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Vincent Takeda

I also consider percentage per level to include level 1 since level 1 is a level. makes the math easier.

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My character had a paramour with the polymorph and technoform power who would be her outfits or weapons or vehicles. he was a complete tool. Lately i've replaced that pair with a character with the illusion power. Doesnt matter if anyone believes its real. Its what they see one way or the other. Dis...

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At the rate we're going I cant promise I'll make it to 2021. Oh. You mean the open house.

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The gene splicers could do it in a heartbeat. But *would* they?

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And dont get me started on jousting

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Sounds more like a kink than a combat manoever if you ask me

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And honestly, the players simply choosing to focus fire while the bad guys dont is giving them an advantage right out of the gates.

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Your speed attribute is definitely feet per second. 5280 feet in a mile, 3600 seconds per hour, so just multiply your speed score by 15/22 to get miles per hour.

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I agree that it seem rediculous for heroes used to getting into scuffles to not have formal martial training, so I escape these confines by the power of fiat! Matter of fact I feel like giving heroes access to martial arts is 'following the rules' since one of the rules is 'use common sense' and ano...

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I agree. One of my favorite things about HU is the absence of mdc. It is a good idea executed poorly.

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Yeah. always have to keep in mind that the system isnt trying to model reality or balance. Its trying to model entertaining action movies from the 80s. Lots of handwavium and phlebonitum.

Cuz real life sucks

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new martial art: mosh pit

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the speed attribute governs how far a character can run in a given time. SPD x 20 is how far in yards they can run in the span of one minute. SPD x 5 is how many yards they can cover in one melee round (15 seconds) and you divide that figure by their number of attacks to determine how far they can ...

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These kind of conversations are exactly why I love not playing palladium's mdc settings. So much rules lawyering interpretive back and forth. Just not worth the hassle. What would Kevin do? Is this what the Wuj would have wanted? Pages of twisting english and rulebook skullduggery? I mean yeah, the ...

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In one way I'd say yes, and in the other I'd say the issue is moot. Typically when magic enters an mdc arena, it starts doing megadamage all by itself, so in terms of magic, the question is moot. Against silver its not as cut and dry, but at my table I'd say sure. I mean... There's no such thing as ...

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I'd probably read it that way if it said 'not more than one multiplier per level' but since it conspicuously leaves out the 'per level' part, I cant imagine they meant such a thing. The nature of most of palladium's oops moments can be chalked up to fat fingering like 45d6 where someone missed the 4...

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On page 16 under determining chi it specifically says that no character can have more than one chi multiplier, so while it would be silly for a tai chi practitioner to switch from x2 to, well, x2 as he levels up means thats probably not the case, I'd maintain the posit that a character that took bot...

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I mean its not like every one of us isnt homebrewing the hell out of just about every game system we've been playing to some extent... If you game, you homebrew. Even 'pathfinder society play' though agreeing on a set of rules, has agreed on a set of 'house rules' that are different than the publish...

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Yeah. A 15th level APS light character can outrun a cosmoknight if he's in-atmosphere.

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I mean at the very least it should give you proficiency in using the pistols as kubotons to pistolwhip your opponent and parry incoming attacks from swords and knives right? Lol. Cloud Strife had the gun blade. What we need now is a hybrid pistol/bichwabaghnach. Paired. We can call them bichwaboomba...

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They must be carrying that railgun for another trooper like a pack mule.

We need a six armed skelebot. One pair is shootin, the second pair is passing a loaded weapon to you, the third pair is taking and reloading the gun you're handing him.

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I mean I'm pretty sure most of the damage from a DU round comes from the fact that its coming at you at mach 4 and it weighs as much as a car battery. At least in terms of the 120mm abrams round.

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I care less about what the book says and more about what is and isnt a pain in the ass at the table. Is it a pain in the ass to track each individual pair of weapons at the table? Yes, Yes it is. Is it a pain in the ass to have a table full of characters dual wielding pistols? Not so much. If i'm be...

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I know what your thinking... Did he fire six shots or only 5? In all the excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a 41 pound 120mm smooth bore depleted uranium longrod flying 3700mph capable of annihilating anything on the battlefield at a range of over a mile and a half, you've go...

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Like li kwan chu stunning strikes, which are kind of like every punch you throw carrying a 25% chance of awe factoring your opponent as if he's neo on his first day. Debana o kujiki kata is another of my favorites.. its sort of the 'zaKENnayo' of the samurai spirit. I'll be honest I havent messed wi...

