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Apparently, due to naturally occuring lasing plasmas and naturally-occuring optical cavities around high-energy stars and events, there have been observed a few examples of natural lasers. Some are long-term structures. I'm told one is emitted via a particular black hole. Eta Carinae (with the help...

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Laser Concepts at Hyperphysics... I love Hyperphysics.

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My points: 1, yes, should be able to take out an average opponent, with an average weapon, in one solid hit. But it is not the possible by the book. That really depends on the combat paradigm one is dealing with. In our modern world, yes, your average soldier can typically be taken out of commissio...

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I've had the same thought, but it's really a bit of both. A tommy gun is more likely to hit somebody as you hose down the room, but it's also going to do a lot more damage. I'm not sure how to work a better system for it, one that would allow for all the variables. True, getting hit with multiple b...

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Palladium's whole take on burst fire is kind of silly and bass ackwards, anyway. Weapons don't fire bursts or full automatic to do more damage, they fire bursts or full automatic to be more likely to hit the target.

Ah, what do I know. I'm just a dog.

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Speaking of nanotech, just recently researchers at the University of California created a 'walking molecule', with two 'feet'. Given a nudge with some heat (or an electron microscope probe), it'll walk in a perfectly straight line across a surface, without tipping over. Here is an animation depictin...

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Hmm... I guess a shock wave isn't precisely 'just an extreme sound wave', at least not per the wikipedia, but it does decompose into a linear compression wave (sound) over some distance, which is the 'boom' one hears as a sonic boom. Then again, this is Rifts. How about another example? What if I th...

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Huh... I must've blew right past that in the FAQ.

Anyhoo, thanks everyone! You're all my hero. Get it? Hero?? *giggle*snort*

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Actually, I don't see any reason why a globe of silence wouldn't work on Boom Gun rounds. A sonic boom is sound; it's basically sound waves piling up on the shock front of the moving object, which is why it's so bloody loud. Assuming that no-one outside the GoS can hear what's happening inside it, t...

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It's been a while since I've made an Heroeses Unlimited (2nd ed) character, and I was toying around with the Mystically Bestowed powers category, but I've run into a slight puzzle. How do I calculate his or her SDC? It states that when transformed, he gains +3D6x10 SDC, then later on states that the...

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Nukes, obviously.

How about TW Teleport Grenade Launchers? Aim at your target (usually a vehicle), pull the trigger, and instead of launching a grenade, it simply teleports it direct into the crew compartment of said vehicle, which then promptly detonates.

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Dog Boys (and Grrls) rule!

Well, them, and really weird home-made mid-level DB critters. I kinda like both. Can I vote for both?

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Xanthium, I believe. Oh, and it isn't a particular material that makes rune weapons indestructable. It is the bonding with a powerful living essence (muchin the same way the Devil's Gate became invulnerable). Heck, I think they can even be made out of stone... Oh man, now I have to make a Rune Weap...

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Of course, the danger with transparent armor is that unless you have some radiation-reactive inner layering, or make it selectively transparent, some fool with a visible light laser can cook you through it, or at least blind you.... Layer a phase-conjugate mirror overtop of the window. Problem solv...

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Scrupulous, and hating myself for it.

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You mean like the Naruni gear? It's supposed to be beyond their abilities. I tend to think that their tech level has weird peaks and valleys because most of it is based on pre-rifts tech... they have figured out how to replicate it, but generally not how to improve upon it. Well, yeah, kinda like t...

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I'm just offended that Palladium didn't include the Flying Spaghetti Monster, either!

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I guess a full conversion borg's body isn't considered 'non-living', huh? Lucky for the borg.

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Yup. (but your opinion is wrong ) Don't I know it. I failed an opinion question on a school exam once. Seriously! That'll teach me to have opinions of my own... Say, howcome the CS doesn't have any sort of active camoflage systems ('chameleoflage' as I like to call it) for their armor? It's not lik...

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Killer Cyborg wrote:Generally, I chalk most stuff like this up to "Highly Advanced Science That Seems Incomprehensible To Our Primitive 20th Century Minds".

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguisable from bad game design?"

(apologies to Arthur C Clarke...)

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Warwolf wrote:Yet another reason to laugh at the idiots that smoked cherry leaves when I was a kid.

And here I terrified myself by boiling sumac leaves. "Hey... what's that strange, almond smell? ...... oh crap." I got rid of that pretty fast.

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Dr. Doom III wrote:As far as Doom is concerned touching someone's clothes is touching them and since the spell does not allow teleporting another person nothing would happen.

For a spell that cannot target a living thing, touching someone's clothes is touching their clothes.

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As for the Skull Walker, I have to say "!??!???" Have you seen the Scout Walker and the Scorpian Walker in CWC...? I actually like the Scout Walker a hell of a lot better than the original Skull Walker. The Scorpion... well, that's kinda silly. I have to agree that they did go kinda... overboard, o...

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Well, peach pits do contain cyanide so do other pits (apricotes and cherries) as well as apple seeds! Actually, most of a cherry tree has a cyanide precursor (prunasin) in it, especially the leaves, IIRC. This gets converted to cyanide when the leaves are damaged. Hehe, how is a vulnerability to pe...

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It always seems people want to screw over mages in Rifts. I mean, it's bad enough that the poor mage would have to physically touch his target in modern combat, and people are still trying to shoot down the tactic. Geez.

