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Congrats on the great find! And now run the game!

The original is a great RPG. I've run it many times and I'm consistently surprised how much fun each session has been. The PCs are waaaay over their heads so they get creative fast.

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Here's the strategy to avoid stress with PB proposed dates or for most any Kickstarter: take their announced date of delivery and add ONE YEAR. If it comes before then, boom be happy. Otherwise, don't stress it.

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The longer Palladium keeps mum about the whole affair, the more patterns the irate customers are going to find in past behavior and thus the more negative conclusions they'll reach. Silence is slow suicide for a company in a situation like this. The only fix is transparency, and that's just not for...

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How was the attendance?

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Links!

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HG gave them a zero dollar renewal as well as putting them in touch with people who could have helped significantly with getting things done. THEY obviously did not take advantage of that. (This is per a HG rep at a recent convention when asked about PB, RRT, and the license). Is this a rumor or wa...

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How was the POH?

Lots of attendees? Memorable games? Any pics to share? Any great quotes?

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There will be plenty of cheap RTT on eBay in the future.

I highly suggest setting up pre-set searches on eBay for various bits you would be interested in. Then you can watch them and snipe them if you like the price.

That's how I do my Warhammer armies.

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in other words, they are using their perception capability to counteract the counter-perception abilities of other people. But what are the PCs doing? To me, that's FAR more important to understand before adjudicating a dice roll. Also, what exactly are we contesting? A bomb concealed hastily minut...

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do you have any good thoughts for how to assemble a Percentage skill for Perception? Nope, only bad thoughts! Right now we're using surveillance or other skills like that when possible, so in theory Perception should start less than that to make the real skill worth it, but I think everyone deserve...

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The RTT rules are okay, at best. There is no reason to shoehorn a Rifts minis game into those rules. It would be far better for a Rifts or Splicers or Mechanoids minis game to have rules specific to those settings, forces and concepts. And then public playtest the heck out of those rules. RTT clearl...

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I also use "highest successful roll" because it favors the side with the greater talents, but allows for variety of results. I don't worry about Pass/Fail not having defined levels of success because I want to move swiftly with the game (and I can add mods based on circumstances). You want...

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This is a very sad post. I understand the upset, but if your group loves Rifts, then I don't see how abandoning something that brought your group so much fun would make any of you happier. I am quite sure your crew could continue enjoying Rifts from all the books you all already own. I understand dr...

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Years ago, I posted an idea about an Omnibus being created from the best Rifter articles for each game line. AKA, a Nightbane Omnibus, Rifts Omnibus, etc. AKA, there are fans of one game line who might not ever by Rifters because they don't care about other game lines BUT they would buy a book of ar...

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Palladium should sell on Amazon. Otherwise, 3PP are just eating their profits.

Does Amazon Createspace exist in Europe, UK and Aussieland?

If so, that would be an excellent option for PB. AKA, print on demand inside those countries.

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Is this forum going to vanish?

Get closed and only be readable?

Keep on truckin'?

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As the remaining stock has to be destroyed, I do not know why the backers are being charged full price for their exchanges, especially stuff like PDFs which at this point, should be gifted to the backers as a small token of goodwill. The refund offer doesn't make sense in that Wave 2 product is deep...

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TLDR: Better for PB not to post, but worse for backers. Approaching another wasted year. There was some discussion that KS requires updates at certain intervals for a project to be considered still in-progress. If this is true, PB should just post those, as short as possible, and nothing else unles...

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the answers to your questions basically depend on which page of which book you trust more. THIS. So much in RIFTS is up for interpretation and that's a feature, not a bug - as long as you and your players are on the same page. I like the concept that MDC creatures have weakeness and vulnerabilities...

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If PB won't step up, and the community won't step up, releasing Wave 2 will be irrelevant beyond absolving debt to backers. This is an accurate statement of where we are. Wave 2 would require tremendous effort by PB to complete, and doing so would only serve to provide minis to backers who may or m...

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Promising updates every two weeks was extremely unnecessary. Once per month, even once per quarter is enough - especially if the update lacks any proof of progress. We could have done fine with 4 "we're working on it" in 2018 instead of just creating another reason for backers to become up...

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Splicers...

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This news is very cool, but for a specific audience. If you know anyone in Southern California, please pass this along. If you host or discuss anything RIFTS related on any social media, please repost this. WHAT? LOSCON - a science fiction convention in Los Angeles - is hosting a RIFTS mini-con! WHO...

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Breachworld at the hotel. Bring the new minis too.
Arnzo and Chaos Earth at the warehouse.
With a sneak peek of First Responders for the CE game.

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I believe (but could be wrong) that VIP Night attendees can prereg for events across the weekend on Thursday. I sorta remember pre-regging for everything that night the two times when I went. But I would not stress it. You will be in many good games regardless. There will be pickup games and pre-pla...

