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McFacemelt

I'm curious in trying this out with my players, I particularly like the skill buying. How many points do you plan on charging for your players to make a power Mega? 2 for a Minor, 3 for a Major were the first numbers that came to my mind just curious on yours.

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I am curious as to how others would go about revealing the existence of Supers in such a game where the initial premise is that while Supers do exist, they are not yet known by the majority of humanity (generally regarded as tabloid sensationalism). How long would you keep the existence of these be...

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Having very little to no info on either book, I have to say Hardware Unlimited. I say this because as I look over all my Palladium books, the one thing I very rarely use is the canon story lines. This is not a slight at Kevin or any of the other writers, most of their work as far as story I love. Bu...

McFacemelt

First tip for toning it down, stop rolling Megas.
Second tip, roll a Minor Hero.
Third tip, don't reroll ones.

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My HU2 is first edition. I realize from the teaser he has given, Greg Diacyzk's Hardware Unlimited may address this issue, or it may already be resolved. Pg. 122 - Analytical genius does not determine education as usual. Pg. 128 - The following are in addition to Scholastic and Secondary skills <ins...

McFacemelt

Ok so my question then would be is a Psi-Ghost conversion would fall under the same lines as the Psi-Stalker? Because a Psi-Ghost Super Soldier seems to be in order if so.

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So a Juicer, Rogue Scientist and a Gun Runner ride into a town full of Mystics. When they park the dune buggy they walk across a guy juggling Globes of Daylight, toss him a card with some Blackmarket creds and ask him to keep an eye on it. He nods, and continues to juggle. When they return the buggy...

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So I have given in to my players desires to play a Mega Hero game, and in preparation I picked up the Rifter 37 PDF off DriveThruRPG. My question is concerning the dual class option and the normal Mega-Powers as well as the added Mega-Powers, does the dual class receive the Mega-Powers that a Mega H...

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The rolls are used for every combat action, initiative, perception, saves, everything that uses a d20. I only roll initiative once to decide combat order, it does not change until the current combat ends and another begins. I realize other dice are needed for combat and the game, but the d20 is the ...

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I should clarify, the dice rolling takes place while we are still playing. No time is lost only rolling dice, which is probably what would take place if regular dice and paper were used instead. I agree it does take some suspense out of it, and even allows for some pre-planning on the players part. ...

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1. I'm curious as to what dice apps, if any, you might currently be using and why you like that particular app. The current app I am using is RPG Roller 2.6 from Moondog Software, available for free from iTunes. This app allows you to create your own dice roll formulas, allowing you to do things lik...

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First I would like to reiterate that sounds like a fun campaign. These are the questions I would ask myself if I were at this point. 1. Who/what/how many already inhabit this moon and the gas giant? 2. Do they like the idea of about 60 Chiang-Ku invading their territory? 3. What if any valuable reso...

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I played a Psi-Ghost in an HU game and it fit right in. Probably the most fun I've had playing a psionic in HU.

McFacemelt

Without a doubt! Why ride a horse when you can ride a raptor?

McFacemelt

Depends on the PP bonus, but in the end if you have a player that get's a good PP bonus just up the bonuses on the guys that attack him. Getting players to do more than just declare "I punch him!" or "I shoot at him!" and believe that I am helping them do so makes the night go by...

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I run all my Palladium games with PP adding to Disarm, Bodyflip/Throw, Entangle, etc. for the simple fact that if you don't it makes them less enticing to the players to use and in my experience makes them more likely to SA against just about everything. Adding it to roll with punch/fall/impact also...

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You don't even have to make it a grenade. TW Butter Knife of Blinding Flash was built by one of my player's and has caused more laughs than any other TW item in our games. It is essentially a flash grenade, but whenever you hit an opponent it just dings off their armor only to blind them. Dink! &quo...

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Having had a gun master in a campaign before it's gonna depend on how high powered you want the game to be. The amount of damage that can be dished out from these is insane compared to anything I've found in the game yet, and while I don't have every book I do own about two-thirds of the entire Rift...

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W.P. Targeting in RUE, "Can also throw two small items, like knives, shurikens or throwing sticks, simultaneously at the same target." I tend to agree with Glistam and ruled so long as both items in a single hand are directed at one target you can throw a total of four items in a single ac...

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It doesn't have to be Rifts, it could really be any Palladium game. I own core books for all of Palladium's games with the exception of Nightbane and Robotech. Rifts is simply what we usually play, and what most of my collection currently consists of. Also money isn't the issue for the open house Sp...

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For the OP's last question: When working perception vs skill checking players this is my system. PC wishes to prowl with the skill at 80%, roll d100. If he passes he gets a +8 to a d20 roll vs whoever might perceive him. If he fails he rolls a d20 with no bonus vs whoever might perceive him. This al...

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You'd be amazed at what you can find at second hand stores. About a year ago one of my players found a 1st ed. printing of TMNT at Goodwill. Although it was pretty used (worn edges, cracking on the binding, etc.) when he saw the price he said he almost feinted. After tax, $1.20 for what is probably ...

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I got introduced to Palladium about two years ago when some friends came across some books and asked if I would be interested in playing. After some time, our GM got burnt out and I offered to take it up. Surprisingly with no experience on my part everyone enjoyed the games, and made me official GM....

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Or the Minor Super Ability Evasion listed in the random tables in the back of PU2, but does not appear in any of my HU books.

McFacemelt

The easiest part of running a game for your kids is keeping it the at the level in which you the GM and parent are comfortable with, ultimately that's what all GMs are doing in the first place. The hardest part will be when one of your kids makes a decision that is beyond the level in which you are ...

