I've been good and haven't made a Palladium rant for a while.  But today I visited Palladiumbooks' forums to see if there was a new Murmur from Kevin.  I'm hoping that he'll announce that the license negotiations for Robotech failed.  And, you know, I just find destructive cults inherently fascinating. But, anyway, I accidentally clicked on the "Save Palladiumbooks" forum.  What meets my eye first but a thread entitled "How About a Palladium Open Gaming License?"

Now, remember that at this point I think I'm in the Murmurs section, and I briefly think I'm seeing a post by Kevin to the fan faithful about Palladium going OGL.  Luckily, I didn't have a heart attack.  I soon realized I had mis-clicked, but decided to enjoy the thread anyway.  That's when I found the funniest remark I think I'll read all day long:

Quote from: a Palladium forum regular replying to the idea of the Palladium system becoming an Open Gaming Systemand it can also suffer from lack of quality control, which the d20 licence most assuredly does.

Yep.  We wouldn't want Palladium to suffer from a lack of quality control.  Nosirree.

Quote from: another Palladium forumite (a relative newbie) in response to the aboveYep, I think Kevin is looking for quality than quantity.

Well, that explains the huge books full of reprints full of 15 year old typoes.  Tee Hee Hee....

OK.  Now I'll go back to keeping my mad anti-Palladium ravings to myself.  I just thought it was too amusing to not share.

Heh, yeah, quality control like obvious logic failures:

Quote from: Sourcebook 1Towns are often seperated by thousands of miles of wilderness...

Yeah, apparently the coming of the Rifts returned the world to it's Pangea state.


It seems like after all the years, he could have at least corrected a few of the obvious logic errors and typos.