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AllMightyRCB

My memory is failing me, a player of mine had found in a book various weapon customizations such as custom grips and whatnot and I was wondering if anyone could recall perchance a book and page number? I think it was HU main guide near the gezmo guys and what not. In RUE page 264-265 it has the opt...

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The GMPC is fine to me as long as it doesn't do everything important, make all the decisions, and get all the items. If it is just run equal to another PC then I'm fine with it. I don't like the "bastard" one much though. I'm fine wtarting out with next to nothing, but If the GM puts somet...

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As long as the other PCs are somewhat close in power level to each other then powerful characters should be fine. I think more of a problem lies with unbalanced PC groups, because alot of GMs at some point tend to give out some powerful item, and when the PCs are weaker it unbalances the game alot e...

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Well a tornado from warlock magic keeps going if the mage isn't concious, he just can't controll where it goes anymore. I always just have it 2 actions to cast a spell regardless of spell level, as long as the mage can speak. So if you're fighting a mage, just keep a bag of sand with you to throw in...

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I think openrpg is the best for online rpgs.

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In the Rifts China Book with all the newer martial arts, in that section, it says that all characters have two attacks without any hand to hand training. So with hand to hand expert you would have a total of four. Check the Rifts China book for the specifics.

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You are correct. The USA opposes the weapons part, and Iran keeps trying to enrich the uranium enough to make weapons. They already have it good enough to use it for electric. The part where there could be conflict between USA and China out of this, is that the USA will eventually attack Iran if Ira...

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I'd go with the CS. Life is just much easier without any grey areas. Just kill everything that isn't human. I would be totally incapable of trusting something inhuman and supernatural, so the CS just seems logical for me.

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India is allied with the USA. They even get their nuclear technology for electricity and weapons from the USA because of a treaty. It was just being discussed yesterday on either MSNBC or Fox News. I could see the USA being on not so friendly terms with China though. Due to China sending over kids t...

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IQ 14 Tested (not the fake online tests that are 75% based on math, a normal one) MA 22 About 70% of the people I meet either trust me, are intimidated, or both. ME 12 Some things I can endure very well, others, not so good. PS 22.5 if you go by- Can lift 20 times PS in weight. If lift means bench. ...

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I just go by their skills. If they have weapons engineer they know everything about the weapon from examining it. Or for each level they attained in a WP they get to know 1 thing about the weapon they are buying. Other than that, if their character shouldn't know, then they don't, no matter how much...

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I mostly go by the book. They only can get XP for a skill twice a session, and I hand out the XP after a "mission", but it might take a couple sessions to complete 1 mission within my campaign, and when I play in person the sessions usually go about 8-10 hours. By mission I mean some point...

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The hatchling dragon only starts with a 28% chance to teleport, only gains 2% per level, and can only try it once every other melee round (page 100 original RMB). It has never been a problem for me since it ain't very likely it would secceed anyways. If somehow it is too hard to kill, just get a cou...

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Here's my choices: NE-75H Shoulder Cannon -80,000 100 rounds of heavy cartridges -5,000 N-50 Super Heavy Force Field -170,000 NE-C20 Camoflage Variable Armor -75,000 (2) Ne-4 Plasma Cartridge Pistol with laser targeting -54,000 100 rounds each -8,000 10 Smoke Grenades -500 5 Flash Grenades -500 10 T...

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I started playing Rifts in 1995. A couple of days into my freshman year in highschool a guy invited me to play Rifts with him and a few of his friends. Two of them I had already known from junior high, and ended up friends with all three. We played almost every weekend throughout the first three yea...

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You could just use the Naruni sniper rifle on page 54 of Phase World Source Book. 6,000' range and 100MD max damage for 80 grand. Or if you're rolling in the dough, use an anti tank laser rifle. It won't go as far, but it does alot of damage.

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I voted for Palladium because Rifts is my all time favorite game (even more so than video games). I like the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition, but the later ones I didn't care for as much. Almost everything I like more in Rifts, except I like the Cleric and healing stuff from D&D. Rif...

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I never heard of that NameMage program before, but I downloaded it now. It looks like it will help alot for minor NPC names. Whew, less work for me. Thanks.

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Ensorcel/Deathword was in the original version of Federation of magic, back when it was printed WITH the spells, not forcing people buying newer books to purchase BOM. Anyways, Ensorcel has -3 to save vs magic (so that is 15 to 19 to save depending on magic user spell power). Then the victim can no...

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Ensorcel/Deathword was in the original version of Federation of magic, back when it was printed WITH the spells, not forcing people buying newer books to purchase BOM. Anyways, Ensorcel has -3 to save vs magic (so that is 15 to 19 to save depending on magic user spell power). Then the victim can no ...

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What's to stop a high level magic user (that is willing to sacrifice himself), from using Ensorcel/deathword? Or Emperor Prosek from blanketing Atlantis with Nukes (it actually mentioned that in an older book).

