Forums of the Megaverse®

Hannibal

What OCC and race is your character?

Hannibal

They think I do an amazing job as GM because I know mythology, historical data, etc. And by all rights, I should be a vegetable. Not have an IQ score that is in the 99th percentile. LONG STORY. I just want to thank you for sparing us your "long story" about your asserted intellectual supe...

Hannibal

I'm surprised no one has put up Hypnotic Suggestion. It's truly one of the most powerful psychic powers in the game and is fun to play with. Having trouble with that pesky mage that wants to carpet of adhesion you or toss you in web? "I'm not a threat, you don't want to cast any magic on me.&qu...

Hannibal

Agree with Eliakon... if you don't follow or care about the rules, then the answers become arbitrary. It would all be dependent on whatever process you decide to use lol.... Assuming we followed book canon for a moment, I wouldn't allow Atlanteans to reproduce with a demigod. The "rules" a...

Hannibal

A pair of easy slip-off mocassins over the boot so you can get out quickly, and a jet pack so you can then get into the air (for the tech guy... a nice fly spell for your LLWs).

Hannibal

I woud like to see Rfits Lazlo. A book on Chi-town. More development of North america. Nothing against the rest of the Rifts earth. Imo most games begin in North America. A proper Rifts Aftermath. The current one is too much copy and paste. I agree. Would love to see a proper Coalition book that la...

Hannibal

No one can say that the gunfighter isn't the life of our little party.... lol That being said, it's getting more and more difficult to find creative ways for him to get out of trouble and not get shwacked by, I dunno, any number of the enemies he's made over the years, most recently a highly profita...

Hannibal

One, it involved traveling back in time and and killing and replacing our past selves. Now that is what I'd call a Temporal Paradox. Whenever something like that happens its because a wizard changed things. but- Wizard did it! Seriously the magic allowed us to replace our past selves despite the fa...

Hannibal

What ever happened to plans for the Urban Jungle book being hyped at the first open house? And the Deep South / Voodoo rifts books on the radar many years ago?

Hannibal

isn't warlord scard going to die anyways? on a side note, i can't remember if the CS raided iron heart armaments yet at your point in the timeline, but if they didn't you should definitely try to steal their secrets too (which i'm presuming are actually the plans to make a factory that produces the...

Hannibal

So, wanted to get some other thoughts on this little issue: Psi-Tech in the group has his souped-up Telemechanics skill (from the occ), plus the innate link to machines ability.... (page 75 in Psyscape). He has pilot robots and power armor, but not the basic or elite "robots and PA combat"...

Hannibal

June 109 was the last month of the war. CS forces attacked just before the summer solstice (small window, however), but it was in 109, not 108.

Hannibal

Been thinking a bit recently on the difficulties that non-power armor/robots face in defeating mages capable of casting these two energy-weapon defeating spells. Again, not considering PA/Robots being able to carry and utilize a significant amount of kinetic ammo, ie rail guns and missiles, this is ...

Hannibal

I had a stud of a character bang Katrina in an Africa campaign many years ago, too.

Anyone run a campaign with Katrina in it where she didn't put out? lol

Hannibal

The last para in the new revised world book tells you exactly what's going to be in the follow-up vamp sourcebook.

Hannibal

Driving me nuts, can't find it... what book are the Altess from? (and page # if possible)

Thanks!

Hannibal

The shockblade spell (lvl 8 combat magic, found on p.16 of the Merc Adventures sourcebook) lists the damage as 1d6 / level of the caster. Does this damage stack on top of the weapon's original damage, or does it replace the blade's original damage? So, for example, with a 3d6 sword and a level 4 mag...

Hannibal

I think it was Gleba who said way back at Open House 1 that he had plans for a Lazlo series. What ever happened? (Of course, the Minion War was also supposed to be wrapped up years ago too lol) Lazlo is clearly a high-demand book that would sell extremely well!

Hannibal

I have a very experienced gaming group, although they sometimes seem to play at 16-year-old rookies, in the same vein as KC's argument of how players often play in ways more reflective of low level/inexperienced characters. None of them (myself included when I play rather than GM) want to start at l...

Hannibal

I agree that Mercs is one of the best books for Palladium b/c everything in it was a great addition to the game at the time... the good assortment of gear, really interesting merc groups, intro of Naruni, and some useful (or at least interesting) OCCs. I agree with Rat that Merc Ops was also an exce...

Hannibal

I've both played as a character against Mechanoids as well as used them in my campaign when running as GM. I used them on Rifts Earth in a campaign in which the PCs were participating in actions against the first of the major threats from Plato's Planetary Edicts (ie, Mechanoids, and then as part of...

Hannibal

In my opinion, since Palladium has several significant conflicting rules, timelines, substantive material, etc, they do owe canon answers to sort out the issues. It can be fun for some GMs to work out the issues themselves, but I don't think dumping it on GMs is a long-term sustainable solution.

Hannibal

I raised 104/105 timeline questions earlier in the GM forums, and I'm bringing over a couple of my observations. Again, I love Palladium to death, but the editing/consistency could be improved, especially in relation to the Rifts timelines. Trying to piece together a coherent timeline for key 105PA ...

Hannibal

Thnx for the posted link above, but it's a little dated, so I've been compiling my own timeline. And, shocker, inconsistent dates galore. I love you guys, Palladium, I really really do, but for pete's sakes, please fix your editing and consistency. I'm actually surprised you guys don't have your own...

