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I only got to play a little of it in store back the day so I never got to finish it. For me it felt closer to KotOR, but again that is very limited play time and I really don't play a lot of video games.

I did find some actual game play of it on Youtube

Honestly though I don't think it matters ...

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I haven’t played RT in ages, but I remember those long sessions with Macross era stories and custom mecha builds. My group always wanted to improvise with the tech, and as a GM, I let them get pretty creative when customizing their gear. It’s funny now thinking back, I was way more lenient with ...

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It is pretty much understood that the Great Cataclysm/Coming of the Rifts started with an unfortunately timed and located nuclear strike on a city that send a metaphorical ton of PPE/life energy into the ley line grid, jumpstarting the multidimensional chain reaction that was the Great Cataclysm ...

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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2215803-ancient-footprints-show-neanderthals-may-have-been-taller-than-thought/

The Le Rozel footprints matched modern man, so maybe there were varieties of neanderthal who were short and tall.

The ones who died out and left bones for us to find were clearly ...

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The books say, several times, that any cruise missile volley fired in the 1 to 3 mile range can not be shot down, that was all I was getting at. This means that fighters have to get into that close range PDW area in order to be more effective than a ship launched missile volley.
Which is ...

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Not sure, however it is humans and ogres, who can interbreed, true Atlanteans who are supposed to be human and originally could interbreed but now can't and elves who can't with any of these groups but they also suffer horribly from the tattoos making them more of a punishment than power.

This ...

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Cro-magnons are as human and you and me. Well, me. I won't put words in your mouth. ;-)

Neandertals are different, though whether they're a species or subspecies is, as I understand it, under debate. I'd allow them to, partially because so many humans have Neandertal DNA, and would have by the ...

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I want to start off by linking an older thread Giants and giant size races in starships that covered a lot of this topic.

My thinking on this has evolved a little over the years I mean see shows like Star Trek wear almost any PW race can move around but you also have TV shows like the Expanse with ...

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So, I just backed this at...probably a higher level than I should but I like dice sets and the GB statue is irresistible to me.

Good luck to everyone involved, it has a very high backer requirement so hope everyone gets the word out.

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No to:
Neanderthals. They are a separate species or sub species
I wouldn't allow earlier hominids (and uplifting them would be a definite no)
Uplifted Primates (chimp, bonobos, etc).

Some of the human variants mentioned in WB21 pg107 (also in BoM) could be considered sub-species so I would say no ...

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This is related to some of the Splugorth stuff I have been working on, but the question is simple, if extremely odd.
How human do you have to be to receive magic tattoos and can some of these other hominids receive them?

Ogres can.
What about neanderthals?
Longer shot, what about uplifted or mutant ...

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WB36 pg 150-153... cyborg canines! The advantages of a robot dog, but the mind of a real hound.

Use TW bionics to get that extra magical flavor. Or bionic-grotesque implants from TtGD for a cyber-magic enabled puppy. Arguably, a magically augmented cyberdog familiar shouldn't have the magical ...

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I agree with most of these points, except...

I think fighters can be viable, even in a hard sci-fi setting:
1. Re-call ability. One reason we have bomber aircraft for delivery of nuclear warheads IS that we can abort and recall the craft. The only real way to do that with missile/torpedoes is self ...

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Dimension Book 7: Megaverse Builder has section on familiars including some biomechs. It does not include canines but Rifter 59 has several more biomechs including a canine. I use the feline one for my shifter pre-gen for convention games so it might be what you are looking for.

That issue also has ...

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Battleships and Dreadnoughts are not the same. Or rather it is a subcategory: All Dreadnoughts are battleships, not all battleships are dreadnoughts.

This is kind of what I was getting to in my post. Dreadnoughts are not being used in sci-fi in the same way it was in Naval history. The term is ...

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The reason that Palladium's Dreadnoughts suck at being Dreadnoughts is that they're not actually dreadnoughts. Littearlly.

This is true but it is true across the board. People love the word dreadnought so they use it no matter what. In Mass Effect dreadnoughts there are all centered around ...

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Look up Virgil.

