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Daikuma

First, thank you for building it (or getting them to let you publish it). Been waiting like, years. Does additional data entry mean replacing items in the existing data sheet, or can the references be expanded upon in the main sheet. [I admit excel melts my brain like it's a natural ability] Thanks.

Daikuma

This is the recurring headache of this power that makes me want to run and hide. You're not receiving a fax of the blueprint. Telemechanics gives knowledge, inherent knowledge, not actual documentation . The language as used in the description is, as are most Palladium RULES, really more of a GUIDEL...

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The Ancient Art of "Sweep the Leg, Johnny"

And remember, the final move is always delivered with a convertable.

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Some basic ones, and some...creative ones **** Cheney : Every time you roll a natural 1 when using ranged weaponry, your friends had better have autododge, and it hits the FACE, each and every time. Stick Cheney : Same thing, but in melee combat. Merit: Horror factor: Even though they're (supposedl...

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IMO, Phase tech isn't entirely "real", so you can't get how all of it works by using TM. You're following how it works, and then part of it disappears, and it reappears over there, and disappears over there... you have no idea how it works. Wowe imagine the headache from that schematic!

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As they retreated they destroyed any living world they passed in order to deprive the Alien Intelligence and its thralls the planets life-force. Is right out of the recent "Replicators Vs. Wraith" storyline going on in Stargate: Atlantis for the last 2-3 months, so you may want to submerg...

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A few things. Who says Psychics can't use more than one power at a time? I do not recall ever reading this limitation. Mind Block, or Astral Projection (which says you can use powers), or Psychic senses of various types all have good lengths to their duration, why would they have to be shut off to ...

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I think the best force-fields are the Phase Fields (either one). I think the PW section on Phase Fields shows you could pop-up a super-field that prevents everything from penetrating (a black bubble) but that mean no sunlight, no air and so-on. That P-Field that cuts incoming damage by 10 (divides ...

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Some clarifications I adopted to make easier work of psionics. 1) Anything can be lifted (apart from the self) with telekinesis, so long as it fits inside the weight / ISP restrictions. 2) One object can be manipulated per level at the same time (you ever feel like you can see what got cut from the ...

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This is my first post, and I believe in some way this question has been answered already in another post, but I have a player that read the Brain Fry article in Rifter #15, specifically the introductory story; where the "bum" kills a guy by saying squish and popping his heart. Now the pla...

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I liked it. Although I think this flies in the face of the established "let the bad guys really just be BAD" attitude that is prevalent in the Palladium verse, it shows great promise. There were a few grammatical errors (although I assume you are not asking about those) and this part here:...

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Icemaster109 wrote:In Naruni Wave 2 it says that their ripper vibro blades are all standard with silver coating for use against undead. So vibro weapons can be silver coated.

I know it says it, just never bought it....

Daikuma

Depending on how non-humanoid he's trying to get, a 'regular' cyborg can be altered pretty heavily. Extra pair of arms, tank treads, bug eyes, functional wings (attached back or arms), tentacles, multiple pairs on legs, custom faces, etc. Beyond that there is the Robot Soldier OCC for powered armor...

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If you get a chance, rent the Anime Outlaw Star. The main character, Gene, uses a gun that is exactly what you are talking about.

Also check out this article for ideas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_gun

Happy Hunting.

Daikuma

He'd put himself into the SDF-1 only if he can sneak his braincase into the city of Splynn... If he can sneak in to Splynn, then he might as well try and take over the Dragon Dreadknot that is being built. No more powerful body then a massive nearly unimaginably powerful ship exsists. He might as w...

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Wow, this thread really took off! I guess I could add a caveat to my original statement, basically: " why worry about powerful characters?" It DOES kind of depend on the quality and experience of the players as well. Exactly and i´ve many player experienced or their GM who hammered any fo...

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I'm still a little in the dark on this one.

What is the impact of the cyber armor implant on psionics? ISP? Range? Duration? Damage?

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Archie figures out how to download himself into the computer mainframe of Chi-Town. He cannot be ousted, and he starts playing conscious to the city government (not to mention making it impossible for the Proseks family and thier lapdogs to use the automated "facilities")

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Sorry for the writing, i´m german and i´d a problem with my laptop Uh-huh.... A Background story is never an excuse Then call it an explanation, rather unimportant, the important thing is what personality the pc has, his goals, personality and ethics and so on, not how they did come to pass. Rather...

