Punching damage?

[Nekira Sudacne]

worship it? sure. worship it with interaction because he wants to kill the other PC's? NO. not uless its' a god of death or vengance or some such.

although a deal could be struck. . .

[grandmaster z0b]

The official ruling is that if a character can do mega damage with punches he adds that damage to the damage of whatever weapon he is using. For example a character who does 3d6 MD with punches and is using a vibro-sword that does 2d6, would roll 5d6 damage with each hit of the sword.
As far as worshipping goes - let him do it but I don't think a god would become involved in a mortals' life unless there was something in it for him/her.

[Jason Richards]

If the player can do mega damage on a power punch does he also get his bonus damage? I have a player that uses a vibro katana and he wants to know if he gets his pluses to damage even though his strength doesn't do mega damage.

No. For mega-damage punch damage, see Conversion Book 1 or the Game Master Guide.

[Athos]

The official ruling is that if a character can do mega damage with punches he adds that damage to the damage of whatever weapon he is using.

That is my understanding of it also, but I can't find it in the rules. Pg 22 of conversion book states that damage is added to SDC weapons, but that does not address MDC directly. I believe it is supposed to be added to all ancient type weapons.

[Athos]

For your reference, I made this ruling based on GMG pg 25-26

Thanks for showing me the page. The text says specifically on pg 26, for supernatural strength beings they inflict either the weapon damage + p.s. damage bonus or their basic hth damage plus p.s. damage bonus, whichever is greater.

So you obviously do get to add in the extra MD from your supernatural strength.

[grandmaster z0b]

Black letter rules

Well I would never say that about any palladium rule, they aren't consistant with their own rules especially things from the conversion book.
I thought the rule about adding supernatural punch MD to weapon MD came out after the the conversion book, possibly in Xiticix Invasion? I'm not sure if it's cannon, maybe I misinterpreted it.

[grandmaster z0b]

Yeah the rule I quoted was the GMG, not the Conversion book. The only books that could have reversed the GMG are the China books or Dinosaur Swamp (GMG came out after Xyticix Invasion). If one of those three books changes this rule, then someone please let me know as I have not bought those books yet.

And of course, anyone is free to house rule anything they want in any RPG, but as many have stated in all RPG forums all across the net, you have to at least start by discussing the rules as printed, or else everyone will just cry GM's perogative.

The GMG is the most recent ruling, so that is what I quoted. Use it if you want, ignore it if you want, use an older out of date rule if you want. I only pointed to the most recent official source.

oops, if it's in the GMG then it would be the most recent ruling. I ignore almost everything in it though.

[Killer Cyborg]

Well, that passage in the GM's Guide is weird.
It was seemingly cut and pasted directly from Palladium Fantasy 2nd Edition.
It's unclear whether it was a chage to the rules or if they just forgot to update the pasted section when they copied it.

[Dr. Doom III]

If the player can do mega damage on a power punch does he also get his bonus damage? I have a player that uses a vibro katana and he wants to know if he gets his pluses to damage even though his strength doesn't do mega damage.

Yes.
But since the "pluses" are SDC they do nothing in MD combat. A +30 bonus is still just .3 of a MD point and therefore is ignored.