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Devjannz

I disagree with narcissus. The only thing that the designation of Simple and Magic affects is if it does MD or not. Both are still created from magic energy and magic energy can affect vampires, they would both do the same amount of HP damage to them. That is my bottom line.

Devjannz

Favorite Memories was opening the book in 1990 and seeing that a Dragon was a player character option. My first character was a Fire Dragon Hatchling who had a thing for 80' Heavy Metal (he could play the guitar) and when shifted into a Human form would often look like he was from a band of that era ...

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I think you could use some of the Standard OCC's that are in the RIFTS main book. You just need to revise the skill restrictions to allow for Phase World skills to be used where appropriate. Instead of a Rogue Scientist taking Zoology he would take Xenology. An Operator could have Spaceship ...

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I don't have too many House Rules but here are the one's I have put in place and that seem to work well:

1.) Characters with Natural MDC: Instead of just one MDC Score I have it separated like Hit Points and SDC. Like normal HP, characters gain a D6 per level to MD Hit Points. MDC however only goes ...

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I think that any skill that does not require other Advanced Skills (that the character does not already have) or is a natural ability can be taught to someone else even if it says that they cannot select it as a Related or Secondary skill as long as there is someone to teach it to them. How to ...

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Vampires are vulnerable to Magic Weapons, which even Simple Tattoo Weapons would qualify as.

I don't know if WB1r altered things, but the original WB1 (pg33) establishes that even MD Magic Weapons would see their damage converted 1:1 to HP damage. Though it also states that damaging SDC Spells ...

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The group is looking at traveling to Arzno so I thought it would be interesting if she were there as a operative of the Splugorth as part of their effort to get the Vampire Intelligences under control and eventually banished.

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So the reason for this question, is because I am fleshing out some character backgrounds for players (who wanted things to be a bit of a surprise) and one of them has a sister who was captured by a Slaver (though he thinks she is dead) and I am planning to work her into the game at some point and ...

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I was wondering if a Mystic who was captured by a Splugorth Slaver and turned into a T-Man OCC (specifically a T-Archer), would they retain the Psionic abilities of the Mystic OCC or would they be destroyed along with the spell casting abilities?

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This suggestion is not in the RIFTS book but in either the Robotech 1st edition main book or the Macross book for the Shadow Chronicles line:

The VC-33 Mom's Kitchen VTOL air transport.

Add a few Mounted MD weapons to it and it could be an easy to maintain air transport.

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It is a little over 1000 miles from Georgia to Bermuda so I would say that it is about 1200 or so from there to the Refuge area of Atlantis.

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What are they going to use it for? Just transport? Is it their mobile home/base?

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I do not think it matters how you picked up the skill, if you have it, then it does what it says and gives the bonuses that it gives. The only limitation is that certain Physical Skills are not available as OCC Related Skills depending on your OCC and only certain Physical Skills can be taken as ...

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I have a Demi-God who is half True Atlantean from Alexandria in the UWW. He is a Galactic Tracer OCC and has the Magic Power. It gives him access to the abilities of a Ley Line Rifter. He uses the Teleportational Hitchhiking ability to follow those that can use such abilites so that they cannot get ...

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I recently started running a game where roads are a factor. I decided that many "roads" and "trails" in North America (and other places) are most likely remnants of the old highway systems for those areas. Most are probably over grown and have very little actual substance left from what they once ...

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As a House Rule, I started giving Dragon Hatchlings a few extra skills by allowing them to use the Skills that a character from a Low Tech world would get if they were rifted to RIFTS Earth and had been here for 3-6 months. It is not an OCC but it did give them a little more to play with skills wise ...

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I was going to say that Sir Raoul Lazarious of the Reid Rangers was a dragon cyber knight in the original Vmapire Kingdoms World Book but they retconned him to be just a cyber knight in the Vampire sourcebook.

No he was not a Dragon Cyber-Knight in the original Vampire Kingdoms book (which I ...

