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So this is the same book published 3 decades ago with no new entries so... no weapons from the last.... literal 3 decades?

But "Represent the vast majority of weapons used around the world" ?

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Ehhhh there's things there that definitely make you think that it was at least in part, that. It's been a while but I seem to remember a number of North American sort of things popping up. There's more to it (Like the 100% un-needed addition of the Minion war drek) And the Anarctic jungles and bugs ...

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What is ambiguous about: “We will require everyone attending to wear face masks.”? Palladium/Kevin literally wrote this in the 27 January 2022 weekly update email. If you think Kevin is lying, fine, you have your opinion. But to be clear, I’m fully vaccinated, boosted, going to the POH, and trust K...

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My father died from this a year ago. To act like it's just the flu is beyond stupid. Beyond moronic. It's dangerous. Such stupidity kills people and is killing people to this day. Yes we are still at the height of the pandemic. But people are being desensitized to it. We're not having 'fewer deaths'...

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I just go by the book. As others have pointed out each category tells you what they get. As a GM I'lll allow a bit of lean one way or another. Seldom do people really want to "Enjoy the challenge" of being the lowest powered guy in the group.

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No. Simply no. Nor do I believe someone that had it and who's entire family had it would be putting this forward. That's a lame 'defense' to justify it after the fact. If that were the case you'd have lead in with that. Not come up with it after the fact and when you've been called on it. If you 'kn...

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Palladium retains rights to their cover and art work and what not. It wouldn't cost them anything to include old artwork. They reuse old artwork all the time. What they're doing is just bizarre. They're including material they KNOW to be out of date, in a more up to date book. It's not like they're ...

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I lost my father to the virus, only a few months ago. If someone tried to pitch this to me in real life, as a game, for fun, to sit around and roll dice from and enjoy, and role play out and what not. They would very likely be in the market for expensive dental work. No.. You don't make this into a ...

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I share the same "What the frak?" At the inclusion in this way.

That said ATB is my favorite game. I've got 4 or 5 copies of the soft cover. This one I might actually go out of pocket to have the hard cover on it. Even with the 'bonus material' being ... strange.

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Short version, We've not heard many new details about the mutant animals after Lone Star. We do know that during the Tolkeen war they ramped up production of the dog boys and pumped out like a million of them. But the details you're looking fore aren't really out there. There is some hope though, Ri...

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Some interesting things in this thread. To answer the OP: yeah just let "lockpicking" cover it. We have so so so so many skills already. We don't need 14 different ones for geting through a door. As to the rest. I can't remember the last time I had a PC with out one or more Vibro/Energy m...

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Some interesting things in this thread. To answer the OP: yeah just let "lockpicking" cover it. We have so so so so many skills already. We don't need 14 different ones for geting through a door. As to the rest. I can't remember the last time I had a PC with out one or more Vibro/Energy me...

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I think, and they can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the implication in the OP, is that a Reserve chute will dump you a lot harder than a main chute. You might not die, but you're coming in pretty hot with a reserve chute deployment.

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That's a lot of questions and a lot of thought into the skill. A bit more micro-managing than I would put into it personally. I can see how you're getting from A to B on it and all. At most if my char was packing his own chute, I'd give them a roll to do so. Then a roll to check to make sure they di...

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As to the concept. One of my first two chars was a Dog boy CK. (I made them both in the same weekend like 30 years ago so I can't quiiite remember of the Dogboy CK was first or the Wilderness scout. but one was followed by the other in a day or so) I can't remember exactly how we 'ruled' on it back ...

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snip... It probably would be better to start as a free-born. ...snip Agrees that that this should be 98% limited to free-born Dogboys. Absolutely. A CS pupper would never even think about not being a good boy. They know only what they're trained to know. Now, a veteran doggo may well multiclass lat...

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Actually I was more talking about rolling on the psychic determination table for the Cyber Knight OCC. Not multiclassing. It seems like the majority of Cyber Knights are natural minor psychics. Is this correct? Also, are the natural Master Psionic Cyber Knights like potential Mind Melters that did ...

