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visited there as part of a Convention game run by the author when the book came out. we got confronted by a Sunaj kill team looking to capture an NPC we had rescued. ended with a near TPK as our SAMAS pilot detonated two crates of plasma grenades and vaporized the kill team, all but one player and ...

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cbrekkas wrote:Hello

I'm making a geologist/miner and i'm wondering if there was a occ that fits in one of the books or rifters. Or would the rogue scholar/scientist be the best option?

Thanks

Rifter 28, page 51. Geo-Scout OCC; Official Source Material cut from China 2 for space considerations.

Todd Yoho

that is a lot of stuff on India. Rakshasha controleld kingdoms, were serpents, naga, tons of crazy supernatural critters, an evil god, an evil intelligence, and a bunch of deific pretenders.. you aren't kidding that you could practically do a whole book already. That may, or may not, have been the ...

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The barrier islands off the coast of Rifts North Carolina are new barrier islands formed by natural geological processes that created the current barrier islands. They are definitely not the current barrier islands. The Rifts coast roughly follows I-95, so those new barrier islands are roughly where...

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You should have named this Part 2: Electric Boogaloo.

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Very cool. Keeps with the theme of DS, and sounds like a fun place with adventure hooks. You should flesh out and submit to The Rifter.

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First edition is infinitely superior to second edition, and I had a hand in working on second edition. Just pretend second edition doesn't exist, and run with first edition to your heart's content. It's what I do when I run BTS games, and I've never regretted it.

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Everybody is like, "ermagherd! Rifts Nazis!" when the Coalition is REALLY the Empire of Humanity from TMNT: After the Bomb with the serial numbers filed off. Loyal anthropomorphic dogs and everything...

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The problem is that all of you are presuming the horrificly terrible...reimagining...of the Cyber-Knight needs to exist in your games. Its the Jar-Jar Binks of class "updates" back when that was a thing. Go grab a copy of the original Rifts book; it has the real Cyber-Knight class.

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The Coalition IS the Empire of Humanity. At its core, Rifts is just a mashup of Robotech, Palladium Fantady, Heroes Unlimited, and the old TMNT/After the Bomb supplement from the 80s.

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The Palladium system isn't retro-cloneable; it's just retro.

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This is one of those things where I'm like, "your overthinking is getting in the way of the fun." M.D.C. is a mechanic for tracking damage for the purpose of conflict resolution. If you are applying it to characters consumption of food, you're running a game I wouldn't want to play. Do you...

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Warning: You have other threads to discuss that. The OP specifically was looking for discussion of other ways that the game could be helped regardless of the Wave 2 situation.

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Anytime, dude. Always glad to see creative guys I know strike out on their own with their own ideas.

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Interesting. Very interesting...

Backed, of course.

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Last I heard it was canceled sometime ago: m The fact that the provided link leads to a thread over a decade old, (a decade...) and might as well have been written TODAY regarding business practices, says everything that ever needs to be said in the ever-decreasing forum traffic thread in All Things.

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I don't ever remember owning the South America books because I thought they were an uber-cheesy mess, so I certainly didn't reference them for writing DS. I'd have to go back to my original manuscript to see if I wrote that or if it was an editorial insert, but it reads like my verbiage and intent. ...

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Rifter 44 had a ton of kaiju.

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The first rule of Robotech Tactics Kickstarter is that you don't talk about Robotech Tactics Kickstarter.

Follow the first rule and no thread will be locked.

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Ed wrote:Dinosaur Swamp had some similar geographical misconceptions. Nothing serious just somewhat jaring if you knew where the real places were.

No, it didn't.

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Anything that was not magic or psionic in nature. Why are dinosaurs MDC? They are just big animals. If dinos are MDC, why arent Elephants, Rhinos, ect...? While it's not part of the Palladium megaverse canon due to the licensing issues going by TMNT things brought forward in time pick up Bio-E that...

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The Chinese Geofront is a unique construct. I know because I wrote it that way. No one else on earth had anything close to it in ambition and design. While the other nations during the Golden Age were reaching for the stars with orbital platforms, the Chinese went in the other direction, planning to...

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well, disneyworld gets brief coverage in Rifts: Dinosaur Swamp. you have weird mud-monsters living in the service tunnels. personally, i could see a tribe of dbee's living in the ruins.. in chaos earth they might be salvaging items from the place to build a community. In my manuscript, they were or...

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I got more fun out of the RMB (the original and FAR superior to Ultimate) and Conversion Book 1 than all of all other Rifts books combined.

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First, everyone go and actually read both Dinosaur Swamp books, in their entirety, and not just the title. There is more than "dinosaurs" and "swamps." I put a lot of time and effort into researching and describing the environment and geography of the region and everyone in this ...

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notafraid2die wrote:...a TON of regional data (more than most world books).

Glad you like the DS books. I'm from Raleigh, so I wanted the books to be as much about the region as they are about the dinos.

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VERY good catch. I had to go back to the original manuscript since the barbarian section is one of the few areas where Kevin made significant changes for the finished project. If you look on page 67, the Mutant Barbarian has 4 features and abilities. Those, plus a 5th skill that enabled them to fash...

