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What are the major differences between the RPG Now version of After the Bomb and the version available for sale here on the site in hard copy? Are they as different as Palladium Fantasy 1st and 2nd? Or are they very close rules-wise? Thank you. There are two versions available on RPG Now. This one....

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I did a "you start with nothing" game once, as a bit of a surprise to the players. Basically they were all assigned to a remote guard post at the end of a big war. Surprise, their side lost, and now they are on their own, with only the clothes on their backs and a few pieces of personal ge...

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There's a bit of an unwritten rule about NPC's... ...which I will now write. NPC's are not PC's, so they don't follow the same rules. Or in other words, all NPC's cheat. Some are made intentionally weak to be easier to defeat. Others, mostly those who have names, are made stronger than any starting ...

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What OCC's were you thinking of? A mutant Glitterboy or Ley Line Walker should be right out of the question.

But really the existing background and apprenticeships can be tweaked pretty far with out deviating fully from the system.

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Brief addendum. I was slightly mistaken, last game we did was actually a Ninja's and Superspies variant. In N&SS SDC recovery is 5 points per hour of solid rest, instead of the 4-6 per day as by the AtB book. If you want a more grind friendly game try that rate of SDC recovery. I'd keep HP recov...

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SDC is, well, SDC. Some minor bruising, or a metaphorical "wearing down of defenses" if you prefer. Sort of a "you parried that blow, but it took a lot out of you. A few more like that and he'll really hit you". I never worried about it until you got into HP damage. That's DAMAGE...

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A mark as proof of sentience is a good idea. Though I've always considered that those who live their entire lives in a society of sentient and non-sentient mutants would learn to be able to tell the difference. I covered it a bit in a story I wrote... http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic....

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Here's the base book... m It's the latest revision, informally known as After the Bomb 2 around here (I tend to abbreviate it as AtB2). It condenses most of the animal psionics into one book, so you don't have to collect all the old books for those. It greatly expands on the animal abilities from th...

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http://www.the-gutters.com/comic/110-caroline-monaco

That is all.

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I tend to keep things more simple than that. Mutant Tiger can't control himself and kills a mutant Sheep, he get's charged with murder of a fellow sentient by the local comunity. Treated no differently than if a Sheep murdered another Sheep for some other reason. Starvation is a non-issue since I ne...

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Re-read the AtB2 alignment descriptions. It very specifically says that those of good alignment would never hunt/eat sentient mutants for food. Diabolic Evil on the other hand, they'd prefer their prey be sentient. Another thing to remember, unless you take the dietary restriction vestigial disadvan...

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This isn't really an AtB question, but more of a general RPG thing. It sure seems like a lot of players get the books, skim a bit until they find the character creation section, and never get around to actually fully reading the rest of the darn book. Whenever I get a new RPG book the very first thi...

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Ok, they're starting to post it officially...
http://4kidstv.com/turtles-forever/turt ... gn=2009-12

Part 1 and 2 seem to be up, part 3 should be up soon.

And it looks like they'll post a "Directors Cut" version on the 16th...
http://www.4kids.tv/buzz/view/world-exc ... directors-

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I was hoping that 4kids.tv or hulu.com would have it available on-line by now, but no such luck. It's up on megavideo... m but the darn free bandwidth is about 3 minutes shorter than the length of the show. I think someone also posted it up on youtube, but in short segments. All in all I liked it, a...

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As an occasional muzzleloader hunter, I could see classifying a caplock as slightly slower. There's an extra component and step to consider in the reload phase. For a flintlock you measure powder, pour in powder, get patch and ball from your ammo satchel, place patch and ball, pull ramrod, tap down ...

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Part of me thinks this is kind of cool. Another part of me wants to run away as fast as I can to hide from it.

(caution, title may be pushing a bit above PG13)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOAPKxqutv8

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It's sort of balanced by bonuses, with the game giving a rather high value to Bio-E. Your Feral mutant get's jack squat for skills, but a nice Bio-E bonus that should allow him to get that extra psionic ability, or natural weapon that the more skilled character can't afford with out dropping to a ve...

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Looks like I'll have to pick up Rifter 41 now. How many new apprenticeships are in it?

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I like it. Colors I'd give as a freebie, except for maybe camouflage (since that already costs Bio-E for snakes, go with that cost, or maybe a bit less, always though that was too expensive to begin with). I could see a lot of the stereotypical anime cliches showing up. Mutant cats with bright pink ...

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This one is a bit longer than those posted so far, and is really a Part 1 of a series I've been thinking of writing. If there's interest I'll continue it in a separate thread. John Moonhowler of the Pawnee Wolf tribe crawled carefully up to the top of the hill. The deerskin pants, long flowing black...

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At that point, you may as well remove the option of "partial hands" and "partial biped," give everybody full speech, hands, and hips, remove the extra nipples and just make the game straight-up furry. Actually, AtB2 adds many useful things for less mutated characters. Hand to Ha...

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Ok, I'm seriously thinking of starting a "Buy macksting a copy of AtB2" fund. Anyone want to contribute?

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Here's a fun link...
5 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Apocalypse Could Actually Happen
(caution, adult language warning, TV MA).

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With the original TMNT rules, we kept ending up with 3-4ft tall characters. So the standard "trench coat and hat" trick didn't work. A child's hooded rain coat seemed to do the job.

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Did anyone else have a Beyond Thunderdome flashback?

I like the train idea, gives the option of having players preventing, or pulling off, train robberies.

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I have a few ideas for nomads, I just need to get them written down. I just need to flesh a few things out. Take your pick of the following... Tech level.... Very primitive. Walking place to place, using few tools, general distrust of technology. Low tech. Walking, possibly riding something, or bein...

