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Sir Neil

In BTS 1ed I used the Heroes Unlimited conversion rules from NSSR: psychic characters could get a martial art form for one skill program, but arcanists were limited to agent HTH. This gave the latent, physical, and healer more oomph and narrative control to keep them from being overshadowed by the s...

Sir Neil

I was re-reading my collection and was reminded how useful a Chun Tzu or Nei Chia Wu Shih can be to a 1e BTS confrontation. They start with saving throw bonuses against horror and possession. A 1st level Gui Long fencer with Enlightenment Strike could force out a possessing entity in one round with ...

Sir Neil

A transitional place of power, described on page 145 of BtS 1st edition. When planning our trip to Ireland, I knew I had to include it on one of our stops. "We arrived at the ultramodern visitor center around 0900, bought tickets, and were given color coded stickers to wear that shows the shutt...

Sir Neil

As far as I know, there are three named books.

Worlds Within Worlds, ?? (BtS)
Splintered Souls & Broken Auras, 1981 (Mystic China)
Final Words of Victor Lazlo, 1987 (posthumous)

Sir Neil

Your player is a man with fine judgment, and a snappy dresser to boot. Anarchist aligned characters are undisciplined scum that will lie, cheat, or betray their "friends." At least you can trust an aberrant character.

Sir Neil

Sure, Boe. I don't check the boards as often as I did, but I'll keep an eye out for your next post so I can add it.

Sir Neil

I really dislike epic BtS games. I won't even play. It stretches my sense of disbelief to the breaking point. Intimate scale all the way.

I think one reason I like smaller stakes is it feels like you can fail at them without the game ending, so the risk of failure is greater.

Sir Neil

Favorite robot is the Super Veritech S. So many missiles, and so fast. Unfortunately ammo-dependent.
Favorite PA is a toss up between the CS Special Forces Samas and the NG Red Hawk.

Sir Neil

I can't figure out why they keep calling it powered armor when the operator is driving it instead of wearing it. It's clearly a small robot.

Sir Neil

It is missing the RDF Destroids, though.

Sir Neil

All I'm seeking in this case is getting the player to think with his head before his heart. That's a laudible goal; I'm completely on board. How to achieve that goal is the trick. I see it as an out-of-game problem, so I think using in-game solutions is counter-productive. It sounds to me like the ...

Sir Neil

And I thought I gave lousy advice. This thread has great ideas if your goal is for him to give up on tabletop games. If not, I suggest using carrots instead of the stick. If you want to keep him, one thing I would do is run a non-combat adventure that lets him use his other skills and powers to shin...

Sir Neil

There is also Quality In Rifts. I've found that he has a lot of interesting ideas.

Sir Neil

Updated.

Sir Neil

Added Cybermancer, Darcy, Gotham Witch; bios needed. Removed dead links, including DarKnyht (Ryan Reynolds), FriarJohn (unk.), Hollister (fmr Hugh Jackman), Mr. E. (Basil Rathbone), Michael T. (Gary Oldman), and Slayer (Christian Bale).

I apologize for the delay.

Sir Neil

Hendrik wrote:Forced March on the other hand is something every soldier should know.

First Aid and Pilot Automobile, too.

Sir Neil

Consider the Lazlo Agency book, expected in late 1993/early 1994.

Sir Neil

The greatest thing about BTS 2 is the occupation system. Instead of the Heroes Limited-style skill programs and education level, players pick an occupation that has an assortment of skills and bonuses. It's very yummy. As far as the other two books, I figure there's at least a 13% chance the rest of...

Sir Neil

My favorite Palladium monsters are the sowki (echoes of Conan's enemy the Serpent Men or the Kinori), spider demons, and supernatural intelligences (since they can't manifest bodily in BTS). Not Palladium, but I adore Dark*Matter's Bering demons. In that game, demons could briefly leave Hell only wh...

Sir Neil

Have I told you about the Lion? He was a giant of a man, who shunned a regular police uniform in favor of desert camo under a black leather vest. He used to be a SWAT commander in the big city. He'd roll up with his men in technicals and get on the loudspeaker. "This is the Lion of Nimrud! Any ...

Sir Neil

I was a greenhorn sergeant on his first trip outside the wire that day, just a few of us N.C.O.'s riding along with the unit we were replacing. We set up a T.C.P. outside a building I can't talk about in a town whose name you don't need to know. Locals were milling about, carefully picking their way...

Sir Neil

I don't recall seeing an x0 modifier in BTS2, but I don't have the book to check.

Sir Neil

... but I do kind of like the idea that you cant really use your powers to "show off" or for "parlor ticks" but when you need them you can. Then you won't like BTS, because a 1st level character can use telekinesis to totally win the Randi challenge in front of a Nega-psychic. E...

