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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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I wonder how that works with something like the Wilk's laser sword

SNPS or any other physical damage bonus wouldn't get added to a laser sword or any other energy type melee weapon. There is no physical component to the blade.

I'm not sure that would be the case. Yes on one hand it is the ...

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Interesting bit of information. In WB16 Federation of Magic, the city of Stormspire is listed as being built "Where the city of Lexington Kentucky once stood".

But WB12 Psyscape describes Soulharvest as being "Located in the deepest recesses of the Magic Zone, not too terribly far from the Kingdom ...

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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 time ...

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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?

For example:

If Cormal is (somehow) destroyed, do the juveniles die as well or become independent?

If Cormal is imprisoned-perhaps by someone decoding the book ...

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Admittedly it's in a Rifter, but Rifter #77 has the city of Nowhere in the Pecos Empire. It's a TW based city that makes PPE "pipelines" to power TW gear in customers' towns. It also has a GLORIOUSLY INSANE scientist nicknamed "Z-Doktor" who has created a charming little horror called the ...

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In the write up of the Blight of Ages spell of legend, it is mentioned that Tolkeen was holding the spell in reserve to use against the CS crop fields in Missouri. This was for leverage in negotiations or as a final strike. So what happened?

Blight of Ages would have been DEVASTATING to the ...

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Curbludgeon wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 6:22 pm The author said here that the spell got renamed to Nova Blast in DB13.

That makes a lot of sense since the Demon Knights operate in space a lot and Nova Blast is brutal in space.

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Possibly. Might also be something that fits in between Sub-Particle acceleration and Annihilate as far as damage output. 3d6x10 MD maybe?

I do not actually have Heroes Unlimited so cannot comment on how accurate the power would be for this.

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On page 113 of DB12, the Demon Knight is listed as having two spells; Demon Blade and Disintegration Beam. Demon blade was listed under Demon Magic in the same book, but I have not been able to find Disintegration Beam. It's not in the demon magic section, and I also checked under the Soulmancy ...

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I found it! It's in Rifter 15, Page 101. Also called Dimensional Barrier. But it's a 15th level spell. 2,000 (!) PPE, 12 hours/level duration, 100' radius per caster level-but oddly the height is cut off at 50'.

The 5 Eye thing is apparently you need 5 synchronized eyes to hold just this one spell ...

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They could link the spell with Rune Statues and Eylor observation eyes. The statues and Eyes act as the scanning system for detecting dimensional incursions.

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In one book (Likely a Rifter?) there was a spell listed that would prevent dimensional travel and possibly teleportation within it's area of effect. This spell was mentioned as being encoded into Eye of Eylor obelisks (5 of the large Eyes stacked one atop each other in individual containment units ...

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I'd even reduce the original PHYSICAL stats, as the clone body isn't going to have the benefit of prior physical conditioning, unless there was one heckuva in-bottle exercise regimen applied.

Hmmm... Take current stats, remove the Juicer bonuses, then remove any physical stat bonuses from ...

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Something occurred to me. If a Juicer wanted to go through Detox, and had access to cloning technology (Republic of Japan, Kittani/Atlantis, Phase World/Three Galaxies, etc). If he has a clone of himself made and his brain transplanted to it, could he avoid the detox penalties to his physical stats ...

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In Secrets of the Atlanteans, most of the damage-dealing tattoos had the note "Does SDC damage to SDC targets and MD damage to MDC targets added to them. Not asking about whether this was right or anything, but curious about two things.

1: You activate your Lightning Bolts tattoo and zap someone in ...

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One of the tables deals with generating the relationship of a Minion species(the specifics can then be created using any of the random species/monster tables in the Palladium Books). Are they warriors? Servitors? Artificiers? And what degree of loyalty do they have towards their resident Big ...

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Ok, we are given the names of three of the four Splugorth Lords in the three galaxies.

Rasstynth {Corkscrew)
Desslyth [Elder and Younger] (Thundercloud)
Rynncryyl [HAHAHA] (Anvil-MIA possibly KIA)

Who is the fourth? (Also in Corkscrew I believe). There was a Yythcryss in Anvil that the UWW ...

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Nightlands Witches generally have one of two gifts. Gift of the Nightlords or Gift of Union. Now Gift of the Nightlords gives them some of the Nightlord abilities (Limited energy expulsion, energy manipulation speel equivalents, life force vampirism) and is fairly straightforward.

Gift of Union is ...

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Found it. It's in the back of Rifter #55.

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Do you recall which issue it was in?

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I recall seeing a Coalition NPC-a pilot, (SAMAS IIRC) that had been captured by the Minions of Splugorth and sold into slavery in Splynn. She became I believe a Tattooed Man and was trying to become a full Minion of Splugorth since she knew she would be executed or worse if she went back to the ...

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Is there a method to magically or psionically see through or detect illusions? Spell, psionic power, Eyes of Eylor? Maybe the Plato's Strands spell from Lazlo RAW?

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Triax apparently built the T-550 (And later the T-700 Fat Boy and T-710 Hell Angel) based on the original Chromium Guardsman plans. I find it odd that none of the Triax GB's have a reinforced pilot's compartment like the original. Was this an oversight? (And if so was errata ever released or a new ...

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The definition of the call's area is on Page 48 Of WB7 Underseas, last chapter before the Sea Inquisitor. 1,000 Mile strip or diameter (Diameter likely being at sea), once or twice a year. It's semi-subconsciously activated basically. But for a strip (Of coast presumably) it says nothing about how ...

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It's mentioned in WB7 Underseas that the LotD occasionally puts out a psionic "call" that can cover something like 1,000 miles of coastline. But it does not state how far inland the effect of the "Calling" propagates. Anyone have any ideas? I was leaning towards 15-30 miles inland from the ocean ...

