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I did a search and noticed a locked 2011 thread discussing this http://palladium-megaverse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=125100 Rifter 12 page 26 gives an official Q+A with an example where one mage is wearing a half-suit of chainmail and is able to cast Armor of Ithan overtop of it. I do not ...

These two abilities from World Book 12 Psyscape (CttS is ability 1 for the Nega-Psychic on page 58, NV is ability 2 for the Psi-Nullifier on page 68) seem very similar and I am trying to understand the difference for them. The biggest difference I can see is that CttS has the handicap of preventing ...

There is some acid in PF specifically which does extra damage to metal on page 264. Under the Armor of Ithan spell description on page 192 I do not see any mention of it being metal so would that mean it takes the reduced damage done to organic materials/leather/skin ? It doesn't seem organic either...

How is that any different from walking around with a bunch of MD weapons and equipment? PC's are already targets due to the value of all their gear. Adding some scrolls to the mix won't really make life any more dangerous than it already is. It's easier to steal paper out of your pouch than armor o...

Body Armor is a separate category from Power Armor everywhere I remember. Typically magic does not work through PA. But if a TW was to augment it with a spell that turns sdc to MD that would work. Rifter 12 page 24 (October 200) mentions "The same considerations that apply to body armor apply t...

True, I don't know how long it takes to read those but I figure it would take as least as long as it would to cast it from scratch.

Downside there is if I was a Wizard and knew you had a trove of Cosmic Armor scrolls I would want to steal them so I might learn the spell for myself.

per the Psi-nullifiers fluff, you can train to become a master psionic. the CS has a program to take minor psi's and through intense (and potentially mindbreaking) training, create master Psi's like the Psi-nullifiers, Bursters, etc. World book 12 page 66 column 2 paragraph 4 discusses the CS shapi...

It's still a reasonable concern of course. Like if you went to bed in what you thought was a friendly town and it turned out to be a bunch of murderous thieves who rob people who stay with them, that's a problem. If they had other securities of their own to counter a Glitter Boy then they could enga...

Cosmic Armor is in the phase world sourcebook that defines Space Magic (Fleets of the 3 Galaxies?). Page 120 of Dimension Book 13, yes. Having 10x the duration of Armor of Ithan for only 4.5x the PPE would make this an amazing deal even if it only had 5 MDC per level. Really for any kind of balance...

Oh okay I was hoping it was more something like the ability to utterly absorb small amounts of damage to deal with the "a gnome punches the robot inflicting 1 SDC each time for as many hundreds of times as it takes to be destroyed" problem which high natural AR doesn't totally avoid.

How did you look through the book to see your name was in it if you didn't receive the PDF?

About the Necromancer horror factor, Juicer Uprising page 97 mentions under an NPC that he can use a spell to hide his horror factor. Under the Disposition section it mentions the NPC makes extensive use of Charismatic Aura to "mute the quiet sense of menace that surrounds him". Does this ...

I have seen PV assigned to weapons in the compendium but still don't understand how to work it into combat rolling for strike and damage.

Weapons can be astrally configured permanently (by an astral lord or mountebank) or temporarily (psi-shaper). We are told that if astral travelers go through a portal into the dreamstream they become constructs. Would this change astrally sensitive weapons into dream constructs? Other way around: dr...

your bread and butter protection is still going to be Armor of Ithan since it's cheap, has a relatively long duration, and, most importantly, is invisible so you can have protection without drawing attention to yourself. Bizarre is useful for helping friends though since you can cast it on them at ...

I don't see why a roaming GB isn't realistic. Yes, carrying around expensive equipment by yourself that people will want to steal is a risk. Traditional ronin had to deal with that too didn't they? People wanting to steal their expensive swords or armor if they left them behind to grab a nap or take...

99% of GMs I have played with in real life have never let players be able to sneak attack opponents. That and most Rift games rarely go past level 2 or 3 anyway. Your GMs didn't let people attempt prowl roles? Prowl is less uber once perception rules are introduced but even then most people don't h...

So what I see is that you do lose automatic parry when you strike with both weapons at once, but you retain automatic dodge if you have it. It does say does uses up an attack, whether that is a handicap on automatic dodge or a reminder of normal dodge functioning as normal is unclear. In Robotech a...

A conjuror can make MDC versions of classic armors, I think 1/2 as much MDC as they normally have SDC.

Also Kuznya stuff in Mystic Russia.

Also examples of some resin-made ancient armors in Wormwood.

Do you consider travel through rifts to be teleporting? If not then dimensional portal or (cheaper) Circle of Travel.

Punches doing as much as daggers is also hard to stomach. Only blood loss saves edged weapons.

What HTH? Assassin gets it at 12, martial arts and expert at 15.

Commando getting it 3 levels earlier and 1 die lower than Assassin does seem wrong though.

Basic/Expert's automatic knockout/crit from behind at 13 is still better than everything though since it doesn't gamble on natural die rolls.

20,000 credits to add 10 MDC (two thousand per MDC) to a vehicle (or giant robot) on Rifts Mercenaries page 98. 10,000 credits to add 30 MDC (one thousand per 3 MDC) to The Mountaineer A.T.V. on Rifts page 227, Ultimate Edition page 267. 18,000 credits to repair 4D6 MDC three times (six thousand per...