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Psionics are definitely powerful. A player in our group played low-key, acted like the party's lackey which made him far less a target. As far as mischief, the character was not that type, but did run across some who were and being quite a bit more powerful than them put them in their place. Several...

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Question: would putting a layer of flooring (perhaps something translucent like ice or glass) overtop of a circle interfere with its operation in some way? I think we tried this, but the ruling (our game, nothing was found in the book) was the person activating the circle had to be able to touch it.

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Yea, she's pretty. Of course she knows it, lol. Me, I am biased, Nightstalkers, as a PC unless you are a bad guy you have 2 negatives to deal with, but they add to the fun (Day blind and Reputation). For sheer power there are tougher guys. We had a guy playing a hatchling Hydra, had personalities fo...

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We gave active but non-permanent circles a save if someone not affected by the circle (i.e a human against a demon protection circle) IF they could normally alter the circle (i.e. rub away chalk vs inlaid silver). As for the knowledge circle, it was ruled it was a specific circle, but if you had the...

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Not my speciality, but the Western Empire book has magic items that store ISP I think.

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Regarding the differences between Shifters and Summoners. We have played it as the Shifter having less precision on initial summonings, having to poke around until he got what he liked, or learning from travels, the air elemental plane is reached, now to figure out how to summon something I can cont...

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The bone from the permanency ward is strangely easist to get from a dragon, though none would part willingly with the material. Demons/Devils have to be killed in their home dimension to get solid bone, though there one could harvest regenerating limbs if nasty enough. The recipient cannot be supern...

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1st Ed. PF had a Psionic Ability that would turn you into a psionic entity.

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Kill a powerful wizard? Cut his tongue out and you know his spells (good to have a diabolist make it permanent), makes for cautious wizards around diabolists. Sorry to revive an old thread; however, was the quoted comment supposed to be sarcasm or am I missing some amazing way to harness spell magi...

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It takes time out of the game to build up a supply of talismans. My character has quite a few over the years and hates to have to tap into them as the recharge is a pain. And yes, you do risk drawing in trouble, it does happen. Also, anyone who touches them can use them, so get into a wrestling matc...

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Maybe other people use their Rift-sense powers and see vacuum and think "well this isnt worth it" and just don't bother checking it out. Where as the Splugoth are tenacious enough to push their expansion even into the emptiness of space or hostile environments. After all, its not like the...

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OK, since you asked about TW versions I decided to work it up. However, I generally don’t endorse converting high level spells into TechnoWizardry. Create Golem is a 13th level Invocation, and Transference of Essence is 8th level Earth Warlock. These two spells are good examples of why some things ...

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TechnoGothic wrote:Would be funny if most people believed the moon was made out of cheese once again. LOL.

Thats funny, one of our ATB games had a rat character who started a cult based off a TV show (i.e. cartoon) showing the moon IS made of cheese. He was all into finding a way up there. Sadly that game died.

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I really want this spell. I know they say dragons don't teach it, but clearly this oath gets broken here and there right? I mean the Chaing-ku must've taught the Atlanteans (and I guess the Aehriman taught the Splugorth?) their tat magic... This is something I'd at least expect Temporal Raiders to ...

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With a diabolist you could cast some spells on the body (from a scroll if your the golem intelligence) and have the dibolist activate a permanancy ward to keep them up. Say Invulnerability (for the saves, the DC will be used up), Fly as the Eagle, Eyes of the Wolf, etc. Or you could transfer into a ...

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I havent been able to find anything on this subject from a search, so if it is already out there if you could please direct me to it that would be much appreciated. There are a few examples of TW-esque items that based solely on Psionics. There are the Psionic Crystal items from Phase World for exa...

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Just a re-print, no. If it was cleaned up, re-worked a bit and updated, probably not. I have been moving away from paper formats, and actually putting what I can on electronic formats. I would love to see the option of ANY new stuff from Palladium put into both PDF and even something like Kindle. If...

