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A minor note about the APM ratings - If you include auto-firing guns that give extra attacks, I believe the Juicer-Killer Powered Armors (JK1A and JK1B) sweep the field, with 8 extra APM on top of the robot combat ones...

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Since you're mixing mech and magic... "What gravity well?" With a small (comparatively) PPE battery and judicous use of appropriate spells, your missiles will only have to deal with defeating atmospheric friction, which, for all intents, drops off rapidly. Add in an "Immune to Heat&q...

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Something is seriously weird with the weights of your missiles Taalism... Mini missiles "1 ton of cargo per 96 missiles" ~ 20 lbs/ missile, which is ridiculously heavy according to published material... (more like 1.25lbs/missile, CAF Repeating Rocket Launcher, Phase World book) LRM's &quo...

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Axelmania wrote:Vampires probably can't cross under a river via tunnel right?

Given bridges work (with a HF saving throw), I don't see why a tunnel wouldn't work. Probably would work better - you can't see the running water...

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So Deland has a "ceiling" at 12000 ft of dimensional energy induced turbulence. Lots of mountains on earth are taller than that. Can you tunnel up the inside of a mountain and build a spaceport on top? Also the local tech isn't making a lot of sense, why wouldn't the locals use aircraft at...

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... Since its introduction, the Transpole has caught on with rescue workers and special operations personnel. Snatching imperiled disaster victims from otherwise inaccessible locations, abducting target personnel from under the noses of their own security, or saving hostages from under threat has b...

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Orin J. wrote:
That is, in fact, the exact gun i was looking at. man it would be nice to have a QC pass over the books before printing any new stuff....

That's not a WWII design, that's 1980's.

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yeah, but merc ops is confusing*. where the exact same cartridges in mercs is dealing only 5D6 MDC on a 40-round burst and doesn't seem to have figured it out it's either using a massively larger round and failing to change the price or it's just that book's tendency to not really look closely at t...

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railguns are hilariously more cost-effective to use though. it's actually more expensive to put the 200-round belt of SDC machinegun ammo in your owner armor than the same for a railgun, to say nothing of the fact that same price is buying you Maybe three mini-missiles. railguns are honestly great ...

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8.8g homeworld gravity and a PS of 2d6+3? I think you should flip either the PP or PE with PS.

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There are some specific robots with this kind of ability; it is called out in the robot description. A specific example is the X2700 Dragonwing robot in the Triax and the NGR (worldbook 5) can fire double blasts (for double damage) from it's paired Laser cannons.

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When are they going to start putting out actual books again? So many promises and so little production...

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I kind of doubt the Mechanoids got all that much access to Archie's facilities... Do you get to search your friends house when you come over? The US and Canada have been trusted allies for almost a century; neither side invites the other to search the base their are hosted at when they visit...

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I ask myself how well would a repurposed Rampage do as a pirate ship for boarding actions. That said, it would take some pretty skilled, lucky - and possibly foolhardy - pirates to obtain one and actually use that in such a role across the spacelanes, i guess. Thinking now of Space Jotans, a watere...

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Question I just thought of: Can there be multiple "regular" pyramids on the same nexus point? There sure can. DB15 page 198: "Remember, a nexus point is typically 1-4 miles in diameter, so there is plenty of room for multiple pyramids." I seem to recall some text somewhere sayin...

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A question, how do Ramjet Gravity Cannon rounds increase range and damage in space (a vacuum)?

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I seem to recall something about Technowizards, Gem Magic, and so forth having to work with natural gemstones only. I'd question if a pyramid made of magically created stone would work... I also second GB2098, be very careful of your foundation.

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... *Weapons of Mass Destruction----The Chevec WERE working towards reacquiring a WMD capability and had managed to produce several nuclear weapons, but lost their program with the support ships detailed to the Balsar invasion being destroyed. It is not known if they lost their entire arsenal of ne...

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I've always figured extraction of star systems resources run the gambit from a few people staking a small claim to industry cleaning out the entire system so there would be plenty of abandoned mining sites in otherwise uninhabited systems, that's not what I am thinking about. What I am thinking abo...

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I think you're overestimating a) the scarcity of AM production, and b) the "safe spacing" needed for AM production. For a) AM power is used for most of the stuff in phase world. Your postulated AM production limits make it an obvious strategic controlled material; why would any non-gov't a...

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Hollow earth = pocket dimension....

Haven't they already kind of done that with Geofront in Rifts China?

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Hope you all enjoy it, that's the last of my rifter rejects. I encourage anyone else who wants to, to post their own... Feel free to use this thread if you want.

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This is the other article that I had submitted to the Rifter, before it ceased publication. Hope you all enjoy... May this inspire others with unpublished articles to post. ( as with the previous posting, footnotes are in square brackets [] ) The Technological Vampire Hunter [Transcript of a Present...

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Ok. That was enough of a PITA with the formatting, that the other piece, "The Technological Vampire Hunter" is going to wait. Anyone know of a way to put up a whole word document, rather than re-formatting?

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Ok, #84 is out, and it is to be the last Rifter for the foreseeable future. I have sent them a some stuff over the years, and it has not been published... So maybe it's of interest here: (obviously, a bunch of the formatting is going to be lost...footnotes are in []) ***** Central Staff Memorandum C...

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What do you guys think so far? I take it this means you have it. Can you post the table of contents? I am assuming a couple of submissions have not made it, but I want to be sure. ( Assuming they haven't, I am going to to post them in appropriate spots on the boards. ) To answer my own question, th...

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zerombr wrote:What do you guys think so far?

