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"Balance"? In Rifts.....Lulz. As written, casters pretty much suck until they're 6th level or so. There's zero reason to use Fireball at 1st level when any laser pistol will outdo it. Even Call Lightning can't compete with most of the NG and Wilk's rifles until 3rd level, and the CS stuff ...

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That is why there is another level one spell that is light based which is meant to blind, Blinding Flash. It costs 1 PPE to cast, and is the only spell that I am aware of that allows you to pump extra PPE into it to make people have a penalty to save vs. it. Wonder how many other spells would be go...

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, a pyramid lair would make quite the sweet piece of loot. If they manage to hold it somehow, obviously. And you have just created an ongoing series of issues for the characters to deal with. Everyone and their brother is going to want to take that away and use it themselves (or 'rent' it to cast a...

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, a pyramid lair would make quite the sweet piece of loot. If they manage to hold it somehow, obviously. And you have just created an ongoing series of issues for the characters to deal with. Everyone and their brother is going to want to take that away and use it themselves (or 'rent' it to cast a...

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I don't remember exactly where I saw it, just that it mentioned that Yellowstone became a supervolcano and wiped out everything. If that was the case, though, from what I've read about what would happen if Yellowstone went supervolcano IRL, it wouldn't just wipe out eastern MT and basically all of W...

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Does it *have* to be Canada? There are suitable places for what you want (if I'm remembering correctly) in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and the Spokane area of Washington. Ironically, the reason I wanted to be in Canada was to be closer to the Calgary Rift, so as to give an excuse for my Wolfen and Neu...

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Does it *have* to be Canada? There are suitable places for what you want (if I'm remembering correctly) in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and the Spokane area of Washington.

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Wow, not having Megaverse in Flames really hobbled me canonically. Poop. I was relying on Rifts Canada, where their range was more like 50 miles or so (p. 97). of there's anything the library for rifts taught me it's if a book hobbles your campaign you say "the stuff in that book hasn't happen...

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If you're just looking for things like "has frog eyes" or "hands like a turtle", there are old-school games like Gamma World that had tables for that kind of thing. A bit of Google-fu should bring up some tables that someone made to supplement what was in the book. EDIT: It's bee...

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Nekira said it best.

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If nothing else, it will help you come up with ideas.

I don't know how buried it is, but if it's not too horrible I'd say it's worth digging out.

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The reason why I posted this topic was to bring light to the power of the spell Insect Swarm and discuss the effect it could have if deployed on a large scale. Mack pointed out an alternative interpretation of the spell range, which significantly weakens the spells effectiveness by making the area ...

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The only thing you can do about that is kill him. Which will destroy the armor. Nah, you just have to do the hard part, which is opening up said armor, robot, whatever, and "remove" the occupant. Which will probably require either a friend who's a computer hacking genius, a phase weapon, ...

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Nekira Sudacne wrote:as hilarious as that is, I think somewhere in their highly advanced technology base someone knows how to make insect fumigation.

Or flamethrowers.

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I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that the orbital community's response is "eh". Because really, from their perspective there's probably nothing special going on at the moment Before the Demon Invasion kicked off there were already at least one or two dozen relatively important empires...

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I've never had a player play one. Reading the mess that the class is now makes me glad I don't currently GM. I'd basically scrap the entire anti-tech focus of the class. Or make it a distinct sub-class, only available after the start of the CS-Tolk war. As it is, it's basically throwing out the idea...

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It's been a long time since I've GM'ed or played, but I from what I can remember the real problem wasn't SA1, it was SA2. Maybe I'm remembering wrong. I wasn't much interested in either, since I was more about the tech than the magic and psi. Mercenaries, Triax/NGR, CWC, these were the books I was m...

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This was also discussed in How do your Rifts PC's normally meet? a few months ago. As I stated my current favorite is to make the players come up with connections to one another and then work with me for a group purpose. This. It has the potential of making things a bit easier for the GM since they...

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Questions like this illustrate perfectly why I may use Palladium's settings, but their mechanics go directly in the bin. Same goes for D&D/Pathfinder. RPGs don't need hard and fast rules - the GM is God, & what they say goes. I like that the Palladium system is fast & loose. When someth...

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Questions like this illustrate perfectly why I may use Palladium's settings, but their mechanics go directly in the bin. Same goes for D&D/Pathfinder. Which system do you use for your game mechanics? I ask because I have only played a few other systems besides PB and they all have there problem...

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[Shifters are fantastic! Lord Magus are Great! More subtle options... tech-wizard or Stone masters. What do you mean about subtle in regards to stone masters? I had a lot of fun with a Temporal Warrior way back in the day. How does it play? Depends on the player and GM. If you get creative and your...

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I had a lot of fun with a Temporal Warrior way back in the day.

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Questions like this illustrate perfectly why I may use Palladium's settings, but their mechanics go directly in the bin. Same goes for D&D/Pathfinder.

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Most people want to be Captain America or Luke Skywalker, most get bored and don't know what to do with Darth Vader. Yuck. I can almost agree with Skywalker, just because it could be fun to play a naive turnip-farming clod that undergoes a lot of growth and development. But T.H.E. most boring thing...

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Evil as most would define it....no. Randomly slicing up farmers or burning villages to the ground isn't evil. It's more than a touch sociopathic, but out-of-control insanity isn't evil. And it isn't even fun after the first few minutes of getting to run around with no controls on you. It's like tryi...

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There is the Defender/J.A.P.E power armor from Juicer's Uprising [Assuming you can Ignore Northern Gun 2] Possibly an enterprising operator could make the main gun for individual use Please refresh my memory on why I'd need to ignore NG2 regarding this? I was recently thinking about a similar topic...

