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I am looking for advice about how to handle the actions of the player characters in my current campaign. They are all members of the Black Market, acting as a heist crew, obtaining high-value items for clients. The PCs are a Case Man, Enforcer, Professional Thief, Smuggler, Con Artist, Gambler, Refu...

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https://palladiumbooks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=153717#p2966312 Colonel Sidekick says - LL's bootlicker Lai Luo Yue is a coward who don't fight at all when backed into a corner against any kinds of small or big odds. He is a racist at heart as well as a xenophobic and the biggest boot-li...

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Ah yes, I understand.

Narrator: He did not, in fact, understand.

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Alter Physical Structure: Bone (Skeletal Form) + Indestructible Bones (+ Shadow Cloak, for a great visual)

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Sourcebook 8: Journey into Night (adventures on the road from here to there; city, rural, & wilderness encounters)

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Yeah, THAT'S IT!!!

Well done, sir!

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HACKMASTER 5th EDITION m No, that's not it. The original Hackmaster v.3.25 had rolling tables to determine the gem type, size, clarity, imperfections, etc. You could roll anything from a tiny, badly flawed bloodstone, to huge, perfect diamond. It even allowed you to calculate the base value of the ...

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Hmmm. The wording for the Range is "Touch". In the spell description doesn't say the spell can charge the mage's weapon, or somebody else's weapon. It says that the "weapon can be used by the spell caster or someone else". This, to me, sounds like the mage has the ability to char...

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There are Warlock spells that summon elemental fragments. As I recall, these fragments possessed far more PPE than the summoning spell originally cost, so drawing up to half of their PPE and then dispelling them, and then re-casting the spell was a way to generate PPE in a hurry.

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If Trudeau dies, we riot!

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Ninjas & Superspies has "designing a Spy Agency"

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Try this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m ... al_objects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magical_weapons

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Every Friday night for 3 years. The current WWII+Supers game is finally wrapping up, with the timeline being well into 1944, but the PCs have been in every theater of war since late 1938! This is the campaign that I have wanted to run for years now but I can never find a group that can keep going w...

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FLOODED FOREST: The entire day has been dreary and overcast, making travel amongst the trees difficult, as the light isn’t low enough for night-vision, but isn’t bright enough to allow for clear sight of the ground at one’s feet. Ahead of you is a forest of small and large trees, with a forest floor...

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EARLY MORNING MIST: The light of the morning sun scarcely warms you at all, though it is quite bright. Brilliant purple flashes catch your eye from a small pond nearby. [If the party investigates:] The sun shines on the tiny shells of the snails living in the water and the color gleams in the light....

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CAVE IN A CLEARING: There seems to be a small clearing in the woods at the foot of the hills that are directly to the north. As you enter the clearing you notice that much of the space seems to be taken up by a deep hole in the ground. This hole is at least twenty feet across and drops to a floor ab...

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Did you have a way to cure the lycanthropy and save the farmers family written int the adventure? I think a "Remove Curse" ought to do it. Of course the PCs will have to find a way to restrain the family of lycanthropes long enough to enact it (either by Priest, Wizard or Scroll). In the ...

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filo_clarke Are your adventure ideas (which are GREAT by the way) related to one another and interconnected? Is Jaquan just an encounter that the players happen upon or is it the start to something and you didn't post the rest of it? What happened to the missing elves and caused their city to fall ...

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LORD OF THE RATS: A column of smoke, thin and almost impossibly long, rises up to the heights of the mountains. You see no signs of a fire, but the scent of one has found its way to your nostrils. Ahead, on the side of the road, sits an Orc, apparently a farmer. In his hands is a shredded blue dress...

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GNOME-SIZED TROUBLES - Inspecting the base of the trees close to the ground, in one large tree, you are surprised to see a small wooden door set with a pewter handle. The door is three feet in height and two feet across. It is painted brown and carved with a pattern of small faces, each fixed in a d...

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The Missing Elves The hills and ridges rise into the distance, fading into deep greens and then purples. The taller peaks are lost in the clouds most of the morning but the sky clears toward midday. High peaks tower above the nearer hills and mountains, rising to very great heights. Snow covers thei...

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JAQUAN: (Hunting group 2D4, colony 10-50, +40 eggs): “What began as the occasional spider web has now quickly blossomed into gossamer curtains and sheets of webbing. You see evidence that the webs have been hacked and burned away from the trail, but the forest around you has web upon web. All around...

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Every Friday night for 3 years. The current WWII+Supers game is finally wrapping up, with the timeline being well into 1944, but the PCs have been in every theater of war since late 1938!

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Many of the game lines have the Brewing Skill. Dead Reign, for instance has two versions; Brewing: Basic (for making alcoholic beverages) and Brewing: Medicinal (for medicinal alcohol)

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Thead65 wrote:What skill be used to make beer? Or What skill would be used to operate a Still?

Brewing.

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How about a book that comes in between Book 8: Naruni Wave 2, and Book 10: Hades, that focused on a single faction of the 3Galaxies... I'm just spitballin' here... but maybe the United Worlds of Warlock?

That'd be neat. I'd buy that book.

