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Out of the gate, one thing rubbing me wrong is I was hoping for more expansion on the Lazlo material seen in the Rifters, rather than overwriting that material.

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In hindsight, or just viewing things with caution at the time, I think they should have dropped it like a hot potato when they realized ND wasn't doing all the work like they thought, because they weren't familiar with anything they'd need to be familiar with. And then also should have dropped it wh...

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If you want them to succeed, make sure they get enough warning, or carry sensors good enough to alert them, to the counter-debris ring. Cloaking or no, that will wreak their life. That cloaking idea is solid though, will keep them from being picked off from space or the ground while they look for a ...

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Advice. It's on palladium to make the call. For good or ill. A person or company can't sit back botch things up and then point to the side and go "They told me to do it". Palladium had to sign off on each and every one of those actions. ND didn't "DO" anything. Even if they -did...

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That sounds like a C'ro Demon Mage - Mindwerks page 57 - but that wasn't really intended as a player character. Cool that your DM allowed it, if that was the case. Sounds like it to me to. Not intended for Player Characters is basically Palladium code for "this thing is all sorts of messed up ...

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...in answering the consumer ptrotection Sevice in North Carolina, Kevin for the first time officially admits to buying as much wave one material as possible, The aim to sell this to enable the production of wave 2.... Note this admission shows that kevin took the monies earmarked and available to ...

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... I'm not proposing a magic item. Factory. TECHnowizardy. People seem to be assuming that it's all magic, and ignoring what technology can do by itself. Tricky part is the "only input that the factory can receive is PPE" part. We have no way to create the raw product for processing. Eve...

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... I'm not proposing a magic item. Factory. TECHnowizardy. People seem to be assuming that it's all magic, and ignoring what technology can do by itself. Tricky part is the "only input that the factory can receive is PPE" part. We have no way to create the raw product for processing. Eve...

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Also Kevin never once said nd recommended to buy retail stock...ever. He has admitted he decided to do that. No, he specifically said that it was Ninja Division's plan with the split and sell in the February 27th update, and that PB was initially against the idea but ultimately were convinced by th...

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Umbrella. Have a player that includes one in his TW's standard carry gear. Levitate has been the most common usage, but others have been suggested as possible. Other flight and air spells, some protective and concealment base spells, and I think the only reason he hasn't thought to include a Penguin...

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John Cadice of ND publicly stated ND had ALL models done as well as factory time set aside and the plan was changed by someone else. Models in a format that subsequently did not work with the factory ND selected. Kevin publicly admitted to using backer money to fund retail stock (which was NOT part...

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Have they repaid their backers for not being able to create the product that was prepaiid for? I just want to know, because i am considering prepayig for some products for a friend who still loves PBs rpgs, but all this has made me doubt that PB will be able to deliver and if they do not that I wil...

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In my opinion, the Silverhawk scales well with other fighters, rather than most PA, the part I'm honestly convinced of is that the decimal point is misplaced in the pricing. Move it over one and the pricing lines up much better with the ship component prices noted in the same book.

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well it was mentioned earlier that only gear from north america is available and im sure that avenger armour is only going to be found in the three galaxies,plus its naruni,which is also off the table...and im not really sure it would be good for an archer.its really big and bulky if i remember cor...

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My favorite example of the hardiness of MD military gear is the pair of pre-Cataclysm suits in the Yucatan so caked and filled with mud as to be thought statues, that just need to be hosed out and refueled.

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There is certainly trade between Rifts Earth and Phase World, there is nothing to indicate that there is not. Besides Glitterboys in the 3G, Naurni operations, and known connecting portals, the simple fact that there is an established rate of exchange goes to show there is regular enough contact at ...

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I can't shake the image of X-60 Flanker serving as a truly epic archer with those extending arms now. In general, I think it could work for the concept. Easy to get in/out of, nimble, and the extending reach could be good for ancient weapon fun. Though it sounds like the power level of the game is a...

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What do you think is missing from Thundercloud Galaxy? While the UWW isn't participating in the Scramble, they could have used a little attention. In my recent UWW-based campaign I quickly realized that Warlock worlds would be booming trade centers for smaller operators, independent operations, and...

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I'll say that I wish they were more open about the issues, but it seemed pretty clear what the problems were when they announced the Wave 1&2 plan, once you brush the sugar coating off. I just wish they'd laid their cards out and gone for a second round of crowdfunding at that point instead, but...

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Hi Tim. Speaking as someone that backed the project pretty hard and has been following every update and bit of news for the past few years, I can say this is not some great betrayal or sudden move. Palladium did try to fulfill the dream for Tactics, unfortunately everything they'd been told about th...

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145 at Red Roof is open to post-Open House refugees to visit or arrange games. I'm not rolling out 'til tomorrow.

EDIT: Closing up for the night, good seeing everyone that dropped by!

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I keep forgetting to write mine in. I'll do that now.
Recognition guide: Copper cane.

Edit: And then I realize I left my name tag on yesterday's shirt.

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Surprised I haven't seen more activity for this.

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Imagine it will take more planning for games at Red Roof, rooms are external access. Between that and the cold weather, can't replicate the hall wandering pickup games of the past.
Still willing to offer the space in my room and I'll still be kicking about fairly late.

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Anyone else a cheap SOB like me, killing time until they can check into their hotel as Friday?

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So, no costume contest then?
Does simplify my packing at least.

