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Turns Variant – 5thE xcellent Method With this method a round is now 8 seconds to reflect the shortened action economy. Number of Actions Characters have a number of actions per turn as determined below based on the number of ‘melee attack actions’ the character has obtained through normal character...

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Welcome to RPGing, if are truly new, I might suggest a system other than Palladium. It is not the most beginner friendly IMO. The current version of Palladium fantasy is over 20 years old, and even then isn't a massive revision from the initial edition from 1983. This does not make it a bad game, bu...

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Does Palladium enjoy watching these kinds of arguments? Is it really that hard for them to create an official errata that clarifies poorly written rules like this? Or even have Alex pop in and say.."hey guys, from up top, rule xyz should be interpreted thus...".

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I will be posting something on skills soon. I was considering adding something as the above, it would be nice to actually get some more use out of the character's stats.

I was thinking of something simple like just add stat as a %.

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Turns Variant – 5 th E xcellent Method With this method a round is now 8 seconds to reflect the shortened action economy. Number of Actions Characters have a number of actions per turn as determined below based on the number of ‘melee attack actions’ the character has obtained through normal charac...

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To comment on a few comments made regarding fair use. While the area is gray, and usually each case is tested on its own merits, In general, so far fan content is not considered to be covered by fair use, and likely won’t be(although one never knows what may change in the future). And no, the fact t...

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It appears that kindle worlds is closing down.

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Well, in spite of everything I hadn't given up on Palladium until now. While I would never kick start a project of their's again, I do still have interest in some of their product ( I backed savage rifts), was planning more. Dead Reign was on my mind as well. While I know none of the above is necess...

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<quote> From what I can tell there is no engagement on either side. There are battle lines drawn and a certain hyper-vocal segment of the backer population has made it so that Palladium is unable to speak to anyone, at all on this issue. When there is official word, it is denounced when there isn't ...

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I would suspect one of the issues is that the backer negativity has turned into a self fulfilling prophecy. With a certain segment of the backers irate and doing their best to 'punish' Palladium by 'ruining' the sales of the game, the sales of the game have gone down. I actually see very little rui...

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Answer 1a: They have no (or not enough) money left. Answer 1b(subquestion): They have no (or not enough) money left. Answer 2(current concrete steps): none Answer 3(admit things): no, nothing will be admitted. Unfortunately no one outside of Palladium actually knows much for certain, but an educated...

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To summarize the update, it has taken Palladium two weeks to tell the base modeler to "make'm bit thicker".

And it will take the modeller 2-4 weeks to do what is a 2 minute job.

And that is about it.

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Well...this may not be popular...but how about coming up with an actual, honest and realistic plan that can be shared with the public on producing wave 2 and onwards of RRT. If they want get players, and move 10k+(at likely ~$20 wholesale each) core boxes they need to show some life in the product i...

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Although I have not yet picked it up to have a look...with Starfinder out...and the SRD released.

Is it time reopen the d20 derivative question for Rifts.

Note...I haven't looked at the rules or SRD yet so I really cant comment if it is really a good fit...but should it be (seriously) looked at?

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My bad. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

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For sure Palladium wouldnt lose the rights to their content. And they presumably get a cut of any sales. But lets say some really good professionaly fan material comes up...Amazon now effectively owns it...beholding palladium to amazon evermore. Maybe not a big issue but for sure I would look at it ...

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Wow...that is a really bad license from amazon. bad for the creator that is. Your content us effectively owned (technically licensed) by Amazon. You lose the ability to do anything else with you creation. Amazon effectively has the power to do anything they wish. They also owe the content creator no...

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I would have to think it is clear that Palladium has done absolutely nothing on the project probably since mid-2015 or there abouts...with the exception of getting the standees posted. Scott (IMO) is basically starting as if this is spring 2015 or so. So I tend to give him the benefit of the doubt t...

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Also...this is sheer speculation on my part...but I am beginning to wonder if this may be part of the reason why RRT seems to be getting some traction. Either someone (HG via Sony) is forcing palladium to get the mess cleaned up so this is not hanging around when the movie launches...or an opportuni...

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I just saw this a few hours ago and I too am with Drewkitty. They could not even get the two follow on movies for Shadow Chronicles made so not sure how this is going to get done. The difference is this is Sony Movies production. I have noticed the Agramas got their names on the production as part ...

wizardofthenorth · Re: Murmurs 6-16-17 great murmer. TY Scott.

great murmer. TY Scott.

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Have the commitment of weekly murmurs from Kevin and Scott already dribbled to a halt?

It over a week for Scott, but he does have today and tomorrow to fit it in 'this week'.

It is almost 3 weeks since hearing from KS.

