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These are all good ideas for (what might be very necessary) house rules, but is there an official ruling on this anywhere? If there is I'd love a book title and page number. I've looked at a few spells that deal with disease, one covers disease in a very general undefined way (the cloud magic spell)...

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There's some races that are impervious to disease, but no definition that I can find as far as what counts as disease when it comes to this power. In fact I can't even find what specifically save vs. disease covers either. I think it's safe to assume viral infections count, but what about other type...

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There is just so much I want to say here... but most of it violates the site rules... so instead, i'll leave it at this. Same here. Suffice to say certain posts in a certain other connected thread that is now locked left me full of giggles though, I was quite entertained. If someone wants dragons t...

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Personally, I say that if a deity loses all of its followers, it simply reverts to whatever it is. Now, that is likely a very powerful mortal, but it could be something else entirely. Take, for example, Zeus. If Zeus were to lose all of his followers, he would revert to what he is at his core... wh...

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Stacking the supernatural PS damage with weapon damage and the like does add realism I suppose. But even if we throw out the realism argument completely (since it's not as if supernatural PS actually exists anyways, and it's supposed to kind of defy reality) to have a giant deadly balrog doing more ...

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Rifts has a lot of very cool ones, but currently far as actual D-bees go, I have to say Lyn-Srial. A lot of my other favorite critters fall into the creature of magic or supernatural categories, so I don't think they are technically considered D-bees.

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I cringed when I first heard that he was doing the movie, and that he changed their origin story. However I realize now, that I actually don't really mind details of characters and their origins being changed (though I think this particular change from the original is a bit much). As has been mentio...

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I have already decided that I won't buy anything new from the company for a long time because of their reluctance to update the system. I will keep checking back, year to year, until they do so but I will not buy anything until then. Even if they did revamp the system and managed to create somethin...

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I've been thinking of new projects to work on in my spare time. One of the ideas I have is basically a site where you sign up, and after that can fill out character sheets online, and store them (they would of course be updatable). I'd also want the user to be able to download their sheets as well, ...

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I quite agree Pepsi Jedi, but there are areas of the country in which internet connections that are worth a tinkers dam are so expensive its cost prohibitive to use them. A friend of mine in Montana had to pay somewhere around 100+$ a month for a bandwidth rationed satellite connection to get inter...

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I'm surprised to hear about this many gamers not having computers, or a computer but no internet access. That's very very rare in my experience. I know very few people whom don't own computers, in fact having multiple ones isn't uncommon. Just about everyone I know has internet at home as well. The ...

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On the whole online shopping thing No money is really secure, cash can be stolen, or just accidentally lost, so it's not exactly secure. Credit card information could be stolen not only online, but by an unscrupulous person working at a physical store if they really really wanted to do so. Heck, thi...

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Well, not for Rifts (or any PB setting for that matter), but for D&D, never pull a card from the Deck of Many Things. For something more related to Rifts, never trust the Black Marketeer who says "Trust Me". Nekira, what about magical alarms? Aren't there spells of alarm or something?...

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As much fun as magic using classes can be, I think that most casting classes are a bit too deceptive for a first-time player. The main issue is at every level there are some spells which are massively useful and some so niche they aren't used even during a multi-year running campaign. If you don't ...

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What like changing their personalities? I suppose in the case of rune weapons, it would mean changing the alignment of the soul inhabiting it, or somehow purging it (in the later case I guess would probably render it no longer a rune weapon). But there's other evil artifacts too, and I don't think ...

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Just wondering, officially is there a way to purify evil rune weapons, and/or other evil items? I've skimmed through some of the books, but haven't found anything that can do this.

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If I recall correctly it's mentioned (I think in the Conversion book) that wolfen can take the Coalition Dog-boy OCC, and in Aliens Unlimited under some of the canine alien entries, it's mentioned the Coalition will some times capture and place them in dog-boy packs as well. Of course only those tha...

