April Fools' Day: Difference between revisions

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** One issue had a series of mixed up spells like 'Find Terrain' for which the 'somatic' component was to fall forward, at which you have just 'found the terrain'.

** Another issue had on its cover a chubby warrior holding flowers up to a beholder which had on makeup and flowers...[[Stealth Pun|"Beauty is in the eye of the...Oh nevermind!"]]

** A few years ago, shortly after 3.5 introduced a Flaws mechanic, they did flaws for Commoners (the least powerful of the NPC classes), one of the flaws called "You Got Chickens" had the character suffering a 50% chance of retrieving a chicken any time they tried to draw something from their pack. This was promptly exploited on the Character Optimization board.

** Who could forget the parody songs of "Bard On The Run"?

** On April Fools Day 2009 they released the ''Scroll of Swallowed Darkness'', an incomplete, sex-themed supplement for ''[[Exalted]]''. On April Fools Day 2012, they released errata for it.

* Palladium Books has a combination fanzine/sourcebook for ''[[Rifts]]'' and other Palladium titles called ''The Rifter''. The created an April Fool's Issue called ''The Rifter 9 1/2'', which was full of ridiculous characters, alternate rules, and other silly content. A [[Running Gag]] throughout the issue was that Palladium Books had been sold to the fictional Percy Ferkleberger, who began effecting massive changes in ''[[Rifts]]''. The most notable example was the new rules for "Giga-Damage," which was a massive in-joke regarding the game's love of [[More Dakka]], the fact that ''[[Rifts]]'' tends to attract [[Munchkin|Munchkins]], and [[Power Creep, Power Seep]] in general. Most amusingly, the Rifter 9 1/2 was made primarily as an April Fool's Joke on The Rifter's editor, who had heard nothing about it until the first copies arrived at the warehouse.

 

== Toys ==