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I'm so glad I've never had a player want to be a CK.

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Dayton isn't the worst place to live in Ohio. That's more a condemnation of Cleveland, Youngstown, and Toledo than any kind of praise for Dayton though. Cleveland sets the bar *real* low. Even for Ohio, Cleveland sucks. I lived in Ohio for ten LLLLOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGG years. Ohio's state motto should ...

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I could have sworn it says somewhere that the Borg isn't necessarily dead when his MDC is depleted, there's like 24 hours or something during which time the brain can be recovered and put into a new body.

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If a juicer undergoes the process ... It kills him. Or renders him a vegetable, incapable of any action or communication. The drugs and potion have a terrible reaction when mixed. Roll up a new character and don't try to munchkin it up this time. I've seen too much bulldrek from munchkins and power...

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Made a character to strong, so DM killed them off so I could make something more balanced. "Punishments" are only dealt out when murderhoboing becomes a problem, otherwise. . . If a player can't take banter at the table then they are asked to leave. This. Except I'll even allow murderhobo...

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There are gaps. And interdimensional trade is a glaring one. Think about the game we're discussing, and then read that sentence again. 'Gaps' and 'inconsistencies' is a colossal understatement. PB basically throws logic in the bin when they get to writing. I'm not saying I disagree with you. Far fr...

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Hang around the right places anywhere. For any game or hobby. You'll find it. (Spoiler alert, this is one of the right places for this one game/hobby. One out of hundreds of thousands of games. Each one of those hundreds of thousands has this going on.) Yep. Ignore the greater point for the lesser....

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What's the point in getting a case of the ass about it? Here's the thing: once you put pencil to paper, it's your game. YOUR game. If you want to give Lazlo regular trade with the most munchkinylicious books yet printed, feel free to do so. If you want to ignore the repurcussions of that, go right a...

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It all depends upon your point of view and how you look at the robot vehicles and/or tanks. a) one crew of X people required to operate = one robot vehicle (regardless if X is 2 or 10 or anywhere between) 40 robot vehicles equals one platoon b) 40 people manning X number of robots = one platoon Per...

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Rimmer wrote:I would humbly suggest that it is technically impossible to play Rifts without house rules.

So very much this.

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As I mentioned earlier the AP rounds are deadly as hell. They are for their tank main guns but they do 30% of their damage to the main body with the remaining damage going to any reinforced crew compartment the target may have or if there is none there is a strong chance one of the crew just caught...

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John Ringo is pretty farm down on the Hardness scale of Sci-fiction, and while i love his bat-crap crazy insane ideas, he often slides into almost fan-fiction areas of possibility and probability. Except, as I mentioned, it's an actual weapon system. m That's one of the first results from Google. H...

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Instead of mounting the GAU-8 to an Abrams, how about shamelessly ripping off an idea from a novel and using a 120mm version of the Metal Storm weapon? (I don't remember which book it was in by John Ringo, but I know it was the series that takes place during the Posleen invasion of Earth. After the...

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Instead of mounting the GAU-8 to an Abrams, how about shamelessly ripping off an idea from a novel and using a 120mm version of the Metal Storm weapon? (I don't remember which book it was in by John Ringo, but I know it was the series that takes place during the Posleen invasion of Earth. After the ...

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I've never understood WHY they refit the M113. That thing was complete crap. A rolling crackerbox on treads that didn't have enough armor to deflect anything serious and too much armor to go fast, as well as it rolled if it hit a beer can. Would have been better off to refit BAFV's. A drunken moron...

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The cylinders would make awesome wounds against soft targets, too.

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Or do like modern explosive rounds, launched grenades, rockets, etc, and the warhead doesn't arm until it's traveled X distance. I think PB has done a massive disservice to large guns, specifically tanks and artillery. The cannon that the Abrams and Leopard mount (and similar guns on the Brit, Frog...

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you could use mini-missile warheads. but I would argue that the cannon-firing action could detonate the missiles due to acceleration forces. would probably have to redesign the warhead trigger mechanism, and GAW probably finds it easier to reproduce the old style cannon ammo than spend time and cre...

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So everybody gets randomly logged out on some occasion. And now i'm wondering has anyone ever actually said how we start up robots? Voice activation, key code, passwords, turn the key, turn multiple keys, start up by command center, animate it with tectonic entities and release it on its allies, pr...

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No. Use common sense, regardless of what the rules say. A toe popper has just enough explosive force to destroy a foot and mangle a lower leg. A Bouncing Betty, OTOH, jumps a few feet in the air and then explodes, enabling the fragments to have a better chance of 1) bypassing any possible ground clu...

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And here we have a perfect example of why even though I like a lot of Palladium's settings, their actual mechanics go right in the bin in favor of systems that both work and are at least somewhat realistic. Being hit by an explosive *should* be horribly damaging, if not lethal. I wouldn't bleed dama...

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Plasma missiles/grenades. Any plasma explosive with a blast radius means that the target(s) are standing in the middle of a plasma fireball, and the damage cooks the target uniformly. Meaning that if an armor takes a hit, its not just the main body that gets burnt. its everything. AP missiles of a ...

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Depends on the GM, but I've had success using temporal magic to phase thru the armor and into the pilot's compartment, then shooting the pilot in the head. This obviously won't work against power armor, since there's not enough room for another person. But against robots, APC's, etc, it works unless...

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I think a lot depends on what aspects of the setting you're concentrating on. Or maybe a better way to say that would be the feel you're trying for. I've been giving this same topic some thought lately. So far I have a few songs and artists in mind. Anti-You by Blue Stahli Monody by The Fat Rats Fad...

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