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What's this on the horizon? A Palladium Fantasy Bundle of Holding perhaps? https://twitter.com/BundleHolding/status/892444819531993088 Edit: Of course, then they could add the Conversion Book as part of the Rifts Bundle, and go over the top! But they're not crazy enough to do that...are they? Edit 2...

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Scott Gibbons wrote:You'll be safe with World Books (except the ones already in the bundle ) and Dimension Books for the remainder of this bundle.

Thanks, Scott, I'll see about sending some more money Palladium's way, and look forward to the next bundle!

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Next book added: Book of Magic!

This deal keeps getting better and better!

Edit: Any chance you can suggest a few titles that won't be featured in the bundle? I'd like to take advantage of the current Christmas in July sale on DTRPG, and it ends before the bundle.

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Second book added: Rifts Game Master Guide. W00T!

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I know I've already posted about this in another thread, but I'm happy to see this has been made reality and don't want to tie up the other thread with additional speculation. https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Rifts Starter Collection - $17.95 Rifts® Ultimate Edition™ Rifts® Sourcebook One™ Rifts...

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And here it is!

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Rifts

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Put together a Bundle of Holding or two. What's this? m "Burster Chi-Town Glitter Boy Juicer Psi-Hound Shifter" I mean, I've dumped around $50 on Palladium Books PDFs at DriveThruRPG over the last few weeks, but I have this feeling I'm about to drop some more to share the love at Bundle o...

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A VERY basic rules set with pregen characters on dtrpg. In general and for m Free RPG Day may be free for consumers/gamers, but it definitely has a cost for the publishers. Getting in at the lowest tier (Sample) means providing around 500 copies of whatever you want distributed, and that only cover...

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Scoping out the Rifts Primer on DriveThruRPG, it looks like it could be cannibalized into a quickstart fairly easily. Axe some of the GM tips and adventure creation, and it would be a pretty lean introduction to RIFTS. Pregens? Check. Adventure? Check. Rules summary? Check. I think it could work!

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According to RPGGeek, they haven't. What would you suggest they provide? I don't think I've seen a quickstart for any of their game lines. Many of the Free RPG Day selections I've picked up over the years have included barebones rules, pregens, and a starter adventure.

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Just received my Savaging Your Favorite Rifts Ideas pdf from the Savage Rifts Kickstarter. Ideal cross-promotional opportunity? Missed.

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I respectfully disagree. Palladium Books is not new to creating PDFs or selling them. They chose to start with out-of-print titles and previews, but have been pretty steady (especially over the last year or two) in releasing their back catalog. I imagine my idea of "very recently" differs ...

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That's a sad way to spin things, Pepsi Jedi. Even if there's a minimum, and that minimum is 25% of the total, you're still asking palladium to give you the books at 1/4th the cost they're putting them up on Drivethru for, right as they start to use the PDFs. [...] we all do, but Palladium is only ju...

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"Pay what you want" ends up with people paying little or nothing for the most part, with a few stand outs with discresionary (sic) income paying bigger chunks. "Pay what you want' screams of 'I want free stuff' to me. [...] To expect them to suddenly let people pay nothing or small a...

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Now that they're finally converting over, they're not going to suddenly offer bundles for free or 'pay what you want' or anything of the sort. I guess I wasn't as clear as I'd hoped. These bundles are similar, but not identical to Humble Bundle or DriveThru's option to make titles "Pay-what-yo...

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It's a great idea! Someone should have the Bundle of Holding people contact Palladium. The Bundle of Holding is a good way to get people to buy into a game line. I've emailed Allen Varney (the one who runs Bundle of Holding), and he said he's contacted Kevin in the past (GenCon 2014). He got the im...

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Palladium Books has a pretty significant library of awesome games. Now that the first 30 or so World Books for Rifts are up on DrivethruRPG (along with the Ultimate Edition, most of the Rifters, and a bunch of other titles), and with the recent success of the Rifts for Savage Worlds kickstarter (and...

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That's pretty slick. Too bad the camera missed the Glitterboy taking down the UAR-1, as I was waiting to see a cool bot battle. It certainly gave me the sense of the game I was hoping for: Fast combat, a familiar style, yet different mechanics.

Yup, still glad I've backed!

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That reminds me that I need to provide a few more ratings and reviews to my purchases on DTRPG... Good to know that the site administrators take on some of that load. Out of curiosity, what kind of changes were you requested to make? In the DM's Guild FAQ, it describes what is covered by the DM's Gu...

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I like the idea of more companies providing a way for fans to create content and receive remuneration for their work. You mentioned Margaret Weis Productions already, and Monte Cook Games and John Wick Presents are two others that I know will be doing something similar. That said, Margaret Weis and ...

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What a coincidence! I play at Dragon's Keep in Provo, though it hasn't been Palladium. When I bought up my Palladium collection the second time, I purchased my books from them. The Orem store would be closer, but they don't have the same selection, and at least one in my game group wouldn't be able ...

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Zamion138 wrote:I would get the original source book one if you can it was flat out better with the dragons and all. It also had witches and elementals and yeah it was sweet.

I believe you mean conversion book one, not source book one, right?

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Supernatural creatuers weren't the only enemy described, only the most common enemy overall. Yes, there were xiticix. Yes, there were dinosaurs. Yes, there were fury beetles. Yes, there were bandits and the CS. But the supernatural monster tables could generate a practically infinite number of race...

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Not sure what you're trying to ask. There is a very narrow window where one could read Rifts and make the assumption that all supernatural creatures predators had vulnerabilities, and that the Conversion Book (by not including those vulnerabilities) came as a surprise and changed the perceived dyna...

