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There are way too many variables to properly call this one. Basically I think it goes like this: In a fair and balanced game the win goes to the Robot but the T-man has much more room for Munchkinism. If we really tried, making a T-man capable of killing the bot fairly easily wouldn't be a challeng...

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I'd also give it to the Skull Smasher because it has more MDC and can reliably do more damage for a long period of time. Sure the invulnerability tattoo at 10th gives you 750 MDC, and the lightning bolt tattoo is doing 7d6 at 10th level for 10 minutes. But 7d6 a pop against 990 MDC is nothing, so t...

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I'd also give it to the Skull Smasher because it has more MDC and can reliably do more damage for a long period of time. Sure the invulnerability tattoo at 10th gives you 750 MDC, and the lightning bolt tattoo is doing 7d6 at 10th level for 10 minutes. But 7d6 a pop against 990 MDC is nothing, so t...

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I'd also give it to the Skull Smasher because it has more MDC and can reliably do more damage for a long period of time. Sure the invulnerability tattoo at 10th gives you 750 MDC, and the lightning bolt tattoo is doing 7d6 at 10th level for 10 minutes. But 7d6 a pop against 990 MDC is nothing, so th...

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Rolling Bear wrote:I would say yes. The way I read alter aura is that if you are evil you can change it to be scrupulus or good and vice versa. Or if you are weak you will seem strong. I don't think if you are vampire you can be change it to un-vampire.

^What he said.

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It would be fun to have Kevin himself actually answer one of these post sometime and tell us what he thinks and wants with all the conflicting things he writes... Why? Are you THAT unimaginative that you need everything spelled out in order for you to make a simple adventure? Use your imagination, ...

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It would be fun to have Kevin himself actually answer one of these post sometime and tell us what he thinks and wants with all the conflicting things he writes... Why? Are you THAT unimaginative that you need everything spelled out in order for you to make a simple adventure? Use your imagination, ...

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It would be fun to have Kevin himself actually answer one of these post sometime and tell us what he thinks and wants with all the conflicting things he writes... Why? Are you THAT unimaginative that you need everything spelled out in order for you to make a simple adventure? Use your imagination, ...

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I actually have a Rifts playlist on my iPod believe it or not, it mostly consists of Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, and Nirvana. I grew up playing Rifts in the early 90's which was the hey day for grunge, so my friends and I would just play (on tape) all the popular grunge stuff ...

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I've GM'd Rifts (and other games) and I wouldn't allow two characters just for the fact that other PC's would then want two characters then it'd just get out of hand. I also agree that two characters in the hands of a munchkin can be game breaking and not fun for the other players or the GM. So for ...

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My GM and I we're discussing this during our game last night. We just altered paired weapons to allow the choice of melee or guns. It should be the way the skill is done, there is no logical reason why anyone cant learn PW:guns just the same as learning PW:melee. both require the same amount of ski...

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In the Federation of Magic? Play a Battle Magus. Then you get all the sharpshooting stuff and magic, too. And they suck at both You must be reading a different book... Nope. Their starting spells and PPE are pretty weak, even some of the good spells they do have use up a good amount of PPE. Also th...

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Balabanto wrote:In the Federation of Magic? Play a Battle Magus. Then you get all the sharpshooting stuff and magic, too.

And they suck at both

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So It seems the best class for guns is a toss up between the gun fighter and gun slinger. I'm leaning towards the gun fighter due to his modify and repair ability. only thing is i can not find a decent rcc with high pp. highest i have found is 4d6. Please note things like god lings, demi gods and s...

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If you want to get a super cheesy RCC for a Gunfighter check out the Octo men (?) out of the 2nd Atlantis book, they can use 4 guns simultaneously and their special guns do 1d4x10, that's 4d4x10 every melee attack I do hate when PB labels a race as an RCC. Use 4 at the same time maybe. Aim four at ...

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If you want to get a super cheesy RCC for a Gunfighter check out the Octo men (?) out of the 2nd Atlantis book, they can use 4 guns simultaneously and their special guns do 1d4x10, that's 4d4x10 every melee attack

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Catyr from Phase World have a 4d6+6 P.P. which is the highest I've seen for a playable RCC in any book. Since they're part of Phase World though it's be a stretch RP wise to find one in New West. Quick Flex Alien out of Coalition Campaign I've found works the best with a Gunfighter since they get au...

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I think there's too many posts asking if there's too many OCC's in Rifts

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I want ARCHIE to come across some old TMNT cartoons and build a brain suit like Krang.

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I would say action = anything but an attack. Run, jump, move, tell a joke, floop?

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To each of your guys best guesses .. What would you guess .. would be about the "low" or "average" or "high" production capabilities of Archie an his compounds ? Feel free to use any canon .. or just guesses if you want. I am curious what people think about the lil toa...

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No contest. Atlantis wins, hands down, on a concerted effort. The only thing stopping Atlantis from whipping Archie's butt is the fact that they don't care. Atlantis is it in for the laughs. Atlantis can't conquer Earth or else every other Galactic power would step in rather than let Splynncryth do...

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well all of ARCHIE's minions are presumably androids, so they wouldn't register with psychics. Physics and mages alike have ways of blocking psionic tracking so it really wouldn't raise too much suspicion. Plus who or what would you be psychically tracking or using a crystal ball on? Splynncryth wo...

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well all of ARCHIE's minions are presumably androids, so they wouldn't register with psychics. Physics and mages alike have ways of blocking psionic tracking so it really wouldn't raise too much suspicion. Plus who or what would you be psychically tracking or using a crystal ball on? Splynncryth wou...

