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I wouldn't restrict Herbology at all; let them make everything. Also, I wouldn't worry too much about availability of herbs. Have the shaman spend a reasonable amount of time searching and they find "the herb they were looking for". It doesn't have to perfectly match what's in the England ...

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The CS isn't used to fighting on equal ground against another conventional force. Granted it's hard to tell based of off written material because the written material was written by people with little to no experience in real world war or combat. I think I have to address this in my current campaign...

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And that's just for Infantry. Rifts doesn't come close to the number of MOSs or OCCs real life has. Let's not reduce it further. Just about all of those can be covered in one OCC, with maybe 3 MOS specialties; the last 6 or 7 can be reduced systematically to in-game promotions with a few extra skil...

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A variant Mage similar to a Techno-Wizard, but oriented towards fixing things, not building them. The Tinker Mage also known as Gearmender, Handyman Mage, Trademage, Tradesman Mage, or Gearsmith. The Tinker Mage is a rare variant of the Mystic. Their abilities are intuitive and geared toward reparin...

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IF hover tanks were more common, THEN tanks could compete with bots better. But they're not more common, presumably due to the limits of in-game technology and economics. I think this is where the big disconnect is in this conversation. Some people are arguing based on the rules for Rifts/Palladium...

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Mystics can learn any spell, even Biomancy spells

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One arrow per vial? I imagine someone pouring the vial contents over the arrow head instead of dipping the arrowhead into the vial.

Really think as much poison would stick to the arrowhead as one would be expected to drink (a few ounces)?

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Potions....how much is created?
Is each one dose?

What about Belladona potion....I'd like to allow the character to dip arrows in it....how many do you think he could "dose" with one potion, and how much damage would be added to each arrow?

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You would think Naruni units and other more advanced stuff would include self-healing capabilities.

I don't think it'd be too much of a stretch to think nano-tech had advanced enough to make self-healing tech by 2098. We're probably 5-10 years away from some level of that now!

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One thing missing from most Palladium mechs is force fields.

The Walkers in Star Wars have shields that protected from blasters

The high-maintenance cost and ablative nature of armor in Palladium is awful.

If MDC structures had a reflective quality, this would be a different discussion.

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nice points

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I was responding to Cyborg talking about how MDC creatures apparently make men insecure about their masculinity. Thats why i used the words indestructible being instead of Flooper. They were being sexist & ignorant. Just because you don't like someone else's arguments, it doesn't mean it's trol...

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Be as flippant as you want, I'm trying to have a legitimate conversation with you. Also I never said Floopers were rapists. You keep making wild assumptions instead of actually addressing what I'm talking about. So let me take a step back & maybe rephrase for you. For one, you keep obsessing ab...

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Call up a minor demon, tell them to assassinate a person, and say "You can do it how you like, just so long as no one knows I'm involved." Boom. "You mean I get to go torture and murder some rando? Hell yeah!" I'd definitely want more restrictive language than this. One way for ...

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UAR-1 Enforcer combat training gives you: +2 attacks per melee over the pilot's normal human-level ability. This does not indicate specific slowness, but rather the opposite. The ability to body-flip enemies, kick them, tackle them, and so forth, with NO HTH maneuvers being mentioned as unavailable...

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Aermas and Killer Cyborg, you're both going off the rails, please stop (or at least one of you is attempting to Troll, and if so, get a life) Bigotry, racism, genocide, rape, etc. are all real-world issues. Yes there are reflections of these in-game. The second you start conflating these into their ...

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Assuming the Gifted One has Herbology....how much PPE would you give them? Of course the RAW answer is NONE other than maybe one or two D6. I'm leaning towards something similar to one of the other classes in the Mystic Russia (basically as Mystics): 1D6x10 + P.E. Also, given that the RUE changed th...

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Some other things....the XP chart for the Beguiler is out-of-whack. 2700 XP for 2nd level? Way too much (same with the Wizard Thief....). Mystic Knight and Lord Magus both only take 2300 XP for second level.

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Odd...swear my original RMB had the same text, one I have now omits Wilderness Scout.

Assuming I am losing it and it appeared first in RUE....that's an even stranger typo

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My favorite turn-on-his-head concept was a Siberian Tiger Battle Cat High Mage that played medic during battle, and scientist all other times.

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Would love to get Kevin's input to finally know if a draft had that or something

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It's under step 4 in character creation, RUE.

Been bugging me since 1991.

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Totally understand where you are coming from, MyDumpStatIsMA Still think this is a bad approach. An acceptable one I would allow, but Super Spy is meh. Again, what books do you have? Scroll up 10 posts from this one (your question, not my answer), and you'll see my books. Sorry, see it now, ty The ...

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You would think it was an idea at some point.

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I'd love to see any notes lying around on an original take for the Half-Wizard. One option which I think could have broad applicability would be, after an initial skill exchange for the Principles of Magic skill and general ability to channel PPE, would be a rate by which slots can get turned into ...

