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Just saw this up for pre-order on the store, and I'm curious. Does anyone know what the extra material in the book is going to be? Or when it's supposed to be coming out? I'm all for more Nightbane, even a new version of the corebook, but there's no way I'm going to pre-order anything from Palladium...

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If you're having mech problems, I feel bad for you, son. I got ninety-nine problems, but a Boom Gun ain't one.

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This is in regards to the updated Adventure Edition of Savage Rifts: I've checked the indexes of SWADE, the Tomorrow Legion Player's Handbook, and other Savage Rifts books but I don't see a page number to find the Sharpshooting skill that is mentioned in many character descriptions. Can anyone help...

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It's been three years since the debacle that was the attempted rollout of the Rifts board game, and two years since the dedicated forum was locked completely. I'm not here to point fingers, assign blame, or get on anybody's case about anything. I'm just wanting to see if any of the assets from that ...

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The playtest version of the revised player's guide just dropped for backers this week. Any thoughts on the changes from the previous version?

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Whew. $120,000 in two days! That's not quite the rate of the first one, but it's pretty damn good. They just keep blowing through stretch goals. =)

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Jason Richards wrote:Really looking forward to y'all getting to see these new books. Some very faithful conversions and some slightly new takes on things. Should be lots of fun!

We're all looking forward to it too! And if y'all wind up needing any freelancers, I'm always available. XD

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The Kickstarter date for Savage Rifts Wave 2 has been announced! The new books are coming to KS on April 16, and will include updates of Savage Rifts to the new SW edition! This is great news! ^_^

Official Pinnacle Announcement Link

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Honestly, you could run Palladium FRPG pretty much out of the Savage Worlds corebook and the Fantasy Companion with a few custom races.

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Any deals in works to officially adapt any other PB games to SW? The post-apoc feel of Rifts is mirrored in Dead Reign, Systems Failure, Splicers, Wormwood for example. As of the last Kickstarter, no such deals were in the works, since people asked about it a fair bit. As far as I'm aware, nothing ...

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Riftmaker wrote:we have any idea on when the kickstarter for this hits?

No news yet. I'd guess probably not until winter 2017 or spring 2018.

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I figured probably the Dragon Hatchling, but was wondering if I missed anything else. Any "I can easily step out of reality to avoid threats" like an Astral Lord? A min-maxed Dragon Hatchling is pretty sick and wrong, but the Ley Line Walker on a ley line, with boost trait and growth is p...

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So, someone on another forum disliked that there was a deemphasis on playing Coalition troops in SR. My suggestion was to use the MARS classes to emulate Coalition troops, adding a Vow while giving them access to sweet CS gear. Anyone have other suggestions? My suggestion is: don't play CS troops. ...

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Someone on the Pinnacle forums had requested a Kryptonian Iconic Framework, so I put one together.

Iconic Framework: Kryptonian

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I completely missed the new sub-forum! Now it's here! Yay!

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How does selling loot work half new cost or something different? It's generally suggested that you get half value for loot, but that can vary based on location and what the GM feels like putting into the players' hands. A while back, my group stole a UAR-1 Enforcer from the Coalition and brought it...

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I just did my first game it went well. It was a little hard to hurt my more combat oriented players I think I'll need to be more creative or maybe do a version of the daredevil hallway fight to soften them up. Make sure to take a look at some of the advanced combat options like wild attacks, cover,...

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Xar wrote:That's why there are the Upgrade and Beyond the Limit Edges...

Yeah. A Combat Cyborg starts with 6 Strain just free-floating because he starts with the Upgradable Edge, then he can take Beyond the Limit for 6 more.

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Advice from a guy who's been running Savage Worlds for a decade: give out bennies like water. Bennies are the lifeblood of the game, so they should be flowing freely. Give them out for people roleplaying their Hindrances, for making the table laugh, for coming up with a good plan--basically, just ab...

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Do Savage rifts borgs need to get the upgrade perk every time they get a new implant? If yes why have prices for the implants? If no why have that edge? No, they don't. They can just pay the money and recovery time to get an implant up to the limit of their Strain. The Upgrade Edge lets you get any...

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PB's strength is it's setting and ideas, it's weakness is it's adherence to antiquated and overly complex rules, and introducing way too many instances of very specific complications for various things (magic, equipment, vehicles, OCCs). I really hope the 2 companies continue working together, so f...

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Mark Hall wrote:Savage Worlds Deluxe Edition
Rifts: Savage Worlds.

I concur with this. I'd also recommend picking up a Classic Rifts corebook and Sourcebook 1 for setting information, though. The Savage Rifts Game Master's Handbook and Savage Foes of North America are also good purchases.

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Anyone playing Savage Rifts? Your thoughts? Been running a campaign since the pdfs went to Kickstarter backers. It's been a hell of a lot of fun. It captures all of the gonzo enjoyment of the setting without having to do stuff like having one round of combat take two hours. I've had a couple of pla...

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Hello everyone, I am trying to find the weight of a singular round for the boom gun. Can anyone aid me in this endeavor? Good question yoshi, someone must know. Well, a single round for a modern-day battleship-mounted rail gun is between 15kg and 20kg. Assuming the rule of "multiply by 10"...