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B) the character they want to play. If they cannot, upon choosing a character, provide me with a decent backstory as to what the character is doing there and why they would be involved in adventuring in whatever setting we are playing, then they have to choose something else. Sorry i learned a whil...

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There is almost nothing more frustrating then to develop a storyline based on the canonical information in one book, only to have a subsequent book completely reverse the direction or answers that your group's actions came up with. Game Writers: either write canonical HLS for a region once, and neve...

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for powerful enough characters, there are no issues. This is the problem with them. My final approval on players and characters is whether or not the player in question understands A) the setting and B) the character they want to play. If they cannot, upon choosing a character, provide me with a de...

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I totally agree. However, the difference between that and Rifts is that in LotR they were adapting a story and leaving parts and backstories out, which led to some people being confused. The difference is that Rifts isn't a novel, so even though they are both complex worlds the things being left ou...

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I think we're both wrong. The debate we're having seems to be about whether a TV show or a movie would be a better way to introduce an audience to the immensity of Rifts Earth. However, the best way to explain a world as complex and diverse as Rifts is to write 70 books about it. Movies and TV show...

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Sorry to Necropost, but I vote this get stickied!

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THat's why you want a cyberchip controlling your vegas nerve that gives you the 'gag' reflex(or at least contributes to it...it monitors stomach acid levels)...keep you from upchucking from the olfactory hyperstimuli... So basically, with the chip installed, What happens in your Vegas Nerve, Stays ...

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Respectfully, I disagree. I'd rather see a movie trilogy. Now as a regular television series, Rifts has far more hope. Yes, because great science fiction/fantasy series are always exceedingly popular, and never get cancelled prematurely. Especially the ones with extraordinary settings and terminolo...

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I still maintain that Rifts will not work very well as a single film. Too much backstory to be delivered correctly and still maintain a good flow. Even as a trilogy, Rifts is more diverse and character dense than LotR, and even as a classic of fantasy literature LotR took forever to get made correct...

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Plus, I would add a 25% chance (non cumulative) each time it was fired that the weilder (if man portable) or the crew (if vehicle mounted) takes a sever dose of radiation and / or a magnetic pulse so powerful that it interferes with BIOLOGICAL neural pathways and short circuits their nervous system,...

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House rules are house rules but isn't that kind of dipping into what you were trying to get away from in the first place? I tried something like what Lee is trying a few years ago and it backfired. Since they never had to look up the rules, the players stopped understanding what the skills were abo...

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And I'm not even really getting into deeper religous views here. Or how about witchcraft or wicca? Is that evil? At one time it was. Punishable by death. Are you talking about witchcraft, or wicca specifically? Satanic witchcraft is evil. Traditional European witchcraft was only punishable by death...

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I have been trying to add some scalability to Rifts for years. I've tried the Deka replacing Mega damage method, but it left a lot to be desired. I adapted a bit of WEG Star Wars styled scale and it works a bit better (note to moderators, this is NOT a conversion, I only bring it up as an example). ...

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A body block and a tackle are two different full body attacks. The use of the second action in game terms comes from which action you are doing. A body block is a short maneuver for the wind up, and is often done at farily close range. It uses a lot of strength, with little build up of momentum befo...

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Not sure how the rule states it, but I always took the "field" around the blade to be twofold: First, the vibration of the blade (think something akin to a jackhammer that meets and electric knife like they used to sell for carving turkeys) creates a resonance field. This provides the cutt...

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I've been experimenting with giving the PCs a per level increase in a percentage points "bank" equal to all per-level increases (In O.C.C. skills and O.C.C. related skills, not secondary skills) plus their IQ bonus in points, and then letting them assign the points to whichever skills they...

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Chunky Salsa Effect : Throwing a grenade into an enclosed environment (typically MDC grenade against SDC targets). This was from Shadowrun, either the second or third edition rulebook, and referenced a grenade's "overpressure" effect when tossing a live grenade into a hardened room like a...

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Ok, different game system, long time ago, in a podunk, redneck, hillbilly mountain town far far away... The party is being just decimated by manscorpions using sabers of slowness (each strike slowing the victim by half or some such thing). My character, a Minotaur (Think Krynn) Warrior of Tyr is in ...

