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I collected about 4 years' worth of my best Palladium articles from the SBRPG blog, ran them through my grammar checker, and reposted them here in a massive collection. This is an excellent start to a game-focused blog, focusing on different Palladium games and serving as a home hub for my thoughts on the games and their worlds. I started Rifts back in the 1990s when it first came out, and I was drawn in right away. There was nothing like this game, and the visuals, books, and covers were mesmerizing. Everything about the game screamed "this was cool" to me, well worth my time, money, and attention, and I loved every book. I have no idea where most of my Rifts books are now, likely in a box somewhere, so I am rebuilding my MDC collection book by book. I have a complete collection of the SDC books I gathered over the Pandemic, and those have never left my gaming shelves. I love the SDC systems on their own, and I keep a separate SDC-only mirror universe on one side of my M...
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Asking Google: Ranged Target Numbers and WP Bonuses

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How To Create Palladium Character Sheets with LibreOffice

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