Rimmerdal wrote:Okay say my brain needs a body...now I want an organic (or near organic) body. I have more money than god and can afford all the Bio-systems...Would I be able to get one for my bodiless spine and brain?
Now THAT is a good Question.
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Rimmerdal wrote:Okay say my brain needs a body...now I want an organic (or near organic) body. I have more money than god and can afford all the Bio-systems...Would I be able to get one for my bodiless spine and brain?
MrNexx wrote:cornholioprime wrote:What happens if a pre-pubescent Sea Titan is chosen by the Cosmic Forge and accepts...and Puberty comes upon him just a short time later??
(remember, pre-pubescent Sea Titans are identical to humans in almost every way.)
He is now a Cosmo-knight, not a sea titan, so nothing happens.
And a dog boy can detect an anti-magic cloud, as it is a magical emanation.
cyber-yukongil v2.5 wrote:not truly a rifts question, just an old roleplaying question from back in the day.
If I swing at you with a sword that always strikes true and you block with a shield that always intercepts incoming blows, what happens?
The Beast wrote:Take 2 mutants, with the exact same level, and both have the power to negate super powers. They're both fighting each other, and they both have the exact same initiative (same die roll as well), and they both activate their power at the same time. Who wins?
Agreed.Subjugator wrote:cyber-yukongil v2.5 wrote:not truly a rifts question, just an old roleplaying question from back in the day.
If I swing at you with a sword that always strikes true and you block with a shield that always intercepts incoming blows, what happens?
You strike the shield.
/Sub
cornholioprime wrote:Duplication process takes 30 seconds.
1 minute -2 Zavor
2 minutes -8 Zavor
3 minutes -32 Zavor
4 minutes -128 Zavor
5 minutes -512 Zavor
After just 30 minutes.......
576 TRILLION Zavor!!!
1 minute -2 Zavor
2 minutes -4 Zavor
3 minutes -8 Zavor
4 minutes -16 Zavor
5 minutes -32 Zavor
After just 30 minutes.......
1.07 BILLION Zavor!!!
Damian Magecraft wrote:Try this one out...
1...scrolls...as long as you can read it you can cast it but the spell disapears from the page.
2...a silver rune on parchment renders both the rune and the parchment indestructible.
so what happens if the spell on the scroll (of parchment) is written in silver runes?
RainOfSteel wrote:
An excellent insight that hits the nail on the head with a rune-hammer.
Winter wrote:One of the best thought out answers on this forum I have read for a while
Jesterzzn wrote:Sea Titan gets it on with an Amazon. What's the offspring?
RainOfSteel wrote:
An excellent insight that hits the nail on the head with a rune-hammer.
Winter wrote:One of the best thought out answers on this forum I have read for a while
cornholioprime wrote:If you launch a Palladium Books/Rifts™ Vampire (in a sealed, lightproof coffin with soil of the homeland in it, of course) into orbit around the sun, would it sleep forever WITHOUT going hungry and insane??
RainOfSteel wrote:
An excellent insight that hits the nail on the head with a rune-hammer.
Winter wrote:One of the best thought out answers on this forum I have read for a while
Necrite wrote:cornholioprime wrote:Duplication process takes 30 seconds.
1 minute -2 Zavor
2 minutes -8 Zavor
3 minutes -32 Zavor
4 minutes -128 Zavor
5 minutes -512 Zavor
After just 30 minutes.......
576 TRILLION Zavor!!!
After the first iteration, you're quadrupling the group each time, when it should be doubled. It should be:1 minute -2 Zavor
2 minutes -4 Zavor
3 minutes -8 Zavor
4 minutes -16 Zavor
5 minutes -32 Zavor
After just 30 minutes.......
1.07 BILLION Zavor!!!
As a rough estimate based off the numbers in the book, they're about 5 cubic feet and 60 lbs on average, making that 5.35 billion cubic feet of Zavor, and 64.2 billion pounds. However, after a full day, you have 3.04x10^433 Zavor, totaling 1.52x10^434 cubic feet or 1.82x10^435 pounds of Zavor.
