Day 10 of RPGaDay asks what my favourite RPG publisher is.
This is a very tough one, as there are so many great companies. Games from Chaosium, Fantasy Flight Grounds, Evil Hat Games and many more all line my shelves, but I’d have to say that right now, my favourite would be Pelgrane Press.
They produce top-notch products like Trail of Cthulhu and Night’s Black Agents, two of my new favourite games. They both use the Gumshoe system, which has some great game mechanics for point spends using skills.
You might also recognize 13th Age and Hillfolk as two more award-winning games from Pelgrane Press.
It’s tough to pick a favourite, since Pinnacle Entertainment Group also sucks up a lot of my money through Savage Worlds games, but I’d say that Pelgrane is producing more stuff that is up my alley (dark and frightening) than anyone else and is more of a go-to company for me than any others.
Justin Schmid
Justin started tabletop gaming in 1983 with Basic D&D (red box) and never looked back. He runs and plays in a wide variety of games, including Savage Worlds, Dungeon World, Trail of Cthulhu and many, many more.
He also writes professionally for role-playing games, including writing and creating Night's Edge an Alternate Reality Universe for Cyberpunk 2020. He went on to write eight more adventures and sourcebooks in the Night's Edge line, adding vampires and other supernatural perils to the already dangerous world of Cyberpunk.
As a freelance writer, he wrote The Bermuda Triangle for Call of Cthulhu, Shadows of the Mind, and Psi Wars for Conspiracy X and contributed to Last Unicorn's Star Trek RPG, as well as to Cybergeneration sourcebooks, and many other games.
When he's not creating imaginary worlds for his daughter, he's running games for his friends and writing new adventures or designing new game systems. He currently lives in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.