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- Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:45 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Halloween
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4056
Halloween
So in stories and things there is always this idea that Halloween, more than any other American holiday story has this kind of feeling that there is an energy, an evil energy actually, to the origins of Halloween. The whole all hollows eve thing with ghosts and goblins and demons and things. I was w...
- Thu Sep 07, 2017 7:43 pm
- Forum: Beyond the Supernatural™
- Topic: parallel worlds builder question
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5640
Re: parallel worlds builder question
I suggest you grab a copy of the old Transdimensional TMNT suppliment and Rifts Dimension Book 7: Megaverse Builder. Those will combine to cover most of your needs in this department. Ok, thanks. Also, what about some kind of psychological table for adapting to the changes of the new planet, I woul...
- Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:00 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Aliens unlimited question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10955
Re: Aliens unlimited question
I already have hu2nd ed, but I should look at the gmg in addition to the alien books. But what about the powers books for unique hero/anti-hero/villains? Any other hu books that might help?
- Tue Sep 05, 2017 12:31 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Aliens unlimited question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10955
Re: Aliens unlimited question
So then the aliens unlimited books would be all that was needed for space heroes adventures like the aforementioned guardians or like a lantern corps type setting?
- Mon Sep 04, 2017 11:57 pm
- Forum: Beyond the Supernatural™
- Topic: parallel worlds builder question
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5640
parallel worlds builder question
I was just wondering if there is any books out there that would be a good guide for building not only good parallel earths but the specs and penalties for constructing a machine that would take players through these different versions of earth. I am putting this in bts as it is the most like our ear...
- Mon Sep 04, 2017 11:52 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Aliens unlimited question
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10955
Aliens unlimited question
I do not have this book or the galaxy guide and was more just wondering if these books are conversion books for the rifts dimension books for heroes unlimited, or have their own worlds to play heroes in or something else?
- Sun May 07, 2017 1:06 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Alternate settings
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10152
Alternate settings
After reading the Greenland thread and thinking about it, what cannon settings has anyone taken and changed for their campaign? I know for myself the ninja, cowboys, or other cliches I generally didn't put in my games.
- Fri May 05, 2017 8:18 am
- Forum: Savage Rifts™
- Topic: Savage Rifts?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9865
Savage Rifts?
Hello all, I have been away from the boards for awhile. Can anyone tell me what is savage rifts exactly?
- Sat Apr 29, 2017 4:34 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Rifts Greenland
- Replies: 77
- Views: 35508
Re: Rifts Greenland
Be careful if you go to Greenland. If you land on the western side, there are horrible lightning storms at sea before you arrive. Once there you will find a very different place then you were expecting. Some say it is a land of advanced beings who may not be as benevolent as them appear, while other...
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:03 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: In Your Universe (A BAON Game)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 6285
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:13 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: H.U. Vampires
- Replies: 12
- Views: 711
I usually just make a character with weaknesses 1d4 damage from garlic and 1d 8 damage from silver. sunlight is 1d20 minutes until fried crispy. weaknesses are -1 every two levels for garlic -1 every third level for silver and add a d6 every two levels past level 2 for sunlight. at lvl 1 extrordinar...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:06 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: In Your Universe (A BAON Game)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 6285
- Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:49 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: In Your Universe (A BAON Game)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 6285
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:15 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: In Your Universe (A BAON Game)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 6285
How I could have missed this. Here my take on....Spiderman(hey its magic we don't have to explain it! Kill me now please....) Spider Men Family Members: Spiderman: Professor Benjamin O'Reilly Power Category: Experiment Side Effect: odd skin texture, he look like he is covered by silver like webs ma...
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:19 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: if you could rewrite a Rifts book, which one would you do?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 6748
Rifts Japan No traditional occs. The cyberoid and other cyber occs ok as people from the rifted dimensional pocket thing city. Feudal system non-existant. Evidence of any buildings from before rifts are rubble/ruins not actual buildings. People not from bubble are survivalists/demon hunters. Rifts ...
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:00 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: In Your Universe (A BAON Game)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 6285
- Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:19 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: In Your Universe (A BAON Game)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 6285
- Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:29 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: And now for something completely different.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 16916
Re: And now for something completely different.
DhAkael wrote:Evil Psychologist wrote:DhAkael wrote:1) Leave the gold alone
NEVER!
Well...Cpt. Jack Sparrow wouldn't have minded having the gold... However Barbosa...he kinda regretted it
pirates of the carribean 4 the fountain of youth in theatres 6/25/2012.
- Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:35 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Past heroes.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 448
Past heroes.
So has anyone made a game where heroes are living in the past. A year back before the 50's. I was just thinking back to the 1602 marvel series.
- Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:22 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Arch Nemesis
- Replies: 11
- Views: 915
Arch Nemesis
So just thinking that in a game where heroes are as normal to have around as police that there would eventually be villians that would spring up specifically that rub the hero the wrong way. You know like how lex luthor is to superman or knuckles to sonic. I was wondering if anyone has done and how ...
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:35 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: In Your Universe (A BAON Game)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 6285
- Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:43 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: your What ifs...for Rifts.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 870
Well we have Rifts: tylenol - every time a civilization tries to advance itself to the status of the cs, fom, lazlo etc. it is cut down. Only small civilizations exist. The players seek to find the reasons that these cultures fail. Rifts: age of violence - after the war between the fom and the cs an...
- Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:45 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: In Your Universe (A BAON Game)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 6285
Name : The Flash Real name : Jacob Williams Category : super invention Description : Jacob wears bulletproof armor usually in battle (some times he just goes out in the black goggles and his gym clothes) and maybe a stun gun of some type. He is in his late 20's and stands a little over 6 ft tall. H...
- Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:24 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Time Travel
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2022
I get very tired of the whole time paradox thing. So now when the group time travels and I am the GM as soon as the group travels backward they create an alternate time line co-existing with the old one. Then the only way back to the time the way they know it iis to be able to travel to parallel dim...
- Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:00 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Coalition Mystics?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 614
The best reference I can find quickly is page 49 in rifts main book not the utimate edition which we don't use. That pretty much sums up the cs in my games and the games i play in. The little people are good ignorant heroes trying to do good while at the same time they must follow orders that are gi...
- Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:08 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: In Your Universe (A BAON Game)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 6285
Name: Beast Real name: Henry Frei Power category: mutant experimentation Henry was your typical rich kid. He was born January 6th, 2168 and lived in Hillcrest Valley subdivision in the fourth state of United states settlement Olympus mons quadrant, Mars. His family had lived there since the dome was...
- Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:12 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: What is the funniest name you've given a character?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14823
- Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:57 am
- Forum: Beyond the Supernatural™
- Topic: Characters you've played.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5590
- Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:00 pm
- Forum: Palladium Fantasy RPG®
- Topic: Anyone else out there custome make their gaming worlds?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3276
- Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:16 pm
- Forum: Palladium Fantasy RPG®
- Topic: Some help please
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2564
- Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:05 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Ruins game
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4205
Well, then it's not that you want a survival feel - they want one. Just by listening closely to them before and during the game you should be able to figure out what you need to do. The audience will tell you what they want, it's just a matter of carefully listening - don't bother prepping, the aud...
- Mon Dec 24, 2007 1:07 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Robots and androids
- Replies: 10
- Views: 563
Played a Robot PC based on a common vehicle frame...sure, it limited my ability to get in on the action, especially in small comfined spaces(I had smaller drones for that purpose), but since I couldn't always attend games, it was a useful way to have a logical reason for not being 'there'... The gr...
- Sun Dec 23, 2007 2:33 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Ruins game
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4205
Hi Larsen, Is this like a boardgame play, where players can win or lose (ie, if you don't survive you lost as a player) Or do you just want the feel of survival? If the feel is important, your going to have trouble explaining how you get to decide the feel of the game and they don't. Ie, have troub...
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:46 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Anti-hero?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 664
Anti-hero?
So what actually defines someone as an anti-hero?
Some gear
A player in my group is making a survivalist type character. One whose skill set and gear is directed toward living completely in urban and jungle warzones. Sneaking around, not being detected and using no ammo if possible. More recon than combat in combat areas. Well I wanted to tailor some of the ...
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:04 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Robots and androids
- Replies: 10
- Views: 563
Robots and androids
So how many campaigns in rifts has anyone had where they played a robot or android. Just wondering the advantages/disadvantages and fun of playing a machine character.
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:59 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Antarctica
- Replies: 82
- Views: 4899
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:56 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Last man(men/women) on the earth rifts
- Replies: 5
- Views: 354
Not really. Although that would be an interesting concept to work with. By the way, you forgot the second (or should I say first?) I am Legend, the one that should be in front of the three movies, a.k.a. the novel those movies were based on. Closest idea I have had to that was a small rustic countr...
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:54 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Ruins game
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4205
Well I definitely want it to be in an mdc game setting but just not have the players have access to it right away. I was going to have them been in some sort of aerial crash thing so the wreckage being in the city would be a possibility. I never considered CE but thats mainly due to no one in my gro...
- Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:13 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Ruins game
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4205
Ruins game
I'm thinking of making a plot where the game would be almost entirely sdc with the focus of the game being survival and not combat. But I wanted to put it in an urban or actually ruins of an urban city. There would be some sort of menace plaguing the city that seems to have unlimited power. Also the...
- Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:00 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Antarctica
- Replies: 82
- Views: 4899
a good idea. but, would people actually colonize anarctica. in 100 years would it be possible. before you answer that remmebr 100 years ago, they thought we would be living on antarctica right now. you talking to me? Because I was more talking about a group of beings not human who would have advanc...
- Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:37 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Antarctica
- Replies: 82
- Views: 4899
I don't know honestly. I always thought if I was to ever put anything on antarctica it definitely wouldn't be human. Some sort of alien race or from another dimension or something. Something so foreign that when the group gets there they would actually think they are on a alien planet. After they ne...
- Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:20 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: what do you equip your hatchling with ?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 651
- Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:07 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Last man(men/women) on the earth rifts
- Replies: 5
- Views: 354
Last man(men/women) on the earth rifts
I was just wondering if anyone has ever done a campaign taken after the last man on earth/the omega man/i am legend type game?
- Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:20 pm
- Forum: Palladium Fantasy RPG®
- Topic: the illusionist
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1319
- Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:59 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Favorite Kill
- Replies: 12
- Views: 499
my favorite has got to be when there were us four vagabonds vs 1 secondary vampire. One of us drove a van into him from behind and pinned him to a wall. then the other three of us tried to cut off his head or throw water at him. (we didn't have any lores and found out water hurt him and hoped behead...
- Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:54 pm
- Forum: Palladium Fantasy RPG®
- Topic: the illusionist
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1319
the illusionist
so I was thumbing through the pf main book the other day and under magic guilds it mentioned the illusionist. I searched the book for this occ but didn't find anything. So does anyone know what book this occ is in?
- Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:26 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: How would you kill Prosek?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 4640
I always thought the only sure fire way would be to poison all the food, water, and clothes that enter chi-town. But that way would lead to a lot of unneeded killing and it still might not work. Not to mention just how difficult that would be. Maybe if there was a new strain of the black plague or s...