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keir451

i have no doubt that whatever weird events are going on over the Rockies would have an effect on the weather and ash.. i'm just doubtful that we need to hold it up as "how we survived the ash". especially since we don't actually know what is going on in that region.. even in RUE, the bit ...

keir451

not meaning to sound antagonisitic.. if i do it is probably because i've run into a lot of people who do knock using actual research, and that tends to leave certain unthinking responses.. so sorry. but what i meant was that resorting to magical explanations for mundane problems and issues (aka &qu...

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and the like would be largely confined to the surrounding territory.. so in yellowstone's case, that would be southern idaho, wyoming, and southern montana. As well as Colorado according to this: m This shows the Mesa ashfall going right across Colorado and Denver. As for the new "Barrier Peak...

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not a lot of Volcano's near chicago-detroit area though. which is where all the current books are set. while Ash from yellowstone and the rest would spread all over, things like volcanic glass fibers , solidified lava drops , Obsidian pebbles , peridot gems , Volcanic Bombs and the like would be la...

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I’m just wondering what specifically American elements have survived and continued to survive into the present day on Rifts Earth? By that I mean people or groups of people who’ve survived into the present day of Rifts Earth and who still consider themselves to be American. From what I’ve seen, thi...

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I'm originally from New England so everything there is gone, I also lived in Denver and up by the ski resorts in the mountains along the I-70 corridor. I also found out the Buffalo mountain in Silverthorne, Colorado is also a volcano (currently dormant) so in addition to Yellowstone, Buffalo would o...

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Per your mention of ash combining with snow, remember that this is happening during the winter, so Chicago is getting snowfall mixed with ash which would be gumming up the works for just about every vehicle and robot NEMA has. So all that and a demon invasion, too? Now consider places more directly ...

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The real reason(s) GB's still exist are; 1) Kevin created them, 2) WE, the fans, like them so we WANT them to still exist, therefore WE made it happen.

keir451

I'm curious as to how to figure Wolfen names. Some of the names I've come across seem to imply an ancient Roman Empire feel (see some of the names in the Wolfen Empire sourcebook) other times the names are more consonant based (like Arrl Xzynn), which kind of makes sense from the way their language ...

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Alcohol and cigarettes don't give you SDC bonuses and increase your PE and healing, all things which would make babies safer. Juicer mommies are best mommies. We have to ask ourselves what kind of chemicals and drugs make up the juicer cocktail, things like steroids, drugs to reduce pain, artificia...

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So... The question came up at last night's game of whether a crazy was capable of A) ovulation, and B) carrying a child to term. As best we can figure, the massive changes to their physique and metabolism shouldn't preclude either one, and if anything the fact that it is Mind Over Matter control of...

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The Automaton Wars took place 1000 years ago and were waged solely within the Human Alliance in the days before the founding of the CCW. They were a defensive reaction to the emergence of Network: a planet-wide data server on Terra Prime that became self-aware, and copied itself to all the other pl...

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The Automaton Wars took place 1000 years ago and were waged solely within the Human Alliance in the days before the founding of the CCW. They were a defensive reaction to the emergence of Network: a planet-wide data server on Terra Prime that became self-aware, and copied itself to all the other pl...

keir451

I could have sworn I recalled a passage in one of the Three Galaxies books regarding a fight with A.I. ages ago and that was the reason that there are no A.I.s inside the 3G's (outside of the Machine People). Can't currently find it so a little help, please? If I'm wrong that's OK, too, but if some ...

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For a moment while reading the OP's intro i though he was going to suggest a "what if Robotech become Chaos Earth" kind of scenario.... Nah, I've thought that one through to death as well as read other story ideas based around it. Currently my thoughts are; A Wolfen Quatoria is tracking a...

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[ Though that makes me think, the ship they find is a recent wreck, the Quatoria are there tracking an escaped convict w/shape shifting/disguise abilities and s/he/it are hiding among the NEMA personnel and the refugees that were rifted with them. Or the fugitive is hiding IN one of the PCs(the ali...

