KingOfChaos
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1. Bastion Press
2. Ambient Inc.
3. Fantasy Flight Games
4. Sword and Sorcery Studios
5. Green Ronin Publishing
2. Ambient Inc.
3. Fantasy Flight Games
4. Sword and Sorcery Studios
5. Green Ronin Publishing
What are your top 5 D20 Companies
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hellbender
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I like to pick and choose through books, and haven't found a d20 product yet that I have purchased that I have no use for. I am a Mongoose fan, and I find some of their books very handy (I really liked the Fey book). I mix Green Ronin, Mongoose and Malhavoc often into a fine brew for my fantasy gameworld, and it works for me and for them, as I am a pretty regular customer to all three. The only series of books from Mongoose I haven't gotten yet are any volumes in the Quintessential series.
As far as Dredd goes, I cannot get enough. I am working up a story hour for my Dredd campaign.
hellbender
As far as Dredd goes, I cannot get enough. I am working up a story hour for my Dredd campaign.
hellbender
Teflon Billy
Explorer
I sense alotof Mongoose bashing here, so I just wanted tochime in and say how great I thought Seas of Blood was.
It saw a lot of use in my campign, and managed to niely meld magic into a good set of "realistic" sailing rules.
It saw a lot of use in my campign, and managed to niely meld magic into a good set of "realistic" sailing rules.
der_kluge
Adventurer
I'll caveat this by stating that I've been with Thunderhead Games since the beginning, and now I'm affiliated with Mystic Eye Games because of the merger. So, it kind of goes without saying that Thunderhead Games is my #1 choice, with Mystic Eye Games being my #2 choice. 
That being said, I'm going to leave WoTC out, since it's a given anyway, although some of their stuff is iffy, but it is the bar by which everyone else is measured.
Bastion Press has done some good stuff. I really should pick up their Arms and Armor book. Alchemy & Herbalists is really good, and Ink & Quill was surprisingly good for a free product. I have no interest in Oathbound, since I'm not in the market for another campaign setting. But that doesn't diminish its quality in any way.
FFG - They do top quality stuff, and I'm a big fan of their Dragonstar setting... if only I could find some people to play it with.
I'll have to leave it at that. I'm pretty picky.
That being said, I'm going to leave WoTC out, since it's a given anyway, although some of their stuff is iffy, but it is the bar by which everyone else is measured.
Bastion Press has done some good stuff. I really should pick up their Arms and Armor book. Alchemy & Herbalists is really good, and Ink & Quill was surprisingly good for a free product. I have no interest in Oathbound, since I'm not in the market for another campaign setting. But that doesn't diminish its quality in any way.
FFG - They do top quality stuff, and I'm a big fan of their Dragonstar setting... if only I could find some people to play it with.
I'll have to leave it at that. I'm pretty picky.
Andrew D. Gable
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1. WOTC - Cthulhu/Wheel of Time/Manual of the Planes/Oriental Adventures. 'Nuff said.
2. Green Ronin - Shamans and demons and devils, oh my!
3. Sword & Sorcery family - Scarred Lands is great, Necropolis is great, Ravenloft is super.
4. AEG - Swashbuckling/Rokugan.
5. Privateer - Monsternomicon got me actually wanting to play fantasy steampunk - a conversion of the Arcanum computer game world would be keen.
Companies who I only have one product by, but who get honorary mention based on that product: Atlas (Nyambe), Mongoose (Slaine).
2. Green Ronin - Shamans and demons and devils, oh my!
3. Sword & Sorcery family - Scarred Lands is great, Necropolis is great, Ravenloft is super.
4. AEG - Swashbuckling/Rokugan.
5. Privateer - Monsternomicon got me actually wanting to play fantasy steampunk - a conversion of the Arcanum computer game world would be keen.
Companies who I only have one product by, but who get honorary mention based on that product: Atlas (Nyambe), Mongoose (Slaine).
Dr_Rictus
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1) WoTC
2) Paizo Publishing, now that WotC has sold its magazines. DUNGEON alone kicks all other third-party adventures around on a bi-monthly basis (with the possible exception of Fiery Dragon)
3) Malhavoc Press
4) Fiery Dragon
5) There is no 5. I haven't found anybody else yet who deserves to be put in the same weight class as these four. That would be the "I trust it until I see otherwise simply because of the publisher" class. Sword & Sorcery is maybe getting close.
2) Paizo Publishing, now that WotC has sold its magazines. DUNGEON alone kicks all other third-party adventures around on a bi-monthly basis (with the possible exception of Fiery Dragon)
3) Malhavoc Press
4) Fiery Dragon
5) There is no 5. I haven't found anybody else yet who deserves to be put in the same weight class as these four. That would be the "I trust it until I see otherwise simply because of the publisher" class. Sword & Sorcery is maybe getting close.
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hellbender
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The only unfair thing about threads like this is that a lot of people are simply not exposed to all the d20 companies out there to a level where you can physically go through the product before purchasing it. I know in my neck of the woods, there are very few companies that make it to my immediate vicinity, and without resources such as ENworld, I wouldn't know that other companies existed. Sure, a 30 mile trek and I am exposed to more companies, but there will always be those diamonds in the rough and those hidden pearls that elude most people.
And knowing about other companies from ENworld still doesn't mean I can formulate much of a decision until I have read the product, and hey, I have a lot of disposable income, but not that much I am going to direct to buy everything, as special order is the only way to get less famous companies around here, when they are even available from the distributor.
hellbender
And knowing about other companies from ENworld still doesn't mean I can formulate much of a decision until I have read the product, and hey, I have a lot of disposable income, but not that much I am going to direct to buy everything, as special order is the only way to get less famous companies around here, when they are even available from the distributor.
hellbender
