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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dvvega" data-source="post: 1976029" data-attributes="member: 524">My first exposure to Palladium (the company) was RIFTS. The reason I was attracted to play the game was that Carella was one of the writers, as well as a friend of mine who wrote some of the sourcebooks (Rifts Australia naturally).My impressions of the system (common amongst the posters) was that it had great ideas and concepts. The Juicer for example is a great conceptual idea which made it into a d20 3.0 experiment of a potion juicer,However the mechanics were crazy. There was no balance between various sourcebooks. This caused problems because you could supposedly mix/match your sourcebooks but since power levels were uneven, a bit of this and a bit of that led to a lot of munchkin play.So I like Palladium's ideas, but not their execution.As to the comment of cheap books for the amount of material ... you cannot honestly believe that you are comparing apples to apples. Palladium printing and paper stock are sub-par compared to WOTC printing and paper stock. The artwork is also extremely varied.Additionally, the attitude of the owner/writer towards customers who had fansites with actual information/stats, or anyone who attempted to convert Palladium material to another system, or said anything bad about Palladium is extremely whacked. And then losing Carella (I've read articles regarding Carella's leaving but I don't want to start a flaming war about that) was a blow to me since I like Carella's work (Witchcraft/Unisystem is decent).So its not as much hate as dislike or disappointment.</blockquote>

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