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taalismn wrote:"Oh god...they're dancing to 'Thriller'. Break out the disintegrators...we really don't need that ship intact."

"At least they're not playing 'Achy Breaky Heart'."

keir451

taalismn wrote:Of course, they could be an unexpected variant on zombies...
Zombies: (start dancing when they catch sight of the PCs) "This is the song that never ends-"(or some other ear-worm)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

keir451

And how long, in order to give the series that edgy personal and sexual tension, before characters in the group start infighting with each other, or sleeping with each other? Infighting? Never happens. Sleeping w/ each other? Often. One of the PCs is almost always female and invariably draws the at...

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And how long, in order to give the series that edgy personal and sexual tension, before characters in the group start infighting with each other, or sleeping with each other? Infighting? Never happens. Sleeping w/ each other? Often. One of the PCs is almost always female and invariably draws the at...

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[ Ugh, Zombies. A little over played IMO, but for others a usable tactic. Maybe the ships are on a lost low tech world and the ships or wrecks are "Holy Temples". The characters would be committing a crime in their salvage attempts as the inhabitants view it as an act of desecration. Mayb...

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[ Yeah, but that 770 MDC and the 3d6x10 MD of the Boom Gun put paid to just about any Invid unit. Depends how much the Regis wants to snuff out the Resistance, and how many of her kids she's willing to lose in a zerg rush. Quantity has a quality all its own. Abso-smurfly correct! That's why the REF...

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Give the Southern Cross NEMA gear and the fight against the Robotech Masters becomes more interesting. Ruling out 'nuke'em from orbit!', big robot-wise, NEMA still gets shellacked because Bioroids would run circles around them, Given enough warning and proper positioning, though, the Glitterboys ca...

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[q Interesting. Maybe you can salvage enough parts to get the freighter back into operation, or perhaps repair the assault shuttle enough to get back to major shipping lanes if you don't already have a ship of your own. If you do have a ship then, SCORE!!! Tho' you hopefully have way to deal with t...

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Now, try this randomly-rolled one: a) Location: Surface, Habitable Planet b) Numbers: 4 ships c) Type/Size: Small Civilian Freighter, Military Assault Shuttle, 2x Civilian Shuttles d) Age: Recent; 100 years ago e) Origin: Freighter: Common Species Assault Shuttle: Common Species Civilian Shuttle1: ...

keir451

Also, I never said anything about nanotech. I deliberately avoided the notion of a self-repairing GB, and instead focused on making the thing most likely to get damaged and least likely to be repairable (the Chromium armor) easier to repair. Without needing seemingly serendipitous stockpiles of rep...

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Scavenged parts. I recently ran a GB pilot (non-FQ) wherein my GM described her encounter with a group of NEMA soldiers, her GB had a power plant from a Silver Eagle, servomotors from a GunBuster or other NEMA era robot or PA unit. The cameras had been replaced with poorer resolution ones, the "...

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Give the Southern Cross NEMA gear and the fight against the Robotech Masters becomes more interesting. Ruling out 'nuke'em from orbit!', big robot-wise, NEMA still gets shellacked because Bioroids would run circles around them, Given enough warning and proper positioning, though, the Glitterboys ca...

keir451

And here I was straining my poor, overused brain in trying to convert the old RT Ghost Ship adventure.

You do realize that I'm TOTALLY cribbing this? (Rhetorical question, that why you posted it IN THE FIRST PLACE!!)

keir451

Though NEMA gear vs. Zentraedi gear is kind of a "No contest" in the NEMA crews' favor as the NEMA gear can generally out tank any Zent unit one on one and possibly even two or three on one (depending on all the variables). It's the whole 'space supremacy with big hinking space guns' that...

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The good thing is that NEMA equipment isn't that much of a threat when compared to stuff like Naruni Wave 2 gear or some of the nastier PA or robot units in the 3G's. So equipment wise they'll fit right in. The only issue might be if I were to try and use the actual Zent cruiser from the adventure a...

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"We're hopefully in the drunk tank and not in the kennel. The former, they'll roll us out in the morning, the latter, if we're not chipped and not claimed, they'll put us to sleep." "Given the smell coming from the whatever it is in the next cell over, we may not be making it through...

