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Why would you want to play an evil character? Unless you are an anti-hero on a redemption arc, kind of like Slade or Bronze Tiger in Arrow. 'Cause it can be fun? Don't even have to be an anti-hero. "Ma'am, fair is fair...I saved you from being mugged. You don't think that is worth you paying m...

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Actually Rogerd, I'd keep the chi & weird abilities. They fit with a Fantasy environment.
(I'd also reverse the 2nd Ed erasure of chi. It fits with the theme better than having everything be PPE or ISP.)

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Here's a list of setting bits that I feel the need to put out. It covers some particular bug bears of mine. Phase World Antimatter Usage Antimatter is by definition nearly impossible to be anything but ‘fail deadly’. Maybe they have monopole tech? In any case, this is mentioned in the write-ups, in...

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"But if that is how the rocket steers how would it work for a supercav fighter?" ... Um...wouldn't that be called an aerodynamic stall? As in no air for the jets or as in no air over the airfoils? Now since you've asked that I'm thinking both as the "air" in a natural cavity is ...

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taalisman...here's one for you. Read C.S. Friedman's "This Alien Shore." https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/this-alien-shore_cs-friedman/560833/#edition=710248&idiq=5232742 Turns out FTL is possible...but dangerous. The alternative is also dangerous - deadly even - but faster in it's own way.

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Zer0 Kay wrote:"But if that is how the rocket steers how would it work for a supercav fighter?" ...

Um...wouldn't that be called an aerodynamic stall?

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You want wacky? I have a pocket dimension with a Scrupulous or Principled (can't remember off the top of my head) Spluggie, and all of the "slave races" are full citizens, electing representatives to a democratic government that acts as an Advisory Council that actually has power! . Had/h...

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I would say that phase weapons ignore the CK's energy resistance. In the Hammer of the forge chapters I believe there is a fight in there where the bodies pull out phase weapons acting like it is their silver bullet verses CKs. "Fan Fiction" is not canon. That being said, I did enjoy it s...

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2) Splugorth worlds & pocket realms. Especially other Splugorth who might be rivals (or tenuous allies) of Splynncryth. Surely there are some wacky Splugorth-controlled realms! You want wacky? I have a pocket dimension with a Scrupulous or Principled (can't remember off the top of my head) Splu...

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Shepard-class Escort Cruiser could also serve in a pinch...they're equipped to dock/carry-assist merchant ships. Does it have a multi-species crew, a hot-shot pilot with brittle bone disease, and regularly face up against ancient AIs? Those that don't, there's a good chance of them having blue-in-b...

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In order to use air sucking jets whatever is producing the cavity would have to do it by expelling gas (normal way the torpedoes do it) but it would have to be full of O2. ? A rocket motor, in the case of a torpedo such as this, I presume, uses standard rocket fuels...which require no supplemental ...

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taalismn wrote:Shepard-class Escort Cruiser could also serve in a pinch...they're equipped to dock/carry-assist merchant ships.

Does it have a multi-species crew, a hot-shot pilot with brittle bone disease, and regularly face up against ancient AIs?

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Gaby...not trying to offend...please use all the letters, it makes things easier to read. Now that being said... A soldier with with superpowers in the US Civil War will have an effect far above and beyond what his or her abilities would typically indicate. Consider that between the three countries,...

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Personally, after considering the arguments (above), I would disallow Plant Control to have any affect on a fungus.

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Hi everybody. "Paralysis: Immobilizes the motor part of the brain, causing legs and arms to stop functioning. Victims are completely incapacitated for the duration." Ho! The paralysis affects the motor control center of the brain. Hence, no voluntary physical action may be taken. If your ...

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From there, we figure a 60/40 gender split in favour of males... Of those men, we generously say that 65% are old enough to be a "fighting age"... Just happened to jump into the thread again and noted the gender ratio. If they follow similar fertility and mortality patterns as humans, mor...

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X-Ray Cluster Missile While conceptualized for millennia, it has only been recently that these weapons have been made practical. Using cutting edge CG technology, a nuclear explosion is momentarily flattened to energize a number of lazing rods (CAF standard is 10), resulting in a payload that is fa...

