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I'd be up for a book like Tech Unlimited. Something that had "everything" in it. Regular Cars Bikes/Motorcycles Trucks Semi's Military (modern) vehicles including Choppers, Fighter Planes etc As well as include most the stuff from Contemporary Book of Weapons but "updated and cleaned ...

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EricvonEric wrote:I use the low attribute penalties for all PB games. I always wondered why they didn't have any before.

Ah! Good point! Another one to add to the list.

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Anyone know how far away the official Atorian Empire book is from being published? I heard there was an open house game ran based on the book... no?

Curious....

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I think the dodge rules may also be good... thoughts?

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Ok, So, I'm just getting back in to running an HU2 game, first heroes I've played in almost 15 years. Now, I have rifts RUE, and I am very familiar with the changes from earlier versions to the new version. I wonder, and maybe someone can help me out here, is it worth using the Combat/Dodging/Spell ...

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Cheetah DNA would be extremely easy to come by considering the CS has Snow Leopard Battle Cats, and they are EXCEEDINGLY rare especially compared to a Cheetah.

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Atlantis, prolly because it was the first Continent detailed after the Main book lol.

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Adventurer (normal guy):
Rogue Scientist or Operator

CS:
Nullifier (the ultimate CS Trooper...)

Men-at-Arms
Full Conversion Borg

Magic User:
Necromancer

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One thing that needs to be mentioned in any "Siege of Tolkeen" thread, is that if it had been a Siege on Chi-Town, you can bet your @$$ that there are TONS of things that Chi-Town has for defenses that were never detailed. I know, this isn't about Chi-Town, but it always comes up. Look at ...

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RUE Full Conversion Borg is immune to Bio-Manipulation (fyi), one good reason to be one?

Pretty hard for it to work on a Nullifier too...

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Hello folks... been awhile since I posted on the forums.... time to get the juices flowing and pull up all that knowledge I had locked away for years.... Ok, other than what people have already said: Lone Star has the ability to make clones, and even transplant human brains into other life forms (th...

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Nega-Psychic R.C.C. "Oh, I just don't belive in magic - nevermind that the Shifter just ripped a hole in reality." Bleh! I have no problem with the Psi-Nullifier, for them it's a REFLEXSIVE defense from exposure to the supernatural. Not the "my will is stronger than the megaverse&quo...

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Well, I still think World Book 5 did it right (I apply this rule to all glitter boys using pylons): Page 48 World Book 5: Triax Glitterboy -1 to dodge penalty (-3 when pylons are engaged) Now... Why didn't they just apply this to all the glitterboys? I like the rule, and I think it suites all glitte...

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I think a hybrid stat would be most approrpiate. Perhaps some forumla of PP(eye reflexes) IQ (reasoning) and MA (interpreting the signs from others). Maybe combine the three to give you a base percentage? my two cents. I don't think this would work as well, mainly for Animals and such (extremely lo...

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Sound fair? Cool? No. Actually, it's not bad, but it's nowhere near great. The thing is, why should power armor give a penalty to prowl? Well, there's the size. And the weight. And the bulk. And the odd shapes. All of which would apply to many demons and monsters as well. A 20' long dragon hatchlin...

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evilr0n wrote:What are the most powerful parts?

Destroyer from South America or Russian Heavy Cyborgs...

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Prowling in power armor as far as I know has been left a mystery. their are a few suits that state in their description that they can be prowled in like the "swordsman" from Japan Exactly, why do you think I posted this? I also don't agree with some of those suites of power armor from Jap...

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We dont use the 'loss of auto-parry' rule, as it seems illogical. "Let me understand, if I have one weapon I can use that said same weapon to strike and then parry an unlimited number of attacks made against me... okay. But if I have two weapons, doubling the ammount of steel I have at my disp...

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Just thought I'd share this and see what people think. I don't think it should be impossible to prowl in all power armor so here is a possible rule for it: -------------------------------------------------------- Prowling in Power Armor: For every 50 MDC of the main body, -5% to prowl (round up or d...

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Size Differences: Opponent is less then half the characters size: - 3 strike/ +1 parry/ +1 dodge Opponent is more then twice the characters size: +3 strike/ -1 parry/ -1 dodge This part doesn't quite make sense. So an opponent is -3 to strike against "you" if you're half the opponents siz...

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I do not see how Perception is based off anything, including IQ. I know a very smart person who is not very perceptive. Like I said, keep it as it is, and use the attributes as appropriate. I'll put my vote in for Perception should be it's own attribute. A lot of d20 games also suffer from this iss...

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And just in case you/your players are wondering:

Ion: Electricity damage
Particle Beam: Energy Damage (debatable)

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So far I have only a couple changes (all to NA): Free Quebec has Psychics, Psi-Stalkers and their own Psi-Battalion (to keep them alive and protected from supernatural/magic threats), just no Dog-Boys or other mutants beyond Psi-Stalkers. Also, as mentioned in Coalition War Campaign, FQ has their Li...

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I think the biggest problem with the new dragons for a lot of people is the Art. Compared to the Dragon Art people are used to seeing in the last 10 years, the new art for these dragons is just plain shoddy.

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DUDE! You need to start submitting these. I really love the first one with the SAMs and the Sampson is freakin sweet.

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I can't "control" it as per se or 'tell" it what to do. But I can communicate with it to give it commands and such as if I was at the controls. Well, you kind of have two things cancelling each other out here: Can't Tell it what to do. I can communicate with it to give it commands an...