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Huh. The impression I got was that the quick roll monsters were to serve as a stop-gap until supplements could be released, and were not intended to be the rule going forward. "A variety of specific, supernatural monsters and demons will be presented in the upcoming supplements; till then, one ...

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Not too powerful, just too common.

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Luckily, mixing and matching is pretty dang easy with Palladium Books' games. I believe the Great Horned Dragon (GHD) Hatchling's breath damage is intentionally lower than the Fire Dragon (FD) Hatchling (2D6 vs. 6D6) so the GHD doesn't eliminate the FD's only schtick. The GHD is just plain better in...

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First, welcome to the boards! Stats for the Great Horned Dragon hatchling are in the original Rifts Main Book. It's fire breath damage is listed as 2D6 M.D., with a range of 60 ft. Base MDC is listed as 1D4x100+50, but it doesn't list an increase per level. That said, your conversion looks perfectly...

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ISP : CyberKnights get an ISP base of 6D6 ("higher than a typical human or D-Bee" and "THis number is in addition to what a D-Bee might normally get). So, besides the fact that a human and a D-Bee who both start off with 2D6 PPE racially get different rolls for their PPE since the D-...

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It's starting to sound like "Heroes of Humanity" might be a good opportunity to explore a world where the Coalition saved Humanity, but falls in the process. Thus the title could refer to how the Coalition is remembered in its last hours as it rallies and fights against the surge of evil ...

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Tiree wrote:That's Shipping and Handling.

I think that only works if 1 digital sale equals 1 lost physical sale, which is unlikely to be the case.

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Prysus wrote:
Well, next month might be no update at all. Life is a little busy, and for those that didn't know I'm getting married at the end of the month, and preparations and such is taking up time.

Congratulations!

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The Galactus Kid wrote:It's a great place to start and a really good adventure.

I still have many fond memories of it. I liked the sequel, too.

The Galactus Kid wrote:After this adventure, we're totally going off the rails.

If they survive, that is...Mwuhahahah! (Or should it be Mumahahahah!)

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First session begins. We're just a group, traveling along much like the crew of Serenity...but in Ohio...we see some smoke off of the road. We decide to check it out. We find the wreckage and remains of a group that was familiar to us. I get out of our "Tour Bus™" and look around. We find...

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I wish your plan all the luck of Pinky and the Brain!

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There are so many great art pieces on Palladium Books' covers! I'm a huge fan of Parkinson, but if I had to try to narrow it down right now to the covers I like best, I'd go with the following: Ninjas & Superspies - Apocalyptic firestorm backdrop? Check! Laser beams? Check! Ninja? Check! Kevin F...

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mumah wrote:That's what your mom said.

She was such a lovely lady...

So, why'd you decide to go with the Glitterboy?

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They participated through Drivethru RPG if I'm not mistaken. Admirable, but DriveThruRPG's offers (even when they are done at the same time) don't serve the same function. For one, it fails to get people into physical stores, which is the primary motivator for the idea. It's supposed to be like Fre...

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Yeah, there are not as many sponsors as I thought would be there, but Palladium has participated in the past. I think if they were alerted to this well ahead of time, they would participate in some manner. What did they contribute in the past? Or rather, how did they participate? Searching RPGGeek'...

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I prefer technical accuracy in illustrations, but I also understand that art direction and editing can be challenging. How often are the stats written up before the art comes in? How often are the stats written up after the art comes in? In the former, I would hope the art direction includes enough ...

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Slight necro (hey, it's been less than a month!), but I just ran across an article by Bill Coffin on Siege Weapons (linked from the Cutting Room Floor) and thought of you, Hendrik.

Link

Hopefully, you can glean some further/additional insights.

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Braden Campbell wrote:It's $4 Canadian.

One of these days I'll stop being so US-centric...

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So, for everyone who insists that RPG materials should be published as PDF's take note: while it a blessing for you as GMs and players, from the creative side of things, it's far too open to abuse that impacts our monetary bottom line. *sigh* More fear mongering fallacies from the platform of pirac...

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1. I love RPGs. Me too! 2. Palladium has some GREAT intellectual properties. They sure do! 3. RPGs are dead. I know! Wait. That can't be right... There are more RPGs now than there have ever been before, that cater to a wider demographic than ever before, and that doesn't even have to include the a...

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I would work backwards from whatever stats there are for stone walls and castles, figuring a few solid hits from the five-incher to take out a 10' section of wall; one solid hit from the ten-incher. A simpler method is to just use the stats from the Heavy Weapons section of most core books. Rocket L...

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Do you know how we got the current RUE casting rules? A huge majority spoke with ONE voice on the problem. We got the current iteration of the -10 rule the same way. The majority spoke at length as a cohesive whole on what the problem was. And the "G.I. Joe" rule? That was due to a cohesi...

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Or just, you know, post the errata/change log online for previous purchasers to download. (Shadow updates? If people are willing to re-buy their collections to get the latest changes, why not go full out and call it what it is: a new version? Isn't that the reason given for *not* coming out with a n...

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For a long time now I've taken it for granted that the games are only playable if you make your own house rules , and everything about the way the books are presented implies that doing so is encouraged. Why buy a game with unplayable rules? What is the point of the purchase? Sounds like a monetize...

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Those threads encouraged me to rejoin the forum after almost a decade hiatus. I participated in the discussion and was excited for the initiative. Here is the result I remember: Something Unexpected Which caused a bit of a backlash that was addressed the following week here: Controversy over Good Ne...

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To which I also say poppycock! I have enjoyed some Fate games, but I have seen more than a few bad/inappropriate builds. Fiasco can also get railroaded. Just like any system, balance comes from a strong gm, and player buy-in. Any RPG can be fun, or it can be awful- it all depends on the people. You...

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