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Heheh... I agree with jaymz. I take it a step further. Damaged weapons can fail. Damaged weapons either explode, or release all it's energy at once. First couple of times it happened, my PCs loved it! Then it happened to a PC... They didn't love it no more. (The only thing left of the PC was his bo...

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Heheh... I agree with jaymz. I take it a step further. Damaged weapons can fail. Damaged weapons either explode, or release all it's energy at once. First couple of times it happened, my PCs loved it! Then it happened to a PC... They didn't love it no more. (The only thing left of the PC was his bod...

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i'm not sure if it really happened but there was a story I heard about an A10, was coming back from a mission, and was close to bingo fuel (out of fuel) it had cleared all the ordinance except ammo for the cannon. and it couldn't land because there was a herd of camels on the runway, apparently the...

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Slade, as much as that would be nice... Building a JoAT, you usually end up with a goat. The more roles you intend an unit to fulfill, the fewer it satisfactorily does. The A-10 is a perfect example. It is built to be a flying tank, designed to kill (armoured vehicles). Period. I have heard of one f...

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Kill the tank, the tank is dead. Kill the crew, the tank might rise from the dead. Catastrophic kills are what you want...the others are just... temporary. Battlefield recovery is a thing, and with good mechanics, they can return sooner than expected. -STS Sounds like an old (battlefield) saw I can...

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Understand...
Full disclosure... I have science magazines in my apartment bought new by myself that are older than most gamers I know of.

Mind, my original model Co-Co (bought new for my sister and I) is older than most of 'em too!

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Sol...
Just 'cause dwarves run about a metre to a metre and a quarter, doesn't mean they don't have 3-4 metre ceilings in most places in their cities. The richer the neighbourhood, the higher the ceilings, even in a dwarven community...leaves more wall space to show off gee-gaws and art.

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Slade...I know the feeling. I have a few of those too...
However, much of the "official" descriptions I've heard when watching shows like "Future Weapons" (when it was still running), tend to describe what the copper cone turns into once the warhead goes off as plasma.

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Slade - I agree....a modified AR/Armour system is needed to somehow account for much of this. It can be done and frankly PB would never bother to try. The AR system showed its flaws back in PFRPG1, and PB never fixed it. So yeah, it's pretty clearly NOT anywhere on their To Do List. To an extent, I...

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I was going to play a renegade character of the RCC an unprincipled member of the race and usually RCCs have done secondary skills. Or are they limited in skills due to starting RCC abilities or a mistake and they were left out? Why not? I have a Scrupulous Gallu character whom pretends he is a Min...

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You say the gear is for mainly one character, with limited use for others. How limited is the use you want? Are you thinking to equip other characters, or let a friend/partner get off a shot or two before the power runs out? This might sound strange, but what about using Gem Powers, or even Rifts S...

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Dragon Skin armor doesn't work... well. The tests weren't faked and ballistics are superior... but in order to allow it to be flexible the disks have to be adhered a certain way and it fails in high heat or humidity. The scales fall apart and fall to the bottom or shift enough so there is no longer...

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Dimension Book 14 - Thundercloud Galaxy First paragraph of text regarding the election of a new Prime Minister... "...a species other than juman..." I was half way through the remainder of the paragraph when I realized it was a typo. Still reading the book, and haven't seen any other that ...

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Alternatively, should the GM decide it is something (s)he wants to happen...Thoth could simply grant his priest the requisite knowledge, with or with-out the mystic abilities.

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So, does anything on current dystopia Earth (2021) come close to anything in Rifts? I would have put this in the HU or N&SS areas, but their tech base is well below current Earth, while Rifts is still somewhat aspirational. MD armor, tanks? Energy weapons? Cybernetics, computing? Nanotech? So, ...

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The video is also a great example showing how railguns would still have a muzzle flash. Except instead of being caused by combusting gasses, it is essentially an arcflash. Also why railguns couldn't be used underwater. A coilguns on the other hand wouldn't have a muzzleflash, could be use underwate...

