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Yeah, without satellite use, other confirmation is necessary before you bombard an area. It would make life easier if they were that careless, I agree. So, yeah, the point was the unbelievably ridiculous amount of power it requires to actually jam a frequency hopping radio would make a portable ins...

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Radio jamming is one tactic we use when we ambush CS troops. By the time the base figures out something's wrong, we've already gotten away with the loot/ captives. So... the CS can build crazy tons of rail guns or whatever, but have no idea how to make a radio frequency hop? An emission source powe...

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Salt. Always salt. It can't be found a whole ton of places and it is always vital in a medieval type situation where magic is not common place (it isn't common place, it is rare that a person know magic, let alone would be magnanamous enough to just give away magical casting for free). You need sal...

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The industry standard for paint coverage is 350 ft² per gallon. There are 128 fl. oz. in a gallon, so 1 fl. oz. will cover (350/128) = 2.734 ft². There are 144 in² per ft², so multiply: (2.734 ft²)(144 in²/ft²) = 393.7 in². (Round this to 393 or 394 in² as you see fit.) So now we know how much 1 fl...

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In rifts. Power armor or giant robot. Then if on the field the mage. Sure thw juicer or crazue that charged is a threat also but spells n missiles out weigh a brawler. Imo True, but it is a lot harder to concentrate on shooting at the biggest group threat when your biggest personal threat is the gu...

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You know, honestly, I thought the recoil buffer in the G11 never worked quite right and the ridiculous complexity raised serious questions about maintenance.

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I can't help but mention mage's maze. Kind of old school, who else digs it?

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Shields are one of the things that has always bothered me. Some of the others being natural AR and SDC; I have always wanted to tie those two together. To do so, though, requires some kind of layered AR "hit bands" system to apportion blows between worn armor, natural armor, and HP. I don'...

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I actually kind of figure that magic amplifies the advantage of the castle. A "big wall" in the way is always an advantage. It may not look like it to a casual observer but, even in modern warfare, walls of various kinds are used. An example would be scatter mines: scattering land mines ov...

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So what's the deal, are we going to start calling this the Emerald Edition (EE)?

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Wait. How did I not know about this? My crimson needs a friend.

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Uum. I could be convinced. The way I see it, when creating a scroll you are imbuing the power into the scroll itself in a form ready to be released when read. The person reading the scroll, however, is still required to shape that power by speaking the words on the scroll. If a ritual were to be imb...

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Problem with a range of 1300ft is the negative modifiers to shoot and hit something that far away. Not only seeing that far is difficult without clear terrain. Given a Cyclops is 2-3x larger than human size, which those modifiers are based on, it may be the equivalent of a human shooting at 400-600...

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Does a permanent ward mean that, upon activation, the effect is permanent, or does it mean that it will reactivate indefinitely? I had always interpreted it as the former. Of course, there's always Anti-Magic Cloud, which should allow you to bypass all magical traps. Defacing the surface the ward i...

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You could probably get a chuckle out of imparting hilarious memories after someone passes out sloshed. The various "I can't believe I did that!!" reactions the next day might be fun. Potential for some interesting RP.

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Siege weaponry and flight? Knock holes in the walls in various places, peak through the holes to find anything that looks interesting. Once you find the good stuff you just have to defeat the wards in the immediate vicinity. Bypass the tedious series of rooms that have been warded and/or trapped.

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A variation rule that works too is to cap bonuses. I.E. you can have +27 to strike, but you only get to USE +10...but if your swinging blind (-10), with the wrong hand (-2), with an off balance weapon (-3), Behind you (-4)....you STILL have +10. thus defenses have a chance to work, but attackers ca...

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Reading the footnotes for Shakespeare it is kind of striking how much of it was cultural in references and vulgarities that would strike Seth MacFarlane dumb with envy.

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The least side effect riddled option I can think of would be: Temporary confluence of the elemental plane and the material world which replaces the ground (no water, air, buildings) in a predetermined area with a region of lava. At the end of the duration the ground is returned. Anyone/thing that fe...

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It depends what kind of guild you are trying to make. A guild was, generally and in the historical vein, constituted by Letters Patent from an appropriate ruler given the guild members an oligarchy or cartel with which to set prices, set productions volumes and allocate it among members, control the...

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In The Hall of Angles, when saying Lokum's name and summoning the cherub army, the players are told "I am the new gate keeper" by one of the cherubs. I have always taken it to mean that Lokum was the gatekeeper and is no longer able to do so because he is dead of disappeared.

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I always figure these races have a strong cultural tradition and history which makes them able to reliably train master smiths. Nothing precludes someone from being trained by (/steal the notes from) a dwarf or kobold to learn their racial secrets. It would probably invoking the wrath of every other...

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I picked another OCC at random, the Mind Mage, and looked at the psionic progression. It says "each additional level of experience, starting at level two ." So if a wizard, which the wording states "starting at level one" doesn't get the spell until moving from level one to leve...