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In the books that I have where nobole houses are concearned(and yes it does say this even in the western empire book on page 18) That the position of head of a Nobole house or family almost always goes to the oldest MALE heir of ruling age. It also says that if there is no male hier of ruling age t...

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An old semi-retired character (A high priestess of Isis) has returned to the isle and has worked on reforming it to a kindler, gentler system. While it does have less hostility toward (some) monsters, such as emrin and centaurs, it does need work on the men, although there is progress, a man is mind...

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Eryk Stormbright wrote:i've actually got a guild of highly skilled Psi-Assassins in my game world... very nasty

Hmm, we have them in our game too. Nasty bunch.

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sHaka wrote:
X'Zanthar wrote:there has been some interaction with her and our White Knight PC.

Can you expound on "interaction"?

Well, the PC is a female gnome, so THAT issue could get wierd, but as far as I am led to believe there is no physical interaction. It is hush hush subject anyway for some reason.

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I had a stud of a character bang Katrina in an Africa campaign many years ago, too. Anyone run a campaign with Katrina in it where she didn't put out? lol Actually yes (As far as I know, there are secrets between characters). My character calls her (to her annoyance at times) "Grandmother"...

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I'm not sure, as I do not have the book, but I think one of the occs in one of the worldbooks (mystic russia I think) is a smith that can destroy rune weapons as well as enchant some items. Had to find one in the game to get rid of some pesky, well, beyond that in one case rune weapons. While I do ...

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I'm not sure, as I do not have the book, but I think one of the occs in one of the worldbooks (mystic russia I think) is a smith that can destroy rune weapons as well as enchant some items. Had to find one in the game to get rid of some pesky, well, beyond that in one case rune weapons. While I do n...

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That armor would be practically impossible to make. A PPE battery that doesn't have a spell behind it applies a -1% for every point of PPE it can store to the design process. In this case that would be a -200% to the Techno-wizardry roll. Very true... that -1 is a bummer. However this can be somewh...

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Athos wrote:Ahh, so size of gem makes that big of difference...

Yea women deny it, but......

TW's are great in so many ways, for RP they can be anything from mad scientist to McGyver types!

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Actually, the book specifically says: ... There are no additional people, buildings, vegetation, animals, food, or water. However, the spell caster can magically import plants, people, and wildlife and literally build himself a kingdom, whether it be a building or dungeon-like structure, a wilderne...

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The big pains are temporal and parallel dimensional anomalies. When you access HU Earth, does it eventually turn into Rifts Earth? Or does some other Non HU past Earth turn into it? Same goes for Chaos Earth. When you go from one parallel dimension to another that has say a you in each one, etc, it ...

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I would probably allow some kind of one-way, "back to base" device or incantation. Similar to the phase transponders from Phase World. I'm not wild about easily setting up networks of teleportation circles. If it were that easy to do, I'm not sure the Splugorth would have bothered with py...

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The spell (In the Dragons & Gods book, pg 14) is a strange one. For one, the effect says the passage of time is nil, but apparently you can move about, do things, even build a kingdom, plant plants in it, have animals, etc. But you do not heal up (unless you regenerate per minute, in which case ...

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If I were Palladium, I wouldn't update Rifts until/unless it was at the xxth year mark or I was ready to change formats entirely. Heh, On topic I agree. Though I would like some streamlining and LESS duplication. Having played in the megaverse for years and enjoying the rich setting (starting with ...

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I am trying to find a Modern or science fiction RPG to get my group into. Fantasy is getting boring. -RB Dude! Eclipse Phase m Havn't played it yet because I can't find anyone in my area for a F2F game. But it's really cool. I've allready writen two adventures and made tons of characters and NPC's ...

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Power creep also affected the newer dragons in RUE. And as ultimate creatures of magic, most have very poor PPE. I know it is a PF question and dragon, but does anyone know if they just made up the Ultucan Dragon (D&G pg 45), or did it actually show up in one of the books? We adventured through...

