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Greg Diaczyk

The TW Golem article in Rifter #84 allows a full transference of Psionics and Magic in TW a TW Robot/Golem if the person has the Telemechanics skill. So I would say this also applies to the Psi-Tech.

Greg Diaczyk

Yes!

Awaiting final review and release by Palladium Books.

Greg Diaczyk

Version v008 has gone live on DriveThru RPG! Make sure to go and download the latest version to get access to all the new content! This is what you are now getting: 008 Added Robot R.C.C. Sheet and Tabulations (for all of you obsessive over Titan Robots and Source Book One material). Added Extra Arm...

Greg Diaczyk

Last ones: pg. 180 Android Infiltrator - Android Agent Stats - This feels like it should be a stat block? but has O.C.C. Related skill and Secondary skills like its an O.C.C.? I think this should be fixed to just being a stat block? pg. 190 Gyges Stealth VTOL - 4. Sensors & Features of Note:, C....

Greg Diaczyk

Some more: pg. 94, Helios Destroyer Robot, #4. Forearm Vibro-Blades. 4D6 M.D; base melee damage (from Robotic P.S. of 32) is listed as 2D6 M.D. and should be 2D4 M.D. (as per Rifts Ultimate Edition Robot P.S. Damage, pg. 285). Bump the P.S. to 36 or decrease the Vibro-blade damage to 2D6+2D4 or simp...

Greg Diaczyk

Found a couple more: pg. 54 Myrmidon. Opening paragraph talks about an electric torch for cutting locks, fences, etc. but the description of weapons/tools on pg. 55 has a #4. Laser Torch. Should the description not read "Laser Torch?" pg 56. Archimedes. 1. Pauldron Tool System is said to b...

Greg Diaczyk

Exactly!

Greg Diaczyk

Now maybe, its because I've been playing Palladium Games since forever, but I always liked the earlier rule set (Original Rifts Main Book pg. 34) for burst damage. It felt like I could actually kill something with concentrated fire... now I know some of the more modern stuff has dumbed down the dama...

Greg Diaczyk

Crap!

I just found this.

I received authorization from Kevin to go ahead and make a Nightbane Automated Character Sheet and it is nearly completed... I hope I am not stepping on your toes Prysus?

Greg Diaczyk

A couple of things regarding Fatigue: 1. The Save reference is found in the Operator O.C.C. definition (p.92) 2. I can find nothing in the way of definition/consequences for 'Fatigue'. Do you know where it is stated? Thanks! So as I already mentioned I have always thought of Fatigue as on/off kind ...

Greg Diaczyk

Save vs. Pain So I have only every seen save vs. Pain as a state, I do not actually recall anything with penalties or other issues caused by failing to save. I do know that Juicers and Crazies are immune to pain (as to their write ups) down to a certain Hit Point level, but I have never seen any co...

Greg Diaczyk

with the list that you selected for RACS: H.F So Horror Factor is talked about on page 367 of RUE under the Psychic Combat section. It was originally introduced in the Beyond the Supernatural game as a mechanic to explain the "Frozen with Fear" concept. In the world of Rifts Earth where dr...

Greg Diaczyk

Greg, That's helpful. In fact just confirming something like: "The ruling on it are kind of vague..." is helpful, so that I can be confident I'm not missing something else I should know. Cheers! - s.west If its further comfort I have added the missing entangle bonus to the Roping skill in...

Greg Diaczyk

Yeah that's a tricky one. If a Cowboy or Saddle Tramp have both Roping and W.P. Rope they get a +2 to strike and +2 to disarm with a lasso, implying that the skills are interrelated (which you would add as a custom bonus). The strike must be for getting the Lasso on a target with W.P. Rope, but with...

Greg Diaczyk

Ah!

Sorry I see it now, Horsemanship: Sea Serpents should be Horsemanship: Serpent Hunter in L39 of the Data Sheet.

Greg Diaczyk

Ah I see the end letter (G) doesn't match the type of horsemanship, i.e. Horsemanship: General is (G), but Serpent Hunter should be something like (SH)?

I'll put that into the next update.