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I'd have to go back to the original manuscript to see if it was a true oversight or an editing issue. When in doubt, just give them some armor and don't sweat strict adherence to the print. That way lies madness.

And dinosours are a special breed high in citric acid.

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They are crap.

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Vampire Kingdoms, and it went right to being used. Those were some magical times watching Rifts Earth open up one corner at a time.

Subjugator wrote:...we were all livid that Atlantis was late because we desperately wanted it.

And kids these days thing delayed books are a symptom of just this past decade...

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Steeltree, that is it. Not ironwood. Its because we've been talking about that spell the last few days on the board. I know what I mean, sorry for the miscommunication guys. You are actually correct to call it Ironwood. It was originally the Ironwood Forest inspired by the spell. In fact, I believe...

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I had a BUNCH of American magic and artifacts put together when I was working on BTS: Arcanum that would have dovetailed well into Rifts. Well, 7 or 8 years ago when i was writing it, that is... I ran a BTS game at GenCon 2005 set in the 1930 Smithsonian that played on the concept of American histor...

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I love this thread and how it keeps dragon on. The OP's circuitous, serpentine arguments are sublime and he keeps it coming by digging in his claws and not taking wing even though the masses are running rings around his arguments.

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When writing Dinosaur Swamp I actively tried to avoid creating whole new O.C.C.s and fiddled with a Southern Cross style MOS system for the Wilderness Scout upgrade templates. I, too, thought that an over abundance of O.C.C.s plagued the Palladium system. However, by the time I was done with flavor ...

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everything you say makes since but i guese its jut that most of the art is so not cold weather garb that in my mind it always saw it as warmer......that and dinosuar swamp would have to be hot year round to support the cold blooded life there....though i think the idea that dinasours were hot blood...

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There is a modified Behemoth mentioned in WB27: Adventures in Dinosaur Swamp. You can also use the robot creation/modification rules in Revised SB1 and do a hover conversion on the Behemoth. That would seriously improve your mobility. Of the editing done to my parts of this book, the significant cu...

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Speaking as someone who put a lot of thought, time and effort into the Wilderness Scout O.C.C., I have come out of exile to comment as I am probably the highest reliable authority who can speak on this topic. The Wilderness Scout in RUE is, in my opinion, an inferior kit-bashed mishmash of the Wilde...

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That would be fascinating.

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They need the physical copy of the signed UMF before they will even look at it for legal reasons. Then you must sign & mail in the Unsolicited Manuscript, Idea, and Artwork Agreement, -- we will not look at a submission without a signed agreement. Unless Michigan has some kind of stupid statute...

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Mech-Viper Prime wrote:I hear this was Todd Yoho favorite movie of all time

I traveled back in time to direct that movie.

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copy/paste from latest weekly update (blurb highlighted by me) NEWS! Matthew Clements is Palladium’s new staff writer. Matthew has been working behind the scenes at Palladium for something like the last 8 months. He’s the gent who has written Rifts® Antarctica™, he has contributed to Rifts® Vampire...

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That and again way too much effort treating the theory as a given fact in a fantasy setting where the facts that exist are defined by Palladium and NOT real world scientists. 'The ice caps melted but the feared world flooding and axial tilt change never occurred' if posted so by Palladium would be ...

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This, of course, would be one of those instances where the forum posters don't represent a significant cross section of the Palladium customer base and the results can be (conveniently mocked and) ignored... Speaking as someone who wrote two* books on "nothing" it's entirely possible that ...

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Actually, no, from my understanding (which may very well be incorrect, mind you) of things if it was created specifically to be submitted to Palladium in the hopes of publication it means it is obviously derivative of their work. That means even if you stripped out all references of Palladium IP it...

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Kevin has said on multiple occasions that he won't let anyone else write those two books, so until Kevin stops trying to be superman and do everything himself we will not see those books. It really upsets me because BtS if my favorite game line. It amuses me to no end that the catalog entry still l...

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Nice to finally see them! Looks like a cool house. thanks mate. this all stemed from Todd Yoho's statement that he was writing something that would scare even H. Shiva this is my attempt to bring a level of terror that the Splicerverse hasnt seen before That would have been House Emaciai. A Splicer...

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Vampires are vampires overall. Why does it need revision ? It doesn't. Kevin should just release the Vampire Sourcebook to include any new information or ideas. Now IF Kevin is actuall rewritting his Rifts Vampires 100% i could see rewritting the book. If he did, he should use the Rifter #49 Vampir...

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Very nice.

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i was being a bit nostalgic and was looking through some old threads, things that i posted and havent finished and other threads i came across a thread by Slappy 'House Shiva Rocks' and i read a reply from Todd and he said - ' I had a few more ideas for some warmounts that I never stated up. Things...

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Dino Swamp is one of my Top 5 Rifts books (along with Australia, Canada, SB1) for precisely the reason already articulated: it brings the post-apoc back into Rifts, but keeps all the zany Rifts OCCs, weapons, magic, monsters, etc. so nothing is lost. Kudos to Todd Yoho for his excellent work, and m...

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