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CA-F3 "Kazooie" Nicknames: Backpack Birdy, Lifter M.D.C. by Location: Laser Turrets (2; front and back) — 20 each Forward windscreen (2) —7 each Sensor Pods (2) — 8 each *Directional Jets (6) — 12 each Wings (2) — 17 each Rear Jets (2) — 40 each Main Body — 90 Flying: 300 (260) mph top spe...

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Modular add-ons to the lower-tier armors that represent someone who is progressing from the bargain-basement to something better.

One idea i’ve Been toying with for a while is the flying drone that makes a ground-pounder into a poor-man’s SAMAS.

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Consider someone driving a vehicle at half max speed suddenly unable to see and having to tak an action to clear the viewports. I'm thinking "not much". If they're moving that fast they're either already making impressive piloting checks or they're piloting in an area that's pretty open a...

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Blindness offers a surprisingly small penalty. The robot/power armor sensor suites are often vague and contradictory, so whether or not the visor could go dark and "use instrument navigation" is also unclear. Related: I still don't understand how glitterboy skin doesn't stop working the mo...

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So while meddling around with Techno-wizardry and bionic implants I asked myself, "what happens when you take an AI computer, TW it to the point it doesn't damage PPE/ISP, and stick it inside the head of a creature with natural magical abilities?" For that matter, if you do this to a Daemo...

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wouldn't you need two bionic hands for a defib? you need to feed the current through two paddles at very specific positions, if it is to work. and a single hand wouldn't be able to stretch far enough top lace the contacts correctly, even if the contact points are small enough to fit into fingers (i...

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TW stuff seems intentionally spread out all over creation. Quite possibly because it is the easiest way for the author(s) to insert improbable and silly yet "rule of cool" items. Like a single-action pistol that remains competitive with an automatic plasma rifle. That said, Book of Magic i...

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Sorry it took me awhile to get back to this thread, been a bit of a crazy this time of year . I love a lot of the ideas here. The Merovingian Kingdom in France is great, and I’m likely to use it some where down the road. For the game I’m running I’m trying to focus more on Eastern Europe, in that s...

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"Or, how I stopped worrying about price tags and learned to love the Rifts." SO, uhm. I feel real stupid saying this, but I just came to the conclusion that the massive price tags on the average weapon and suit of power armor (never mind a robot) were not realistically designed to be acco...

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again: your bounty has to provide significant motivation to get anyone to act the way you want. an adult dragon could probably kill a single xiticix easily (assuming it can find one), but isn't going to do it for 50 CR. in fact, probably nobody who can do it remotely reliably is going to do it for ...

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Okay, I'm gonna go a bit left-field here: Somewhere in the south of France, surrounded on all sides by various D-bee hordes, there's a small human kingdom that somehow manages to keep the monsters at bay, pretty much through pure faith alone. Their prayers are answered, consistently, laying out tho...

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Ignore, Avoid, or Embrace Ignore: Don't use the in book numbers for the pay out, or have a plot point that you work for an outfit where repairs are considered part of your employement Avoid: Play characters that make use of a renewable resource. Usually magic armor, or natural MD Beings Embrace: Pr...

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Don't you also need WP Paired weapons?

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It's just another one of those things that doesn't make sense. A majority of citizens have personally been victimized by the constant FoM terror attacks despite the FoM attacks not making sense, the "personal burn" being almost universally "instantly fatal", and the number of cit...

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again, the claim is just laughably absurd. So you assert that the number of people adversely affected by magic (or even simply the supernatural) cannot be as high as the author claims? Before I respond further, I just want that as clear as possible. Might be a more general, "the numbers don't ...

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So...then samurai can't hurt each other if they're armored. An oni who cobbles together armor from the people they've killed becomes immune to sword attacks. Seems legit. An Oni would never wear such things as it has demonic pride. There are a lot of monsters where their power-set has some brand of...

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I've had an Adventure Path rattling around in my head for a while that mirrors the plot/development of the Juicer Uprising book. It's Nxla vs. Lord of the Deep (yes, it was inspired by that thread here) and rocks all around the north and middle Atlantic. Key elements include an amphibious juicer con...

