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Sadly Martin died in September 2020, he was a prolific fantasy artist who contributed to several Palladium Books including PFRPG, Nightbane and Rifts; details of a just giving campaign can be found here:
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/simon-eggleston

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Savage Phase World - I'd be all over that

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I was a "Cyber-insider" for NG1 and 2 - I put money in partly because I wanted the books made, but also because I was then listed in the credits and named as an NG weapons designer in the gun section, which is cool I really don't care if PB start selling the PDF to others - actually, I thi...

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Is there any difference between the Mind Bleeder class from WB4 to Psyscape or is it a complete cut and paste?

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The bookmarks in my (legit insider) PDF copies of NG1 and 2 are correctly setup - by chapter/topic rather than by page.

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Yup, my AtB is signed too from a grab bag.

My PFRPG2 is probably the coolest, with a written message and dragon's head from the big man himself ^_^

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Rifts: Arzno has the Blood Priest, in case you're looking for something darker.

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The art I've seen has been good, but Palladium has an excellent stable of regular artists and I've seen nothing yet that's up there with classic Long, or Walton or Perez et al; colour or no.

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Keivn's method is quite effective I find - Start with a villain that has an interesting concept, then stat him/her/it out completely and you'll find, in doing so, that the adventure ideas write themselves.

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The Palladium Fantasy GM Pack (available on DriveThruRPG) also has a handy Magic Circle quick reference chart.

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Backed with a couple hours spare - Grease monkey!

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Shared on the (unofficial) G+ community, will back on payday!

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Splicers has the Packmaster.

...also Rifter (don't know issue, sorry!) has the Splicers Falconer and... the bee one.. Hivelord?

Also the Blood priest from Arzno and the Demon High Priest from Hades.

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Counterfeiting or defacement of coinage (considered a Royal Offience) was certainly harshly treatly until relatively recently in the UK - in the late 17th century, you could still be burned at the stake for clipping coin. See here.

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Awesome news GK - Splicers is such a cool and unique setting it, and the Spliceheads, deserves some sweet sweet lovin'.

I had a lot of the Rifters with Splicer material, but lost track - I'll have to pick up #70 now

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What lies beneath?

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Just make the godly origin contradictions/differing interpretions part of your game, rather than a meta issue. Think how many deaths/schisms/crusades/jihads there have been IRL over different takes on mythology.

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Tweeted at PEG yesterday and they responded saying that there will be an update at Gen Con at their seminar, as you'd expect. They believe that some folk will be podcasting it for those of us who can't attend.

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Perhaps aim your Savage Worlds questions at Pinnacle?

If you do though, why not use paragraphs so that they are easy to read and look like they were written this century; like a Palladium book

Warning: Unnecessary comment about the poster's writing abilities on the play. 1 warning penalty.

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I think a mundane setting is a great starting point for a campaign, but would be rather dull if it never went anywhere exciting - we want to escape reality for a bit don't we? e.g. The party being white collar cube neighbours working for a giant corporation performing monotonous data entry work, not...

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Ancient Dragon Shifter (for the pychological effect, Splugs fear them and could prevent or divert the Splug's Dimensional Teleport) plus a legion of its followers?

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Hey Belderwen - welcome to the forums!

This story hook sounds really cool and, I for one, am looking forward to getting play updates/logs. I would echo the Dark Elf and shy away from allowing a dragon hatchling - RIFTS yes, PFRPG not so much.

Keep us posted and have fun!

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Palladium Secret Project #3: The Prometheus Treatment

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Hey all, The latest Open House email (for those on the Palladium mailing list) lists the 40+ contributors that will be in attendance, and I couldn't help but notice " Scott Gibbons (Game Designer – play-testing Rifts® board game) "...? Thought I'd heard mention of a possible Rifts board ga...

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Found it! (sorry for the delay) Rifter #48 pg. 25 in an article by Mark Oberle, Irvin Jackson and Kevin Siembeida - Official answers to Nightbane questions (megaversal system, right? ) Kevin states that mundane folk can parry foes even with supernatural strength, as parrying isn't about blocking an ...

