Talk:Palladium Books

message: I editted the entry rather extensively; despite it being in talk for a while, no one has substantiated the Fair Use violation accusations, nor the "Kevin Seimbeida forbids tape-recording of his statements."  I also mitigated the accusations of munchkinism; it doesn't fit with a neutral POV on the subject, and it's a fairly subjective standard.
---Mr. Nexx July 6, 2005 21:29 (UTC)
:With regards to Siembieda disallowing the recording of his statements, there may be some circumstantial evidence in an episode of the All Games Considered podcast. Just less than halfway through is a segment with Ben Balestra and someone using the moniker Common Dialog about Palladium's Open House, in which they state Palladium did not allow them to record inside the venue itself. Blinovitch (talk) 01:37, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Kev has been on more than one podcast and I have personally seen more than one person recording him and his statements on more than one occasion.  At the first Open House, there was a person videotaping the whole thing.  It is flatly incorrect that he allows none to record him or his words. Subjugator (talk) 00:08, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright and Munchkinism 

message: Does anyone have an opinion they would like to share on whether this article should be split into two articles, one for Palladium Books, and one for the Megaversal System?  I feel that this change should be made. This will allow for the further editing of the various specific Palladium games to have a link in the infobox's system section directly to an article about the system that is universal between them all.
Asatruer 20:54, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not a horrid idea, actually.---Mr. Nexx 13:59, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split Article 

message: Isn't there someway we can stop the Psychotic Palladium Fan Boys... I mean Anonymous Users from constantly deleting the Financial Troubles Section? Seanr451 05:35, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've reported it at WP:AN/I#Palladium Books. (BTW, new sections should be put at the bottom of this page, not the top.) PurplePlatypus 11:46, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stopping the Vandalism

message: Kevin Siembieda has acknowledged (actually boasted, at times) that he doesn't do anything differently now than when he started the company.  Additionally, stolen items include the transparencies from numerous books, which by his own words are needed to print more copies.  Transparencies are part of the phototypesetting process but not needed for any more modern form of typesetting. Iceberg3k 22:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This has been further confirmed by Alex Marciniszyn, who apparently is an editor at PB and someone who still gets along well with KS, just recently in this rpg.net thread somewhere, I think around post 100. He has commented on it a couple of times there, after initially resisting doing so. So I don't mind the first part of the paragraph on printing processes staying. However, the last sentence (recently, and quite correctly, zapped by an anonymous IP starting with 83) is pure editorializing and absolutely, unconditionally not acceptable for Wikipedia. It should stay gone, as it currently is as I write this. PurplePlatypus 03:18, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently, also per Alex M, they're progressing toward a desktop publishing model, although KS' legendary technophobia makes it a slower progression than one would normally like.  So I updated the paragraph accordingly. Iceberg3k 15:51, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Printing technology 

message: While the statement that "Palladium states..." that they were the first to use perfect binding in the RPG market is strictly correct, as that is their claim,I think this section should be amended to reflect that this statement is in reality, incorrect. Chivalry & Sorcery published by Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) in 1977 was, in fact, perfect bound and Palladium didn't even publish their first product until 1981. --Unseelie 00:59, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can link a source to this discussion here proving that, you're free to take it out (and should). Or move it to a criticism section. A company claiming they're forerunners when they aren't isn't a healthy thing. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.132.156.26  (talk • contribs) 07:32, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Read more closely, Robomaster.  Palladium doesn't simply have the books glued, but they are also stitched.  More expensive, and more durable.-Mr. Nexx 04:45, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perfect Bound 

message: I've noticed that a bunch of the references in the article are still using the single-bracket direct link to external website style, while others are using the Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles style. I've revised a few of the direct links into citations, but it might be a good idea if people could do the rest, if and as they can get around to it.
Just a thought. --Robotech_Master 02:52, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uniformity of footnotes 

message: So who wants to write the part about the divorce and Maryanne leaving the company? ;) Worldgate 01:32, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maryanne leaving the company?  Only if doing a whole section on current and past employees is in the scope of this article.  The divorce?  Keep stuff like that on the pages about the involved people. Petronivs 14:29, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Divorce? 

message: I removed this link as it was also removed from the rifts one.
* Rifts Highway || Palladium RPG Archive - Archive of information on various RPGs.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Worldgate (talk • contribs) 01:35, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fansite Whoring 

message: I just removed the system discussion in criticisms, and I'm considering editing the other (though mostly for grammar, rather than content).  The system complaints were passive-voiced subjective statements; abusable, munchkin, etc., rather than objective complaints about the game as written, rather than the game as some people play it.  The entire section suffers from the passive-voiced subjectivity problem, IMO, though the second paragraph is more salvageable. -Mr. Nexx 09:36, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of System discussion in Criticisms 

message: I added a sentence about the Weapon Compenduims, but someone might prefer it in the section of published material.--Dchmelik (talk) 00:30, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weapon Compendiums 

message: Am trying to find instances of newspapers discussing the company in case recent ones may mention this new event. Ranze (talk) 01:13, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Minion War]]