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A wacky idea, maybe not class worthy, but could be a useful NPC. Consider the fact that the modern dairy cow is nearly completely domesticated. Through selective breeding (and I we can assume future genetic tinkering in this setting), a dairy cow produces more milk than a calf can consume. In fact, ...

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Let's look at the numbers. Do the population numbers look like every animal was mutated? Not even close. Bingo. Lets go with something easily counted (and slightly on-topic), the number of cows in the U.S.. Accorind to here... m In 2002 there were about 94.5 MILLION cows in the U.S. Something to co...

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Pretty good. Though I always had the impression that the Free Cattle you'd run into around the main setting area (Cardinia) were a bit more, er, standoff'ish, than a simple peaceful investigation team. Plus you're down playing the influance of Weschek. He seems like a real trouble maker for the surr...

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Here's a the full size map, all ready for download.
http://members.aol.com/fubarius/freecattle/ATB.jpg

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Well, AtB1 is very, very short. A page of character creation, 9 pages total of setting background, 30 pages of adventures, and 3 pages of random encounters. It's labeled as a suppliment and that's all it really is, you can't even make a character with out a copy of TMNT. Nearly all the details of th...

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More proof of the existence of non-mutant animals, as well as non-sentient, partially mutated animals can be found in the Wilderness Encounter Table, pg 186, AtB2. 16-25% "Non-Sentient Non-Mutated Animal." Basic plain everyday ordinary animal. No intelligence. No weird mutations. GM says t...

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You can also prune information from this thread: m yeah, forgot about that one. maybe we can combine some of the proposed ideas from there? add a failing Arcology somewhere in the region oh..oh... Arcosanti arcology in the making! or maybe expand on Biosphere 2 ? or maybe both, plenty of space for ...

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Well, you'd have to know what genes are needed to cause such super powers. Not exactly common knowledge. It would be like taking your average mechanics tool set and converting your family car for trans-atmospheric flight.

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I like your take on it. Though your Road Hogs area is too big. The map in the RH book realy covers only a small area. I'm working on a map showing the exact size.

EDIT:

Here's the map (click on link, no image tags

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http://members.aol.com/fubarius/freecat ... adhogs.jpg

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I rather enjoyed this one...
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=266

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Off the top of my head: - The education tables are more in line with the setting, gone are the days when 1 in 4 characters had ninja training. - More options to mutate your character, with extra powers and more natural weapon varieties. - Thowbacks, Purebreeds and Chimeras, for some wild mutant fun...

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Depends also on what you're 'spotting'. If it's someone hiding, generally it's not the players roll, it's the guy hiding doing a prowl roll. If he fails the roll, the player spots him. If its a clue or random item, it'd just use plot. If the player is supposed to find it, let him find it. Nothing mo...

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Granted the text is vague, but I never got the impression Fencing required WP Sword as a prerequisite before it was useful. It's a teaching of "Hand to Hand Weapon," a somewhat ridiculous statement which (to me) implies a weapon proficiency. Thoughts? Well, technically Fencing is a sport....

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Lets think of it this way; Would "Furries", who like things BECAUSE there's anthro animals in them, enjoy AtB? Sure, you bet. Would people who don't particulary care about anthro animals one way or the other find things they'd enjoy in AtB? Most deffinatly. I consider myself in this group....

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TMNT Adventures deffinatly had the death trap adventure in it (as well as some other good adventures). However, there is a chance you're remembering flipping through one of the Grimtooth's Traps books. It's not a TMNT suppliment, but a series of universal suppliments. It's filled front to back with ...

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Scholastic skills are superior to secondary skills in their breadth and quality of knowledge. Secondary skills are intended to be picked up by self-teaching and trial and error, while scholastic skills are intended to be learned through study and represent a formal education. Being trained for a mo...

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In modern animal processing very little is ever wasted. Meat, hides, fat, hooves, bones, all have a monetary value and are saved. There's even a product called "mechanically separated meat" which is exactly what it sounds like, where a machine removes all the little bits and pieces of meat...

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If AtB2 has clear references to nonsentient animals in random encounter rolls, that's really, really important. From the wilderness encounter table from AtB2: 16-25% Non-Sentient Non-mutated Animal (or for your average carnivor, dinner ) 26-30% Non-Sentient Psionic Animal (imagine a skunk that you ...

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So here is an ethical question. If your character has Horsemanship (of any kind), and your bought mount is intelligent (or semi-intelligent) would there have to be alignment penalties or restrictions for keeping the mount. After all it is a form of enslavement if Mr. Ed want his freedom, but you ju...

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The lack of horsemanship always bugged me a bit too. Of course it could just be the mutant Horses complaining about the subjugation of their non-mutant brothers. In ATB2 there's sporatic referances to non-mutant animals (animal control and animal speech psionics, teamster apprenticeship, trapping sk...

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I like them, though I'd like some clarification on "cowboy" skills for those of us without easy access to the Rifts Game Masters Guide (or as my roommate calls his, the "Big Book of Rifts'ness"). What are the odd of us getting a Backgrounds and Apprenticeships sticky? I have a fe...

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Give them a bonus to save vs. pain to start. I'd have the automatic save for a few more bio-e, maybe 10 or 15. Maybe let them function down to like -20 HP.

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I was looking for a site/program like that a while ago when tinkering with a new North American map. I was right on some of my ideas about Florida.

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Time to throw some SL14 Mutant Mastiffs with crushing strength (if you're using ATB2) into the New Kennel ranks. Easily done in ATB2, and in the older systems, the GM is allowed to cheat when making NPC's

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