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Generaly I posit that theres 4 tech levels in Rifts, Early Rifts tec and black market, first generation CS upgrade, some NGR gear and some pre war stockpiles that have not decayed into uslessness, and some stuff in orbital facilities second generation CS gear that is just starting to show up, Phasew...

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I think it's kind of a Well yes, anyone in North American can build automobiles and airplanes including high proformance aircraft..... so long as they have the resources to do it and can get the right job at a factory....because that is what people in North American can do. because that is technical...

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the Short version, Don't annoy your god when you are: A a Hatchling Dragon B your god is insanely powerful and C said insanely powerful Dragon god is dealing with a foolish human. The long version? one series of adventures had us dealing with an Idiot who had come up with a way to enslave Dragons. W...

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Fair warning not for the easily squicked In my game it's usualy the same as pulling a trigger for a any dragon to change back. Which given that one of Flamestrayfs usual disguises is as asian, Ah, “Seamstresses”.* Cough. Can be quite painful for the customer when "she" turns into a kit...

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Just don't expect it to be easy

See vampire kingdom and rifts Japan for 2 examples of how to make weapons that are not quite rune weapons

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While it’s a little small for a CS Mega city, I tend to use some of the maps in Palladium Fantasy as a reference point to explain it. Basically they are a walled city, on the inside of the walls, one district at least is the primary military base and is basically a walled city inside the city, more ...

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Thats how I treat the boom gun, it was designed as a Anti tank weapon, the standard round was a single unit slug, but the 200 pin shot round is a semi smart round that is designed to separate in flight for anything not a tank, and what ended up being the standard for it

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Basically this is part of a recovered cargo from a "unknown" suspected BM cargo the group salvaged a while back. It uncluded 2 seemingly intact GB armors, but opening them up found that they each had been crudely moddified into an Iron maiden configuration, using spikes that were specifica...

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m Nuf said. Well ok not nuff, That said I’ve long treated the boom gun as having three different loads available, a standard solid slug and a shotgun type loading, and a longer range canister proximity/programmable fused variant which was the original standard load, with the solid slugs and the pure...

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this may be too powerful for your campaign Ironic Justice. Sentient "power" Sword(note when she described this the sword part is the part pronounced with Capital letters, she also pronounces the Quotes on Power), Note the sword thinks its amusing to be refer to as a Rune weapon, Th...

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Basically Rifts Earth is a parallel earth, not ours. On that earth a Divergence happened either post or during Vietnam. Probably during, so thereThe F14 apparently remained in production and were probably exported far more than what happened in our timeline. The gulf war apparently happened differen...

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Well No game stats I can give, but I have taken inspiration from Kancolle and Arpeggio of Blue Steel.

The PG versions anyway, don't get me started on the people with More "Wives" than the 1941 Combined fleet...

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You would be surprised at what the military holds on to. That said time does March on, with things pike the PA-48 Enforcer being developed, m And combat aircraft being sent the the scrap yard m Also see m the Us Army still owns 2 that they use, also US Air Force and air national guard. And even ship...

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Or to put it another way, as a GM your job is not to recreate Jesus Christ as part of your suporting cast and/or make the oposition/Main Villian Faust on steroids who Literaly has Satan and his hellish host as his personal pet lap poodle and pups.. Doing so only leades you into a lot of trouble even...

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You do understand that there are more uses for Yggdrasil than someone trying to put it on their sheet as background, right? Like NPCs, the Big Bad, in-game quests, etc.? you do know ive been at this for a few years now? (as in my First Paladium game that I GMed was Robotec way back when they shiped...

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My anwser to that question would be yes you did learn all of thoes magics.... and since that would make your character to powerfull to be in this campain then your character is retired because EVERYONE EVERYWHERE has decided your too dangreous to allow to live and Several diferent poweres out there ...

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and once you leave china say bye bye to all the chi you need to use said powers why would that be the case? otherwise you could day that any Psion traveling to China would suddenly stop being able to use Psionics, and the same with Mages. heck you could just as easily arugue that a Lumerian would b...

