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Hotrod wrote:There's another factor I haven't really considered much: utility outside combat.

Outside of combat, what benefit does a super-high P.P. bring?

Your grace on the dancefloor is sure to make the ladies swoon.

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The easiest way is to just make bows work like they do in real life. If if a bow is made for the archer, their PS damage bonus is added.

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Veknironth wrote:-Vek
"Don't ever give me a vague description of a power."

That's literally how every power in Palladium is written!

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The main things I like in 5e are the opposed rules. Nice and easy to see who notices what.
I also like that the spells are pretty clear cut as to what they do, unlike Palladium where most of the description is grey area.

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I would personally rule that if the mage lets go, the object slows to a stop and just hovers in spot waiting for reconnection or spell expiration.

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You however, came in and went off on so many tangents you were incomprehensible. This is just garbage. 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 tr...

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That's all there is in Palladium. And I was quite clear on how I interpret the rules for MY games. You however, came in and went off on so many tangents you were incomprehensible. Somehow on a question on whether a Cosmo Knights cosmic blast could destroy vampires you brought up the Silver Surfer, G...

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I personally play it as a dimension that contains the planet. Only the Splugorth have knowledge of its location.

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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck. So without anymore detail on cosmic energy we can only draw a correlation from somewhere. No, YOU can apparently only draw a correlation from somewhere. I'm fully capable of using my own imagination to provide for how things work in...

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I think it's important to point out that CKs don't carry cosmic energy, there is no roll 3D6 for how many cosmic energy points, they use PPE or there own life (MDC) to generate a blast of cosmic energy much the way a mage would use PPE to generate fire or lightning or even particle beam blast. Also...

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ALL humans have 3D6 PPE, And other races will have their own levels PPE. Both of these are without the character learning to be a mage, or being granted magic powers. Unless they used the perm PPE to buy their Psionic powers. ALL mortals have Chi+ equal to their PE attribute score. (Acording to R3 ...

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Healing Flame is a level 8 Blue Flame spell from South America Two.
You can find it on Page 40 of the Rifts Book of Magic.

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No, it is drawing a correlation, or noting similarities of which there are many. Now as cosmic energy is ill defined you need to draw a similarity from somewhere. You can draw similarities from where ever you want, but they have no bearing on Palladiums works. You're just stating an out and out hou...

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Sorry Rogerd, but saying that characters in different mediums share some similar appearances therefore they are the same is ridiculous reasoning. Nothing in Palladiums books remotely works the same way it does in Marvel comics. You may personally say they are the same, but that is your own personal ...

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What are you even talking about?

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Where do the books give rules on demons and deevils possessing people?

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Counterpoint, the Silver Surfer's master, Galactus, has battled Mephisto - and hurt him. If that can happen cosmic energy is definitely going to permanently a mere vampire. Those wielding this type of energy are likely to slapping master vamps aside and battling the Vampire intelligence itself! Cou...

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Yes, but the rune ability is set up to function on physical creatures, not possessed people. Which makes it weirder that they reference exorcism as being a part of the ability.

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Looking over this spell, it removes the caster into a time hole. Time goes by 15 seconds inside to 1 minute outside. The duration is 5 min. But which 5 minutes. Does the caster stay inside for 5 minutes real world time (1 minute 15 seconds inside) or 5 minutes inside time (20 minutes outside time)? ...

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The ability is set up a little weird. I think it is greater SN have a 88% chance to save, lesser SN 44% chance. If they fail they have a 50% chance of being banished to their home dimension. If they save they can't come within 600' of the caster. Protection circles I plan to use, but they are not v...

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That's my issue. I'm looking for a spell or magic item that would offer protection from it so at least the greater demons can not be wiped out every battle before it starts. Guess I'll have to make my own.

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One big difference between a bow and a staff is that the bow is under tension. Quite a bit. Anything that breaks the fibers on the back of the bow will cause explosive failure. I've been shooting an English longbow for 12 years. Under no circumstance would I ever consider using it to block any sort ...

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Personally, I run it as mystical in nature. Fully capable of harming anything that is only able to be harmed by magic. I wouldn't allow a vampire do be destroyed by it, but definitely reduced to ash and needing to regenerate.

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Killer Cyborg wrote:Have the circle enscribed on a hula hoop!

That would be a humourous scene!

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The ability is set up a little weird. I think it is greater SN have a 88% chance to save, lesser SN 44% chance. If they fail they have a 50% chance of being banished to their home dimension. If they save they can't come within 600' of the caster. Protection circles I plan to use, but they are not ve...

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Does anyone know of a spell, magic item or similar that would allow a demon or deevil to be immune to the Banishment ability of some rune weapons?

