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I generally dislike "Immortal" Villains, both as a GM and a player. So usually I have them come back by having them run away whenever they might be in danger of dying. If the campaign I am running does need that reoccurring villain to function, then I usually make the villain "immorta...

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I would not consider golems as living things. I put them in the same class as robots. For my games I would allow a tamashiwara user to affect golems, but it could end up being either highly effective or completely ineffective. If the golem is large enough, the user could break holes in the golem wit...

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By the book you'd use the same stats for any type of demi-god and godling. For my games however, I do as eliakon suggests and turn them into templates. I just remove 3d6 form all stats. For the demi-gods MDC I take a SDC creatures HP and SDC and multiple it by 5 and then increase it's per lvl increa...

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I would say that since the rifts were set off by the nuclear exchange, that without the explosion of mystical energies, countries would have continued to nuke each other and you'd get a more After The Bomb setting. There is no evidence in Rifts that it was a massive global nuclear exchange. So it w...

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I would say that since the rifts were set off by the nuclear exchange, that without the explosion of mystical energies, countries would have continued to nuke each other and you'd get a more After The Bomb setting.

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The obvious answer is that Houston was moved further away from Beaumont the Golden Age of Man.

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Most people that have uneventful lives I would put at levels 1-3 regardless of their age.

People that have more exciting lives, like Billy who spent 4 years as a solider, probably around 6. Lower if all he did was guard duty, higher if it was 4 years of constant war.

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Buy a scroll of summon ally.

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Well assuming they can find the bathroom I'm using at the moment, what do I care if they drop a nuke on me? Absorb the damage and then turn around and hunt down those that dared interrupt the few moments I get alone each day.

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I'd be tempted to say that the character is SOL as they went from one non-combat trained life-style to another.

However I usually fold on such things to make a player happy with their character and thus would probably let them purchase a HtoH at the cost of their professional skills.

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I incorporated them into a past campaign, but primarily as part of an effort produce an amalgam setting of the various lines and as a way to introduce some of the spells presented and the concept of temporal energy. I had the coming of the rifts destabilize the normal twists and cycles, and shatter ...

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This seems to have a lot of assumption about the cost of living in luxury and safety on Rifts Earth and the potential for reliable investments.

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The lines between these weapon can be blurry at times. Some weapons can be used as a staff, spear, fork, and/or pole-arm. I find the best way to treat it is the same way Ninja and Super-spies treats the Martial Arts form. If you have a weapon that falls under the different WPs, you can have the mult...

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I've ran adventures within campaigns were the players were without the capability to do/protect against MDC and ones were it they were highly discouraged from doing so. I think a whole campaign that way would be boring. The scenarios I used: Were visiting a very high security town, all weapons and a...

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I definitely prefer moving the concept of knighthood as a social construct. I feel it fits better in fantasy setting to have it extended beyond that of a cavalry unit. I would consider 99% of knights to belong to such an organization, but open it up to other OCCs to joining one, or even being at the...

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I am definitely pro War-[Insert Animal Type Here]

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Juggernaut may not care if he's killed, but Aco and he will care if their worshipers are slaughtered. He may be able to Godblaze Yin-Sloth once, but if he failed or when Yin-Sloth is reincorporated (either by his pantheon or by his worshipers) he and his worshipers will seek revenge, and he is a mor...

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I don't think I've ever seen any canonical proof that any TW device have used spells of legend. Though they might be incorporated into some of the UWW ships. Though its not like there are any rules saying you can't use spells of legend. So like all TW items are, it ultimately goes to the GM on how t...

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Guess that's a difference of opinion then, I don't see the demon lords being confident enough of being brought back by their fellow lords to risk using annihilation level abilities except in the most dire of situations, especially one that's more of a n outcast like Succor-Bemoth. Nor do I agree tha...

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A better question then whether its possible or not, is how would they ever find out?

What demon lord is going to volunteer to attempt this ritual to preform an annihilation event without proof that is doesn't result in their destruction?

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I see it as proof that old Splynn was right. Neither the Demons or the Deevils are claiming Rifts Earth unopposed. They are competing with each other, they have to deal with the natives, they are going to end up having to deal with the Splugorth, and the Yama Kings, the various Gods that have set up...

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No, they would no longer be able to suffer eternal agony, they would now be an elf, limited to finite agony.

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All that shows is that the AG of Washington state is filing charges under the CPA, that in itself does not show that crowd-funding backers fall under the CPA, now they could very well, but it will be up to the courts to decide. It's still a grey area, no surprise since crowd-funding at these scales ...

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My players hunt down these foul purveyors of mechanics driven by the corpses of rats powered by unholy magics and slaughter them ... for copyright infringement.

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Palladium owns the copyright, anything the author creates on top of their IP they own as well. Amazon hosts the work and gets a cut of the profits until Palladium ends the contract at which point they can do whatever they want to with it. That is incorrect. The author retains all copyrights to all ...

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My group just finished up a PF 2e campaign, and we'll probably start a new ones after a brief stint with a Rifts campaign. We haven't played a 1e since 2e came out, but we do pull things form the 1e book, (such as psychic powers, the skills that let a wizard pick up some diabolism and summoning basi...

