I was reading this thread on Paizo and
it got me kind of interested on seeing how many copies that said they were
going to release product for Pathfinder but didn’t. I personally became interested
and went over to the Compatibility License Registry to see how many people said they were
going to start a 3PP for Pathfinder and did. Better yet how many were still in
business.
I got 10% through the list and I stopped.
I was kind of a
wast of time because SO MANY people signed up but released only one product and
ever worst most released nothing. If you
head over to RPGNow.com and select Rule System Pathfinder, here is the list of companies
that came up for me:
Abandoned Arts, Alluria Publishing, Avalon Game Company, EN Publishing, Fire Mountain Games, Frog God Games, Jon Brazer Enterprises, Legendary Games, Little Red Goblin Games,
LPJ Design, Necromancers of the Northwest, Open Design, Raging Swan Press, Rite Publishing and Super Genius Games.
As you can see 15 companies that RPGNow.com feels are the most
important / influential in the area of Pathfinder products. I find this very interesting in the concept
of gatekeepers. To make it on to the
list of 15 publishers you have to work very hard to keep producing product on a
regular basis that fans are interested in.
But the really interesting part is the number of people who WANT to or
PLANNED to create something for Pathfinder. Many of these people/companies produced
nothing. While even fewer produced just one product and decided for some reason
not to do more. When you think about it
on a small scale all you need to do is do as much work and the “number 15” on
the list and you could release them on that list. I mean that it isn’t really that difficult. Fifteen others are doing it, so why can’t you.
So why don’t you or better yet, why haven’t you? Talk to you later…