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"96-00% Hysterical Blindness. When under pressure (battle, an important opportunity, torture, interrogation, etc.), the character loses his sight until the pressure is removed. Roll for each situation, 01-88% likelihood of happening. -10 to strike, parry, dodge and all combat rolls while blind...

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No problems... I replied the way I did as the vast majority of familiars have above average animal intelligence. For steeds, unless you're talking a Mega Steed or similar sentient and sapient beings, again they would still have animal intelligence levels. Animal companions, unless fully sentient and...

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I want to use a Minor Hero as an intermediary stage in between Demon Caller and perhaps Mystically Empowered by a Demon Lord, the progression culminating with one of Rifts Shifter/Mega-Hero/PU2 Immortal. The Minor Hero would make use of the minor superpower Summon Lesser Demon/Devil from Armageddon...

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It looks like one of his starting powers is Intuitive Combat. That creates a "Zen-like state" which might qualify as stress-free and keep the trigger from forcing the roll to see if he goes blind. I this is something like the superpower, I'd say the stress is set aside until the combat is...

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>snip<That's one of the rare moments in both the book and the movie where Andy Weir got the science flat-out wrong.>snip< Um, *rare*? The gent failed big time where science is concerned! The dust storm they encountered is exponentially more powerful than the strongest storm the planet has seen. A 2...

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Dang Fenris...where do you live? I experience +40C to -40C, and I've never seen a resin mini melt. (No, I have no A/C.) That all being said, I prefer lead to pewter, and metal to plastic or resin. We'd likely still be using lead even today, were it not for that idiot that started eating parts from h...

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Slade...Off topic...but - Since the thread is in Spaaaaace...
Do all engine exhausts look like a flickering fake flames?
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reBzU8E_Ajk)

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Looks more or less right, but there will always be this little voice in the back of my head complaining about engine costs and how mass would relate to them. EDIT: For a bottom grade ship, its a bit fast. Mach 6 would be what I would expect, assuming the Cargo Tug listed in Fleets is generally resp...

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Small problem. The laser would still do 1/2 damage...because the energy would burn-off the fraction of a single SDC coating of paint. The question is if it happens quickly enough for it to matter. Otherwise: why would you ever have unpainted GBs at all? Are you talking about the Game World power ar...

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When I first started GMing Rifts back in HS this was a problem for me too. It was hard to plan a good story around unpredictable players and Rifts isn't like a modern setting game where there are police issues to be concerned with that can keep players in line but you can usually put in a few conse...

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Oh, good..
As long as it is not based on anything by Ms. Rowling...

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Orks are people too! Wait...no, they're porpoises... Ah, right! There we go... ORC s are people too! Some are nice, some are nasty. The racial prejudices non-humans encounter in Human cities will be directed squarely on the "Pretty" PCs, where the Wolfen, kobold, and other obvious non-huma...

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No problem... Just remember that if they are older than 100 years, they can't tolerate space trav... Never mind, wrong game! Seriously though...without an Official Statement from PBs, I'd say vamps are perfectly safe in Interstellar Space, but once they enter a star's area, they are fully vulnerable...

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So, delving Rommie's tech library, are you?

Ironically, tall foreheads today are working on flexies...although, they won't have petabyte(?) capacity of the ones seen on the show.

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Now I've got the image of a trebuchet dragging a casket on the ground before flinging it in the air and across the Rio Grande. "PULL!" And a vampire hunter sitting on the other side, with a silver-loaded shotgun. Correction...20mm AA gun with silver shrapnel prox loads. (Cheaper than a Bo...

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Ryo... If that were true, a mystic would be pegging on every person whom happens to have a Miscreant, Diabolic, or Aberrant alignment as they walk through a crowd. They don't. Even if said person is having passing thoughts about how a quick twist of a knife here; she'd be fun to "play" wit...

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True, pad...however, you *know* that the water is there. That being said...if the bar is psychological, you would have to have someone transport you. If the bar was supernatural, passing under would probably work, since; honestly, there is almost no where on the planet where water is not flowing und...

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