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Played just last week, generally do once a week (occasionally skipping a week). I played back when I was in high school to, but after that skipped playing for many years. Truth be told, I don't like Rifts (but I do like Palladium and am a huge fan of Palladium Fantasy). Now, I openly adm...

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I see nation building (or at least planting the seeds for it anyhow, since for the most part I see just small towns being what spring up for quite some time) as something that would happen in a Chaos Earth game out of simple necessity. People would come together to pool resources, and protect each o...

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It depends. In the current Chaos Earth game I'm in (which isn't 100% strictly Chaos Earth, since earlier we crossed over into the Three Galaxies for a while) all the players are either non-humans, or humans that have been altered somehow and certainly aren't ordinary by Earth standards because of it...

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There are some places I would still like to see fleshed out more in Rifts, like the US West Coast and the Forbidden Barrier (where supposedly a lot of Elemental Fusionists come from so we know there are some people living there, and there could be lots of interesting creatures there and further west...

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They could get pretty redundant if Palladium isn't careful, but looking at the upcoming releases, it could go either way. For example Megaverse in Flames will likely involve familiar areas, but if done right it will still be solid fresh new material, and not just covering things that other books hav...

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pretty much all the above. most reptilians don't have what we would recognize as primary sexual distinctions, and the secondary ones are subtle to the point that people can't easily tell. especially with the dinosaura, since we don't have soft tissue preservation that would preserve many of them. p...

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The whole claim about clothes lasting longer if they are washed using modern techniques (i.e. a machine) is not true in my experience. Hand washing is a lot more delicate on the fabric if you do it right, in fact some materials really need to be hand washed as a machine will just ruin them. I used t...

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[ So if this happened, planes wouldnt just be falling out of the sky, they are still relatively safe until the landing, which might cause problems. Even helicopters are 'fairly' safe if they only lose power/fuel as the propellers will spin reverse as it falls, allowing for enough cushion on crash d...

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There are some not in the core book that would make sense to have though. For example having lore: undead and lore: religion. I don't see any reason why "lore: all" would mean they'd have lore: Demons & monsters, and fairies & creatures of magic, but not those. Also in some books m...

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They are specific to dual classing with a psychic OCC, but there are Official rules for taking a second OCC Rifter 50, and I recall that article mentioning more rules for taking a second OCC are planned for one of the Rifts Chaos Earth books. When the before-mentioned book will ever come out, who kn...

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The R.C.C.vs. O.C.C. thing still is confusing to me at times. For example the Sky Knight and Cloud Weaver are both R.C.C.s, and yet any race that meets certain pre-requisates (being capable of magic, meeting a few stat minimums, and a few other things) can take either of those "R.C.C.s" (...

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Yeah there is always the possibility of some butterfly-affect type stuff happening, could be anything from the example where the kid that would have normally died was instead saved, to something that seems much more insignificant. Or it's also possible that almost no matter what a group with "s...

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The R.C.C.vs. O.C.C. thing still is confusing to me at times. For example the Sky Knight and Cloud Weaver are both R.C.C.s, and yet any race that meets certain pre-requisates (being capable of magic, meeting a few stat minimums, and a few other things) can take either of those "R.C.C.s" (t...

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i think NEMA could have used the opportunity to evacuate key personnel and create a plan for continuity of services. to prepare and all. but they couldn't have prevented the Cataclysm without rearranging the political landscape of the time. I dont know if NEMA could have done that legally. But the ...

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For the current Rifts game I'm playing in the primary "plot" is basically an alternate Chaos Earth time-line where a group of D-bees (the players) end up having some idea of what's about to hit Earth before it actually does (though we don't have all the details of course). So far we've pre...

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I'm playing a Lyn-Srial, and having a lot of fun with their cloud magic spells. What I'm wondering though, is, are there ever new spells introduced somewhere? Perhaps in an issue of the Rifter? I also like their Mind spells, since they are psionic/magic hybrids (using PPE instead of ISP but requirin...

