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Forever Knight was a movie keep in mind, and it got picked up as a TV show. Obviously, the movie is much better, and it's very vampire-centric but it's still a good candidate Forever Knight was a TV series that was part of CBS's Crimetime After Primetime lineup. There was no movie. There was a pilo...

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Forever Knight was a movie keep in mind, and it got picked up as a TV show. Obviously, the movie is much better, and it's very vampire-centric but it's still a good candidate

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For the investigator side of things, big time, Stir of Echoes.

It even directly relates to being open and closed to the supernatural. Movie is awesome, and if it doesn't give you game ideas, nothing will.

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I always liked mind bolt for the pure fact its a motionless attacking. Pinned on the ground, tied to a chair, hurt VERY badly, disarmed, FWOOP, eat 3D6 and it usually catches the opponent offguard the first time (who expects sudden pain from no where?) I usually "stun" the character hit by...

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Just got mine in from Christmas grabbag, Printer's Proof.

How many of these are floating around?

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Gunslingers are overplayed and imo, cheat. C'mon, HTH Commando? Justice Ranger is just kinda bleh, to confining HeadHunter Assassin? So much you can do with that character. Skill sets, bionics, for combat and infiltrating, and as a general rule, headhunters arn't usually assassin like, so its origin...

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Isn't the L-20 a Northern Gun Product?

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Its an ugly hideous weapon, shame I like it so much. When I hear Pulse Rifle, I think Aliens. Now yes, theres plenty of guns that look like that, and Im not expecting it to look that exact way, but when it looks like an uncomfortable somewhat melted version of a smartgun from aliens, I try to imagin...

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One important thing to remember alot of folks miss or forget

That laser sword in Merc Ops, CANNOT PARRY ANYTHING, which is extremely detrimental when you think about it. The damage is nice tho

Just something to keep in mind

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not truly a rifts question, just an old roleplaying question from back in the day. If I swing at you with a sword that always strikes true and you block with a shield that always intercepts incoming blows, what happens? Both weapons must make a save vs crushing blow (or whatever is appropriate) the...

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This thread has potential to be epic....

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JA-12 from Juicer Uprising. When you absolutely, positively gots to kill every...yeah... Or if you can carry it that one laser rifle designed for power armors in the CWC, that thing has a huge payload but weight something like 90-110 pounds. It's half e-clip. I didn't remember the pistol from New W...

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Pistol? the CTS auto shooter, it converts with a simple clip change from plasma to silver loads to standard slugs to a TW firearm (for thoes who are so inclined) Rifle? the J-11 or the J-12 rifles Its prolly right under my nose, but I cant seem to locate the CTS Auto shooter, which book is that in?

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Similar topics have been brought up several times, but finding them all is a little difficult, so I'll ask em here. Im wondering what most of you consider 'the best" rifles and pistols in rifts. I dont mean best damage (Naruni stuff yes yes) I mean best in general. Multi-purpose, better ammo ca...

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Kevin showed Subjugator, me, Randy McCall and some other guys (whose names escape me at the moment) some of the artwork that's been done for this book. I gotta tell ya, the artwork is great. I don't recall the name of the artist either (doh! I really suck at names), but if the artwork is any indica...

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Hi again. I've been reading the Genius O.C.C. from BTS2, as suggested by Richter, and I have a doubt: that system is thought for a character without any other O.C.C., right? Then I think that using it would just give players [free] higher skill scores, instead of letting them customize their charac...

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Well for bursts, surprisingly the generic rules listed in the old Rifts books hold true. A short burst on real modern weapons is usually 20% of the clip. So just do a little division. I noticed this DOESNT apply to the listed #'s of rounds used in a short burst in the new BTS book. Its a minor easil...

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So about the modern weapon dmg and the listings in BTS... None of those damages listed are even remotely close to any of the past Palladium products. The damage ratings have gone way way up it looks like. Now I understand BTS 2nd Ed and Rifts UE are the "new" rulesets for Palladium, but Ri...

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A really really easy fix for this? Just steal the Genius tables from BTS 2nd Edition. Let a player roll "extra" PPE (following the Ordinary Person dice) and blow that on the Genius table, so you can buy some skill %'s etc. Shouldnt unbalance anything, they prolly cant buy more than 1 or 2,...

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You know what happens to lairing bogeymen, dar'ota, and dybbuks when the SWAT team kicks in their door? The monsters die from concetrated machinegun fire, like everyone else does. That has got to be one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. Had people in the next cubicle asking me what w...

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What about the inclusion of support NPCs like guys who whip up explosives and special ammunition, antique peddlars, etc. People the group can tap for a little extra firepower when the going gets tough. "Well, I did whip up a dozen explosive AP rounds, I guess I could sell them to you if you're...

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Sir Neil, Oooo...that Kraken bit won't fit in with my main plotline but....I think I can take from that, thank you. Maybe owning Underseas all these years will FINALLY pay off and be used for something (grats Ocean magic? wth) Appreciate the help folks, this is actually turning into a decent discuss...

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Don't forget that the NPC can be a usefull tool as well. If a particular group is lacking something an NPC can pick up the slack. Just be careful with balance. Your NPC shouldn't be too available or too uberpowerful. But when your group gets in too deep, once in a while it is okay to call in the ca...