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Actually I was more talking about rolling on the psychic determination table for the Cyber Knight OCC. Not multiclassing. It seems like the majority of Cyber Knights are natural minor psychics. Is this correct? Since at the minimum, all CK's have three powers (Sword, Shield, and Meditation) I'd say...

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It's not multiclassing at all. This is directly addressed in the RUE. (Do note that the CK book is a bit wonky here just giving 1-80% as Majors. 91-100 as 'none' but then on the same page lists off differences for Minor, Major and Master. The CK book also only gives +1D6 to the CK's PSi sword at lvl...

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Again why make a world war one tank when they can easily make on M1 Abrams. Why make an M1 Abrams when you can order tons of them from Golden Age Weaponsmiths, get them cheap because they're outdated, pre-MDC technology, and then TW modify them to be on par with modern high-tech tanks for a fractio...

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*sighs* Lazlo is a Magic kingdom. Not a tech one. You seem to have picked up lazlo when you were reaching for NG or the Titan robotics book. Both. It's both. That's where techno-wizardry comes from, combining both. Arguably the fact they're known for techno-wizardry should strongly imply they have ...

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I always got a "modernized paladin" feel from them. You mean... like the Jedi Order? You guys can make fun and grin and wink if you like, but I was 13 when Rifts landed and it was 100% clear what the CK were back then, and it hasn't changed in the 30 years following. Could they have other...

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Not trying to put words into anyone's mouth, but any of the OCC's start with tens of thousands if not millions of credits worth of gear. MD armor, in and of itself is very expensive. MD Weapons as well. Now that assumes you use the absurdity that is the Rifts Credit's/costs for things. But that migh...

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the living cyber armor isn't game breaking (its not like a CK should be relying on their Cyber-Armor for protection). Depends on how well equipped the party is, really. If GM enforces repair costs and doesn't reward with huge loots, self-healing armor like this would be SUPER useful even with an AR...

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*sighs* Lazlo is a Magic kingdom. Not a tech one. You seem to have picked up lazlo when you were reaching for NG or the Titan robotics book. Both. It's both. That's where techno-wizardry comes from, combining both. Arguably the fact they're known for techno-wizardry should strongly imply they have ...

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i mean, i know that and you know that, but man the rules are just super-jank, and if we have to throw out the implications and build something else so i can streamline combat enough that i don't wince when i'm trying to teach the game to someone that wants an energy sword "like in the movies&q...

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So much imo needs to be rewritten. Lazlo being surronded by enemies and thinking they don't need an army. If they think making inferior items will make their enemies think twice about invading guess again. The last thing I want to see is a repeat of mages being arrogant to a stupid degree just like...

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So much imo needs to be rewritten. Lazlo being surronded by enemies and thinking they don't need an army. They have an army. Just going off what I've seen here and discussed on facebook, not only do they have an army, they have enough of an army that they can deploy it to aid others, in other dimen...

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I think you guys are looking perhaps a bit too deep into it. We all know what the CK's are an 'Homage' to. Just like we know 'why' they have Psi-swords. We also know how worried Palladium is about copy write. And the "No conversion" Policy. The CK's are a clear Homage (Though it can be arg...

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Out of the gate, one thing rubbing me wrong is I was hoping for more expansion on the Lazlo material seen in the Rifters, rather than overwriting that material. This doesn't bother me. Rifter stuff isn't canon. It was a nice couple of articles but this is a full book. The Raw alone is over 100 page...

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I just had a re-read of the class, and I must say that the "hand crafted" part that is so ardently used as a defense against mass production is not actually supported by the rules and examples given in the book. To quote some construction examples. Tree trimmer requirements: an opal worth...

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That's a big post. I will say I like the idea of 'merging' two smaller swords into 'one sword' as an option. That would do it for me. Many knights might use two swords, or a sword and hand axe, etc. While some would use a single larger sword. With the option to 'merge' them, it.... 1) Allows for mor...

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I don't see a reason to assume that Hotrod was addressing anyone specific. Master Psychic Cyber-Knights, per RUE pg 64, receive +1d6 to Psi-Sword damage at levels 2, 5, 9, and 13 in additon to the progression followed by all C-Ks. Ahhh they've changed that. I was looking at the Cyber Knight OCC in ...