Greg Diaczyk

The bonuses only "turn on" if you enter "Horsemanship: Sea Serpent" in the Combat Skills (melee) section of the Main Sheet, if you want the Percentages you need to enter them on the Skills Sheet.

Or is there another error that I am missing?

Greg Diaczyk

Regarding this answer, I want to be sure I understand what you're saying. When you say, "The sources for the RUE are as follows:", are you saying that those references specifically call out RUE? Also, did you start this project (RACS) from within RUE and then branch out from there to reso...

Greg Diaczyk

Hey s.west here's the answer to your questions: Greetings Greg, As a matter of curiosity only (I came across this while trying to add some custom calculations), I am wondering where some of the bonuses (from skills) are stored in the workbook? I'll limit my question to one skill in particular: Physi...

Greg Diaczyk

So the Official rifts Excel Character sheet that I purchased from the Palladium website lists a Bonus to Horror Factor from ME. Where is this rule printed? When I was designing the interface for the Main Page I wanted quick and easy access for various bonuses and since most of the stuff was attribu...

Greg Diaczyk

swest/Prysus

The 005 Update is now live and I have revised the Ranged Combat, W.P. Sharpshooting and Sniper (the +2 was not showing up) to be in line with our conversation above detailing how a Ranged Strike, Aimed Shot, Called Shot and Aimed Called Shot work in Rifts better.

Greg Diaczyk

First, thank you for building it (or getting them to let you publish it). Been waiting like, years. Does additional data entry mean replacing items in the existing data sheet, or can the references be expanded upon in the main sheet. [I admit excel melts my brain like it's a natural ability] Thanks...

Greg Diaczyk

Sorry, but I don't understand how what you wrote in response answers the question about the bonus to strike. In fact, the word 'strike' doesn't appear in your answer at all... Also, I forgot to highlight the portion about shooting at 50% past the range limit as being done "without benefit of a...

Greg Diaczyk

Ok, so pick W.P. Archery from the dropdown menu under COMBAT SKILLS (MELEE) and it will populate a 2 Attack, 1 Parry, so you know that you can use the longbow to parry attacks. Now pick W.P. Archery in the COMAT SKILLS (RANGED) will reveal a 2 Attack and a 1 Aim. This means that you can fire 2 arrow...

Greg Diaczyk

Ok, new question: I see on the "COMBAT SKILL (MELEE)" table that there is a box to provide a bonus to Strike . I see no such box in the "COMBAT SKILLS (RANGED)" table even though, for instance, the longbow specifies a "+1 to strike at levels 1,2,4,..." What am I missin...

Greg Diaczyk

By the way, I'm also wondering where one puts normal M.D.C. Body Armor (e.g., the Crusader armor found on page 267 of RUE). The Cybernetics & Bionics page doesn't seem to be appropriate, as there are no augmentations, or other 'extras' to go with it... just M.D.C. damage. And, if one looks at t...

Greg Diaczyk

Ok, did that. Regarding incrementing the Living Armor's M.D.C., by level, the only tricky part was dealing with the "Chest Plate (main body)" M.D.C., which adds 1D6/level starting at level 4. So what I did was to generate all 12 of the 1D6 dice rolls, put them into a running sum, and inde...

Greg Diaczyk

Did you catch anything else? Well, this isn't a 'catch', but I am struggling to figure out where to put something. Specifically, I'm creating a Cyber-Knight, and I can't figure out where I would account for the character's Cyber-Armor (Living Armor). As far as I can tell, only S.D.C. Armor has an A...

Greg Diaczyk

Ha! That my friend would be a bug...seems like I forgot to add the initiative bonus for Juggling... But if you try other skills like Deadball it will show up. Also some skills like Quick Draw and Sharpshooting are sub-skill dependent, i.e. you need to be holding a handgun to be able to gain the init...

Greg Diaczyk

Greetings, I'm working through my first trial of RACS and I'm wondering something: Shouldn't there be a box on the Main page for an Initiative Bonus? (b.t.w., I'm also new to Rifts... so, there's that.) Thanks! - s.west Yes there is. When you pick a hand to hand combat style under COMBAT SKILLS (ME...

