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I have started making a notebook list of rifter articles that I have a special interest in.

Just yesterday I ran across one called P.P.E. Channeling in Rifter #21. Just like the home brew meta mage OCC I had been using, it is a set of rules that allow a mage to expend extra PPE to extend magic ...

So, I found this OCC a looong time ago on an old Geocities sight and it was called the "Meta Mage".

The basic premise was that it is more or less identical to the Ley Line Walker, but you give up the Ley line spy ball/phasing/drifting/healing for three "Meta" magic abilities.

These consist of ...

I'll have to look closer at the Rifter article on the Shadow Mage. Those are some efficient combat spells.

I also want to add a few honorable mentions to my list.

7th lvl Sub-Particle Acceleration. 1d6x10+1per lvl. The real kicker is that it can also be used to recharge E-clips with 6 shots. Great ...

Utility:
1st lvl Globe of Daylight. At a bare minimum, you can at least hold the drop-light.
2nd lvl Cleanse. No one wants to do laundry or bathe in a cold river.
5th lvl Sustain. Man's gotta eat, or drink, or sleep, or even breathe.
5th lvl Mend the Broken. How else is your team going to get body ...

It is reprinted in the Titan Robotics sourcebook on page 53.

Despite that book having a total of 12 power armor suits (that includes the OG Flying Titan, and the Heavy mentioned here), the "Heavy" is just that. It remains the heaviest and most straight-forward of the Titan line of armors at 300MDC ...

Well, the same spell exists in the Rifts Book of Magic. In that edition, the text describing the process is more detailed.

"... Literate mages summon forth the energy needed and write the
words of a spell in the sand or dirt with a stick while speaking the
words aloud. The words magically appear on ...

The 1/2 power limitation was a hard limit in the old RMB for sure.

But the description in the RUE book makes it very clear that the TW got a bump in utility in the new edition with there now being a work around for the 1/2 power casting. But only if the TW could find and use an appropriate focus ...

I gave metamorphosis some thought already.

Women's makeup compact? What about clay?

I guess if I think hard enough, I could probably come up with something. What I want help with is identifying spells that are almost impossible to find a focus for. That way I can give it some forethought.

I'm new ...

"I did have the thought of a nuclear-powered dog or horse that can charge clips as a possibility,"

That is totally possible. Almost all of the new Nothern Gun Power armor's mention being equipped, or having the option to have installed, a patch cord and clip plug for weapons where you can run your ...

I don't know if this helps, but as Taalismn already pointed out, the Mokoloi crocodile aliens of Australia have a TW suit of armor stored in a toothpaste tube.

It is on page 144 of world book 19 Australia.

The creation stats are included and from the flavor text it seems like it is a mix of the ...

If a TW wants to cast a attack spell at full power (empty handed it is 1/2 power) he needs a "gun" object to cast it(at full power).

You can not cast magic out of a vehicle onto people outside.

You can cast magic onto the vehicle itself, if it can affect it, or on other people inside with you ...

What I want to know is if a caster were to encounter a ley line or a nexus, can he use it to rapidly recharge himself at 20PPE a turn?

As to your question, I think I agree that a higher level mage should be able to recharge at a proportionally faster rate.
I also don't personally think that ...

"...a mage taken alive by the CS, and if we DID just gagging and handcuffing them would suffice to stop spellcasting."

Wait, in addition to the black uniforms and German mimicry, the CS has ball gags and handcuffs too?

I'm not sure how to proceed with this information.

I've always envisioned that legacy Glitterboys and the CS treat each other with a wary respect.

They don't hate each other but they definitely keep tabs on each other and report about the other's movements and activities to a higher power if they can.

If a town mayor wants the GB to oust the heavy ...

Forgot what it is like to hold a freshly printed book.

The smell takes me back to my teenage years when I'd go to the hobby store and hope for a new release to be in stock.

How much better things are now with the internet. : )

The Coalition has something like 6 types of jet fighters. 1 in Mercenaries, 1 in War Campaign, and 4 in the Navy source book.

Iron Heart Armaments has a Fighter and a Bomber.

Triax1 and 2/Germany has 4.

The Sovietski has 1 design.

Even the upcoming Titan Robotics book has a pair of combat ...

My head canon is that the sort of synaptic accelerators were lost during the Golden Age, and aspects of them only survived in the Juicer and MOM conversion rigs, or in partial- and full-conversion cyborgs. It's a lot more focused and precise tech that's waiting to be rediscovered.

In the meantime ...

So Rifts has plenty of cybernetics dedicated to concealing sensors and weapons. Even some that can enhance a persons durability and strength, but very few that increase someone's dexterity or coordination.

Where are the wired reflexes? The synaptic accelerators? Things to let me think faster and do ...

The idea of a sanctuary where the TW can work at a faster pace can also be made with the level 12 invocation "Time Hole" where time moves at a 6:1 ratio.
Maybe add stacking uses of the level 6 common spell "Time Slip" which has a 2:1 ratio (half a melee per melee).

I actually had one of these built ...

I hope your GM is ok with home-brewing your own TW devices.

I made a toaster and pitcher that ran off of the Create Bread and Milk spell so that our party did not have to bother with tracking our food and drink requirements.

Once I hit 9th level I got to add a couple of temporal magic spells to my ...

So I definitely miss-read the part about P.P being applicable to gun combat in Chaos Earth.

However, in the original Rifts main book on page 40, RH column, when describing attacking with weapons on a robot.

" Strike Bonuses
Bonuses to strike can be gained by skills, such as hand to hand
combat ...

"Since each rule book is different best stick to the answer Grazzik gave since it is specific to Rifts."

Indeed.

Even Chaos Earth and Rifts UE contradict each other in the game rules. Even though they take place on the same planet separated by 200 years of time.

Chaos Earth: P.P. always matters ...

You may have Robot Combat Basic, if not in armor for which you have Elite, which also adds a bonus.

Weapons Engineer skill adds a +1 where appropriate.

Also, don't forget any bonuses if under the influence of psychic powers or spells like Intuitive Combat (RUE, pg 173).


Thanks, I added ...

So, I've not played Rifts since 1996 when my college game group graduated and we all left.

I have the new RUE book.

It seems our old characters (I still have my TW I've had since I was 14.) had waaaay too high of a modifier for shooting. We had been adding P.P., HTH, Sniper, weapon systems ...

I think the Rifter #13 has the hybrid Techno Wizard/Necromancer class (and the TW/Shifter).

The TW/Necro would be the class responsible for the murder wraith undead juicer.

The only new TW objects listed as a sample of the TW/Necro is a set of bionics. If anyone can make an zombie borg, it's this ...

Necromancy (WB5/BoM) has a spell to transfer essence into a skeleton (and one to turn you into Vampire), but you have issues of duration and the spell cuts off magic/psionic access.

This is probably where we would go with this.

After doing some more reading there is also a Life Essence Crystal ...

Thanks guys.

I’ve only ever owned the standard edition so that’s why this is new to me.

http://misfits.wdfiles.com/local--files/mecha/ZSB.jpg

Its a REF(?) style Female Zentraedi Power Armor.

I don't remember seeing it in any of the main books. Was it from a Rifter?