Much as I love Ninjas & Superspies, I'll go with Rifts.

I don't think any other RPG out there, past or present, can match the Rifts Earth setting in sheer gonzo kitchen-sink awesomeness.

Ninjas & Superspies is a game which gets very little love, though, for the gem that it is.

TMNT was the first Palladium game I ever played, and Robotech was the first RPG I ever bought/collected.

Rifts was my standard game for nigh on a decade.

The most world-building and detailed campaign setting I've ever created was for Heroes Unlimited.

But I will have to go with Ninja's & Superspies/Mystic China. N&S is just... fucking cool. Mystic China had awesome ideas (like the playable Demon character that LOST power as he goes up in levels)

I think a new edition of N&S (just cleaning up the book: editing, layout, putting in an index) would sell like hotcakes.

Hands down, TMNTaOS!!!!

-clash

Beyond the Supernatural 1 ed. followed closely by the Mechanoids. BTS is an interesting middle ground between the relatively weak investigators of CoC and the superpowered monsters of White Wolf. I like Mechanoids because it was my first Palladium game and I had a blast running it.

Mechanoid Invasion Book III, clean, clear, straight forward, and the plot centers around a gigantic psychic hate bomb.  Actually it's better for having less Mechanoids really.  It's not so much, hi you're first level so here's a wing of Wasps bearing down on you.

Quote from: Settembrini;461248RIFTS is inseperable from Heroes Unlimited and TMNT. As I found out, only in conjunction do they cover all necessary rules. TMNT has Timelords and TIme Machine Construction Rules as well as a neat Time-Travel concept, and HU has Robot and Vehicle Construction rules.

If RIFTS is understood as encompassing HU, BTS and TMNT (which is actually a HU supplement as is Ninjas & Superspies)...then I say: RIFTS.

This.

Beyond the Supernasty is my favorite one, out of personal interest.

The one I LOVE to run the most and possibly the game I've gotten the most good GMing out of is Nightbane. All four source books were great. Its like everything I liked about Palladium and WW put into one setting.

I should say, I've never run or played Palladium without using N&S. That's the core rules as far as I'm concerned.

Advanced Recon!

Oh and TMNT!

Well, I'm going fight against the current here and vote for Robotech, myself.  There's something about your first loves...

RPGPundit

Hmm...maybe you're onto something.

Has there been a lot of the younger guys getting into Palladium?  When's the last time you saw a guy playing a Palladium game who isn't 25+?

How much of the current market do you think they get?  Or is it mostly older gents who reminisce about early rpgs on web forums?

Quote from: Blackhand;461405Hmm...maybe you're onto something.

Has there been a lot of the younger guys getting into Palladium?  When's the last time you saw a guy playing a Palladium game who isn't 25+?

How much of the current market do you think they get?  Or is it mostly older gents who reminisce about early rpgs on web forums?

From my entirely non-empirical Convention experience, it's about 1/3 die-hards, 1/3 lapsed gamers, and 1/3 new gamers willing to try it out.

Of the lapsed gamers, the majority "played the hell" out of the system, before moving onto other systems or just away from RPGing altogether for several years/decades...

My Palladium con-game experience has been primarily lapsed PB gamers and noobs. Outside the Palladium Open House, I've met only a handful of current PB players at California cons, usually other GMs.

The reaction among lapsed gamers has been mixed. While they enjoy the con event, some say the system keeps them from getting back into PB games as they've moved on to whatever. The others however get charged up having forgotten how much fun PB stuff can be when you handwaive past the system.

The noobs have been mostly teens / young adults and I've had my best luck with them. After a session, they are the most likely to go buy a Palladium game from the dealer's room.

If PB could clean up the system AND back a new edition with real advertising and outreach, they could do well with the under 25 crowd.

TMNT, from the setting materials to the production values, was my favorite; however, I've always had the most fun making characters for Heroes Unlimited -- 2e or revised, I can't remember. I enjoyed Robotech a lot, but the fact that you can't, by the rules, one-shot kill a Zentradi pod brings it down a couple of notches. I'm small and petty that way....

I don't have much experience with Palladium, never played any of the games. I do own Palladium 1e (i.e. Fantasy 1e) and Recon/Advanced Recon. I'd say, on reading, both are inspired and make me want to play.

I bought the Robotech book when it came out, since I was a RT fan, and I have to say it didn't do anything for me, either in terms of capturing the tactical dogfights or the sci-fi-soap-opera aspect.

TMNT is the best for one-book accessibility. It's an incredibly well put-togethr game. Rifts is great. I love Beyond the Supernatural. But Ninjas and Superspies is my favorite. And, I think, the second most accessible.

I've never gone any length of time, though, without mixing and matching. My longest campaign was Ninjas and Superspies with Beyond the Supernatural and Nightspawn all happening, as well. It was crazy cool.