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Make it so, people.

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Our friend Natasha opened a group on Facebook which was going to be used for a summer collaboration project for lazlosociety.org but it never got off the ground. Since I so rarely come to the forums and some of the other folks never do, Facebook seemed like a good idea at the time. If you are intere...

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I vote for black text on white background.
Also you're using the colour for non-visited link that is traditionally used for already-visited link. I wouldn't do that.

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We'd have to remove the joke from it, or wait until next year. Removing the joke would probably kill it since it was clearly an April Fool's (unlike some of the ones we've done in the past (maybe)). And I don't plan on waiting until next year. The basic premise was that Katja woke up one morning to ...

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Ours fell apart and I blame The Girl for it, absolutely 100%.

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My guess is the OP poster doesn't have the book; otherwise he might have mentioned it rather than Shadowrun. Also, not everybody prefers cross-game solutions. At least I know I don't. It isn't cross-game. All PB's are just Rifts sourcebooks... in MY opinion. That's cool. My personal experience is t...

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My guess is the OP poster doesn't have the book; otherwise he might have mentioned it rather than Shadowrun.

Also, not everybody prefers cross-game solutions. At least I know I don't.

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I like some of the temporal magic stuff, but don't like that they don't work against the supernatural and such.

I like the one you mentioned. I would add off the top of my head to it Paralysis, Carpet of Adhesion, and Cloud of Slumber.

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I had a operator in one campaign which was more the Gizmoteer than the mechanic, he took the OCC related skills: Robot Mechanics, Vehicle Armorer, Robot Electronics, Computer Programming, Literacy (English), Electronic Countermeasures, Advanced Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (science skill...

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One of the best things about a game like Rifts is you can play anything you want. One of the worst things about a game like Rifts is you can play anything you want. In my experience it's usually only bad when there are players who refuse to accept that they are pretending to be something that they a...

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Sort of tweaked Vagabonds, not too bad; although some of those special class abilities could be skills (don't remember which at the moment) instead. While on the topic of skills, they may too many selections.

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Dustin Fireblade wrote:Actually Rifter #38 has "Cave Men" for the Fantasy setting.

(Sorry just found them while looking for something else)

You have been scooped.

But now I wonder if I have Rifter #38.

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I've never had a Slurmph - I cannot remember how to spell it - in any of my Rifts games as player or GM; however, I rolled one up once but I never had the opportunity to play it.

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Try Sasquatch?

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Shinitenshi wrote:So in your life you have never once been hit with a snowball. a water gun or a bucket of water?

But I dont' consider myself to have exceptional P.P. attribute number.

A game will never match real life, and I don't think it's unreasonable to treat exceptional things exceptionally.

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Forgive me if this has been brought up before but I was having a discussion about Rifts Vampires today and had questions. If a tiny little squirt gun can do 2D6 to a vampire what about me spitting on a vampire? I know this sounds stupid but saliva is over 90% water, and if we want to get technical ...

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I'd go with a meter from nozzle to vampire. Have you ever actually used a squirt gun? Was it one of the cheapies from the county fair that always leaks, can't shoot straight, and can't shoot more than a yard or two? Or was it more like this ? Or was it something even better, something made out of s...

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I think he's talking more about his idea of what vampires should be, rather than what they actually are as presented in Rifts. Incorrect. I have no problem with the running water vulnerability. I simply cannot take seriously that a plastic squirt gun can be used in combat against vampires beyond po...

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Forgive me if this has been brought up before but I was having a discussion about Rifts Vampires today and had questions. If a tiny little squirt gun can do 2D6 to a vampire what about me spitting on a vampire? I know this sounds stupid but saliva is over 90% water, and if we want to get technical ...

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I think he's talking more about his idea of what vampires should be, rather than what they actually are as presented in Rifts. Incorrect. I have no problem with the running water vulnerability. I simply cannot take seriously that a plastic squirt gun can be used in combat against vampires beyond po...

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I think he's talking more about his idea of what vampires should be, rather than what they actually are as presented in Rifts. Incorrect. I have no problem with the running water vulnerability. I simply cannot take seriously that a plastic squirt gun can be used in combat against vampires beyond po...

sasha

Forgive me if this has been brought up before but I was having a discussion about Rifts Vampires today and had questions. If a tiny little squirt gun can do 2D6 to a vampire what about me spitting on a vampire? I know this sounds stupid but saliva is over 90% water, and if we want to get technical ...

sasha

Forgive me if this has been brought up before but I was having a discussion about Rifts Vampires today and had questions. If a tiny little squirt gun can do 2D6 to a vampire what about me spitting on a vampire? I know this sounds stupid but saliva is over 90% water, and if we want to get technical ...