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Player: "Do you want to go in on a pizza?" Me: "You know I do!" Stomach: "Yeah, do it up! I reaally need some pizza to force down the Triple Burger from BK and those Funions need some more soda to soak up." RPG induced junk food binging, gotta love that!!! God I miss t...

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Player: "So, if I use Super-Telekinesis on him, he gets a save?" Me: "Yep, I guess, standard Psi save for a non-psi opponent." Player: "What if I pick him up by his gear or armor?" *afterthought* "Hell, I got enough ISP, I'll rip the whole floor up with him on it....

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There would be a lot of nasties more powerful than him after rune weapons and to be able to get TWO in ONE kill would attract alot of the wrong kind of attention. And how much would the other party members fight to defend him against such forces? Or want the weapons for themselves? He is a marked m...

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Just use Naruni Micro-Missiles with a spec of anti-matter in the warhead. Should do 1D4x100 or 1D6x100 conservatively. Make them the smart version and triple the cost: 24,000 credits each. Figure on a damage radius of 50 feet with EMP twice that. Knockdown is automatic for anything under 200 MD wit...

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90% of North America is wilderness, except for small pockets of civilisation like Chi-Town. So what are the conditions of roads like in your games? Areas like the CS state of Chi-Town sound fairly developed so I would assume there is basic roads but what about Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma? I dro...

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I'd like to see some more canonical material on the 3 galaxies, but seeing as anything released lacks anything approaching a location (new systems, regions, etc...ninety thousand new guns in every book and all I want is a FRELIN' MAP!!!) I have been relegated to building a skeletal structure within ...

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well.... then we'll just have to drag those damn ships back to port first. That's what phase weapons are for. Dead crew, fully grabbable pink slip... "Rolls-Royce Phantom two. 4.3 litre, 30 horsepower, six cylinder engine, with Stromberg downdraft carburetor, can go from zero to 100 kilometres...

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In addition to Nekira’s discussion of profit margins and fidgewinkle’s talk about economies of scale and wholesale and retail, I’d also like to point out a couple of ways to allow for the willy-nilly-ness of the established ships. There can be significant variation in the margin of a product depend...

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Why just stick to regular Centaurs? Why not other creatures that have a humanoid upper torso and an animal body for the lower half? So, instead of just half humanoid and half horse, we could have half humanoid and be have the lower body of (and perhaps have the torso somewhat resemble)... cat, dog,...

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On a different but related note, teh section on Space Pirates is turning out to be a lot fo fun! I'm still doing research, but it looks like it will include: History of space piracy Rise of the pirate cartels Notable cartels and their leaders (including famous women pirates!) Pirate havens Life as ...

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The thing is Mach is relatively slow in sublight. You will need several hours to reach half the speed of light. The ST has a really nice system where each speed factor is an exponential of the earlier speed, but that would make things quite complicated in PW. Right, that is why this system works, i...

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Would not a simpler method be to simply take the ship's "Mach in Space" rating, and make that the acceleration? i.e.: if a ship can go at "Mach 10 in Space" then modify that to say that the craft's rate of acceleration is "Mach 10 per melee each melee", meaning that aft...

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darkmax wrote:Wow! Someone is going around and digging up long buried threads like this one.

Sorry, I missed a lot of the meetings...

Hi, my name is Daikuma, and I'm habitually late...

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Re: Rifts Automated Character Sheet (RACS) - Questions & Ans

Can Telemechanics cure Myopia? Obviously not.

Try this Martial Art

Re: dominator draft please critique

Sight beyond Sight

Simple interpretation of the rules

Re: Telekinesis to crush a person's heart

Re: dominator draft please critique

Outlaw Star, your source?

Now this is a North America situation I'd love to see...

It's all making sense to me now!

Re: Role Playing Eliminates Munchkins

Flip Side

Role Playing Eliminates Munchkins

Aha!

This is awesome

Rebuttal

Main Character not the issue....

Side Effects

Generic Skills make for Generic Games

Religion knows not of good or evil...

Similar?

When is the "time" taken up?

Vibroweapons and Sound?

Skill percentages...

Source Found

You know that thing about Minotaurs?

"Ripping" With psionics

Dead Man! Dead Man Walking! Muhuhahahahahaha!

Or Better Still

Re: Rifts Roads

Galaxy a bit much

Get them now they're goin fast...

The Complete Centaur's Guide

Simplify the Physics