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I'm packing caffeinated Soylent this year. Previous years I did mainly trail mix and hotel breakfast.

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In general, I'd say it would depend on the rift. In this case, as a Dimensional Portal with a specific size encountering a mundane object larger than it, I'd go with collision. Then I'd consult the collision damage chart in New Generation to figure out the damage. Personally, I'd have the whole thin...

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I tend to roll with TMNT as my main guidepost for time travel in Palladium. Somewhere on here I've even proposed that the history of Rifts Earth as we know it didn't exist until the Cataclysm, it's all one big shorn pipe of timeline (ala TMNT major disruptions) with some seepage from other realities...

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Soul Transfer might do. Level 15 Soulmancy spell out of Megaverse in Flames. Limited time with option to apply permanency.

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I usually just use Psyscape as reference to categories and powers in most MD games. Nightbane and Beyond the Supernatural get referenced for modern-ish games. As for classes, I haven't had too much trouble outside of using the Rifter index to track down some outliers. Racial options, that seems like...

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I recently had a response on Kickstarter, and am waiting on a follow-up email with the shipping cost once picked/packed.
Timing-wise, my selection message to them went out the morning following the news breaking, so I'm probably on the tailend of that wave of responses.

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Zer0 Kay wrote:I got Laquinta for 55 a night and they have breakfast.

Not a bad deal. They were up to $62 by the time I looked.
Without an all-night gaming room at any of them, I'm mainly hoping to see some room gaming without noise complaints with the group bookings.

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I picked up the Red Roof Inn rates. I'll miss having breakfast served, but I could buy a lot of breakfast for that price difference. Learned an important difference between the double and king, the double has a mini-fridge. So double it is. Second bed could probably serve as table for after hours ga...

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Here's an interesting question for all of you folks: If you could soup-up/adjust any of the Power Armours in any of the Dimension Books, what would you do with what ones? Signed, Rathorc Lemenger. Well, I use knock-off Silverhawks stuffed full of bionic enhancements and additional weapons/gear for ...

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I have no legal documents to support this, but the intention of the vampires sun light weakness is purely metaphysical. They are Undead. They are Creatures of Darkness. They are destroyed by any sun that brings an end to darkness and is responsible for life. If the stars in question do neither of t...

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Probably one of those things like the Xiticix War where is gets setup and most of it left to the GM and players to work out in-game how is pans out.

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dreicunan wrote:
Mack wrote:In addition to Dark Conversions, I recommend the random table found in the back of the original Rifts Main Book.

I heartily concur with this recommendation if you have access to it. It makes for some very interesting creatures.

Thirded.
Heartily support that table, was the biggest loss in RUE.

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So, I'm new to game managing. I've mostly always been a player character. Furthermore, I'm new to Palladium books and Rifts to be exact. I have a player who has chosen the Operator O.C.C. Now, as I read the description, I understand this class to be a fixer of preexisting machinery and weapons. My ...

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Honestly, towns with zero modern weaponry offer some opportunity for RIFTS horror and psychological elements, too. After all, the descriptions for Demons and Evil Alignments, IIRC, use the words "torture" and "torment" a lot, and that isn't always possible with people who can de...

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We've had mounting evidence for years that conventional physics does not scale linearly with MDC materials and energies. From it the amount of energy to fire and charge MD vs SD shots, kinetic energy not transferring to occupants of a sealed MDC environments, only two special weapons having notewort...

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well Robotech Tactics is something of a sore spot right now Hooboy, looks like that just became a bigger understatement than it already was. Picked an interesting time to return. Welcome back! Thanks man, good to be back. Going to be fun scrambling for ideas and random roll tables. The players have...

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Had some revelations on this in a past thread on the topic: http://palladium-megaverse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2199840#p2199840 Main takeaway was that Modeus himself was specifically listed as part of the Hordes of Hades that Hades could command, and, later on in time, Modeus was listed as comman...

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Hey folks, apparently I fell of the face of the planet shortly after the 2015 Open House. How is everyone doing? Happy to say I'll be attending again this year, and a new campaign is taking me into corners of the Megaverse I haven't delved as deeply, so I'll be rattling around here more often again ...

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Neat, and Rifter #37 is one of my most referenced Rifters. I use the Dual-Class Hero as a guideline for combinations in other settings as well, because sometimes the Body Fixer ends up surviving as a full-conversion borg and wants to continue being a doctor.

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The problem with that lies in the origin of the combat system. SDC was described as "cuts and bruises", designed to be shrugged off like in the old cowboy movies. SDC is meant as cinematic ability to take damage, the specific cowboy movie example was John Wayne ignoring gunshot wounds. If...

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Okay my group says that Alter Physical Structure: Foam from Powers Unlimited™ Three Is a terrible power and is comically useless. In response the G.M. made a meek nerdy teenager with this one power. My character who can Create Force Fields and Force Constructs easily bubbled this Foam fiend in a fl...

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Well, the description of Intuitive Combat says that you cannot use any other powers while using it, but Psi-Sword lasts for 5 minutes per level. So if you activate the Psi-Sword first will it just keep going even if you're not concentrating on it and then you can also activate Intuitive Combat? My ...

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As I recall, super nexus was with many intersecting line and/or a shared point between multiple triangles.

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If we are talking simple AI the character issues orders to, then they issue the orders and you report wharever feedback they have on the drones actions as it carries them out. For results they are immediately aware of, I will tend to have the player roll for it. For ones they are pretty much directl...

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