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Jack Burton wrote:Sorry to sound naive, but how much work is involved in an open house? I've never been to one, so I just don't know.

I know what it takes to put on a small gaming convention, but not the Palladium Open House. So I'll say, a good deal of work and let others comment.

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Why not both April 19 - 22, 2018 and in 2019! Make it a yearly event!

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Someone has talked about doing Birthright rules for Rifts at one point. Unfortunately, I don't think they over got them started.

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Yes, get well soon Kevin. Take the time to rest and heal, broken limbs can cause lots of issues later if you don't give them time to heal.

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If you had a military from a magical based city state, and you had a group of magi which were pressed into service or willing volunteered you would be idiotic not to use them. Make them an Specialist of sorts. They would be unit support. Just imagine if the 10th person in a 9 person squad was a mode...

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Alpha 11 wrote:Never thought of doing it that way. Sounds like a good ideal.

It is a Program Manager tool that can help sometimes.

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Yes, life kicked a few of us in the ass and it got SUPER busy.

The first thing we voted on and decided was to have it in 2018, not 2017. With that year in mind, we will need to work backwards to create a timeline (gantt chart maybe) on what needs to be done when.

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It would require a lot of cash or time. Or both. Someone would have to have the skills, equipment and time or someone would need a good deal of money.

Baring those, not sure.

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While progress is slow, we are still working towards doing this. Though, right now we are looking at 2018 for the next date.

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Phaze wrote:FatherMorpheus, I NEED to get into one of your games!

See you in a few months.

Oh man, this year I can't make it. With me organizing the local convention I had to make a choice either I go to GenCon or www.wagoncon.com happens.

I choose the local convention.

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Whatever....it's magnificent. Thank you. Any comments regarding it? I'll need to work at flushing it out further, clean up some phrasing and perhaps do some hard math to see what it would take in game to build the darn thing. I just wish I was an artist, because the image in my head is kind of cool.

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taalismn wrote:That's just late-night-number-crunching-and-caffeine-chuggingly BEAUTIFUL.

No caffeine at night for me. Keeps me up way too late then.

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I was inspired by this entire thread, and worked up something last night, but it is super rough at this point. An artist I am not, and I dislike stealing other people's art. So please take the drawing (in link below) with a grain of salt, it is just for reference on the placement of various parts. I...

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Wow, that is a lot like what Rifts can be. They have just about everything in there.

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Honestly blimps would be not a terrible way to get around. biggest issue is they are a big slow target although blimps actually can take a fair amount of damage and still land safely. With some magic to prevent fire hydrogen would not be a problem. There is a series of books call The Grimnoir Chron...

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WagonCon 2016! The Best "Dam" Gaming Convention in the Columbia Gorge! Four score and a few months ago, four friends decided it would be a "dam" good idea to run a gaming convention in The Dalles, Oregon. Why did we think this? Well, we are Crazy Gamers™ of course! Thus the idea ...

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All, I have dropped the ball with the Holidays and catching up over this month. I also have a local Convention which I'm planning (Launching our KS ~ 15 Jan 2016). m Goal for Palladium KS Convention will be to organize a meeting by end of this month. I'll be sending out an email shortly to those who...

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Cool, was just wondering on when the bush beating would begin.

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Is anyone going to be organizing a GenCon 2016 MA Event like last year?

In other words, organizing as many GMs as possible to do as many Palladium Games as possible?

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Update, work and holidays kicked me in the rear and screwed up my various side projects.

Will be getting back on track shortly. Sorry for delays in emails to everyone.

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Sorry I haven't sent out an email to everyone yet, work has been crazy busy this week.

I'll be doing over the weekend sometime so we can get the ball rolling.

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OK, so lets organize a conference call (I prefer Google Hangouts but can use Skype if needed, but can't do FaceTime) of those who are really interested. I'll even bite the bullet and organize this first meeting. For those who are really interested (IE Willing to commit a few hours a month for the ne...

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I built a spreadsheet with all of these dumped into one spot so you can review how different groups did it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

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In ambush scenarios I usually allow people to make Detect Ambush and/or Perception rolls to try and notice prior to the attack. There usually are penalties or bonuses added into those rolls. If the ambushers (IE Snipers) are really really hidden, I wouldn't require a successful roll before they figu...

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Rules for coordinating surprise attacks so that all shooters get that benefit of a first indefensible strike would be pretty cool. One gets the impression that after the 1st the others can't cash in, but until you actually fire a shot they don't know you're there so even if you waited until the 2nd...

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Here is a Crowd sourced Convention Idea kind of like ours:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/da ... escription

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To go back to the original idea of a CS Sniper Team in Rifts Earth with CS equipment. I've been pondering this idea for a while. Take a group of 6 CS Special Forces Soldiers. At 1st level Prowl of 40%. Each with WP Energy Rifle and WP Heavy and Sniper. (In addition to their normal skills.) As they a...

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I think the best way would be to get Palladiums approver and work on their behave. It seems the easiest way to go. Like I said before, Palladium looked into this in the past, so if we ask, they might give us all their notes and stuff of what info they have from that. Then take it form there. That w...

