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I have been doing a lot of reading from the Vampire books. Setting up an adventure for CS heroes. They are in Mexico vampire hunting hoping to kill them at the source. The CS plan of attack. So their CS Military leadership are acting like the Empire from starwars. Top 10 bad guy ideas to hunt vampi...

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Kevin Siembieda has done a wonderful job of producing a fun game system. I don't like all of his decisions by any stretch (I am so F***ing DONE with the CS), but over all, he's done a good job. But he's allowed into print, to many things that screw spell casters over and make technology just absolu...

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You got it. Also, the Psi-stalker or Dog Boy could easily smell the dragon as a dragon regardless of what he had shape shifted into. Could he cover his scent with alcohol or chili powder? As for this, anything that would work against a real world dog would, technically, work against a dog-boy. Howev...

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How about this? Deep Meditation : [requires the base meditation skill as a prerequisite] Deep meditation is the ancient art used by Spell Casters from before the Age of Troubles and the Elf-Dwarf war. It allowed them to recover their life force that in the modern age, would have been lost permanentl...

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So the group has a true Atlantean in the party. Would a Dog Boy / Psi-Stalker / Magic user / Psychic using Sense magic "detect" the possessor of magic tattoos even though they are not using them? If they make their percentage roll. While it IS highly likely, the percentage chance isn't au...

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I had an idea I wanted to try out. 1st thought was to create an Atlantean Stone Mage to build pyramids on nexus points to stop ley line storms and undesired Rifts. Then I thought about playing the Stone Mage myself and how I could make a game session of it. Depending on the environment I would need...

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For me, my introduction to Robotech was the RPG by PBs. It was the first PBs game I played, and it got me hooked on PFRPG and the 1st ed of HU. But the animations just didn't do anything for me (maybe it was just the episodes I managed to see). And while I'll admit that as a kid I thought the Voltro...

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Greetings all, I've been running a couple of D&D campaigns the last several months. One has run its course and the group has decided to play a game which holds no interest for me. My second group is on the cusp of rounding up phase 1, which could easily be a jumping off point to something diffe...

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Personally, I think you should make it a series of OCC skills for the core Wizard class. Say make the whole heal the lost HPs a skill some wizard found described in an old manuscript that he started to practice (make it a specialization of Meditation). After he got that, he started to teach others a...

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To me, it's kind of strange to want Magic to be "equal" to Technology, as opposed to an extra ability above and beyond technology. At issue here is the number of people who think that spell casters shouldn't use technology. On this very board, there are several threads dedicated to harpin...

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I've only ever seen a couple of episodes. I've never really gotten into the whole Japanese mecha animation as programs, to much stuff like the power of music shall sway them from their evil course type stuff. It worked the first time, but by the eleventh... I love the games based on them though, and...

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I've decided to dust off and clean up some of my old campaign material for Splicers. It's been awhile though, so I'm going to be going through it all and updating it before posting. Some of this was posted on the old board and you might recognize it. But I'm going to be starting with a few of the ac...

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by the book, yes. if the healing is tied to SDC replenishment rather than just having wording saying they're restored. And in the cases that it isn't tied to SDC/MDC recovery, then it likely already works the same if you're casting it on an Amorph, Human, Titan or even Splugurth. So it affecting a ...

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For example, I would argue Star Wars' Han Solo is Unscrupulous, maybe even leaning towards Anarchist at times (I believe he's shot people in cold blood before?). I think you mean "Unprincipled" for the alignment, which is listed right by Anarchist, and is exactly where Han is mentioned as...

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I already pointed out above that it's fine pf. And if that happens to be why's severaly lacking elsewhere then kevin was just lazy. Sorry, I thought you meant that they downgrade more than just dropping MDC to SDC. And as someone who's currently trying to type up a bunch of old spell designs from p...

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Zenviscaype wrote:I have a bunch of things in mind. Is there anything in Underseas or Black Market?

Not that I'm aware of. I thought France was part of the Gargoyle Empire.