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you gain them only as you level. bascialy its one of thoes "trad-offs in the old system, in exchange for putting off getting all kinds of Spells till the end you were garentied to get a bucket full of spells up front. Incidentaly this ability also ORIGINALY aplied to some Dragon species,(pre RI...

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a TW or Magic Equiped sniper can be a bit op

Silence spell on a arrow or rail gun round. if the railgun is also silenced then let fly.

Especialy if you use a boom gun that fires solid shot instead of that mega buck shot for your "Money" shot....

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Yes, the 'Someone Makes Them' ritual is certainly quite good at remaking someone to think and believe anything you desire but you'll find many like to pretend anything from other Palladium game settings like Nightbane don't exist (in spite of the multiversal nature of Rifts) and will quickly post '...

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I'm not arguing that this will work. I'm saying I don't think scroll creation requires a literacy check. There's a difference. oh Im saying basicaly the same thing. as soon as you basicaly dominated him (or worse, THOUGHT you dominated him) you failed the Basic "is this a sain idea" check...

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I'm not arguing that this will work. I'm saying I don't think scroll creation requires a literacy check. There's a difference. oh Im saying basicaly the same thing. as soon as you basicaly dominated him (or worse, THOUGHT you dominated him) you failed the Basic "is this a sain idea" check...

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theres so many things wrong with the arguments here. In a Infinite reality, yes theres an infinite number of people. the problem is that given the current know distrbution of live within even virtualy non comunicative space, we still have managed to only have one copy of Steven Hawkings. Given that ...

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point.

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I'm not arguing that this will work. I'm saying I don't think scroll creation requires a literacy check. There's a difference. oh Im saying basicaly the same thing. as soon as you basicaly dominated him (or worse, THOUGHT you dominated him) you failed the Basic "is this a sain idea" check...

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ok sorry needed to take careof something the biggest false assumtion is the most basic one here. that ANYTHING is absolutly infalabe. NASA has probably some of the Smartest people on the planet working for it. We still had Apollo 1, Apollow 13, Challenger and Columbia. heck the List of realy bad eng...

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ok let me put it another way. In a lot of ways Magice is not a Science, its an art. and a somewhat personal one. 2 completly diferent species of spell casters are about to learn a spell from a dragon, a specific type of Circle of protection thats a full level up from the one in the rifts main book b...

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DhAkael, next time your in Houson near the Johnson Space flight Center, remember, our "Giant Leap for Mankind" included Steps on the lives of the workers of Mittelbau-Dora.

you left off "Turn the whole mess over to the local athoritys and let them sort things out."

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Go read the spell description for Create Magic Scroll. Anyone who can read the scroll can cast the spell, no matter how ignorant they are of the principles of magic. As I said before, the magic scroll does all the heavy lifting. The alter ego just needs to provide the words that he already has memo...

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ok lets put this in terms you can understand if a persons skill in building a working nuclear reactor is cut to say 30 % would you still turn it on once it was finished? be honest. now realise that your asking this person to build you not one not 2 but 50 nuclear reactors while hes not in full cont...

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ok lets put this in terms you can understand if a persons skill in building a working nuclear reactor is cut to say 30 % would you still turn it on once it was finished? be honest. now realise that your asking this person to build you not one not 2 but 50 nuclear reactors while hes not in full contr...

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you forgot E Not all Mages are sain enough to properly use the spells they have F Not all Mages are able to know when teaching a spell is a bad idea G Not all Mages are able to know when teaching a spell is a good idea H The reality is that Magic, as a "science" actualy exists in a "C...

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ok your going to use Domination to make sure he properly does the spells ... not a good plan that, unless your plan is to have 50 scrolls of Magic Goblygook or 50 scrolls of wonder....

http://www.goblinscomic.org/the-shield- ... soon/sow2/

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ok lets review it takes 2 days per level for a trained Mage who knows the spell to train an aprentice. this is Dedicated training by the way not just ok class of 40 heres your homwork asignment we will be back 2 weeks from now so have your crystals ready to cast the 7th level spell on page 119. No t...

