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Here's a minor one... In RMB, the cyborg forearm blaster could all fire aimed, burst, or wild. So the 6D6+6 MD particle beam could completely rip something apart. If a GM was to be strict, he could limit it to the 10 shots in an e-clip, but if it was hooked up to the 'borg's power supply.... (I can ...

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My head-canon: a dragon's wings create a magical whoosh-whoosh to enable flight. So while they're not large enough from a physics point of view, they are needed from a magical point of view.

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FWIW, the Create Wood spell has always bugged me because it first talks about logs or planks without giving complete dimensions, and later it says the spell creating 100 lbs / level without converting it back to the logs & planks. So a bit of math later... Soft Wood: -- A plank of 1x12x72 inches...

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The text appears to be deliberately vague, leaving it up to the GM. A few thoughts: -- Based on Erin Tarn's comments on the Yhabbayar (Psyscape p14) then it would be 6-8 months prior to 105 PA, so call it 104 PA. -- Based on p13, it vanished 'roughly 200 years ago," and that was written in 90 P...

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Also, I object to the idea that somebody out west is going to be THAT much better with a pistol than somebody in the East or anywhere else. As a rule of thumb, I don't restrict OCCs to a region just because they came from a World Book. So the Sheriff/Gunslinger/Psi-Slinger OCCs (and the like) would...

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Topic locked for necromancy (bumping a discussion that's been dead for over a year).

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Please do not get personal.

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Had an amusing thought regarding the GB's limited ammo supply of 100 rounds. Since the GB fires from a stationary position, you could build a massive ammo drum completely separate from the armor. Basically, the GB walks up to it, unplugs his normal ammo belt and plugs into the massive drum. It'd onl...

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Per the U.S. DOD the Mach 7 railgun firing a 23 lbs, 18" long round at 100 yards away sounds like a .30-06. If the sabot discards immediately after exiting the muzzle then the "flechettes", which should darts or they're not flechettes, should spread wildly as they're depicted as flat...

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A few years ago I did some math on how many Xiticix could a GB Legion kill. The idea was to put a Legion just on the edge of Xiticix territory and let the bugs come to them. The numbers were truly staggering, especially if the Boom Guns are only used against fresh targets and leave wounded bugs to b...

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Buddy of mine had a modified attribute roll that I liked: When creating a character, roll 4D6 (instead of 3D6) and drop the lowest die. However, if the score was 16+ then you had to use the dropped die instead of rolling another 1D6. It raised the average attribute by about 2 points, and you were mo...

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The Cold Blooded OCC (Merc Adventures, p20) also has some very basic rules for a preexisting character becoming that OCC.

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A few random comments... For much of the same reasoning Killer Cyborg provided, I prefer to keep the payload to 100/40 rounds. Were I ever to play a GB, my first priority would be adding a decent energy weapon to the left forearm. Either a particle beam or pulse laser. Something to use against small...

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The following is from an old post on the same discussion. Fun with math... Take the illustration of a Boom Gun round (RUE p73, or RMB p221) which gives us a size of 7 inches long by 2.41 inches wide. You can stack 1,000 items of that size in a box that's 4.08 feet long, by 2.41 feet wide, by 2.41 fe...

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Remember: Palladium books are not closely written. These are not WotC books where adjectives are crucially important and consistently applied (i.e. a natural armor bonus, an enhancement bonus, or an enhancement to a natural armor bonus all being distinct things), but books where there's going to be...

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As far as I can tell, in some of the newer books they did begin to list a native language in the skill section. But older classes, such as the Temporal Warrior in question, were printed well before that. So we've got a choice: 1) Temporal Warriors don't know how to speak by default, or 2) Temporal ...

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You could just mod the class into a MOS to add onto a char. It's not expressly written, but speaking your native language is automatic. There's a few classes that list it, but most don't. An no....a language skill is not automatic...In Rifts. It Has to be expressly written as being automatic to be ...

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16 years. Seriously. This discussion ended 16 years ago.

This is why we have rules about necro-posting.

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It's not expressly written, but speaking your native language is automatic. There's a few classes that list it, but most don't.

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I'm not envious of the amount of time/energy it took to build that.

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If I'm allowed to go a wee bit off the deep end... -- Chiang-Ku Dragon gets major psionics (to include Astral Projection for scouting/spying), outstanding metamorphosis, a few magic tattoos, and a magic OCC. -- Pick the Temporal Wizard OCC (or possibly a Shifter). Temporal Magic gives several good o...

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This is my head-canon... I always figured any location that has a significant number of Dbees would have a cottage industry of modifying human items for their use. So if a Rahu-man is in Lazlo, he buys large vibro-sword at a weapon shop then walks across the street to a mod-vendor who will replace t...

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Mark Hall wrote:I'd lean towards Undead Slayers being more on par with a supernatural creature than a PoM, myself. They've been permanently turned into an MDC creature.

Fair point, and one I wouldn't dispute.

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They'd be noticed like any other practitioner of magic.