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I have always normalized all the "do I get the 'X per level' at level one?" questions to "yes." The wording in all the different places is annoyingly diverse and it saves an awful lot of hassle trying to Grammar Archeologist out the intent. I like to use consistent systems. If we...

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This is a random, interesting article I found while trying to find a quick reference on how to locate the heart. "Between the fourth and fifth rib on their left side, err closer to the sternum" doesn't really help when feeling around to count the ribs or just plain guessing wrong are equa...

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I think you are taking the fly paper analogy too literally. I have never thought of it as an actual, semi-rigid structure; more of a mystical field or fluid which arranges itself to keep the surface in question covered and adheres to anything attempting to pass through it. If you were to tunnel unde...

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To address to core of the issue: (IIRC) in Latin, the -um suffix is used for neuter singular endings whereas -a is used for neuter plural. For example, memorandum/memoranda, gymnasium/gymnasia, stadium/stadia. (Interestingly, the spellchecker does not like any of those, as the -ums suffix has become...

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There are no arguments. Just clear clarification for those people (maybe person) that weren't aware and calls it Palladia for an unknown reason. Clarifications don't come with bold text and condensation, but thanks for the PSA, next time skip it. I usually try not to nitpick, but this conjured up a...

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The short answer is no.

The slightly longer answer is that there are numerous ways that your attributes might change over time (injury, magic, &c) but the only way that they are likely to change (indirectly) related to the leveling would be the selection of a physical skill.

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Defacing coinage for fraudulent purposes is a crime. The law says nothing about fun.

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Actually, I believe pennies are no longer considered legal tender, or whatever the deuce it is, so you can do whatever you like with them. Otherwise every shop and chemistry class in the country would be populated by felons after smashing up, melting down, or dissolving coinage. The vending machine ...

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To come up with a workable, rough estimate of the cost to have a building made, I would make a system of determining the number of man-days of labor the construction would require, and multiply by a few coefficients to estimate other factors that would influence the price. Let's try. (Warning, proba...

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pblackcrow wrote:*snip*rubbers*snip*

What kind of game are you running over there?

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I'm another fairly old timer of these parts. I have been on sabbatical for a while now so most of ya'll probably don't know me.

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My view is generally that magic--and any other area of knowledge outside of the daily experience of the masses--in the palladium universe is predominately in a state analogous to the dark ages; i.e. , with the fall of the of the great civilizations and the subsequent purges the vast majority of know...

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... a Two Up and Two Down ...

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Palladium is a moon ... for a ringed gas giant! Yeah!

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Gosh. I sparked a fair amount of debate making an offhand joke.

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I don't care what you are used to, that is odd behavior for a wild animal. It is probably either trained, affected by magic, or possessing higher intelligence. Whether the character is astute enough to realize that and how what to do about it are a different story.

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MrNexx wrote:FWIW, I covered some ideas for rune-parchment armor in the Mysteries of Magic manuscript.

Oh, and why every diabolist should know the term "daisy-chain"

Interlocking loops of indestructable parchment forming a rope?

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I would say that they may be able to chill out near a star or maybe even in the surface regions. Going far inside is defintely out.. While the surface of our sun is about 6,000°C, the center is upwards of 15,000,000°C; by comparison, lava, when first exuded from a volcanic vent, is typically from 70...

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According to the Wikipedia article on steel: Iron was in limited use long before it became possible to smelt it. The first signs of iron use come from Ancient Egypt and Sumer, where around 4000 BC small items, such as the tips of spears and ornaments, were being fashioned from iron recovered from me...

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Alright, I know there is one, but what is the technical difference? If you buy "parchment" now, though, it is usually just funky textured paper. And as I recall, the books tend to use the two interchangeably; it talks about placing pure silver runes on "parchment paper" ... so wh...

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Silver rune covered paper.

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While it does not explicitly says it, the Spd. attribute is the number of feet per second the character can move. According to pg. 16 of the main book "the Spd. times 20 is the number of yards or meters that the character can run in one minute." Following from that, the Spd. times 5 is the...

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You know, I don't think its clear enough. Rurga is a very weak god. Period. She is pretty much on par with a regular, old fashioned, adult dragon ... with worshippers on 4 worlds. Big deal. Vlaa is her favorite weapon. Not her most effective. There is nothing to say that she doesn't have a horde of ...

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So Thoth hasn't made her a custom rune weapon. Big deal. She has relied on what she could find in her path to godhood; besides, once you bond with a weapon, you're much less likely to use another -- even if it is more badass.

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Keep in mind that the Pantheon of Rurga is an small faith, only regonized on a handfull of worlds.

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Uhh ... are you looking at the right page? I have Vlaa at 6D6 double damage against demons and undead; Coal at 4D6 and returns to weilder (not bad for something you found on the battlefield); and Zelg at 3D6+3 ... All of which are +24 from her PS bonus.

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Yeah. Looks like they don't have a breath weapon. Replacing the "X breath attacks per melee" with "X songs per melee" seems reasonable.

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