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It quite honestly depends on the alignment, OCC, player and the specific actions. A Scrupulous or Principled using torture is a lot more alarming than an Aberant doing so for instance. A margin call I will generally allow to slide unless it's an OCC with a special code of conduct.

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Yes, I'm committing some thread necromancy here but it's for a good cause. Icarus Reckless even by the standards of other ArchAngels, Icarus has defied death more times than his squad mates can remember. He is always the first into battle when NEXUS forces or a rival House attack and always seeks ou...

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My personal characters tend toward very exceptional PE scores in Splicers and if you've seen the writeup floating around, Ynigma was created using standard Scarecrow rules. The Gene-thief modification didn't add anything to him statwise or by way of permanent bioware upgrades. I need to drag out my ...

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Without hesitation or qualification bio-e pistols and acidic daggers.

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Looks like green will be the color of choice for under water laser weapons (aka upgraded light cells and light cell rifle/pistol) and I'd apply the same half range Bio-e weapons suffer under water due to refraction. Bio-rockets would indeed do fairly well, though they may need a bit of cosmetic rede...

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You're familiar with lava lamps? Similar techniques can be applied to any number of liquids to keep them from diluting readily, or at all, when added to another fluid. Plus you have such lovely things as mercury that occur naturally and are too viscous to be diluted by most other liquids. The fact t...

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It will also depend to some degree on which acid and how it's delivered. Something delivered in an oil base like the squids ink isn't going to dissipate quickly and if you go with something along the viscosity of napalm you can get burning oil underwater.

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Ink mods could pretty easily be done for acid and a specialized gaseous bubble of methane that could be used to sink surface vessels and slow swimming targets.

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Oh, looks like I wasn't quite specific enough with my tentacle adjustments - it's the secondary tentacles that needed adjusting. The main tentacles were pretty well proportioned to the main body at 3:5 and I'd keep that proportion.

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Yeah, I definately like my size numbers if you want this to function similar to Leviathans with internal housing. Allows for plenty of room for the pilot without the biotech being unbelievable. Also solves crush pressure and breathing for the pilot without forcing a lot of mandatory aquatic upgrades...

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As giant squids go, it's really not that big and the tentacles are a touch short for the body as presented. Largest recorded giant squid is right at the length my recommendations put this at and weighs in around 1 ton. Even allowing for the biotech to weight a whole lot more than the real animal wou...

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My first thought is that it's just too small for the effects you want to produce. I'm also wondering if you view this as a Behemoth style WM or something more akin to Pack Hounds. To address the size issue, and make 4 organic thrusters believable, I'd double the body diameter, add at least 50% body ...

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It's much more balanced in it's revised form and not an automatic godmode if the "volunteer" survives the process.

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Something to the oerder of 12 hours for a missing digit, 24 for a hand or foot and 4-6 days for a limb would be reasonable IF the character were out of action (read unconscoius) for the duration due to the immense strain on the body. I'd even consider allowing the regenation to be delayed in startin...

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Simply put, this is entirely too powerful even with several of the proposed drawbacks in play to "weaken" the character. Immunity to the nanoplague alone would warrant the complete loss of access to biotech as a balancing drawback but what you've created is essentially a Scarecrow with an ...

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Mine's linked in the GMs forum for download in the character sheet sticky.

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Not sure what the deal is with the A-10 beyond it being one of the most distinctive airframes to ever see service. In terms of sheer destructive potential, I'd much rather have an AC-130U at my disposal.

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Guy, do keep in mind NEXUS is a collection of high genuis level intellects. If the idea is to bait them somehow, you might want to reconsider you method of choice. Claims of troop movements would be verified with satellite survailance or high altitude drones. NEXUS knows too well their strength lies...

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Trouble with using normal RF and/or EMF is that you're subject to interception and compromised operations. There's a hundred million or so genocidal reasons why humanity isn't already using traditional broadcast techniques.

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Ynigma - Scarecrow with silghtly modified form of Gene-thief ability ***Designers Note*** This character uses Ninja's and Superspy's Martial Arts and Chi powers with the minor adjustment of adding the much bemoaned "2 attacks for living". If you aren't using N&S substitute HtH:Assassin...

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Look into technowizard for your armor wearing spellcaster. Or diabolist perhaps.

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Going up in level is not going to help you survive a nerve agent.... same applies to tear gas and pepper spray. Then how do you explain Arnold Schwarzenegger? I doubt he has been exposed to nerve gas. Level actually does help with tear gas and pepper spray the more exposure you have to it the less ...

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Missiles aren't the only area effect weapon in Splicers, just the easiest example. Either way, it's a matter of playstyle - more lethal uses damage to other parts, less lethal uses main body only. My groups always want to see what more lethal is like for a couple of sessions then they beg to go back...

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Yes, reading comprehension indeed. Can Palladium put out a main book like GURPS and have all the rules for all the saves, all the skills, all the psionics, all the spells , all the general combat info etc Try remembering your original post when you change the goalposts half way thru a discussion. I ...