I take it this means you have it. Can you post the table of contents? I am assuming a couple of submissions have not made it, but I want to be sure. ( Assuming they haven't, I am going to to post them in appropriate spots on the boards. )

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So a gunfighter from 1880...at what technological point is his quickdraw skill rendered moot? Is it when full body MDC armor becomes available? A "classic" (well ok, in spaghetti westerns...) gunfighter trick is to shoot the gun out of an opponent's hand... That will work up until he runs...

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To come back to the topic for a bit - if you did a training unlimited book, you could give a small section to training to use super powers, making official rules for doing things like Shock's proficiency with her super abilities. Similar maybe with magic/psi. Even if the focus is on the special trai...

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In reply to the question in the subject line: Lots. They are an interstellar polity with a well functioning economy in a universe where magic exists and is known...at that point, they have whatever magical defenses the GM thinks is appropriate. (In other words, whatever the GM needs to keep players ...

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More to the point with regards to this thread, palladium "physics" is what makes the 3 galaxies ship designs so very silly. Weapons ranges are extremely small relative to ship speeds (except, of course, the dominators). Combine that with devastatingly effective weaponry being available on...

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More to the point with regards to this thread, palladium "physics" is what makes the 3 galaxies ship designs so very silly. Weapons ranges are extremely small relative to ship speeds (except, of course, the dominators). Combine that with devastatingly effective weaponry being available on ...

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Colonel_Tetsuya wrote:
Braden Campbell wrote:The Emancipator is a product of runaway cold war one-upsmanship. Its existence is more important than its functionality.

Much like HMS Dreadnaught herself. Which was, after all, sunk without ever doing much.

HMS Dreadnought was sold for scrap after becoming obsolete...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dread ... %281906%29

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Oh yeah. I have been working on and off on trying to make a sensible version of the 3Gs that I can run extended games in with out wincing. its sllloooooowwww going. Which is where all the questions are from actually. Right now I'm distilling out all the official tech and rules. Then I can try and b...

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Anyone expecting Palladium robot design to make real world sense...

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This is kind of on topic for this thread... Ok, IIRC, there were general "rules" for what happened to weapon ranges in a vacuum, for example, laser ranges triple. IIRC, lasers were 3X range, Particle Beams and Railguns were 2X range. But : A) What about other weapon types ( especially Ion ...

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Yeah, palladium's numbers a pretty much inevitably goofy. Try and figure out how much an LRM weighs from the Mark X MRLS vehicle in mercenaries ...

But for some real world perspective, a Trident II D-5 ( https://fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/slbm/d-5.htm ) weighs in a 130,000 lb = 65 tons. I suspect the #'s in Fleets are more realistic.

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Not sure what you are looking at here, but DB2, Phase World, pg p157, has the SF69A and SF69B variants - adding 2 cruise missiles added 1 ton to the weight of the fighter. Thus, 1 cruise missile = 1/2 ton...

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The palladium version of math has always been pretty approximate & hand-wavey ( it comes from their general innumeracy), and they don't like rolling (and adding up) handfuls of dice. Thus they are approximating 16d6 with only a couple of dice rolled. The mean value of 16d6 is 16*3.5 = 56 (min va...

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I'd actually expect the "typical" NGR infantry formation to be Borgs or PA. As someone noted up thread, 18% is full conversion borgs. Add even a very small Ground based PA component (2% - crazy low given all the types they have; ), and you are at 20% infantry troopers. Modern field armies ...

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Has anyone run Robodome (NG1) gladiator fights in game? I have a PC who wants to play... 1) What have you done for the arena? For general matches, currently I am thinking a simple circle of sand, with the contestants starting opposite each other. But how big? Strahov Stadium is perhaps the biggest s...

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Blacksteel? Blacktower? I assume there is a reference that I am missing? (Is this something in the Titan Robotics Raw Preview?)

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A question: Is there any mention (in any book) of who/where the JA (-9, -11 in the main book. I personally ignore the JA-12 in Mercenaries) series of energy rifles is manufactured? Are they all pre-rifts relics? Are they knock offs made by everyone (and if so, why are just about all the "modern...

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I'd probably set that as the minimum time, hard to imagine operators restoring MDC faster than Men-Rall Don't know. Straight up replacement parts might be easier. Assume a PA with it's arm shredded to pieces from railgun fire. Might be easier to just pull a whole replacement arm out of a crate in s...

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Wear body armor... under your body armor!

NG Stalker suit... Even your underwear is MDC!

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Maybe steal stuff from Palladium Fantasy? IIRC, there was a martial arts trainer in the eastern empire sourcebook who could upgrade a HTH skill (eg. basic > expert) , if a character studied with him...

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I wrote a rifter submission : "The technological vampire hunter", that I am assuming is not going to get published, having never heard from them again... A variant of this system was one concept presented therein. After issue 84 (the current planned end of the rifter) is published, I might...

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if my secret operative article gets published, there's a whole part to it about how to design your own gadget. >.> If you're looking for another article topic, have you considered expanding this to the hardware classes? Yeah, I have heard much talk about Hardware Unlimited, but it appears to be pin...

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zerombr wrote:was his rank...Inspector?

No, but he got called "Inspector Gadget" by many a snarky villain.

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A super soldier (PU2) Alter Limbs, Conduct Electricity, Multiple Limbs (arms) Internal Robot Medical System, Phenomenal Balance, Hypnotic Mental Conditioning, Mind and Body More Attuned Special Weapon: Mini-Fusion generator for electrical power. He was code named Gadget. He had mechanical, electrica...

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