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In Dead Reign? In my opinion, the setting appears to mirror our current world. There are definitely companies that are researching such things, but do I suspect that there are secret groups that have developed working "ultra-tech"? Probably not. Consider the idea of funding. Any group that...

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I hate to be a rules lawyer (no, seriously), but only automatic weapons and weapons designed to fire 2 and 3 round bursts can fire bursts. Semi-automatics can't fire bursts. One pull of the trigger = one round. I don't like to be a rules lawyer either, but Page 75 of Heroes Unlimited 2nd ed. states...

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We had a long running game set in Ancient Rome with quite a bit of travelling around ancient Europe. We then took the characters from that campaign, leveled the heck out of them and ran a campaign in the Dark Ages, centered around Viking history. More recently, one of my players is about to start a ...

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For Rifts, no.

The Hackmaster GMs Guide had the best one I ever saw, if you can get a hold of a copy.

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Sure, I'd go with a random hit location roll. Just make sure to use the same odds if a human falls into the pit. The Trap Construction skill mentions that Punji-Stake pits are extremely effective against vampires, suggesting that the wooden stakes have a chance of piercing the heart. Sounds like a R...

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I believe lederhosen is MDC.

Always.

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Just so I am clear, you are suggesting that she CANNOT make the weapon that she originally designed, or that she SHOULD NOT make the weapon?

I am about to tell her that her idea is wrong and that, as a player, she does not have total control over what she wants to make. I just want to get this right.

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There was a Blacksmith/Metalworking skill in the Yin Sloth Jungles book, and I believe re-printed in one of the Rifters dealing with updating that book. Likewise there is a Blacksmith OCC in PFRPG: Northern Hinterlands.

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SCENARIO #3: The dark side of the world Hook: The survivors move into the subway tunnels to avoid the waves of undead on the city streets above. The platform has emergency lighting, shedding a stark white light over the tile and concrete area. There is no train at the station, and the dark tunnel lo...

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SCENARIO #2: Highway to Hell Hook: Upon leaving the Airbus A380 on the cluttered I-285 highway, the players are greeted to the sights of a city in chaos. Wrecked cars litter the roads, fires burn in nearby buildings, the sounds of gunfire echo in the distance, and the dead have been attracted to the...

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Okay here are three interconnected adventures, along with character descriptions for the first. SCENARIO #1: Terror at 30,000 feet Hook: British Airways Airbus A380 en-route non-stop from Hong Kong to Atlanta (18hr flight time). Early into the flight, several (almost half) of the passengers take ill...

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I don't mean to sound repetitive, but could you be a little more specific about what kind of "content" you are hoping to get. I am happy to help, as I am sure are others on the boards, but a little more focus might help. Do you need NPCs, encounters, weapon stats, house rules, treasure tab...

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What kind of game are you looking to run? What is your group like? What kind of characters are you hoping to have? I have lots of stuff that I have put together over the years, but most of it was for a particular campaign, and isn't really suitable for drop-in adventures. Give us a little more to go...

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I would drop making it Bullpup, the Tanker version of the M1 Garand had a folding stock and pistol grip. Since the trigger guard and safety are integral to the trigger group and serve multiple purposes (re-cocking the hammer, unlocking the group for removal), putting in linkages in past the magazin...

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She is a paratrooper, and wants a smaller weapon both for the jumps themselves, but then also for any CQB that would follow. Magazines for quick reloads (she hoped to use BAR mags), selective automatic for suppressive fire, and silenced to avoid giving away her position to mortar teams. The flashlig...

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I sort of deliberately didn't mention, but the game takes place in WWII, and the character is modifying an M1 Garand. I avoided mentioning this because I am aware that many people over the years have done all kinds of things to M1s, and M14s. I was worried that if I brought it up I would just get a ...

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Magnificent! Thank you so much for the comprehensive reply!

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One of my players is modifying an existing weapon to suit her needs. Now, I admit to not have taken too much of an interest in the Hardware construction rules up to this point, so her request for guidance has got me doing research. Unfortunately I have a handful of questions that I hope those on the...

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For what it is worth, Rifts: Dinosaur Swamp lists three different rifles, a bolt-action, pump-action, and breech-loading lever-action. According to that book, the Bolt-action rifle takes two attacks to fire (one to pull the trigger and the next to cycle the bolt). The pump-action rifle can fire and ...

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I recommend that if you are using random tables, that you pre-roll them ahead of time. You can record the results and have a list of "mini-scenarios" ready to go whenever you need a moment to catch your breath between actual plot points. Random tables being rolled in front of the players m...

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Heroes Unlimited allows "anyone" to do it, albeit at severe penalties. It also specifies what levels of strength (Normal, Extraordinary, Superhuman, Supernatural) and corresponding PS Scores, are required to fire Heavy Weapons one handed. It also provided the basis for making Ricochet Shot...

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I would prefer BtS: Tome Grotesque, frankly.

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Rifter #25 had an Astronaut/Cosmonaut skill package for Ninjas & Superspies. You could probably adapt it pretty easily.

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The rule in in Heroes Unlimited 2nd edition, p.78

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