Does anyone know how fast gremlins breed?

[drewkitty ~..~]

If you are talking about the Fae Gremlins, then not very fast.

However, my first thought was 'as fast as the GM wants them to'.

[Lord Z]

Drewkitty raises a good question. Are these the gremlins from the Rifts Conversion Books (and more or less identical to the Beyond the Supernatural gremlins). Or are these some other critter, perhaps inspired by Speilberg's Gremlins movie?

If they are the standard Palladium Gremlins, then they are intelligent minor demons, similar in nature to Brodkil or Gargoyles. The books have never been clear on how they breed if at all. I would guess that as long lived supernatural creatures, they breed less often than humans. They could cause a lot of trouble if escaped but through quality of trouble rather than quantity. It only takes one or two gremlins to disrupt a city's power grid or return an airport to the dark ages if they have enough time to set it all up.

On the other hand, you could take inspiration from the Brodkil article that recently appeared in Rifter. In that article, Brodkil reproduced by capturing humans and ritually transforming the bodies into new Brodkil.

The short answer is, like Drewkitty wrote, that it is up the GM.

[Khanibal]

"Pull out, nuke the sight from orbit. It's the only way to be sure"

[AzathothXy]

Pretty fast once they get wet. And don't feed them after midnight.

[Khanibal]

Thing is, it's ALWAYS after midnight somewhere in the world.

[The Beast]

Pretty fast once they get wet. And don't feed them after midnight.

Technically they're already gremlins, so there's no need to worry about if they eat after midnight.

[wolfsgrin]

I look at sub demon races like gremlins as monsters that can breed rather fast by having litters, but, through the demon way of doing things, the sub classes are subject to being eaten by other demons (sub or otherwise) or even by their own kind vying for food, favor, and or power. And, hey we're demons we like to kill, well...anything!
I'm big on the swarm effect, especially with monsters and the like.

[Khanibal]

:lol:
I look at sub demon races like gremlins as monsters that can breed rather fast by having litters, but, through the demon way of doing things, the sub classes are subject to being eaten by other demons (sub or otherwise) or even by their own kind vying for food, favor, and or power. And, hey we're demons we like to kill, well...anything!
I'm big on the swarm effect, especially with monsters and the like.

That's the answer!
Summon some bigger demons and send them into the building to eat the gremlins!
Problem solved.

[Khanibal]

"Why do you need me to remove this supernatural intelligence again?"
"Well, you see Lord Toth..."

[Nekira Sudacne]

It happens that my character has misplaced 7 loosely affiliated gremlin inside a 40-50 story commercial highrise. I thought I had them foxed with the terms of our bargain, but ... well they seem to have found a loophole of sorts - In order to carry out my instructions they had to cut communications within the building, security started using cell phones, so the littleguys found a way to disrupt those too, and now my way of remote communicating with them is jammed as well - So I can not issue the recall order. I could fix it, but it would mean tracking them down in the building one at a time while dodging security, the police and sector squad - all of whom are pretty much stuck in the building. There have been several deaths, lots of injuries and traps lots of traps. Gremlins appear to be dangerous - who knew?
So the question is - how do these things reproduce, and how fast can they increase their numbers?
Both the GM and I are a little concerned of them escaping the building, and slowly spreading across the city like rats.

I hate to ask the obvious, but why not just nuke the building?

[Khanibal]

I think he actually wants to sneak into the building.

[Nekira Sudacne]

Here's a question: What makes you think that gremlins breed at all? Or that you have all the necessary genders? You might have just got one.

[Nekira Sudacne]

I'd say it's safe to say that if gremlins breed, it's very slowly.

[Khanibal]

I'd say it's safe to say that if gremlins breed, it's very slowly.

That's a plus!

[csbioborg]

Actually, sneaking in hurt a lot. Did you know gremlins could hook a boiler to the sprinkler system???? or electrify floors???? Cannibalize hoverbikes to create wind cannon traps (cop going for distance - better him then me). The pain. Ran into a vengeful (and battered) Sector Squad and seriously spooked police officers - more running and fighting, some shooting to. Accidently triggered a trap and dropped a section of staircase, three story fall. Nuking the building is sounding better and better. I pulled out after disabling sector squad (yay psionics & magic for the win) and then ran away to lick my wounds. Gremlins were really dug in, moving through the duct work, replacing traps soon after they were cleared. Bah! Let Sector Squad and the police deal with the little monsters.

well ya they are natural mechinics

I had a dominator who's entire ship was filled with his army of immortal gremlins