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Fenris2020 wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2024 4:11 pm I don't think a Grackle Tooth can be a Cyber-Knight or mage... unless, he's a Fallen Cosmo-Knight.
However, I did play a Grackle Tooth Sherrif named Clynt Wayne.

I love that name.....and now I want to make a Grackle Tooth Sheriff as well to use as an NPC. lol

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to keep it as mundane as possible...

WAY back I wrote up an article for The Rifter titled "The Other Guys," which never made the cut.
It was about non-adventuring OCCs who represent the more normal people of Rifts Earth, partly so GMs could have go-to NPC OCCs that weren't the above-the-norm ...

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My ex-Wife had a Grackle Tooth Operator named Gertrude (Gertie) and she was an awesome character. I still use it as an NPC to this day.

She had an NG-R50 Mini-Rail Gun as a sidearm because she was strong enough to use it one handed. Also was strong enough to lift/move a lot of the things that she ...

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I like the idea of it and being a part of it.

I assume each O.C.C. should be different from the rest.
If it is going to be gritty and real you are going to need some unreal medical attention.
What you are missing is a healer.
Someone to lay their hands on themselves and the rest of the cast and ...

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I am putting together a game for 3-4 players where they are playing characters that are not over the top but kind of the low man on the totem pole. I have limited OCC Selection to mainly the RUE book but no Dragons as an option. I wanted to try to put together a slightly grittier, less high powered ...

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I use an Excel based character sheet that I found online many years ago (before the RUE) but have made several updates to so that it is compatible with the RUE rules. It works pretty good for most classes, though I will admit it falls short for Robot/Power Armor characters (I need to work on that ...

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I have a Demi-God, Galactic Tracer (PW) character who has the Magic Power (#10) and I chose the Ley Line RIfter from RUE. From what I recall it says that they instinctively know all standard Evocation Spells up to their level but they cannot learn spells like a Standard Magic User. They are more ...

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I know it is not in a RIFTS book but the VC-33 (aka Mom's Kitchen) from the Macross books of the Robotech RPG would be a cool thing to bring in for this kind of thing. I used a salvaged one in a Robotech game recently so that my team could sneak into an area where Invid were present so that we would ...

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I am still open to this if there are enough people that are interested in meeting up.

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Anastobe wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:54 pm Follow up question. If a creature has + to all magic saving throws, does that apply in the battle of wills?

I would say no. The Battle of Wills itself is not "magic" just to see who has the stronger force of personality.

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Bloodletter
Ancient weapons(specifically blades). The HTH bonuses are welcome, but not spectacular, and physical skill-wise, these guys suffer in comparison to the Martial Dragons. With the progression of books, I’d give them the Fencing skill and allow an updated version of these folks to take ...

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I just say that it is an innate feeling they have at all times. They know how much energy they have to call on and how much each spell they cast needs. It is part of their training as a Magic User.

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Since it is your first time running and their first time playing I would keep things simple:

1.) Restrict character choices to what is in the Main Book so that players do not feel overwhelmed.
2.) A lot of the same tropes that exist in D&D can be used here as well (meeting in a bar, being part of ...

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To be honest I would not worry too much about an actual number value, I would focus more on playing it based on a description of what is going on during the firefight as most of the MD weapons that they will be using will just punch holes in everything. I would just vary the size of the hole based ...

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I just saw this. Has anything happened here? I'm an experienced player (over 30 years) have a ton of Rifts, all but one of the HU2, and about half of the NB books. Very familiar with the system and would love to get into a group as a player and or part time GM. As you said above, all I hear about ...

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I had an NPC that turned into a player character who was a Fallen CosmoKnight turned Mystic. The backstory that I came up with was that he was tricked into destroying a ship full of refugees by an evil god who had been trying to subjugate them. The god came to him with a story of them being invaders ...

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I currently live in a small town about an hour east of Reno, NV called Fallon. I think we are far enough away from most things that the odds of surviving are pretty good but I am not sure. lol

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Since they started off fighting the Zentraedi it makes sense that there may be larger versions for fighting an enemy that size.

