Recent Acquisition
A few of you will likely recall this....
A "new" acquisition of mine. The other day I stumbled across this excellent condition copy original 80's edition of the Palladium RPG which I hadn't see since...well...the 80's. I recall it being a very interesting and complex system (especially when it came to magic) so I had to add it to my collection. I had never see the Supplement book before. It was apparently published many years later to add new character classes and rules for seafaring adventures [Jar(egg)head was more knowledgeable of the Palladium products than I]. Looks to be interesting though.
Call it nostalgia or whathaveyou, there is something to be said for the more clean and simple typeset style of the old RPG manuals with plain b&w line drawn artwork; compared to the colorful painted, glossy and slick style of most pro RPG publications today.
posted by The Mad Builder of Periwinkle at 14:01
2 Comments:
Nice. Those are getting hard to find nowadays.
Palladium was, in my opinion, the best of the "pre-made" systems. I preferred to run campaigns based around self-created systems, (you have nothing else to do as a Marine aboard an amphibious assault ship for months on end), but I based some of my system on the concepts in Palladium.
Kevin Siembieda later went on to create the excellent and unique Rifts RPG. You'll probably also recognize his art style from the Judge's Guild series of independent modules, for which he was a primary illustrator.
Cool, learned something new today. Never realized the Palladium / Judge's Guild connection. Only had a couple of them but thought they were very well done in content, even if having the appearance of being produced in someone's garage.
I'm starting to see more and more interest in some of these old games BTW, and new games modeled on their style of gaming (like Dungeon Crawl Classics).
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