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Originally Posted by smascrns
Sorry, but not reviewing the game system with the argument that everybody knows how Palladium works is just unacceptable. For a start, there's plenty of people that don't know how Palladium works, people like myself actually. And I would like to know how the Palladium system works specifically in this game. For that purpose I need to have more data on the game system. As it is the review is incomplete.
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I admit, that was one part of the review I just wasn't sure about.
Rightly or wrongly, I made the decision to leave out a discussion of the rules because:
1) The Palladium rules have been discussed ad nasuem on RPG.net. And they haven't really changed in 20 years.
2) Zachary, who provided my comp copy, specifically asked the review stay focused to the product itself, and not the Palladium system in general.
3) The review was already feeling "long" to me, and I didn't want to add extra fluff.
4) People can get very polarized on how much they hate the Palladium system and I didn't want that to be a factor.
5) I liked the irony of a review chiding the book for being incomplete, when the review was incomplete itself. (OK, I just made that one up
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But tell you what, I'll go ahead and post notes about the rules here as an addendum to the review.