Chinese Characters

[Balabanto]

They would retain the 2 HTH Combat styles. Technically, a Cyber Samurai can already have two HTH combat styles, so there's no reason these guys wouldn't be able to do so.

So, they'd still get the Chi-Based ISP penalties, but that's it.

Note: NONE of my players have even THOUGHT about playing a character from these books.

[dark brandon]

I've got 2 questions really.

1st- With the Nei Chia Wu Shih (The Meditation Martial Warrior) gets 2 forms of H to H styles of Martial Arts. Does that mean that the amount of attacks that each start with get added together since they are 2 different styles?? One has 4 and the other has 3 or 4, would that be a total of 7 or 8? or would you take the highest of the two? Keep in mind that I'm only talking about the Starting number of attacks and not the additional attacks that are given to highest levels of the arts.

2nd- Chinese characters losing the Power of Chi and get penalties for the Chi based abilities. How many actually follow that or disregard it?

Me personally, I would disregard it mostly on the basis that it says that it happens when they leave China. So if they go to Korea, Thailand, Laos, Japan, Mongol, Russia they would technically suffer those penalties. Just curious on how you guys handle it?

1) As per N&SS, when you have 2 HtH styles, at the beginning of the melee round, you choose one. You have those ApM and bonuses. You have to keep both bonuses separate. Don't combine

So, say one gives you 2 apm and +3 strike, and the other gives you +3 ApM and +4 dodge, you get either, as chosen at the beginning of the melee round, but you do not get +5 apm, +3 strike and +4 dodge.

If you've ever seen "the quest", the character in there who uses different animal styles is a good example of this. In one fight he uses snake, in another he uses tiger, but he never uses snake and tiger in the same fight.

2) I think in our group we disregard it.

[Seneca]

1) As per N&SS, when you have 2 HtH styles, at the beginning of the melee round, you choose one. You have those ApM and bonuses. You have to keep both bonuses separate. Don't combine

So, say one gives you 2 apm and +3 strike, and the other gives you +3 ApM and +4 dodge, you get either, as chosen at the beginning of the melee round, but you do not get +5 apm, +3 strike and +4 dodge.

If you've ever seen "the quest", the character in there who uses different animal styles is a good example of this. In one fight he uses snake, in another he uses tiger, but he never uses snake and tiger in the same fight.

2) I think in our group we disregard it.

Dark Brandon hit it in one.

China charters are not over powered outside of China. Use as written and I wouldn't bother reducing their powers.

[The Galactus Kid]

2) I think in our group we disregard it.

True

[drewkitty ~..~]

Unlike N&S, in RChina they seperate the mystical powers into seperate h2h (not even going to call them MA forms) thus complicating things off the deep end.

But as per the rules, you keep Everything seperate, bonuses, powers, & APM. Unless the GM wants high powered chars and directly tells you to combine the physical h2h and mystical h2h together.

[The Baron of chaos]

Personally I thinktha tapart from tapping the extra PPE available in Rifts China(ya know form evne the most feeble ley line) there should be no other consequence.
Actually Some PCC are potentially universal in that nothing prevent them to be present in different form otherwhere, expecially the PCC.

[Balabanto]

Well, you can always be from California or New Jersey. Those are the two oldest Shaolin temples in the US, and I'm pretty sure location-wise they survived the coming of the Rifts. So can the OCCs exist outside of China? Technically, yes.