Open House 2007

J. Lionheart · Unread post by **J. Lionheart** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:05 am

Yes, May 2007. It's only 10 months away - time to start planning!

I, for one, shall run a Valley of the Pharaohs campaign, using one of my complete original boxed sets! Tenatively titled "Living in De-Nile," the players will find themselves the footsoldiers in a brewing conflict between kings and pretenders, gods and false idols. Who shall come out on top, and win the hearts of the citizens of Egypt? Better start studying today - that system is completely different from the megaversal one (available on the Cutting Room Floor for folks without a copy, or who don't want to use theirs).

So... how about everybody else? What plans are already laid for next year's Palladium bash?

Braden Campbell · Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:49 am

The return of Formation 1, in an all-new Phase World adventure!

Gomen_Nagai · Unread post by **Gomen_Nagai** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:13 am

MODERATED - Inappropriate, and violent, comments will not be tolerated. ~ Mack

Braden Campbell · Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:13 am

Gomen_Nagai wrote:MODERATED - Inappropriate, and violent, comments will not be tolerated. ~ Mack

Uh..... OK, then.

Preacher · Unread post by **Preacher** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 1:16 pm

Yep only ten months. Thread about it one below this one. :rolleyes:

Gomen_Nagai · Unread post by **Gomen_Nagai** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:55 pm

sigh.. and it was so funny. I will probably not be attending the next one either.

Marrowlight · Unread post by **Marrowlight** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:16 pm

Gomen_Nagai wrote:sigh.. and it was so funny. I will probably not be attending the next one either.

Why must you tempt us with such easy to respond to things that would lead to us getting banned?

Warwolf · Unread post by **Warwolf** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:11 pm

gmask1 wrote:Assuming that the Open House is in early May again, I'll need evey month between now and then to save the few grand to get there.

Well good luck to you. I enjoyed meeting you the last time, so I hope you're able to make the next one. :ok:

Gomen_Nagai · Unread post by **Gomen_Nagai** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:57 pm

Marrowlight wrote:
Gomen_Nagai wrote:sigh.. and it was so funny. I will probably not be attending the next one either.

Why must you tempt us with such easy to respond to things that would lead to us getting banned?

cause I think I do not Fit Along with a majorty if Rifts fans. I am a diffirent breed of gamer.

Marrowlight · Unread post by **Marrowlight** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:50 pm

Gomen_Nagai wrote:
Marrowlight wrote:
Gomen_Nagai wrote:sigh.. and it was so funny. I will probably not be attending the next one either.

Why must you tempt us with such easy to respond to things that would lead to us getting banned?

cause I think I do not Fit Along with a majorty if Rifts fans. I am a diffirent breed of gamer.

That's not what I meant at all.

Subjugator · Unread post by **Subjugator** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:05 am

I will, of course, be there.

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Greyaxe · Unread post by **Greyaxe** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:54 pm

Guess I have to go also, cant miss the return of Formation One.

Subjugator · Unread post by **Subjugator** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:19 pm

Citizen Lazlo wrote:I really want to come back up to Taylor the weekend before the Open House next year. If anyone else is interested in that maybe we could all set up to get the same hotel and game hard for the days running up to the Open House.

OK - I *LOVE* this idea! This is FANTASTIC!

An add-on idea - we could get a nice suite at the hotel and could share it. The suite I had last year was huge and had PLENTY of room.

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dark brandon · Unread post by **dark brandon** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:28 pm

Gomen_Nagai wrote:cause I think I do not Fit Along with a majorty if Rifts fans. I am a diffirent breed of gamer.

There are many places I would not fit in, but I still go. I go for me, not to "fit in" or care if I do.

Gomen_Nagai · Unread post by **Gomen_Nagai** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:44 am

I could harldy resist the urge to smack down some people. I would go if certain people did not.

The Galactus Kid · Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:59 pm

See, at the open house I seriously thought that I was going to have certain issues with people. I just *knew* that if I saw Killer Cyborg we would get into it about something or other. (just one example of many) but when I got there and realized that the anonimity of the internet ends when you meet the people behind the avatar and find that they are nice interesting people that you could have alot in common with. KC and I didn't argue the whole time and actually had many great conversations. I know that you (gomen) and I have exchanged words and such, but I would still love to see you at the open house next year.

I am going to do all in my power to go next year, but I have a wedding to go to (mine) and don't know if I can swing it. I'll find out as we get closer.

Killer Cyborg · Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:17 pm

The Galactus Kid wrote:See, at the open house I seriously thought that I was going to have certain issues with people. I just *knew* that if I saw Killer Cyborg we would get into it about something or other. (just one example of many) but when I got there and realized that the anonimity of the internet ends when you meet the people behind the avatar and find that they are nice interesting people that you could have alot in common with. KC and I didn't argue the whole time and actually had many great conversations.

You and I have some fundamentally different views on Palladium and on roleplaying, but we have something more important things in common:
We both love Palladium.
We both love role-playing.

So we can certainly get along in spite of lesser disagreements.

The Galactus Kid · Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:28 pm

Very Very True. When it gets right down to brass tacks, many of us can just agree to disagree and like to hear tales of the games each other is in/running. Jason Marker had some of the most awesome stories I heard that whole weekend and being such an animated story teller, he often had crowds around him all rolling with laughter. Some games are run like that and for others thats not their style, but we can all appreciate a good game and great stories.

Reddenedone · Unread post by **Reddenedone** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:42 pm

I will be back if it is in my power. I'll probably schedule it as soon as we get firm dates and such.

Congratulations GK!