Thing is, that's only the novels/comics/RPG. The Tv series makes no such claim as the Zentraedi not only never mention the Invid, no one in the UEF (ASC or REF) know ...

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And the same goes true with the animation. What are generally written off as animation errors, with SOME creativity could be used to be more creative interpretations. Just recently on Facebook, it was pointed out that the inconsistent animation of MOSPEADA could actually be used to make the Invid a ...

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I was just wondering if anyone has incorporated RIFTS Manhunter into their games as either it's own Dimension (as presented even though it does not say so) or did you make it part of the Phase World setting and just change some names of places (Mainly Earth)??

I used it as part of a Phase World ...

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Candy wrote:This would seem to reduce the importance of that firetown spell which exists for that purpose.

I do not have that book and so I was not aware of that spell. This is a house rule I have had since around the time when Wormwood was first published so I just stick with it.

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I started with 1E way back in 1989 (My first Palladium RPG) and so I am very fond of it. I still have my first Robotech character as well (Erik Black, 9th level VF Pilot) to this day. Macross was my favorite time period but the setting I played and ran in most was Sentinals (love that book and the ...

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I just use a House Rule that if someone with a Wormwood symbiote leaves Wormwood, they must feed the symbiote PPE each day to keep it viable. It is usually about 10 or so. It can be from themself or someone else can channel it into the symbiote (if they can use PPE that way). If they miss a day, the ...

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For almost any D20 based game I run (and most that I play in), I roll 4d6, re-roll 1's and 2's, drop the lowest. For Palladium, if it is a race with a specific stat roll (ie- 3d6+4, 2D6+12, etc) I still let them roll one extra die and re-roll 1's or 2's and any bonus die that may come from getting ...

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I once made a Psynetic Crazy (and no, for the record, I don't play Crazies like Robin Williams on speed--regardless of what RUE suggests) who had 17 psionic powers at level 1.

I made them all defensive/healing. Even the 4 supers.

The concept was that he was created as kind of a sick joke, since ...

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I have a Human Wilderness Scout who has 2 minor psi powers: Object Read and Sixth Sense, which can be very helpful when scouting a new area.

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I don't have too many House Rules but here are the one's I have put in place and that seem to work well:

1.) Characters with Natural MDC: Instead of just one MDC Score I have it separated like Hit Points and SDC. Like normal HP, characters gain a D6 per level to MD Hit Points. MDC however only goes ...

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Thank you, good sir or ma'am!

That's all I expected.

As I've explained, I know full well my concept would be obsolete compared to true magic OCCs by middle levels. This is something that I wanted to be effective 'right out of the box' at Super Spy level 1.

If it works well, then the lack of ...

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I had a group that were manipulated by the minion of a god but not by the god themself.

Had a group in Silvereno that was trying to figure out a connection between the Vampires in the town and the Mining shaft where people would disappear and was closed (the connection was that the vamps there were ...

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Heck, I think if a DBM were trained, he could do magic as well. The aversion to magic is only a cultural one, not an absolute, hence the word "most".

I don't think it is a cultural aversion (not completely) but more to do with large amounts of PPE hampering their Sensing abilities. Magic-Users ...

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I can see why it would be annoying but to my knowledge the Wilderness Scout has never had Psi Powers as part of it's OCC Build. The only way they can get them is by rolling to see according to the third way in Step 4 of character creation.

I think this one of those editing mistakes that was left in ...

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I like the idea: a magical sniper. Really like it.

Battle Magus is ready-made for this. Using the RUE psionics rules (where being a Major psychic no longer affects your "other" skill selection...don't care if it's a typo or omission...I run with it ) you should be able to achieve a better result ...

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After looking at the Super-Spy again and the Mystic the way I would approach it is to build your Super-Spy and then figure what powers a 2nd level Mystic would have available to them and give them those powers (frozen at that level as it says). As someone who has played and run RIFTS since it was ...

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