What publishers do you support (or SHOULD you support)?

[innerdude]

I've bought A LOT of PDFs/hardcopy from Paizo in the last year, even though I probably won't play or GM a Pathfinder campaign for at least a year.

I would love to give Pinnacle more love.

And Mongoose (Runequest/Traveller) and Green Ronin (Song of Fire and Ice/True 20) I'd love to give more support to.

 

[delericho]

At the moment, my only RPG purchases are my ongoing subscription to the Pathfinder Adventure Path product from Paizo. I'm considering dropping this subscription, depending on how many books they start to 'require' to use the product - at the moment it seems to be Core/Bestiary/APG/GMG/Bestiary 2, which I can live with, but if they go beyond that I think I'm done.

I don't accept that I 'should' support any publishers. If they produce something I want, I'll buy. If not, I won't. If publishers fail, others will pick up the torch. And even if not, I have more RPG material than I can use in a lifetime, and am more inclined to homebrew materials anyway.

 

[Aberzanzorax]

However they [WotC] are not a company I feel that I want or need to support. They are doing fine without me. So didn't, and don't, think they fit into what the OP was asking.

You nailed it. Of course if someone felt that they wanted to support WotC or if WotC needed it, that'd be fine to include.

But, yeah, I mainly am asking about publishers (4e, 3e, prior editions, Pathfiner) that are a bit smaller or perhaps more in need of support.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I do support WOTC.

But not really anyone else.

I should support Enworld more. I was a copper for 6 months till my bank account ran low, but it is recharged, and am just waiting for Zeitgeist to come out and I will do silver for a while, like maybe the rest of the year.

As for others, I do not know anyone I want to support. I really do not know what is on offer.

 

[Crazy Jerome]

When I feel an impulse to "support a company" it is almost always spurred by high quality.

I'd like to support the Burning Wheel folks more than I do. Trouble is, while I think all of their stuff is great quality, a lot of it (pretty much everything outside of BW itself and Mouse Guard) hits themes or settings that totally don't interest me. And I don't have the money to just buy, say, Burning Empires, to encourage them to "make more stuff," when I know that I'm not going to use it.

I'm pretty much on a kick to only buy things that I use--even when that means letting a quality product from a company I like go unpurchased. (It's easy with lesser quality products. I agree with delericho, there.)

I felt the same way with Monte Cook's independent stuff. Loved the company; loved the quality; but half of it didn't grab my interest.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

Any company that makes a product I'm interested in at a decent price.

Edit: As to whom SHOULD I support, no one. I don't feel morally inclined to support any company. I'll give my money to a company that makes a good product. If they make a shoddy product, I won't. Doesn't matter who they are.

 

[Mournblade94]

I pretty much will support any of the publishers out there. I get just about everything Paizo publishes for Pathfinder, and I am trying to acquire all of Mongoose's Traveller books.

The only one I deliberately do not support is Wizards of the Coast, and I get a bit of a laugh when they try to reach the lapsed market with nostalgia.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

I pretty much exclusively support Paizo (Adventure Path and RPG Subscriber) these days with Green Ronin (Dragon Age and M&M) a close second. I picked up the 1st 2 WOTC Boardgames but I think that I'm actually done supportting WOTC. Ive decided that I'm going to support games that I actually play and want to play, the boardgames are great but those two huge boxes are enough I think.

I have to see what Legendary Games comes up with and I intend on picking up the PDF of the deluxe Tome of Horrors from Frog God Games. Oh and Open Design even though I stopped buying Kobold Quarterly because of the increase of 4E material I may start picking it up again because of the Dragon Age articles.

 

[MortalPlague]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Goodman Games yet. They've been putting out quality modules and supplements all over the place. Recently, I picked up their criminal underworld book, Crime Pays, and I've been using it to run a very cool thieves' guild game.

That's a book that deserves a look.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

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