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I would buy it, I would love to see an updated Rifter index as well.

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Well, I enjoyed it for a while, but after this last issue (52) I am quite ready for it to end. Cliche' rambling writing for a full page on a elf wandering through a barren desert, another page of fighting just to reprove his invincibility and the ground work laid for a predictable and even more clic...

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You can find some castle lay outs in World book 12, Library of Bletherad

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There is also a good article in world book 12 - Library Of Bletherad

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Place your bets!

Will we see LOD 3 or Starcraft 3 first?

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In my campaign, they are the Generals of the Old One's armies. Their power is tied to the Old One's, like a witch's pact. They are incredibly powerfull but greatly weakend while their masters slumber. The God's of Light bound them to the Citidel, twisting their power against those they used to lead....

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Our group has what we call a wound threshold. Its equal to your PE, so if you take an attack that does 16 points of damage, and your PE is only 13, you recieve a serious injury that will need medical attention soon. It rewards high PE character with some extra damage soak, but penalizes the smaller ...

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An unlit torch on the dugeon wall, I put a magnesium core in it above a small clay tube of lamp oil.

The nice things about torches is that they need to be held up at about face level.....

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I'll add my name to the waiting list

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They did some updating in one of the Rifters, but as for an actual stand alone book, nothing in the near future

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Soylent PPE is PEOPLE

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Since some races have a natural gift for some skills, if there is an overlap in skills like that, I take the highest skill percentage and then bump the skill up 10%, just like the rules for having a "professional" level of a skill. Works well and no one complains too loudly

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They still do get dirty. I mean just traveling kicks up dust and road grime.

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To quote the infamous B.A Felton, "there is no player so great a simple trap can't humble him." I have never seen a trap fail a save vs psionics.

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Not at all, thanks for the heads up!

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Weapons do dull, but in my game I have players write out what a nightly or morning routine is for them. Typically the men at arms do weapon care and armor cleaning, the priest do some prayers, the ranger checks his small game traps, etc etc etc. Unless there is a situation out of the ordinary I (and...

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So, just out of curosity, Galactus, and you don't have to answer if it will get you in trouble. Is there any movement on a new book for Splicers, or is it going to be a one shot line like System Failure, Recon, or Ninjas and Superspies (I know it has 2 books). I know there was talk early of a source...

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Sure but if water under the influence of gravity is rain and it does damage, everytime the water moves across the vampire we are talking damage. Or does it lose it's potency sitting in the tub?

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Anybody ever wonder how vampires clean themselves? Sandpaper? Beer bath? I mean how do they stop witch hunters from just killing everyone who looks like "pig pen"? I exagerate, but at the same time, it's gotta be rough.

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Gnome should be fine as long as the dragon forgets to chew...The idea is pretty funny though. Anyone else have a strange oxymoron class? I had a Jotan thief in one game. Was fine in the Nimro setting, but funny outside of "the hills"

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I agree, I won't turn down new fantasy material, but I would love to see a lot of the blanks filled in first Land of the Damned 3 Land of South Winds Old Kingdom Lowlands Old Kingdom Highlands Phi and Lopan Lot of blank space that could be filled in on the Wolfen Empire, especially with the hinted a...

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In my group, death results in the loss of two levels XP, so if a 5th level ranger dies, the XP of a 3rd level ranger can be applied to the new OCC/RCC. It keeps the new character in line with the group, but nobody willingly throws away that much XP

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I agree, the stuff on True Names, familiers and aura's was the highlight of the book.

Thanks for your work Mark, I enjoyed reading it.

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Yeah I totally agree. I don't mind when a rifter article makes it into a book. At that point it's kudos for making the grade. But there really is no reason to reprint much. I guess thats the gap in a "megaversal system" Its not just a core book, and each book adds to it in one direction or...

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I second Lionheart, if you can get a copy of any of the Grimtooth trap books cheap on amazon, they are worth their weight in gold. I have used them to maim players for over a decade, and I still have dozens left I have never tried. Some of the most evil creations in all off roleplayingdom.

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I agree, I felt like I was watching a trailer. I liked many of the idea's and concepts in the book, and like most Palladium books I will end up taking what's printed and twisting it to fit my campaign world. GM's perogative and the beauty of a roleplaying game. I don't feel I got ripped off. I think...

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Ehh, have a little fun with the player. Let him get a grab the gods incarnate mind for a little while, while he is in the body have him meet another god who was supposed to meet the first god for some back room wheeling and dealing. the player will probably try to roll with it and write a whole lot ...

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With enough strength (have to be up there though) I would let them tear it apart, the zombie would be back in a day or so anyway. And, I get to make them roll a save vs disease for all the horrible, rotting, festering, disease ridden zombie innards that end up all over them from their respective zom...

