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several years ago, I reworked the entire system including all the skills, condensed quite a few and standardized the % and a consistent rules set for them all.

cyber-yukongil v2.5

15th level Holy Terror Cosmo-Knight...PbP game that only lasted a few weeks sadly. Was much higher level but after eons of fighting the good fight, he was starting to lose his mind after some magical shenanigans involving AIs and evil gods, and while everyone else in the game would gain levels, I wo...

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I just run NPCs in combat until I decide they die or run away. Why bother with numbers when I am the one who made them and it isn't like the PC's know what I am rolling. I used to do full on NPCs, then little combat write ups, and now I just give them a name, a number and about three words of descr...

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in the last few years I've adopted a rules set for running NPCs in combat that takes the load off of the GM and puts it squarely on the players. This frees up brainpower to better narrate the scene of the encounter and focus on the more important foes or NPCs that might be around. I've used it for v...

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Most should make a hissing or cracking noise; super-heated air, and all that. I had one player whose Wilk's Chameleon rifle had a voice that said, "Pew! Pew! Pew! 'Merica!" every time he fired it on three-round burst. I've always joked about having one that had the radio sleep setting noi...

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that sounds like an incredible investment in time. Unless you're using Roll20 or some other livestream platform, combat is going to take weeks of time (especially in a palladium with its mass amounts of SDC/MDC/HPs and offensive and defensive rolls)

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have players (or do it yourself) roll up twenty, twenty five rolls ahead of time. When combat starts, have everyone give a general gist of what they want to do (shoot the giant robo-dragon!). Then have combat proceed on your side for an entire turns worth of combat, using the rolls previously given....

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I think about 16 hours straight thru to end a Rifts game, ended about 6 in the morning with half the players asleep. To this day I can't remember what we actually fought and what we dreamed, but we won...I think

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I know of a lady dungeon master that makes several hundred dollars an hour putting clients through various scenarios...

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...could you imagine if Palladium did have a Rifts MMO and then Trion sued them and won for IP theft...*ques Alanis Morrisette*

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BoT Creedence "Creed" Clearwater 9th level Cosmo-Knight Grackletooth originally from the swamps of middle Georgia, now a undercover-operative posing as a gladiator slave in Atlantis to help a group of heroes try and actually totally destroy a Alien Intelligence (splinters and all) during a...

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no update this week. Unfortunately the player of Tiberius had to put his kitty down short notice and wouldn't be able to play. Which did show the one weakness of this premise; the need for the entire band. Other games, a player is out and you can normally easily play without them. In this band thoug...

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[so this last weeks session was a little bit different than normal, as you'll probably soon discern for yourself] Finally arriving at their planned destination of Mesa Arizona, the group nabs a cheap motel room and huddles up for a plan to find the mysterious Nightbane scholar Old Scale...and also h...

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*insert Dukes of Hazard theme song* As we rejoin the Chromed Boys we find them on the run from Boss Hound after a good bit of fun and never meanin' no harm rescuing some Potentials and a member of the Railroad in the little town of Loma Linda. If not for bad luck, they wouldn't have any luck and wou...

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unfortunately due to a nasty stomach bug, I was unable to run this weekend, but if nothing else it gave me more time to plan for next weeks adventure

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While various bar flies and patrons buy rounds of drinks for most of Chromed Mayhem, outside in the parking lot, Tiberius and Blitz were getting their own fan rewards. The two vampireresses, Candy and Sheila stared deep into the eyes of the two up-and-coming Rockers, trying to put the mental equival...

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thanks I'm glad you enjoy it! as an aside, if you have Netflix, I suggest everyone everywhere watch DEATHGASM! This movie kind of sums up how I want this game to feel and I plan on thoroughly stealing as much imagery from it as possible! It's always weird how serendipitous roleplaying and life are, ...

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I just found something that might be of interest to you. In Rifter 1 the Psiren PCC might be of use to your game since it focuses on music. When I ran across it again in my research for my own Nightbane game I immediately thought of your game for the Psiren. actually the lead singer of Darkest Knig...

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Finally, after months of tedious training, all summed up with tidy montages, the Band finally sets out on the road, to both discover more about the strange events of Dark Day and to find fame and fortune on the Rock circuit! Traveling by Dream Machine proves to be a costly affair, with the '79 Dodge...

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After a quick "Behind the Music" -style recap, we rejoined our newly minted Nightbane heroes as IT was about to go down. As they watched the battle unfold above them, a pair of Priests of the Night along with a Hound and several more crazed citizens surrounded them. The Hound proved to be ...

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I had tried a skill system that was a combination of the old Chaosium systems and newer RPGs like Skyrim, where use in a skill actively improved that skill. Once per session, if you used a skill it got a "tick" if it failed, success got it two and a "critical" got it three. When ...

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just started my very first Nightbane game and thought I'd keep a game post here for everyone to follow along with. Enjoy! Premise: A promising young garage band with aspirations of stardom find themselves in the middle of an ancient war of the shadows. Changed forever after the coming of Dark Day, t...

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What I would like to see is that the new ones are different from the old ones @ minimum. Better would be for the glasses be printed on. (can't SEE the artwork on the old etched pint glasses.) this arises from too high quality of glass. Good quality glass doesn't "shatter" well when lasere...

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so does that mean that the Cosmo-Knight centaur pictured in the Phase World book lost the use of his horse legs?

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would you count a Tattoo Man and the various beast tattoos?

