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Dave the dragon

In one of the other threads on the topic, someone mentioned along the same lines:
Palladium was the first megaverse. No reason anyone cant pull a Marvel and start with the unsigned properties, tell a few stories that just sort of naturally lead into a Rifts combined shot every so often.

Dave the dragon

I didnt mean to sound negative, its just that a total gag order leaves ya grasping in the dark. I know Palladium cant break the agreement. But even telling us what we cant do is a nudge, to the creative mind. And depending on who "leaks".... Sorry, my usual hobby these days is politics and...

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One of the biggest secrets of Hollywood is that most of the greatest films "of all time" are either retelling real life heroics, or carefully repackaged Masterpieces of the past. Star Wars is essentially stolen entirely from Japanese storytelling and a few Japanese films. Lucas only got aw...

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JK Rowling had almost no input on the Harry potter series until after her (4th or 5th, I forget which) book had come out, and all had been #1 best sellers.

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Yeah. Total bummer. I suppose its in the better interests of PB to continue the status quo; they get something , Im assuming, for Disney squatting on the rights. While it may be frustrating for the fans, a guaranteed check is a nice thing to have, and I can understand Mr Sembeida not wanting to risk...

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It's an interesting question of scale, really. There are levels of money that seem mind-boggling to the average person that are considered daily petty cash for a business. Not to denigrate Palladium in any way, but its budget for the decade is probably smaller than Disney spends on parking fees, jus...

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yeah. That would get to be a headache

Dave the dragon

Depends on your mood, and here's why: Sport fencing uses the foil, epee or saber. The foil and epee are glorified knitting needles (but really really fun cool knitting needles) that are all about dexterity and speed. Putting force on these blades only makes them bend like the wires they are. And you...

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Rogue Scholar classed as kindergarten teacher
and you're guaranteed to have the most terrifying minions ever (ever face a pack of angry, crying 5 year olds?)
Basic book.

Dave the dragon

Ummm, when PB yused to offer the buggy and broken character creator program on the cutting room floor, several years later someone offered to fix the old (I think it was some variant of C or Vis Basic) for free, just to have a decent working program. The response was, shall we say, less than recepti...

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I will take your word for it. Between the abuse from the moderators for voicing complaints, the abuse from fans for voicing complaints, and the abuse from the company..... Rather than rehash old complaints, Ive deleted that and will simply move on with what I know: 1) As polite as you all speak, out...

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Some quick flashes: Also i think Palladium books has an addendum that any and all fan work becomes sole property of theirs when it comes to their Rifts world and such This used to be the standard for any fanfic sent in to Rifter; sent in to the web site for publishing before the Rifter, and a part o...

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Who gets the most skillz?

Deadpool
Playahs
Mac daddies

in that order

Dave the dragon

*headscratch*

So I take it PB no longer calls in the lawyers with C&D letters for such things, as it did "back in the day"?

Dave the dragon

Huh. NMI and I live in the same state. When did that happen?

Found one of the old "weekly update" emails in the spam filter. Gotta say Im impressed. The prices today from PB are almost exactly the same as when I first started buying the books back in '85. Impressive.

Dave the dragon

Ok, its been more than a decade.
Are there any emulators and roms in existence?

But less than the time for copyright to expire, so technically this post is asking for pirated material. I am not giving an official warning at this time, but I am locking the thread.

Dave the dragon

As I understand it, from the many threads over 15 years: Disney apparently owns most rights other than the Pen & Paper, according to the movie thread. You would probably have to present a nearly finished copy for consideration, and that still might get you in legal trouble. (from who depends on ...

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Most of the officially out-of-print and "dead" items (no longer supported with no intention of bringing back) already are available at m but the prices are what you'd expect to pay for an actual game PDF, not an out-dated dead book (about $10 per PDF, some of the smaller ones as low as $5)...

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if its a "dead" book, shouldnt it be discounted?

Just sayin, why pay that much for a book that the publisher and author both called "crap" (they may have politely called it crap, but thats the designation none the less)

Dave the dragon

It was in both "is PDF possible" and "why" threads, both in the Save PB section.

Dave the dragon

Shawn Merrow wrote:
Dave the dragon wrote:Oddly, in the save PB section of the forums, they deny that SoL was ever canceled. Its just "on hold until conditions improve"

How old is that post?

well, my latest ban ended 2 weeks ago, so.....

Dave the dragon

Oddly, in the save PB section of the forums, they deny that SoL was ever canceled. Its just "on hold until conditions improve"

Dave the dragon

If Brute Force isn't working you're not using enough? Daniel Stoker Didn't there used to be a poster who went by the name "Brute Force"? Several, actually. What timespan are you referring to? One thing I love about being a professional lurker: no matter how many times my "date joined...

Dave the dragon

Sorry, missed the "snark" tags. It was supposeed to be funny.
But then, that whole save vs dying might finally come in handy for once

Usually, ya just throw a car at the problem and its solved. (Big problems may require a buss)

Dave the dragon

Why? A save vs pain to continue, and that marvelous healing factor, and things are still going fine, right up till he uses his supernatural strength to throw a car at you Of course, it depends on the gameworld. Heroes is fine for that; Rifts is a nightmare (figuring damage for a thrown SAMAS was fun...

