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Rules as written, and as intended, seem to be X% at level 1, plus the per level starting at Lvl2. However, every game I have ever been in does it starting at Lvl1. Same house rules for everything else, too. 2d6+1d6/lvl always equals 3d6 at Lvl1. Normally you could make an argument about game balance...

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What gets me about the ME powers is, the armor, if depleted or destroyed, can be instantly reapplied, good as new and with a full set of SDC. No it can't. The armor in PU1 doesn't have stats. Having it on gives you bonuses, including HP and SDC bonuses, to YOUR stats. At least the STONE/META/?CRYST...

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The speedster can stop on a dime, but in this case he may have to stop faster. I would follow the result of the saving throw to determine any F.U.N.* involved. On a failed save, take 10D6(or more, I'm a softie) damage and become both prone and stuck. On a successful save, the speedster can stop in t...

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Well, this must be one of the few times a weapon isn't completely copy pasted word for word in a new edition it seems. Would be cool to run them as different variations like Wilk's 457A, 457B if you want them all to be canon. "Hey, Harl! Check it out! it's an 03 Wilks 457! This has the 36 char...

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Mark Hall wrote:The real answer: The land is flat, therefore easy to put a big city on.

You would be so surprised how much easier that makes things. I often wonder, going through the mountainous states, why did these people choose to live on the sides of these hills? Do they just like to do things the hard way?

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When in doubt, go with the latest printing.

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Don't forget the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana. They have a world class engineering program, they're home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and plan to start building their new nuclear reactor in 2021. One can assume they will continue to be engineering leaders, thei...

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The Chaos Earth books give all the hints you need here. They had hundreds of thousands of survivors in the midwest, and the original population centers were destroyed or overrun. The NEMA forces had a choice, try to walk thousands of survivors through a monster-filled nuclear winter, or hunker down ...

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Your average heavy borg would be best employed in the same field as other heavy equipment. The main problem is, finding work that is actually profitable. Accounting for wear and tear on the cyborg's body, and upkeep and maintenance costs, the job better pay very well. Think of jobs for borgs differe...

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PPE and ISP don't work in a supers game. The pacing of a session is screwed when you realize the mage and psychic blew all their juice fighting the first encounter, but the supers are still lit up and ready to rock. Should the whole game be done just so the wizard can rest up, and then the party can...

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I had a GM once who used that little bit of text to disqualify the party druid from leveling "until you find another druid to test you." The GM had world-jumped us, and there were no druids on the moon or helping the humans against the Invid, so the poor bastard just didn't level. We're le...

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I didn't misunderstood the OP. I was pointing out that the scenario was unrealistic. The master, no matter how woke, wouldn't have the cultural inclination to get his SLAVE culturally appropriate tattoos. Unless, somehow, a slave owner wanted, for whatever reason, the slave to blend in with his peo...

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I didn't misunderstood the OP. I was pointing out that the scenario was unrealistic. The master, no matter how woke, wouldn't have the cultural inclination to get his SLAVE culturally appropriate tattoos. Unless, somehow, a slave owner wanted, for whatever reason, the slave to blend in with his peop...

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You guys are too giving. If I were GMing, I would rule the orphan Atlantean just didn't get those tattoos. Sorry, but being raised outside your culture often comes with a total lack of understanding of your parent's ways, and having never been with Atlanteans you would never have the opportunity to ...

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This one's simple. As a GM, you adapt to the TPK in progress and change the narrative to fit. OK, the PCs are all netted and the logic is now they are captured and enslaved. By professional slavers. Stop asking for combat actions, declare the consequences of being netted. The players are taken capti...

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I swear this forum will fight over anything. To the OP, short answer, not usually. Long answer, unless specified in an ability description, such as with the priest's prayer for knowledge, an intuitive caster such as a mystic doesn't understand WHY the spell works, and may not even make recognizable ...

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I just laugh at anything worth more than 4-5 thousand credits, cause NO ONE in any game rolls around with that much cash or credit on their person, except Tony Stark characters, and we ain't playing those around here. No D&D player carries a portable hole filled with gold from a dragon's hoard ...

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Sending an MDC wizard to an SDC world is easy, not attribute changes, use SDC spell equivalents. If you want to truly screw your mages, and make the players feel as they've been punished, reduce their PPE and recovery as well. I wouldn't do that. I would, as a GM, be very wary of removing the abilit...

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I've always allowed the ritual to "hold" the PPE pumped in, and the ritual caster to keep adding from other sources until either they have the needed PPE or drop the ritual casting (wasting all the PPE already pumped in). Noting that rituals use a stationary place, such as a circle or alta...

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Every villain thinks they are the good guy. There are very few people who would think of themselves as evil, because everybody has an excuse. Slavery is an easy one for them to excuse, just imagine the arguments a slaver might make, while truly believing himself a stand-up, big hearted, mega-nice gu...

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Where does it say a Psi-Nullifier needs to be alive for their reflexive power to work? All that IMO would necessarily stop is VOLUNTARY use of the abilities, such as launching them at targets 100ft away. Unless death causes ISP to leak out like PPE (that might very well be explained somewhere, I ju...

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Otherwise, you take one dead psychic, add one magic bathtub, and you can unkill him all day long. Heck, bring a knife and make a day of it. "Hey, Nega, welcome back, MAGIC EXISTS! *stab* Welcome back again! Magic is still real! *stab* Hey, formerly dead bastich, who was right? ME! *stab* Hellu...

