Swindon, England pub, and Sprange offered to start a game company with him.[1]: 394 Fennell was uncertain about this suggestion and instead went to work for a 3G mobile communication company.[1]: 394 After six months of working in that field, Fennell had become interested in having a job allowing more creativity, and when Sprange contacted him again about forming the game company Mongoose Publishing to publish adventures using the d20 license from Wizards of the Coast, Fennell agreed and joined him.[1]: 394 Thanks to good sales on their first product, The Slayer's Guide to Hobgoblins (2001), Fennell left his day job and became the first employee of Mongoose Publishing with Sprange joining as an employee a month later.[1]: 394 Fennell used his saved army wages to make certain the company was able pay to publish a book per month, until they began to receive payments back from their distributors.[1]: 394 Fennell left Mongoose in 2009.[1]
