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I recommend everyone take a minute and read CWC p46: The Average Coalition Citizen. I'd post it, but it's too long and I don't want to cherry-pick statements out of it. Damn, sir. I had forgotten that particular piece of that book was there. I'll also refrain from posting snippets, but I know the p...

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So i distinctly remember reading in a book somewhere about that crazy lonestar geneticist creating modified and augmented super humans in secret by splicing in supernatural genetics to human embryos. I mean it was like a large section in a book, complete with gear, psychology profiles, pros and con...

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Spirit West has some information regarding some scattered Native American tribes. If I'm not mistaken, Canada has some information regarding Centaurs in Western Canada that range into the PNW. I might be wrong. Check out the atlas, I know it shows some details and shows a rather large ley line runni...

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"Schlemiel and Schlimazel" - 50 XP - Fail a skill check which results in your character falling to 0 HP/ SDC. "There Goes the Neighborhood" - 25 XP - Raze at least one domicile with collateral damage. "What, Me Worry?" - 50 XP - Convince an NPC you are in fact intellect...

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What usually happens when large central powers disappear...primarily warlordism for a while and a scrambling of the lesser constituents to make something out of the wreckage. I imagine the mid west CS affiliates join together and try to provide mutual defense with FQ possibly stepping in as big boy ...

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Though an Auto-G could duplicate a commanders voice and DNA signature there are still good old fashioned safeties like Passwords (verbal and non verbal) which unless the commander in question divulges would limit the Auto-Gs ability to cause too much mayhem. That blood test probably gets pulled out ...

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Everytime I see a Rifts map I'm struck by just how little attention has been paid to the west coast and Pacific Northwest over the years. I bought a road atlas about five years ago and used the map that's been posted here plus whatever I could find in my books and drew the details in with sharpie. I...

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It may be a bit overpowered however I like the flavor of it. I've always had a weakness for weapons which the use can't get rid of until some horrible thing happens. PRODITOR Type: Poignard; Greatest Rune Weapon Damage: 4D6 for normal attacks, 1D4×10 for attacks which are an act of betrayal, 4d4x10 ...

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I'm curious what ideas folks have for this particular subject. How would you go about placing a satellite into orbit and maintaining its orbit for an extended period of time (no greater than a year)? All considerations about the state of Earth's orbit and the near Earth colonies would be as describe...

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Wow. This is astounding work Hotrod! Keep it up! I have an insatiable desire for Rifts maps and you're my new fix. Lol.

Dr Megaverse

P.S.: Am I the only one who has a pet peeve with the way so many people "churn out" TW items without using the rules for drawing up schematics and designs and thinking it through? TW is one of my least favorite things because people seem to abuse it so much and undermine its "cool&qu...

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Probably Madhaven for me. It's got some neat terrain, and the White Knights story is nice, but otherwise the mutants were lackluster and I ended up rolling my eyes far more often than I did for any other WB.

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Right now I'm leaning towards a Vallax "Newcomer" Android for the stats and their ability to mimic human flesh and block psi-onic probes (with a good background story to explain how his intelligence got into a Vallax droid). I've been talking with my GM and we've brainstormed that he can a...

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So I'm thinking of playing an android who is a transferred intelligence and this character will be trying to hide that he is an android. So question is, can anyone think of any androids who are capable of mimicing perfectly human bodily functions (breathing/eating/drinking/etc) so as not to alert my...

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Decided this was the incorrect place for such a discussion, removed so as not to detract from topic

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I came across the GURPS Cyberpunk book at our local used book store before it shut down. If nothing else it provides a lot of very interesting ideas and plotlines which are outside the Rifts universe, so they're a kind of fresh take!

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I don't think there's any question that a full-on assault from the CS or Free Quebec wouldn't destroy the Xiticix. The bugs' only defence against a long range missile bombardment/bombing campaign is grin, take it, and hope some queens survive to reproduce later. The original poster wasn't asking 'c...

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If there are the following: 1000 is 480 Side Kicks, 106 reload teams, 100-300 other power armors/combat borgs/special troops (I will go with 300 for argument's sake). This leaves 114 troops for mechanics, medics, communications and logistics. Now lets make those 300 random PA's/Cyborgs: 50 Power Tr...

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Ima break ranks here. Buy GURPS.

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Agreed. Though I recognize her as a real threat, in the long term, to C.S. stability. She isn't going to topple their government, ever, on her own, but should it happen, so should some sort of real change come about, I expect her to be a major power player in those changes. And because of that, in ...

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Inflexibility is one of my least favorite aspects of "the rules". *sigh*

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As for the fly over option, the original poster stipulated a legion of 2560 Glitterboys of various sorts and 1,000 support troopers, but never made any mention of additional resources, so that is what "we" collectively are technically limited to. In that 1000 support troops you can't add ...

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She's a moderately high level Rogue Scholar with a Cyber Knight protector and buckets of luck. She is hardly in need of vast amounts of combat prowess, she has the plot on her side in much the same way as the Coalition States does! I sometimes wonder why some people hate her so much really, she is ...

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I'll join the Flooper hate bandwagon here.

Also the Chasseur Vert. They just seem unnecessary...

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Why are we assuming the GBs will move into Hiveland territory? If the idea is to fight bugs and not find bug holes/towers why even go into the hive lands with the whole force? Why not use a small element to draw them out? Enough bugs dying in area ought to make a big enough stink (literally, death p...

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A Boy and His Dog and 12 Monkeysnare soooo good! Highly recommend. Not really post apocalyptic, more Chaos Earth stuff, but "The Second Renaissance" from the Animatrix is a neat look at the SHTF. And just for fun the shortest horror story ever written: "The last man on Earth sat alone...

