Palladium SDC Games?

Okay, are the Palladium SDC games, and I mean everything except Rifts, d100 games? Should they be covered here? Why exclude Rifts?

Rifts is power gaming and a massive game, that is easily dozens of books and out-of-scope of a fantasy blog. It is an amazing game, but I am currently "of Rifts" and not collecting the books. I had a Rifts habit in the 1990s, and I don't really want to go back. Plus, I find the Palladium SDC games to have the game play and balance I desire, and they don't have MDC causing one-hit-kills everywhere.

I like games that are realistic and down-to-earth. The Games that do not have MDC are a great collection of games, and every one of them is a classic. Ninjas and Superspies, TNMT, After the Bomb, Palladium FRPG, Dead Reign, Beyond the Supernatural, Nightbane, and even Heroes Unlimited are all incredible games.

While Palladium games use a d20 for combat rolls, all the other skill rolls are d100. This technically makes them d100 games. I have always saw them as more d100 based, since most of game play will involve skill rolls, and combat rolls are sort of done on the d20 to speed play. The game also uses d4, d6, and d8 dice, so this is more of a polyhedral game, but those, again, are used mostly for damage rolls. Plus, it gives us a reason to use all our dice.

Still, this feels like a d100 game at its heart. But given the other dice and that d20 in combat resolution, it is hard to call this a pure d100 game. I am on the fence about this, but this is still a great game, along with all of its SDC counterparts.

That, I suppose, is a maybe. Depending on the hits of this post will determine if it gets coverage here.

The fans decide.