Mongoose Publishing
| Game Publisher | |
| Industry | Role-playing, card games and miniature wargaming publisher |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Swindon, England |
| Products | Traveller, Paranoia role-playing games |
| Website | www.mongoosepublishing.com |
Mongoose Publishing is a British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, actively publishing material since 2001. Its licenses include products based on the science fiction properties Traveller, Judge Dredd, and Paranoia, as well as fantasy titles.
Mongoose Publishing was founded in Swindon, England, in 2001 by Matthew Sprange and Alex Fennell. Sprange initially wanted to publish a miniatures game, but he went with a less expensive alternative using Wizards of the Coast's d20 System Trademark License. It grew out of the d20 System boom sparked by Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition. The first release, the Slayer's Guides, concentrated on different monster types for the d20 system, while the subsequent Quintessential books, detailed specific character classes. The latter were to span three years and thirty-six different titles.
In 2003 the company released the magazine Signs and Portents, a house organ aimed at supplementing and supporting Mongoose's products, as well as a range of generic standalone products based on the d20 System, collectively known as the "OGL series". Further acquisitions followed the same year, including the rights to a roleplaying game based on Conan the Barbarian (which saw light of day on January 2004), the roleplaying game Paranoia (2004) and a joint venture with d20 System portal EN World, the EN World Gamer quarterly magazine. Signs & Portents was turned into an online magazine after two years. In 2007, Mongoose added the licenses for new editions of the classic RPGs RuneQuest and Traveller.
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