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Technomancer Press is a publisher of role-playing game products.
History
Technomancer Press, LLC was initially started by Tony Hellmann and Matthew L. Baldridge. In January of 2006, Technomancer Press bought out Kajigi, Inc. and assumed their assets. Kajigi's president, Sandy Antunes, became the third owner.
Products
The Critonomicon
The Critonomicon contains over 60 critical hit, fumble, and spell fumble tables: simple, quick crits and fumbles decided by the roll of a d6; more sophisticated tables requiring a d20 or multiple dice, and large charts which have hundreds of possibilities. There are charts that are weapon specific and others that are opponent specific (mounted opponents, winged opponents, etc.). Notably, one of the spell fumble tables is even specific to spell level and school of magic.
The Manual of Mysteries
The Manual of Mysteries provides game masters creative tools to give players a wide variety of challenges. It provides information on how to use cryptography, riddles, murder mysteries, and many other types of non-cobat challenges.
The Player's Companion
The Player's Companion provides answers to questions like: What are your racial abilities when one of your parents is a halfling and the other is a dwarf? How much space does 100,000 gold pieces take up? How far does one fall in a round, or three? It also includes six new classes, dozens of new spells, and more.
The Play's the Thing
ConQuests
Controversial View of d20 System
Technomancer Press publishes d20 System compatible products, but does not display the d20 System logo on its products. Their reasons are stated (on their website) as such:
If you read the text of the Open Gaming License (version 1.0a), it actually restricts companies from using certain terms in their books:
"You agree not to indicate compatibility or co-adaptability with any Trademark or Registered Trademark in conjunction with a work containing Open Game Content except as expressly licensed in another, independent Agreement with the owner of such Trademark or Registered Trademark."
This means that saying our books are compatible with Dungeons & Dragons is a violation of the Open Gaming License. Further, the system reference document for D&D 3.5 released by Wizards of the Coast states:
"The following items are designated Product Identity, as defined in Section 1(e) of the Open Game License Version 1.0a, and are subject to the conditions set forth in Section 7 of the OGL, and are not Open Content: Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master, Monster Manual…"
In addition, the d20 System™ Guide, v5.0 states:
"You may refer to the Player’s Handbook by title or as the PHB. You may refer to the Dungeon Master’s Guide only as the DMG and the Monster Manual only as the MM. You may refer to the Psionics Handbook only by title. You may refer to the Epic Level Handbook by title or as the ELH. You may refer to the d20 Modern Roleplaying Game only by title. You must not cite page number references…"
Technomancer Press finds these requirements to be restrictive and more beneficial to Wizards of the Coast than any of the d20 System™ licensees. We also find it to be hypocritical, considering that Wizards of the Coast’s initial product line consisted of books intended to be used in other role-playing systems."