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Given that the power explicitly states "Saving Throw: Dodge or parry as usual" then you get your dodge or parry, as usual. Now it is possible to make a judgement call that certain situations warrant an exception to the standard rule... but as written if they could defend against the punch ...

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In the case of silver and such is extra damage done or does one stay with what is printed in page 183 of Rifts Ultimate Edition for Telekinetic Acceleration Attack? Both. The base damage is invariant. But some things take more or less damage than rolled based on resistance or weakness or whatever. ...

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I get that there is a desire to grant a robot a saving throw. But I am trying to parse out what the RAW, not what the R0 fix is. RAW it seems to me that unless your a type4 Robot that has "become alive" as some are said to do... your not alive. And as a not-alive thing your a non-livining ...

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So discussion elsewhere. RUE page 189 says "Non-Living Objects do not get saves". Seems simple enough. But then we get the optional Robot RCC. Do these really not get saves? as I read it... all type 3 do not all type 4 start with out but some become alive and get them. Basically... are non...

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There is a table in the Dyval and Hades books that you can roll on when something dies to find out what happens. usually the body is destroyed but sometimes a small bit of bone is left behind. I would, myself, interpret this as applying to severed limbs as well. Unless of course your in the apropria...

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Also remember the attacking psionic doesn't know if you failed the save either.
unless the power offers direct evidence... you have to take it on faith.
This applies to spells, gas attacks, etc

eliakon

I would say that you can't stack penalties unless they say they stack.

There is no canon statements either way on if you detect psionic attacks but given that you have to suspect you are being probed telepathically and not warned... I would imagine there is no warning per se.

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Given that the invasion would have been 30 years in the past. And given the overwhelming force, numbers, advantages etc... I would imagine that the world is basically dead. Its like a bleaker Nightlands. Empty cities prowled by a few feral Dopplegangers and the ocasional human or nightbane survivor ...

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I am not sure that air/water etc will pass through a mystic portal. I used to... but then we got the Rifts Underseas telling us that enviromental factors dont travel. And the use of Mystic Portal as breaching systems would be...fraught if you had to fight the hurricane force winds of decompression. ...

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Rifts Underseas, Page 63, "Characters who cannot speak aloud can concentrate very deeply, saying the incantation in their mind, but can only cast one spell per melee round and it counts as three melee actions. The spoken word is really a means of focus and delivery, the magic energy is present...

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I will point out that later books have allowed it to be used for torture and murder.
So there is some leeway in what it can do from the base description

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Armageddon Unlimited pg 72 says this "Deevil Object" casts spells at 9th level, but pg 149 of HU2's "power level of the enchanted object" only has levels 4/5/6/7 as options. Also wondering if this would also mean that Energy Expulsion: Dimensional Energy is used at 9th level too...

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As a thought: What if you could use Ley Lines and Nexuses to supply the "permanent" PPE/HP/SDC? They're wellsprings of phenomenal power, after all. RAW you can't do that. The Ley Lines are not the caster and can't consent to pay the price even if they were . Now sure, if a GM wants to mak...

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It really depends on how powerful the GM wants that spell to be. It is already one of the top defensive spells in the game. If you want to make it stop a Psi-Sword then you can interpret it as doing that. If you want it to not stop a Psi-Sword then you can interpret it as doing that We already know ...

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Range: Touch or 3 feet away
It does *Not* say "Self" which other spells that can be cast on oneself say.
Thus I would say... it can't be cast on oneself

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It looks to me like the pigeon goes to the location and then... waits there for the duration before fading away.

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if the food is either permanently charmed (such as the nature magic eggs), or was a temporary conjuration (such as bread and milk) then sure, its an ongoing spell effect and it detects as such. if it is a one and done spell with no long term effects then probably not... but the example spells create...

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maybe a form of ritual magic in which you can have people donate HP/SDC and not just PPE. This would allow the "purchaser" to be linked to the golem they buy while 'paying the tab' for its creation. Mostly though I think its an example of "this is a neat idea we had but its the Rifter...