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Normally I don't use level 15 spells in TW devices, but for the sake of discussion... The spell Dimensional Teleport (p152 BoM) is one that's ripe for TW abuse. The gem (Onyx) isn't expensive (1000 cr / carat), and it can be cast at level 1 with no loss of effectiveness. So if you go by the TW creat...

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Take a look at the CS Skelebot Specialist OCC (Heroes of Humanity, p111). It comes with a "Skelebot Repair Assistant," a reprogrammed 'bot to help repair other 'bots. Should be simple to do something similar with a commercially available Triax 'bot, or a custom created 'bot using the SB1 c...

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I find these answers to be a bit lacking... Here's what gets me. Very specific times are mentioned... spell levels 1-5 (3 seconds), 6-10(6-7 seconds), 11-15(9-10 seconds). A melee round is 15 seconds. It also mentions a few paragraphs later that a magic user gaining initiative can snap off a spell ...

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So here's a way to think about it: training in HtoH isn't just about learning to throw a punch, or how to parry. It's about learning to be comfortable in combat, not panicking, and keeping one's cool. That mental aspect is what allows a mage to quickly recite an invocation and channel his PPE. That'...

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This reminds me... I was going to make a class called the Elemental Bondsman that would be version of the Elemental Possession (from Dark Conversions). Essentially, a compatible host willingly invites an elemental to join with him, and receives most of the bonuses of the Elemental Possessed, but ret...

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One thing I've considered is allowing Warlocks to a 'spell-equivalent' of the Elemental Fusionist's abilities. Basically just add those abilities to Warlock's list of available spells.

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I would not underestimate an Air Warlock, because they have a couple tricks up their sleeve thanks to the level 5 spell Phantom. Trick #1: The Phantom has access to all Air Warlock spells from level 1 to 4. So the Warlock can still get access to any spell he skipped. Since the Phantom is invisible a...

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Reminds of a NPC team I was toying around with... it was a small group of Crazies (4 to 6) but led by one who was obsessed with proving Crazies could be professional. He wouldn't tolerate wackiness, and part of being on the team was committing to helping each other cope/avoid outlandish behaviors. (...

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Thank you. That was what I remembered.

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Somewhere in one of the early books there's a reference to animals having a few sensitive psionics. Anybody recall where to find that reference?

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Does it have new art? If so, I'd get it. Otherwise, it would just be another copy of a book I already have. -STS Not exactly: A color gallery of every Rifts cover ever published. Color photographs of the staff, including those from the first Rifter® Swimsuit issue (scary, I know!) and other photos....

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Topic Locked for bumping a 15-year old topic.

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(if need be handwave a "diagnostic cycle" on his implants or something to explain what has been played so far) That leads to an interesting house rule... the character may choose to have a Cyberdoc conduct a 'tune-up,' and may re-roll his insanities. Could even tie in the Cyberdoc's skill...

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I'd be tempted to ask the GM for a "in-game" re-reroll. Spend a session hunting for a special shaman (could be a short adventure itself) who performs a bonkers ritual on the Crazy, with the result being the GM allowing him to reroll his level 3 insanity. (I'm not a big a fan of the random ...

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This is only tangentially related, but on p32 of the Merc Adventures sourcebook is the Tin-Soldier OCC (a HAZMAT Specialist). It doesn't have any rules, but does have the "Bio-Hazard Special Training" skill.

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Another silly thought: Suppose a person was born on and lived their entire life on a spaceship. A vampire comes aboard and turns the person into a vampire. What do you line their sleeping coffin with if they've never even seen soil?

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The 60ft rule shows up on page 39 of the RGMG (Sept 2001 printing) under Kev's Optional: Quick & Dirty Rules for modern combat. It's word-for-word the same as narcissus' quote.

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So, I gotta ask... you didn't accidentally do a 'find-and-replace' of "shadow" and "Cyber-Knight" did you?

(Best of luck on the new book!

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When I first started GMing Rifts back in HS this was a problem for me too. It was hard to plan a good story around unpredictable players and Rifts isn't like a modern setting game where there are police issues to be concerned with that can keep players in line but you can usually put in a few conse...

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Gotta agree with Zer0 Kay... make 'em a TW and insist they follow all the TW creation rules. Shoot, just making the player decipher the creation rules is punishment enough.

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As written, the TW (and the TW creation rules) make for a character that better suited to be "Q" than "James Bond." The requirements to build TW items (a workshop, tools, parts, gems, time, skills...) don't jive with a normal adventure party. My recommended solution is to make th...

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In Merc Ops page 117, it talks about standard and freefall parachutes, saying that a "basic chute" requires specialized training to pack properly, is that covered under the Parachuting skill? Also, I admit that I don't know much about parachuting, but I question the fact that "static...

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Universal credits are something that's better if you don't think about them. They make as much sense as bottlecaps. Just remember that they're supposed to be in the background, not the foreground, of the story you're telling within this RPG.

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Hmmm... another tortuous character: A detoxed Juicer who's now a vampire's thrall.

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