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already preordered mine, I am going to guess "the world warriors" and some of the extra physicals

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i'm at the point where I do like some game balance. I think what my next group will do is, that all players will either roll once, and everyone takes that roll, or we just decide on a number. Several different aspects of the game use a percentile, like the damage of a magic weapon. Its not all perfe...

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Maybe I’m just not explaining well. What I’m trying to sort out is the equivalent cost for things FROM rifts, in the ninjas/heroes world. Trying to buy the items to make a TW device (gems and such) is all in really looking for I'd assume that anything thats as high tech as rifts items, even the gem...

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I don't believe there is one, wolfen deal more damage in hand to hand overall and that's mentioned in the race itself, but thats it.

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agreed that there's no money to be gained from going from electronic to cash. The character could have gear to sell to someone, which could wildly vary in price, but yeah, they changed dimensions, they need to deal with being broke I think. Its part of the challenge of adapting to it.

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some of the techniques are weird and clunky. 'Give up all your attacks for a +3 to defense' or 'spend your entire round screaming for one chance to knock people down' Then you have things like Body chi which can be devastating 'three chi to give myself a P.P. of thirty, spent from dragon chi' Chi it...

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i'm considering doing the online gencon myself. but I might show up for a day since its in town IDK

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my pleasure as always, Stone.

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Rifter 7

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on an unrelated note, we let super energy expulsion do half damage to invulnerable creatures too, because ranged needs an option to work with too

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as I recall, you add SnS damage to the weapon. You recall was incorrect. Correction: Character with SNPS only add the PS bonus (that is found on that chart in the beginning of the HU2 core book) to weapon damages. We're talking about page 294 yes? weapon damage plus PS damage described in the previ...

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I recommend looking at the Rifter martial art Munen Muso which goes into it a bit. In essence, if you have someone in a lock, you can cuff them as an action

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as I recall, you add SnS damage to the weapon. now with Invuln of course, you take half damage from that because SnS gets partially through. The weapon will almost assuredly break because if a weapon takes more than 3 times its max damage, it has a 1-33% chance of breaking, though masterwork weapons...

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Zer0 Kay wrote:I'd love PB to come out with a construction system like R. Talsorian's Mekton Zeta Plus. It covers construction of everything. It would cover all the items you listed plus weapons and vehicles to include mecha.

I'd like to do that too

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healing in combat IS pretty rare. In fact, my guess is only D&D has a lot of that with clerics healing hundreds of damage in a single burst of light. Heck for the most part, healing via wizardly is very inefficient especially to yourself. Only the higher level spells really amount to much. Overa...

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i think this has gotten way off topic, can we just agree that in his own comic Batman generally fights low power characters and tells far more street level stories than his JLU version which has freaking power armor that has the powers of the entire justice league?

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considering how dated it is, its /perfect/ for the later Metal Gear Solid games

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I disagree on one front. in his own comic, a good stage mage would work with Batman. Bats would win of course, but it'd be a good villain archetype. One of my favorite pictures shows Carmen Sandiego having infiltrated the Batcave and was making moves to steal his fake dinosaur, with Bats caught a bi...

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the stage mage is a tough sell, I admit, its great for a Leverage/heist/covert/social kinda game, but even on its best day its not going to handle the Hulk.

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hmm I see it, sort of a dual class thing, where you've only got so much innate power, so you add a ton of skill to it to make up for it.

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depending on what servicing fees are, there could always be a community effort, like with a patreon or something

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glad you think so, Stone. Maybe if this gets some more support, maybe that's what I need to do next.

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Taoist is the only extra one I know of

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instead of a city builder, I think there's more use for a book about how superhuman activities work. Like, I can't tell you much about how a money laundering operation goes, so maybe a section that does a generic explanation about how 20 types of organizations work. "Oh for this sort of weapons...

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the tinkerer OCC in the Rifter can enhance bows

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I would do so, its a fairly niche ability anyway, so why not let it work on fungi?