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Option 1: necklace becomes a belt.

Option 2: it's magical shape-shifty so it shape-shifts with you.

Option 3: you create internal compartments in your new shape body because you're a shapeshifter. Took some self-training by you don't do much while keeping watch at night.

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Yep. This came up recently in a question about the Traditional Samurai OCC from the Japan book. A Samurai who hates and rebukes technology. His swords which just like him, hate technology, and have the power to drop fistfuls of dice on evil MDC demons. Against one CS Deadboy in light, old-style armo...

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I like it, though the flower guns compel me to post one of these videos . oh now THAT is a quirk i'd like to see and now i'm going to go write up some form of seed shooting alien plant weaponry that grows flowers on hit Presumably the important part is having toughness necessary for the roots to pu...

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In our empire-building side-project (we knocked over Muluc and made nice with Mexico City) we're throwing together plantation-level fruit growing on the east side of Mexico. Then there's alcohol, which you can make out of damn near anything. Tobacco would probably fall back to the really poor-qualit...

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TW Soldier Printer Zombitron Nanocyte Tank Since we're on the topic, how about quirks? Perhaps we could create quirky side-effects for each others' designs for when the creation roll calls for it? cool minion makers, I approve Quirks: Flower power: somehow asking that nature mage to help you make a...

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TW Soldier Printer: A 3-d printer that combines Power Bolt, Magic Warrior, Create Steel, and Create Golem to spawn super-soldier guardians who are tough in melee and have natural ranged attacks. Powered off a leyline or a pyramid (and can't function elsewhere due to needing a constant supply of mass...

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In terms of ARCHIE-3; hydroponics and greenhouses are incredibly easy to do on a small (he's feeding one person) scale. You need at least one starter (seed, bulb, clipping, whatever) and the equipment to grow stuff. In larger terms, the biggest issue is the various plants and animals that can't real...

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Don't they already have rules for fiendish symbiote armor/weapons?

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Don't underestimate how much of a pain it could be to move a barge across rough terrain. Just getting it back to the nearest town could be a significant undertaking for a small party. I don't have the weight/dimensions handy, but you can't just heft it onto a shoulder and walk back. Dep...

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Don't underestimate how much of a pain it could be to move a barge across rough terrain. Just getting it back to the nearest town could be a significant undertaking for a small party. I don't have the weight/dimensions handy, but you can't just heft it onto a shoulder and walk back. Depends on the ...

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By "Lesser Alien Power" you mean some secretive species of D-bee/monster rulers or a powerful individual being like a supernatural intelligence or somesuch? Yes I vote for a "council" of lesser alien intelligences trying to carefully poke their noses into rifts earth, after all ...

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Honestly, not sure a hijacker *would* be a target for the Splugorth. A good model for the Splugorth slaver barge would be poachers in Africa (or arms dealers); a relatively high-risk venture which sometimes results in you losing the capital you put into it but usually produces a high profit margin. ...

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unless you have houseruled werebeasts fairly heavily in your games that exact situation seems unlikely.. werebeasts being a seperate race, and not infectious. I was under the impression that, when you mention making up your own kingdoms, you're already house-ruling your game. Hence my idea and sour...

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Boppin' on over to WB 2... Let's start with the value: Note: The barge and its five eyes die if the Slaver connected to it is slain. The additional observation eyes fly back to Atlantis and the eye-staff must find a new master within 72 hours or it too will die. Quick check on the staff stats: bondi...

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The psychic aura is not ascribed to the soul. Inanimate, non-living items have auras; they don't have souls. Funny how you still fail to define what *is* ascribed to the soul. Beyond a vastly greater value than other intangible threats which only Technology can do. You drop a lot of implicit defini...

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Had an idea, might be bad (might be mildly offensive, actually) but here goes: Morlock space program. Basically if you've got underground mutants, Mormonism (which includes other planets as part of it's theology), and ICBMs they can tunnel to (technically I don't think Utah has any publicly avowed m...

