What Would You Like From the Mongoose?

[sotterraneo]

Hi guys,

We are currently having a debate on our forums right now about what people would like to see from Mongoose Publishing over the next couple of years. If you have an interest or an opinion, feel free to drop by!

http://www.mortality.net/board/read.php?TID=4793

That's some question to ask. Let's see...

1) I have the impression that Mongoose has a double standard of production: the hardback books are gorgeous, the b/w publication not so. I'd ask for better graphics, covers and internal artwork for the future releases in the EA, SG, Quintessential X and so on.
2) At last the Italian edition of the most interesting, in sales terms too, EA books: Demonology, Necromancy and so on.
3) Battlestar Galactica RPG!

 

[Mongoose_Matt]

Re: Re: What Would You Like From the Mongoose?

1) I have the impression that Mongoose has a double standard of production: the hardback books are gorgeous, the b/w publication not so. I'd ask for better graphics, covers and internal artwork for the future releases in the EA, SG, Quintessential X and so on.

I agree, as it happens. Over the next couple of months, you should see a dramatic shift in our production values. Chief of this will be the new Armageddon 2089 RPG, which I will happily stack up against anything that WotC or GW produce (it really is that gorgeous), but you will also see improvements in lines such as the Quintessential books - check out the Quintessential Paladin to see the beginning of this.

 

[Severion]

Dammit, Severion! Stop crushing my head!

Mongoose: Slayer's guides only larger and detailing new races, evil or otherwise.

HA! Take that you ax slinging serpent! *crush, crush*

And yes keep the SLayer Guides coming (love Medusas)

 

[Dedman]

HA! Take that you ax slinging serpent! *crush, crush*

And yes keep the SLayer Guides coming (love Medusas)

I'd have to say the Medusas was very well done, one of my favorites.

I think a Slayers to Familiars/Mounts (as I stated earlier )would be cool...several pdf mounts and familiar books are floating around.

 

[Femerus the Gnecro]

No question about it... I'd like to see a Slayer's Guide to Minotaurs.

-F

 

[thundershot]

Re: Re: Re: What Would You Like From the Mongoose?

I agree, as it happens. Over the next couple of months, you should see a dramatic shift in our production values. Chief of this will be the new Armageddon 2089 RPG, which I will happily stack up against anything that WotC or GW produce (it really is that gorgeous), but you will also see improvements in lines such as the Quintessential books - check out the Quintessential Paladin to see the beginning of this.

Hope that doesn't mean you caved in to the people who complain about all of the breastacular artwork that graces Mongoose's books.

I plan on picking up Paladin soon. My wife has a Paladin, so SHE wants this book.


Chris

 

[Tenebrae]

I would like to see: Quintessential books on Sorceror, Planetouched, Bard, and Drow. Encyclopaedia Arcane/Divine: Genie Magic (Arabian magic with the old 2E Sha'ir, & have lots of stuff like half-genies, elemental spells, summoning genies, tasked genies. magic lamps, making mechanical familiars, Arabian monsters, etc), and Outsider Magic (spells of the planar creatures). Slayer's Guides on Mindflayers, Children of Gith: Githyanki/Githzerai, Beholders, Rakhasa, Genies, Fiends, Nagas, and Aboleths. There's a lot more I would like but its not OGL - like Thri-Kreen, Yak Folk, and Neogi.

 

[Tenebrae]

Oh yeah, I don't want Slayers Guides on creatures who don't have some sort of society, like golems or undead. The Slayers Guide give you the opportunity to read behind the lines in the Monster Manual & to able to flesh societies that are just as complex as Humans & Elves. Though I was very surprised with the content of the Medusa book. Not a monster that I thought would fill up a book by itself. Congrats.

 

[Melan]

I want d20 Lite!

 

[Arnwyn]

Use the rules under Profession for how much someone earns a month. D&D economics do not work at the macro level. You have to settle for just dealing with it at the micro level. As DM, you interpret the rolls however it makes sense for a story. He rolled low profit during fruit season. I guess it was a bad growing season for fruit. If this happens again next year perhaps the DM should make it continue to happen to grow a plot out of the lost fruit. Run the inn/tavern the same way. Profits are down: well that other inn that opened a few months ago is doing well, they must have a better location or word of mouth.

Nuh-uh. My players would reject that immediately. The lack of detail (both PC actions and results) in your suggestion above is appalling.

I want somebody to make a book about economics (focusing on PC merchant activities tied into their adventuring, as in my previous suggestions above) that *MAKES* the economics work. What do you think I'd be willing to pay for?