Palladium Fantasy home conversions?

[warlord]

You know Kev and his lawyers will be here to hand you a cease and disist order in a matter of seconds.

 

[Crothian]

So, their going to ask me to stop doing what I haven't done?? :/

 

[Impeesa]

So, their going to ask me to stop doing what I haven't done?? :/

Yes.

Remember, if it made sense, it wouldn't really be Palladium any more.

--Impeesa--

 

[warlord]

The importent reason for them is that you mentioned the words coversion and pallidum in the same sentence.

 

[boredgremlin]

Lol palladium had some neat ideas. But when you take away lasers and missiles alot of thier creatures are waaaayyy too hard to kill. Imagine trying to kill something with 800 HP with a D8 longsword. It would take some serius conversion. I dont like most of thier classes either. The rifts world was an interesting campaign setting though.

 

[Crothian]

Yes.

Remember, if it made sense, it wouldn't really be Palladium any more.

--Impeesa--

they really aren't that bad, they have a bad wrap and it is now "cool" to speak bad of them

 

[Impeesa]

they really aren't that bad, they have a bad wrap and it is now "cool" to speak bad of them

My favorite campaign I've ever played in, and probably the longest running as well, was a Robotech game (we just started it up again, too.. I'm so happy). I've played a splash of Rifts, too, and I love some of the ideas there. If anything, I should be biased towards Palladium, but really.. Kevin is a bit of a crackhead. The actual mechanics of their system start to fall apart without even having to think too hard, they refuse to give it a proper overhaul and publish a core Palladium RPG book (just more irrational patches in each new book), there's the paranoid policy about conversions to and from, etc. Reading through my old Robotech books in preparation for the game starting again, I'm reminded of how Kevin never quite mastered. The art of the complete sentence. Good times.

--Impeesa--

 

[Kanegrundar]

they really aren't that bad, they have a bad wrap and it is now "cool" to speak bad of them

Some of it's a bad wrap, but a lot of it isn't. KS is a good designer, but a HORRIBLE guy to have in charge...just ask Bill Coffin...

Kane

 

[Crothian]

Some of it's a bad wrap, but a lot of it isn't. KS is a good designer, but a HORRIBLE guy to have in charge...just ask Bill Coffin...

Kane

I played the games for a decade, I've meet and played with both Kevin and Bill. I was as big a presence on their boards ten years ago as I am here now. I understand that they have problems and egos and problems, but people still give them a much worse wrap then even they deserve.

 

[Kanegrundar]

I played the games for a decade, I've meet and played with both Kevin and Bill. I was as big a presence on their boards ten years ago as I am here now. I understand that they have problems and egos and problems, but people still give them a much worse wrap then even they deserve.

I've lurked on the Palladium boards for a long time now, but I've never met KS (or Bill for that matter). All I have to go on is the string of former Palladium writers that left due to KS's mood swings and ego, the shoddy handling of the Rifts line (the only line I played a lot of) with books coming out late or never appearing at all, and that's not even mentioning the draconian cyber-use rules and board rules. There may be a bad wrap, but to those of us that haven't met KS in person that's all he's been putting out there for a while. I liked Palladium, and I still want to, but I'd much rather play games that evolve and get better over time and are ran by people that don't seem to take the fans for granted.

Kane