[panton41]

I understand about copyrights fairly well (on another board I'm a writing assessor for a site that has a very ridged and explicit policy against fan art/fic in any form, without written consent) but wouldn't Palladium be denying the allowance of "fair use" according to U.S. copyright law? (Which is something I've always figured was somewhat tenuous for role-playing games anyway considering they're explicitly intended to allow derivative works a.k.a storytelling games.)

Not to mention treating their customers as advisories, poorly produced material and apparent overall mismanagement has probably eroded their fan base.

I feel they have a great world created in Rifts, but they're mismanaging the intellectual properties otherwise.