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Has Kickstarter been explored as an avenue to "reboot" Recon? It would seem like a good way to secure funding to print a new edition with lower risk to Palladium. Personally I use Recon as a framework and house-rule anything I need but would be nice to see a new fleshed out edition. "anniversary edition" or something?
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vyrago wrote:Has Kickstarter been explored as an avenue to "reboot" Recon? It would seem like a good way to secure funding to print a new edition with lower risk to Palladium. Personally I use Recon as a framework and house-rule anything I need but would be nice to see a new fleshed out edition. "anniversary edition" or something?


After the massive Robotech debacle I doubt we will see Palladium go anywhere near Kickstarter anytime soon . . . :oops:

Even if they did though, I doubt that there would be much in the way of support from those out there who pay attention to that kind of thing.
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Considering they have trouble just getting out more than a full new book a year for Rifts (Sovietskii is the only fully new official book put out in the last calendar year) let alone anything else of popularity I highly doubt even kickstarter would enable them to do a new Recon (not to mention the aforementioned RRT fiasco.)
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Wow, just learning about the robotech KS. I had no idea.
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Palladium is still producing Recon, right? I see it on their online store. $22.95 and in stock.

So, what sort of information for Recon would be needed/wanted?

Is the issue for PB capability (new material) or is it capacity (capital/production)? Kickstarter is really only a tool to build capital to get past a hurdle to produce something that is already complete and well planned.

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You almost lost me to hysterical laughter at "well planned".....

However to answer....imo all of the above is the issue and frankly has been for a decade or more in general not just for recon.
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Oh, come on...KS is a tool, and most tools require some sort of knowledge to use it correctly.

As for PB...well, I just don't know. I keep playing the games, so it can't be all that bad. Maybe the chaos of Palladium is part of the charm...sort of like, um, a train wreck or Halloween grotesqueries? I know I am not the only person converting BattleTech into Robotech...

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As you know I still deal largely in their games......doesn't mean I think they anything right or properly beyond the basic game play system lol
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I came for the settings (my beloved Robotech...), and never really left. I loved Mega-Damage. Plus, the system always struck me as a half and half between D&D and BRP...which is actually great because I love BRP and Palladium scales really easy (for me) to almost anything else with its D20-esque/percentile system. Even the Recon system, unloved as it is, scales pretty easily to the rest of the Megaverse (hence my Megaversal Recon thread below).

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Yeah the front We are sort of on the same page
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