GENERAL The Core Rules System is my attempt to present a holistic system of rules that could be applied across all the Palladium Books RPGs. This is a baseline, breaking down the core principles of the games, at each stage, and taking any minor variances from each game into account by softening the edges and dovetailing pieces together. Reaction from the first three posts has been wildly positive, which demonstrates proof positive of several things. Whether or not I’m hitting