Continuing on (and not showing my work because there's too much to show), after one day, the Zavor fill an insignificant (astronomically speaking) space, but after 2 days, they fill a sphere 4.38x10^284 light years across, or approximately 438,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
times the width of the Milky Way galaxy.
Isn't exponential expansion fun?
Now, here's a thought... What happens if you put a Zavor inside a Technowizard matter/antimatter drive that, once per (whatever time period), energy bolts the Zavor, then vents 5 cubic feet of magically created antimatter? Wouldn't this be the perfect energy source, especially if it was placed on, and powered by, a nexus?
Nekira Sudacne wrote:I have to aplaud you for doing all that math
RainOfSteel wrote:
An excellent insight that hits the nail on the head with a rune-hammer.
Winter wrote:One of the best thought out answers on this forum I have read for a while
Toc Rat wrote:Ok, here is the question, what happens if you use this spell to turn some stone in to flesh and then make some nice flesh burgers. Then a rather sick and evil shifter decides to hit you with Negate Magic before your body has fully digested the food?
Does the GM decide that's just to sick (or maybe too much of a medical headache to look up) and simply not allow it? Do you allow it? What would happen if you did allow it?
Necrite wrote:Negating the spell will not unbreak the rock. Since the food had been thoroughly chewed (hopefully), the person will have a stomach full of sald and gravel. It will be extremely uncomfortable coming out, and could cause illness for a day or two until it leaves the system, but it's not like you'll end up with fist-sized rocks in your stomach.
RainOfSteel wrote:
An excellent insight that hits the nail on the head with a rune-hammer.
Winter wrote:One of the best thought out answers on this forum I have read for a while
Josh Sinsapaugh wrote:Good question, TR.
~ Josh
RainOfSteel wrote:
An excellent insight that hits the nail on the head with a rune-hammer.
Winter wrote:One of the best thought out answers on this forum I have read for a while
Necrite wrote:Negating the spell will not unbreak the rock. Since the food had been thoroughly chewed (hopefully), the person will have a stomach full of sald and gravel. It will be extremely uncomfortable coming out, and could cause illness for a day or two until it leaves the system, but it's not like you'll end up with fist-sized rocks in your stomach.
Toc Rat wrote:Ok, I got one but it's a litte...well a little gross if you sit and think about it's effects.
Rifts main book, pg 181, Stone to Flesh spell. It says and I quote, "This spell tranforms stone to flesh AND can restore people who have been turned to stone back to normal." Note the use and placement of the word "and". That means this spell can turn regular stones and stone object in to flesh, not just people that have been turned to stone. Oh I would like to take a moment to say that I did not come up with that use for this spell. I read it here on a thread I had started called "Creative Spell Use" and someone posted it.
Ok, here is the question, what happens if you use this spell to turn some stone in to flesh and then make some nice flesh burgers. Then a rather sick and evil shifter decides to hit you with Negate Magic before your body has fully digested the food?
Does the GM decide that's just to sick (or maybe too much of a medical headache to look up) and simply not allow it? Do you allow it? What would happen if you did allow it?
Nikoli wrote:And they thought they had chiseled features before...
RainOfSteel wrote:
An excellent insight that hits the nail on the head with a rune-hammer.
Winter wrote:One of the best thought out answers on this forum I have read for a while
Necrite wrote:cornholioprime wrote:Duplication process takes 30 seconds.
1 minute -2 Zavor
2 minutes -8 Zavor
3 minutes -32 Zavor
4 minutes -128 Zavor
5 minutes -512 Zavor
After just 30 minutes.......
576 TRILLION Zavor!!!
After the first iteration, you're quadrupling the group each time, when it should be doubled. It should be:1 minute -2 Zavor
2 minutes -4 Zavor
3 minutes -8 Zavor
4 minutes -16 Zavor
5 minutes -32 Zavor
After just 30 minutes.......