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The (unofficial) spell, likely requires a special ritual to avoid the vampire bone from being destroyed. Officially there is a mention of a vampire bone weapon in Black Vault though, but again its likely a special process to make it. Possibly horrifically similar to the way that Demon/Devil items ar...

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a device placed in their clothing or such should work if its small (a tracer bug for instance).
Given that vampires appear to morph their clothing it may or may not morph as well... total GM call there

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You don't have to be heard to cast the spell.
Just able to actually speak the spell.
Ergo any mask that allows you to speak allows you to cast.

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Leather Working could allow you to make leather body armor. If you're using M.D.C. hide, that armor can also be M.D.C. RUE 324 Skilled at tanning, preserving, and working with animal hides, fur, and leather to make leather goods such as clothing, capes, caps bags, purses, boots, shoes, belts, and e...

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Can Helpful spells be cast on a Shadow Beast? sure you can cast helpful spells with a range of other than "self" on anyone who you want. If they don't want the buff the rules seem to allow a saving throw (this is debated) The only possible exception is if the spell is antithetical to the ...

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Is there anything in any of the PF books about the demons (Hades) and infernals (Dyval) relationship to the old ones? Do we know if they served them or fought against them in the war? What about the lords of either realm? If there is nothing in the books I will take best guesses or head canon from ...

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Leather Working could allow you to make leather body armor. If you're using M.D.C. hide, that armor can also be M.D.C. RUE 324 Skilled at tanning, preserving, and working with animal hides, fur, and leather to make leather goods such as clothing, capes, caps bags, purses, boots, shoes, belts, and e...

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NeuroStim implants (Coalition Manhunters) won't work on Juicers or Crazies. Those augmentation process destroy the psionic potential the NeuroStim activates. But the Juicer process doesn't destroy natural psionics. If successfully detoxified, would a NeuroStim implant work on the former Juicer? As ...

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yigoro8733 wrote:I'm sure I remember reading about a Deevil illegitimate son of Mephisto who is a Godling with Phase Powers. I just can't for the life of me remember which book this is in. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Wahs Darb, Scion of Mephistio. Dyval book page 190

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The CS does not have Glitter boys in part Free Quebec and the NRG would not sell Glitter boys to the Coalition states. Even when Free Quebec would not manufacture and export them to other CS states. Free Quebec was only suppose to maintain their current Glitter Boys with their factories not expand ...

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RAW they couldn't. Personally I'd allow gods and alien intelligences to override that rule so you could end up with a TA vampire lord. However I wouldn't allow a vampire intelligence to override the rule so any TA vampire lords in a game I ran would have been cursed (or rewarded) to be that way (de...

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MA and PB might be "dump stats" for roll-players, but role-players tend to like them. You can also roleplay having very low MA and PB. Two sides of the same coin. Can't really roleplay a low PE. You just die quickly. Reminding everyone of your frailty in conversation would get old soon. M...

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The other issue that is not being addressed here is that it highly depends on how the table works. I have rarely seen a game group where everyone rolls straight stats and regardless of what they get plays it. Instead even in groups where you roll stats in order, I have yet to see a group that does ...

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And a single attribute below 7 grants a bonus of 1d4+3 to the attribute of your choice... thats big enough that I have had players *try* to get a low stat to buff another stat. So, as you mention getting a PB of 7 (a whopping -5% to a handful of skills) you can add 1d4+3 to IQ or PP... Except we ca...

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And the bonuses don't scale the same way the penalties do...which also provide bonuses where as a high stat doesn't penalize anything. Penalties don't provide bonuses anywhere near enough to compensate for what they take away. IQ annihilates your OCC skills, and gives you secondaries in return. Tha...

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I think the problem here is that you've gotten used to the "YES YOU CAN!!" D20 system, where bonuses start at 12. Nope. 12 would be idiotic. All I'm suggesting is probabilistically balancing out the penalty range of 3-7 (or , with a bonus range of 14-18. Since a clear majority here doesn'...

