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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JustinA" data-source="post: 3505957" data-attributes="member: 51618">Here's the real trick:Back when AD&D was a train wreck, Siembieda came along and designed the Palladium system. The Palladium system was great: It was basically a cleaned up and improved version of AD&D that incorporated a lot of the common house rules people used while making the game easier to learn and play.Siembieda used basically the same system for RIFTS. And it was still pretty cool.Then, a decade and a half later, WotC showed up and did an even better job of cleaning up and improving AD&D. They called it 3rd Edition and there was much rejoicing.But Siembieda loves his old system, and no one was going to tell him otherwise.The tragedy here is that Siembieda could duplicate his own past success with a wave of his hand at this point by revamping RIFTS to D20. But this is a man so stuck in the past that, AFAIK, he's still laying out his new products by hand (instead of using a computer). So that's unlikely to happen any time in the near future.</blockquote>