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this could easily provide a model for how larsen's food service works. just take out the cost factor, but do allow of extra pay/bribes by soldiers for something special. also allow for soldiers/customers that hunt/farm/gather to provide suplimentary food stores.... "that bear that Joe killed la...

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LOVE IT! I am thinking a player team might want to sponsor a food cart as part of their operations.

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How would one handle it for OCC's that don't list additional skills gained from leveling?

for example: most of the N & SS OCC's gain a few secondary skills from leveling but most of them do not gain Scholastic or OCC Related skills as a result of going up in level.

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I have one of the original heros unlimited books.... 1st edition. the description for shape shifting indicates imitate voices as being +15% but it does not describe bonuses to disguise or impersonation skills which I would think it would give because well you could copy all of their features exactly...

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[Awesome!! Gotta figure on how to plump it up with enough new material as well, but I have the basic and essential categories dowm already, plus some new categories for the itinerant food vendor. If I were in a mercenary company or group, I would love it if a few food trucks followed us around. var...

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I'd love to see this treatment given to a 'Food truck' or 'Food cart'. Many of the same parts of this one could be re-used but you could get alot of verity out of a Food truck I SECOND THIS! FOOD TRUCKS ROCK! and they would fit in perfect with rifts. "there you are battling a fury beatle and f...

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I can think of lots of other business that fit nicely into rifts that deserve tables. small roadside inns and diners, alpine lodges / ski areas, resturaunts.... heck we can build whole towns.

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the thing is, archery skill and hth should stack....
including attacks per melee like HTH and the mecha skills in Robotech stack.

check out Lars Anderson on Youtube....and you will understand what I mean.

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there are rules for Mutant Animals in a game called After The Bomb, most of them are repeated in Heros Unlimited. Rifts Lone Star has lots of animals... but I did not specifically see reindeer.

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On Rifts Earth, the destruction of the previous infrastructure has been offset by the smaller population, but also by the introduction of alien technologies(or stress-pressurized advanced human ones) and, perhaps more tellingly, magic...When you can accelerate the growth of filtering vegetation for...

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In an age where there are creatures and beings who would FORCIBLY object to a community simply dumping their waste down the local creek(or maybe the next community downstream will forcibly object), having a good local water treatment facility(if only to reclaim and sanitize potential fertilizer) ca...

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I'd imagine similar set ups to be common in the Palladium Fantasy World, and it's possible that the Atlanteans may favor the tradition as well, promoting more modern versions of it across the megaverse. With the collapse of order and technology after the Coming of the Rifts, I figured it would also...

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this is awesome! I would also go for private bathing....where it is one or two people being bathed.... not unlike James Bond and Tenacca in "You Only Live Twice".

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for me nat 20's don't necessarily kill....but they would do exactly what a player wanted to do with their attack.
nat 20's could knock some one out you know.

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being a wood worker and carpenter in R/L I would have to agree with the idea that some skill is needed. having a knife in your hand untrained is a good way to cut yourself. it is possible to practice and read books.... that would be a secondary skill in at least whittling.

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Years ago we had a guy who played a Gray Seer who was a devout pacifist and had taken a vow to never hurt a living thing. during fights he would use his powers only for healing and defense and would only parry and dodge. Durring one battle while we were sneaking into the bad guys main base, one of ...

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there are also the bio-system cybernetics...specifically using your DNA to clone a new arm. since it is your DNA, I would think there to be no effect upon your powers.

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When I read her writings I pretend I'm tucked all cozy and snug in my bed, with my footy jammies on. I hear her coming down the hall, she's bringing me some milk and cookies and is going to read to me before I go to sleep. The imaginary Erin Tarn is being portrayed by Happy Day's Marion Ross and my...

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I like it. an excavator bucket side car would be cool. a small blade or bucket for bulldozing like a small skidsteer would be cool as well.

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I would suspect there are very few cosmic knights on earth. I spoke of the most powerful human at level one on earth....

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I have been looking through the books I own, and I am trying to determine the most powerful human character AT FIRST LEVEL that can be put together. the best I can find so far would be using the following: Rifts: 1. Adventurer Class (scientist, operator, scholar, vagabond, wilderness scout) 2. Psion...

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I have not seen the book as of yet, but I know for a fact that it has to be one of the most valuable ever...to me at least. I LOVE SALVAGE. I am one of the techno guys that loves selling salvage.

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yup not 'just cheese cake" lots of cool stuff but lots of sexy pictures too.... a nerd's dream lol

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LOL welcome to palladium. this is precisely why I did not participate in this kickstarter. I was waiting to get my northern gun books that I payed for LAST YEAR. I love palladium, but I want promises kept before I commit more cash to new things.

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from my perspective: in the show we have several examples of other races learning other race's mecha. Myria Sterling piloted Valkyries, Zor Prime piloted Hovertanks, Rick hunter piloted a Zentraedi battlepod. I don't see why a non invid cant learn to pilot one of their craft. I say this especially b...

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given the size of minimissles, it would be really easy to mount a box of 6-7 mini's actually. or a larger one of up to 19. human minimissiles are about the same diameter as a Hydra Rocket.. and about half to a quarter of the length. example of a 19 tube Hydra pod on a ground vehicle.. m I had an op...

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all makes sense. with the kind of explosives and lasers the UEEF has available to them, they could clear a landing spot fairly quickly. a mater of hours perhaps.

