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The closest thing I can think to this are the occasional ley line storm which causes energy bolts that might destroy stuff passing through, but that's so rare I don't think it would stop much travel, people would just wait them out if they saw the signs. Unless of course the terrain was rough and yo...

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The option does exists for the Ley Line/Nexus exposure to cause them to mutate and the resulting product have magical properties (precedent WB7 pg40-1, Ley Line Mutations, you'll be looking at a custom mutation and not on the table, but...). Makes sense, why would it only apply to ocean life, after...

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I just figured maybe they were intended to start with all of the "Entropy spells"

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I don't know if we have any examples of supernatural endurance that are non-supernatural, although Machine People might come pretty close. some OCC in spirit west has SN endurance. But SN endurance is quite rare to pop up. totem warrior page 42 spirit warrior page 44 They are humans that make packs...

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I seem to recall in WB2 (Atlantis) it was originally presented as just being a living planet (similar to Wormwood perhaps?) in some unspecified dimension that the Splugorth presumably shared access to... but DB7p26 mentions "Eylor: One of the Splugorth dominated dimension s that is the source o...

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I forget where, but I remember a list of different types of Rifts you could encounter (and damage they deal). If a Rift opens on your location, you take damage Couldn't find this in RUE 194-197 (section Drew mentioned) Closest I can seem to find is in DB7 (Megaverse Builder) where pg 30's right col...

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Neither the Mercenaries book nor NG book 1 says what the internal power supply for this weapon has for endurance, cost or recharge or replacement. I simply say its good for firing 4 drums of ammo It's possible by "drum" the OP might have meant something like an internal non-detachable mag...

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I'm vaguely remembering there being some long-standing controversies people argue about and want to have Kev asked about, but only THAT there were some, I can't seem to remember what they were.

Maybe some stuff about missiles or PPE or class changing and "canon" ?

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Rifter 23 pg 20 can be severed at any time by mutual consent of both the Spell Breather and the Living magic, so if they do not both agree the bond cannot be severed, save by a Steal Living Magic spell If not for that last part, I wouldn't thought the middle part was just explaining how the first pa...

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Pg 18 of Rifter 23 talks about how Living Magics need 1 PPE per day to survive. This is probably intended to come from the Spell Breather but I can't actually see anything saying it couldn't come from other sources... Since all Living Magics appear to be spellcasters (they can all cast at least the ...

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Another thing.... Other than TtGD and Rifters 13 and 23, are there any referances in the published books about Living Magics. had to ponder about Rifter 13... is this a reference to page 31's "Living Numbers" ? It weirdly says "much like living spells" which makes me at first th...

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Mystic China pg 54 on the Hu Ching (Fox Spirit) "can travel virtually invisibly (to humans, anyway) and soundlessly" "Professional hunters (like the Heroes Unlimited special training character; the Hunter/Vigilante) will have a "feeling" if they are observed by a fox form fo...

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meh, they're strong enough, no harm in having them need to use stakes like everyone else

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Killer Cyborg wrote:I'd personally take that as meaning that the writer didn't understand the RUE rules, and Palladium's editors didn't catch the discrepancy.

more like RUE trend/tweak on % that's guided/unguided

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The note text was not in the Saving Throw text. Since I said limited my comments to the saving throw texts. That excluded anything outside those texts. capitalizing as you just did helps me to understand you mean that line at the top, as opposed to text which pertains to the topic of savings throws...

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In the case of the BFB though, even rolling high on PPE will result in an insufficient amount (cost is 40 PPE) for a baseline version AFAIK you can't mix TW activation energy. RUE 132 makes ISP subbing for PPE basic part of TW stuff unless a "trigger lock" is added (a lot of the devices i...

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I don't know if we have any examples of supernatural endurance that are non-supernatural, although Machine People might come pretty close.

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Psi-Warriors have "Replenish P.P.E.". This isn't described anywhere (and they only have 2D4 PPE - what good is this psionic?). The closest match might be "Restore PPE" from page 116 of Nightbane World Book One: Between the Shadows. It allows you to use ISP to restore PPE for oth...

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We could probably use some more interesting rules for shootin fdown volleys, I seem to recall something like if you deplete the MDC of one missile in a volley then there's a fixed % chance of destroying others, unless you also used a missile in which case it's a bit higher. %s are weird though: shou...

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Psi-Warriors have "Replenish P.P.E.". This isn't described anywhere (and they only have 2D4 PPE - what good is this psionic?). The closest match might be "Restore PPE" from page 116 of Nightbane World Book One: Between the Shadows. It allows you to use ISP to restore PPE for oth...

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The big counter is basically if you have a mini-missile launcher you can take down the volley and win the economics war.

Missile launchers are pretty bulky which is why that Naruni wrist-mounted micro-missile launcher in DB3 is pretty nice.

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Some TW devices explicitly allow it but I assumed they were outliers because they worked with spells that had psi equiv like TK

I recall in rMB for example you could ISP or cast telekinesis (couldn't load in raw PPE mind you) to recharge a TW-converted railgun but not laser pistol

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I think Cyber-Knights can fuel TW stuff with their PPE

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-- Even if they do select Literacy: Dragonese/Elf (which would almost certainly be "Literacy: Other"), they get no bonus to it (unlike their Literacy: American) Unless of course you're an elf cyber-knight who specifies American was Literacy : Other in which case you can get the higher Lit...