Hannibal

Hey all, Was wondering if anyone had pulled together a timeline of key events on Rifts Earth from roughly 101-105PA. I'm particularly interested in 105 (months & days as possible of the key CS war events + Juicer uprising, etc)... anyone have something they pulled together from canon that they c...

Hannibal

well assuming that damage has become mystical because of either the sea inquistor or burster part of this equation i think my have solved our how to kill a cosmic knight thread Nope, I don't think we have. The Sea Inquisitor only inflicts double damage against EVIL supernatural creatures, hence it ...

Hannibal

Bump...

Hannibal

The Hat of Invisibility from the Japan World Book... would you rule it is invisibility superior or invisibility simple, or could it be either one (both kind of invisibility hats are made)?

Hannibal

Well, the phase sword from Phase World is 4d6+PS damage, in SDC or MD depending on the target's structural make-up.

Hannibal

Bah. At first I thought the Vanguard was a ridiculous and unneeded concept. But then I thought about what this secret little society would really be like, and I finally decided they'd be like a closeted knitting circle that talks big and likes to think they're powerful, but they don't walk the walk ...

Hannibal

Rifts can open to wherever and whenever you want

Hannibal

I like/use the specialization rules in rifter 30. With a couple tweaks.

Hannibal

mobuttu wrote:106 PA.

Close, but the Coalition's first "low-yield" nuclear attack and outright invasion began in October 105PA.

Hannibal

Meaning; no matter what YOU say, someone else will say otherwise. That may be true, but some statements are more logical and reasonable than others, employing common sense and/or empirical standards lol If you've said a certain person is GM and the GM calls it, then to argue it is to lack common se...

Hannibal

DhAkael wrote:Meaning; no matter what YOU say, someone else will say otherwise.

That may be true, but some statements are more logical and reasonable than others, employing common sense and/or empirical standards lol

Hannibal

what... I mean What? Seriously, this is...WHAT!? They are undetectable OR they kill you (have you killed; whatever), or do a smear & disinformation campaign. heck if the yanks can keep a lid on UFO stuff for well near 80 years...I think a culture several THOUSAND years old can keep their secret...

Hannibal

Yeah, there's still a common-sense element to it. The character should know the attack is coming in order to auto-dodge it. That said, let's say the guy's in a sword fight vs. 2 opponents, and you can imagine a swift, dynamic fight where one of the opponents momentarily slides in behind the characte...

Hannibal

At the very first open house, I believe it was Carl Gleba who said in one of the little Q&A sessions that he hoped to tackle a Lazlo book (might have been 2?) once the Minion Wars were done. Of course, I don't think anyone anticipated the Minion War series to be taking so long. Given it's been f...

Hannibal

Aaryq: If you're looking for Coalition units of some renown (which I believe you said you were), there's not a whole lot mentioned in Rifts canon, but your best bet is to comb through the Siege of Tolkeen books, which described a couple (but even those mentioned are mostly squad-sized units as oppos...

Hannibal

I had inherited a habit from an old GM of generally giving out limited amounts of XP (part of it was balancing some powerful characters in the game). Eventually, my players grumbled, so I began keeping track on Palladium's XP sheet, awarding it exactly per the sheet's criteria. That was still too lo...

Hannibal

So, curious how people would rule on the effect of Naruni plasma cartridges vs. the 2 spells "impervious to energy" and "invulnerability." Both spells obviously make the spell caster invulnerable to energy attacks. The cartridges are physical casings that are converted to plasma ...

Hannibal

Palladium's system is caught in the middle of what I would consider the two real norms for role-playing. In some cases you can have as many skills as you want, and they are all linked to some attribute or other common method of determining the chance of success. An example of this is in D6, where y...

Hannibal

Ratty asked for my thoughts, so he opened this door. Welcome to the Jason Richards school of O.C.C. design. First off, fine work by r_b. I agree with his thoughts, particularly on physical skills. In my opinion, for a skill to be included in a list of O.C.C. Skills, it must pass the following test:...

Hannibal

Kill him.

No, not the character, the player.

X-p

Hannibal

you weakend one for this thing and decided in the one who had the most options versus the most effective one. I was there when a very inebriated Rat tried to craft this confusing disaster of a sentence... it was awesome lol Rat is so dedicated to Rifts, he still checks the forums and posts while mi...

Hannibal

Because Palladium has not done a good job over the years maintaining consistency in classes. It's a degree of editing and detail that, as much as I love this system, Palladium has never had. You compare earlier OCCs to more recent OCCs, you can see it pretty clearly. But, it's too late for our intre...

Hannibal

An interesting battle, but I have to say I probably would have played the juicer differently that you did. I'm not sure if you stuck to the distance rules for spell casting, but if you did, just for starters I'd have to say I would have kept the mage out of range for most of his spellbook, whittling...

Hannibal

@ Dog: But that "prowl bonus offset by mobility penalty" problem won't be just for the Variable Camo Armor but also for whoever wears the Ghillie suit over any heavier armor. In other words, the Ghillie suit's bonus is still gonna be negated by the penalty to physical skills that most arm...

Hannibal

I don't think that the individual characters have to be evil just b/c the Coalition itself has some inherently unethical policies... it's when the characters break free of their conditioning and see a different world that those who play the characters have to decide if they'll continue down a pathol...

Hannibal

@ Dog: But that "prowl bonus offset by mobility penalty" problem won't be just for the Variable Camo Armor but also for whoever wears the Ghillie suit over any heavier armor. In other words, the Ghillie suit's bonus is still gonna be negated by the penalty to physical skills that most arm...

Search found 175 matches