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Ok, I give up: Where does the 100,000cr cost (along with 10,00cr/pt) for robotic strength (per limb) come from? i.e. What rulebook? Thanks, - s.west Context? Not sure about the 100,000credit cost, but (and as I don't have the RACS I am speculating here)... The Robot RCC (SB1o pg105, not sure about ...

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Ok, I give up: Where does the 100,000cr cost (along with 10,00cr/pt) for robotic strength (per limb) come from? i.e. What rulebook?

Thanks,

- s.west

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Thanks, so much, for taking the time to respond. On the second page of "Combat Rules" (p.340), there is the following: M.D.C. Body Armor Combat and Mega-Damage Capacity (M.D.C.) armor works even easier than S.D.C. combat. There is no Armor Rating to worry about and the attacker either hits...

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Any attacks are ALWAYS hitting the main body unless a called shot to a specific location is made. So any MDC would always be applied to that location. Two things: 1) Where do I find that in RUE? (I'm not questioning your answer, I'm questioning my ability to read!), and 2) So, what happens when the...

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Greetings, Please point me to the rules (in RUE, preferably) for how Mega Damage is accounted for when M.D. Capacity is divided up between numerous body parts. To wit: A Character's M.D.C. is distributed thusly: Head 50 M.D.C. Body 120 M.D.C. Right Arm 30 M.D.C. Left Arm 30 M.D.C. Right Leg 50 M.D.C...

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Very helpful!

Thanks guys,

- s.west

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Greetings, Another couple of newbie questions here. Q1: If you are creating a Full or Partial Cyborg character (or a character with Robotic Strength?) is there any reason to roll dice to establish P.S. (or P.P.)? As far as I can tell, in those cases the baseline for each of those attributes is estab...

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I'm not sure about some of the additional detail that was provided in the two replies to my question. So, I will restate, and clarify, the question, and then provide the answer that I think was given in these two posts. Q: In RUE, under the Secondary Skills section on page 300, the following is stat...

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Greetings, I see the general principle (in RUE) that Secondary Skills do not benefit from external bonuses (with the exception of the Bonus for high IQ) like O.C.C. Skills and O.C.C. Related Skills do (p.300). However, I am wondering if that extends to not benefiting from the Bonus received when a S...

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A couple of things regarding Fatigue:

Thanks!

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Ok, referring back to your post, I went through all Saves that are referenced in the O.C.C.s in RUE (this would seem to be where the primary meaning and intent of saving throws should derive). I correlated all of them with the ones on your list with the following exceptions: Save vs Pain Save vs Fat...

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> Hope that helps?

It does, indeed. I only wish that the primary authors had been as rigorous as you.

Thanks, very much, for the detailed response.

- s.west

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Hello again Greg, I'm trying to reconcile RUE's list of Saving Throws (p.346 - b.t.w., I have raised a similar question elsewhere in the forums: https://palladiumbooks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=180844&p=3104168, if you're interested): Saving Throws: Occasionally, characters must roll to...

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Greg,

That's helpful. In fact just confirming something like: "The ruling on it are kind of vague..." is helpful, so that I can be confident I'm not missing something else I should know.

Cheers!

- s.west

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Greetings Greg, I have question about the Roping Skill, both as it is implemented in your spreadsheet (B433 on the Data page), and also in a more general Rifts Rules sense. From the RACS point of view, Roping as a 'Skill', it imparts a "+1 bonus to entangle at levels 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 14&q...

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Greetings again, Greg. Hope you are well. This is not an error, per se, but I think you probably want to know about it. On the Data sheet, under "ATTRIBUTE BONUSES FROM SKILLS", for P.S. and P.P. you refer to summation cells in the 'PS' and 'PP' columns of the Physical Skills table to the ...

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Ah! Sorry I see it now, Horsemanship: Sea Serpents should be Horsemanship: Serpent Hunter in L39 of the Data Sheet. Yep, that's what I was on about. However, as you will see from my previous post (which I edited), I realize now that, as far as the operation of the spreadsheet was concerned, those t...

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Ah I see the end letter (G) doesn't match the type of horsemanship, i.e. Horsemanship: General is (G), but Serpent Hunter should be something like (SH)? I'll put that into the next update. Well, no, that's not what I was on about. It turns out that I didn't look closely at the choices offered in th...

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Or is there another error that I am missing? Well, based on the fact that the other 8 in that group match their corresponding skills: (from Melee Combat Skills) Horsemanship: Aquatic Animals Horsemanship: Cossack Horsemanship: Cowboy Horsemanship: Cyber-Knight Horsemanship: Equestrian/Knight Horsem...

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Greg,

FYI:

Code: Select all

L39  == Horsemanship: Sea Serpents
B188 == Horsemanship: Serpent Hunter

Error?

- s.west

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Is this just for curiosity sake or are you looking to find all the skills in their original books? Well, the questions that are specific to the workings of RACS are primarily curiosity, because I'm not really fluent with Excel. Sometimes it feels like things are just coming out of thin air, so I ha...

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Hey s.west here's the answer to your questions: Greetings Greg, I'll limit my question to one skill in particular: Physical Labor. Where are the bonuses kept for Physical Labor? Specifically: +2 to P.S., +1 to P.E. and +2D8 to S.D.C. All the bonuses and data are stored on the Data Sheet. For the Ph...