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A favorite idea I had once involved an automatic rift closer. Take a radar unit and have it run Sense Dimensional Anomaly and Invis:Superior all the time. Upon sensing a rift it triggers the spell Close Rift (Temporal Wizard vesion requires no PPE sacrifice). Drop it in a ley-line nexus and it's se...

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A favorite idea I had once involved an automatic rift closer. Take a radar unit and have it run Sense Dimensional Anomaly and Invis:Superior all the time. Upon sensing a rift it triggers the spell Close Rift (Temporal Wizard vesion requires no PPE sacrifice). Drop it in a ley-line nexus and it's sel...

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Almost seems like they needed the super water weakness to justify only having vamps in Mexico lol.

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I like the Rifts idea (here are some guidelines, make it work), but it can slow the pace for an inexperienced GM. Of course I also like that you can pick up almost ANY GURPS book and plug stuff from it into Rifts (which I do ALOT) and GURPS is just one such system that works like so, almost anything...

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Well, looked through SA1 and while it talks about Wisdom Trees it doesn't mention anything specific about Biomancy being able to effect either kind of tree. It does say neither kind of tree will grow within 1000 miles of each other, and that there MAY be a few Wisdom Trees in Florida hence no MTs. U...

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S'pose there might be a I-Beam Rifle out there that could stay competitive. 2d6 per shot on 7mm ammo isn't terribad. I know referencing SA2 is tantamount to blasphemy here but the I-Beam is a neat idea. That kind if tech is really the only kind of technology I could see keeping slug throwers relevan...

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It's far fetched that The Rpublicans seeded the modern societies...yet makes total sense that Jerico Holmes took 10,000 soldiers through the Hivelands...

Seems legit.

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I seem to remember there being several different kind of specialist scientist o.c.c.s across several books however I cannot seem to find them myself. Either Rifts scientists or 3G scientists, anyone know of any?

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I'll assume sky is the limit . I'm going imported 3G style setup. Contra-grav drives for all units, both airborne and land based. Majority of weapon systems will trend towards energy (focus on long distance lasers, efficient p-beams, and high damage plasma ejectors) with a mix of conventional (mostl...

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It's a tie between the VSAM and the Wild Weasel for me. If you really want my dream SAM, it's a VSAM with the turbo thrust system exchanged for an anti-gravity system. Instead of wrist rockets I'd prefer Arkhon tri-beams. I'd add a back up TW energy supply and use that to power a TW ECM package.

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All of this is happening in a matter of hours. What makes you think that the CS could figure out what's going on and hire magic using mercenaries and get them to Chi-town in time to make a difference? You're not suggesting that the CS already has magic using mercenaries on retainer inside Chi-town,...

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Hiring mercs to handle the problem and then gunning them down as "vigilante interlopers trying to do good but using methods we don't approve of" afterwards seems the most likely situation to me. Totalitarians have no problem, most of the time, breaking their own moral code to maintain the ...

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If you're running ANY kind of tech game, William Gibson is a must. I think of the BAMA anytime I think about the Golden Age.

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Mutants in Orbit pg 84. The Strategic Defense Initiative defense satellites orbit at 312 miles (500 km) from the Earth. Flight phases See also: Missile Defense#Classified by trajectory phase and Depressed trajectory The following flight phases can be distinguished: Boost phas e: 3 to 5 minutes (shor...

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Ah. Okay, so you're planning to have your PCs mug the CS of some of their nuclear arsenal, then probably use the nukes agains the CS. Gotcha. I actually think this would be a great idea for a campaign. Especially if you shot the nuke at Splynn . Even if it didn't hit it might just touch off an esca...

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Hmmmm, FoM 2 for me!

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RMB Sourcebook 1 Revised Sourcebook 1 Original Sourcebook 2 Sourcebook 3 Conversion Book 1 Revised Conversion Book 2 Pantheons of the Megaverse Mercenaries WB1 Vampire Kingdoms Revised WB2 Atlantis WB3 England WB4 Africa WB5 Triax and the NGR WB6 South America WB7 Underseas WB8 Japan WB9 South Ameri...

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Be hungry?

On a serious note, there are usually plans for such things. Reserve crops, pre prepared foods, emergency rations, rationing for the "more important" citizens, that kind of thing.

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You're saying the "Geofront will, who agrees with me?" This sums up every " insert other human nation vs coalition states" thread out there. Not only is that a blatant generalization I feel, it also does nothing to further meaningful discussion. You're entitled to your opinion u...

Dr Megaverse

Conflict would erupt before the Geofront wanted it to. the CS aren't brain dead idiots. They'd detect the Geofront digging out huge caverns in the earth and assess the threat years before the Geofront was even done digging the hole. If you're just going to hand wave them a city the size to hold mil...

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If we're going 3G style, why even have legs? I'd simply hook up a counter-gravity system and float the sucker along. Reconfigure a couple of PAs to sample gathering and scientific research modules and you can just park the big thing mid air, hop on down in protection to do your research, and then f...

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If we're going 3G style, why even have legs? I'd simply hook up a counter-gravity system and float the sucker along. Reconfigure a couple of robots to sample gathering and scientific research modules and you can just park the big thing mid air, hop on down in protection to do your research, and then...

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The Geofront doesn't need anything from the surface. They tap Geothermal energy from the Earth's core and create their own water, oxygen and food. Their technology creates a "self sufficient, fully functioning eco-system" within the Earth. They also don't have any magic, not really at lea...

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The portal is, as noted in the OP, STABLE meaning they can call upon the full resources of the Geofront back home in China. Including having them get rid of all of the building material that was removed (not much, scenario assumes they mostly utilized a natural cavern deep underground,same depth as ...

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