Question re: DTRPG and TAS

[FreeTrav]

In reading through the various "Follow your Favorites" notifications I get from DTRPG, and checking out some of the products therein mentioned, I've noticed that DTRPG seems to register all TAS product as having been published by Mongoose, even if the product's own branding suggest that the imprint should be "March Harrier Publishing" or "Moon Toad Publishing" or any of a handful of other somewhat prolific creators that choose to take the TAS badge.

What I'd like to know:

(1) Is this a requirement of DTRPG, or is it a requirement of Mongoose, or is it just an administrative decision (possibly misstep) made by Someone, Somewhere? It makes it a little more difficult when I'm preparing the "published since last issue" list in the back of Freelance Traveller, though not insurmountably so, or even "it's still too easy to get it wrong" so.

(2) Can it/Should it be changed to reflect the "real" publisher's name?

 

[hopsnbaer]

Seems like it may be better for the independent for their product to show up on a Mongoose search. Especially if it is for the Traveller system.

 

[FreeTrav]

Seems like it may be better for the independent for their product to show up on a Mongoose search. Especially if it is for the Traveller system.

I think this could cut either way; I haven't tried a search, but if there's a way to search for "Products released as TAS", then between that and being able to search on "rule system: Traveller", it would seem that having March Harrier TAS works be listed as "Published by Mongoose" is less than entirely necessary.

 

[Limpin Legin]

I think on DTRPG, if someone selects "follow" for more than one category, then, if your product satisfies two or more of those user-selected categories, then it would more likely surface to the top of the DTRPG email by being shown two or more times.

I think it is a DTRPG thing, because you cannot define a search using the site filters, and then select "follow that search", like you can on eBay. DTRPG only allows you to follow the Publisher, game/product category or Author where "Author" can be an individual or 3rd-party company. Same pattern of results with Chaosium products marketed under their Jonstown Compendium (RuneQuest) or Miskatonic Repository (Cthulhu).

 

[Vormaerin]

I don't know what the "rules" are, but this is how it works for every community license category on DTRPG. The Jonstown Compendium is all 3rd party stuff for Runequest, but it shows under Chaosium, for example.

 

[Terry Mixon]

They download on the PC to the same directory as well.