When I created the system of navigation for this dimension, it has a large presence of tech powers including Naruni, I was going to call it Virgil but I decided it need to be something more in the Palladium mythos.

A bit more of a serious thought to this:

Being in hell ...

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New questions:
What should be added to these ships to make them work better in the setting in any of these parameters?

1) As the ships are now.
2) As a giant battleship / Battle Titan
3) As mobile base

My answers:
1) More. Just more. As big as these ships are they should be tougher in setting ...

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I went with treating them as a mobile base, because that IMHO is the least disruptive "fix" to the class. Altering the game stats would be the next option, but one if I did I'd still prefer to keep it simple rather that a case-by-case fix.

You're not wrong. In a mobile base set up it is more ...

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I think that dreadnoughts have to have another undocumented role/capabilities, because for their size they aren't necessarily that impressive (I'd go with a mobile base just for their size)

I think this gets to my point about the Dreadnoughts as described in that there is nothing they have or ...

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or and this is just a crazy thought...

some elder dragon long ago went all murder hobo on the splugorth / its minions, that the spllugorth are still terrified of it happening again

If you take a look at some of the dragon gods that is not out of the question. I mean, we know they gave up going ...

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Ok, thank you very much. I think you've adequately answered my question.

Dawes Creature Feature book also has a lot of great advice for how to run BTS so it is a must have.

I confess that I bought it when it came out, and it's on my "shelf of shame" never read books. In fact, I forgot ...

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Ok, thank you very much. I think you've adequately answered my question.

Glad I can help, make sure you check out The House of BTS he has some great stuff over there that can really help you fill in the setting and some good pre-gens for any games you want to run. Dawes Creature Feature book ...

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BTS games set in Victorian London, the old west, WWI (All's Quiet from the Rifter), 1930's Chicago ..., and WWII ... colonial America, the age of sail and the Cold War.

What elements of the BTS book were present in these settings? Were there precursors to the Laslo Agency in Victorian London ...

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Between Baal-rog crushing your hard drive and Pandemonium stealing your passwords it's amazing any ships get built at all.

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For me it is how much of the game can be used in other time periods. I have run or played BTS games set in Victorian London, the old west, WWI (All's Quiet from the Rifter), 1930's Chicago (yes it turns out the Capone was a dark priest for a demon lord and when we banished that demon he lost his ...

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taalismn wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 5:28 pm
thorr-kan wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:30 pm I'll admit, them being the source of the machine problems in various twists had occurred to me. But I can't come up with any elegant way to do it.
They try a Skynet....

Wouldn't it be more of a Sentinels situation? Kill all the mutants but they kill humans too?

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taalismn wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 5:25 pm That reminds me...I gotta get back to my Kittani-built Demon Planet-Slayer Cannon Ship. It's languished for over 12 years in WIP hell...

Is that in Hades or Dyval?

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Out of order but I want to hit this first.

as for the "both battleship and carrier" bit.. that's pretty much every warship in Phase world.. they even cram fighters onto the smallest destroyers. anything bigger than a 'shuttlecraft' (which tend to fill the roles of torpedo boats, corvettes, and ...

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I have been reading through DB 3 PW SB and DB 13 Fleets of the Three Galaxies looking at ship capabilities and then this video on The Malevolence from Clone Wars got me thinking about the usefulness of the Dreadnought type ship in Phase World. Within the 7 or so books we only have two Dreadnoughts ...

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The problem of drawing them out is what do they have for small craft? I mean of the DSF is there main ship then what is there landing craft like? Also, they have slaves if they want something they can just send them down. I think you could contrive a reason, let's say there is a first race ...

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As far as what happens to Cormal if one of his offspring are destroyed, one way to handle it is treat it like a the effect on a Nightlord if one of his Avatars is destroyed. (Cormal would lose the offspring's MDC from his total, which would heal back at 1 pt per hour! Yes this would take a long ...

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Hey guys, all great replies, thank you!
But to clarify, I'm thinking of creating a kind of "local group" galactic cluster that has the same history as the background of the Robotech masters, which was essentially #1 a time of robotech master expansion into space with many rival races, #2 ...

