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Rallan

I think there's a case to be made for the Sun's damage tapering off with the inverse square law, since it damages vampires because it's a source of lifegiving light and it kinda makes sense that a vampire wouldn't take as much damage on the surface of a world never gets enough sunlight to sustain li...

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It's fun stuff. I'm more of a Scarfolk guy myself, although admittedly if I had to live in either place I'd pick Night Vale.

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I'm guessing it's because it's impossible for the Nightlords to have full control of all human institutions, and they probably don't care as long as they've got enough control for their plan to keep moving forward. Some outlets pick up electoral fraud and it's kinda annoying but not too big a deal a...

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"Ion" "Pulse" "Particle" In terms of RIFTS, what do these weapons labels mean. I was under the impression that Ion and Pulse were the same thing (dealing electric based damage), but I'm not so sure anymore. Just asking for definitions, or where I can find them. In term...

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Fleets of the Three Galaxies page 65 has a K-HEX enhanced long range missile that does 4D6x100 M.D. That is more than a nuclear multi-warhead at 2D4x100. To me this is just another example that shows the larger missile damages are way to low. Its just another example of how scaling and game balance...

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A.R.C.H.I.E 3 was a unique case even before the rifts in that they were intentionally experimenting with seeing how they could develop it with brain-interfacing if i recall. It's doubtful that anyone wants to run those tests on a mainframe they're currently depending on for maintaining safe orbit. ...

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In reply to the question in the subject line: Lots. They are an interstellar polity with a well functioning economy in a universe where magic exists and is known...at that point, they have whatever magical defenses the GM thinks is appropriate. (In other words, whatever the GM needs to keep players...

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There was a movie planned? out of rifts? seems a bit of a pipedream given the level of complexity in it. Wish i'd been around when it was discussed, what were the plans? Jerry Bruckheimer's company optioned it a while back, but major studios option oodles of stuff all the time without developing it...

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Plus in the time it takes to get from the inner solar system to Pluto's orbit with a traction drive, Pluto will only move about a 20th of an AU. So even if you're terrible at navigation and you've got no data on Pluto at all apart from "it's 30-odd AUs away in that direction right now", g...

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And we found Neptune without ever seeing it. One can afford a few degrees of inaccuracy when plotting on paper or programming a telescope to track Pluto given the large acceptable margin for error. It's easy to justify that putting those state vectors into a navigation computer is a challenge to sp...

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And the navigation. You could reach the orbit of Pluto only to find that it's 250 years away. Since energy is infinite in Rifts you can afford some lack of precision, but you still have to know quite narrowly where the target will be at all times in the future so that you know it'll be there when y...

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It sound great indeed and it has been some time since i laast hit the book on that subject, but i would imagine too possible issues would be having reaction mass reserves to spend for days or weeks (not to say months) nonstop, beside the possible material fatigue involved in the process due to such...

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Traction Drives still take a long time to get to the outer system. At least according to canon, homebrew rules can change this of course. The canon says that they accelerate at 1G indefinitely and could reach the speed of light in about a year, which is about right if you do the math. This sounds p...

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Agreed, if you have the cash and get a traction drive together with a self sustaining ship it’s a whole other ball game. I always imagined that there were still some stations and outposts in the outer solar system, abandoned or maybe not. The self-sustaining part, both in power and life support poi...

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I love this idea. One of my biggest disappointments when I was running my campaign is I did almost nothing with Mars. I went right to the outer planets and put lots of stuff around Jupiter and Saturn. Mars is so iconic could have done anything with it. What kind of monsters did you have their? This...

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I love this idea. One of my biggest disappointments when I was running my campaign is I did almost nothing with Mars. I went right to the outer planets and put lots of stuff around Jupiter and Saturn. Mars is so iconic could have done anything with it. What kind of monsters did you have their? This...

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A little tangent but somewhat pertinent - has anyone here ever heard of the Drolian Council? They are described in passing in the backstory of Selkind the Metal Mage (one of the members of Tolkeen's Circle of Twelve, from Final Siege) as the ruling body a little-known race of ancient Techno-Wizards...

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One thing to keep in mind is that the Mechanoids are probably already using some kind of psionic augmentation/amplification technology, since they somehow manage to be powerful psychics despite being full conversion cyborgs. And on top of that it's most definitely canon that they can genetically eng...

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The OP probably doesn't want to go too overboard on creative uses of the Nightlords' powers, because they're so open-ended that it lets them do virtually anything. And in a game where everyone else's powers are fairly well-defined and specific, that kind of carte blanche "he can do anything as ...

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I always wondered why the Orbital community never tried to contact some of the more advanced human Empires. For information sharing and such. A lot of it is based on the conceit that the major powers of Rifts Earth haven't detected the Orbital nations yet, and they don't want to blow their cover by...

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BookWyrm wrote:In space, no-one can hear you BOOM.

No, but they can see you dealing with exciting new recoil problems

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I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that the orbital community's response is "eh". Because really, from their perspective there's probably nothing special going on at the moment Before the Demon Invasion kicked off there were already at least one or two dozen relatively important empires...

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In simplest terms all the Nightlords except for the head guy want to dominate mortals in every possible way. The head guy wants to assist the Dark in making everything dead. They're probably all aware that The Dark wants to destroy everything in existence and accepted "One day I might have to ...

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I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that the orbital community's response is "eh". Because really, from their perspective there's probably nothing special going on at the moment Before the Demon Invasion kicked off there were already at least one or two dozen relatively important empires ...

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I’m a budding author who loves the heck out of Rifts, and I was curious if Palladium was still publishing novels. If they are, I’ll start working on one immediately. Thanks for the help! I wrote up and submitted a novel manuscript about five years back. Talking with Kevin and Alex about it, there s...