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You say they're moving the goal posts, but you're talking hyperbole here. Actually, I'm deconstructing the PROBLEM with moving the goalposts. You can say, "well tech can't do X therefore magic worse" and I can pull up a litany of "magic can't do Y therefore tech worse." It all b...

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Not to mention good old mass-production. Magic inevitably has choke-points in the form of the spellcasters who work the magic. If my "quantum wizard" with all forms of magic/techno-wizardry wants to equip some people he's still making every scroll, TW device, and magic suit of armor b...

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And there's axel,just makin' up strawmen again. Most of us specifically avoid alien tech and he just pretends that was the only example worth mentioning. Just putting an end cap on this thread. We have established here: 1. The CS is indefensibly evil as an overall entity. It has evil leaders, most o...

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Not to mention good old mass-production. Magic inevitably has choke-points in the form of the spellcasters who work the magic. If my "quantum wizard" with all forms of magic/techno-wizardry wants to equip some people he's still making every scroll, TW device, and magic suit of armor by han...

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So we know they could work on the molecular level pre rifts, and would have had nano tech. **So the golden age did have access to nano tech. It is possible they could have created experimental digging machines using such tech that could fit the rouge digger idea The big issue would be power source ...

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Funny thing about "medium to high-power adventurers" is that adventuring is actually HARDER for them in Chi-town, because their "high" powers are essentially useless (oh sure, you can cut a tank in half, but that brings in the CS army's limitless hordes) and very few of the high ...

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As a rule I don't respond to you, but these items seemed relevant (and NOT a recycle of some old thread) I don't see a contradiction there. You can be a human supremacist without being a DEDICATED supremacist. Kind of like I can be a weightlifter by touching a dumbell every couple months but not bei...

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Upon impact, the grenade or missile releases a cloud of tiny particles. These particles are actually thousands of tiny nano-bots that attack mega-damage armor on a molecular level; usually edit: The AADs are programmed to only attack the primary target, e.g. the first armor they find/strike. They d...

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HOHp7 "Emperor Prosek believes everything he says" is good to keep in mind... Funny thing... Yet despite his constant human supremacist speeches, Prosek is not a dedicated supremacist. That particular emphasis is only a useful means to his ends. Fanaticism is a powerful force that he is o...

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Ref on that please. I have done a fairly detailed research effort into prerifts tech mentions in the game and Nanites have not appeared so far Archie 3 has/is nanotech in very limited amounts. He's also one-of-a-kind cutting edge prototype research technology...up until subsequent books dropped ano...

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Rogue AI tunneling/mining machines? My first thought as well. Helps with a lot of x factors since you have 300 years of "insane AI wanderings" for whatever construction you want. The Dimension-shift idea is also useful, not just for some poor rock-fused person but for entire underground b...

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That's ONE interpretation. Another is that the bombs have a range of one half-mile (2640 feet), both vertical and horizontal distance, and so they're still well within the 4000 foot range of most vehicle-mounted guns. Oh sure you can cry "realism" against bombs just NOT WORKING from high-...

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eliakon wrote:Talisman is not an amulet so it is a bit different.

Oh yeah, I just meant, "or random 2-necklace guy in the england book could have been wearing a talisman."

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That's ONE interpretation. Another is that the bombs have a range of one half-mile (2640 feet), both vertical and horizontal distance, and so they're still well within the 4000 foot range of most vehicle-mounted guns. Oh sure you can cry "realism" against bombs just NOT WORKING from high-...

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Further thought reminds me that a much simpler "you can't touch me" option for vampires is just dropping a Globe of Daylight. The only vampires that can push through their aversion to the light and engage in melee are the Master Vampire (unless I'm mis-remembering) who may or may not even...

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That's ONE interpretation. Another is that the bombs have a range of one half-mile (2640 feet), both vertical and horizontal distance, and so they're still well within the 4000 foot range of most vehicle-mounted guns. Oh sure you can cry "realism" against bombs just NOT WORKING from high-a...

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Further thought reminds me that a much simpler "you can't touch me" option for vampires is just dropping a Globe of Daylight. The only vampires that can push through their aversion to the light and engage in melee are the Master Vampire (unless I'm mis-remembering) who may or may not even...

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