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For his sake...I do hope SG has some real information for the next update. If he is the business manager as he claims...I would hope he is to be going forward on those China supplier calls. It seems pretty need to know information to me. If there is no actual news on the supposed quotes...for the lo...

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I dont know what about deadreign would make it desireable as a tv show...but sign me up for some zombies.

I could see nightbane. glittery angsty vampires and creatures of the night are still popular.

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It is a small thing...and maybe I could just not find it, but there does not seem to be a public email address for Palladium posted on their website.

They do have a trouble ticket entry system.

Just one more example of building up the walls.

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Skill Checking Method 1 -------------------------------------- A successful use of a skill is determined by rolling D100 + any applicable skill bonuses less any G.M. difficulty modifiers. A total of 100% or greater indicates the use of the skill was successful. If there is a contested skill check (f...

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Just to follow up, thank you for all the replies.

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That does sound reasonable, ty.

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For fun but not profit. I am sure variations of these have been seen before...but enjoy. Advanced Missile System Targeting ================================= At the G.M.'s discretion, missile launching systems may be equipped with a targeting system. One melee attack action is required to target up t...

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Ah...I didnt catch the submarket your were specifically referring tool. cheers

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There is a 4th group of buyers. Jane board game buyer looking for a good fun game to play. This is by far the largest group of $$$ in this niche hobby. Unfortunately RogueHeroes does not seem to be doing anything to cater to this most important of groups. The new stretch goals are a good step in the...

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I look forward to seeing your work. Thank you.

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Without putting to fine a point on it, their internet policy guidelines are not quite correct regarding derivative works. Derivative works are not automatically owned by them. They do have the right to ask you to desist or remove any of their copyrighted creations or works you may have integrated or...

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I certainly enjoy a good setting book or adventure to mine for ideas...but I never get too hung up in I have to play in say Forgotten Realms canon. To me the world is a construct to assist in running an adventure...so it doesn't really matter if it is in the wolfen empire or shadowdale. But for this...

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My Palladium experience extends to primarily Rifts and Robotech and a smattering of TMNT. I picked up 1st ed. BTS when it came out but we never really got around to it as our gaming tastes shifted around that time. With my crew...at the moment we mainly play 5E and really enjoy the ruleset. What I w...

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The last few posts grasp the purpose of BoHs. It is mainly promotional and a way to get new players into your products. It is not generally for existing players...although a surprising number may buy in to fill out the library or to legally buy things they may have otherwise downloaded. I have purch...

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I had a look at the posting guidelines and I see nothing against it. I also recall the below being the gist from various postings in the past. I do know you cannot post their copyrighted material. So avoid including things like Occ/rcc and Palladium rules and content copied from the pages of their b...

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You are correct...I was not including Carmen...being not a Palladium emp. or representative. But in general...IMO the above examples are excuses for not communicating. If there is backlash it is often the message is wrong (facebook,timelines). Actually get better at the message. And I see nothing wr...

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What question was asked that Palladium answered here on the forum that caused more problems. Have there been many issues of turmoil? Sure. Some self inflicted...some not. But I am talking generally engaging fans in a back and forth about relevant topics of interest (even setting aside Robotech Tacti...

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I had a look around...and I may have missed something...but aside from Alex M's new product announcements...and one post from Wayne in 2017 about updating addresses in kickstarter...I find 0 meaningfull communications from Palladium staff on any subject...in well...years actually....many years...yea...

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So I had a thought when reading the threads on people getting into palladium and what palladium could do for free. The above post reinforces exactly what I was thinking. I got thinking about the rifter and Palladium. I am not knocking it as publication in and of itself...but more questioning its pur...

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On an individual book comparison...I would agree...modules probably dont sell as much in quantity as main books. But they arent supposed to. They are supposed to be lower production cost content you churn out to always have something new on the shelves beside your evergreen manuals and settings book...

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One of their problems may be that all they ever release are settings books. When the trend the last decade or so has been adventure paths...at least by the big players. And even before that it was adventure modules. They need to actually release story content for their settings. Not updated setting ...

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Since free implies little to no actual costs...as suggested by others...the single biggest item would be to create some type of FREE primer game and rules for one or two lines. This should be an all in one 30-40 page pdf. However...it needs to be written from scratch using modern, 21st century RPG w...

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Much thanks. I couldn't find anything that said "movement is free", do that is a big help. Indeed. This might seem an obvious point to those familiar with the rules...but this point should really be mentioned in the rulebooks. I am sure it is not mentioned in my rifts rue...nor after the ...

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Question...why are you focused on rebuilding Rifts Promise of Power? It does not seem like Palladium has said no to digital games, merely the title Rifts Promise of Power is not available for licensing. Since you have investors, and presumably the capabilities and team to build the game...why not pr...

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that Kevin Long original art is pretty sweet.

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