Palladium?

[sydbar]

You may not like it, but at least palladium wants to survive, they didn't just quit like TSR did. Kevin may not be a great buisnessman, but he is a creative guy, who seems to be able to find other creative people, and he also likes to keep his products at a decent price, and doesn't make you buy books, and then make you buy the same books over again a couple of years later at higher prices, just because they realized that they screwed up in the mechanics the first time. I have read the palladium stuff many times, but the tsr just isn't that great a read.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Pity. I was kinda hoping they'd go out of business. Then maybe Rifts would have ended up in the hands of someone actually capable of writing a good system for an interesting setting.

I read this in the voice of Jafar from Disney's Aladdin.

Seriously, it's surprising how "cartoon villain-y" that sounds.

Vanilla. Disney. BRB, gotta get some ice cream.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

and doesn't make you buy books, and then make you buy the same books over again a couple of years later at higher prices, just because they realized that they screwed up in the mechanics the first time.

Yeah!

They don't even publish the books they've been hyping for ages. No fear of retreading when you can't even get the new stuff out.

 

[Ranger REG]

He actually has done several things in the last 3 years to work on perceived shortcomings, buffed some spells, buffed magic ranges to be equal to gun ranges, buffed some OCC's, but he doesn't want to come to grips that his system, great in the 80's, needs a total rethink, ground up.

I dunno. diaglo would disagree and hope that WotC would embrace Kevin's ethics.

*where's that dang Devil smiley?!?!!!*

 

[John Drake]

You may not like it, but at least palladium wants to survive, they didn't just quit like TSR did. Kevin may not be a great buisnessman, but he is a creative guy, who seems to be able to find other creative people, and he also likes to keep his products at a decent price, and doesn't make you buy books, and then make you buy the same books over again a couple of years later at higher prices, just because they realized that they screwed up in the mechanics the first time. I have read the palladium stuff many times, but the tsr just isn't that great a read.

Well, I see what you're saying. But TSR didn't really give up, it was mismanaged (as far as i understand things anyway) right out of business!
But even though I'm not really all that fond of Palladium and the rules etc, I do admire how KS has kept control of his company and product, and why not? It's his baby, kudos to him. I don't believe that the game is neccessarily stagnating, as some otheres have mentioned here, although some updating is always helpful. If it ain 't broke, don't fix it, is all.

 

[Gundark]

I am officially not looking at this thread anymore.

 

[Treebore]

I am officially not looking at this thread anymore.

I made a similiar decision about Paladium/RIFTS about 6 years ago.

 

[Nomad4life]

It just gets Resurrected or Animated?

Oh, how I had hoped and hoped and hoped that RIFTS would see some kind of resurrection or reanimation, in the form of a complete system overhaul, or a conversion into a system that works.

But, I guess all I have to look forward to is several more years of fan abuse.

 

[Falkus]

Seriously, it's surprising how "cartoon villain-y" that sounds.

I'm not the one who goes around initiating legal action against gamers trying to make a d20 conversion of my product.

 

[I'm A Banana]

That's true, you're not.

But are you a grand vizier in an animated version of the fantastic Baghdad who inexplicably has a Brittish accent and owns a parrot that speaks in the voice of Gilbert Gottfried?