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I posted this in the Guild of Magic forum but I am putting it here as well. What are some thoughts on having a magic circle inscribed and all components placed on a slab of some kind? If you were able to teleport the slab and everything on it to you would the circle still function once you pumped t...

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Power creep also affected the newer dragons in RUE. And as ultimate creatures of magic, most have very poor PPE. I know it is a PF question and dragon, but does anyone know if they just made up the Ultucan Dragon (D&G pg 45), or did it actually show up in one of the books? We adventured through ...

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Sadly the new dragons are far more powerful than most of the old, especially with magic. Funny too are the npc dragons which come up in various books have stats which seem to not match the rules.

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I kept thinking "Go to the bank! get an armored car you idiots!!". A new RV, at an RV store. Modify it (I know one nearby that could do amazing things to one in its shop) to be very resistant to dead intrusion, protect tires, engine, windows, make a top entrance hatch, motion sensor syste...

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My own question concerning vampires: What is to be done with a vampire's hand to hand knowledge if they were say a level 15 Warrior before being turned? Do they keep any attacks per melee, parry/strike/dodge bonuses, or special strikes like death blows (and what does that mean for vampire vs human,...

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ok now another question where do ind rules on how to choose what i summon/ contain them can i summon something into a circle of salt. if im going to play with demons im gonna get it as right as possible. This is where Shifters have it harder than Summoners. Summoners have specific circles to summon...

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And this is why Play by Post works so well. If the action gets slow its okay, its not like you're going to lose your place the drawback is that you can wind up with a few people being extremely dominant posters, going back and forth constantly, while other people who don't have as much time to sit ...

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Dragons are creatures of magic that have been around since the time of the old ones, The dragons are every dragon that can be found in the palladium world. Dragons being creatures of magic can travel across the dimensional fabric. And that statement covers all the meaty substance that dragons got. ...

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"Dragons and Gods half the books got Dragons the other half has gods."

And thus both subjects got lame coverage. I want stuff like origin and history. More on the ones in the world. A cleaner system than the half-baked one out there for them.

They and the gods got ripped off

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Svartalf wrote:Your rationale for that?

If your referring to the Nightlands comment, the Nightlands are protected by a barrier that blocks all inorganics (IIRC, no book on hand) from coming in.

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Three things.

One, I think the spell's level should be used if higher than the creator's.

Two, I think that the item created would only be rechargeable by the device that created it, so you would have a one use item.

Three, Talismans can be pretty much anything (in response to another poster)

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Elementals are also VERY useful, especially if you need versatility and more important, do not like being tortured by something if you fail to beat it as they usually just leave.

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You can also put the ritual on a scroll and sell that. Thus the scroll's caster is the true master, and donor of SDC. A TW enchanted Golem is quite possible and probably expensive. Speed, strength, immunity to energy, armor of ithan, etc. You could argueably add sensors to the thing before enchantme...

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W hat are your thoughts on Circle magic? D oes Circle magic require physical contact with the surface the circle is inscribed on? C an parts of a circle be inscribed on large, slow rotating, surfaces and activated once all the surfaces are properly arranged (given of course the components are all t...

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We initially many, many years ago, started off using the 1st edition rules, and characters shot up fast. After a bit, our long time GM has modified the rules as the game matured. As most of the older players are doing player drivien email turns. His younger (i.e. kids) players he usually does FtF. U...

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I would like the rest of the world covered first, like the previous books, with maps and city info make a great book.

As for information on Dragon, I really wish they would get there own book, and make it magaveral since they are a real big part of the multiverse.

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well, high tech people even going to the PF world is largely handwavium in the first place, so a little more to explain why Sploog raiders haven't laid the place to waste millenia ago is less contrived than one might think In our game, certain tech, like that from the HU verse will work. The Rifts,...

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