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It's not the cross, it's actually the plus sign. Vampire Intelligences are universally bad at math, and hate being reminded that they flunked their college entrance exams because of this, thus the 'cross' wards them away. No, seriously!

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The old armor (and vehicle) styles were ridiculous and ugly, IMO. Though I suppose the Spider Skull Walker incapacitating its opponents with laughter is a valid combat tactic... The newer style is much, much better. Sleeker, sexier, less monstrous-looking (I mean, seriously, do you really want to lo...

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Power jumping works in Rifts because the game designers watched Bubblegum Crisis or somesuch. Physics has nothing to do with it.

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Uh sir... sir... ooo! ooo! Sir! No disrespect or nothing, but like how long is this going to take? like, what, an hour or so? I wanna beat people up right now! I got the pajamas. Ha..yo...wa... wooo! just show me all those nifty moves so I can start trashing bozo's. That's all I came here for. Yo-a...

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Oh, hey, I just had a cool anti-vampire idea. Laser weapons just wreck vampires' wardrobes, right? But a projected image of a cross (or whatev) will hold them at bay. So what happens if you attach a filter to your laser pistol, much like those filters for laser pointers that cause them to project sm...

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Zer0 Kay wrote:So again does that mean a Budhist would be able to ward off a vampire simply by bareing their body? Or a martial artist? What about someone who is egocentric?

LOL! Narcissism as proof against vampires!

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Well, I dunno if I can compete with demi-gods or anything like that... but to irritate our high-power-game GM, I once made a character with:

APS Metal
Immune to Magic
Extraordinary ME

This character was a bit of a thorn in his side. Especially considering he was a porcupine.

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Lazlo, of course. I'm already there, and I hate moving, you see...

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I tend towards terms like "conventional" for SDC weapons, and "advanced" or "modern" for MDC gear. Of course, I can't think of a single instance in any game I've played where the characters bothered to differentiate between types. Mostly it was just "OMG SHOOT THAT THING!!!" *loud destruction noises*

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How about the personal diary of Karl Prosek?

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Yup, survivable acceleration depends on the magnitude of the acceleration, and also the duration of acceleration. Humans can apparently survive over 80g accelerations, uninjured, provided the period is short enough.

Here is a webpage with a bit more information on the subject.

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Does it have to be a Rifts character? I had this psycho dwarf in Dungeons and Dragons, once...

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*releases a cage full of crickets*

*chirp chirp*

*chirp chirp*

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Also, a continuous beam device would make a very poor weapon under these conditions, as in order to do any damage to a particular point on the target, you'd have to have a significant beam dwell time. Hard to do this except under very controlled circumstances. I agree on the dwell time only if your...

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You can use anything as a weapon. That's it. I'm making a Crazy OCC character with WP Marshmallow. How exactly do you get a powerful laser beam that has no range? How big is this thing that it can't be built into power armor? Well, for cutting systems, you could use multiple low-powered lasers that...

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Oh, brilliant! One could undermine the whole Coalition by starting up the Church of Prosek! Since people would be worshipping Emperor Prosek, that immediately makes him a supernatural entity (as he's being worshipped, and nobody worships mortals, come on...), and so his own forces would be obligated...

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I haven't seen it, but I vote grilled cheese, because everyone loves grilled cheese (just like everyone loves medics), and grilled cheese is completely necessary for survival (just like medics), so yes. Grilled cheese.

Wait... is there ketchup for this grilled cheese Jesus badge?

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True dat. If I were transported into Rifts earth at my current location I'd be OK. My house is on the outskirts of tokeen according to the books. (matter of fact I can pretty much pinpoint where my house is on the map in SoT 6.) I have a fair amount of knowledge of history and am trained in library...

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I don't know how much heat a laser beam would actually shed. It's supposed to be coherent light, all focused in one direction, so why would heat leak out the sides of the beam into the barrel of the gun? A high-powered laser like the weapons in Rifts would be generating an awful lot of heat, really...

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Well, let's see. Middle-of-Nowhere, Colorado, during a hot summer day. No survival equipment, just clothing and a horse. Well, you have no more than three days to find a source of drinking water, or you're dead. If you encounter anything supernatural and hostile (even if it's the size of a bug), you...

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Mach numbers are silly for space travel, especially Palladium's Mach numbers. What's the fastest speed they list for any spacecraft, Mach 20 or so? That's a 17-hour (straight line) trip from the Earth to the Moon. Not terribly exciting, as sci-fi spacecraft go. Your ability to accelerate is all that...

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I'd think that a continious beam of mega-damage energy wouldn't eventually melt the muzzle or barrel where the energy was being dispersed. You'd have to let it cool often, would you? Well, for industrial applications, I imagine you could fit a lot more cooling gear onto the laser, since it doesn't ...

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Well, let's see about energy efficiency: Laser Rifle, 3D6 MD per blast, 20 shot clip, if it empties the clip on full auto (the only way to drain it in a short span, back when lasers could do full auto of course) it's 3D6x10 damage That's about what the ATL-7 does. Yes if you go one shot at a time f...

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I shudder to think what a powerful mage in the Phase World setting might do with a neutron star. Theoretically, they may have an outer crust composed of diamond... not to mention, neutronium itself could be considered a peculiar type of 'crystal'.

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AdeptPaladin wrote:
Rocinante wrote:Horses... Hrm... Royal Canadian Mounted Police, anyone?

You mean the Tundra Rangers?

Nono, the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen!

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