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ZorValachan

KC's thought on them working like skills got me thinking. During the character's advancement, they choose skills at later level, which then are not as high as skills they had originally. Such as at level 3 you gain a skill at level 1 and all your other skills are at level 3. Maybe would be interesti...

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Psychics recover ISP per-Minute at Ley Lines/Nexus Points. The increased Power in the area concentrates the returning ISP to speed the recovery rate. Good Gaming, GaredBattlespike BtS 1 has rules for psychics drawing ISP from ley lines, or regaining it faster. (Although one of the skills I mentione...

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Severus was the only one to state the RAW that you need to roll above a 4. 1-4 is a complete miss (or 1-8 on ranged weapons). 5-AR # (or 9-AR# if ranged) = damage to armor, AR+1 and above = damage to player. KC's -You can add PP bonuses to the existing AR in order to compensate for how easy it curre...

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TechnoGothic, I just wanted clarification on one thing. Why when debating for HU enchanted weapons you stated that "...enchanted weapons are considered greatest rune weapons..." to mean that they were actually not rune weapons, just similar or like, yet when debating about all people with ...

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Thanks for the input. I just read it again last night and I agree. I should have proofed it a little better. I'm already working on editing Volume 2 (I actually have 10 volumes written so far) and I'll submit it within the next two weeks. I'm going to get my friends and family to proofread it for m...

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I read a few of the articles so far, and have actually been impressed that I like (or at least have not disliked) anything so far. Lucky Psychic: Good, solid. I saw, and wished for, an expansion in the teeny blurb that some don't see it as supernatural, just statistics. Wish it would have had a sub-...

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besides the d20 with modifiers, or the % roll under attribute, you could use a system of xD6s under the attribute with the x being how difficult. Works well in the 3-24 range, or just add a 1 or 2d6 if you got super high attributes. instead of adding modifiers, just adjust x up or down Example: Extr...

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The present rule is that Psionics can use all psionics in any body armor with 250 MDC or less. is that main body? or total? Also book and page reference please. RUE pg 366, under point 2. 250 main body. It states that a psychic cannot affect anything in a vehicle, robot, etc. with 250 or more MDC i...

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RUE 80 The removal of the bio-comp system is critical, because even without the drug harness, the system stimulates the body to create natural hormones and chemicals to unnatural and ultimately deadly proportions. Nothing there indicates that there would be anything like an instant effect. It'd tak...

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I have found most players are not really happy with choice. They are happy with the Illusion of choice. Normally players do not know more about the game world than the GM. The GM saying "What do you want to do?" and not offering suggestions can overwhelm players (both new and old) or at le...

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This weekend I start GMing my first game. The issue I am worried about in the long run is game balance. I have other concerns too but I think those are just cuz I've never GMed before. What tricks do you use to balance your game? To answer the actual question asked (and not replying to others), I w...

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Well, as reasonable as a flesh eating undead that knows you intimately can be....oh god! I just creeped myself out with two words together! Undead, Intimate...ew! Ew! Ew!!!!! I went to B&N yesterday and saw no less than 3 books about Zombie loving.... And it was not from trying to find them, th...

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And the Counter:

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swi ... -that.html

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Snapshot Report Psychic Beliefs 0 According to your score, you don't believe that people can be gifted with the power to see into the future and predict things to come. You seem to find it hard to believe that psychic practitioners are legitimate, and that someone can indeed possess a "sixth se...

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Rogue_Scientist wrote:This thread is a quote-fest of agreement. That's gotta be some kind of record around here.

Agreed!

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Don't forget Times Beach, St. Charles is supposedly pretty haunted as well as Bonne Terre, someone already mentioned the Lemp Mansion, and East St. Louis is GREAT place for people to just vanish For others' information. Times Beach was a town that paid a guy to oil their roads to keep dust down. Th...