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Riftmaker wrote:OK So I'm on my own for managing the wealth? Man I know SW is a fast and loose kind of game but id like a few guide lines.

The Savage Rifts Game Master's Handbook has guidelines for wealth and rewards starting on page 80.

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Nice to see this stuff is out. I am not really happy with the randomness of it. Im supposed to write my adventure not roll some dice and send people to dune or something. The adventure generators are an optional tool for GMs who just want to roll some dice, get some inspiration, and go. Nothing sto...

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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... perception. they added perception. and two attacks for living, which iirc th...

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Riftmaker wrote:awsome find ty

Happy to help! There are a lot of great Savage Worlds resources online, and a lot of them can be found through Savagepedia or the official Pinnacle forums. =)

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Riftmaker wrote:AAnyone know what SW setting has Raptors in it? I need them for a game Im going to run once the rest of the books are out.

Like velociraptors? I can't think of a setting with them, but there's this free bestiary that has stats for them:

Savage Bestiary

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There is nothing wrong or illegal with fan conversions as long as there's not profit involved. Nothing wrong with? I agree. Nothing illegal? Well... That's not quite true. I'm a librarian, and I work with copyright issues a lot. One of the things we have to remind people about is that profit doesn'...

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Thank you. No problem! And just to expand a bit on that, since it's come up about other products: *When you cast a spell or activate a power, you roll your casting skill (Spellcasting or Psionics) *You need to get a target number of 4 or higher to activate the power at all *Your casting roll is als...

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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. Two decades of policy doesn't get reversed overnight. We can take a littl...

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Riftmaker wrote:Do you use the shooting skill to use things like the blast power of a burster shooting fire at someone?

No, it's just part of the casting roll, so either Spellcasting or Psionics.

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Good work! I have some ideas I'll be posting to this thread later myself. =)

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Glistam wrote:I think the "no conversion" policy needs a revision too, while they're at it.

That's needed a revision for decades.

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If folks have mechanical questions or creations for Savage Rifts, where should they put them on the PMB? The Rifts section? Other Games? Some new, as-yet-uncreated Savage Rifts board? There is a main thread for the Player's Guide in the Rifts section currently, and there are the Pinnacle forums as ...

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I have found one mechanic that I want to nit pick on Robot Armor Combat. When making a H2H attack with a Robot Vehicle the pilot uses the lower of his Piloting or Fighting skill to attack, and can't use their edges in Robot Combat either. In PB Rifts, the combat training in Power Armor and Robot Ve...

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Umm am i missing something or are all the body armors not MDC? Their have "armor+##" but unlike glitterboys and robot vehicles do not mention MDC. This is even for none glitterboy power armors. Is this addressed some place? It's part of the design philosophy of Savage Rifts. The designers...

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I have a friend who uses the houserule that non-combat uses of powers have durations in minutes instead of rounds, but the power immediately drops if you enter combat. It basically represents your ability to "hold" a power longer if you have more concentration, but having your life immine...

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It's not really the combat situations that concern me, though - in fact, that's part of the problem, and why I said I can feel the wargame roots of the system. It seems the powers are balanced entirely around combat situations, but it's more the creative non-combat/utility uses of powers that conce...

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One major thing that jumped out at me, and is confirmed now that I've looked at Savage Rifts, is the durations of powers. A Ley Line Walker only starts with 15 PPE, which is good for about a minute and a half of invisibility (or most other spells that have a duration beyond instant). That's more th...

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That is the Savage Worlds system you just described. Campaign? No. Never works. One shots? Small series of 2-3 sessions? Perfectly fine. Good for convention play too. That would be a very unusual statement for my players to hear, given that we just came off a year-long Savage Worlds campaign, which...

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It looks like for backers the first PDF is released but the initial apocalypse of people trying to grab it is kicking the pinacle web page in the jimmy at the moment. But looks like this is a clear indication they are on track for june/july release of all the .pdfs which is nice to see. I even star...

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Got my copy finally. First impressions: It looks good! I'll have more of substance to say once I'm home from work and get a chance to really dig in.

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For anyone who might have missed the announcement or not checked their email yet, the Tomorrow Legion Player's Guide for Savage Rifts is now officially out to Kickstarter backers! The Pinnacle website is under some serious strain today, so you might have to wait a while to grab your pdf, but I final...

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The Blues Brothers pretty much summed it up for me: "I hate Illinois Nazis."

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Why not a combination of electromagnetic repulsion, minor amounts of vectored thrust, and the ionocraft effect? I mean, it's not practical with modern technology because of materials limitations and power needs, but both of those are solved problems on Rifts Earth.

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Mack wrote:Even the original Dead Boy body armor (RMB p193) is capable of protecting the wearer from space.

You know, I completely forgot that Coalition body armor was called out as specifically being vacuum-safe. XD

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They'd still know the Moon exists though, but it's mostly the surviving while there thing. Breathe Without Air might help but I think you'd need some of those Three Galaxies spells to survive vacuum even with BWA. That's a problem, yeah. But even if you could get to the moon, the Lunar colony at Ma...

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How are these guys not messengers between the Mutants in Orbit settings and Rifts Earth? Second paragraph of the ability: "as long as he has a good idea of where he's going." No one on Rifts Earth knows the orbital colonies even exist, let alone where they are in orbit. If someone told a ...

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