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RAW they couldn't. Personally I'd allow gods and alien intelligences to override that rule so you could end up with a TA vampire lord. However I wouldn't allow a vampire intelligence to override the rule so any TA vampire lords in a game I ran would have been cursed (or rewarded) to be that way (de...

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Offiically nothing.
Unofficially if the GM wants to make more bones useful they can start assigning properties to bones pretty much as they please.
note that "union with the dead" and an actual dogs nose (or better the entire snout) would be a different story entirely...

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What's an example of a spell with a duration which, if cast upon a Psi-Stalker, doesn't befoul their senses? Sensory stuff like See the Invisible or Eyes of the Wolf? Fly as the Eagle? How about a Familiar Link summoned from a scroll read via Eyes of Thoth? none of them. Active magic is active magi...

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This also sets aside the fact that while you can roll up a character with five stats under 7... you are probably not going to actually play them which messes up the distribution curve a lot.

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Point of order.
There *are* skills, martial art forms, and other things, both official and unofficial that can provide bonuses to mental stats.

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maybe he's caught asking erin tarn for an autograph Lady Prosek IS Erin Tarn dude Where do you get this idea? I've heard two other people espouse it, I just haven't seen any evidence. This is Sparta Fannon we don't need pesky "facts" or "evidence" here nor feeble logic... We use...

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on page 151 in the galaxy guide it mentions the number of hack rolls needed to get thru passively and the pen for it. this infomation is completely missing is there an errata someplace that adds this chart? i tried searching for it and find nothing. Try Rifter #2 Hacking, Cyberjacking and Supernatu...

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RAW they couldn't. Personally I'd allow gods and alien intelligences to override that rule so you could end up with a TA vampire lord. However I wouldn't allow a vampire intelligence to override the rule so any TA vampire lords in a game I ran would have been cursed (or rewarded) to be that way (de...

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I would say that if a VI *really* wants an Atlantean Vampire... it can use its Prototypical Deific powers to do so. But its going to be using a *lot* of PPE and likely an investment of a chunk of its DC and HP to do so... Short of the VI choosing to play the "I am a god" card... no you can...

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A lot of Palladium's games share powers in the Healing/Physical/Sensitive and sometimes Super/Master categories. Sometimes the category of a power varies from game to game. We'll ignore the outlier categories from Rifts and BTS2 for now. (Mind Bleeder, Hydro-Psionics, Fire-walker/Pyrokinetic, Machi...

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I would also point out that many demons and such have bio-regneration. But that the ability to regrow eyes/limbs is a separate ability that is called out when it exists. This is for example the canonical reason that broadkill can get cybernetics... There's a reference to supernatural creature heali...

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Do you mean facade, when they look human, they are not detectable? you said in morphus... yeah that is what I meant Facade is mortal Morphous is Supernatural Supernatural Being or Creature of Magic? Since they are immortal and not born I think they would more likely fall into the Supernatural Being...

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Interesting bit in the Titan Robotics book. The Mecvhanoids are always referred to as "The Devourers". This is with respect to their tech, the invasion and fighting Archie and Hagan did against them, and even in the write-ups of Argent Goodson and Diana where their power supplies are list...

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I would also point out that many demons and such have bio-regneration.
But that the ability to regrow eyes/limbs is a separate ability that is called out when it exists.
This is for example the canonical reason that broadkill can get cybernetics...

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Stone Gargoyle wrote:Do you mean facade, when they look human, they are not detectable? you said in morphus...

yeah that is what I meant
Facade is mortal
Morphous is Supernatural

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The Skill Phase Technology I've seen in Dim Book 2 Phase World on Page 181 for "Tiny Tim" as a level 8 Promethean that has a Phase Technology Skill of 95%. From what I determined roughly. 95%-10% (for IQ Bonus)-35% (based on a +5% guesstimated base per level as space mechanics skill is +5...

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