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Lets put it another way.

the only reason why the CS has not launched a Volly of Tomahawk Cruis missles at New Lazlo is because there still debating doing that to the Magic zone, and aparently the CS does not yet see them as a big threat yet.

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that and certain high power spells tend to have all kinds of interesting strings attached to them. after all expending magic energy is not quite like downloading the plans to a Preasure cooker bomb off the internet and assuming you get it right the first time. or the Cad Designs for a programble CNT...

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ok first off 5000 PPE just for the spellscrolls Easily prepared ahead of time. Second your going to need a spell source of PPE for the spells hes inscribing You and your accomplices (if any) can provide him the PPE he needs. You can supplement your PPE with Talisman PPE batteries or Energy Sphere. ...

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Blackheart Bow /Blackheart Staff /Blackheart Sword /Ax/Spear Note the weapon is only “Black” for those who’s vision is or includes UV spectrum (in fact its totally black in the UV spectrum), otherwise the weapon looks more like it is shaped from a single piece of wood that is stained dark red, grey,...

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ok first off 5000 PPE just for the spellscrolls

Second your going to need a spell source of PPE for the spells hes inscribing

Third the creation Of a scroll is a ritual.

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also a number of creation rituals require perminent sacrifices of one form or annother.

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I think Way back they had a Spell of Legend on a scroll in an adventure, but if it was you have to wonder who the heck made it (I think it was hinted that it was Toth) If you allow high level rituals to be cast from a scroll I dont see why you cant also come up with a version that "tricks"...

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Sounds like you found the munchkin brigade.

Honestly the best advice is Find another group to play with.

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One way to look at it is that Magic is the Gymnastics of the Universe. Theres only a handfull of people who can do Olympic level Gymnastics, and only a handfull of people who can train others at that level. Everyone else is stuck with whatever little bits they can do. For example your Average level ...

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Just a bit of trivia at one point in the game they had to make a Rope bridge to cross a River, so she fired three line bolts over to the other side,(to make a 3 rope bridge, when one of the NPCs they were with (a mega Damage DB) started complaining, so Paul (her owner) just fired a 4th line bolt, th...

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Noor Khan Rune Ring (Greater Rune Item) Curse, functionaly needs twice as mutch XP to level. Powers Seems to be a normal Silver band. IQ is 23, Me is 8 Ma is 12. she has full telepathic contact with her owner, her personality is that of a quiet woman who was trained as a "black bag" operat...

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you have a super tec city that was able to make a surplus of power armor that they just stuck in warehouses. Basicly its a case of the CS haveing Replicator teck in the form of Robotics. .... 16,384(thats 3,278,600 Skell bots being produced EVERY WEEK at this point) Seriously i think the CS may hav...

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the impresion I have is that theres not realy that mutch space in there you can have 4-6 "Boxed" Cyclones just stored there besides the Pilots unit, or if you strip out the bomb racks you can probably store a broken down Silverback but expect to spend 1D4 hours reassembling it. With the bo...

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you have a super tec city that was able to make a surplus of power armor that they just stuck in warehouses. Basicly its a case of the CS haveing Replicator teck in the form of Robotics. Bascialy take a Batalion of thoes Robot troops they built, reprogram them to dig up materials, load them onto tru...

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To be honest im puzzled as to why this is even a question, when the Dragon can just invite over some people who have the Domestic skills he might need and serve them tea. after a few visits Im sure he can find someone willing to do the domestic bits for him in exchange for some body art.... Hell I k...

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ok lets put it another way Carpet of adhesion and other binding/trap spells Domination spell Female Coalition officer Bar full of drunken male humans and DBs who had to run from a CS "purification" patrol. You cant get that from Wilks. As for packing a gun and body armor to be honest who d...

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