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The rule you are quoting is from the Q&A section that used to be on this website, from 1998. Apparently, Palladium decided to go back with the original rule two years ago. Note: the section in Rifts Chaos Earth is not a cut and paste job, like they usually do. It apparently has been revised, si...

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And thats GUIDED missiles. Minis are not even guilded. So, that said, we can go back to missile dodging and continue with our weekly rifts game. You'll just have to think up somthing else to kill us on saturday. See you this weekend, Pro. By the way. Mini-missiles are guided now too. That apparentl...

devillin

And thats GUIDED missiles. Minis are not even guilded. So, that said, we can go back to missile dodging and continue with our weekly rifts game. You'll just have to think up somthing else to kill us on saturday. See you this weekend, Pro. Pssst... I said that a couple of posts ago. Also, after read...

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Yeah, the rules say bullets, energy wepons and (of all things) Arrows and the -10 rule. Right next to the rule is where I got my argument from... A BIG PICTURE OF A GARGOYAL DODGEING 3 MISSLES!! I was like BUT THE PICTURE!!!! and then Linwood, the other guy that agreed with me, is like "yeah, what ...

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Next time, just use 4 missiles. Anyway, yes missiles fall under the dodge rules. If your player wants a book reference, check the Missile Combat subsection of the Ranged Combat rules. Splicers is on p220 if you have it and there's this one sentence youll love: The dodge rules are the same as always...

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RainOfSteel wrote:
Killer Cyborg wrote:The CS Ranger is supposed to be the CS version of a Wilderness Scout.
Wilderness Scouts get bonuses to SDC and PE, but the CS guy gets nothing.
I guess Wilderness Scouts are just tougher.

The CS Ranger gets cool looking armor?

Actually, the CS Ranger gets any armor that he wants.

devillin

I'm making a CS Ranger from CWC and I noticed something strange. Is it just me, or is the CS Ranger the only OCC that has no bonuses other than those for their skills? No attribute bonuses, no saving throw bonuses, nothing. I get that they have the widest variety of equipment that they can pick from...

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Mack wrote:Even Baton Rouge is underwater according to Rifts. The new coastline is at Alexandria.

Actually, Baton Rouge is above water. The CS have a major Naval base there (Rifts: Coalition Navy).

devillin

Now, getting back to the point of the argument, you could say that Max had a superior mecha to his opposition, but the degree of superiority is not that marked and few gundam aces have achieved the kind of untouchablity Max often displays (though I don't disagree that he'd lose to Char or Amuro, bu...

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My group didn't really want a name at first. However, when they were approaching one of the towns in my campaign, they decided that they needed a cover story. They decided to pass themselves off as representatives of Lord Smiley, the supposed baron of Pittsburgh. Unknown to the players, they actual...

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One time my group named ourselves after a character that went rogue. Our thinking was, if we did anything treacherous it would get back to him. Usually, we don't name our group unless we do something significant in the game. My group didn't really want a name at first. However, when they were appro...

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It's the machine in Robotech that I think is my #1 choice for a serious redesign, from concept upwards. At least arm it under the wings to allow it to 'saturate' the LZ before landing, in the same way as the (original) US Black Hawk, or the famous 'Hind' helicopter (people forget it's a troop carri...

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It was the presence of innocent humans that caused the CS to launch a ground war instead of using its (limited) nuclear arsenal. These humans in the camps are most likely subjected to "reeducation" and pro-CS propaganda on, at least, hourly basis if not a constant recorded barrage (think Red Dawn)....

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I just recently read these mini-novels, and I love the work you have done here. I love how everything is so close to the original series, but changed because of the protracted civil war. I do have a couple of questions and comments though. First: How did the Zentraedi come up with a fleet that numbe...

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Actually, if the current Japanese airforce is any indicator of things to come, the pre-Rifts Japan could very well have fielded Japanese versions of American aircraft. A good modern example of this is the F-16J that Japan makes that is slightly faster and more manueverable than the American F-16s. ...

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Also, a carrier is useless without high performance aircraft - no sign of those yet either - more development time. But again, it will take a bit of time to develop. As for high performance aircraft, the same reasoning applies. Japan could either find and reverse engineer such designs or simply cre...

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Maybe I'm smoking crack, but doesn't it say somewhere in the Fetish descriptions in Spirit West that a honored friend who helps nature, the spirits and the tribe can be gifted a fetish? On a side note, being born half or fully Native American doesn't mean you are considered one by the tribe. Differ...