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Clarifications for "Mundane Doesn't Mean Boring!": I noticed 3 things. I see I messed up with trauma examples in 2 areas and was not as clear as I should have been with M.D.C. trauma. 1) In the example of trauma and Sports Gear, the football gear should have been: "The first 12 points...

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I hope my Article "Mundane Doesn't Mean Boring" is well received. Wrote it for BTS-2, but many aspects can be used with other PB games.

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anyone that isn't willing to have a notebook full of house rules is lazy Actually, it's quite a bit more simple than that. Anyone who hasn't read the book closely enough or understood the rules well enough to believe that a book of house rules is required (I use zero in my weekly game) doesn't know...

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I would never write down the stats for all weapons myself....good lord thats alot of work...what i think you should do, is say im sorry your not allowed to have guns from underseas or china....period pretend that books not printed. there is no reason to put yourself through that much hassel ever......

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What i find works well is not to allow alot of books....."ok so we got main book mercs one, warmachine and lone star and juicer uprising"...what ever pick 4 books and the main book lock it down that these are what you can choose your starting gear and occ's/rcc's from and call it a day , ...

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Since my group does both BTS-2 and R:UE (we swap games back and forth), any rules that contradict each other, I choose the rule I like best and that works for both games (players are given a list of all these of course). This way the players only have to remember 1 ruleset. For BTS-2 specifically 1)...

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Parapsychologist-Professor
Diviner-Archaeology Professor
Flamewalker-Stage Magician/Debunker
Psychic Sensitive-History Museum Curator
Psi-Mechanic-Police Detective
Ghost Hunter-Police SWAT
Child Savant-8 year old daughter of the diviner

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MADMAN wrote:Hi,
I'm running a game set in the now and I'm looking for any OCCs or MOSs along with related skills for Regular Beat Cops, Detectives, and SWAT officers. I was hoping you guys might be able to help me out.

Thanks!

look at either BTS-2 or Dead Reign, both have these as professions

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dante144 wrote:Jesus Saves. Everyone else takes damage

Jesus saves souls and redeems them... for valuable cash and prizes.

In the original PFRPG, Satan was actally stated out. 666 HP. And deevils were devils. He was basically replaced by 'Sahtalus' (or however they spell the main Devil Lord)

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I LOVE Porcupines for the fun of a group name.
Our group was all porcupines.
The Untouchables

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First edition rules except PPE for spells.

I was SO looking forward to the 2nd edition and when it came out and I bought it, It was horrible.

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Doom is correct. Wrong 1: A parry isn't a block. It's a deflection. Real:The correct definition of parry is a deflection or ward. it comes from the Latin parare, to prepare. If it was solely a deflection, the definition would end there; it does not. Definition of ward is to watch, guard, protect, b...

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Dr. Doom III wrote:
ZorValachan wrote:
Dr. Doom III wrote:A parry isn't a block. It's a deflection. A redirection of the energy of the blow.
The strength of the blow is irrelevant.

Wrong

That's my line. And I use it only when the other person is actually wrong.

Wrong x2

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Dr. Doom III wrote:A parry isn't a block. It's a deflection. A redirection of the energy of the blow.
The strength of the blow is irrelevant.

Wrong

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No, he was specifically only refering to Melee's during combat. There's no two ways to interpret the OP. Generally in video games, heal over time spells are not (of course) instant heal spells but are more mana efficient and heal more than an instant spell. He could argue that, which isn't such a b...

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The problem is with that interpretation is that the book specifically states that the penalty is "due to time spent compensating for the Cyber-Knight's amazing agility, combat skill and awareness." It is NOT due to something that is being done to the opponent, but solely due to the Cyber-...

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Can you name me 1 other ability/power/class/spell or anthing else in any Palladium game where the user of the ability penalizes the opponent instead of getting bonuses due to their ability to react and dodge well? First, I do not see this ability as a personal effect or dodge/movement aspect. I see...

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milomilo wrote:BUT you could do a soft dodge, basically the same motion as the parry except you are using it to propell yourself out of the way of the impact.

