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Hi talongl,

Actually, this just came up in an email with Kev. We know Palladium has a lot of fans towards the East Coast, and we're going to be doing our best to be represented at conventions out that way. I know Wayne and Kevin will be at UberCon VIII in Secaucus, NJ this October 20-22. If you've got information or know someone setting up a con around that area though, send me any sort of info, as I'm currently building up a big database of conventions we'd evenrtually like to support.

If you'd like to help us out and get involved, in fact, and are willing to run some demo or convention games in your area, we'd love to have you on board. Of course, the guys at Palladium are crazy busy, but we're going to be implementing several more formal and organized parts of the MAs in the very near future. So stay tuned, and in the mean time, stay involved where you can. And thanks!

Hey Zach,
No problem I will check out the MarsCon schedule and let ya'll know and will try to help where I can. If my personnal life allows I will be willing to run some convention demos and get some of my fellow rift-heads in the area to help out. Keep me informed of the status of MA's.
Later,
Rob aka TalonGL(aka Talon Van Arkaine Gargoyle Lord)Gen 1 Rifts Gargoyle Lord.

Ok Zach, I found out when MarsCon will grace VA, it will be in January 19-21, 2007. It is held in Willamsburg at the Holiday Inn Patriot. Hopefully Palladium fans of the area can make a strong showing. The web page is www.marscon.net

THAT is a good idea!

I'm going to try and get the neighbor kids to look into it. I know of at least one that would certainly be willing to try.

Another idea - wear your Palladium shirts anywhere that you know fellow geeks will be hanging out.

Also - I wonder if we could somehow get permission or other means to fund local events (i.e. cancer awareness, autism awareness, 10K run fundraiser for books for students, etc) in the name of Palladium. Maybe there could be someone to whom it could be proposed, who then signs off on it, and then we direct our own money to Palladium, who proceeds to use it to sponsor the event.

/Sub

I need to snag a t-shirt or two for GC Indy use. Thanks for the reminder!.

And thanks, talongl, I will add it to the list and see if we can make a good showing.

Hey guys,

We've got our own forum!

I see that.

topic moved since it has its own forum now.

Hey guys,
I'd love to help out. There are 3 local games stores out here in Knoxville, TN that I can ask if I can run demos. Even if it just starts with my local game group. hehe

i just noticed at the ubercon website. no information at all on where the event is located or how to get there.

Hey Zach,
How soon do the rest of us get our own spiffy new title...?

As soon as we have the membership application up, and have folks start filling it out. I just emailed Kev, and you can imagine they're pretty busy with PU3 and whatnot, but it's up there, he's looking over a printout, and I should hear back from him in a day or so.

So, soon, that spiffy title shall be yours, too.

I found a website with instructions for making your own t-shirts. I already have most of the art supplies, and I'm sure I can find some cheap shirts to use. Only real problem I see is, I'm not so good with an exacto knife.
Maybe I'll see what it takes to make a transfer?

T-Shirts?! Some needs T-Shirts?!

My brother-in-law is a shirt printer and does many T-Shirts you may see in Mall Stores all the time. He's told me about Group T-Shirts and some pricing. If you are interested in a Professional Shift Printer, let me know and I'll gather some information.

I found the info on their website just fine, it's under the Participate column on the front page - a link called Hotel Information http://www.ubercon.com/nj/hotel/

If you follow this link, there is another link about transportation to the hotel - http://www.ubercon.com/nj/hotel/trans.php

Where is Williamsburg compaired to Lynchburg?

I love Palladium T-Shirts!! I have 4 and want to have more. An official Ambassidor shirt would be cool.

On thing I would like to see is a section of the website that anounces any conventions that we ambassidors could attend and contact the administators of the events and make Palladium known. I have seen some posts here but I would like an official place for making anouncements.

This is so awesome! I am considering making plans with creating LynchCon here in Lynchburg VA just to see if the local game shop would be interested. I would love to see how the flyers and such turn out.

To get to Williamsburg From Lynchburg, I believe you take I-81 to 64 east follow 64 east past Richmond and get of in Williamsburg. I have attended MarsCon in the past and it is a great place for Mid-Atlantic Gamers to converge. I plan to try and get some of my fellow Palladium Gamers to have a couple of Demo's. Maybe a BTS, RoboTech and Rifts Game. I need to get in contact with the Admin of MarsCon and see what it entails. BTW Zach, any chance of some Palladium Big guns making it???

IMO, it isn't overly likely, but you can always e-mail the company and let them know about it--maybe its something they can add to their schedule at some point. Won't hurt to try!

Update on the LynchCon...
The local gaming shop is excited by the idea of a gaming demo and are looking foward to what I am going to put together. I just introduced the idea of a Demo for now but I hope to get enough gamers in the area that it turns into something to look forward to.

I need to pull back when it comes to hype. That LynchCon idea, although cool, was a bit involving, so I am pulling on the reigns and just having a demo and starting a group in Lynchburg.

Might want to check out here as a good source of "what might be done" sort of stuff.

Is this for Palladium or just every RPG game out there?

Hi all, long time Palladium player, first time Forum poster though. Since this is the 'what I'd like to see' thread of the Megaversal Ambassador Program, I'll tackle that first.

For the Convention swag table, I'd like:

1) Buttons. A whole box of them, either with the cute Glitter Boy Megaversal Ambassador Logo (the artist did that at work? He should be dipped in gold.) or a Palladium.com button. If either logo was made available, I could make my own buttons, they aren't hard to make and people love them, Con swag tables range from boring to largely unused, and it would really attract kids and the true believers.

