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Palladium Fantasy Rune font

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I used to have this but lost it in a PC crash. Just wondering if anyone has it anymore?

Thank you in advance
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Same here. Its on my old, old computer (Windows 98) that I don't use any more but I
keep around because its runs some of my old games. Would love to have it back again.
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I had an adventure where all the things they had to find where in a rhyme, which I then changed the font to the palladium rune font and printed it out. Without the palladium books the players had figured out what it said in an hour or so (2 pages).

How are runes secret/undecipherable when that happens.
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kiralon wrote:I had an adventure where all the things they had to find where in a rhyme, which I then changed the font to the palladium rune font and printed it out. Without the palladium books the players had figured out what it said in an hour or so (2 pages).

How are runes secret/undecipherable when that happens.

Well for one thing the "Runes" they use are just English letters...
...which is easy to solve if your fluent in English.
Unless you use English as the language of Palladium though...

Or put another way. If you took a list of Phoenician characters or Chinese Cloud Scrip or the like, erased parts of each letter/symbol and then started writing messages in it your players are going to look at it and say "forget this".

In universe one presumes that the 'key' to the runes is not something that is easily accessible.
Let alone the language that it is often written in (remember most of the European languages use the same basic alphabet... but that doesn't make it any easier to read French or Latin or German)
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I think I may still have it. I'll check next time I'm at my computer.

I don't know if it works with the newer versions of Word though.

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I didn't know this existed; I've been re-creating the rune alphabet in Inkscape for the ones I've been putting in my maps. It's not hard, but it's a time-consuming hassle, and I would love to get my hands on a proper rune font.
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Okay, I had to take a minute and learn how to add the font. Pretty easy to do. PM me your email address and I'll send you a copy.

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The Beast wrote:Okay, I had to take a minute and learn how to add the font. Pretty easy to do. PM me your email address and I'll send you a copy.


That open to others too? I'd love one :D
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Ditto!
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Sure.

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The Beast wrote:Sure.

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The_Beast, I'd very much enjoy having the Palladium Fantasy Rune font on my rig. Would you please send me a copy? Per your request, I'll PM you my email.

-Boe.

Edit 9:32pm on 1/28/2017: Received your email with the font attached. Thank you very kindly once again, The_Beast! ^_^

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Thanks Beast I pmed you my email
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The Beast wrote:Okay, I had to take a minute and learn how to add the font. Pretty easy to do. PM me your email address and I'll send you a copy.



Hey I'm new here. Is this a font for the runes found in the Palladium book 1 on page 124? If it is can I get a copy of it?
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PM me your email address and I'll send it to you.
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Hi The Beast,

I would love a copy too. I’ve already sent you a PM with my email. Thanks and stay cool. I appreciate it.
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Re: Palladium Fantasy Rune font

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FYI for anyone who may want the font:

I have an older version of MS Word and I haven't used the font in a few years, so I don't know if it's compatible with newer versions of Word or if an update broke it. Also I'm not the original author, so if it is broken I don't know how to fix it.
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Re: Palladium Fantasy Rune font

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it works with the new versions
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