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Pax Concord

You know, I didn't notice that he said that. I just assumed that he meant the RRG. Hey, can someone ask Kevin which one he meant, RRG or robotechresearch.com? It seems reasonable to me to assume that he meant what he said (robotechresearch.com). So, that site is really off-limits to link to, even t...

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I don't really get what the beef is with the instrumecha. Music plays a big part in the Robotech show Yes, but Lancer's Rockers used music in a way altogether alien to Robotech : as an actual weapon. Minmay's singing was Psychological Warfare; The Cosmic Harp was used to render docile clones that h...

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Didn't the original Space Cruiser Yamato show come out before Macross? The "ships in space" could be a reference/in-joke to that show.

Pax Concord

I don't really get what the beef is with the instrumecha. Music plays a big part in the Robotech show; Lancer's Rockers brought it to the RPG. Okay, it was a bit silly, but not any worse than, well, giant transforming robots piloted by cross dressers and alien half-breeds. The point was to include m...

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Well, this thread has inspired me. I'm thinking that I'll upgrade from my dubbed-off-scife-network, missing several episodes, recorded in EP-mode VHS tapes of the Robotech Masters, for a new set of DVDs. It's time.

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There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread. My two cents: 1. I have to admit that I never used the rules for driving backwards at over 60 mph from the original game. We probably don't need those rules any more. 2. Cyclones were too powerful in relation to the other mecha. 3. I would like som...

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I just saw it too. My first reaction was: was does every woman in the movie have ENORMOUS breasts?? I mean, seriously, all of a sudden Marlene/Ariel is a triple D-cup or something. It was really bizarre. I'm afraid that my overall reaction was pretty negative. The music, at least, was better for the...

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There are plenty of dead languages known to archaeologists which they can read and write, but have no idea how to speak. Just saying that a non-verbalized techno-can is hardly without precedant in the world.

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A Zentraedi female officer with powered armor should be able to hold her own without any changes. Those suckers are maneuverable!

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Our old group from high school was called "Canis Squad." Why? I have no idea; the GM named us.

Pax Concord

On the other hand they could forget about licensing stuff and focus on what the people who keep the company in business want; good Rifts products. Liscensing takes next to zero time and zero money away from the company, so liscensing off a property in no way delays new supplements (unless said supp...

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There may be certain raw materials that the New Navy doesn't have access to in the quantities to produce weapons up to NEMA's pre-Rifts specifications. They're rather isolationist, so they may have trouble getting everything they need through trade. As far as the bonuses go, that's been an annoying ...

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Yeah. I don't really have a preference. I'd rather have a book be a little small than have some irrelevant stuff thrown in to boost that page count, and I'd rather have books be big enough to avoid having to deal with little "add-on" books like Phase World Sourcebook and Mindwerks.

Pax Concord

Nekira Sudacne wrote:I would say it's coincidence.

it's about a generic mecha design as you can get. it's not really origonal, inspiring, or particually interesting.

Agreed. Both Warhammer and Rifts are pastiches of various genre fiction and media. They're both drinking from the same well. It's bound to happen.

Pax Concord

Yeah. You claim that the 3 Galaxy's are crazy, and then you make up your evidence for their insanity.

Pax Concord

Thanks, fellows. That sounds about right to me, too.

Pax Concord

I'm working on a Mini Monkey Spy character from the Lone Star book. Under Natural Abilities it says "Acrobatics 90%." Now what do I do?

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I'm trying to come up with a sort of anti-adventuring party as a foil for the party I'm GMing. Each character will have a nemesis of sort in the enemy party; one which will be fun to fight against. One of the characters is a Nimro Fire Giant Mystic OCC. I'm trying to come up with an ice-based oppone...

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Thanks. Chaos Earth was the answer I needed. My NPC-creation can continue!

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Can anyone tell me which book (besides the GMG) has the Gemology skill in it? Thank you.

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Lazlo, with United Worlds of Warlock as a close second.

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I believe that the mutant animal ability allows the character to talk to animals of the same type. So, a mutant wolf could talk to wolves, but not to turtles, badger, or foxes.

