Post originally by Jeremiah Bourque (HinoRei) at 2003-03-20 15:15:14
Converted from Phorums BB System

I don't own many Palladium books. (I plead poverty for that.) I have the core books that make the early games run and run fairly well. I'll probably buy more to collect them. I don't find the rules to be that nasty like a lot of people do, generally speaking, but...

And this is a big but...

Palladium does a HORRIBLE job of clarifying things in errata, official rulings, and so on and so forth.

Every time I've seen them do such a ruling it's messed up the games more, and this strength ruling is among the most stupid I have ever seen. The Rifts system of combat is not so terrible if it's administered sanely and people accept the underlying assumptions (i.e. it is not Unreal Tournament), but when you interperet things in such a blatantly counter-intuitive manner, everything's messed up.

This is just silly. I can see why Palladium doesn't bother to make things tighter; it's a financial strategy to get people to buy more books so they can pick the rules they like. But seriously, and I don't mean to say I'm a Palladium fan, I've just played it a little and run games in it, but the official ruling here, and many like it, are confusing, seemingly deliberately and senselessly so, and from a sense point of view, simply wrong.