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will the new book have a semi-complete listing? Or will it be the same hacked up cut%paste that drove so many ways

Dave the dragon

any word of this new book?

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welcome to the boards, Karsus

Dave the dragon

Maybe add in some of the mutation tables from Rifts, too.
When you do make one, please let me know. I dont play much anymore, but thats more from lack of gamers in the area than anything else, and I love to kjeep these works for others that ask. (with proper credit to them, of course)

Dave the dragon

It probably got bumped for "Dead Reign" or whatever the new line is.

More books no one in my area will even open, yet the few well recieved lines wither away.

Dave the dragon

Thought Id resurface to look for one of my favorite books, only to find its been cancelled. *sigh* Same old complaints: Cant keep a line alive, but putting out new ones; focus on one to the exclusion of most all else and wonder why we the fans move on. pity, guess I'll leave again. You realize, tha...

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I do hate to seem so negative; I once was the happiest of fanboys. But I received a pm today that was, to me, a kick in the shorts. NMI decided, after reading my complaint that PB tends to create too many new lines without supporting the existing ones, to invite me to the new game forum for Kevin's ...

Dave the dragon

No problem.
So this thing looks better than promised?
I wish they'd offer a "sampler" like DrivethruRPG does, so I can see if its good. I hate to read the books at the store. Seems disrespectful to read and not buy from my FLGS.

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Also, if an employee at a comic shop talks you out of a sale, he's an idiot and his opinion isn't worth much. MikeM Yeah, well he has owned the store since before I was born, selling gaming materials. So I think he has some credibility. On top of that, he didnt say it was "bad". He said i...

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From a businessman's point of view: The consistent inability to make publishing dates. The "cut & paste" editing that led to redundancies, so customers wouldn't buy the book, as they already had the info. The poor editing, so that even "cut & Paste" kept the same typos th...

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The second is someone coming into, picking a book, and saying "What do you think of this book?" At that point, I think you're obliged to be honest about it, and about your prejudices. "I didn't like it, but I don't like class and level systems." "I didn't like it, and that'...

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He's a fan who runs a bookstore. And like most in the area, that whole change of attitude PB had from 2004-2007 alienated him. He'd rather sell a book you'll like than sell a book for profit, which is why his bookstore has been around for 30 years. Unfortunately, save for a very small group, no one ...

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*sigh* Its been (what, a decade?) and they still haven't made a consolidated list yet? The best book in the series is canceled? We waited til Hell fro0ze over, and he wonders why the book didnt sell. And Kevin wonders why the series is dying? Im surprised the whole company isnt dying, all things con...

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Well, even the FLGS says the New Shadows book is so/so, but does contain some new stuff. Will the others? My FLGS owner says not; it wont be worth buying, since I have the old ones. Any authors or PB workers that wanna answer?

Dave the dragon

Is there a new fully collected table somewhere?

Dave the dragon

Thought Id resurface to look for one of my favorite books, only to find its been cancelled. *sigh* Same old complaints: Cant keep a line alive, but putting out new ones; focus on one to the exclusion of most all else and wonder why we the fans move on. pity, guess I'll leave again.

Dave the dragon

Reprint/redesign... amounts to the same thing, to me, if I already have all the info in my old collection of PB Robotech books. Call me cheap, but I'm not interested in paying $20 for nothing more than new cover art. (AKA: the old "cut and paste" PB book making technique) Have you played s...

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Im too lazy to dig through 23 pages to find a thread. Is PB planing to just reprint the same info in my old (comlete. hahahahaha) set of RT books, or will there be new info? Is this he simpler more streamlined version used in the old books, or the mess that RU gave us? Wanna know before I even consi...

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Would Zentraedi have doppelgangers?

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I think that by the time this movie gets made, I'll be too old to care. (and probably too old to see it) Like the one thread said, The Rifts will come before the movie does.

Dave the dragon

Funny...you hear a lot about Zentraedi women giving birth to hybrid children, but never a Zentraedi man siring a child with a Human woman...Guess there wasn't much novelty in reporting about men doing what they've traditionally been criticized for... Also, you never read anything about Zentraedi ha...

Dave the dragon

I like this. Keep thinking, I wanna use some of this.
Personally, I was gonna just have a Zent BP morphus against my PCs sometime, justy to watch them fill their britches.

Dave the dragon

I was saying that in the novels (number 20, I think) the new ones released recently, there was another halfbreed. Cant remember if it survives or not. The "evil" General takes a Zent as a mistress, then tries to kill her when he finds out she's preggers. But in my game, they were very comm...

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I dont know bout the new stuff. If you wanrt to make her "by-the-book", its gona be at least mid-level mind melter, or higher. That ability to link with the others (only a few, it seemed in the book. Been a while, so I could be wrong) and yank the SDF-1's Fold Generators from the past seem...

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Yes, unfortunately. And they have no psionics, a huge bonus against, and, somewhere I got the idea that they just plain dont mix with PSI. If 'culture is PSI in base, not sure it'd mix. 'Course, it dont have to. Morphus are based on subconcious images of ourselves, not limited to "reality".

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