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RUE (2nd printing) page 138: same text as the RBoM. I'm seeing it on RUE 221, 138 is the BOM page I have the first printing, and it is in there. I am unsure if perhaps it was removed in future printings as Drewkitty mentions that a future printing lists it without that? RUE221's "only bonuses&...

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I can't remember what the rules are for if a rift closes while someone is halfway through it. Like if it actually damages/bisects or if there's some kind of safety like it will just teleport someone to one side or the other. Pantheons of the Megaverse, in Zurvan's entry, it states that "He clo...

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officially there are only Rcc and Occ where Rcc is defined as a race that is so dominated by a certain set of training (and racial abilities) that it overshadows everything else. OCC is where you get to pick a class template and if there are racial items linked to it, they are not the end all of th...

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I know I saw it as a blurb in RMB and I think in RUE somewhere in character creation, where it says something to the effect "all characters get 1 or 2 "native languages" That'd be interesting to see, because it's not something I remember seeing anywhere in Rifts, and in other Palladi...

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RCB1r, page 56. Monster M.D.C. TM Conversions, 2nd paragraph under that heading. 2d6 MDC are healed per day unless the creature has a specified rate for bio-regeneration or similar. first introduced on pg 22 of the original unrevised version I think The way it says "restored the same way as a ...

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I may be misremembering, but Drewkitty, is also the person who has long insisted that PRC is a thing, (Psychic Racial Class) and that there is clearly no way to change to or from that class, even though that's not explicitly stated anywhere. whatever we think about changing, I'm sure I've seen the ...

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I was looking at how Native Language was added as an OCC to most of the OCCs in RUE and then noticed it wasn't added to some of them, which posits the idea that perhaps you might actually need to select a native language as a skill. (minor note: anyone ever notice the contrast between "Native L...

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To quote the Rifts Conversion Book 1r page 7 "These other worlds are not an official part of the Rifts game setting and are stand-alone games that all use the same basic set of RPG rules." To paraphrase that: they are a part of the rifts game, they are all different games that use the sam...

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More importantly, if a closing rift chopped Angie in half, would it really matter? It's a god. Who's Angie? Also I think it's a question of "how much damage does being chopped in half represent?" not even crunch-crock GURPS actually has rules for chopping people in half at the torso and i...

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RCB1r, page 56. Monster M.D.C. TM Conversions, 2nd paragraph under that heading. 2d6 MDC are healed per day unless the creature has a specified rate for bio-regeneration or similar. first introduced on pg 22 of the original unrevised version I think The way it says "restored the same way as a ...

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The first time I encountered the idea of a rift was in the novel Magican by Robert E. Feist. The way he had it, pardon 30 year old memory, was that you were on one side of a gray disc and then you were on the other. Unless you had the magic to stop in the 'rift space'. Which was a 'no-place'/non-di...

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No where in the (RMB-era) Rules does it state a character needs to have a named skill (either from class or selected) for their Native Language. In point of fact the Language skill itself is reserved for a character's NON-NATIVE TONGUE, and that's in the description itself. The exact same text is p...

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drewkitty ~..~ wrote:One of the published NPCs it is a fairy queen that bestowed the powers.

I want to learn more about her

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basically the common system is whatever can coalesce between them without contradiction or conflict

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No Wilks Laser Blades. (*rolleyes* too many stupid arguments with he ignorant.) regarding the whole 'doubles back on itself' problem, what would you think about a sort of melee weapon that feeds back in on itself to terminate the laser but keeps a stream between two physical points? like if you loo...

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Orin J. wrote:you don't really get to stand "halfway through a rift", you're either inside the rift or you're not.

even if a rift is like a 10ft long tunnel a 20ft long dragon might be out at both ends and linger

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I know of no embargo against opposing elements though the NPCs you see as dual warlocks tend not to be.

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Do you think a superhero with Multiple Lives would release their PPE when the power is triggered?

Or should it only be the final 'true death' so to speak?

Same Q about any other reincarnation-type abilities, though the only which comes to mind is Enlightened Immortals from Mystic China.

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I need to recheck dimension builder, might've been something there.

I seem to recall something like when Tarn was halfway through her portal it glitched and instead of closing redirected

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I can't remember what the rules are for if a rift closes while someone is halfway through it. Like if it actually damages/bisects or if there's some kind of safety like it will just teleport someone to one side or the other.

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We changed it so the former OCC skills/abilities were frozen I like the idea of the memories at least being clouded, like maybe some skill penalties. You are after all getting remade inside a life force vat. and the Mask would remain alive on MDC/PPE-rich worlds or would have to feed off of the hos...

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You can choose your character's race before you choose their class. Is race selection even a part of the usual process? I think you were assumed human in RMB unless you took an RCC. You can take actions in combat that don't require rolling a d20. I think you can already do that, like spending an ac...

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all this talk about bastions makes me recall that Bast/Simba in the South America sourcebook are originally African gods as such they might decide to establish some cat colonies back on the home continent Simba in particular I could see settling southern Africa with Bast as his consort, since she ca...

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Yes, each of the PB games uses the same basic game system. The game mechanics. Because of this characters, equipment and rules can be easily imported between the games by individual GMs. But they are all their own individual ' games .' As such, what is canon in one PB game is not canon in another P...

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another language I could see being important in Atlantis would be Demongogian since they deal with so many demons

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Rifts has no Rules for a char to Change their class. All the current *genralized" canon changing class Rules are a part of the PF RPG 2nd ed Game. The published rules are in the PF2 world nook, "The High Seas". And optional text posted in the "Cutting room Floor" section in...

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