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*********************** Norns Sometimes compared to the greek fates, three supernatural women who tend the Yggdrasil and determine fate. Their names are: Urd [fate], Skuld [necessity], and Verdandi [being]. There are more than three Norns. It is believed that a norn is present at a persons birth to...

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Just to bring a sense of Canonical closure to the topic, Rifts Conversion Book One, Revised, states that Wolfen may select Native American OCCs, including the Shaman. " Any of the American Indian OCCs ". Page 78, under Magic, and Available OCCs: Rifts. What does it say about other racial groups? It...

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Technically, the book does not refer to them as "Native American OCCs," but as "Spirit West OCCs," and then as "Traditional Warrior," and "Shaman," OCCs. What book are reading? The OCCs are referred to multiple times as either Indian or Native American all throughout the book. pg26 referring to Mod...

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After rereading parts of Spirit West, I am now of the opinion that none of the native american OCCs are restricted to just native americans. On page 33 it starts out by saying that the traditional OCCs are only available to traditionalists and/or pure ones who are of Native American descent. But at...

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This is a very cool adventure idea, are there any more laying around that you know of?

devillin

Hey All, I know this is probably opening a big old can of worms, and probably should be a separate thread. But, what were some of the errors that have been picked up in the various Robotech books that weren't listed on the official errata sheets? I know about the Lancer/Oberth thing, but what were s...

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I have not quite gone out and purchased a wall-map or anything like that. However, I find the following map to be quite helpful. It is a RW map, so that coastlines aren't right, but I still like it. Warning: The Following link will haul in a 2.8 MB map. My broadband connection did it in about 5 sec...

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Nowhere65 wrote:I found this. It is a bit dated. I'm not sure what books it takes into account but here you go....

http://lieji-kiatsu.com/RPG/Rifts/Mirror/maps.htm

click on "North America"

You might want to check out my page below. I've got a map of Rifts NA. A lot more recent too.

devillin

Nice! Is the back hatch designed to fold down to allow SAMAS or ATV's to exit quickly? Quick question: Doesn't the Mark V only have three doors, the front and two side doors? I seem to remember that it doesn't have a rear hatch. That whole rear section was supposed to be the reactor and engine for ...

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Who would win this war? Assuming that the REF cant use the weapon systems of the SDF 3. 300 MDC. Though their veritech fighters can fire vollies of mini-missiles numbering a hundred plus strong, (able to nuke virtually anything in the CS inventory in one shot!) they can only to that once each, and ...

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I had one character who was suicidal. He had a laser rifle unloaded on him twice at close range and was stabbed with a psi-sword. The laser blasts and psi-sword didn't hurt him because he had energy absorption. But when he soaked up all the energy he could, he overloaded. Twice. Later, the same char...

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A friend and I were running an East Coast City-State campaign for several years. We posited that a couple of the cities weren't destroyed as completely as Palladium had us to believe. Ironically, the biggest proof came from the Indian Ocean Tsunami where it was shown that areas of the coastline of A...

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el magico -- darklorddc wrote:link in sig

Same Here. Entry site to a couple of different Rings as well.

devillin

I've got two guys. The first was an adolescent dragon who was part of a group that got ambushed by a bunch of Glitterboys in a forest at night. While the group tried to slug it out, the dragon character decided to run back to the vehicle the group came in on and get some rocket launchers. Good idea,...

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I hope I'm not the only one, but I'm going to be running a campaign set in LoneStar pretty soon, and I am more than a little angry that there is not a single map for Worth, LoneStar Complex/City, Wichita Falls, etc. I pretty much gave up on that hope. That's why I put together a map of the entire U...

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Pox, it's Lejeune, and i wonder how much of Lejeune and Cherry Point survive. They are right on the coast. Fort Bragg would make a nice source of supply for someone. There's also an army base in Savannah and south of Jax, but being in Fla, it probably is sunk. Now if they follow the actual region a...

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So far I've seen alot of good points on both sides of the argument, but the point that sticks-out is that someone posted a statement that the CS has to have a literate society. Why? Because they need to be able to read to run the high-tech machines. However, having worked in an industrial facility,...

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Hey All, I've read this thread from the beginning, and it strikes me that many of you come close to the secret behind how the CS is able to afford their war machine and army on such a small population. The secret is that the CS is a closed economy based on "Company Town" concept. All, or most of the...

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