Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
Girls?
What are those?
I wish I had read the rest of the thread before XPing your first post. Now I owe you for the chuckle!
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Going Palladium
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I wish I had read the rest of the thread before XPing your first post. Now I owe you for the chuckle!
Treebore
First Post
I like a lot of systems. Castles and Crusades, Aces and Eights, Cthulhu Tech, Mouse Guard, Wild Talents, Qin, Legends of the 5 Rings, Traveller, Shadowrun, Paladium Fantasy, RIFTS, Dresden Files, Savage Worlds, CORTEX, Starblazer Adventures, Eclipse Phase, Mutants and Masterminds, True20 and more.
TerraDave
5ever, or until 2024
Palladium has swagger. Swagger that many of its contemporaries were short of and WotC D&D, for all its design strengths, has pretty much lacked in its entirety.
Of course, I only actually played palladium fantasy briefly, and yes I was like 20.
Swagger only gets you so far, after all.
Of course, I only actually played palladium fantasy briefly, and yes I was like 20.
Swagger only gets you so far, after all.
scruffygrognard
Adventurer
Not odd at all. One game may whet your appetite and satisfy you for a while but, eventually, you get tired of the same old thing again and again.
11+ years of WotC D&D was more than enough for me. I now am only interested in rules-lite games like Savage Worlds, Traveller, Castles & Crusades, Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon and The One Ring.
the Jester
Legend
While Palladium isn't my choice, in 2e I had conversions of the summoner and diabolist in my game, and it's chock full of cool ideas and little bits that I love.
A personal favorite: In the PFRP Bestiary, each monster entry comes with a mini-map of the continent with the monster's 'range' shaded. So if you're in the (making stuff up here) Snowy Peaks you know that yeti and frost worms live there but ice drakes don't. It's a nice touch that I really appreciate.
A personal favorite: In the PFRP Bestiary, each monster entry comes with a mini-map of the continent with the monster's 'range' shaded. So if you're in the (making stuff up here) Snowy Peaks you know that yeti and frost worms live there but ice drakes don't. It's a nice touch that I really appreciate.
Ed_Laprade
Adventurer
None of the groups I've played with have ever been 'game snobs', thankfully! As for Palladium, I think PF is just as good as AD&D, the rest not so much. But I'd play them if someone asked! (Hey, I once ran a PF character who had Hysterical Blindness ~80% chance of going blind during a 'stressfull' situation~ up to 4th level! She even survived falling off a burning building, just a few game weeks before finally kicking the bucket. Now that was an interesting character to play!)
Nemesis Destiny
Adventurer
If you're prepared for a different gaming experience, and well aware of their strengths and weaknesses, Palladium games can be great fun.
I only played RIFTS once, but it was pretty neat, if a little obviously unbalanced - but hey, it had a lot of variety, in both content and playstyles you could use.
I really liked Ninjas & Superspies and Heroes Unlimited, and played those here and there. My favourite Palladium game though has to be Robotech. I loved, and still love that show. Epic space opera. I played that one quite a bit, and still would if I knew anyone that was into it. I still have the books from all three of those games; they have a place of honour in my RPG warchest.
I had a friend whose first fantasy RPG experiences were with Palladium Fantasy. He liked it, though I never did play it. It had some very different flavour from AD&D (this was circa 1991, maybe?), which was pretty refreshing at the time.
One thing I remember about them, besides the capacity for some truly cheesy characters, is the supplement books for weapons and armour. Awesome stuff. I don't know about the amount of research that went into them, but they were packed full of options, modern and archaic.
So no, I don't think you're crazy or foolish at all. Game on!
I only played RIFTS once, but it was pretty neat, if a little obviously unbalanced - but hey, it had a lot of variety, in both content and playstyles you could use.
I really liked Ninjas & Superspies and Heroes Unlimited, and played those here and there. My favourite Palladium game though has to be Robotech. I loved, and still love that show. Epic space opera. I played that one quite a bit, and still would if I knew anyone that was into it. I still have the books from all three of those games; they have a place of honour in my RPG warchest.
I had a friend whose first fantasy RPG experiences were with Palladium Fantasy. He liked it, though I never did play it. It had some very different flavour from AD&D (this was circa 1991, maybe?), which was pretty refreshing at the time.
One thing I remember about them, besides the capacity for some truly cheesy characters, is the supplement books for weapons and armour. Awesome stuff. I don't know about the amount of research that went into them, but they were packed full of options, modern and archaic.
So no, I don't think you're crazy or foolish at all. Game on!
Stormonu
NeoGrognard
My encounters with the Palladium system have been running TMNT and Robotech back in the 80's. I have the Rifts books and love the world setting, but my experiences with the TMNT game has made me not want to run the game using Palladium's ruleset [We killed The Shredder in the first - and last - TMNT adventure. The Robotech game lasted a lot longer, but I dislike how combat seemed to drag on, and everyone always fired 4 missiles at a target so it couldn't dodge.]
Between the fall of 3.5E and the rise of 4E/Pathfinder, I was able to get my current game group to try out a lot of systems - World of Darkness (nWoD), Ramlar, Savage Worlds, Alternity, Serenity/Cortex, d20 Modern, Star Wars SE, L5R, Castles & Crusades are the ones I remember.
They really came to enjoy the nWoD (mainly Vampire), I fell in love with Savage Worlds.
Between the fall of 3.5E and the rise of 4E/Pathfinder, I was able to get my current game group to try out a lot of systems - World of Darkness (nWoD), Ramlar, Savage Worlds, Alternity, Serenity/Cortex, d20 Modern, Star Wars SE, L5R, Castles & Crusades are the ones I remember.
They really came to enjoy the nWoD (mainly Vampire), I fell in love with Savage Worlds.