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Also, regarding Skills, I'm wondering what source(s) were consulted for the complete list? I think I made the, apparently unwarranted, assumption that references would be limited to RUE, but maybe not. The specific Skill that has led me to ask this question is, "Pilot: Small Spacecraft" (a...

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Greetings Greg, As a matter of curiosity only (I came across this while trying to add some custom calculations), I am wondering where some of the bonuses (from skills) are stored in the workbook? I'll limit my question to one skill in particular: Physical Labor. Where are the bonuses kept for Physic...

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I may be wrong or not understanding your question, but here goes. Most of those save bonuses you list modify one of the basic saves. For example save vs. specific type of mind control is an add on to save vs. psionics when rolling against that specific type. So that OCC gets that bonus when testing...

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Thanks for the responses. They have helped me to realize that I should have been a little bit more specific. My task is to adapt Rifts, as codified within RUE , for this VTT adaptation. So, I'm not looking to range far and afield for either additional material or for explanations of material found w...

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I'm currently engaged in an adaptation (another one?) of Rifts for use with a virtual table top. Having a collection of "Save vs X" buttons that will roll the Save, automagically apply any relevant bonuses, and produce the final value is desirable. However, without an organizing principle,...

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Greetings, Can someone help me make sense of the myriad "save vs" references found in RUE? (and probably in the original Core Rulebook) Here is the sorted, uniq'ed, list of references: save vs (various forms of mind control?) save vs insanity save vs poison, drugs and disease save vs all f...

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As Prysus said RUE doesn't use the term strike for ranged weapons Is that what Prysus said? I must be going senile. I'm going to have to let this go, because I'm just not getting it... Thanks for trying. - s.west Greetings and Salutations. You're not going senile. As Prysus, I will ...

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Prysus wrote:Does that make sense and solve your issue? Farewell and safe journeys.

Quite possibly. I had done some testing before, but I wasn't looking at it from the point of view you laid out. I will re-examine my results.

Thanks!!

- s.west

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Greg Diaczyk wrote:
As Prysus said RUE doesn't use the term strike for ranged weapons

Is that what Prysus said? I must be going senile.

I'm going to have to let this go, because I'm just not getting it... Thanks for trying.

- s.west

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Sorry, but I don't understand how what you wrote in response answers the question about the bonus to strike. In fact, the word 'strike' doesn't appear in your answer at all... Also, I forgot to highlight the portion about shooting at 50% past the range limit as being done "without benefit of an...

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Thanks for responding. What do we do with the example I provided? i.e. the Longbow's Bonus to Strike? (see W.P. Archery, page 326 of the Ultimate Edition): W.P. Archery. An expertise with bow weapons of all kinds. The character can use all manner of bows and arrows, including short bows, long bows, ...

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Ok, new question: I see on the "COMBAT SKILL (MELEE)" table that there is a box to provide a bonus to Strike . I see no such box in the "COMBAT SKILLS (RANGED)" table even though, for instance, the longbow specifies a "+1 to strike at levels 1,2,4,..." What am I missing...

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By the way, I'm also wondering where one puts normal M.D.C. Body Armor (e.g., the Crusader armor found on page 267 of RUE). The Cybernetics & Bionics page doesn't seem to be appropriate, as there are no augmentations, or other 'extras' to go with it... just M.D.C. damage. And, if one looks at th...

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I went ahead and placed it on the Data page at the bottom of the first few columns (down by row 568, columns B-D). It's working fine. A further question (I'm not much of an Excel user): Would I be better off using Named Cells for this purpose? In case you change the format of the data in that area o...

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Ok, did that. Regarding incrementing the Living Armor's M.D.C., by level, the only tricky part was dealing with the "Chest Plate (main body)" M.D.C., which adds 1D6/level starting at level 4. So what I did was to generate all 12 of the 1D6 dice rolls, put them into a running sum, and inde...

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Ok, did that. Regarding incrementing the Living Armor's M.D.C., by level, the only tricky part was dealing with the "Chest Plate (main body)" M.D.C., which adds 1D6/level starting at level 4. So what I did was to generate all 12 of the 1D6 dice rolls, put them into a running sum, and index...

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Did you catch anything else? Well, this isn't a 'catch', but I am struggling to figure out where to put something. Specifically, I'm creating a Cyber-Knight, and I can't figure out where I would account for the character's Cyber-Armor (Living Armor). As far as I can tell, only S.D.C. Armor has an A...

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Borast wrote:but I thought you had to *be* juggling to obtain the bonus.

I just assumed that mastering the skill of Juggling conferred upon one additional quickness of mind and body... in other things.

But, again, I'm new to Rifts.

- s.west

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Thanks for the response. Yes, I saw that, and I saw the effect of adjusting the corresponding box in the Working Area. However, and as an example of my first point of confusion, what do I do with the Juggling bonus of "+1 on initiative roll"? Where do I put that? It is unrelated to any par...

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Greetings,

I'm working through my first trial of RACS and I'm wondering something: Shouldn't there be a box on the Main page for an Initiative Bonus?

(b.t.w., I'm also new to Rifts... so, there's that.)

Thanks!

- s.west

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