People are different in person. I know I can barely speak in public, and if I do, no one could hear me anyway. On the forums, I speak loud enough, but no one listens

.

Braden Campbell · Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:20 am

Greyaxe wrote:Guess I have to go also, cant miss the return of Formation One.

One of the best games I ever ran, and the only Phase World game there.

"Center, represent, y'all!"

Just one thing that bothers me: I'm not sure how I will top myself next time...

Jeffrey W. · Unread post by **Jeffrey W.** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:13 am

We discussed attending the 2007 Palladium Open House at our Dallas-Ft. Worth area Rifts: Arzno roleplaying game this weekend.

Because it would be celebrating the one year anniversary of our present campaign, we agreed to try to participate in this event next May.

I also discussed this with a few gaming friends of mine in the Chicago area, who I have not had the pleasure of gaming with for nearly 20 years. They said they would also try to attend this event.

We look forward to meeting many of you there in May 2007!

Jeffrey W.
(dedicated Palladium Books gamer)

Subjugator · Unread post by **Subjugator** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:41 am

The Galactus Kid wrote:See, at the open house I seriously thought that I was going to have certain issues with people. I just *knew* that if I saw Killer Cyborg we would get into it about something or other. (just one example of many) but when I got there and realized that the anonimity of the internet ends when you meet the people behind the avatar and find that they are nice interesting people that you could have alot in common with. KC and I didn't argue the whole time and actually had many great conversations. I know that you (gomen) and I have exchanged words and such, but I would still love to see you at the open house next year.

I am going to do all in my power to go next year, but I have a wedding to go to (mine) and don't know if I can swing it. I'll find out as we get closer.

KC and I disagree on a lot of things, but I still respect him and I believe he respects me. I actually like the guy, believe it or not. I don't have to agree with someone to like them...in fact, disagreements (if civil) can make people more interesting!

Nekira and I disagree a lot too, but I think it'd be great to hang out with her. Ditto a lot of other people.

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Jason Richards · Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:07 pm

I'm attending for sure, barring some emergency. Although this time I WILL have all of my planning done ahead of time so that I can hang out and play in more games.

Warwolf · Unread post by **Warwolf** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:39 pm

Jason Richards wrote:I'm attending for sure, barring some emergency. Although this time I WILL have all of my planning done ahead of time so that I can hang out and play in more games.

Excellent, I'll need you to sign a new copy of the "Best Of" Rifter. Mine was damaged by an errant belt buckle. Oh yeah, and it'll be fun to hang out with you again too... :lol:

Unread post by **NMI** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:47 pm

Oh I will definately be there.
And if its the same deal as before with Pally, I will be running atleast two games. One of HU and one of Splicers. This time I WILL run TWO games as opposed to one long, 6+ hr game.

Warwolf · Unread post by **Warwolf** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:37 am

The Deific NMI wrote:Oh I will definately be there.
And if its the same deal as before with Pally, I will be running atleast two games. One of HU and one of Splicers. This time I WILL run TWO games as opposed to one long, 6+ hr game.

So... two 6+ hour games?

Really Nimmy, you're a glutton for punishment. :lol:

bar1scorpio · Unread post by **bar1scorpio** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:41 am

May, but what weekend? Last year, I couldn't do it because it was the same weekend as Anime Central in Chicago- But this year, it's the second weekend, where I thik I read that the Open house would be once again, the first weekend of May. Meaning that if it is still the first weekend while MCCC & A-Cen are teh second, I can blow off MCCC and May for me will look like:

May 4-6 Palladium Open House <--- this would be way win for me.
May 11-13 Anime Central
May 18-21 *breather*
May 25-27 Anime North
June 1-3rd Project: A-Kon
June 8-10 AnthroCon

palladiumjunkie · Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:42 pm

It would appear that it is the first weekend... this is what the description says on the Forum:

For discussion of the Palladium Open House, both past (May 2006) and future May 4th, 5th & 6th! 2007 Who's going, games you're running or looking to play, etc.

Brian Manning · Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:59 pm

I was just talking to my brother about this, and he mentioned that he saw it in the Rifter and asked if we're going again. He's excited about it as well. We had a BLAST last time, and plan on showing up again. Perhaps we won't be so lazy and do our best to keep up with Mark Dudley and Apollo, doing some sketches.

I still think the writers should set up a table and sell "short stories" (instead of sketches) based on player characters. We'll form a line and they write the stories, we'll do the sketches. 8-)

J. Lionheart · Unread post by **J. Lionheart** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:09 pm

Jaguar Wong wrote:I was just talking to my brother about this, and he mentioned that he saw it in the Rifter and asked if we're going again. He's excited about it as well. We had a BLAST last time, and plan on showing up again. Perhaps we won't be so lazy and do our best to keep up with Mark Dudley and Apollo, doing some sketches.

I still think the writers should set up a table and sell "short stories" (instead of sketches) based on player characters. We'll form a line and they write the stories, we'll do the sketches.

Hehe, that would be awesome. I don't pretend to be a professional writer, but I used to have fun doing stuff like that when I worked as a storyteller guide in EverQuest... players would come up asking for a story about themselves, so I'd request a location, a friend, and a foe, and would create a quicky tale of their valor. Always brought a smile :-)

The Galactus Kid · Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:45 am

I'm sure that RT will be playing if that happens. I'm also pretty sure that there will be a bunch of Robotech games being run.

Braden Campbell · Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:49 am

The Galactus Kid wrote:I am going to do all in my power to go next year, but I have a wedding to go to (mine) and don't know if I can swing it. I'll find out as we get closer.

Awww, dude, you have to be there. Who will keep Gideon and I in check if you aren't there?

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