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your approval fills me with joy. Many thanks to the Hound and his compatriots.

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I'd take it. Granted its meant to be the Gotham to Century Station's Metropolis.

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I definitely think Cascade would work as it's own book - with some expansion. The obvious thing to do is to include as an extra all of the revised Physical/Special Training class write ups in the recent Rifters, as these are connected to the article about the city. If there are any training classes...

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yeah its not too developed, I didn't want to get too deep in it for just a rifter article. Honestly I'm not sure what more I'd add to really fill it out.

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gaby wrote:I love Special Training Updates in Rifter74,79,81,82 and 84 are all Great.

I hope someone can make characters.using them and show them here.

I provided some samples in each one, but yes I'd love to see some too!

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it recently struck me that while N&S is pretty dated, it'd now fit well with retro modern warfare that is prevalent in the newer Metal Gear Solid games. Where having a computer in you is actually a big deal!

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The GM decides how he or she wants to deal with multi-APM attacks. Before, after, or just count off the APM from the char's APM total. If if is a super power that takes ALL the char's APM I would let the char do non-combat actions...but all the "Combat Actions" are used up. I respectfully...

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Daniel Stoker[/quote] That is sorta like the BTS1 PPE regen time of 24 hours. what if the char has like 350+ PPE, do you modify you house rule?[/quote] Hmm! I haven't had that problem yet so I couldn't say. I will say that I don't care for 'infinite magic loopholes' like "oh I make those magic ...

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Have your Mage or Psion carry "plasma slinging blasters" themselves, is the simplest solution. Why use magic at all if you just would rather use a gun? Do you mean "They recover all of their PPE and/or IS points with just an hour's rest."? How are you defining 'rest'? And is it ...

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I just wrapped up a simple adventure in a Cyberpunky style heroes game called Cascade 2099 if you have an interest to listen to it.

Techwise, sure it was a little barebones, as it was a test run to see if others want to play there.

https://guidesmegaverse.podbean.com/

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mages and psychics do get quite the shaft compared to plasma slinging blasters. They do have variety, which can be useful, but they are generally pretty limited by their low PPE or ISP. My solution? Have the PPE or ISP max be what they start each combat with. In essence they'd regenerate magic a lot...

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I think the Natural Genius has some of that with his Find Weakness ability, don't you?

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don't forget about the rifter sorter webpage.

https://rifterindex.netlify.app/

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if you have ideas for new special training ideas, throw em out here. I'm interested.

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The Dark City of Cascade was /made/ for Street level heroes Rifter84

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I've been wanting to update the Stage Mage a bit more, to bring it more in line with the others. focus on the stealth and precise strikes idea, but yeah its never going to be a big name hero idea. Its definitely niche, even at its most badass.

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Kelly Sharpe, and her partner Bora the Elaborate, and the villain Regalia Red,

I try to make different builds for each character, Regalia Red's an example as to why a high level Stage Mage should be dangerous

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they got stunting abilities, signature moves you can design, and a batch of general abilities depending on your focus.

Sample characters include Olympian of the Neighborhood Watch vigilante group, and Manik, the nigh-unkillable testosterone machine with the Red Mist Fist.

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It's old enough that road hogs was still thought about, so yeah I bet it predated century station by a number of years

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if you want a list of books never published, there's an...inflammatory facebook group that has a list. I'm sure if you google the right keywords you'll find it but I won't go any further on it. As for my own sourcebook? well that'd be a dream, and I've considered upping the Stage Mage a bit to be mo...

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many thanks Warshield. You can google Cascade on here to find some bare mentions of Erick's work, I've lifted as much of it as I can to put in the article proper. The Arbiters are a great group, I just didn't think I had the room to write em all down. Ugh, I'll have to tell the cattle car incident i...

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I thiiink that's actually in the Hardware book, so my guess is the author posted those. Interesting. I've got a char sheet from the hardware unlimited game I played at the open house, I must compare

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Sorry I completely forgot to respond. I'm at work generally when I'm on here.

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