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Jefffar wrote:I have used the LACV-60 and the M2200 chassis for a few non-official variants in my games. In particular both have seen the role of armoured car/light tank, indirect fire support, tank (or rather mecha) hunter and air defense.

you have lots of cool things in your games my friend.

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my self i've generally taken the simplest option.. the stats are the same more or less, but the ship missiles tend to be bigger because they've been made with designs that are far more robust.. they require less maintenance and special storage, something you' want when you have a bunch of them sitt...

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this survey is basied. Claudia Grant and Lisa Hays should have been included.

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having observed the rifts farie in action:

can they have an OCC as opposed to their miniscule knowledge of magic and skills they normally come with?

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if I were to GM, I would allow it. just as easy though is to take a martial arts class that gives you either two martial arts or extra abilities.

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I love them personaly. I dont have a 'favorite' ability myself but if I had to pick just ONE, I would pick the ability to alter dice rolls. I have had a few used in my games, and have yet to have one be disruptive, fun yes, disruptive no. Awesome. I really tried to make their abilities fun without ...

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Just rolled up an ATAC and they get MECT in ALL Ground Veritechs and then taking the Battloid Pilot MOS I got MECT Battloid (ALL). That's what I call a mecha specialist, not what was in TSC. the ASC OCC's rules as written can take TWO MOS's without even rolling for such on the special aptitude tabl...

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I like the secondary skill list pretty much as is. A few of the restrictions seem abit over the top. prowl is something that any one any where should be able to learn. If I were to GM I would allow other skills to be taken as secondary skills provided that the player could justify the skill through ...

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so my list: 1. change the game: In a robotech game I was in, a player wanted to change nearly every mecha in the game "for balance". thing is the GM and most of the rest of us just wanted to go with playing the book as written.... have also met thouse that want to change nearly every rule ...

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Well how about replacing the F-14 with the F-18? Or replacing the A-10, AV-8B, F-16, F-18, F-117 and some F-15s with the F-35? the f-18 is a single seat fighter so in some regards I think they took a step back....because the loss of the EWO's and a second set of eyes is not necessarily the best thi...

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looking just at the show, and not the OSM, the Valkyrie to alpha change would seem to be the result of a similar doctrinal shift. in the show, the Alpha has a number of advantages over the VF-1. like all modes VTOL, greater agility in all modes, integral anti-mecha weaponry, smaller size, easier to...

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13eowulf wrote:I would also suggest that modesty makes a great GM, the really great GMs dont brag about how great their games are.

(they have players for that )

Great GMs also dont seek greatness, no, they have Greatness thrust upon them.

HUNTMASTER WULF FOR PRESIDENT! .... of the GM's Guild.

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13eowulf wrote:
Little Snuzzles wrote:A great GM doesn't set players on fire.

I have to disagree with this one, what if they player is cold?

I mean give a player fire they are warm for a session, set fire to that player and they are warm for the rest of their life.

short as that life may be.....

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if the missiles are in protected cases etc that would keep them from exploding, then would they be retrievable and possibly usable in the future in the event of an aircraft being destroyed by missile fire?

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I love skill based games. so infiltration sounds fun. I try to taylor my character to the game and to fit with the group. I often create chars that are tech kind of guys as a result (a safe cracker would be up my alley). for some reason lots of folks pick mages or psionics....neither of which really...

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a Tirolian legionnaire, Rules as Written, cannot pick up additional mecha and MECT skills.. they are specifically proscribed in the OCC related skills entry, and have never been available from Secondary Skills. from my point of view a characters level increasing OCC related and secondary skills are...

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My thoughts are this: I think the piloting will be intuitive since a biroid pilot all ready knows how to pilot a hover vehicle and will have the thought controls from the biroid. Per the GM last night, the thought system is contained in the helmet which survived. So the character's existing skills s...

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Chris0013 wrote:this raises the question ..... The SDF-3 launched in 2022 so what were they using for 9 years?

They had a large number of zentraedi allied forces in their respective mecha, and the macros stuff which included a large number of vf-1R's (upgrades began in 2014)

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since the old RPG's 'stage 4' was what we see put inside a trooper mecha (what the old RPG gave the 'stage 2' slug's), the new RPG's take seems to be closer to the show's depiction. if there are physical changes, they are more like childhood.. the phenotype doesn't change, but the invid may grow la...

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Carmen takes the direct approach regarding annoying terrain? that explains why Char had to get a new.. well city center at the end of Todd yoho's dinoswamp game at origins04. ever see what 2 cases of Plasma grenades can do when rigged with a single fuse and dropped from a SAMAS on the enemy? (and t...

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i don't use the "stage" designation because that is an element that doesn't exist in the show or 2nd edition.. all invid look like this before they are put into their mecha, and they are effectively merged with their mecha.. a sort of blend between a cyborg and those bio-suits worn by the...

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Why? just kill the terrain In fact Carmen did just that in our demo game of tactics at Anime North. Took out a building then took my pods out too Carmen is plain Evil when it comes to his gaming. but that's ok.... I am one of the players that was a part of the team that beat him at the last open ho...

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I had actually been looking at the Dual Weapon WP recently, and it clearly states that it doesn't work with guns, melee weapons only. As for the Beta's shields, those are just part of the forearms, and allow you to use a parry roll to block shots and missiles, attacks that can normally only be dodg...

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