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(Gah!? I spent six hours on this and it got eaten! I'll try and reconstruct it, but I gotta go to work in the morning. ) Well, if the game existed in a vacuum you'd be 100% correct, but smart play can make up for a lack of raw firepower. It can. But smart playing starts by not lacking firepower. As...

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To reply to some comments Believe me, I want the party to have at least 1 "heavy hitter", however, we don't have alot of players, and im never gonna force someone into a class, they all had character ideas, and none of the, turned out to be heavy combatants. The closest thing we have is an...

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So I have 2 issues with the BTS setting i'm hoping I can get some assistance on. I'm a new Gm to BTS as a setting, and everyone in this game is new to the setting as well. I also havent played in a fully fledged BTS game before. With that knowledge out of the way, here are my 2 concerns I'd apprecia...

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Buy all 3 of the BTS books if ya can find em.

The worst case is, you won't like the game setting and won't wanna play.
Those books are good for the read alone, kinda like Juicer Uprising, you can just read parts of em to kill time and love it.

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Yaknow what would rock

Create a Psionic force wall behind someone, cast CoA on the psi wall, and boo scare them into it =p

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Everything I could add to this has already been said.

However, I feel it important to say

Venus Wars was complete total crap. I couldnt stand that anime, and I want those 2 hours of my life back, along with the $3 I blew renting it.

BOORRRIINNGGG.

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you all have missed the attraction its one of the few character classes that can have hand to hand commando. sure there are others but not many. Both Gunslinger and Gunfighter can have Hand to Hand commando. so that's not an issue. Neither of those clowns DESERVE HtH commando. There is NO excuse fo...

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HtH Assassin has a total of +3 to strike with guns at level 15.

I think its neat personally, now if only it wasn't evil restricted

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Could everyone post the books and page #'s everyones favorite pistols are coming from?

I've been killing myself taking notes on all this trying to look them all up in my library heh.

Also, I like the CP-30 and Triax Pump Pistol, classics are nice.

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Dead Boy wrote:Question: Ok, guys. Just to be absolutely clear about this, I should take a pen and X out the entire second paragraph under the Battle Magus' PPE section?

Correct

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The more Bruce Campbell the better!

He makes everything better

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Am I the only one who LIKES his outfit?

HE DOESNT NEED PANTS

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What you mean a level 1 character shouldn't have access to 30 spells?

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Ok, realizing I couldn't be the ONLY person to see the horrid typo in FoM (first printing) I did a search of the forums first for my answers. And I almost got them! damn... Ok so, the section under P.P.E. for the battle magus is a typo. They arn't spell capped via level, and don't get to select 10 o...

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Hrmmm when I used to live in CA, I carried 2 knives, a 14inch weighted dowl rod and I wore weighted gloves, all were visable enough to not be considered concealed weapons, and I never had a problem.

Also, home defense is always nice, you can have whatever in your house

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Sentinel wrote:
Sightblinder wrote:
Sentinel wrote:I have the unique position of agreeing with the folks who feel that BtS2 left out too much integral stuff, while liking the fluff-text and the new material at the same time.

I feel the same way, so you're not unique in that regard

And now we are two...

Make that 3

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Dustin, Yeah, no worries on that, I wasnt trying to stack HtH's or nothing. My problem was all the "skills" I was losing due to my choices. IE: I'd have alot less skills than characters who made other choices, simply because of repeating abilities. Made it hard to customize the character. I made a s...

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Thanks for the responses guys. I've tried looking the 1st Edition and the Boxed Nightmares set but I've had no luck. It seems they're not in the online catalog either. I did however get ahold of Rifter 31 and I've decided to use a variant of it with some local touches. Macistan Wow! That adventure ...

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Good site, thank you for posting that.

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The second I read Organitech equipment, I asked myself

"Did this start the splicers idea? because this is good!"

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How do you handle multiple HTH's? Like the guy I made last night, has the military basic program, so he gets HtH Basic. Then he has Espionage package, so now he knows Martial Arts I gave him HtH assassin, costing 1 open skill point. So I should have 1 open for military and 1 for espionage, or a 15% ...

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Just got my copy of SF in from my local game store. What a great written simply game it is! A classic story, with a new twist, and simple rules, I love it. If I have any complaint at all, its the skill program rules can often make you "lose" alot of skills if ya pick anything that overlaps, but othe...

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I have the utmost respect for all soldiers in the armed forces, and im sorry to hear we've lost one.

Bless him for defending our country

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I honestly wonder if theres more than a handful of D&D GM's in the world who know how to handle a level one party. These posts here, and showing me, there isnt give out more XP for roleplaying and don't ahve as many fights. last few times I GM'ed the party was level 2 before the first fight. .....

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and I have to say, I love how its written so far. All the tie-ins with real life events and explanations into real life to game material is top notch. So heres my question I'm not done with the book yet but, I've seen ALOT of complaints of missing important items from 2nd ed that 1st ed had. I know ...

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I honestly wonder if theres more than a handful of D&D GM's in the world who know how to handle a level one party.

These posts here, and showing me, there isnt

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You loose accuracy because lasers make no noise. Now let me explain this, you see, when you fire the JA12 your character automatically goes: "Pshooo" or "Zap" or "Bang", etc, to make up for the lack of noise. Making such sounds in rapid succession throws off his or her accuracy. ~ Josh ( ) This is ...

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New Gm to BTS, 2 questions

Stupid Battle Magus question (yes THAT question)

Just got the book

So im reading BTS2...