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I still think anonymity is ARCHIE's biggest ace in the hole. After infiltrating higher levels of command in Atlantis, providing misinformation to Splynncryth, taking control of slaves, and then perhaps orchestrating a CS/Free Quebec war on Atlantis I think it's perfectly feasible, though not easy I ...

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Again, if ARCHIE were able to infiltrate the higher levels of Atlantis (conservators, slavers, overlords) he could do it. Splyncryth has spies everywhere it says, if ARCHIE replaced those spies they could be feeding Splynncryth all sorts of misinformation with the goal getting rid of him. Remember S...

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Keir451's poll got me thinking about ARCHIE's capabilities. Now let me preface this by saying ARCHIE would probably be defeated by Atlantis in an all-out war. But if ARCHIE/Hagen had bots infiltrate Atlantis and worked on bringing Atlantis down could they do it? I know Atlantis relies heavily on sla...

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Dr Megaverse wrote:Title says it all. Lets limit this to resources that can be provided by Rifts Earth. What do you think?

Floopers. Lots and lots of Floopers.

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Chronicle wrote:With all the Hoopla going on in the local Solor system, is it possible that other colonies grew in the outer solor syste (beyond the inner belt between mars and jupiter)
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no. that's impossible.

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Warmaster D= KS

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Honestly, rules are pretty low on my ladder of importance. As gamers wiser than I have said, Players first, then snacks, then setting, then rules. This is something I adhere to as well! I personally love the Rifts setting and play knowing full well the system's limitations and drawbacks. The proble...

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New West, Spirit West, and Federation of Magic are also good books with nothing crazy overpowered in them. All in North America too so I'd definitely recommend getting those in addition to the other books mentioned here. I disagree. Spirit West and Federation of Magic are, in fact, crazy overpowere...

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New West, Spirit West, and Federation of Magic are also good books with nothing crazy overpowered in them. All in North America too so I'd definitely recommend getting those in addition to the other books mentioned here.

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Well the Nazca PA is more Robot Vehicle like in how the pilot operats it. The Pilot Sits in the chest in a seated position. Its more of a humanoid Vehicle than PA. Um, no. Nazca Power armor is well just that, power armor. Heavy robot vehicles, tanks, and most CS military vehicles are immune (Nazca ...

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You .. are the SUPREME General of all of the Tolkeen defensive forces .. How would YOU .. personally set up Tolkeen's defenses given SoT 6 tolkeen military unit stats to form any and all defensive formations of your desires. If I were the general of Tolkeen's army, I'd pretty much do the exact same...

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It'd come down to rolls I agree, but I'd still give a slight edge to the GB simply because it has superior MDC and does better damage. You're also forgetting the boom gun would deafen the Nazca Pa pilot for 1d4 minutes which means -8 to initiative and -3 to strike and parry. Each blast of the boom g...

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Keep in mind that KS stated that everything in SA and SA:2 was over-powered and to reduce MDC, damage, etc by 25%. The updated/nerfed versions of these power armors can be found in the GM's guide.

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Well the Gizmoteers are quite few in number and limited to a specific race (the Amaki) and region (South America). TW's aren't limited by either, though I agree Gizmoteers (along with pretty everything in SA:2) are pretty cool. I tend to think that while they're the race introduced with the orienta...

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Well the Gizmoteers are quite few in number and limited to a specific race (the Amaki) and region (South America). TW's aren't limited by either, though I agree Gizmoteers (along with pretty everything in SA:2) are pretty cool.

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+1 The only way Rifts is ever going to get the overhaul you're referring to is if/when Kevin passes on (God forbid) and whomever he leaves the rights to decides to sell them to a major gaming company. Again, I'm not wishing ill will on anyone just facing the reality of the situation. For me, I love...

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Couldn't care less. Vampires MORE dangerous than they already were? Who gives rat's behind about their tactics, they're stupid bloodsuckers. Deluded Vampire? Deluded author is more like it. If he's such an improved writer why don't we have IMPORTANT books like Lemuria or Australia 2 already. You kn...

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Just curious, in most books concerning Shemarrians, it is said that people are not sure what they are, most think of them as a nomadic amazon-like people who enjoys to stuff them so much with cyberware that they are almost full-conversion borgs. But with the Cyber Knight Zen-Combat, all cyberknight...

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TechnoGothic wrote:
I'm sure most of them are pot-heads in lazlo.

+1. I always pictured Lazlo like San Francisco, minus the gays.

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Vampires are vampires overall. Why does it need revision ? It doesn't. Kevin should just release the Vampire Sourcebook to include any new information or ideas. Now IF Kevin is actuall rewritting his Rifts Vampires 100% i could see rewritting the book. If he did, he should use the Rifter #49 Vampir...

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air/fire warlock

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I've read many mention of California, not just one paragraph. It is referenced a few times in multiple books. I even recall reading Kevin saying he left that area undeveloped on purpose for player groups to have an area they can develop their own version of, without having to rewrite because a book...

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I've read many mention of California, not just one paragraph. It is referenced a few times in multiple books. I even recall reading Kevin saying he left that area undeveloped on purpose for player groups to have an area they can develop their own version of, without having to rewrite because a book...

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So I live on the west coast and I'm a little sad at the gap of info there seems to be in cannon sources about CA and NV. Aside from some mentions of NA Preserves in CA, Bandito Arms in NV, and the possible location of Ixion in northern OR/southern Canada it seems pretty underdeveloped. I know canon...

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