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So it seems that people tend to divide their time between multiple characters, in either multiple groups or under multiple GMs. Hmm. I tend to just play one PC every week until I was bored with it. Maybe that's why they got to level 10 in less than a year.

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When you ARE in an active group that meets regularly, how often do you play and for how many hours? I'm just wondering because I have seen quite a few groups that say they have been playing the same characters for 5 years or more and aren't even at 10th level. I have got there with a couple of chara...

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There should be a prisoner code (rules the prisoners conduct themselves by not actual laws) a prisoner hierarchy, more prisoners than guards, command chain for guards, shift changes, random inspections for contraband, only certain things allowed for prisoners, and limited supply, different security ...

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Just use laser targeting on both of your guns, then it's easy to aim when a red dot is on your target.

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Level 10 Elf Fire/Air Warlock. He was my first character and is Diabolic. He got some valuable stuff off of one of the PCs in his first mission by shooting him in the back. Yes! The first thing I did in Rifts was kill another PC. At the time though I didn't know it was one of the PCs.

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I started in 97 when I was 16. My first book was Rifts Africa, and now I have 32 books.

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I think the CS is good. Almost all the people I've played Rifts with think they're evil and don't like them, but I think the Coalition is mostly good and are the human's best hope of survival.

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I think even racism alone would make it so that there would still be the seperate ethnicities. Humans have been around for thousands of years and are still racist today, so there's no reason to think that a relatively small amount of additional time would suddenly fix that. It's good that some peopl...

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I'd say that it matches that there are seperate ethnicities still. There are many people that do not mix with other ethnicities even if they aren't racist. For there being alot of white people in the CS military, well that makes sense. There are more white people by far in the current US military (j...

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I'd be a Shifter from Dark Conversions so I could have those permanent demon followers.

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I don't add the + whatever, but the different types of strikes could make a difference. Example: a regular punch does 1d4 and a karate punch does 2d4, twice the damage. So someone doing mdc with a punch say 3d6md would do 6d6md from a karate punch. Or for a kick: regular kick = 2d4, karate kick = 2d...

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I'm not getting it either way because I still have the original Pantheons and Conversion books.

If it had alot of new or different stuff I might reconsider.

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Hopefully they'll make a Rifts game on the next XBox with updates downloadable from XBox Live. I like that the first one is a strategy rpg, but I'll never buy an Ngage. It can't fit enough in the game on there, especially to do a Rifts game justice. They should keep all the combat rules etc. the sam...

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I put Miscreant for my alignment. If I don't know the person it doesn't bother me to lie to them, and I'd deffinately attack an unarmed or helpless foe. I do get pleasure from hurting someone that messes with me, it makes me feel good knowing they got what they had coming to them. I don't help peopl...

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Why not just use a Promethien. They're SDC.

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I always combine them. They need it because spellcasters have spells and few skills, and the skilled players have more skills. If they weren't combined it'd be like not having your RCC skills if you chose a magic user. If someone chooses to have an OCC with alot of skills instead of other powers lik...

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Well the first time I played Rifts I was using an Elf, Fire/Air Warlock, Diabolic of course. I had what today is still one of my all time favorite guns, a NG-E12 Heavy Plasma Ejector with power pack. I hadn't yet met up with the other PCs. I was coming up on a town. There was a forested area with tr...

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I voted MDC because I don't like to wear armor.

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I support the CS. All those pesky supernatural vermin shall be crushed beneath the Coalition's mighty boot and humans shall rule with impunity.

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Just use a RCC Hunter cat OCC Lord Magus. Ooo, level 8.

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Openrpg is a good system to use for online Rifts. I've used it before and never had any problems with it. Go to openrpg.com get the 2 python programs and then the openrpg one. It has the chat, a whiteboard, and a dice roller.

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I prefer my NG-E12 Heavy Plasma Ejector with thermo imaging scope, laser targeting, custom grip, vibro bayonette, and the regenerative power pack.

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I'd allow multiple martial arts. They just cost OCC related skills and not secondary skills. 1 for HTH basic, 2 for HTH expert, and 3 for HTH Assassin or Martial arts.

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I do the same thing. PP bonuses should count for strike bonuses for ranged weapons. It equals out anyways. The attacker gets more bonuses to strike and the defender gets more to dodge. But using these bonuses and ignoring the -10 rule reflects character's agility and hand-eye coordination.

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Are Dark Elves in any Rifts book?

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There is an ability called "Art of Hiding or Inpo" I think that Thermo (heat sensing) detecters and radar would detect the ninja, but one of my players doesn't think so. What do you think?

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Well, the hatchling dragon in my group was diabolic too. The Burster was anarchist, and the Apok was Scrupulous. Almost all the characters I've run since then aren't diabolic. They're miscreant, with a few being anarchist.

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The Mystic Ninja ability uses ppe, so it must be from magic.

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