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Well, after discussing the various options, the player seems to be leaning toward a Mind Melter after all, a Mind Melter with a bulging cranium mutation. He better hope he rolls a high IQ or he's going to look pretty... incongruous!

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I have a player wo wants a character with mind control powers (hypnotic suggestion, mentally possess others, etc.). I've come up with a few ideas, and wondered if any of y'all had any other suggestions. My thoughts: Shaydor Spherian "Sensitive" from Atlandtis Latent Psychic from BTS run through the ...

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I think that was the bomb bay.

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The game I'm running is currently moving through the Great Lakes, going from Ishpeming to Lazlo in a merchant vessel. I consider the Coalition Navy book to be quite sufficient information on the Great Lakes for my purposes. I imagine that Lazlo has a Navy, perhaps some sort of volunteer milita navy ...

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taxons are a fairly arbitrary lot. the main distiction between species groups within a Genus is not can they interbreed, but do they in the wild. (in the case of humans this breaks down a bit, but bear with me.) take for example the Canis Genus. Canis Familiris is dogs, Canis Lupus is wovles, Canis...

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A crude definition, and only partly correct. More precisely species is "a category of biological classification ranking immediately below the genus or subgenus, comprising related organisms or populations potentially capable of interbreeding, and being designated by a binomial that consists of the ...

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Care to cite an example of this? The relationship between dinosaurs and birds isn't very well depicted in our current taxonomic structures. Of course, this comes from grafting extinct group onto a system designed for living creatures. Interfertility does not define a species. Anatomical and genetic...

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Never said anything to the contrary. Taxonomically speaking however I believe the aforementioned species would be different members of the genus homo rather than several subspecies of homo sapiens (ogres particularly). I disagree, but the difference is entirely academic. Nature frequently defies ta...

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Nothing says that the offspring are sterile.

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Yeah, I guess I can just go with whatever's dramatically appropriate. Oh, and in the Amazon description is says that Amazons can successfully mate with humans, True Atlanteans, and ogres, so that confirms that they are all of a species.

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I'm GMing, and I wanted one of the Atlantean characters to have a kid with a human woman. So I was wondering if he'd have to take the kid and have his clan give him the Marks of Heritage and stuff. The whole thing with Ogres is that they are not a differant species from humans, just a subspecies: Ho...

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Oh, poop! I remembered finding info on ogre/human hybrids and amazon/human hybrids, so I figured info on atlantean/human hybrids must be in one of the books! Oh well. I guess I'll just wing it.

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Why would they stop reprinting Sourcebook One? It's one of the most useful books for Rifts!

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Would the child of a True Atlantean and Human union have the traits of the Atlantean parent or the human parent?

Pax Concord

Well, I was considering making a Brain, but due to the XP ambiguity I went with a Shaydor Spherian sensitive instead.

Pax Concord

The Mechanoids at the hight of their power would be scarier still! You realize that each mothership contained well over 1 billion mechanoids? And who knows how many motherships there were!

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What experience table should I use for AbM Mechanoid characters? The Mind Melter table? Or do Mechanoids not advance with experience?

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The biggest advantage to Naruni Plasma Cartidged, IIRC, is that they have the highest MD:credit ratio in the game.

Pax Concord

There are a whole bunch of supernatural creatures and abilities presented in scripture that could be interesting gaming fodder and could be "statted out." Angels and demons come to mind. The dybbuk from medieval Jewish folklore is already in Conversion Book 1 , not to mention the Golem. The Serpent,...

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Well, I've only recently been looking at Palladium's site and I was never in posession of any of their books until I picked up the first Robotech book this year. I really had little way of knowing. ^^;; Don't panic. I'm sure that you can pick up the old Palladium books second-hand. They covered eve...

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Mini Monkey Spy: Acrobatics?

Ice-based enemies?

Gemology skill location?

Level 1 character with mind control powers?

True Atlantean / Human child

AbM Experience Table?

Re: I had no idea... What happened? No more Robotech books?