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"The second way is to select an O.C.C. that has some psionic abilities like the Operator, Wilderness Scout , Crazies, and Cyber-Knight , but the power level of these characters is very limited." This has bugged me for years as it was in the original Rifts rule book and persisted into RUE. ...

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After looking at the Super-Spy again and the Mystic the way I would approach it is to build your Super-Spy and then figure what powers a 2nd level Mystic would have available to them and give them those powers (frozen at that level as it says). As someone who has played and run RIFTS since it was f...

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Does that scenario happen often in your games? It should but GMs choose how real they want to get w/ implementing realistic magic ramifications. I'm struggling to see how the C.S.'s anti-literacy policy is anything but counterproductive, outside of the far-fetched scenario of some kid picking up a ...

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Totally understand where you are coming from, MyDumpStatIsMA

Still think this is a bad approach. An acceptable one I would allow, but Super Spy is meh.

Again, what books do you have?

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I voted perpendicular independent

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What would be nice we had details on range of movement for robots. Many of the arguments FOR robots seem to assume a range of motion similar to humans.

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tl;dr Fighting a single, unsupported robot combat vehicle in Rifts should be a guaranteed death sentence for anything smaller than a platoon. When one shows up, the response should be something like "hide first, run second, and expect to die if you have to fight. In practice, it's an uncommon ...

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I really hope you proponents of mechs are the generals in charge of the opposition

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Sorry, you are seriously over-inflating the greatness of the Super-spy. They get 24 skills. Mystics get 27 skills (and more than the Superspy as they level) and can take ANY Rogue skills, plus Escape Artist and Disguise. Tons of overlap between Espionage and Rogue. Heck, if I were GM I'd just let yo...

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Warshield....you stated you have no military experience, so I'll be kind on some of your points... 1) 1949 The Revolt of the Admirals where the CJCS General Omar Bradely said the Navy was on its way out because of nukes so no need to actually build Aircraft Carriers because they are useless. Well th...

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Not...quite correct. Those visual sensors are in addition to the standard robot sensors... which includes radar with a range of 30 miles/48km. Unless you were also assuming they didn't have the other robot systems... like the 12-hour air supply, or radio? Granted, 30 miles/48km isn't great when, as...

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Everyone knows a metric buttload outweighs anything else on the battlefield

As I was writing my OP, I was imagining the SAMAS needed to fly around and support the big walker just to keep it walking. Sort of like how Aircraft Carriers are sitting ducks without the support of a fleet.

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When I first picked-up Rifts in 1991, I loved the idea of mechs. A friend of mine had tried to introduce me to Robotech a few years earlier, but I wasn't a fan (I like magic). Now, decades later, and after being in the Army as an anti-armor MOS....mechs are one of the dumbest ideas ever proposed For...

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"Rare" means it does happen, and every PC is a "rare case". We've had several magus characters, and every one had zero plans of ever returning.

What books do you have?

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Does anyone really play a Summoner?

If so, how often do you find power circles?

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One thing that is arguably awkward about the wording of the Super Spy is what the quote "(T)he character could be just about any of the magic O.C.C.s (but) is permanently frozen at second level." Does that mean the Super Spy has the skill list of their selected OCC, frozen at second level...

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I remember when RPGs were mostly a college-level hobby, where calculating the area of a fireball had to take into account overflow down hallways when the room was too small, and so forth. Math is part of the fun, or was. For some, yes. But as writers/creators we need to think of those who despise m...

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Killer Cyborg wrote:Isn’t “Heroes of Humanity” a sort of flip-expectations-on-their-head sort of book?

Again, tell that to someone where that happens to be the first book they pick up

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From Heroes of Humanity: "Though they are loath to admit it, even the Coalition' s harshest critics have to accept that the CS has become the beacon of hope people can rally behind" But my main problem isn't that one can comb through the books and find some arguments for or against a point...

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The Psi-Healer and Priest of Light O.C.C.s from Palladium are all standing there with their hands on their hips looking disappointed at you. The Druid O.C.C. from England and Priest O.C.C. from Pantheons are also huffing a good bit, not to mention the Gifted Gypsies from a variety of books. The Bod...

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A second level mystic can have up to 3rd level spells. Not sure why you keep thinking your character will have higher than that. A lord magus or high magus is not a stretch. FOM talks about magi that leave. The Lords are fully tolerant of people that leave to adventure and explore the world. Why not...

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Closest thing I can remember or find is the High Mage; a magical healer. What other examples are out there that I'm missing? EDIT: Thinking more, I came up with this list (some are a stretch...) Biomancer High Mage Old Believer Protector/Fixer Chaos Mage Necromancer (using Adventures on the High Sea...

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Easier ways to "MDC mage" than an 8th level Lord Magus as well.

Play what you want. If it turns out that was a problem, stop playing it.

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I always ask "Is this more powerful than a Cosmo knight?"

Since that answer is almost always NO.....just about anything goes.

I still don't understand why the 7th level spell is even a part of the discussion....or why it would be a problem.

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Well...how fast does something move when your character throws it with their hand? My suggestion is giving TK a PS equal to ME. Normal rules for PS apply for damage.

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