1.07 BILLION Zavor!!!
Qev wrote:Necrite wrote:cornholioprime wrote:Duplication process takes 30 seconds.
1 minute -2 Zavor
2 minutes -8 Zavor
3 minutes -32 Zavor
4 minutes -128 Zavor
5 minutes -512 Zavor
After just 30 minutes.......
576 TRILLION Zavor!!!
After the first iteration, you're quadrupling the group each time, when it should be doubled. It should be:1 minute -2 Zavor
2 minutes -4 Zavor
3 minutes -8 Zavor
4 minutes -16 Zavor
5 minutes -32 Zavor
After just 30 minutes.......
1.07 BILLION Zavor!!!
Actually, since thirty minutes is sixty iterations (at 30 seconds per iteration), doesn't that mean you end up with 2^60 Zavor after 30 minutes? That's some ridiculous number like 1.153 quintillion (1.152e18) Zavor.
Mind you (assuming Zavor can't undergo nuclear fusion), after only 48 minutes this spherical mass of Zavor will collapse into a black hole, rendering the entire problem moot.
I believe that I have to correct you on your math, sir Necrite.Necrite wrote:***whole lotta math***
They can't collapse; they're magically vulnerable only to Psionics, wood, and iron/silver.Qev wrote:Mind you (assuming Zavor can't undergo nuclear fusion), after only 48 minutes this spherical mass of Zavor will collapse into a black hole, rendering the entire problem moot.
cornholioprime wrote:I believe that I have to correct you on your math, sir Necrite.Necrite wrote:***whole lotta math***
Zavor split TWICE each minute ("...the duplication process takes aout 30 seconds...").
So in the first 30 seconds, 1 Zavor splits into two.
HOWEVER.....
According to the Book, those TWO Zavor also split in the next 30 seconds.
Therefore, you don't get two Zavor in one minute; you get four.
ANd in the second minute, you don't get 8 Zavor, you get 16.
And so on and so forth.
Which leads us back to that larger number that I came up with earlier.
That's a good one, too.The Beast wrote:What if someone who's immune to the effects of the vampire's bite does the Return From the Grave ritual? Like a True Atlantean, or a Nightbane?
cornholioprime wrote:They can't collapse; they're magically vulnerable only to Psionics, wood, and iron/silver.
Alejandro wrote:Mr. Pook wrote:I tried to ask this on another thread, and no one responded, so we'll see if I have better luck here.
What happens when you put a Permanence Ward on an activated TW device (e.g. a Supernatural Strength TW mod on a suit of Dead Boy armor)?
Does it:
A. Bestow the power permanently on the present wearer,
B. Make the device permanently bestow the power on whoever is wearing it,
or
C. Nothing. You just wasted a lot of time and a perfectly good demon bone.
D. The TW device now has a ward on it, but nothing changes regarding its actual functionality. It's like taking a gun made of iron and remaking it out of steel. More durable, but does the exact same thing.
As for the Maryann ruling on "invulnerable can be overwhelmed," that has just solved the "Macross Cannon vs Rune Weapon" debate.
I'll have to look it up....Pronema wrote:As I asked in my topic what happens if a rune weapon is left in a dimensional envelope when the envelope collapses? Is the rune weapon destroyed?
Pronema wrote:As I asked in my topic what happens if a rune weapon is left in a dimensional envelope when the envelope collapses? Is the rune weapon destroyed?
The Beast wrote:And I'm not just asking that about Palladium Books' games, but all RPGs in general. Do any of them have a way for people who live normal, everyday lives to get better at their skills?
I'm just reading the Spell, my friend.The Beast wrote:Does it continue like that? Seems like something Palladium would've blocked.
Wellllll......TheDarkSaint wrote:Wait, if the damage was magical, wouldn't it start reducing itself by half, since vampires take 1/2 damage from magical attacks?
It would reduce itself to the infinity of nothing pretty quickly.
cornholioprime wrote:If I hit NXLA with a Soul Drinker......
Will I have the potential of soul-sucking him.....or just one/some of his Captured Essences that are a aprt of him??