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I'm forever linking to THIS thread, but a great example of a low-powered, gang-based Rifts campaign

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Maybe just wing it with 20gc = 1lbs? If it sounds about right, play on and don't let it bog down the game.

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Shipping to the UK still hurts (got stung by customs for the first time ever year before last too) but just got a new job so hoping Santa Kev will be sending me some Palladium goodness this year!

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Thanks for sharing Voodoolaw, some interesting house rules.

What kind of party do you have out of interest? What's your campaign about?

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Thanks Shark_force - I remember a short while back they were talking an Antarctica book up, but only just realised that I hadn't heard anything new about it for some time, thought perhaps I'd missed some announcement that it was shelved.

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@Sharkforce

Off topic, but did the Rifts Antarctica book being touted a couple of years ago get shelved then? Or are you referring to some earlier netbook

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There is an official ruling on this - It's basically that size doesn't prevent you parrying a blow, a gnome CAN parry an ogre etc. I'm wracking my brain as to where I saw it... I shall return with a source! If you found the source of that I would much appreciate it. While I will most likely keep ou...

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There is an official ruling on this - It's basically that size doesn't prevent you parrying a blow, a gnome CAN parry an ogre etc.

I'm wracking my brain as to where I saw it... I shall return with a source!

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....failing a Hades trip.. anyone have any suggested modifications to the spell to make it slightly less game stealing? Does the spell (I'm at work) detail how quickly the river appears? Is it a case of one second, open plains, next second instant lava pit? Maybe it could be house-ruled to originate...

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MADMANMIKE wrote:I had a lengthy conversation with Kevin about this ..... SNIP..

Excellent explanation, Mike! Hope if we do get a PFUE, the combat rules are laid out clearly and with plenty of examples like this one

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Perhaps it's about time this party went on a little jaunt to Hades?

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Congrats Palladium - missed out on the Kickstarter due to financial constraints, but keen to see how much these go for retail in the UK (I understand PB's Robotech license went global recently/last year? Used to be US only)

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From this week's update "We’re developing new products, new ideas and maybe even a new game system for release over the next year or two." Do you think "game line" was meant, or that they're actually looking to bring out something completely new, like an updated or completely dif...

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Great video, thanks for sharing!

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Witch seems like an ideal protagonist (or interesting PC).

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Also bear in mind that the CS citizen population has a very high level of cybernetic augmentation. You can image cits getting bombarded through their headjacks (wirelessly connected to the CS-Net) by propaganda and mis-information to instil fear and enforce conformity. RIFTS was written in a time be...

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Yeah this is awesome news - congrats Reagren

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But I haven't even ordered The Artistry of Charles Walton I yet, and the sequels out?!

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Actually, it's a combination of many factors. After all, other human species had tools and verbal communication but didn't make it. In fact, chimps are tool makers and communicate verbally too, so that's not the whole picture. Our bipedal, upright stance did play a major role - helped to keep our br...

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Yeah, that was turned around pretty quickly - probably says something about the quality of Carl's script

I do believe it is Graveyard Earth and the Robotech Marines book up next.

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Really excited about this book - I've really enjoyed the whole Minion War series.

I wonder whether they'll need to be a Minion War "Aftermath" type book, or whether MiF will tie things up - perhaps the series is not meant to rock the meta-plot too heavily anyway?

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I thought it was excellent, a foundation for the rest of the MoM series - explaining the very basics of magic as a science and as an art, expanding on Wizards, spell books, true names and more - the additional OCCs were excellent too. Just the opening few pages of fluff alone provide great gaming id...

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Yeah Shark_force that's the niche SkinJobs fill in my Great House - Demolition specialists and scouts, sometimes assassins. They have the means to put up a fight if required but almost always a fighting retreat to a secure location. I've been toying on giving them an ability to shed their skin - lea...

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That would be amaze Chuck - really looking forward to what you cook up for the skinjob. Four years since I made the above comment but I'd still take the Skinjob OCC as a player above all others. My great house I'm writing up uses them heavily and I too am working on some variant abilities for these ...

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dragonfett wrote:Wait, is there a nation of Giants in Turkey, or is it a nation of giant turkeys? I always get those mixed up!

Christmas dinner must be an interesting event at the Fett household

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