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My only problem with the Grab Bags is I have everything save for the latest/newest books. So I always end up with signed duplicates. It is a great deal for someone who doesn't have everything, but for someone like me it is kind of a waste. See, that's where I am with it. There are a FEW other books...

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My only problem with the Grab Bags is I have everything save for the latest/newest books. So I always end up with signed duplicates. It is a great deal for someone who doesn't have everything, but for someone like me it is kind of a waste. Of course, I say that every year and end up getting it anywa...

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One thing which came up in conversations regarding another convention I'm working on putting together is issue of a Kickstarter reward including the Ticket/Badge. Yes, the goal of the kickstarter would be to fund the convention so that it would happen. BUT if for some reason costs were too high or t...

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Hello... [ In case of Zombie Apocalypse the firearm will outlast your ammo. So, for a game environment. Three pistols to cover your 3 most common pistol calibers. Ruger Mark III (.22 Long Rifle) Glock 17 (9mm Handgun) Glock 21 (45 ACP Handgun) Three most common rifle calibers. SKS or AK-47 (7.62 x ...

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In case of Zombie Apocalypse the firearm will outlast your ammo. So, for a game environment. Three pistols to cover your 3 most common pistol calibers. Ruger Mark III (.22 Long Rifle) Glock 17 (9mm Handgun) Glock 21 (45 ACP Handgun) Three most common rifle calibers. SKS or AK-47 (7.62 x 39) Common r...

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I was thinking about your comments a bit. I think the HAM culture that we have today might change a bit as our communications advance over the next hundred or so years. As things start to break down (coming of Rifts) it would be interesting to see how the HAM culture would expand as quickly as equi...

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Granted there is a wealth of information in all of the RIFTS books, but one thing I've noticed is a lack of Global Communications that really should be there in the form of Amateur/HAM Radio. Even today, HAM Radio Operators, CB Operators, Broadcaster Networks, all fill the Airwaves, in addition to ...

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I've always thought that HAM Radio (or something similar) was basically the means that everyone used to communicate back and forth on Rifts Earth. Without getting overly complex, most of the armor has a radio of some sort, there are lots of inexpensive hand units and even a few long range units. Whi...

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Books written over almost 20 years = numbers/facts getting squishy as time goes by. I think even the Tolkeen Wars books talk about a large population of dragons in their sister city To get a more accurate census you would need a more recent book listing out larger dragon populations. Or you just set...

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I think rather than a Cell phone system you would end up with more of a hand held point to point radio system. Each device would have their own index of call numbers in the form of frequencies with the individual's encryption or data-compression algorithm. While it would be open band, or sorts, unle...

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Psi-Ghost, and just walk away.

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Jefffar wrote:They aren't the first (ie GW) and I am sure they won't be the last.

Facebook is providing the discussion space for a lot of companies these days anyway. Forums may be a dying breed as far as the internet goes.

They but GW loves to hate its player/fan base.

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There is a cat like creature in New West, but it isn't a Smilodon exactly.

Panthera-Tereon, p 155 New West.

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To me this seems like a Hazmat influenced call. Sorry, I mean Hasbro. They don't like the idea that a subsidiary might have a place where their products are discussed, criticized and people share information freely. Where as in the RPG world, that is part of the whole experience. Oh well, their loss.

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One of the things I always liked about a few other game systems were published free Errata in PDF form. Now that Palladium has been getting on the pdf bandwagon a little more, it would be great if they published errata or changes to new editions for free on DriveThruRPG. I thought when the errata P...

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$1 The feeling of satisfaction that you have contributed towards the Palladium Open House 2017. I would maybe have a slot for Kevin's game be a special game, and obviously you need the approval from the man himself for that. Either one of his games, or no more than half of the slots for the games, ...

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OK, so how about something like this: This is all off the cuff $5.00 USD * Thank you card saying thank you to helping support Palladium Open House 2017! $15.00 USD * Thank you Card and Palladium Open House Dog Tags $25.00 USD * Special (to be designed) Palladium Open House T-Shirt $35.00 USD * Thank...

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After counting the number of posts, I'll have to agree, that that is possible. Any ideals for some stretch goals? Well, before stretch goals. Lets formalize what we want the base goal to be? So we can have a base budget to work from? What should the basic fee get you? Just access to the convention?...

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Shadowed? "Shadow Updated", which isn't a term the company would use. Is that what people are calling any updates or revisions done to different editions of the books when a new edition is published? Hmm. OK. I guess form one prospective they are secret updates. Of course, lots of publish...

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An effective errata document requires staff to maintain it. I am under the impression that Palladium does not have the manpower to assign anybody that task. Volunteers or interns could do it, but quality control issues would be more likely to occur. Given the quality control that Palladium already ...

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Errata could be as simple as "We have shadowed the following material in Book X: On page xx under <blah blah> OCC they now have a +2 perception bonus on page xx under......" Heck even a "As of <date>/Printing # Book Y has been updated to RUE standard" would be helpful. (it would...

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One of the things I always liked about a few other game systems were published free Errata in PDF form. Now that Palladium has been getting on the pdf bandwagon a little more, it would be great if they published errata or changes to new editions for free on DriveThruRPG. I thought when the errata PD...

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