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Except spells automatically downgrade when going to pf. In fact it's effectively all the same spells in all the games. Magic downgrades because of the nonMDC environment (same as it does in HU and DR). But technology and psionics also downgrade by an equal amount. It upgrades in MDC worlds such as ...

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So much of it comes down to the desire to keep everything compatible across the games. And since magic is powerful in PFRPG, therefor it MUST be equally powerful in Rifts without modifying it. Right?! Not really, no, I am aware. But I do think that is a large part of the problem. Magics improvement ...

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Good Points People. My compliments to killgore444. Your player would be competition. It's good gamesmanship. Given the market is huge there is plenty of business to go around. Besides, its cheaper to transport the over the counter meds than manufacture them. Your player would build a big pharma cor...

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Sinker: The new distributor increasing the supply of medicine and undercutting the prices. Inexpensive over the counter medication (think tylenol in the 21st century) is over a 100 time more expensive in the future because it is not widely available or produce in as great a quantity and cheaply. Se...

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[. In one of my Rifts games, one of the girls playing played a 1st ed zendredi simply so the LLW could cast the spell Giant on her. She had a blast. Khyron(looking up. WAY up) "Okay, that's just WRONG." Why, she only gained 10ft in height? Now having the major superpower of Growth however...

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darthauthor wrote:Please share any ideas.

In general, you should give the same chance of a ley line erupting in a storm or rift as you give for a powerline running through town to just randomly surge and melt causing power in town to go out.

Otherwise, just leave them as plot devises.

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The device-creation can all be done off-camera, before or between sessions. Part of the appeal is that TWs can start off with technowizardry devices, often of their own devising. Plus in RMB they had actual engineering skills, IIRC, so were something of a skill monkey in addition to a mage. RUE ner...

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First thoughts are something like Suicide Squad. Those guys have bombs in their head's. That is definately one direction you could take, however the players may then shift the focus from whatever adventure you have planned as GM to disabling/circumventing whatever magical/technological control devi...

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Bear in mind, this was over 3 decades ago and I was in high school, so common sense was not really a thing. Page 33, the items 1-5 under "Living creatures." This wasn't quite remembered right - it's more variable based on your percentage rolls and how far in the timestream you've moved, i...

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[ It gets even better if you're playing a game that allows you to grow (which increases your mass, speed, strength and damage capacity) and then, instead of switching that power off and returning to normal size, you use the shrink (mass unchanged) power directly and become a 6 inch long bullet weig...

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Granted, most of them travel between the Iowa section of CS Chi-town/CS Missouri and the megacities, or from farmland / quarries / etc. and logistic intermodal-type logistics centers, but I often have smaller and higher value cargoes transported regularly between CS States or CS and CS allies. Norm...

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Trucker OCC You know, for all the comments on it, I never got around to the core class. Alignments: Any Racial Restrictions: None; just a love of the road No problem here. There ARE a few races that wouldn't work, but most of those should be rather obvious. Any race to large or to small to pilot th...

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Not yet a year since last post, so this is resuscitation, not necromancy. All of you forgot about TMNT: Transdimensional Turtles. Mutant Hominid brought forward into the future. Gains something like 10 Bio-E per hour. Once his link to his old time was severed and he stopped gaining them, our GM wor...

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[ Gains both the powers of Growth and Shrink. He can now enlarge his Alpha to over 100' tall, or shrink it down to a mere 1" (but mass remains unchanged while shrunk, and speed goes from 2,568 MPH (mach 2.3), to 1,434 MPH (or mach 1.88) allowing him to fly through the library at faster then th...

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No, but I did once have a couple of gang bangers try and spray ether into my truck to knock me out in an area known for truckers going missing or just left dead in the lot and trucks stolen. And yes, I have zero doubt that would have been my fate had I been asleep instead of reading at the time. Do...

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And I wouldn't use the fact that I've only rarely had GMs accommodate Techno Wizard characters as an argument that Techno Wizards didn't get significant power creep. I've never actually had a player interested in playing a TW (same as I've never had one interested in playing an operator or mechanic...

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Stone to flesh in this case was from AD&D/D&D and is basically Petrification from the Book of Magic, which is of permanent duration.

