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Bill wrote:These guys.

I do love the Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rollah. I think this plus Mark's very cromulent suggestion is where I'm heading.

Killer Cyborg wrote:Random predators from the back of the RMB.

Seem unlikely to have been initially hired as guardians of a town.

Thanks! My hope was more towards bad guys that simple townsfolk would have been credulous enough to hire on as protectors. I can't really see that with Xiticix or demons and dyvals.

So I'm gearing up to run my first Rifts game since...oh, let's call it high school, back in 1997 or 98. That doesn't seem so long ago until you count the years -- and the subsequently released World Books, I guess. Anyhow, my players are starting as 1st-level characters: the inevitable dragon hatchl...

Boy, do I ever regret asking this question!

Yeah, I upped my pledge the moment they mentioned it, but my hopes aren't super high based on the teaser image. I simultaneously desperately want a map with all ley lines while firmly thinking one should never be published. (I don't think this would have that.)

WB11 seems to indicate it's gonna be surrounded by "a large base camp or field army of 5,000 to 30,000" people (p.158). I think it would have a lot more than just the ship's organic Close Protection platoon or whatever covering it.

I suppose you could alternately have it as some sort of deadman's switch -- the borg needs to be within radio range of a master transmitter or it goes into lockdown. Can't run far if you can't run (or move at all).

but in general its hard to truly make something as powerful as a borg a slave unless they are at least somewhat accepting the condition. Am I misremembering this, or does Rifts have cortex bombs or similar "fail-safe" type cyberware? If so, that's a pretty powerful coercive measure -- tha...

I think it is funny as a gm to put something near players they have no chance of getting. Something they only see in the Nurni show room when they do not have any where near the money to buy it. And upon reading the fine print they realize how lucky they are that they CAN'T afford it in purely mone...

This is one of those things where I'm like, "your overthinking is getting in the way of the fun." M.D.C. is a mechanic for tracking damage for the purpose of conflict resolution. If you are applying it to characters consumption of food, you're running a game I wouldn't want to play. Do yo...

There's a Rifter issue on this very subject, though I don't remember what issue. #42...."Mega-Steel Chef" by Erin Lindsey. Covers Brining(or chemical marinade), Smoking, Long Cooking, or straight-out Megadamage Heat to soften MDC flesh for eating. There's a Rifter issue on this very subje...

Once you accept the terms of the contract, it rips apart your body, puts your brain inside it, then hunts down anything and everything that has ever wronged you. The problem is, it could be something as stupid as Lucy taking your last piece of candy when you were three. One imagines the sales reps ...

Presumably after death, but I guess there's no reason someone couldn't be ambitious about it and start sooner. The question came to me while reading Madhaven -- the mutants (who're MDC beasties) eat the "soft, greasy, and fatty meat" of the also-MDC Giant Ruin Worms. Would an SDC human, li...

You know, I was born in the suburbs and've worked in Chicago for the last thirteen years, and I've never heard anyone call it Chi-town. I always assumed it was pronounced "chai" as well.