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I'm seeing a couple of problems with this video. For starters, he doesn't even bother establishing how biased his biased dice are. Will a die that fails the salt water test be biased enough for players to notice even if they're not looking for it? Who knows? Maybe those dice are coming up with natur...

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If we want a less flippant suggestion than my first answer, maybe vampires who were created on Wormwood have to be in physical contact with the Living Planet to get the soil of the homeland effect when they sleep. Which means virtually any cave or natural building is fine and he can even sleep outdo...

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Riftmaker wrote:How do vampires work on wormwood with no dirt for homeland soil??

Well you might've noticed that Wormwood doesn't really have much of a vampire problem...

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I'd imagine that if your doppelganger hasn't already been woken up then he'll stop existing when you get turned, because only awakened doppelgangers go on living after their human dies.

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Hey folks, Just wondering, are other people a little confused by the titles of some of the alignments in the Palladium range too? It's generally best not to overthink Palladium's alignments. The names are arbitrary and the alignments themselves are hella simple moral archetypes that are great for l...

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Realistically an Avatar would have the intruders tracked down and brutally murdered by an overwhelmingly large force of minions. Any Avatar (or any Nightlord for that matter) who's managed to survive for thousands of years has done it by being a paranoid bastard who doesn't take unnecessary risks, ...

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One thing nobody's mentioned yet is that they're old, and most of the sourcebooks for them are old, and most of their games haven't been supported by new books for years. Asking why not many people are getting into Palladium is like asking why not many people are getting into Cyberpunk or Shadowrun,...

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Realistically an Avatar would have the intruders tracked down and brutally murdered by an overwhelmingly large force of minions. Any Avatar (or any Nightlord for that matter) who's managed to survive for thousands of years has done it by being a paranoid bastard who doesn't take unnecessary risks, a...

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Give up Spina. Trying to get fans to flood another site with positive reviews so it'll drown out everything bad that's been said is a terrible idea. And if your idea had actually worked (which fortunately it didn't), it would've just reinforced all the worst stereotypes about us Palladium fans being...

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When it comes to keeping the different game lines separate for IP rights, What can be mentioned in a Phase World Submission? Atlantis? Stuff from Pantheons of the Megaverse? What is absolutely off limits in terms of "mixing" the different Palladium games? If it's from the Rifts setting it...

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I don't see how that's hurting Palladium Rifts. I believe Rift is a purely fantasy setting. The notion of 'tears/portals in space leading to crazy stuff' is all over the place (or we'd better lay into all those Stargate series). Obviously they'd just name it Rifts: Adventures in Time and Space or w...

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I wouldn't be surprised if most people who use minis when they play Rifts end up buying Warhammer 40K stuff. After all, it's pretty much the default if you want future-nazis with skulls everywhere

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I can't realistically see it happening. Rifts is an obscure brand with a tiny fan base and very little recognition, so why would an MMO developer want to pay cashmoney to use the brand when they could just make up their own magitech mashup setting?

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That's a bit anachronistic. At the start of the noughties, cell phone cameras were extremely uncommon and were only available on a handful of expensive and relatively obscure phones that were basically just toys for rich kids. And they were for still shots only, the resolution was terrible, and you ...

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I am not certain if this has ever been mentioned but how did the human faiths fare in the aftermath of the Apocalypse? Are the main world religions of today still around in any sort of significant numbers? I get the feeling that Palladium deliberately steered the hell away from christian themes and...

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wouldn't make much sense to have a tarot deck with nothing to support it... the number of people who actually use tarot cards are fairly limited. And the number of people who'd use a Rifts themed tarot deck for anything at all would be vanishingly tiny. It would literally have no reason to exist ot...

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I... shouldn't this have been something sorted out before the campaign went live? During those 6 years of negotiations? More realistically, shouldn't this be something that doesn't even need sorting out in the first place? Nobody else has to run off and get legal advice about whether to let RPG fan...

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Todd Yoho wrote:The Palladium system isn't retro-cloneable; it's just retro.

Yeah I mean what significant changes has the Palladium system even had? They gave characters SDC as well as hit points, they made spellcasting run on PPE, and...

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"Working to allow?" As if fans doing fan conversions for their favorite RPGs some monumental and unprecedented thing that nobody in the history of RPG fandom has ever dared to dream of before.

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We've requested a new forum for Savage Rifts... Don't know what the hold up is. Likewise, we requested guidance regarding the No Conversions policy. I believe that one is pending an answer from a lawyer. Sorry for the delays. Wait, I... No, nothing good can come from asking why the board admins nee...

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As an opinion, that's fine. Please give me a canon source, if you're able to. There are no canon sources on what Nightbane weigh, but the flavour text makes it pretty clear over and over again that Nightbane bleed and are presumably made of meat and skin and bone just like anyone else (except when ...

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They're unambiguously bad. They're the designated baddies in the books, they do terrible things like genocide, they ape both the style and the practices of despotic regimes, and they put skulls on everything . Basically the Coalition States in Rifts is every bit as evil as the Imperium of Man in War...

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fiat money in an post-apocalypse is an absurdity. I find fiat money to be an absurdity in real life, much less a post-post-apocalypse setting like Rifts. I'm not disagreeing with you on principle - i think it's absurd too. One of the many, many, many things in the setting that just do not make sens...

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I'd go with the idea that they can breed, but they just have regular human babies like anyone else. If they could create Nightbane offspring there'd be a gazillion of them by now even if the average Nightbane woman only had one or two children a century.

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How much of Louisiana would even be above sea level?

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