What 3rd Party D&D Companies Are Left?

[Olaf the Stout]

With Necromancer looking like they may no longer be producing D&D books anymore, I was wondering what companies there are that are still making D&D products?

Obviously there are still a lot of smaller companies but the only 2 bigger ones that I can think of are Goodman Games and Kenzer and Co. Can anyone think of any others?

I know that a lot of books are still available in print and PDF form but apart from WotC, these 2 companies and the smaller publishers, is there anyone else that is producing new D&D material?

Bastion Press, AEG, Green Ronin, Fantasy Flight Games, Mongoose, MEG, FFE (thankfully!) and many others have all gotten out of D&D in the last few years, either getting out of RPG's completely, are concentrating on a variant of the D20 system or are using their own systems.

Do you think it is a bad sign or just the market correcting itself?

Olaf the Stout

 

[Gundark]

With Necromancer looking like they may no longer be producing D&D books anymore, I was wondering what companies there are that are still making D&D products?

What going on with Necromancer?

 

[Olaf the Stout]

What going on with Necromancer?

Check the 2 threads about them on the first page at the moment.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Alzrius]

To nitpick, the only company that could conceivably be said to still produce "third-party D&D" materials is Kenzer Co., with their Kingdoms of Kalamar line. Even then, the fact that it's D&D at all and is subject to WotC approval makes it more second-party than anything else (though I suppose Paizo falls under that category also).

Having said that, you seem to be asking how many companies are still regularly producing print mainstream d20 products on a regular schedule, eschewing the PDF/POD market. I think there's still a goodly number (but then, I also thought that Bastion, AEG, Fantasy Flight, and even Mongoose after a fashion, were all still making such materials...is that wrong?).

 

[Banshee16]

AEG just released a D20 product, I believe...

Mongoose is producing D20, as is Green Ronin.

Fantasy Flight Games still has the Midnight line.

Privateer Press is still around.

What about Goodman?

Sword and Sorcery is still producing games...though mainly only the WoW D20 game at this point.

Sovereign Press or Margaret Weis Productions...whoever they call themselves at the moment, are still producing Dragonlance products..

Banshee

 

[Pramas]

We still have an active d20 line, the Bleeding Edge series of adventures. The fourth one of these, A Dreadful Dawn, just shipped to distributors last week. See here:

http://www.greenronin.com/catalog.php?cat_id=18

We're also doing the d20 Freeport Companion later this year to complement the Pirate's Guide to Freeport.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

To nitpick, the only company that could conceivably be said to still produce "third-party D&D" materials is Kenzer Co., with their Kingdoms of Kalamar line. Even then, the fact that it's D&D at all and is subject to WotC approval makes it more second-party than anything else (though I suppose Paizo falls under that category also).

Having said that, you seem to be asking how many companies are still regularly producing print mainstream d20 products on a regular schedule, eschewing the PDF/POD market. I think there's still a goodly number (but then, I also thought that Bastion, AEG, Fantasy Flight, and even Mongoose after a fashion, were all still making such materials...is that wrong?).

I thought that all those companies had gotten out of the market. Their products may still be available for sale in print and PDF formats but I didn't think that they were producing any new material.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Banshee16]

We still have an active d20 line, the Bleeding Edge series of adventures. The fourth one of these, A Dreadful Dawn, just shipped to distributors last week. See here:

http://www.greenronin.com/catalog.php?cat_id=18

We're also doing the d20 Freeport Companion later this year to complement the Pirate's Guide to Freeport.

Chris, you guys should try test floating a few products....you guys were one of the best companies, and unfortunately, I'm running out of Green Ronin products to try picking up

Banshee

 

[Olaf the Stout]

AEG just released a D20 product, I believe...

Mongoose is producing D20, as is Green Ronin.

Fantasy Flight Games still has the Midnight line.

Privateer Press is still around.

What about Goodman?

Sword and Sorcery is still producing games...though mainly only the WoW D20 game at this point.

Sovereign Press or Margaret Weis Productions...whoever they call themselves at the moment, are still producing Dragonlance products..

Banshee

I didn't think that AEG was releasing any more D20 books after WLC. As for the others, I know that Goodman Games is still producing generic material.

The rest I thought had either got out or limited themselves to their own setting specific D20 variants of D&D. Maybe I was mistaken?

Olaf the Stout

 

[Olaf the Stout]

We still have an active d20 line, the Bleeding Edge series of adventures. The fourth one of these, A Dreadful Dawn, just shipped to distributors last week. See here:

http://www.greenronin.com/catalog.php?cat_id=18

We're also doing the d20 Freeport Companion later this year to complement the Pirate's Guide to Freeport.

I've got a few Green Ronin products (F:CoA, the 3.5 PDF versions of the trilogy and Tales in Freeport) but I have never even heard of the Bleeding Edge series.

It looks like you're trying to go the opposite way to Goodman's DCC series. Looks interesting.

I thought that GR was concentrating on it's True 20 variant though? I guess I was wrong.

Olaf the Stout