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Originally Posted by tldenmark
I do love Palladium books, they are so meaty and fun and filled with good ideas, but the Palladium system needs the next gen treatment.
In the same way D&D was updated in 3.0, Kevin needs to find a Jonathan Tweet level designer to bring Palladium into the 21st century. The danger is in avoiding what befell GURPS 4.0
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I dunno anything about GURPS, as I've never played it, but revamping the Palladium System, while probably long overdue, is equally likely to never happen.
Quite frankly, I don't think Palladium has the resources or manpower to do a ground-up reboot of their system, and Kevin Siembieda isn't likely to let someone else write his in-house rules system. Plus, with Palladium's usual scheduling/deadline problems, it'd take them another 25-30 years to revamp and re-release all their in-house RPGs to reflect the new system.
I think Palladium just accepts that they have their loyal audience, and is content with relatively minimal growth. It's a playable, if flawed system (and it has been "tweaked" quite a bit over the years, though the basic mechanics remain the same), and people still seem to have fun with it despite those flaws.