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This sounds similar to what is in BTS 1e the "Read Magic" skill of the Arcanist and parapsychologist. In BTS 1e it doesn't even seem like most characters can even read magic scrolls. This would be an interesting skill and it you make it harder by having pre-recs like Lore: Magic, lit in t...

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No matter what this is a hard line to draw. You can't OR a dead cow but you can a leather jacket? If you can read a dead body what about the severed hand of a still living person? You can't read the biological hand of a dead person but you can the bionic or cybernetic one? What if it's a biossytem ...

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If I were to write something up, I'd just make it a skill/proficiency you could learn. Given a few pre-reqs (I'd likely say Lore: Magic, Literacy, and Singing or similar skill), you can pick up the ability to learn rituals up to a certain level. Always cast at 1st level, always cost twice the PPE. ...

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I would say no, specifically because there is a power - Object read the dead - (as mentioned above) to do this. Conversely, one might say that "Object Read the Dead" is a more limited version of Object Read... Object Read will read dead bodies and other inanimate objects, Object Read the ...

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I go with "You can see, but are reliant on ambient light."

You don't have 360 degree vision, your senses are pretty normal... you're "you". If you stick your head inside a safe, you see the inside of a safe. Which is probably pretty dark.

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If I were to write something up, I'd just make it a skill/proficiency you could learn. Given a few pre-reqs (I'd likely say Lore: Magic, Literacy, and Singing or similar skill), you can pick up the ability to learn rituals up to a certain level. Always cast at 1st level, always cost twice the PPE. T...

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(1). A warlock to cast wall of thorns and then animate plants on the wall of thorns?

Absolutely.

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I'd allow it; you're basically reading the impressions that have been left on an object, and a corpse is an object intimately tied to a specific aura.

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I am coming from RIFTS. The Conversion book does not tell which PF ed it is reprinting from but it says that you pick 1 or 2 elemental forces (I assume he links up with 1 or 2 elemental AI). While they can worship a deity, they don't gain power through them, only through the link they have with the...

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thorr-kan wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 1:22 pm How can you not love TtGD? It and Mysteries of Magic are master-class developments of the Palladium magic system!

TtGD was open for a lot of MoM's development.

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For myself, I view it less as "power granted by elemental lords who must be appeased" and more "So, you have the soul of an elemental... sometimes two." So, while a Warlock might worship someone like Yin-Sloth (or Ippotomi), that would not be the source of their power, just &quo...

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For myself, I view it less as "power granted by elemental lords who must be appeased" and more "So, you have the soul of an elemental... sometimes two." So, while a Warlock might worship someone like Yin-Sloth (or Ippotomi), that would not be the source of their power, just "...

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I would say that yes, they are capable of using their tattoos BUT 1) They cannot get more. 2) They only have a vampire's PPE... which isn't nothing, but it isn't what they would have had as a T-man. Which is a house rule given that WB21 (pg62) specifically says a Vampire T-Man cannot use their magi...

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Sweet! Didn't know there was a Savage Worlds Houstown project in the works. Looking forward to seeing how you adapted it from WB13 I wouldn't say "project"; what's done is up there. While Pinnacle covered Houstown in Empires of Humanity , they did it several years after I did this, and I ...

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I would say that yes, they are capable of using their tattoos BUT

1) They cannot get more.
2) They only have a vampire's PPE... which isn't nothing, but it isn't what they would have had as a T-man.

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I see Vald-Tegor as managing the population of vampires somewhat like a game warden... he wants to be sure that there are enough predators in the preserve to keep the prey at reasonable levels, but also wants to be sure that there are not too many. So he creates new master vampires only when necessa...

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My general rule is that a mystic can take any type of spell magic, at a level which would be appropriate for a wizard (so, for example, they can get Call Lightning at 6th level like a wizard, not 3rd level like a Warlock).

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How do you write up stats for newly created weapons, armor, and mechs? I benchmark. Take something similar, and see if it needs a new coat of paint (i.e. same stats, new name), or if it needs some tweaking. So, if I want a Bandito Arms Plasma Ejector, I would look at the standard plasma ejector, th...

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Other than mechanics. THe Deluxe version has a decent rules to creating your own race. It also more or less states that humans are the default from which all other race are compared to when creating a new race (in the book, it gives list of what is equivalent to a free edge and beyond). What I'm lo...

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Out of curiosity, what was the baseline used when statting up weapons, power armor, and mechs? For example, in D&D, humans are the base from which all the other races are compared to when being created. I'm pretty sure that they go with a racial base of +4, instead of the standard SWADE base of...

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I've yet to explore the depths of the Fantasy books, leaving me clueless about its balance and intricacies. Have any of you delved into its integration with Rifts? While theoretically, all Palladium games should seamlessly intersect, what's the practicality of merging Palladium Fantasy and Rifts? Y...

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The diabolist can adjust his/her position and radius of the AoE so it affects enemies, but not friends. -Cry "Leroy Jenkins," charge in, and force-activate AoEs. Battle-Diabolist FTW! -Walk to the enemy as if to surrender, then force-activate AoEs. Kinda dishonorable, but viable. -Coordin...

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The diabolist can adjust his/her position and radius of the AoE so it affects enemies, but not friends. -Cry "Leroy Jenkins," charge in, and force-activate AoEs. Battle-Diabolist FTW! -Walk to the enemy as if to surrender, then force-activate AoEs. Kinda dishonorable, but viable. -Coordin...