2) 3 page Introductory Adventure to All the Palladium Games. Not a mini-book, but an actual adventure people could pick up at the Con Swag tables, and then go looking for someone who knows (Rifts/PFRPG/HU/Ninjas&SS/BTS/whatever) to run it for them. We can place 'Go Look For a Megaversal Ambassador with *this button* on it on the back of the minibook. GM's would be able to choose the adventure they are capable of running (I can't run Mystic China, Ninjas&SS and PFRG, for instance, so that kid would need a different Ambassador, lol.)

Promo Small Posters for the Swag Table- these could be images of the most desired 'pushed' Palladium projects. Simple visibility....new and old fans alike see Palladium is still going strong.

For Actual Players of the Megaversal Ambassador Games:

1) Catalogue- I got a free catalogue when I purchased the Madhaven T-shirt and 'Machinatiosn of Doom' recently, and I was really impressed. I think each new players or old player trying it out again should get one of these.

2) Keep the Characters from the Ambassador Game. Seems obvious, right? I have seen sample characters collected jealously by the GM so many times I'd tire you with the telling. Give them the characters, so they can keep imagining and figuring out how they work, and they'll get some Rifts books. I have a friend, named Kelly. He played a Rifts Game in 1990, and has only been able to play with me since...he can't find another Palladium GM in Alameda CA. He has 12 Rifts supplements collecting dust. This brings me to my next point...

3) Give them a bookmark with the Palladium Player Frapper List and Palladium Site URL. We must unite, new players and old!

3) A *sweet* poster for the Ambassador Game. I know this burns a little, but to really sieze the imagination of the players, and let them feel the support from Palladium, a poster showing all the Palladium Games out there and the relevant URLs would be very nice.

4) A free Rifter. A Rifter issue dedicated to introducing new fans of the Palladium Games would be nice, but even a generic issue handed out to each player would go a long way to pursuing their new interest.

My Part As a Megaversal Ambassador
1) I am filled with Palladium Love (this is free.)
2) I will run both Registered and Unregistered Palladium Games
3)I will not be shy about said games...I will post premade posters in the halls of the conventions to get both new players and old fans.
4) I definitely will wear a Palladium T-shirt (amusing to new fans, battle-cry to fans).

Convention Palladium Events in The San Francisco Bay Area 2008

Conclave Gaming Club at SF State: I'm running a Rifts Russia/China game here, weekly.

Dundracon San Ramon, Feb 19-21 2008
I will run registered Rifts and Nightbane games
I will run open gaming Heroes Unlimited and Rifts games (Wormwood and Psyscape settings)

I may be attending BayCon in March, Conquest in August and Gencon West in December, will rinse wash and repeat! (Sadly, I will not be attending Kublacon, but I hear there is a guy there who is just murder on unsuspecting players.

If I got half of what I asked for, I think we Megaversal Ambassadors could really make some waves at our local conventions.

RUttica
South San Francisco CA
www.myspace.com/griotpunk

ambasader t-shirts uh, what colors will they been in and what size?

..At CogCon this year I used my RIFTS CS Grunt Primer to get everyone to roll up a character. For the most part we had it under an hour; What I've got is one of my Megaverse Character sheets modified to fit all pertinant info on one page, and then one page for the OCC.

..On the OCC is a skills list that only includes the skills the character can choose from, with percentiles and bonuses, as well as instructions on what to choose; the character sheet already has the OCC skills on it, so you just roll your stats (as it states on the sheet) and fill it out to go.

..I have a few Palladium Fantasy sheets like this too, Soldier, Psi-Mystic, Long Bowman, etc; they need a bit of tweeking, but if approved I'd upload them in .pdf format for MA's to use at conventions.

-Mike <8]

Sweet!!

It's really very well done. A couple of tweaks here and there, which we identified and it's a thing of beauty.

So how do we sign up? I've got a friend who owns a local gaming store, I'm sure I could convince him to give me space a couple times a month to run some Demo games.

i dont mind being a megaversal ambassador theres a few gaming stores still open here in the area that i live in. how do i join? also theres a few conventions here in the pugetsound area that go on each year, with help can demo the difrent palladium books games.

Send Zachary an email-
Start at the MA FAQ-
To save time, here is the email.
mail.rpgblog@gmail.com

Bump because this is a cool idea!

I'd like to see a section for art requests like photoshop on the forums. That way I could have a poster made promoting an upcoming demo I am running or something. Now I don't have the skills or $ to pay anyone to make a professional looking poster.

Obviously if someone answered the request we could then turn around and print it ourselves and do what we want with it for our demo.

That and/or readily usable material to use on the website like flyers that we can print out ourselves.

There are sign-up sheets and posters in the gm kits for Fantasy & Rifts.

I primarily run HU. I only have the GM Guide and RUE of Rifts. I don't run Rifts or Fantasy.

hello all, i am new to this game and unfortunatly this game is not yet availeble in Eupope. Do any of you have any tips for me, this is much appriciated.

the Dutch Ambasador from the Netherlands, Zuid-Holland.

peter

IM Hendrik and The Dark Elf. They are both Europeans like yourself. They would probably be the best to help you with availability.

thanks.. will add them so i can ask them questions i have after i get the game and when i am ready searching the web.

Living campaigns are a shared campaign setting with a codified set of rules for the campaign. Campaign staff create, distribute, and manage new adventures in that campaign setting, and quite often administer a player database and promote various products. The rules for character tracking allow a player to take their PC they created for the campaign to any of these gatherings and play it in the adventures offered. It is still common for adventures to be offered at conventions with premade characters that fit to the story, but Living campaigns allow for additional options.

Many living campaigns serve a dual role of providing a creative outlet for highly involved volunteer contributors while also serving as a marketing tool for the publisher of the game system that is the focus of the living campaign.

So im in the beginning stages of doing this. If you want to help im all ears and have open arms.

Thanks in advance.

Hit me with a pm with your email. Tried to get this off the ground a while back, but the group splintered.