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As I've always read it, you'll still get 2d6 MDC/lvl since that's half the Cosmo Knights. I interpret this way since it specifically says your PPE is halved, but you don't get more unless you go a magic route. For the skills I read it as applying to all skills, yes the -20% is large, but remember, w...

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Yes, you can cast any spell your deity knows that it lets you have access to.

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I don't believe there are any rules that state a natural 1 is an automatic failure regardless of bonuses for anything; strike, parry, dodge, or saving throw. At least I've never noticed the rules anywhere in the text. Though it is a very popular house rule.

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We use the insanity rules, but I don't know about your games, but in my the only that really ever comes up is for returning from the dead. The others have rarely occurred to PCs, a bit more often in NPCs. I've always viewed them as a good addition to the game. Nobody really likes adding it to their ...

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Hope it works out well for you, but personally I would consider the wish #1 to come into conflict with wishes #2 and #3. How would your truest, loyal, and most trusted friend treat you after you forced him to serve you and only you above all others for all time? If my closest friend did that, the be...

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Two-Step would seem to fit, makes it higher cost then double without making the powers impossible to use. In that line of thought it would make since that Yin-Sloth would pay one less step for body investments for those powers.

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Triple all costs both the PPE and the body-investment, as it references the powers in the D&G, and since it doesn't provide any different explanation of triple the cost one should base it off the description of double the cost in D&G.

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Congrats! Glad to see someone's group out their can keep it together in even the vilest pit of darkness without being undone by their hubris and/or greed.

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Well if you can find a alchemist that knows it, the base cost for the teleportation circle is 200,000-250,000 gold. While they don't have a time listed for learning the circle I have it take 60 minutes for the alchemist to go over the circle with the summoner. I then have the summoner draw the circl...

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A UWW book to flesh out the Phase World Setting would be the first I think. After that I think the Three Galaxies could use a break, or at very most just have smaller books the flesh out various aspects like Cosmo Knights or a specific race. A think Wormwood would be a great setting to expand. Thoug...

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Except it's not straight forward English. It's mix between computational operators, English, and RPG jargon. When you have computational operators involved you need to take each statement and resolve them before applying the operator. In the case of power bolt it reads 5d6 + 2 per level. Which is RP...

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I choose a middle ground. I consider most of the limitations to be things that are unwise and/or prone to fail. Put your ward on a piece of cloth, rolling it up can break the ward. Paint it on an arrow it may be rubbed off. This makes carving the wards the stablest course of action, which is balance...

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Don't know of any existing, one could be created using the alien race creation random tables in the Phase World Book.

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The automatic knockdown chance is absurd. Mini-missiles don't have an auto knockdown chance, but explosive revolver rounds DO? Bunk They're purposefully designed explosive rounds for the express purpose of 'knockdown' vs 'damage'. a) Never says that in the books that I remember. b) More importantly...

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I have nothing that I would ever outright ban, though I do disallow certain things that wouldn't fit with the campaign. Even then I try to work with the player to modify the character to fit as opposed to banning them.

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I agree with Nightmask's assessment of Archie-3's tech level. Most of the things he's producing are not at his highest level. For the list though I would rate the powers as the following for technology power levels. 1. Naruni 2. Splugorth 3. Archie 4. Republicans/Japan/Triax 7. CS 8. NG 9. wellingto...

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If there is a clear description of how godlings are created I cant find it. If I'm missing something concrete please point it out. I know demigods are created from mortal-god relations but it never really says how godlings are made. Can they be "raised" to godling status like a person can...

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Kildred in Land of the Damned One probably fit the bill. IQ - 1d6+15 ME- 2d6+16 MA- 2d6+18

Female Eandorth Rouge in Monster and Animals or Baalgor Wastelands also might fix the bill. IQ- 4d6 ME-5d6 MA-4d6

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Except for gruunors the AR 19 is only when they have rolled into a ball, otherwise they have an AR 16.

So for Grunnor Armor I would give it
AR-16-17
SDC-200
Light Fire and Cold Resistant (Takes 3/4 damage)

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To further expand on my first post (made while at work so not very in depth). The Waghalter (LoD 1 pgs 47 - 49) shows that certain creatures can be skinned/butchered for their hide/scales/carapace. In its case it lists the successful conversion of the plates producing presumably (book is not clear ...

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I thought it was in December 108 PA right before the winter solstice.

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I'm not a big fan of non-casters to add any spell strength bonus to a ritual. Here are my house rules somewhat a mix between yours and Damians. Rituals are +4 spell strength. The leader of the ritual adds their spell strength. Each additional caster can add their spell strength, but this maxes out a...

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So many worlds so may changes caused by characters. In the Three Galaxies, -The FWC is larger and more secure then ever, now fielding 5 Doombringer dreadnoughts, additional rebellions are now occurring across the TGE. -The Mechanoids now have a large and growing presence in the Anvil Galaxies -One o...

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No, but one of the times I ran the adventure, one of the party members effectively kidnapped the kid and ran off without alerting the rest of the party. The kid was saved, but everyone else was massacred.

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