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Rogerd

What are the different types of magic, and in which books are they in?

Obviously Palladium Fantasy.

But what other types of magic are there, and where?

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Everybody lives in the Mirror Wall, which is like you see in DC comics, where there is one universe with a gazillion shards, kind of breaking a mirror. On top of that there is Heaven and Hell, the Darklands, and a few other dimensions too boot. Then there are a few pathways to facilitate travel betw...

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I was looking through the books again, and wondered if anyone had come across a method of updating ship speeds and weapon ranges - as they are all utterly terrible and a result of the time they were written.

Do people times by ten, a hundred?

Anyone?

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Honestly, I would be inclined to go a Magic the Gathering route here. Each plane has a World Soul, which creates its own beings, whether primordials, eldritch horrors, and gods (Clash of the Titan Olympians). These planes tend to solar system sized. It might even be possible for some mortals to beco...

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Throw all spells out the window.

All powers in HU should be the same, just have different sources; whether psychic, magic, biological, technological, or something else.

Then create a working powers system.

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I{ recommend Dark Matter 5e which has some good space combat rules, and also uses Mega-Damage.

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Sure there was a Savage Worlds game for this which you could crib from.

Plus sure there may have been a few fictional books too.

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If you want realism go play Mythras, if you want a dose of fun - keep doing what you're doing and roll with what the players do, and more often than not - let them do it. But just get the villains to be as inventive as them sometimes, just as a warning sign not to abuse things too often. And players...

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Well, regarding Aim, I don't think that the WP's cover it. Some people are just better at throwing things accurately, firing a bow accurately, or firing a gun/rifle accurately. If it's just WP, then there is no taking into account natural gifts. -Vek "Of course, taking away the randomness of a...

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Not something Palladium Books deals with; the closest I can think of were TtGD's sorcerous proficiencies. But it doesn't change the point: Saying that someone should be able to roleplay everything without referencing their stats is like saying someone should have to be able to fight, without refere...

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We should also remove PP. You should either be able to throw a punch or not, none of this rolling garbage. My main issue with MA and PB is that they've got these things applied to them that make no gorram sense. What does Trust/Intimidate MEAN in the game? Neither PB nor MA are really useful. Appea...

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Switch to Heroes Unlimited?

At this point the Monk should be looking at becoming an Ancient master, or a Shih; while the Soldier, or Archer would be pushing to Weapons Master.

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Excerpt from setting in question on page 4 of the Kickstarter FAQ: For most, discrimination of any sort is rare. Although strong racial bias does exist in backward corners of the world and among the ignorant... On the same page, they mention that some bickering about religion exits. This tends to e...

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They are called Green Ronin. Ronin a uniquely Japanese cultural term, the word is freaking Japanese. So If I called a group I worked with the Dank Zulu Nation it wouldn't be cultural appropriation? How 'bout the Neon Aztec Myan Alliance? One can not claim to be anti racist while performing racist a...

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Well, there are plenty of things I would remove from the game. MA is one. It's the antithesis of role-playing. The player should make a convincing plea or make a scary threat on his or her own. I don't like rolling for role-playing. Couldn't agree more, and it is one of the reasons I removed it. IQ...

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I knew this would be a mixed bag when I posed it. My other thing are classes to be honest. Do we need a Class triad, Warrior, Magic-User, and Rogue for example? Then add class specialisations in? So a Warrior specialisation could be Monk or a Martial / Fighter; while a Rogue could refer to a Ranger,...

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Erm... I agree, the setting is cool. But I'm pretty sure the phlogiston is not the Astral. If I recall (unless they made changes in later editions), all settings were on the same plane - more or less isolated, occasionally clustered, spheres of hollow crystal floating around a sea of combustible ga...

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And there is no excuse for justifying this. I find it interesting these days that stereotyping and racisms in rpg seems to be a worse crime then running around murderising things. To me racism is bad, but killing is way worse, but i have never seen a thread decrying the wrongness of running around ...

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Racial hatred? Are you a complete lunatic? You can say stereotypes sure, I disagree but valid opinion sure but racial hatred? You're a troll has to be because nobody is this nuts IRL. Can you not read FFS? Do you prefer the setting close to as written, with all of the societal ills like sexism, rac...

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I have been pressing to get you to back this up and see exactly how deeply this judgement goes. That seems to be a pretty simple and direct statement. Do I need some sort of reading lessons to properly understand it? 1. I don't need to justify my position. I have been trying to get you to justify y...

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You have opened another thread to justify using Palladium's racial hatred and stereotyping in your games.

What the fcuk is wrong you with people?

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It does follow for me, because that is the overall tone I have gotten from your posts. I have read your posts. I am wanting to be sure I have everything boiled down to the correct direct statement. You could very simply answer yes or no to whether those correctly represent your position. 1. If anyo...

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Kraynic wrote:It very much does seem to follow.

No it doesn't, and you're making excuses.

Kraynic wrote:If it doesn't, then could you clarify your position?

I have been very clear. Perhaps you should try actually reading posts?

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So, if I am understanding you correctly, you believe the following: 1. If anyone in the world portrays the Wolfen race in a game as an expansionist race that wants to take over and organize other races, the person who does so is a racist in real life. 2. If anyone in the world uses the Barbarian OC...

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1. I don't need to justify my position. I have been trying to get you to justify your correlation between portraying certain fantasy elements being analogous to full on racism and sexism in real life outside the game. Failing the burden of proof. 2. It doesn't matter whether it is required or optio...

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I"m not sure Berserker really has any better connotation, but that is a reasonable alternative for a label. I am not shifting the burden of proof. Someone making the statement: "if you portray X race in your game as they are presented in a book, then you are a racist". The person mak...