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Besides the classic D&D girdle of sex change, I had a amulet of the jester, once per day it would hurl a vulgar insult using the characters voice (ventriloquism spell). It was great for provoking fights. Ladies Gloves of goosing? The female minstrel thought they looked pretty, unfortunately they...

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I am with you, phi and lopan, they are smack dab in the middle. Kind of a world crossroads. Followed by Old Kingdom and South Winds

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I agree, but it's the first fantasy book in how many years? I won't complain as long as another follows faster!

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Just to make it intresting, I make sure my players know that I play miracles like hackmaster does coupons.

You can call for a miracle, you might get answered, but then know that the god figures you owe him one for it's special attention and will almost certainly ask for something in return....

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In my games I have found that I get the best luck by crafting the villians first. Once you have an epic villian you focus on how to introduce the villian to the players. At that point instead of planning on what the players are going to do, change the perspective. Plan on how the villian would react...

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I don't think I would want them making a ton of rune weapons, but just imagine if they kept thiers from during the war, or they kept a few forges around, and the high ranking dwarves in the army now carry them. Any party that decides they are going to take on at least one rune weapon carrying dwarf,...

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Spike TV did a show this summer called Deadliest Warrior . It was kind of hokey but the premise was a mythbusters style show where they pulled two warriors out of history and pit them against each other. In episode four they pitted a pirate against a knight. They ran a lot of fire arm tests against ...

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The most notable thing I see would be there weapons, especially the bladed ones designed to peirce. Obsidian is extremely sharp (modern medicine actually uses obsidian for high quality scalpels). Daggers, short swords, speartips, arrow heads (most likely for crossbows due to limited bow draw space) ...

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Bill Coffin's apology is located here http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=311895&highlight=coffin Personally I hope that the water is under the bridge at this point, but I refuse to speculate. I really enjoyed his work. I hope someone picks up his torch and finishes fleshing out the Palladium ...

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I did have a pirate campaign once where the boys tried to pass off sea serpent parts as dragon bones to the local alchemist. They thought they were pretty clever till a few pissed off necromancers came looking for them....

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I explained it this way to a similar player. The percentage is your odds of being heard, and as Hubert Humphery said: The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. It's also far to say; you scratch my back and I will scratch yours. Miricles should only be give...

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I have a game from college thats a group of dimension hopping heroes, we had -A tinker that was obsessed with the idea of springs (spring + mace, equals sprace? Ball and Spring? who knows) -A crazy that had a phobia of communication devices ("they" were listening) any vehicle he went in, t...

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I allow martial arts as long as its a class that it dovetails into well, and the character background shows that it fits in. I find it's a great way to add flavor to characters, especially men at arms. I do tend to power down some of the martial arts bonuses, but I think N&SS provides some great...

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Like many others I use the critical failure on a rock bottom roll. My players make almost all of the rolls. The only ones I make are the one's that are most commonly metagamed. I make the trap detection rolls, and tell the player how well thier character thinks he did in finding or disarming the tra...

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If you have that kind of cash, just get a couple of those magic satchels that the heroes in Land of the Damned 2 are packing and you can move quit a bit with those. I would think taht most trade would be in items (barter) Rune weapons for other magic items and such. But land, or even a nobility titl...

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Isle of Wyrmrest An island rumored to be hidden far out to sea, where even the hardiest sailor would fear to travel. Here, ancient Dragons travel to spend thier last decades recording their accomplishments carved into the canyon. Then they would go to the canyon and pass from this mortal coil. Besid...

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Fine, you have all looted bob's corpse, but how far are you going to get with the POed Dragon still standing there?

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I love the class, but I also modded it somewhat as it leveled up, I gave them a bit more starting ISP, and allowed them to use other psionics to modifiy thier arrow attacks. Spontaneous Combustion allowed the archer to shoot flaming arrows TK Punch added to an arrows damage TK Push extended the arro...

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Awesome, thanks, this was just what I was looking for!

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You could always negotiate a new pact as long as you are putting more on the table then the Alien Intelligence has. At least in my game The Intelligence is a fluid and dynamic tempter, constantly asking the witch if he needs help in the his time of need. To spare thier character I have seen some pla...

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The most common form of naval punishment was lashing, it involved having your arms chained above your head on the mast and a leather whip (lash) being applied to the back. Typical punishment was 5 to no more then 40. A more severe punishment was flogging which used a cat o nine tails (sarcastically ...

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In my game, it not only has to be a sentiant creatures blood, for full nourishment (animals count as half and taste terrible) but must still have living essence (trace amounts of PPE) in it. That rules out things like blood banks, where the plasma and the hemoglobin have been seperated.

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