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I gave metamorphosis some thought already. Women's makeup compact? What about clay? I guess if I think hard enough, I could probably come up with something. What I want help with is identifying spells that are almost impossible to find a focus for. That way I can give it some forethought. I'm new t...

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But in an adventuring, it's a tough ask. Any sudden encounter, puts them well behind the curve. They have to go to where their premade wards are stored, activate the ward, and then hope someone stumbles into one. This is where someone will mention Area of Effect Wards, but I think that the line at ...

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That said, their effects are somewhat limited in scope compared with, say wizards. I sometimes think that summoners and diabolists should have been revamped and possibly combined in 2nd Edition, and written up in such a way that ward/circle knowledge is something to be acquired, rather like wizards...

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Side note, I really don't like how modern media fouls up sword naming. If it's a longsword, it IS a two-handed weapon. Always. A Bastard-sword could be swung with a reasonable degree of effectiveness either one- or two-handed. Same thing with a Katana, though most schools teach the two-handed grip ...

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Mages sing songs; they know the words and can bust out their verse at a moment's notice. Diabolists write poetry; they know the language, but have to carefully put the words together to say what they want to say. Summoners direct plays; they know their budget, they get the necessary props, but it is...

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I'd be inclined to say that it creates a regular (magic) sword that looks like a Psi-Sword, if it's Marks of Heritage.

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I would go with "It is a surprise attack if the attack is a surprise." If you flat-foot smack someone not expecting it, that's a surprise attack whether your fist is involved or not. However, if they're expecting the punch, it's not a surprise attack.

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You might also borrow from Hackmaster: d100+Prowl skill % v. d100+Perception %

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Just to be certain. If someone has psionic or magical immuninity or resistance to heat are they protected against this spell S.D.C. damage wise? Given it is a magic spell I'd presume magic based damage so unless the protection protects against magic I would not think that it would work. When I was ...

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If you're talking an NPC, just give the NPC the magical powers of the OCC you want them to have, and any skills you think are necessary for that.

If someone is playing a Chiang-ku, do about the same, but think about what it will cost them.

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Yeah, paper only, as Kiralon says. You don't actually write any words - they just magically appear. Re Kiralon's other points: The saving throws of 12 and 16 are defined as an incantation or a ritual, so seems clear. Regarding the Alchemist's "typically 13 or 14", I think perhaps an alche...

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First is more a question around Physical Strength (P.S.). When attacking creatures such as Vampires, Werewolves, or any other variety of monster that requires something such as a magic and/or silver sword, etc that when you hit the creature with the required object (say a magic sword) only the weap...

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Almost definitely 40+5, but it's Palladium, so, ya know, go with your gut.

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I have long since decided that bio-systems are bio enough that they don't impact magic or psionics.

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But they can carry an energized AoA ward and force-activate it.

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It would then come down to whether you think that using it in that method is using it as a hand grenade. I think it is, others won't. The truest answer would be roll 1d6, 1-3 no, 4-6 yes. nor can they be inscribed on discs, stones, arrows, weapons or objects and used as hand grenades So as i mentio...

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It does say that the diabolist is the only one that can move them without setting them off so he should be able to throw them or put them on weapons and armour but that doesn't work apparently. PFRPG2, p. 121 "Wards can also be made to exempt a specific person, so he or she can touch and move ...

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What makes you think that you can teleport energized Wards? While I don't know of anything that specifically says YES or NO to the question, teleportation could be considered a disturbance (as you are moving the item) which would set it off normally. Does having an attached permanence ward make one...

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Hey, so I didn't realize I hadn't posted this here: A Savage Worlds version of my Houstown project, expanding on what was on WB13.

https://rpgcrank.blogspot.com/2018/01/r ... stown.html

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My rule of thumb is that it will cover personal armor (including environmental), but it won't cover power armor.

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So, I've had a couple systems that I developed over the years to allow people to develop psychic or magic powers as they leveled; spending skills to gain basic power, or improve in power level through practice. For magic, with some basic knowledge of magic (i.e. Lore: Magic), you can spend more skil...

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The spell says "person" and "character", so literal interpretation does not include animals, despite what some may think about their fur babies. Again, I'd leave it to the GM to decide, but if I were a GM I'd not allow it as how a T-Rex brain works may be very different from a h...

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I'll also note that, even if you can't control someone with Trance, it does put them in standby mode, which is useful in and of itself. I'd also say you could use it with non-verbal communication... you can't tell them to come over here, but you can put a halter on that T-rex and guide him into the ...

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Grazzik wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:07 pm Dominion? No, because the spell replaces the victim's will and dinos have no will to replace, only instinct, as they are animals.

Belief that animals do not have will is the opinion of someone who has never owned a cat.

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This goes back to the problem of the "Increase Weight" spell. I can increase the weight of a person by 400 pounds, but they get a saving throw. But, since their armor is an object, I can increase the weight of their armor by 400 pounds without a saving throw, and crush their chest with th...

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A lot of Palladium spells and powers need "If used on an unwilling target, they get a saving throw v. spells". In fact, if they don't say that the target doesn't, assume that the target does. Many spells have Saving Throw of "none" or "not applicable", so no ambiguity ...

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Hey Library Ogre, I like where you are going with the example. This is more like it: Sally is literate and has a magic scroll of teleportation. Bob is a Dog Boy and illiterate. Sally reads the teleportation spell but wants to cast it on Bob who willingly goes with it. So? Does Bob teleport to where...

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