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[ NEMA Soldier: " Sir, I think we've just been fingerprinted." NEAM Officer: "Come again, soldier?" Soldier: "I'm serious, sir. I used to be Chicago PD before everything went to hell in a hand basket, and this whole routine reminds me of booking a perp', except from the per...

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[ Interesting take on it. I can see characters such as the Para- Arcane maybe trying to be the voice of reason and the Monster Hunters going crazy, maybe even the NEMA troops, too. Wolfen Quatoria ala Judge Dredd style: "I AM THE LAW!!!" opens fire on poor misplaced Chaos Earth people. Ge...

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Blue zones are just chaos earth terminology for leylines. Ley lines run several hundred feet to a mile wide, and lacking any term for them, they named them after the faint blue glow present. True. But to the Chaos Mage it is, perhaps, as much psychological as it is thaumaturgical. The Blue Zones on...

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First pass ideas/imho: Gutshot reaction and they open fire on some innocent/unassociated d-bees because of their appearance. The authorities jump on them and lock them up for disturbing the peace(or at least being blatant about it) and maybe confiscate their equipment. Provided they don't actually ...

keir451

So, I was thinking about ways to adapt old Robotech modules (like Ghost Ship) to the three Galaxies and had a random thought about "What if the PC's aren't FROM the Three Galaxies or RT Earth or Rifts Earth? What if they're from Chaos Earth instead?" How well would some of the OCCs adapt? ...

keir451

Still try to do it, but maybe scale it back to what they tried to do this year. Also, there were several mix ups, which maybe caused most of the problems. So more organization. Also get an official list of people who will play. Because of mixed ups and stuff, we didn't have as many people who could...

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For me my favorite memory(ies) were the, very, ad hoc RT game that I helped get off the ground Thursday night. I ACTUALLY laughed so hard I was crying!!!! My next (but not least) favorite memory was the Chaos Earth game I played in on Sunday, I truly enjoyed playing the young Chaos wizard and ( for ...

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I'm booked at the Hampton. But will wander plenty.

keir451

I could've sworn there was a version of Free Quebec that described the Gb's power plant as a "micro-fusion plant", but even from the days of the old RMB I played the power sources as fusion. The micro fusion plant from p.133 of Merc Ops just adds to what I do already.

keir451

actually since Washington DC was above water enough for the Republican's to inhabit its subway and tunnel system until PA100ish, it would be avilable. that said, i suspect that the Library of Congress's collection was what the Republican's gifted the early CS in their nation builder ploy, the core ...

keir451

Now imagine if some group of adventurers discovered the Library of Congress. Yes, it is technically under water, and thus not likely to have survived intact. But, imagine for a moment if it did survive!! You are assuming that the Library wasn't moved. I wouldn't be surprised if at least a backup ve...

keir451

Now imagine if some group of adventurers discovered the Library of Congress. Yes, it is technically under water, and thus not likely to have survived intact. But, imagine for a moment if it did survive!!

keir451

I could really use some help in finding a decent set of fillable character sheets or a character generator program for my OH game. Any help or direction will be welcomed. Feel free to PM me.

keir451

I'm thinking of running my own Robotech variant of the "Return of the Masters" supplement from ages gone by. Certainly won't be your momma's Robotech! Won't mind getting in on that game either. Love that book! I'll be running two variants; In one, the players will be UEEF/REF personnel, i...

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@ Stone Gargoyle; Yeah, but I wasn't really into the Atorians as much when it was first put out there, but now I'm more interested, so it matters bit more that the book hasn't been published yet. Reagren Wright; Funny that, I will be the OH this coming year and I just might see if I can talk NMI int...

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I'm curious as to what other Rifters might have more information on the Atorian besides #2 & #14.

keir451

I don't suppose anyone has actually seen this or knows of it besides the Ritter #14 mention back in 2001?

keir451

I'm thinking of running my own Robotech variant of the "Return of the Masters" supplement from ages gone by.

Certainly won't be your momma's Robotech!

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