What 3rd Party D&D Companies Are Left?

[jdrakeh]

I wouldn't call d20 companies continuing to drop like flies "stable".

I think that he's refering to the balancing of the market, with d20 and several other game systems finally being on a common plateau insofar as sales are concerned. That is, the playing field has been leveled a bit.

 

[Treebore]

In a nutshell, yes. Erik explained his thoughts quite well in the thread were we announced the line:





Enough people have asked for a subscription to this product line that its being talked about here in the office. It'll be a while before a decision one way or the other is made.

If you'd like to read the original press release announcing the line, click here.

Like Erik said, we're supporting OGL in a really big way in 2007. Detailed announcements are forthcoming--keep your ears and eyes open for them.

Why didn't i see this in my e-mail newsletter from Paizo? Not prominant enough for me to spot it? Or not there to begin with?

 

[JoshuaFrost]

Why didn't i see this in my e-mail newsletter from Paizo? Not prominant enough for me to spot it? Or not there to begin with?

It was in your February 14th email under the heading "It all begins with Modules". It was also the featured blog on paizo.com on February 8-9.

Expect to see more prominently displayed information about the line as we move closer to the June release date of Crown of the Kobold King.

 

[Ceresco]

I started out replying to jdrakeh in this thread, but my response had become such an epic thread jack that I felt that to preserve our civil society I would start a new thread and not disturb those who are discussing who is still publishing d20 material.

You can find my response here.

Ooo. . . that sounds very cool. Not to derail the thread, but do you have any idea if it stands alone or if you'll have to own other Arcanis products to make sense of it? Also, any idea what the fluff to crunch ratio is? Will it be mostly fluff like the Mongoose Lankhmar and Glorantha world books, or 90% rules like Spiros Blaak (which I possibly spelled wrong)?

 

[Olaf the Stout]

In a nutshell, yes. Erik explained his thoughts quite well in the thread where we announced the line:





Enough people have asked for a subscription to this product line that its being talked about here in the office. It'll be a while before a decision one way or the other is made.

If you'd like to read the original press release announcing the line, click here.

Like Erik said, we're supporting OGL in a really big way in 2007. Detailed announcements are forthcoming--keep your ears and eyes open for them.

Thanks for the information Joshua. I appreciate the Paizo people posting here to keep us updated.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Why didn't i see this in my e-mail newsletter from Paizo? Not prominant enough for me to spot it? Or not there to begin with?

I missed it too Treebore and I get the e-mails and visit the Paizo messageboards on a regular basis. Either we both rolled 1's for our spot checks or the DC for the information was a little to high to begin with.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Sir Elton]

It was in your February 14th email under the heading "It all begins with Modules". It was also the featured blog on paizo.com on February 8-9.

Expect to see more prominently displayed information about the line as we move closer to the June release date of Crown of the Kobold King.

I don't know. I'd love to write modules, but I'd like to write them in my own radical way. I think the Wizards' standard is far too lacking in the feel I'm trying to create. But nice to know that Paizo is still operating.

 

[Mark Plemmons]

Kenzer? Not sure how much longer they are staying with d20.

We have no plans to drop d20 products at the present time. As I mentioned on the Necromancer forusm, we did intentionally pull back on our RPG release schedule as we saw the market soften over the last year or so. That's probably the main contributor to the perception we're struggling.

Instead, we're trying to focus on designing bigger. cooler products, like the Aces & Eights: Shattered Frontier western RPG (400 page leathered hardcover) and the Kingdoms of Kalamar regional supplement "Svimohzia: the Ancient Isle" hardcover (250+ pages; I'm posting from home so I'm not sure of the exact count at the moment). Both are Spring 2007 releases, and I'll be putting previews and such on our website in the week(s) to come.

Our PDF, POD (Print on Demand) and Necromancer Games adventures help fill the RPG void, and publishing Knights of the Dinner Table each month keeps us busy, of course.

 

[Napftor]

I wouldn't call d20 companies continuing to drop like flies "stable".

I think they're done dropping, for the most part. It is only now that folks are starting to notice the corpses.

 

[RangerWickett]

Regarding War of the Burning Sky.

Henry,

Yeah but that's PDF and the fact it is also fan supported (by guys that often buy online stuff anyway) isn't the same as the distribution problems/sales that affect most print companies.

If we have our way, some time early next year you'll be able to buy the largest game product ever. And hey, I don't know if Paizo is looking to acquire any more adventures, but they're one company I wouldn't mind being bought out by. What do you say, Paizo guys? Want a monopoly on Adventure Paths?