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But back on point..... does the Telemechanic need access to a control panel (keyboard, touch pad etc) to issue commands or make programming changes? That's a tricky question, actually. Say that a psychic is trying to get files off of somebody's personal computer. He's broken in, he finds the comput...

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Best CS: Original CA-* body armor for Psi-Stalkers (spiked helmet). Come on, it's BAD @$$ looking, even SCARY. Worst CS: Too many to list... Anything with a Giant Head for a body. Anything that is "new style" and doesn't look anything like the original dead boys (though the new style Juice...

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Thank you for supporting what I said. Though I took in account that some races/RCC's have more PPE then others, and that some RCC's can have two magical abiltiy sets at the same time. (NightBane are exmples or a Race with a High Natural PPE base, and godlings and demi gods are the two RCCs that can...

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Each time you roll a Nat 1, you get a "bonus die" that you can use any time in the future to reroll any roll (d20).

You can only have 3 bonus dice at maximum. Each time you roll a Nat 20, you lose 1 bonus die if you have any, if you you don't have any, you don't lose any.

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First of all, if the machine in question is not artificially intelligent, then all you get is the knowlege. IF the machine is artificially intelligent in some way (like a computer), then you can essentially hack into it telepathically. BUT from there it comes down to the definition of "machine...

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Yes well, how about those Railguns knocking people down aye?

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Oh, another thing I should mention. Rifts should be split up into these categories: Player's Books: Core Books (RMB, expansions on Magic, Pyschics etc) Conversion Books (detailing Conversion from other Palladium systems only, not Gods, Dragons or Monsters) World Books (similar to current world books...

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I'd have to go with 2 things, in this order: RMB/RUE: Ultimate edition was just not what I was hoping. It changed nothing and just made things more convoluted than they already are. There needs to be a Rifts: 2nd Edition. Unified OCCs (not a reprint of the same occ with a slightly new skill set so t...

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It was done to keep the MD of the Psi-Stalker down to a more reasonable level.

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I think the biggest argument here is this: We are talking MDC futuristic weapons. These weapons WILL have some sort of recoil suppression for the user. These are not Shotguns or .45 rounds. A shotgun does 5d6SDC, 6d6SDC for slug I think? We are talking about 1d4x10MD or 1d6x10MD from a Kinetic Blast...

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When working with "house rules" or modified rules like this I always take a few things into consideration. 1) It's been said that using a large anti-vehicle weapon against infantry is difficult...like swatting a fly with a .50 caliber pistol. Whenever I use "realistic" rules in ...

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Hmm, I think that because there are so many versions of D&D, it's hard to say. I like D&D 2E best. But that's a very personal thing. And when I say 2E, that means NOT 2.5E (black books). 3E could have been good but was way to rules heavy and introduced tactical mini combat, which was totally...

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Can't remember the exact rules in RUE. I think they added that they do triple damage on crit(may have add a increase crit range to not for sure). Also I think they added a direct it on a person does double damage(all missiles), but I have only read the RUE once so. I maybe mixing facts. IIRC, its x...

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K, So in our second session I (Mind Melter) used Telemechanics to do the following to an Enforcer Robot from main book with 2 pilots inside. Each was an attack action. 1) Reset security and command codes. 2) Powered unit down. 3) Unlocked external hatch releases. 4) Physically opened the hatch. I'l...

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My favs, based on my style and not "specs". 1) Free Quebec SideKick (the sweetest terrain-hopper evar!) 2) Triax Super Trooper (my kinda soldier and anti-vehicle) 3) Triax GlitterBoy (it's the Glitterboy that makes sense to me, has 2 free hands and decent additional weapons - I also like t...

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panzerfaust wrote:Yes, but ALL headhunters ARE ALLOWED (Allowed is the key word here) to get up to at least partial bionic conversion (though not all opt for or start with it).

Exactly true. The Anti-Robot Headhunter CAN have partial bionics, they just don't have the option to start that way.

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I am mapping ideas for a Coalition Campigain . How would you deal with rank ? What getting issued Supplies ? Coalition War Campaign does have a page or two on playing coalition characters. On Supplies: This should be determined by your commanding officer (unless you are the officer) - so for most 1...

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Ok, I've read RUE and the Bionics sourcebook, and I'm a little cloudy on the Partial Borg conversion rules. I'm trying to "GBTB" [go by the book]. According to the Bionics book, when a character goes from a regular OCC to a Partial Borg they "should" take the Partial Borg OCC. Bu...

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a sourcebook full of non-weapon tech would be nice I'd love that! Information about communications, computers, video, healthcare, entertainment, transportation! *shiver* /Sub YES! Rifts, for the time it's been around, needs more Fluff and less Crunch type technology. We don't need more weapons and ...

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NGR Soldier CS Grunt RoJ Infantryman NN Marine Made them all one OCC called Soldier, then gave the OCC extra skill selections so people could create a character without flipping through multiple books for what are already essentially the same OCC's. RPA Ace NGR PA Pilot Glitterboy Pilot RoJ Glitter...

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I'd have to go in this order:

NGR, Central America/Vampires (could be considered N.A.), Atlantis

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Think about a Doctor (body fixer) who finds out that he can readily and easily learn and control Magic. He thought that he was just an ordinary doctor Necromancers are unfortunately unable to learn all but the most basic of the medical skills (first aid and maybe paramedic...but I think thats a no ...

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Think of it like MercTown and Merc Ops, which could have easily been titled MercTown 1 and 2. One book to cover the city itself, then another to cover notable people, organizations, and relevant setting material. MercTown pretty much covers the town, surrounding areas, and notable NPCs. Merc Ops wh...

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I believe Arzno also has some armor specific for mages (made of Wood?)

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