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It better not be just a reprint of the same rules with new art. :-? "The beloved, out-of-print Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles role-playing game and its sourcebooks are sought-after collector items that have enthralled generations since its release in 1985 as one of the first licensed TMNT produc...

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I get that. I do. I picked up Titan after all and you well know my position on much of Palladium these days.

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It's not nor is this space station liberty.

I've posted previously about the station. Also the reference to the thundercloud specifically as well 3 Galaxies in general puts it here.

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THE PATROL The Liberty class battle-cruiser was the first vessel designed and built by Space Station Liberty. She was quite the ship being well over armed for her size and as well armoured and shielded too. This was her shakedown cruise; patrolling the outer edge of the area claimed by Space Station...

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Nope.

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Fighter jets are like using a sledge hammer as a fly swatter. I already mentioned interception. Beyond that even now air-to-air combat does not generally occur at supersonic speeds. Additionally Ordnance load goes back to sledgehammer to swat a fly. Aside from only the biggest merc companies and few...

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January 2025 is my bet

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The only reason to have aircraft is for interception. Air combat does not happen at supersonic speeds.... Not only that, as already pointed out: the CS does NOT take kindly to combat aircraft of any type not their own and facilities/maintenance issues. Not to mention production. If you can produce s...

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And what you're apparently intentionally missing is this: The higher % increases per level (3-5 so 45-75 over 15 levels) versus the infrequent combat bonuses at every 3 levels typically (+1 per 3 levels equivalent of about 1.65% per level or 25% over 15 levels) balances out the difference in the bon...

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Except your NOT getting combats bonis every other level with skills. More like every 3 or 4 levels. This is the third bloody time ivebpinted this out.

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As for a 1 point increase for something like PP or ME increasing your chances by 5% on a die roll etc... maybe? Bonuses actually increase at half the rate IQ bonuses do, needing a 2 point increases to get that +1 bonus Thanks for the catch on PP bonuses accruing only at every other level of attribu...

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How IQ bonuses work are problematic at the get go. Being more "intelligent" won't make you a better gymnast or swimmer by default in the real world, but it does in Palladium. Especially if your physical attributes do not back it up. A physically above average person of average intelligence...

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Space station liberty Location - Fortus System, Thundercloud Galaxy Composition - red giant star, fortus prime (large gas giant, 12 moons), inner asteroid belt, fortus major (medium gas giant, 7 moons), fortus minor (small gas giant, 5 moons), outer asteroid belt, fortus satellite (barren planetoid,...

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Silver is a common enough counter to the limited immunities of supernatural creatures or dbees that in a fight with tolkeenites, the CS likely have troops armed with such weapons.

As for lazlo not a chance. They were vehemently against many of the things tolkeen was doing.

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I don't see why a character, over the course of several adventures or campaign, couldn't create an AI of at least the basic level. All they need are parts, software, and the right skills.

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What is Vital is determined by the character you are playing.

There is no really "generically vital" skills imo.

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Seems you are missing non Rifts spells like Immobilize from HU GM Guide ( ? )

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I've written up a number of macross and have rewritten pretty much all the Robotech mecha...you're welcome use thar as a starting point to extrapolate as you please.

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Agreed and yes it has a merchant republic battloid.

I picked up the collected version of the "magic" stuff palladium put out a while ago.

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The LRV-558 issue stems from and was carried over from the original article the LRV-588 was based on in The Magic of Palladium Books.

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Yeah Strike Force really did sort of fill the "gaps" in a way but as much as I love the striker et al for RotM revised, their stories just didn't really match up well with the established timelines in some ways.

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That fan proboard is where some of us figured out how to do some of the stuff as we were the vetting pool to do just that after wave 1 shipped. We were the group of people that also got the blast rule changed, the faq, and the never published conventional forces rules done.

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https://robotechrpgtactics.boards.net/t ... ch-tactics

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No what I mean is there was an actual conversion ratio for mdc, speed, and weapon damage. Weapon range was a bit more...abstract.

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I didn't get into the Tactics line, but I thought there where supposed to be rules to convert between Tactics Game Mechanical Stat Blocks and the RPG Game Mechanical Stat Blocks? Or was that planned for a later supplement? Best you can do is a bit of reverse engineering but that'll just get you som...

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Just use Orguss. It was supposed to be the second series. Make it the 4th.