Sir Neil

tmikesecrist3 wrote:I did not think there was a mage listed in BTS 2nd edition.... Am I in error, if not How did you get around this?

Easy! I played the finished one, not 2nd edition.

Sir Neil

My arcanist Alan Black is a full-time occult detective, co-founder of the Weird Happenings Organization (later merged with Jamison Investigations). Psi-sensitive Fox Kane is a medical doctor who was working at a hospital before splitting his time between that and a charity clinic run by a psi-healer...

Sir Neil

And yet the same quarter-page long list of equipment is duplicated after every class. One of the mysteries of life.

Sir Neil

Beyond the Supernatural, second edition.

Sir Neil

There are several psychic character classes. One of them is a pyrokineticist like Bursters. Don't have the book with me, or I'd give you more info.

Sir Neil

Holy cow, after a year and a half away I'm still in the top 20. (At my peak, I think I was #7.) My life has been kinda busy since Lazlo opened. I joined the Army, deployed to Egypt, became a cop, and deployed to Iraq. Sadly, I'm out of BTS ideas, and have been for a while. Sometimes I think about po...

Sir Neil

Perfect.

That's just what I needed.

Sir Neil

Sir_Spirit wrote:Pfft, most of the "limitations" of that are kinda stupid IMO.

What can we say, "Heroes Limited" is the name of the game.

Sir Neil

With BTS 1 or *maybe* Rifts Africa it might be possible to narrow it down to a year. Didn't bring either with me, though.

Sir Neil

I have a pile of characters made from strange concepts. The first one that leaps to mind is the great Russian hero, Transiberian Orca. Half-man, half-whale. You could do worse than stat him up as a pneuma-biform with ocean magic from Rifts.

Sir Neil

Heh, if one develops Invulnerability and Teleport, they'd have a reusable suicide bomber.

The write ups would be more user friendly if the sections (skills/powers/etc.) were divided with bolding.

Sir Neil

I think it depends on what kind of HMMWV you have. But grenades won't do your ears any favors.

Sir Neil

The most common vehicle the robots will have to deal with? The technical.

Sir Neil

Urban combat takes on a WHOLE NEW MEANING when it's done in the streets of Mogadishu.... Yeah, the super-heroes had *BETTER* be "super" and have their act together... Yeah! Never saw Black Hawk Down, but the image of powered armor supers prowling through a battle-scarred city on foot is r...

Sir Neil

I actually really like this but we need to remember the setting, in this world there is a reason why science cant verify psychics and mages.... Only wanted to point out that science could verify some physical or healing psionics in BTS 2 (A first level psychic still has enough I.S.P. to perform an ...

Sir Neil

Jefffar wrote:Anyway, it's been a fairly long three years since I threw this up for debate, a lot has changed for Ron. Anybody want to change their vote?

Nope. Still scrupulous.

Sir Neil

auyl wrote:How long have they been there?

BWAH HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!

. . . *sniff* *snicker* . . .

Ahem. Several years.

Sir Neil

Cybermancer wrote:I really wouldn't worry too much about it.

Me neither. I mean, it's useful to know on average how many soldiers it takes to kill so many gargoyles, but since the number of gargoyles is set to Plot Device, it's not particularly relevant.

Sir Neil

Since this group was on a reacon-guard duty patrol, they were lightly equiped (but I did give them flash-banf grenades). Heh. The equipment I listed (4 light machine guns and 4 grenade launchers for 12 soldiers) WAS a lightly equiped unit. When we roll out to deliver school supplies to the local ki...

Sir Neil

By the way, the fight did not go well for the soldiers. Huh. I figured the 120 s.d.c. from their armor and -10 to dodge gunfire would make up for it. A note on nomenclature. A platoon is made of three or four squads of 10-12 soldiers each. MP squads are divided into 3-soldier teams, each with a ser...

Sir Neil

Glad to help. If I can think of other useful information while I'm out here "livin' the dream", I'll post it up.

Sir Neil

How many soldiers do we have? Did we say already? How about 12? Their functional gear consists of standard M-16 assault rifles, pistols (don't know what model would be appropriate), survival knives, and combat fatigues. Any explosives? I can speak to this. Standard military police loadout includes ...

Sir Neil

Ah, the mind control powers! Ok, thanks!

Sir Neil

One of the tattoos provides protection from vampires, and NPC Undead Hunter write-ups suggests that means being bitten and turned into a vampire. Does the staked heart tattoo do anything else?

Sir Neil

I'll have to get those someday.

Sir Neil

My copy of BTS says diabolic or miscreant. YMMV.

Sir Neil

Cybermancer wrote:And is it all an elaborate trick, as some players are no doubt likely to suspect?

Yes. Palladium vampires are all demon-animated corpses.

The answer might be different in another system, though.

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