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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2530387" data-attributes="member: 14159">Rifts d20 isn't going to happen because Kevin Sembieda is the one-man-show of Palladium Books, the Palladium system is his personal baby which her percieves as perfect, he considers requests for a d20 version to be insulting, has spoken out against a "d20 bandwagon" in RPG's, and has gone on record as saying that if they make a d20 version they're afraid that WotC will own all their IP.  Given that they've threatened to sue, in the old TSR style, fans who do so much as discuss the details of how to convert things (message boards that have had significant conversion notes posted on them have even gotten nasty letters to remove the posts or be sued for copyright/trademark infringement).  Every Rifts fan I know IRL has long since stopped using the Palladium system and runs with their own homebrew d20 concoction, and hates Palladium for their hostility towards fans and head-in-the-sand attitude about updates and progress in the gaming industry.Now, as for Deadlands d20, that was just a bad game, it would have been bad without the original version, d20 didn't make it bad, it was that way on it's own.  Games/settings have improved from the transition to d20.</blockquote>