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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 2165607" data-attributes="member: 7394">I am the first to admit that Mongoose was not my favorite when they first emerged on the scene. Maybe it was the sheer volume that was being released, maybe it was the fact that the slayers guides held little interest for me, maybe it was because they were all a bunch of Brits (not that there's anything wrong with that)<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />. Now with most companies, once I've written them off, I don't go back to them later. I'm just like that. Nothing personal, I just buy what I like. So I'm not calling their early stuff substandard. I actually have a few books from that era and while some are better than others, there are definitely some usable ideas in all of them. But then they started doing some really neat stuff. The B5 RPG line is incredible. They were the second company to try to do a B5 RPG, and the first to deliver a quality product. It is a very playable game that has produced a number of very enjoyable supplements. I just got my hands on A Call to Arms and it is probably the most ellegant, well designed ship-to-ship combat systems I have seen. I now have the Excalibur mini, which I think is very cool and has a place on my desk. OGL Ancients is pretty amazing. I would imagine OGL Western is also good, but I have yet to get it. The book on Hell, the book on the planes, and their new Monster Encyclpedia are all great stuff; very usable in any standard D&D campaign! Then there's Paranoia XP. I haven't played it, but it is a humorously written book that looks like the game would be a lot of fun. Signs and Portents is a magazine that has useful material in each issue. Mongoose has come a long way in the last couple of years. They have continued to improve, and of the companies who have stuck around, they've gone right to the top of my list. I honestly haven't read the latest round of complaints, so I have no idea what that's all about, but I am continually more and more impressed with their products and the friendly people who make up that company. It doesn't hurt that they've published me in Signs and Portents either. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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