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Cyber Armor
Skeletal Plating
Tissue Density Increase

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Major: Karmic Power, Divine Aura
Minors: Extraordinary ME, Extraordinary PE, Extraordinary PP

Mr. Invulnerable without Invulnerability plus minions.

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I don't like the idea of giving my players such a high percentage chance of killing themselves for simply playing the character they rolled, especially if it is done randomly (which is house rule #1 for supers in my group). Trying to teleport past that wall and fail? Probably going to just let you j...

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In all the games I've played or ran as far as guns are concerned a 7 or lower misses, to include called shots. If by chance they make the 8-11 range, they miss the called target but hit main body. 12 or higher of course is a success. Never surprised to hear no one plays Palladium the way we play Pal...

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For #7, it actually reads in the errata that you posted that PS bonuses do apply. But anything more than puny human strength doesn't get damage bonuses, just harder hitting punches so its only in that case that it applies. I let my players power punches hit instantly, only so they run out of attacks...

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When I was in the military most of us didn't want grenades mainly because when you shoot them they explode, and if you've got more than one on you the chances that however many you have are going to blow are pretty high. Twelve grenades strapped to your chest in Rifts is a pretty sure fire way to di...

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One method I used on players was if the stat could be raised via skills, and they did not meet the class requirements, they could continue to make the character but only if minimums were met by picking the skills needed to hit them. This obviously doesn't always work, and when it doesn't I usually j...

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Farscape without a doubt would make for some great games. They just released the box set as well with all 88 episodes. Probably the best show to come out of the Sci-Fi channel.

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McFacemelt Called shot to the dome, with maybe a d4 for placement on successful hit? 1-jaw 2-nose 3-pick an eye 4-through the skull and out the back a random chart for specific body parts might also apply to limbs too. While normally a random chart for location would include limbs, one that is spec...

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Rimmerdal wrote:Okay...the shot that killed the King in the battle of Hastings...Could that happen in Rifts?

Called shot to the dome, with maybe a d4 for placement on successful hit?
1-jaw
2-nose
3-pick an eye
4-through the skull and out the back

McFacemelt

Eashamahel wrote:That fairly quickly becomes an arrow per second.

I look at it more as a 3 at once type deal.

Also, if you still think its too overpowered you can always make the PC spend one action drawing the bow, and then firing on the second action, like a called or aimed shot.

*edited*

McFacemelt

So... if my character could fire three arrows/melee, and had four regular attacks, you would let them fire three arrows four times a melee? So long as each set of 3 is fired at a single target yes. Do you use burst penalties to strike? Absolutely, I cut their bonus to strike by half. The PC in ques...

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A diabolic green skin is flying around in a red hovercyle with a dog equipped with a horribly attached single bionic antler are going around the world ruining everyone's cheerful mood one cold wintery night.

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Eashamahel wrote:So... if my character could fire three arrows/melee, and had four regular attacks, you would let them fire three arrows four times a melee?

So long as each set of 3 is fired at a single target yes.

McFacemelt

I let my players use the RoF as how many arrows can be fired at once.

If RoF for guns = # of rounds fired in an action, then it does for bows as well imo.

McFacemelt

I try to be serious, but my PC's usually destroy any sense of seriousness a game of Rifts can have. An example from my last session. While driving in the middle of the night our PC's vehicle is randomly attacked by a herd of Tri Tops, eventually being run into and flipped off the road. After managin...

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I use it as a base mainly, then tweak it here and there for what I need. As is it is good for say group of PC's kills 1 or more techno wizard's or geomancer's with a random assortment of gems, roll x amount of times to see what gems they were carrying. It can also work to see what a gem vendor might...

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The game I currently gm is psionic and techno wizard heavy so I made up this random gem table, after rolling percentile for the type I usually have them roll a d4 for number of half carats of w/e gem but obviously that can be tweaked to any dice you want for w/e carat you want to give. Hope someone ...

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Require the skill for sharpening? No Require roll for successfully not chopping off a finger? Yes Give skill bonus for someone who may fail their not chop off finger roll? Yes Give skill exp on successful skill roll if someone takes a skill? Yes If someone actually takes the skill whittling why take...

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WP targeting covers apples and oranges, in that it covers both muscle powered and mechanical powered weapons. Before they removed WP Thrown, muscle powered weapons received PS damage bonus. Weapons that rely on mechanical power should not get PS damage bonus. For the OP, not sure what game your pla...

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For the OP, not sure what game your playing but page 328 of RUE states no PS damage bonus unless the OCC description states otherwise. For Dragonfett, or you can use telekinesis or super telekinesis a single knife back to you. I personally didn't like this rule either when I read it, but further ins...

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It is bad wording in my opinion. I still think ultimately it should in theory be a restriction. However as GM, setting the precedent of giving abilities to an O.C.C that an O.C.C. is not supposed to receive is what I am ultimately trying to not do. Yeah my players will get a few extra dice and some ...

McFacemelt

You probably could Telemechanics the light saber off, but in all fairness I would give a chance to Jedi Mind Defense against it seeing as to how it is and extension of the Jedi himself.

Yoda's Jedi Dervish Defense > Everything but old age

McFacemelt

Yes I was able to get a copy and once the math got taken care of it was quite simple.

Now as I promised I have to make a golden surf board riding Cosmo-Knight to come smite my players this week, hooray for smiting evil TW wielding hooligans.

McFacemelt

Thank you again for the response. I agree with you that more than likely said character would probably just eat normal food and water like a normal human. I agree that normally one would think of being a PPE vampire as a restriction, except for the fact that by the book it and the ability not to eat...

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