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I'm pretty unfamiliar with Technowizards. I kind of skimmed through the class 30 years ago and never looked at it again. I'm curious on the "hand made" aspect of the build process, as what they are building are still metal constructs virtually identical to technological counterparts. So, ...

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Personally I think the Matter Expulsion powers need to be modified to have the armor unavailable for a length of time after it is destroyed or takes damage to allow it to be regenerated similar to APS powers. I don't disagree with you what so ever. I'm just pointing out RAW. Which is another 'stran...

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A master psionic Cyber-Knight gets a bonus to psi-sword damage. A native of Psyscape can double the effectiveness of one power. Make Psi-Sword that power. By level 10, you'll be doing 14D6 per hit. By level 15, you'll do 20D6 per hit. Plus you can make two of them and dual-strike. If you prefer to ...

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Things to keep in mind: -CK-Psi-Sword is NOT a Super Psionic Power. In order to select the regular Psi-Sword one must be a Master psychic (@3rd level), of which few Cyber-Knights are (and those that are do get a boost to CK-Sword damage, this though is a RUE/SoT retcon not present in RMB version). ...

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Crystals are Hard.....however, because they are Hard, that also means they are Brittle. ( m ) That is why a fine/small crystal is optimal for blades. There are more 'gaps' between the crystals to allow the metal crystals to move about, so the metal (as a whole) is allowed to flex without deforming ...

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What gets me about the ME powers is, the armor, if depleted or destroyed, can be instantly reapplied, good as new and with a full set of SDC. No it can't. The armor in PU1 doesn't have stats. Having it on gives you bonuses, including HP and SDC bonuses, to YOUR stats. At least the STONE/META/?CRYST...

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Yeah it ties into the sniper conundrum. Sooner or later people figure out that a lot of RP Hassle can be dodged by sniping enemies from far off. In rifts it's even more effective. Lasers have no kick. You can't see the beam, are silent and have (Nearly) The best range in the game. Y. True...however...

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Yeah it ties into the sniper conundrum. Sooner or later people figure out that a lot of RP Hassle can be dodged by sniping enemies from far off. In rifts it's even more effective. Lasers have no kick. You can't see the beam, are silent and have (Nearly) The best range in the game. Y. This is myth, ...

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Follow up question. The CK can instantly create their Psi Sword. That's a given. Other psychics have the psi-sword ability, but it takes a full melee to conjure? How many of you enforce that full melee 'creation' time, or do you just let the psychic spend the ISP and have the sword? Second Follow up...

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1. Many animals are psychic , and have PPE. 2. A psi-stalker could find a kinky mage who's into being chased down, tied up, and cut. 3. Psi-Stalkers can feed from ley lines, but it tastes bad. 4. I assume that CS psi-stalkers feed on their Dog Pack. 25% of the human population is psychic, and in th...

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I am looking forward to the Lazlo book and to look into it, to be able to debate the finer aspects with people here. That said, a friend and I spoke about the "Mass production" Of TW stuff the other day. We got into an argument about it. I didn't realize at the time it came from this threa...

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it is also worth noting that the only part that absolutely requires a single TW is the imbuing with the spells and magic.. most of the gross assembly parts with the wire, crystals, bits of tech hardware, etc ought to be doable by any TW off a schematic or blueprint. so you could do a henry ford typ...

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There ya go! I like it.

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Is this better? Alter Physical Structure: Photonic Being/Hologram (Major) by Stone Gargoyle This is in the brotherhood of APS Force Fields and APS Light. This power allows the hero to convert his body into photons and force fields. 1. Size and Strength: Unchanged 2. SDC: As a being made up of force...

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Yep. For this exact reason.

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It depends on the movie/book/game etc. Some have lightning fast infections, some take a bit longer. Very few have 'slow burns'. But you do see them. Usually in the "Jerk was bitten and hid it" Trope and they 'turn' when no one expects it and usually gets people killed. Some (Many?) Have a ...

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It's already more dangerous than most notice. in Palladium/HU "Acid" as in APS Acid, for some reason, won't hurt people. It's like getting water squirted in your eyes or something. It'll melt non living things but living things are fine. The stuff from Chemical Secretion flat out is letha...

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