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I am NOT shifting the goalposts. This is the whole point of my objections to statements made in this thread. It is as if anyone who uses the any of the setting that you object to should be ashamed of running or playing in games that don't totally change everything about every race in the world. I'm...

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So, if anyone has any of that in their games, they are playing their games wrong, and should change their ways? You are trying to Shift the Goalpost here, and trying to get out of justifying keeping unwelcome elements in a game. It doesn't improve a game to keep racial stereotyping. But what it doe...

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I never said I did. I'm now trying to find out how you know I am so offensive. Again this is a total strawman. If I am creating strawmen, it is because straws are all I have to cling to, due to you pulling "facts" about me out of fairly thin air. No, this is because your attempt to justif...

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So now I have called on you and Rogerd to specify where your knowledge and authority comes from. How do you know I am a shameful waste of human flesh who is racist and hateful towards women to boot? Who are you to lay these things on me and pass judgement if you have played in none of my games and ...

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Ok, hmm... So, we need to remove the Wolfen from Palladium, because they are racist. The Coyles can be removed for the same reason, although they are into conflict for loot rather than rule. Kankoran are basically, the "Native Americans" of the Palladium world, so they can be considered s...

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They would likely be better suited to being in Nightbane to be honest.

Same goes for Ninjas and Superspies which was the world Pre-Dark Day, at least in my head.

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Sam - which version of D&D? Things went seriously downhill with 3rd and later. 4 & 5 are essentialy paper and dice video games. As for GURPS, I agree, it is math intense...but at least it's not Champions! (Shudder) DnD 5e is damn good at the minute, lots of really great stuff coming out tha...

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There a few ways to do this. Reduce the cost, so a 6th level spell costs 6 PPE to cast. Then have a set of level 0 spells, or cantrips, which cost 0 PPE too. But they are not offensive and cover basic stuff like purification, spoil, mend, repair that kind of thing. If you are thinking from a HU pers...

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Mark Hall wrote:It's always the question, IMO, of "Why do you find that rampant racism and sexism make games more fun for you?"

Exactly that, there are plenty of other character arcs that can be explored, instead of sensitive subjects.

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Are you seriously holding up a company as your symbol of anti racism that has culturally appropriated "Ronin"? Strawman. They are called Green Ronin, and their name has nothing to do with how they hold themselves out to the world. Which in this case, is taking his Mythos, sans extreme rac...

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WHAT?!?!? As players and GM's we DO NOT HAVE TO adapt our games to modern sensibilities. Stopping you right there. You absolutely should - it is why Green Ronin with their new KS Cthulhu Awakes they have explicitly said that it removes all of HPL Racism, and anyone that wants to bring that back int...

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Okay so I have been reading a lot of rpg books of late, and was thinking about the system etc. Stats Strength: PS Constitution / Endurance: PE Dexterity /Agility: PP Intelligence: IQ. Not even sure this is even necessary to be honest. Willpower: ME The rest of the other stats are not really required...

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You know what would work great is Spelljammer.

Each setting is enclosed in a Crystal Sphere, and to travel to other planets you go via the astral (same as the upcoming new 5e Spelljammer).

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If you are looking for examples from existing rpg's...you have a lot to choose from. Lex Arcana is a Greek inspired one, and fairly gritty from what I recall. Odyssey of the Dragonlords is for 5e, and the gods resemble those from mythology....but are not Zeus. Arkadia is also for 5e, and the gods ar...

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Now that we have Cobra-Kai, does anyone feel that it is a bit like N&S?

Chuck in the old Lee Majors Bionic Man, and few 80's style ninja's and it would be the same thing?

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Honestly what I'm realizing is the martial arts as written need to be redone frankly. I think that is true of a lot of things in Palladium to be honest. To be honest N&S as a setting, the martial art powers need to more akin to Gurps Martial Arts. Mystic China would be better if it was included...

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So at what level would character be a "Black Belt" and then how many levels would gaining a higher "degree" of "Black Belt" be? I'd explain why I am asking but that may run afoul of the "no conversions" policy. Thanks in advance. Level 1 would be beyond black...

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I run D&D 5e every week as well as a PB game. The main benefits of 5e are the wider covered rules (although quite simple) and most importantly the melee classes get to do special **** instead of just striking. Power wise the only thing that rally separates a paladins strike to another character...

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For those that don’t play DnD, you don’t get to role for parry or dodge, your Armor Class (AC) dictates if you are hit and take damage. Simpler to teach and play but not as fun or cool in my opinion. It is a quicker resolve, and obviously does not constitute one hit, but an exchange of strikes, par...

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Yeah, so, I figured this was a games forum for a specific game with specific rules and specific answers, not a "yammer on about some idea unrelated to anything about the game because I love arguing about stupid stuff" forum. Obviously I was in the wrong. If the game fluff relating to the ...

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Or, as an alternative, you can read the game text. All this is on DB7:MB Pg10, bud. Don't care. Just because it is written in the book it does not mean it makes sense, nor is it right. It is all about critical thinking. An infinite dimension has no boundaries. You cannot get to it's "edge"...

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Actually, I was referring to the official rules and definitions of dimensional sizes, as stated on Page 10 of Dimension book 7, Megaverse Builder (DB7:MB PP10). Questions on these boards should always be answered with cannon rules (and hopefully page numbers) or else someone here will argue with yo...

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No it's not. Not only were you all over the place, but your sentences are literally incomprehensible. They do contain words, sure, but that's about it. Below is your quote. It is gibberish. The trouble here is that Palladium still has magic, psi, and cosmic energy. Instead replacing the Marvel main...

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You however, came in and went off on so many tangents you were incomprehensible. This is just garbage. Somehow on a question on whether a Cosmo Knights cosmic blast could destroy vampires you brought up the Silver Surfer, Galactus and Mephisto from Marvel Comics, demons, deevils and Satan. And you ...

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