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I think if the martial arts are simply seen as as something to integrate into rifts, its mostly a no. MDC ranged combat is going to render your years at the dojo pretty much moot. But in every other situation, they're just as useful as other power categories. High level likwanchu gets a stun on 16? ...

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So like. Regardless of perception abilities... Can mach one astral stop and turn on a dime? If so, being pursued at equal speed, if your pursuer were a mere 10 feet behind you, all you'd really have to do is make a B line for any room smaller than the distance between you and make a hard turn... Fin...

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I also like to think that as the japanese seniors did, volunteering to clean up the high radiation site in order to minimize the risk to younger countrymen, a retiree in failing health who has spent his entire life under the relative safety coalition protection might volunteer to spend his twilight ...

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I kinda wanna give Dane and Rifka a samoyed puppy with natural combat ability, venomous attack, and transfixing gaze.

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Elasticity and rocket fists?

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First things first, dont forget snake style has a double chi bonus at level 1 listed under 'character bonus' instead of under 'level 1', so he gets 4 doubles just like tai chi guy, and in fact reaches the 4th doubling earlier than tai chi guy at level 14 instead of 15, so your snake style line shoul...

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Powers2 super invention lets you put together something like this. Only thing I've considered in this vein so far is some tech goggles with various combinations of night vision, ir, uv, xray, telescopic, living anatomy, sense death and destruction, paranormal vision, and impervious to control and po...

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I seem to gravitate to healers and mechanics because I like playing the character that helps the party keep the ball rolling. I tend to play humans because I like my default mindset to be 'what would it be like if I were a dude who could ...' instead of 'what would it be like if I were a 30 foot liz...

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What about your favorite characters makes them your favorite characters?
What about your favorite classes makes them your favorite classes?
What about your favorite races makes them your favorite races?
What about your favorite campaigns made them your favorite campaigns?

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Perhaps a skill called 'crowdsourcing' or 'social media blitz', kind of a contemporary version of streetwise where they spread information amongst themselves and can use the skill to broadcast unflattering information about thier opponent in a way that permeates and saturates the consciousness of th...

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I'm seeing weeaboo lore and a cosplay skill... Perhaps an entire language skill built of emojis

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LOL... per my post in heroes unlimited power combinations, my longest surviving characters are a pair of immortal spirits of light (powers2) with powers that grow with experience. I was allowed to choose powers instead of rolling randomly. Dane and Rifka AKA Kitbash and Cameo He's got APS light, shr...

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Full shapeshifter loadout: alter facial feature, alter physical body, technoform, metal manipulation, polymorph.

Edit: woot! 200th post!

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Now that you mention it, metal manipulation and technoform has been a favorite of mine for a while now.

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im a big fan of shrink for this trope. bring out the clones, gear em up. shrink em back down and carry your posse in your pocket. my one woman soviet assassination squad codename:matryoshka

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I've always presumed that on its own, technoform's forms are custom one off looks that cant be mistaken for anything else... You're not just a car, you're a unique car. Not just a tank you've seen before or a bot you've seen before but each form you have has a distinctive 'you' style to it. I have o...

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I did indeed use cell shading to mask my computation cells for my height and weight calculator, so I'm familiar with the concept. Your sheet does give me some insight into how to use values from one tab on another tab which I find super helpful!

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Agreed. I've done a similar calculating character sheet myself, and although mine is similar in function, it is not nearly as pretty. Things I've got on my character sheet include all of the mph/feet per second/feet per round and max carry/round of carry/fatigue calculations as you have. I've also i...

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Alexis has good taste in cars.

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Right. My point is if we've got a good place to reseed, thats a good reason to break some of it out of deep freeze. The whole point of it isnt to just keep some frozen forever for the sake of the joy of freezin stuff. Its meant to be used when the world goes to hell, which rifts earth clearly has. I...

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They could have missions safely relocating the svalbard seed vault across the rift.

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I can imagine the land being taken over by volcanic activity spurning the entire scandinavian region back into the runeforged technoviking ships and building floating cities that cruise about eating nothing but new monstrous megadamage sea life, and the rise in power of the volcanomancer. As the wor...

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As was briefly mentioned above, the most important aspect of EMP weaponry is that all military grade borgs and bots are hardened against EMP attacks anyway, so such a thing would only be useful against civilians. It wouldn't even deactivate a skelebot. Thats not a houserule. Thats published.

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One of my capitalist players wanted to harness the mutant power of resin to open a plastic injection molding shop. Adventurous he is not. More 'Venturous'.

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Reported and blacklisted for you too I guess. repeated requests to stay on topic occurred several times above your post, but you've displayed a habit of not reading any post that's even lengthy, much less to your liking. Why do you not post in good spirit?

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