Do you use the Palladium world for the PFRPG?

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we play on the Palladium World, as the setting is actually one of the reasons we play the system (the rules certainly are not)! so, with this system, we never bothered to play in a self created or other world.
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I generally use the setting as is...
With one exception...
My own version of Lopan is my oriental setting (I mix N&S into all my Pally games).
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oh yes, I forgot: I did some stuff on the Old Kingdom borders to both the Western Empire and Timiro but in spirit to the exisiting material. in all the campaigns we never played in Phi nor Lopan or the Land of South Winds, but when those were mentioned in the game, I always made the Land of South Winds with a touch of Arabia / Northafrica and Lopan greek-like.
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All the games I run have been in the book setting. I was a player in a game that used a custom world. Its been years so don't remember much about it.
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Well pf is a vary nice world... I have yet to use it, in a game and I have been gaming and gming for about 14/12 years now. I do how ever use pf rules for some of my historic games. or historic games that I am thinking about doing. ie. for my saxon ivasion of gb I am using pf rules. I have thought about using pf rules with up dated skills sets form games set in the 1770s in na, or even a game set in the anglo irish war, of 1916 1918-1923.. I mean I could see men like pearce and pluket using the schooler occ, not sure about men like Mick "big fella" Collens thow maybe assaion for hem, thow he was a finachel adviser
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Pretty much yes. The setting is the part I like, there are better systems out there...
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Chello!

I have done both in the past. My current PF game is set in my old Hackmaster world, Toneeze Wurld, aka Gareeze Wurld #161. I had to make up a Halflig RCC b/c one of my daughters plays nothing but Halfling thieves. Ah, the things fathers do! :)

That said I love the Palladium setting.
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I enjoy playing the Palladium setting as is, myself. I have created add-ons for that setting from time to time and they all worked well enough with existing continuity. Of course, as more and more of the world is described, the less wiggle room I found myself having.

That was when I started creating my own world with the Palladium fantasy rule set. I think a fantasy setting is what the Palladium system works best for. That is to say, I have fewer house rules for those sorts of settings than something like Rifts (which in my opinion has pretty much gotten unmanegable). The only problem is that there isn't a lot of interest right now among players in my area in the Palladium system. So I wound up adapting everything to D&D 3.5 because that's the currently preferred fantasy rule set in my area. I did add about 25 house rules (mostly minor) and added a lot of options from the Unearthed Arcana. With wound/vitality points and spell points, the game starts to more closely resemble Palladium's way of doing things. I can be sneaky that way. :D

I have to say though, I find it more common that people adapt Palladium's setting to other systems than people lifting Palladium's rule set for other settings. Even gamers I play with who HATE Palladium, usually admit that their settings are decent and imaginative. It's the system itself that receives a lot of flak. And frankly, outside of the fantasy genre, I wouldn't try using it for other settings myself.
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I like the Palladium world, myself, but have been tempted to use the system to run a "Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero" scenario. In fact, I think the system would be pretty good for all of the QfG games, though some challenges would become pitifully easy with the right classes (such as the beginning of Trial by Fire if you have a single warlock in the party).
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I have used both the Palladium World as well as a home made world with PFRPG rules. It all depends on my mood.
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