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The image of the Lord Magus from the CCG was a rust-red color, see here: http://riftsccg.mahasamatman.com/Premiere/Gallery/?176

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The Japanese & Chinese Monk classes found in World Books 8 & 25 are both essentially mystic aescetics. I also believe the Psi-Warrior class was described in similar terms in WB12.

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Good to know. Its hard for them argue that it was erratta though, since the actual wording in the descriptive text changed almost completely. I mean, they can say "that was a mistake" - like, we made a bad choice mistake, and thats fine, but trying to be like "that wasn't an intentio...

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Colonel_Tetsuya wrote:Irony:

With the RUE change to the C-12 to 3-shot bursts that do 6D6 MD...

Its actually BETTER than the CP-40 that replaces it.

Because it can take an E-Canister, as well.

Lulz.

That got fixed back in the errata on the main page. C-12 damage remains 4d6.

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Pumped for this one, as I am for Disavowed! My no.1 want for RIFTS is additional books set in Europe, but barring that fleshing out the anti-heroes at the center of the North American setting is always something I'm thirsting for!

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pg. 80 of RIFTs: Vampire Kingdoms defines Holy Water as - "...ordinary water, or water mixed with oil, blessed by a priest whose god(s) is of a Scrupulous or Principled good alignment, and recognized as a God of Light." This description is consistent with that found in the Palladium Fantas...

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well, there's a *very* small amount of information on most places right in the RUE i think. (how erin tarn managed to get all that information is anyone's guess, though). Yeah, RIFTs Aftermath is the book you are looking for - complete synopsis of the entirety of the RIFTs setting as published from...

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Just when you think Palladium is burning all links to Carella content, you come across a gift from Gleba... clearly a reference to Pantheons of the Megaverse! (CB2p157) If that was the case, you certainly wouldn't have had a daughter of Zeus in Dimensional Market leading the anti-Splyn resistance. ...

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Mlp7029 wrote:No only magic ones would.

RIFTS Conversion Book 1 Revised says differently - MD weapons in SDC settings become SD.

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There's an inherent humor in the fact that so many of you openly acknowledge that Palladium has no consistency in their rules & that their staff makes gut-check rulings on the fly & yet are still engaged in a three page long rules argument about the same creator's intended interpretation. I ...

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Probably to prevent a disguised & seemingly unarmed tattooed man from suddenly manifesting a weapon in a secure location & obliterating their target in a single hit. Presumably, they wanted the target of such an attack to at least have a chance to survive.... Does that mean MDC scalpels are...

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I think it is to balance dimensional travel to SDC dimensions. In those dimensions magic weapons do SDC damage and a tattoo weapon is form of magic weapon, at least it was brought into being by magic and vanishes after the duration. Unfortunately, that doesn't exactly track - ALL MD weapons become ...

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Probably to prevent a disguised & seemingly unarmed tattooed man from suddenly manifesting a weapon in a secure location & obliterating their target in a single hit. Presumably, they wanted the target of such an attack to at least have a chance to survive....

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I can't imagine reading that and drawing the conclusion that it refers to their natural abilities - demons are inherently magic in nature, removing all their magical abilities would be akin to destroying them. Reading it as replacing one type of spellcasting for another is the only reasonable read, ...

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The impression I have of the Merc Soldier & Robot Pilot O.C.C.s in RUE is that they were intended to be more along the lines of NPC mooks & optional low-power player characters. A PC looking to play a mercenary grunt but wanting more power should be playing a Headhunter or one of the elite O...

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Detroit was just mentioned.

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Curbludgeon wrote:As for the usage of 4 as the magic number, I find it wildly likely that a strike roll of 5+ for 4 times=20 sides on a die was the entirety of the design process.

...and here I was thinking it was because of the basic 4 actions per melee......

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Which is a giant cop-out and at this point equates to just writing our own system. At some point, Palladium has to be taken to task for the the flaws in its system, which are so profound and prolific as to make the system nearly unplayable. I disagree - the rules system , such as it is, is simple, ...

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1 - it's 4 or more missiles 2 - "unguided" missiles act like guided ones (5+ to hit instead of 8+ like for other weapons, no range penalties, roll to strike w/o skill bonuses) 3 - Presumably because at 4+ missiles any way you move you would be moving into a missile, thus failing to dodge 4...

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RUE pg 364 under missile strikes although it was more clear in the phrasing in RMB where only minimissiles were unguided and all the other missiles were self guided with typically a +3 or +5 to strike which represented the MISSILES inherent guidance The wording in page 364 does not indicate that it...

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From what was written in the Siege of Tolkeen, the War with Quebec was pretty much aborted after the events of the Quebec Worldbook - there really isn't any rebuilding to do, since the major population centers were never on the firing line. As for information on their fortress cities, etc, sure, but...

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RUE does have rules for this in relation to opposed skill checks and perception. At least the mechanics of it. As for when to have the PC roll, that can be a bit trickier since if they have to roll it can result in some metagame. If you want to avoid rolling to tip of players two ideas come to mind...

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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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I can't imagine working for a small-time game publisher like Palladium can provide the kind of insurance or income you need to care for an extremely ill child. It's a shame he had to leave, but that's completely understandable given the circumstances. I hope everything is going well for his family.

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Yeah, I'm fairly certain that KC said "The terrain is a flat, infinite, featureless plain." just so we wouldn't argue about it. As far as the original scenario goes, yes. But I don't mind people discussing alternate scenarios as examples of how/why they would handle things. I'm not sure w...

