so what are best the one person publishers

[DMH]

So, in your opinion, who is the best one person publisher and why?

 

[Ghostwind]

I'd say it's a tie between Phil Reed's Ronin Arts and Mark Clover's Creative Mountain Games. Both show a level of imagination and understanding of the rules that a lot of the 'smaller' publishers miss.

 

[HellHound]

I don't think that Phil Reed & Chris Shy's Ronin Arts qualifies as a one-man publisher, since Ronin Arts publishes products written by a variety of authors, and has a two-person ownership.

Not that I'm saying Ronin Arts isn't kicking all kinds of butt, just saying that it doesn't qualify as a 'one person publisher', IMO, any more than E.N.Publishing would.

 

[Crothian]

I have no idea. I don't know which of the publishers are really one person operations.

 

[DMH]

Okay, then let my revise it to "small" publisher or between 1 and 4 (or so) people. I wanted to avoid that because then what is the definition of small? Could MEG, Monkey God or Dark Quest be considered small?

I do know, for sure, of one publisher who does it all by himself- the Sigil (ST Cooley). Which is rather impressive since he has 7-8 books out (as pdfs).

 

[Vigilance]

Yeah... its a tough definition to make.

RPGObjects is 3 people for about 90% of our products. Are we small or not small?

Chuck

 

[coyote6]

Okay, then let my revise it to "small" publisher or between 1 and 4 (or so) people.

Ronin Arts has some neat stuff. Bad Axe Games rocks.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Bad Axe, RPG OBjects, Mystic Eye (if applicable) and Creative Mountain Games

 

[neg]

Different Worlds

I will vote for Different Worlds, though I am not sure of the employee count:

http://www.diffworlds.com/index.htm

Different Worlds is the publisher of Valus the campaign setting from EN World's Destan.

I like Valus quite a bit and think Destan has real talent and should continue to publish.

-neg

 

[philreed]

There's really only one company that I feel kicks more ass than anyone.

SkeletonKey Games. Look at it this way, 98%+ of SkeletonKey Games products are completely by Ed and SG is #1 at RPGNow.

I like to think I'm building Ronin Arts to steal his position, but I can't shy away from the fact that Ed's doing it all himself.