TW Generator in Rifts Arzno

[Mack]

Are you refering to the PPE Battery on p90 of Arzno?

[Khanibal]

They don't give stats for it. It just is.
You want to buy one just to soak up the ppe, don't you?

[Khanibal]

The generator just powers the vehicle. Any additional spells are usually handled by a ppe battery that recharges x per hour. To make one? I don't really know. I believe TWs use diamonds to store ppe. in batteries. Maybe diamonds in copper frameworkd spinning inside of another copper frame laced with more diamonds? You'll have to GM up and make it up I think.

[Mack]

OK, take a look at page 92 of the original Rifts main book at the TK-Engine Conversion and the Mystic Generator. Also look at the Mystic Portable Generator on page 136 of Rifts Ulitimate Edition.

I believe that's what the generators in Arzno are based on.

[Balabanto]

Actually, what I want is the SPELL CHAIN that enables you to make one. We've tried to figure this out for ages and we haven't been able to come up with a good answer.

[Jason Richards]

Actually, what I want is the SPELL CHAIN that enables you to make one. We've tried to figure this out for ages and we haven't been able to come up with a good answer.

The "TW Generator" is an addition by Kevin, so I can't give you a definitive answer. I'd suggest, however, that it is some sort of TWized micro-nuclear reactor. For the spell chain I'd use Subatomic Particle Acceleration as the primary, and definitely Energy Sphere, Talisman, and a bunch of other costly spells as Secondaries.

Truth is that generators and things like that don't work 100% with construction guidelines, as they're sort of a different animal. Just make it VERY expensive.

[Metathiax]

The TW power system for robots is in source book 1 as well, just a way to power armor (or robots) it is a bit more expensive than a nuclear power plant for robots or pa but works the same rules wise as nuclear power plant. It is described as initial creation is very expensive requiring an Experienced Tecnho wizard and lot of P.P.E. Like a nuclear power plant player characters probably wouldn't have the resources to create one. Azrno must have made some improvements to get them to last 20 years though


Seems to be(IMO) a ppe storage unit and TW generator likely drawing more ppe from the environment when available. Completely sealed on the PPE side but the electricity from it could be used to recharge Eclips like a nuclear power plant. (all of this is guess work though)

as an alternative there was the TW borg in a recent rifter powered by null sphere and annihilate spells basically a antimatter reactor.

[Jason Richards]

Again, just don't drive yourself crazy looking for a way to create such a generator "by the book" as it is a bit beyond the scope of the rules, which weren't intended to work on that scale. The original items were powered by more traditional PPE batteries (the Imitators were actually not even power armor, but custom suits of body armor).

[Omnibane]

I'm not trying to resurrect the thread but from everything I can find the tw generator is like a dehumidifier constantly drawing in ppe on a small scale to meet the small ppe req to operate the vehicles but doesn't draw enough to power weapon systems. The tw battery is just a storage tank basically not worth going into and the mystic generator in early books is very different since it's to power regular energy items it should be considered a power converter.

EDIT: Topic locked for necro'ing a discussion that's over 12 months old. Mack.