Hmmm sounds suspiciously like a 'Roll with punch/fall/impact'.....

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My home rule the 4 levels: normal, augmented, robotic, supernatural. 1 higher is -10 for strength checks/parries 2 or more higher = fail. So normal vs robotic = normal fail aug vs robotic = aug is -10 to parries against robotic (fails against Supernatural) if it is like wrestling, they roll a D20 an...

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You all are thinking with cocky player attitude, not devious GM attitude. You don't just have a Zombaby. It's a pretty zombaby. So it looks like a normal infant. A thinker places it in a nice locale. One of those new imitation zombies from the Rifter makes nice little baby noises. Players come to sa...

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The Cyber-knight specifically (in bold even) has a remark about being able to create a 2nd psi-sword at level 3 (pg 65, Creating 2 psi-swords), and nowhere does the Mind Melter have any mention of it. I have always taken this along with 2 personal mystical effects (magic/psionic) of the same type no...

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I've just finished writing an article (mainly for BTS-2) that includes sports stuff, like using sports gear as armour and damage from things like throwing/hitting baseballs, cricket balls, etc. If it gets approved and published, you might see it in a Rifter. Should work nicely with DR as well.

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Thanks for the hit on the GM's Guide, Zor. I don't have that one, so I'm hoping the information is a reprint from the earlier mentioned Triax book. I was going to wait until I got home yesterday to look and post. I don't have the book with me at work, but I do have a 'quick sheet' as a Word doc tha...

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Suiting up GM Guide pg 42

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Book came out this year, movie for next year.

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Plane was going down. Everyone had parachutes except 2 characters. They each held one end of the 'chute and were basically trying to wrestle it away from each other. Everyone else looks at one of the players, "What game are you playing?" Player looks confused. "Your character has wing...

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The zombies are VERY compatible for use in BTS, In fact they were designed to be (theres a note about it in the DR book). I encorage you to do "small" zobmie infestations as it is a BTS world (a la Resident Evil 1 scale) but if you can keep it contained and out of public eyes, go crazy! I...

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I've also had mystic trigger wards...you use magic on the door/walls and presto, I hope you like agony spells. -Matt Hey thats a really good idea, i usually ward items and pedastals the items are on, but the doors themselves for stuff like that i may have to do in the future, though it may be awhil...

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Louie Louie stated that there are two ways the magic system could work. I was thinking about that yesterday. I think there is a third way to go. The new magic system could be monster-based. Magic is everywhere in the form of PPE, but harnessing it would require being or using a supernatural creatur...

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If you want the strike to represent 'accuracy' and superiority in finding a good weak point in armour and thus, damage maybe try this: 1) For every 4 points over the to hit number, add a die to the weapon's damage to itself. So if the gun does 5d6, 4 points over = 6d6. If 8 points over it does 7D6. ...

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Page 9 conversion Book: Combat Range and Rolls to Strike Need to roll an eight to strike from a distance A roll of 4 or higher strikes its mark in hand to hand combat. The same is true of combat with firearms at a close range, combat within a 60 foot area. In combat at a greater distance (61 feet an...

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saintsinner wrote:It says that it takes an 8 or more with guns to hit, but what about archery & targeting? Do these fall under the 8 for ranged weapons or the 4 for melee? Just clarrifying.

8 for ranged is all ranged, so yes. Archery and Targeting.

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Role-playing is supposed to be fun for everyone involved. Sure there are those players or Gm's that seem to ruin it sometimes, but then you all just need to sit down and talk about what you want out of the experience. How do you want the characters and stories to progress. QFT The only times I've e...

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That seems like an interesting article, Zor. I can see many different approaches you could take with that topic, and all of them would be fun. Quick rundown on what I'm writing about. 1) A more detailed look at occupations in Anthropology/Archaeology and Forensic Science (mystery solvers of the anc...

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