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Yeah, I'm fairly certain that KC said "The terrain is a flat, infinite, featureless plain." just so we wouldn't argue about it. As far as the original scenario goes, yes. But I don't mind people discussing alternate scenarios as examples of how/why they would handle things. I'm not sure w...

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You're going to find it hard to find anywhere with 500' of natural ground that's perfectly flat. Ergo, any natural variation in the intervening surface terrain combined with presenting a less than 1' vertical profile should constitute cover, I should think. well that's gonna provide cover to your t...

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You're going to find it hard to find anywhere with 500' of natural ground that's perfectly flat. Ergo, any natural variation in the intervening surface terrain combined with presenting a less than 1' vertical profile should constitute cover, I should think.

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If your target isn't either parrying or simultaneously attacking, they're doing it wrong!

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I'd really rather see a formal Coalition States book on their cities & society before I get the same on Free Quebec.....

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Pepsi Jedi wrote:
Zer0 Kay wrote:
Proseksword wrote:Oooh, boy! Moose cavalry ahoy!

No, no moose cavalry... sabertooth moose cavalry!!

Actually there ARE quite a few references to riding the giant deer.

No. I'm not kidding.

I KNEW it!

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Oooh, boy! Moose cavalry ahoy!

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It's the same steel blue most of the Coalition vehicles are according to the card game art.

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.....this one tends to hit one of my pet peeves anyway: World Books set in places that I don't care about, and my adventurers wouldn't have any interest in. Feel free to sell me on it, if you like; I'm trying to be open-minded. Why would I care? Why would my characters care? What's this place got t...

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.....this one tends to hit one of my pet peeves anyway: World Books set in places that I don't care about, and my adventurers wouldn't have any interest in. Feel free to sell me on it, if you like; I'm trying to be open-minded. Why would I care? Why would my characters care? What's this place got t...

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Awesome.. so its a "just use discretionary" thing really.. wasn't going to do it.. just more of a question really. Discretion is the better part of the Palladium rules, honestly. If you're coming to Palladium from RPGs with more rigid rules like D&D, you'll find that Kevin Siembieda c...

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No reason to think it doesn't. Usually if skill bonuses don't apply, it will indicate it somewhere. Of course, MDC creatures don't gain SDC bonuses, but I think that's pretty obvious & straight-forward.

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Ahh nice of.. the ultimate rules if say you start in.. o PORT to the magic laden-ed Rifts world..otherwise stand/2 spells.. ish.. got ya! So the book of magic rules.. all super seeded? Im assuming the actual book content ie invocations is still more diverse than Ultimate etc etc? All rules mechanic...

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It used to be that RIFTs followed Palladium Fantasy's system for spells per melee, which is where most of those references to things like "8 attacks per melee or 2 by spell" come from. Back then there was a hard limit on how many spells you could cast per round, usually 1 but occasionally ...

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I just skimmed through the entire section from pg137 to pg143 of RIFTS: Black Market & didn't see a single instance of a single round attack dealing damage other than 1D6 or 2D4 MD. What weapons are you referring to, specifically? It's only natural that double-barreled blasts/bursts would deal ...

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I just skimmed through the entire section from pg137 to pg143 of RIFTS: Black Market & didn't see a single instance of a single round attack dealing damage other than 1D6 or 2D4 MD. What weapons are you referring to, specifically? It's only natural that double-barreled blasts/bursts would deal m...

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I kinda like there being not much of anything there. A few small native American communities & nothing more.

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Roll the dice for attributes. apply the modifiers appropriate for the attributes, if any, then copy everything out of your O.C.C. description for skills/special abilities. It's pretty straight forward.

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The latest word in Heroes of Humanity is that Dominators tend to be rapidly promoted to NCO & commissioned ranks. That seems to both indicate that they start below that rank but are not prohibited from obtaining them.

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In most instances, power armor & robot formations are treated as equivalent to infantry, so a platoon of combat robots would be 40 robots. Is that a quote from the book? I find it hard to swallow that 40 2 man robots would be a platoon. It should be 20 robots 40 men, but skelebots would be 40. ...

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In most instances, power armor & robot formations are treated as equivalent to infantry, so a platoon of combat robots would be 40 robots. Is that a quote from the book? I find it hard to swallow that 40 2 man robots would be a platoon. It should be 20 robots 40 men, but skelebots would be 40. ...

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From the original Sourcebook 1: Squad: 4-8 soldiers Platoon: 16-32 soldiers (4 Squads) Company: 96 soldiers (3 platoons), at least 1 Spider-Skull Walker, 2 APCs & 1 squad of SAMAS Battalion: 288 soldiers (3 companies) Division: 864 soldiers (3 battalions, 1 fully mechanized) While not explicitly...

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A cool-down would work best for me.

Onyx, spell-knowledge, MD weapons, robotics knowledge; these are all things that the printed works are ambiguous about the availability of, which are ultimately limited only by the Game Master. Arguing about it is an exercise in futility.

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If the intent is delay, I'd kind of rather they just have a specific cool-down time - you may only make 1 golem per X months or whatever. I suspect where you stand on this is going to have parallels to how common you think technological MD weapons are in the world. Killer Cyborg's suggestion that he...

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Greetings! I noticed many of the monsters/creatures listed in the Rifts Conversion Book 1 received various buffs/nerfs in the revised edition. Most are relatively in line with the previous incarnations. However, one in particular strikes me as odd. On page 139 of RCB1, the MD of a Harpy is listed a...

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