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25% death per session! That just made me laugh! Pretty intense. Mechanoids is nasty. The humans are incredibly outclassed by their enemies. I compare it to Call of Cthulhu in some ways. That's why I have no problem letting PCs grab lots of nasty hardware. Chaos Earth is a messy setting, but its the...

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Ryokoryu, if you live in the US and if you are legally blind (aka, diagnosed with a severe vision issue), you may be eligible for free or low cost magnification technology for assisted reading. AKA, its a digital magnifier so you can project small print book pages onto a larger screen. Its a great o...

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BTW, Mechanoids Trilogy really is 3 different games. Mechanoids 1 = Invasion Mechanoids 2 = Survival aboard mega-giant mothership Mechanoids 3 = Explore the Mechanoid's homeworld...cuz there's a surprise. Technically, you could create an ongoing campaign - or you could have generations of the charac...

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Add it to your Xmas Grab Bag!

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If you are interested in the concept of Books + PDF, check this out:
http://www.bits-and-mortar.com

There are several publishers who let you buy Dead Tree Books in your FLGS and you get a free PDF.

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They should combine the Rifter dead tree subscription with PDF copies of the issues. That might bring in new readers. It's a meaningful bonus to readers, but a zero cost item to PB.

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Mechanoids is the only PB game that I have never played. I definitely recommend the Mechanoids Trilogy book. Its both a great game combo and a fun look at Palladium's early development. I will be running "All Quiet on the Western...What?" A BTS game set in the trenches of WWI. That sounds...

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I looked at interior images of the Red Roof Inn. It's the $50 hotel option. There appears to be a half-desk and chair in each room. Thus, everyone with a room can roll their chair into the GM's room. Or they can sit on the bed or sit on the floor. Whatever works. However, the Hampton Inn has free br...

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VIP Thursday is a lot of fun and great for buying limited run stuff, but its only 100 people and it costs a chunk. I've done it twice and greatly enjoyed it (and highly recommend it too), but in 2018, I think it would be fun to host HOSER THURSDAY gaming at the hotel. Instead of a great catered meal...

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WARPATH sounded like a cool idea. But you can do a Palladium counter terrorism campaign currently with either Ninjas & Superspies or Systems Failure without really breaking a sweat - just take out the "unreal" bits that don't work for your vision.

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How did the Palladium events go?

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Based on the IPs currently part of Kindle Worlds, the Amazon agreement must not be draconian, nor able to steal their IP.

GI Joe is a mega-franchise. No way those lawyers are going to endanger that brand.

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Thank you TigerBunny!!

Your Tiger squad looks good.

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I love conventions and I've run hundreds of con events over the years. I've posted about running con game on this forum in the past and I'm happy to answer more specific questions. What would be your advice for a mere-mortal who has never ran a "convention" style game? 1) All pre-gen chara...

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Where in California are you from? I live in LA (and I am ex-NYC) so I found the Detroit suburbs to be very mellow. The ride from the airport to the hotel to the warehouse was easy and pleasant and I never felt uncomfortable. But I had GPS in the rental car and I had Yelped my take-out and delivery f...

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I could see me running Mechanoids: Invasion and Mechanoids: Homeworld (original rules).

Maybe Chaos Earth too. We will see.

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This is why I love Chaos Earth. It's the Coalition perspective - the apocalypse is upon us and we must save humanity from the demons! In CE, there isn't whining about "what about the dee-bees?" since they are inhuman monsters and the PCs are holding the line with maximum firepower. There i...

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Any battle reports? Any pics elsewhere (aka, not on Twits or FB)?

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Could you link to it or include the text?

I don't remember that, but its been 2 years.

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Any pics from GenCon games?

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I hope we get pics of the tourneys and other RTT events!

If you have pics, please sent them to PB so they can be shown in a KS update!!

Did anyone here play?

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Hopefully they take a year to redesign, do extensive playtests and work on a better pricing model. Also, the minis were weak overall which isn't gonna cut it with CMON and others doing such great work on KS. As I've suggested it before, I think the board game should go with lots of large, great card...

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Here are some options: 1) Let them have 2 characters. Or let them have 1 PC and 2 NPC sidekicks. You play the sidekicks, but the player rolls the dice for them. 2) Convert Rifts to a system your group likes. I've converted / perverted / contorted / extorted a dozen rulesets and at the end of the day...

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They will announce the hotel soon, but IIRC the previous hotel didn't have suites, but it did have a 24/7 room for late night gaming. I do not enjoy watching RPGs on YouTube, but I know many people love it. I fully support the idea of a Celebrity Rifts game. In fact, in the age of Twitch, it's kind ...

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Thoughts? I fully agree with you. The best way to learn how to GM a PB game is to just do it. Trial by fire. It's not hard, just different. The POH is an awesome place to see how others GM their games. I loved going to the POH just to try out how various GMs did their thing compared to how I run st...

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