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Welcome.

I can't find the last time this came up but it was a few million posts long.
Conclusion: nobody really knows.

P.S. remove your duplicate post.

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Typically I don't use it because usually we do explorer type campaigns and getting repairs and replacements is kind of impossible for the long range, long duration campaigns. Scaling is already so out of whack that I somewhat arbitrarily use the 1 mega-damage is 10 S.D.C. for armour and vehicles. We...

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Forgive me if this has been brought up before but I was having a discussion about Rifts Vampires today and had questions. If a tiny little squirt gun can do 2D6 to a vampire what about me spitting on a vampire? I know this sounds stupid but saliva is over 90% water, and if we want to get technical ...

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Force of habit.

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This is a good start. Cybermancer has a topic around here somewhere, maybe it's on page two by now, talking about this stuff.

But in the mean time these would be good questions to answer, I think:

Do you have a character concept or a character completed?
What kind of story are you looking to create?

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Sadly I cant commit to real time story lines. Have fun.

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Limit the scope of the story.
Comedy puts one off his guard, and that's why it's sometimes useful in the tension-relief cycle.
Build up, threaten, and assault the reader's emotional security.
Splatter isn't necessarily horror.

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Ah, yes, I'd like to beat that adventure this time around. I'll see what I can come up with.

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It's a tactical team so they're going to have MP5's or maybe M4's with flashbangs and perhaps gas, zip tie handcuffs, and as much body armour as they can get. I don't think they would have much more in the vans, they pretty much have to knock down the door clear the house, and the operation is over....

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There's that weird girl staying at Cybermancer's mansion.

But I'll have to read the adventure again before I committ; I don't even remember what it's about.

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Depends on the mass you're dropping, I suppose. And how you are dropping it. Just letting going of something isn't going to do a darned thing. If you are firing it down out of orbit it'll have recoil. If you are using some kind of attached thrusters or rockets...well you are attaching some big old ...

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Depends on the mass you're dropping, I suppose.

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Yes.

(Where do I collect my prize?

)

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You know I have two copies of Boxed Nightmares and can't find either. The Paranormal Investigation Team rules you mentioned would be good for one organisation we've used in our games. The N&SS rules would actually work better for the other organisation. And I think I know where my copy of that is.

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You could go with glitterboy2098's: a 10 ton system would do 4D6x100 or 6D6x100 at point of impact, with a 'blast' radius of only a hundred feet or so. a 1 ton system (about as small as you could really go and still be effective) would so 4D6x10 or 6D6x10 with a blast radious of only a couple dozen ...

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Yep he had good BtS GMing advice (among many, many other things of course).

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I can answer the first: karaoke at The Brick.

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Maybe it doesn't have to be measured?

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duck-foot wrote:
sasha wrote:It makes combat dangerous.

well then what do you do with powerful monsters/foes that have high sdc, but standard hp. should it not be harder to kill them?

Generally just play 1E. If there is a 2E monster/foe then you can just up the Hit Points by an amount that seems appropriate for the campaign.

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I think hand to hand martial arts is too expensive. Make it one skill or even allow the player to choose between at no cost.

I think aura of vengeance should be I.S.P. based.

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It makes combat dangerous.

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Usually just drop S.D.C. if playing 2E.
I prefer 1E with P.P.E. instead of vancian magic.

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Like I said before, blab all you want about role. At the end of the day, a Knight is almost as capable of doing the job as a Palladin is. Flavor text means exactly jack **** if it is not backed up by the class' mechanics. My point has nothing to do with capability; that's something you've foisted u...

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Knights can be officers in the army of the kingdom; diplomats; patriots; politicians; landowners; or questers for political, religious, or personal reasons. Palladins can be all those things as well, especially if they come from nobility. There is nothing preventing them from doing so. The only dif...

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Thor's hammer?

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Knights can be officers in the army of the kingdom; diplomats; patriots; politicians; landowners; or questers for political, religious, or personal reasons. Palladins can be all those things as well, especially if they come from nobility. There is nothing preventing them from doing so. The only dif...

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The difference in power is not the sole difference and it's not even the most important difference. The knight has several career paths available to him that the palladin does not. This difference may be meaningless or may be very significant depending on your point of view. From my point of view, ...

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