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by Arakash
Sun Mar 22, 2015 1:44 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Has anybody just sat down with a stack of RIFTS books and...
Replies: 25
Views: 3231

Re: Has anybody just sat down with a stack of RIFTS books an

Ive found much the same thing. Its very easy to start reading some small detail, or go out looking for just one fact then spend hours looking through parts of the books. I like to try to imagine what an average street or an average person/creature would look like in the setting I'm reading at that t...
by Arakash
Fri Jan 30, 2015 11:51 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Why I Like Rifts
Replies: 63
Views: 11299

Re: Why I Like Rifts

I also want to add in support of a few posters here who have already mentioned the setting/universe/theme as a highlight for Rifts. I have no particular attachment to any part of the combat/stat system but I do enjoy many parts of the Setting of Rifts. A couple of highlights for me: - Most memorable...
by Arakash
Fri Jan 23, 2015 1:47 am
Forum: G.M.s Forum
Topic: References to SDI and Cheyenne Mountain in Rifts
Replies: 7
Views: 6070

Re: References to SDI and Cheyenne Mountain in Rifts

I am looking for references to SDI or Cheyenne Mountain in the books. so far on the list: Chaos Earth mentions contact being lost with Norad and the president being dead. Mutants in Orbit has several SDI satelites listed. apparently one of the tolkeen siege books has SDI sattellites listed in it......
by Arakash
Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:44 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Google Sheets - Character Sheet
Replies: 18
Views: 5534

Re: Google Sheets - Character Sheet

Yeah.. and yet most people don't make one. So add buttons, add macros. Mine uses VB hover drop down menus over each skill line to select skills. The thing is if they buy it from you maybe they'd offer an annual retainer to provide them with updates too. I'm to lazy to put the classes in to finish m...
by Arakash
Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:02 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Google Sheets - Character Sheet
Replies: 18
Views: 5534

Re: Google Sheets - Character Sheet

Should be just enough to not include skill descriptions. And when submitting it to Palladium for authorization to post offer to sell instead. Protect and hide all coding so when they do sell it someone can't just copy and paste to modify it themselves. Generic descriptions of powers with citations ...
by Arakash
Sun Jan 18, 2015 10:08 am
Forum: G.M.s Forum
Topic: Kings Have Forsaken Entire Kingdoms to Possess One
Replies: 18
Views: 12486

Re: Kings Have Forsaken Entire Kingdoms to Possess One

I think you can take a lot of inspiration from the violent and chaotic history of ancient politics in our world. This is a world entirely without the fantasy aspects of other systems, but has still had huge amounts of violence and chaos in (especially ancient)politics. Running Nations and actual Kin...
by Arakash
Sat Jan 17, 2015 12:56 pm
Forum: G.M.s Forum
Topic: When writing campaigns, what do you use?
Replies: 22
Views: 14857

Re: When writing campaigns, what do you use?

This thread has been really interesting to me just to see what people are using to write campaigns. I've been using Word, but I'm going to go look up all of the other options mentioned here and see how they compare. So thanks . For me, I enjoy sharing what i write, so I like it to be in some sort of...
by Arakash
Thu Jan 15, 2015 4:29 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Google Sheets - Character Sheet
Replies: 18
Views: 5534

Re: Google Sheets - Character Sheet

Well I'm happy to combine my spreadsheet with others if it serves to help Palladium players and GMs. If you hear back from Palladium and want to join forces let me know. Also I see we're both Australians Yep, bit of a rarity to see meet some Australians on here . The Rifts Campaign i'm currently in...
by Arakash
Tue Jan 13, 2015 3:15 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Google Sheets - Character Sheet
Replies: 18
Views: 5534

Re: Google Sheets - Character Sheet

I have done something similar you might want to have a look at. It can calculate hand to hand and WP combat bonuses (except those that come from OCCs). If you want to share resources PM me. m Nice. Ive also made a full character sheet with all its sections in excel, which is more limited than yours...
by Arakash
Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:42 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: The cost of doing business
Replies: 62
Views: 4902

Re: The cost of doing business

I think the real catch with going independant is twofold: Marketing and procurement. Yes, if you can get ongoing contracts, market yourselves and get all the gear you need to start up, then it often makes sense to go indpendant. the problem is most mercenaries don't have the financial resources or ...
by Arakash
Fri Jan 09, 2015 5:01 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Have you ever GM'ed yourself?
Replies: 12
Views: 1087

Re: Have you ever GM'ed yourself?

To me, a campaign where someone is GM'ing only themselves sounds, in practice, exactly like writing a book/fanfiction for Rifts, especially if you aren't doing any dice rolls. Have you considered writing a book or even a short story instead? When I wasn't interested/available for playing any Tableto...
by Arakash
Sun Jan 04, 2015 1:26 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: The cost of doing business
Replies: 62
Views: 4902

Re: The cost of doing business

So what do you do when the potential employer doesn't have deep enough pockets to pay for serious repairs? This whole topic is interesting because in real life, the equipment, let alone the maintenance of equipment, is worth only a small portion of the mercenary fee since it's far easier to find mi...
by Arakash
Sun Jan 04, 2015 1:09 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: The cost of doing business
Replies: 62
Views: 4902

Re: The cost of doing business

I put up Google drive links frequently and have not been sanctioned for it. We are prohibited from sharing pirated materials, obviously, and conversions of other peoples' intellectual property but I think we're free to do as we like with our Palladium derivative works. Thanks. Its just something I ...
by Arakash
Sun Jan 04, 2015 12:07 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Google Sheets - Character Sheet
Replies: 18
Views: 5534

Re: Google Sheets - Character Sheet

Ive looked for these kind of things many times on this forum. Most are scattered throughout various threads. There is one central link hub i found for character sheets(mostly megaversal ones), though it is practically 80% crossed out links at the moment. http://palladium-megaverse.com/forums/viewtop...
by Arakash
Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:45 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: The cost of doing business
Replies: 62
Views: 4902

Re: The cost of doing business

When i was writing up/creating a Mercenary Company (which i did recently) I actually went into this kind of detail on the probable contract costs and even things like wages. This was all based on the figures given in the Mercenaries Book. I can share the document that contains all the figures(and a ...
by Arakash
Sun Jan 04, 2015 7:02 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Rifts NA map
Replies: 233
Views: 502672

Re: Rifts NA map

This is a really useful resource that ive seen used in games and used myself. Its also great for getting a better understanding of Rifts-NA as a whole.

I saw that there was an earlier version of this (1.2 i think) as a png, which loads far quicker(for me) than the pdf. Very useful.

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