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Hey guys, all great replies, thank you!
But to clarify, I'm thinking of creating a kind of "local group" galactic cluster that has the same history as the background of the Robotech masters, which was essentially #1 a time of robotech master expansion into space with many rival races, #2 ...

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I'm kind of serious about this. In game what beings can actually create a dimension and how much control do they have with its characteristics? I mean I assume the Old Ones could but clearly most Supernatural Intelligences can't.

Well, if we include Nightspawn and the Dreamstream, I believe ...

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alternately, one idea i've toyed with but never used was to port over the Arkhon from Rifts WB9. with a few tweaks and the invention of some ship stats, they'd make a nasty new threat, good for either an alternative to the haydonites in the post-invid era, or as a new threat for a post ...

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Is it mentioned anywhere what would happen to Cormal's "offspring" (The 2 smaller demon planets) if something were to happen to Cormal?

Yes. DB 12, pg. 95 bottom of the right column "The destruction of Cormal will cause the other two demon planets to disappear".

For example:
If Cormal is ...

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alternately, one idea i've toyed with but never used was to port over the Arkhon from Rifts WB9. with a few tweaks and the invention of some ship stats, they'd make a nasty new threat, good for either an alternative to the haydonites in the post-invid era, or as a new threat for a post-haydonite ...

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The mechanoid races are good, I would say the Oni from DB 3, if you want to go really alien you can do the Monro from that same book. I would avoid any race with MDC or psionics. I mean you can add them and then just ignore that part, but I would avoid the psionics or MDC races. I think the Durosk ...

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Always possible, although in terms of the game mechanics which beings can actually create a dimension is kind of up in the air.

There's a rumor they're called GMs ....

I'm kind of serious about this. In game what beings can actually create a dimension and how much control do they have with ...

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I think it's clear that the intent is for the classic "medieval stasis" setting.. so no gunpowder, no internal combustion, no electrical stuff or radio, etc. stuff like tiny clocks/pocket watches would be up to the GM, since while their creation is complex, they don't use anything beyond ...

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3) Phase World is not there planet of origin but, for all intents and purposes, it is there home world. It also clearly states that these guns are better than the ones they mount on there own warships , the ones they don't sell, so it just makes sense that these would be the best they can make ...

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I view this as not just a matter of physics but meta-physics.
And that is the crux. I agree that should be the interpretation. The way "None" was written within a context of "energy" is a physics context and can be easily literally interpreted... the reference to medieval weapons seen as just ...

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For Naruni Plasma Cartridges? I'd say NO....the chemical reaction may produce the gas medium that transitions into plasma, but containing and directing the plasma is going to require an electrical charge....in addition to the electrical current that triggers the cartridge.

I've always figured the ...

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I do not see dragons as minions of the Splugorth, yes evil one will work for a Splugorth, good ones maybe be kept as slaves or killed.

If you look at the relationship Splyncryth has with Dragonwright it is more the leaders are allies while the members are minions. Also, to a great extent ...

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I do not see dragons as minions of the Splugorth, yes evil one will work for a Splugorth, good ones maybe be kept as slaves or killed.

If you look at the relationship Splyncryth has with Dragonwright it is more the leaders are allies while the members are minions. Also, to a great extent most of ...

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For those of you who are not aware in Dimension builder there are several characteristics that define the dimension you are creating. Most are straightforward but energy matrix is a little unusual. It was created as a way to stop dimensional travelers from brining high-tech weapons into a fantasy ...

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Sorry it's been a while but I started working on this then forgot about it. This is a long one so I wanted to thank everyone who contributed to the original topic, sorry I let this off the rails so badly.

Not going to try and hit every single point as I think in the end most of them are kind of ...

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I always viewed the XP charts, at least for HU and Rifts, as a form of balance in a game system that has none and even if it isn't perfect that is still how I treat it.

While XP markers are an element of the problem, it is more so that the structure of Classes needs to be completely amended ...

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I'm not saying your wrong, I jut approach it differently.
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No worries. I totally see where you're coming from and agree with you. As you say, it comes down to preferences. The bottom line is that everyone is having fun and decisions are fair to the players, no matter what style of ...

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