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So if there is no canon rule, how would you house rule a gargoyle taking a 1D6x10 MD laser to the eye? Instant kill, double or triple damage? Something else?

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I can't seem to locate rules for making a called shot to the head/eye/arm of supernatural creatures. Is there a listing in one of the books I haven't seen, or is it not published anywhere?
Mainly looking for damage rules along with penalties for taking a called shot to the face.

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That awsome news! Hopefully it hits press soon. Looking forward to reading it.

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I haven't gotten too far into the page yet. Main reason I bought the sheet was to get access to the spells. Any particular reason why ocean magic made it onto the page, but elemental magic was left off? Seems to me that elemental magic would be much more common in games than ocean. Are more going to...

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I think on some level it will also depend on how their economy is structured (which gets into Political and Cultural aspects to). Those with independent manufactures likely are going to run into licensing issues with proprietary designs (like a Fighter). We see that with Naruni and Phase Tech desig...

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If Palladium spent a quarter of the time and resources into producing new material that they spend on releasing hardcover versions of old books, or special gold edition hardcovers of books, the company might actually progress somewhere. I don't want 6 copies of the same book with different covers. I...

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Everyone mentioning how brittle crystal is compared to stone hasn't handled much stone. I've handled thousands of kilometers of drill core. It's a little thinner than a baseball bat. A 1meter piece taken from granite will shatter if you pick it up too fast. Same goes for any other type of rock I've ...

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While a book detailing beyond the wall would be really cool, I'd really like to see the main world fully described first. It's been almost 40 years now. I know Rifts sells better, but if PF had 60 books, it would probably sell better too. Personally I would love to see the system cleaned up. A core ...

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Did any of the rifters expand on the available blue flame spells? I've always loved the flavour of these spells but with only 10 they're kind of limited.

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-Vek "While on the topic of making OCCs more differentiated, each God's Priests should have their own abilities." I would love to see this. One if my pet peeves from Goden if the Gods was not even having holy symbols listed for the gods described. That book would have been a great place t...

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Personally I like the idea of having shields automaticall add to AR. +2 to +4 depending on the size.
Soldiers should have some sort of bonus for fighting in formation with other soldiers. +2 to strike and parry to account for them working as a unit.

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Talk about a jump in power levels! Palladium Fantasy and the Three Galaxies? "Greetings, peasant. I am a Cosmo-Knight! Pardon me while I go pacify the Land of the Damned. Be back in a few days." "Yes, just guide the battleship through the rift, and then bombard the giant tree at thes...

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Thanks for the input everyone!
I think I've figured out what I'm going to do.

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My current campaign (that we're finally able to play in person again!) is taking place both on Palladium and currently in Phase World. I've turned the Phase World setting into SDC. Two characters are a demigod and godling (one from the Norse Pantheon, the other TBD). Since the conversion notes are n...

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That don't have to be perfect but decent editing and don't conflict with the gaming books or each other. Having almost finished reading Garden of the Gods, I almost spit out my coffee reading this. I'm quite used to poor editing in PB books, but GotG is by far the worst I've seen yet. I can't under...

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That's pretty damn handy. I'm always going through the races for a a couple of days before an adventure to gauge attributes and stats. It's a pain.

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That's pretty awesome looking Hotrod! Next you have to make a diorama to display it in.

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I've been watching as many sci-fi movies and series as I can lately to get some new ideas. Agents of Shield was a good one, as are most of the Marvel Movies.

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There are two simple facts that would make the existence of clocks and potentially time zones easily possible on Palladium. One is interdimensional travel. Many dragons and other beings have come to the palladium world from other worlds. Even worlds where high technology exist. Most of the gods fit ...

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Thanks for the reply Borast. That gives me a few ideas to work with.

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Poorly written is an understatement. I don't have HUGMG, but did find the spells in PFRPG. Unfortunately, they don't offer much insight. Increased gravity just reduces a persons speed. Weightlessness actually contradicts the power. It reduces a persons speed and damage, where the power triples the s...

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If the church of light and dark has comprehensive star charts, then they would also probably be able to understand the concept of time zones. It would likely be something that is only known to nobility and scholars though. The average person on Palladium would simply know sunrise, noon and sunset.

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The power has definitely be a chore to manage from both a GM and player perspective. One of the abilities of the increased gravity is to have it encompass an area, or an object. How fast moving would you think an object would have to be moving to still allow him to increase its gravity? I would assu...

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Perform searches for various fictional facilities (i.e.: maps). You can probably find lay-outs for SG Command, the Space 1999 lunar base, Thunderbirds island base, Dr. No's base, etc. Mind, this is going to be for your own personal use, to not violate the no conversions rule... Alternatively, you c...

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