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there are net books out there with all the skills in them. I don't think the book would be all that big, just the very basic stuff Part 1 Attributes Part 2 Skills Part 3 Combat a) Maneuvers b) Types of Hand to Hand, all that aren't game specific like Hand to Hand Agent etc c) Saves d) Vehicle Comba...

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Does tend to be difficult to get things provided to the board into print.

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Last time I had a group opt for blast radius damage being everything, I crippled a behemoth in 2 melee rounds when they got caught by a NEXUS patrol. It was not a good day for the group.

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If I do blast radius affects everything, it means everything . Sensor arrays, weapons, etc etc etc. I generally leave the choice up to my players though, if they just want main body we'll go that way; if they want missiles fom hell, we can go that way too. Oh, do keep in mind that a blast at the fro...

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He's still posted in the Coastal Defenses thread

As is Mjolnir in all it's pure overwhelming destructiveness.

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I've got a slightly modified Scarecrow (Ynigma) around here somewhere ....

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Another vote for 'Angel, I'm somewhat curious how others view them and handle their loadouts.

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Yeah, spore discharger is another solid choice. Knew I was forgetting one and don't have my book here at work. Pretty much anything that has a big area of effect or a continuous damage is an excellent choice for Archangels, and probably isn't bad for Scarecrows either until it comes time to just bre...

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So we played a set of approximately 2h yesterday. What suprised me is how ******* Imba the packmaster was with only 3 dogs. My player opted for specialization on his dog, one heavy melee,ranged and a meatshield. And he ripped through ****! So the scarecrow had a blast yesterday, it started well wit...

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As good as the Falconeer is, I want Slappy's Menagerie to see official print. That thing is all kinds of devious and destructive.

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No, but it shouldn't really matter. Archangel priority should be defensive and sensor systems on their armor with a likely preference for needle blossom and organic rockets when they get to weapons. Get the payload upgrades and always fire in 4 shot volleys. For close range weapons, bio-e pistols/ri...

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As a point of interest, any OCC, except Biotics and Technojackers, can be given the use of War Mounts. Also, Outriders aren't guaranteed access to their personal Mounts for every mission - Behemoth or Grendel isn't much use in an aerial assault and they're all out for cave crawling. Underwater only ...

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Living armor really is the key to expanding Scarecrow capabilitys, not that they need a lot of expanding to be brutally effective. If you're willing to venture slightly uotside official canon, the weapon enhancements or a modification of he genethief occ power are great options. I also highly recomm...

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If the character has a good reason to know about host armor, maybe. But if your HU campaign doesn't feature host armors, why would characters be able to mimic something that doesn't exist?

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Tendril injector won't breach the environmental seal. Look again at how environmental armor works in Palladium games. Until the MDC is depeleted or the suit is opened, the seals hold. Period. No exceptions. Phase tech gets past environmental seals for anything but full conversion cyborgs because it...

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Tendril injector won't breach the environmental seal. Look again at how environmental armor works in Palladium games. Until the MDC is depeleted or the suit is opened, the seals hold. Period. No exceptions. Phase tech gets past environmental seals for anything but full conversion cyborgs because it ...

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Splicers, "Nanobot Plague, p.p. 9-13" Reread it people, please. It actually states that the higher the tech the faster the nanobot infect it. And is every one else except Shark and myself missing the fact that it's nano tech, it can disassemble ANYTHING IT COMES INTO CONTACT WITH on the m...

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Area effect weapons, psionics, magic, situational modifiers, chi attacks - all of these things can make an unstoppable character not-so-unstoppable.

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The horn is, well, a horn. The frills could easily be artist conception of radar or sonar upgrades. The glowing fish/eel looking thing at the shoulder could be a squib explosive or something completely unrelated to the armor thats flying/floating in it's foreground in the picture.

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That's what you're seeing, never did get those damage values

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Like I said, somewhere around here (Splicers board) there's Carmen answering me asking that very question. I'm still looking for it though and suspect it may have been trimmed. *edit* Oh good, it wasn't trimmed and I was able to find it after about half a dozen searches. http://forums.palladium-mega...

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reading the missile entry, it looks like you're supposed to treat it as 1 weapon system, not as multiple weapon systems. for example, the payload is not listed as 1, it is listed as being the number of missiles you buy. you don't buy a new set of rockets, you just pay to increase the payload. Yeah,...

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If I'm remembering right from discussing missile upgrades with Carmen, it's damage per missile that gets upgraded.

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Forearm blades, needle death blossom, force field, casting gun, resin ducts. For backup weapons, acid blades and bio-e pistols are personal favorites for Biotics and Scarecrows.

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Yep, the numbers are right but best case scenario is you can do that every 6 hours and it rides on 1 strike roll.

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No, I'd planned to do another bundle for War Mounts but never got as far as posting it. Maybe I'll get around to finally putting it up soon.

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