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Class AZ (canadian). Use to be long haul but mostly local now. I have plenty of phone data so even when I'm doing onger runs I'm good for internet access. Need something to do while unloading afterall. I'll assume from the rest of your statement that AZ is roughly the same as A is in the U.S. And i...

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Not yet a year since last post, so this is resuscitation, not necromancy. All of you forgot about TMNT: Transdimensional Turtles. Mutant Hominid brought forward into the future. Gains something like 10 Bio-E per hour. Once his link to his old time was severed and he stopped gaining them, our GM work...

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What, you never had your truck stolen by the Lords of the Storm? No, but I did once have a couple of gang bangers try and spray ether into my truck to knock me out in an area known for truckers going missing or just left dead in the lot and trucks stolen. And yes, I have zero doubt that would have ...

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Long story short, I ruined the GM's planed adventure when I cast a spell that made GS-95 fall permanently in love with my character (forgot the name of the spell, it's been purged from PB, Love Charm, 7th level spell. It hasn't been purged like I thought, just nerfed and much more likely to lead to...

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If you are in a bar and the bouncer asks you to leave for whatever reason, in real life most people will just leave, even if they are rock hard and know they could beat up the bouncer(s). Only the ******** start a fight. You don't go too to many bars in Texas do you? In truth, all that behavior req...

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FOM changed that, introducing a bunch of spells that inflicted high damage regardless of caster level, which is significant power creep for casters. Sub-Particle Acceleration lets you do 1d6x10+ MD regardless of level, compared to Call Lightning which would make you wait until 10th level to dish ou...

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So, I am trying to find out what are the true limits of of the Nightlord's abilities. First I would like to start of with making sure I understand what they book wise cannot do... 1. Alter organic Living material. I am assuming this includes plants, flesh, bone, blood (at least now while it is pump...

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In a real world example of why they do this, they now believe Jack the Ripper was a sailor on a/several merchant ships. Looking at similar murders committed in other port cities, they were able to match them to a time when a single sailor was in each port. All the murders in each port stopped when ...

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We all behave differently in a game that we would in real life - We're a lot braver when the only real threat is losing some abstract numbers on a piece of paper rather than real pain, injury, imprisonment or otherwise. While I mostly agree with you, something many GMs forget is that we aren't play...

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It seems like a radio beats every other form of magical communication. Still I would like to understand. Does the spell, Magic Pigeon, require that the caster know the real name and have seen the face of the message they send to someone? Or can they just use their nickname or call-sign and never se...

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dataweaver wrote:Don't forget that the Regess was creating cyborgs.

OHHH!!!
Full conversion borgs that can still cast spells or use psionics!

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In a last gasp of defense I'd say play it like a Wilderness Scout in a large vehicle, or perhaps better AS a Wilderness Scout driving a large vehicle. That way, if the all-terrain cargo-schlepper hangs up in rough ground or becomes too much fo a target, the PC can always bail out and beat feet for ...

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I'd kind of like to see a new edition. but at the same time, every time a game does come out with a new edition, it seems to take what I liked and ruin it, while doubling down on the things I dislike, all while adding new, even more poorly considered things that make it worse. So on the whole, unles...

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Hey folks! Been poking around the ol' collection of books and I need some input from ya'll. I got a nice character in the works and I need a vehicle to complete the "look". I'm looking for a hovercraft cargo sort of thing. I was looking at a Triax B-Type Hover Work Vehicle (Triax 2, pg. 8...

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Thank you, killgore444, for the very well-informed critique. Yeah, not a very serious foray into post-apocalyptic commerce on my part, I admit, and the police officer in the fluff, I also admit, owed more to the 'Smokey and the Bandit' movies(which I hated) and 'Road Runner' cartoons than any reali...

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It's actually rather easy to add Robotech to any of the other PB's settings. At least if you have the book "The End of the Line" which, before Shadow Chronicles, was supposed to be the last Robotech story published. In it, the SDF-3 misjump into a world/dimension of sand and mist. EXACTLY ...

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