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A psychic isn't psychic when dead. the brain is a lump of decomposing fat. If the psychic was alive and floated spoons, once dead, those spoons have no reason to float. If they were pyrokinetic, the fire doesn't move. Dead mind readers don't read minds. A nega-PSYCHIC when dead is just dead, not neg...

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A Demigod can choose an OCC, I would have no problems with one of my players choosing an RCC or PCC instead, but would watch out for the double-dip or conditions that make the character unplayably OP. For races that don't have an OCC, ie, elves, dwarves, and similar, just add the natural abilities a...

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Flat no. A shifter may have ONE patron, if for no other reason than game balance. (Not that balance is EVER a concern in Palladium games, ever...) The one thing I cannot stand from a player is the idiotic adherence to flavor text, immediately followed by a demand for new abilities based on that flav...

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In my games, the telepath must be aware of the target, though not necessarily by sight. The power cannot be used to search a room, for example (I sense the thoughts of two people in there!) but could be used after another power or event makes the psychic aware of them. A player may hear the target m...

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What gets me about the ME powers is, the armor, if depleted or destroyed, can be instantly reapplied, good as new and with a full set of SDC. There is a major power dedicated to armoring up, and that power doesn't provide the protection, buffs, or sustainability, of this sub-ability of ME-Metal/Ston...

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I've begun a house rule that all mages in Rifts have a "Free Mana" amount of 10 PPE plus 2 per level, starting at L1. Any spell cast has it's PPE cost reduced by that amount. That means a lvl 1 mage has 12PPE off the top of any spell she casts, and any spell under 12PPE is free. A 25PPE sp...

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E is also expensive. Sometimes actual weapons can stand in so you're not wasting all your magic. I'll never call shredding a whole platoon with two spells a "waste" of my magic. Besides, it's up to the Big Stupid Fighter to be the gun bunny, any self-respecting mage will want to use magic...

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I noticed a suggestion of Carpet of adhesion without a continuous duration damaging spell, such as Life Drain, Wall of wind (2d6MD per round, and you cannot be thrown while glued down, but can likely be flattened by the wind like a weed in a tornado, squishing the victim into a prone, stuck position...

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I allow implants on any creature who meets the following criteria. 1: Phenotype compatability. Size and shape of the original creature, bone structure (or lack thereof), and similar logical similarities to the intended recipient of the cybernetics. Shapeshifters, plasmic beings, and beings who are s...

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My house rule is ONE action for any spell. Why one action? Lemme tell you. Rifts mages are truly handicapped when it comes to doing damage, and they must choose between Damage and utility, with PPE being a finite resource. We all know a mage cannot complete with an otherwise completely unskilled scr...

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TW Lightblade. I don't know of any Supernatural creature who is immune, and it does a stupid amount of damage.

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How about... Multiple selves - The army Major power: Alter limbs - The armory, rockets, guns, tools, blades... and wheels and treads, and even rocket flight if you also have... Minor power: Energy Expulsion. Gets +50% range when combined with the above. Minor power: Bio aura - to duplicate your cost...

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Shape Shifter: Unlimited... This power is insane. The only limit on it is "Living beings", and it specifically references Dragons as a potential shape? How about these shapes: Adult dragon. As referenced and intended? After seeing one in the sky, years ago in his youth,the character can at...

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My standard change: Rocket fists becomes rocket flight. Same stats, and the same restrictions on handheld weapons, because using an item should be nearly impossible at such speeds, but without the silliness of shooting rockets from your knuckles. I will always allow a change in flavor text, the mech...

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Vampires aren't harmed by the strength of the weapon wielder. In several places the new Vampire Kingdoms book repeats that the weapon used against vampires does not get any PS bonus damage, even if wielded by a character with supernatural PS. A wooden or silver weapon driven with the force of a trai...

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MDC wood has one huge disadvantage versus SDC wood. MDC wood does not splinter . When a vampire is stabbed by a wooden weapon his clothing, meat, and bone also damage the weapon. Sometimes in a visible "chunks out of the edge/tip" way, and always in the small scale, tiny splinters scratchi...

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I got a couple. Last one first. GM: OK, roll up for Pathfinder, Stone/early Bronze age characters. no clerics. Any spellcaster can learn any spell, with no regard to divine/arcane, except evocation or necromancy,. (first session in, all divination magic required a save or permanent madness... even d...

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This is a simple situation in my games. Sure, your operator has the skills and knowledge to invent things, but why are these inventions better than the commonly available weapons/armor/items? Your average rail gun has been invented, refined, reinvented, further refined, iterated upon for 300 years, ...

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If this isn't a monster-of-the-week, why not just get the fluff settled (name, godly duties, appearance, personality, eye color, favorite weapon, favorite sports team) and hand wave the rest? If the PCs interact with it, it has all the abilities the story needs. Want to send the PCs to North Dakota?...

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As a GM I would never allow autododge as a defense against an ongoing entangle. The idea of an autododge is that the character is either super fast or has otherwise superior reflexes. These may allow the character to sidestep a blade or, maybe, a bullet, but should not be applied to an entangle-in-p...

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Powers Unlimited 3 brought us "Techno-Form", a major ability which allows a character to change into machines, weapon emplacements, and vehicles. I understand the basics, a character can become a jet or a tank, a spacecraft or a howitzer. They can become machinery native to their world and...

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