This is meant to be a snark-free thread for saying nice things about Palladium.  I'm going to go first.

I love the cover art of a lot of Palladium products.  The original Rifts cover is still totally awesome.  Cthulhu-esque baddie + weird babes = crazy deliciousness.

Rifts is wicked cool.  It mashes together a bunch of stuff in a nifty multi-genre way but it has its own distinct flavor, too.

I've not done much with the Palladium Fantasy setting but it looks pretty cool to me.  For a long time Palladium Fantasy was one of the most solid alternatives to D&D, though I preferred MERP and RoleMaster.

I like interiors with easy-to-read black text on white background and lotsa gun porn images.

The Christmas Mystery Grab-bag thingy that Kevin does each year looks cute.  And every comment I've seen from someone who bought one indicated they were very satisfied with the contents.

I love their books, because it`s refreshingly open and mysterious at the same time. It all sounds so much like:

"Listen, listen I have these freakin' ideas, and, there are more coming! Look at this badass or that one, or wow, there`s snakes on a starship!"

"And you haven`t seen the city of the cyber-ocotpus commandoes bent on destroying tiamat!"

And it happens to be just as awesome.

I really dig it.
I open a book and I feel all the awesomocity flowing through my veins again.

TMNT was the first game after D&D Basic and Expert that I really liked. I have the books on my shelf and I do plan to run it someday in the future.
Then there's RIFTS. :verkill:
It's still my powergame of choice after all of these years and even now my friends ask me on occasion to run it again, though at the moment I feel I don't have the right ideas for it yet. I have to get explosive powerfests off on the right foot, you know?

-Grab Bags, the material high point of every holiday season for me.

-Keeping book costs low.

-Palladium Fantasy, my favorite fantasy RPG ever, with great magic, innovative races, and plenty of glorious old-school feeling.

-How great the Pally folks treat and interact with their fans at conventions.

-The fact that there have been no notable Flooper infestations since World Book 1.

-Enthusiasm!!!

-Boom Guns.

-The fact that in Rifts, a rogue scholar, merc power armor pilot, diabolist, Lost Atlantean gunslinger, and a demi-god vagabond for a PC party makes as much sense as anything, and is a hell of a lot of fun.

-FUSION BLOCKS.

-The Coalition:  fun to play, fun to hate, fun to kill, fun to...did I say kill already?

-The Rifter:  a quarterly sourcebook with some great ideas that has helped some authors and artists I really like get off the ground.

-The fact that if you write a civil letter to Kevin S., he will likely take the time to write you back.

-When I read a Rifts/HU2/PFRPG sourcebook, I get excited about running/playing using those ideas.

Quote from: jrientsThis is meant to be a snark-free thread for saying nice things about Palladium.  I'm going to go first.

I love the cover art of a lot of Palladium products.  The original Rifts cover is still totally awesome.  Cthulhu-esque baddie + weird babes = crazy deliciousness.

I agree, they have some of the best cover art of any publisher.

QuoteRifts is wicked cool.  It mashes together a bunch of stuff in a nifty multi-genre way but it has its own distinct flavor, too.

Sci-Fantasy @ it's best.

QuoteI've not done much with the Palladium Fantasy setting but it looks pretty cool to me.  For a long time Palladium Fantasy was one of the most solid alternatives to D&D, though I preferred MERP and RoleMaster

probly my favorite straight fantasy game. tons of classes and race (all of them playable). I have more comments about ithere.

QuoteI like interiors with easy-to-read black text on white background and lotsa gun porn images.

Maybe i'm old school but I like the simple layout of PB games.

QuoteThe Christmas Mystery Grab-bag thingy that Kevin does each year looks cute.  And every comment I've seen from someone who bought one indicated they were very satisfied with the contents.

I get 1-2 of these every year.

last year I got :

• splicers
• signed art prints
• bunch of Rifters that I didn't have yet
• Atlantis
• Rifts Magic
• Game Masters book

All of them signed by Kevin and other PB folks.

Best deal in gaming, no question.

Quote from: SettembriniI love their books, because it`s refreshingly open and mysterious at the same time. It all sounds so much like:

"Listen, listen I have these freakin' ideas, and, there are more coming! Look at this badass or that one, or wow, there`s snakes on a starship!"

"And you haven`t seen the city of the cyber-ocotpus commandoes bent on destroying tiamat!"

And it happens to be just as awesome.

I really dig it.
I open a book and I feel all the awesomocity flowing through my veins again.

this somes up the rest of my thoughts.

Low book costs, consistently great line art from what I've seen.

Quote-The fact that in Rifts, a rogue scholar, merc power armor pilot, diabolist, Lost Atlantean gunslinger, and a demi-god vagabond for a PC party makes as much sense as anything, and is a hell of a lot of fun.

I think D&D 3.x stole that one from Rifts. In former times AD&D 2nd was all-restrictive. Now it`s drow next to dwarven samurai, next to half-orc wizard and tiefling-half celestial-half dragon warlock/mystic theurge/paladin.

TMNT. Concentrated awesome! 'Nuff said.

-clash

The fact that its one of the only companies that understands the value of  creating AFFORDABLE softcover durable books aimed at younger players, with cool shit, rather than getting on the bandwagon of selling hardcover ultra-glossy books for collectors about "mature" themes.

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Wolfen.  The Wolfen rock.  I'm nicking them for my upcoming C&C game.

Mechanoids.  First bad guys in an RPG that I thought were actually scary.

Recon.  Excellent, excellent game.

I dunno what book it was, but it featured some kinda bloated, winged toad-men on the cover.  I totally pinched those for a fantasy game, and although I changed 'em around a bit, the original image was all sortsa inspirational.

Quote from: RPGPunditThe fact that its one of the only companies that understands the value of  creating AFFORDABLE softcover durable books aimed at younger players, with cool shit, rather than getting on the bandwagon of selling hardcover ultra-glossy books for collectors about "mature" themes.

And that is why I've tried so hard to like them.

Because that, right there, is made of awesome.