019" data-attributes="member: 6779310">FFG was (is?) a company of over 50 employees, and one of several such games companies owned by Asmodee. I don't know their current numbers; the 50 was during the height of Star Wars. Number is from their self-description in their job announcements.Both Paizo and WotC are over 20 payrolled employees each. At one point, both were over 50 per their own vacancy announcement self-descriptions.All of them make it on a variety of product lines, not just RPGs. And all 3 hire a bunch of freelancers on contract.Cubicle 7 had over a dozen at one point. (noted by one of their staff on their now-deleted forums.) But that also covered a dozen different product lines, and both RPGs and board games. I don't know current staffing.Monte Cook Games recently mentioned 7 employees. Their website shows 9 team members.Free League lists 7 creatives. Chaosium has varied over the years... Greg Stafford mentioned a staff of a dozen. Of which, I recognized 4 as creatives. That was a couple years ago.The industry really is 4 different tiers of businesses...Significant corporate entities, like WotC and Asmodee (which includes FFG, DoW, and several others)Smaller Corporations: Paizo, SJG, Cubicle 7, Free League, Modiphius, Mongoose.Small Business Model - 1-2 owners, 0-5 other employeesHobby model - usually 1 owner, no employeesSome are outside those - Burning Wheel HQ is a collective, but essentially is Luke and Thor, with help from their gaming group, but is professional enough to act like a small business in most other ways. The Corporations seem to be about 85-90% of RPG sales. D&D alone is at least 50%, and Paizo at least 20%... FFG, Modiphius, Cubicle 7, Free League, SJG, Chaosium – corporations all – and are major players in a second tier. I don't know enough about out hosts here to know where they fall...But in general, the big names aren't 2 guys in a basement. They're serious business-people working with reliable creative talent. And groups of half-dozen to 4 dozen.</blockquote>

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