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Stuff from most of the Palladium games has shown up in the Rifts game I play in. Nightbane stuff has shown up, we even ended up going through a dimensional portal to the Nightlands at one point (thanks to a random roll for what dimension we'd end up in). Palladium fantasy stuff shows up, ranging fro...

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As Dragonfett stated, The Compendium of Contemporary Weapons has all of the tables you could need on pg 16. Here's the break down: 24% Head 50% Main Body 14% Legs (7% each leg) 8% Arms (4% each arm) 4% Hands and Feet (1% each) Thanks, this is the sort of thing I was looking for. Though as some have...

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Just wondering, where in the books does it go over what percentage of a character's damage capacity is in specific body parts such as their head, arm, leg etc...? Would be helpful for keeping track of the consequences of successful called shots.

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I have a MDC to SDC question too.... hopefully this is useful for the OP so that I'm not just hijacking the thread. I was looking through my books for MDC to SDC & HP conversions, including through Conversion book 1. There's some details on converting MDC to SDC in that book, but as far as I've ...

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I see some people choosing to be a dragon, and some people choosing to be a god. I choose dragon god. Yep, if I get been transported to Rifts Earth, and can choose to be ANYTHING, then, well, the Dragonwright pantheon suddenly has a new member.

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There's a few different spells that can be used to enter the astral plane, including at least one that allows a person to actually transfer into it (rather than just astrally project). Now, my question is, since characters with these spells are like not going to be psychics, how do they get around t...

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Transparent obstacles do not count, ie , glass, or plexiglass, unless it's an attack spell, then barriers are treated normally Otherwise wizards with glasses couldn't target anything.... -Pax Hey, I thought those counted as bionics anyways..... just kidding That possible issue would have never occu...

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After looking at the first reply I was going to ask whether glass and such would then count as such a barrier, but I got distracted by other things, and you beat me to it.

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So, there's some spells that have a range of "within sight". What I'm wondering is, lets say a mage sets up a security camera system at his home, and is alerted that someone broke in, could he while watching the intruders on video cast spells that have a range of sight on the intruder (or ...

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As for the demigod/godling, I'll admit, I was looking at that and drooling a bit. Does seem a bit broken, but perhaps those RCCs are more balanced than they initially appear. -Pax Hardly broken. Sometimes a character's level of power just doesn't quite fit in very well with the overall setting. I c...

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Thanks I'll take a look at some of those. None of them mention a diplomacy specific skill? Basically I'm guessing they rely on Public speaking and a high MA? Rifts has tons of skills, but I think when it comes to socially oriented skills this is an empty space that really needs to be filled. Here's ...

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I've been looking through the Rifts books for a diplomacy skill, but no luck so far. I could have sworn there was one in Palladium Fantasy RPG somewhere, but I'm not finding it now either (I must have imagined it). Is there a diplomacy skill hiding somewhere in one of the books? Maybe even a diploma...

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Yeah the XP tables are, to an extent meant to encourage un-selfish heroic behavior. For example fighting to just show off gets 0xp, quite explicitly. I think if the player is just having their character do that to show off in a way that just amounts to being a munchkin (especially if it's not someth...

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Healing is relatively weak in Rifts, but yeah, healers are something that's needed. As far as magical healers, the Rifts priest is the best I think. They can keep using their healing touch over and over without worrying about running out of PPE. This means even though they may not heal much in one c...

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Okay, so why does he have these traits? What stories or mythologies is he a part of. How does this profile translate into actions or traits or appearance? How does he relate to the other gods? How did he come into existence? Why is he the "all father"? Greek Mythology would be a great sta...

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Is this a Pantheon from their mythology, or a currently practiced religion? If religion, that's why there isn't anything for it. We still lack any mention of Christianity and the other modern religions (or cults, depending on your point of view) in the pantheons book. Could be wrong here. In some r...

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Encyclopedia Megaversal Approved! Encyclopedia Megaversal? Is someone collecting user-submitted goodies from the forums? If so that's awesome, where can I check it out? If this hasn't been done it would be a cool project. Thanks for the thumbs up in any case. I'm considering stating these guys up, ...

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