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The PB T-shirts have bored me to tears. I want something wild and dynamic. I have been impressed with the all-over art prints I have seen at ComicCon. Sure, they're not cheap, but I'd be happy to shell out some clams for the original Rifts cover and/or the Ultimate Rifts cover on a shirt. If you do...

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to answer the question of print on demand, yes you can. Any shop that does sublimation or has the newer inkjet printers can do any design on any substrate. I so want to get one of the new inkjets for my shop...Price should run you about the cost of a normal shirt at say Wal-Mart or other places, as ...

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It's your dice, they should be held carefully and lovingly. Your dice should be held in a bag made of felt, to caress each die in a soft, warm environment. The tie string is preferred over the zipper, which is cold, and harsh... and can pinch the die in a way that could cause it to not roll so well...

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its a bag with a drawstring, filled with shaped plastic pieces with dots indicating numbers or just numbers, all in various colors and shapes. Did I get it?

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brutal

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Fell wrote: but I think I prefer the "simple" Palladium rules.

*steps carefully away from this post, then once a safe distance turns and runs like HELL*

IT'S A TRAP!

cyber-yukongil v2.5

consolidation of skills and their % so they are not all over the place (do we really need upteen different entries for piloting vehicle skills with different percentages for each?) more "adventuring" rules, weather, survival, drowning, etc... clean up combat a little (rewrites on some of t...

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Rifts is much more offense oriented than defensive. This is evident in a couple of ways. The most glaring to me, is the creation of the "GI Joe" rule, made specifically to offset the lethality of the system. The fact that you are auto-killed if an SDC character who nicks himself shaving wi...

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I've ditched MDC as a form measure of damage in exchange for it being a measurement of penetration/ablation, reason being that getting your arm cut off with a steel longsword or a vibro knife is no more/less life-threatening than the other. my system uses a simple conversion to give everyone SDC wit...

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also, they did exactly that (lobbed nukes during the Seige), Tolkein had point defense rifts that swallowed them. As written in the actual books, you cannot adventure in SDC gear, every NPC, monster, sidekick and villain is crawling with MDC and unless you just really like rolling up 2d4 characters ...

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correct, you want a DCI certified judge, and you should really run FNM every Friday, not once a month. Also, I'd caution renting table space, unless you can offer an out of this world experience, charging for table space smacks of desperation. Charge too little and what is the point, charge too much...

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I also caution going into business with friends. If you do so, make sure that everyone is 110% knowledgeable about the terms of your partnership, what is expected of each one, and most importantly what to do when someone is not pulling their weight in the shop...trust me on this.

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I've worked in, owned and helped start up about 4 comic and gaming shops in my life, and I could write pages upon pages of advice Go for it, please!!! it may already be too late on this, but please, please, please, go over all your location options. Haggle, beg, threaten and do whatever it takes to...

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I'd ignore any advice that cautions against loitering. Gaming/comic book stores are havens for people to hang out all day. They also tend to buy stuff as they stay there, drinks, snacks, the odd comic or game that looks interesting, a pick-up sealed deck tournament of this or that. It's easy enough ...

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you can take any shirt you like to an embroidery shop along with camera ready art and have it put on the shirt...just so you know. Correct, but that wouldn't be supporting a company that I like. I'd rather give my money to Palladium. as long as the product exists sure I can agree with that, but if ...

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you can take any shirt you like to an embroidery shop along with camera ready art and have it put on the shirt...just so you know.

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Also, how are you calculating the GB bonus to hit? Per the original post in this thread, the GB needed to roll a 7 or better including all bonuses/penalties. yes but the math behind that. What are you figuring for the GBs bonus to hit (it seems you are saying he is +1 to hit, since you just need an...

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So do I, but there are limits; it's the fact that a single round will completely end them, not giving them the time to change tactics. Not quite. Per CWC p125, even the FASSAR-20 model was upgraded to 150 MDC. The Boomgun's raw damage only has a 9.3% chance of meeting/exceeding that. Factor in miss...

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card stock and Google Image search is your friend for paper minis. If you have access to an art program like CorelDraw or even just photopaint, you can clean them up and mod them to your hearts content.

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I calculated the number of bugs at about 1.2 billion total. I mentioned the number to Kevin once, and he said "That sounds about right." Granted, it was an off-hand, informal comment, but I take it to mean that I was in the ballpark. I'd love to see your figures. I'm going off of WB 23. I...

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Well, keep in mind. The Xits don't have magic. Most Demons/Devils regenerate at an amazing rate, not including magical healing, magical force fields, etc. Most Demons are easily capabile of taking on a xit in 3-4:1 numbers for a minor demon and some of the greater demons, not even lords, but regula...

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Well, keep in mind. The Xits don't have magic. Most Demons/Devils regenerate at an amazing rate, not including magical healing, magical force fields, etc. Most Demons are easily capabile of taking on a xit in 3-4:1 numbers for a minor demon and some of the greater demons, not even lords, but regula...

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One more word of warning... Laminating the cards could ruin them. They are plastic coated and will bubble and haze in some hot laminators. Try it first on a character card you don't like and won't use. most office supply stores will sell laminating material that is just a compression seal, so you c...

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it has nothing to do with their technology or training or lack thereof. It has to do with the demolishing of the verisimilitude of the setting as a post-apoc world where humanity has nearly been driven extinct. I mean I know they just keep on destroying that with each new world book that introduces ...

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The book opens with CS field reports of unusual activity. By page 14, Emperor Prosek publicly sounds the alarm, and "Within two weeks, word of mouth has spread to all corners of the continent." "Within a week, more than a million will have joined the Coalition Armed Forces." Fro...

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