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Because I wondered that if the Spoofer spells worked against IR/Thermoimager optics, but what about a TW See the Invisible or Sense Magic optic set, or if the " agitating all ambient PPE energy in the area of effect to cause the spoofing, ghosting, and white noise to electronics' was essential...

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Well I would argue that since they systems are still a essentially a "tech effect" then they would work the same way against those as they do traditional systems but I never really thought about it.

These three spells would certainly work well for a TW ECM system.

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"I'm curious also how it would be rationalized for the CS forces wouldn't attack the non-CS forces also fighting the demons and deevils." I missed this a while back so my apologies... They've already touched on this in Heroes of Humanity (I think) and definitely touched on this in Megavers...

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Sensor Spoof Level - 4 PPE - 20 Range - 750ft radius plus 100ft per level of spell caster starting at level 2 Duration - 1 melee round per level of spell caster Save - only if person is wearing or using optical enhancing equipment (night vision goggles etc) not sensors like radar, sonar, lidar, etc....

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Didn't Doc Reid send out a detailed report in the updated Vampire materials? Pretty sure the CS would have likeky gotten that info one way or another so at least CS Intelligence would have some in depth information on the creatures etc. Anyone being tasked specifically for this would be briefed acco...

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"Anyway, for me turning magic and tech into a game of "anything you can do, I can do too" "

Then Kevin needs to stop trying to play it up as such and stop having classes literallyvsay they won't use tech because they feel magic etc is better when it's clearly not.

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I already pointed out above that it's fine pf.

And if that happens to be why's severaly lacking elsewhere then kevin was just lazy.

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Except spells automatically downgrade when going to pf. In fact it's effectively all the same spells in all the games.

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I'd rather address the larger albino elephant in the room... Why is magic, be it spells and classes, so "meh" once compared to everything else in pretty much every setting outside of Palladium Fantasy? Because it is. It doesn't matter how much Kevin or other's that are close "fan-frie...

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Nope we're here lol

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Class AZ (canadian). Use to be long haul but mostly local now. I have plenty of phone data so even when I'm doing onger runs I'm good for internet access. Need something to do while unloading afterall.

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I'll just say, as a commercial driver myself, I agree with killgore overall. Sambot has a good idea of how they could work though. Outside of their trains, NG would require cargo vehicles. Same either a number of manufacturers. Wilks might hire independents but then they likely also hire escorts and...

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We know children were being taken onboard the SDF-3 Untrue. The only people the OAV says is going on the SDF-3 are in the military. The Sentinels OAV LANG : Greetings fellow members of the Robotech Defense Force. I am Doctor Lang, leader of this mission. The process for assembling the crew to man t...

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Yep. I remember then. I've got a couple of the models and the comics. The comic is nothing like Robotech or any of the other anime. It's been ages but the plot was something like a group of friends have to find some ancient hidden robots to defend their world. Kind of reminded me of Voltron in a wa...

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And we're still off the rails....

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Show Canon is all well and good but quite literally irrelevant to the now off the rail subject of this thread.

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What did you think I meant by "at least two"?

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If the Zentraedi are not fertile, why the gender segregation? Just render the organs non-functional (trivially done with Master's tech) and remove the biological cause for those distracting urges. Yeah the Quandros wouldn't be so enjoyable to look at, but if you're going to the effort of making the...

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So with other threads bringing up Timelines of events, I thought we could share our own versions of such. Please post yours if you have one. This is my General Robotech Timeline with a wrap up to the shadow chronicles. This is my own interpretation of when things occur using the official Robotech.co...

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And neither are you.

Interpretation is still interpretation regardless of how much you want to claim otherwise.

And this thread was supposed to be about th RPG editions not whatever you've decided to, as usual, ramble on about in your typical pineapple word salads.

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Honestly most of us work with the known core then add and tweak accordingly.

Which is really all that can be done.

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And we're back to how YOU or others interpret said dialogue. But my point is we all do what WE feel is right to play the games we play and despite your opinion, your statements are almost never facts but YOUR interpretation of the material at hand despite any other essays of series quotes you want t...

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in the black death the infrastructure (the fields, buildings, livestock, etc) all largely survived, it was just the manpower that was hard to find, and thus became more valuable. (also why the survivors became more prosperous.. they implimented changes to offset the manpower issue, plus now the stu...

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