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Interesting bit in the Titan Robotics book. The Mecvhanoids are always referred to as "The Devourers". This is with respect to their tech, the invasion and fighting Archie and Hagan did against them, and even in the write-ups of Argent Goodson and Diana where their power supplies are listed as ...

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I do not think Mindwerks does either. All of their minions/goons/experiments are either M.O.M. based, Psynetic tech (Development of M.O.M.) or cybernetic/bionic. No real mention of either genetic engineering or bio-wizardry.

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In WB2, High Lords are described as being a combined priest, wizard, and alchemist. Now a lot of this is seemingly a function in society as opposed to a class, but there is also mention in a few places of "Splugorth Alchemists" (Example: Descriptions of the Kittani underwater power armors in ...

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Thanks Nekira, upon thinking it over I tend to agree with you wholeheartedly.

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There is also an alter environment spell somewhere where the individual could appreciate to a vehicle or room that might reset the timer

There's an Alter Environment spatial magic spell, but that seems to be dealing with physical environmental factors. The Wormwood symbiotes would require ...

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Something occured to me. Are bio-wizardry and genetic engineering (Gene-Splicer/Gene-Tech/Eugenics from PU2/etc) compatible? And if they are... is the limit of 3 Bio-wizard augmentations before one becomes a partial bio-borg OCC stackable with genetic engineering modifications? I can see it a few ...

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Soldier of Od wrote:They are in the library of bletherad sourcebook.

Thank you very much!

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In Rifter #65 there are a number of new spells for necromancy, including the sub-category of Spirit Spells (For the Spirit Caller). At least two of them however are not described, these being Spectral Sword and Ghost Ship. Now, Spectral Sword I am fairly certian I saw somewhere, but cannot recll ...

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It mentions in the write-up of the matter/energy control power "Release Energy" the Ba'al can create "walls of fire, circles of fire, electrical fields, electro-magnetic fields etc" but no duration is listed for them. Do they just happen instantly (Like the fields generated by the Elom symbiote ...

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I'm leaning towards The Energy Pulse weapons for close-quarters combat units, Ship's Troops, security etc. Then the HI lasers (K-80?) for frontline infantry, and lastly the K-15 reverse engineered mechanoid rifle for Power armor troops and as a designated marksman rifle.

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Ok, I noticed something about almost all of the Kittani small arms (Not counting the undersea ones); Just about all of the Kittani weapons listed in the Atlantis book are knock-offs of some other manufacturer (Wilks, Coalition, Triax, Juicer rifles). Now I can understand the Kittani not wanting to ...

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I noticed that in the d3escription of Eyes of Eylor there are 3 mentions of PPE that the Eyes have. Small ones have 150, Large have 400, and if a small (Golfball size?) one is implanted in a person, they get 20 PPE added to their base for each Eye.

Now where it is less clear is with items using the ...

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I noticed the Eye price in the slave section is 100 million+, and the one in the bio-wizard section is 20 million or so and does not do as much. So I guess for my campaign will just have both typs, if you want the eye-forcefield (Or spells), you pay the extra 80 million+ for them.

They either ...

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In the description of the Eyes of Eylor in the Atlantis book, I noticed this comment:

All eyes can regenerate 1D4X10 M.D.C. per minute and can
instantly create an armor of Ithan force field around them (this field
is sometimes expanded to include a larger bio-wizard body or area
and therefore ...

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I'm leaning towards power armor level sensor suite for the Speed Pod, and Robot level sensors for the War Pod. Reasoning is the War Pod is very close to aircraft like the NG Sky King and the Coalition Sky Cycle, and both of those have robot vehicle class sensor suites. The Speed Pod, not being ...

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Triax 2 introduced an XM-350 Rhino Heavy Hovertank. It's a nice vehicle But I am wondering if it should have been XM-360. The reason of course is that there already is an XM-350 in the original Triax book. The XM-350 Leopard III APC. It's obviously still in service, the standard APC for the NGR army ...

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It doesn't say that either of them have any sort of sensor arrays, but it makes some sense that since the war pod can travel at up to Mach 2 at low altitude, that the level of NOE flying requird for that would demand at least radar. The fact that the 1-man War Pod carries minimissiles and a heavy ...

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It does not specifically say, but looks like just one per character.

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I have a character that has an Elom Symbiote and it suddenly occured to me. Does the Elom's electromagnetic powers get affected by the proximity of ley line energy? It does not state anything either way, but as it is a product of bio-wizardry it would make some sense for it to be boosted. All of the ...

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It's odd that the Triax T-40 Plainclothes armor has an AR listed for the different pieces, but the NG armored clothing does not. I'm wondering if AR got basically junked because the changes to energy weapons/firearms combat in RUE made it fairly pointless on smaller coverage armored clothing like ...

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Divided between the "30 MDC, Period" and "You can make called shots to hit limbs", will canvas my players for their options on it. Thanks for all the replies though.

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I tried looking this up but could not locate any official or unofficial answers.

This is in regards to the standard Altaran "one-piece swimsuit" armor. As written it has 30 MDC with no AR listed, let apparently has no visible protection for the legs and arms. So how do people handle it?

1: As is ...

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Something occurred to me about these two powers that could possibly make them usable together in a complementary way. Machine Ghost allows for reading of data from a computer but no control or reprogramming. Electrokinesis can manipulate up to 12 controls on an electronic device per melee. So my ...

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3: It uses integral E-Clip/Ammo mags. Basically each magazine carries a smaller energy cell with enough power to fire the magazine's complement of shells. This allows for greater efficiency while reloading, and also streamlines logistics. Both of which I see Triax doing. Though perhaps the most ...

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