Greg Diaczyk

Do I have to purchase this again to get the 003 release? No, its a free update for those who have already purchased it once. Did you get in on DriveThru or here on the Palladium Store? Palladium Store You should be able to download the most updated version from the link you used to download it in t...

Greg Diaczyk

There is an article in Rifter #84, starting on page 44 Golems in the Myst you might find interesting, it has expanded rules for TW Golems and Robots. One of the "benefits" of a TW Robot is that accidental Transferred Intelligence creation absorbs the entirety of a TW, so he has full access...

Greg Diaczyk

Do I have to purchase this again to get the 003 release? No, its a free update for those who have already purchased it once. Did you get in on DriveThru or here on the Palladium Store? Palladium Store You should be able to download the most updated version from the link you used to download it in t...

Greg Diaczyk

Some people were having trouble with using the Dropdown Menus on the Spells and Cybernetics Sheets in older version of Excel, I found the backward compatible bug and have fixed it. The new 004 Release will have the fix in it and it will be uploaded soon.

Greg Diaczyk

Kagashi wrote:Do I have to purchase this again to get the 003 release?

No, its a free update for those who have already purchased it once.

Did you get in on DriveThru or here on the Palladium Store?

Greg Diaczyk

The 003 Update has been released, here are the things that have have been changed/added: 1. A checkmark box that allows you to turn the Dice Roller On/Off, some people were irritated with it always on. 2. Added the standard password (see the Instruction Sheet) to the Data sheet so people can create ...

Greg Diaczyk

I noticed the excel template at the palladium store says it needs excel 16 or above to work. Has anyone used an older version. I have office 2007 and I don't want to buy a new version just to use a template. Has anyone here used office 2007 or 2010 to view this template??? Emerald I have run it in ...

Greg Diaczyk

Hey Janos2001, You should really look at the tutorials on Youtube: m But specifically this one at time interval: 6:10 m As observed you can type in the spell name, but if you click on the cell, a dropdown menu box and down arrow will appear to the right of the cell. click on the arrow and the dropd...

Greg Diaczyk

Prysus, thanks for the feedback. 1: Typo on "Instructions" tab, User Instructions, "Main" Sheet: In some cases (such as the skills), the list is quit large ... Fixed 2: On the "Main" tab, took me a moment to figure out why the bonuses from Boxing weren't showing up in t...

Greg Diaczyk

I might be making some serious mistakes, but The magic Section does not seem to have drop down menus available (or at least, not on the one I got). Instead you have to type in the spell name itself, at which time it does fill in the rest to a certain point. If the description is to long it will end...

Greg Diaczyk

Thank you everyone for the great feedback and suggestions. I am in the process of editing/updating the file and will release it as soon as it is done. Would people be interesting in seeing a video on "How to Make A Character" as I go through making a character in the character sheet? Shado...

Greg Diaczyk

Hey folks, This threat is for anyone who has questions about the Rifts Automated Character Sheet, how to use it, what's part of it, troubleshooting issues, etc. Feel free to post away and I'll do my best to answer it. Depending on the nature of the threat, it could be a Criminal Offence. I very muc...

Greg Diaczyk

I've used the sheet, and like it. I have noticed the strength calculations seem to be high. Are the using the HU formula, because it seems high to me. Yes, you are correct, the lifting and carry capacity are from Heroes Unlimited. I've always found it more useful especially when a dragon tries to p...

Greg Diaczyk

I've used the sheet, and like it. I have noticed the strength calculations seem to be high. Are the using the HU formula, because it seems high to me. Yes, you are correct, the lifting and carry capacity are from Heroes Unlimited. I've always found it more useful especially when a dragon tries to p...

Greg Diaczyk

Fantastic Content. The more I use RACS the more I Love it. Could use a bit of a fix though, For PP and PE, the bonuses gained calculate past 30, Our game group likes to tie in HU2 with our Rifts so Stats get chunky. The fix so far has been to adjust our bonuses accordingly. You are correct, there i...

Greg Diaczyk

Videos for: Psionics, Skills, Magic, Cybernetics & Bionics as well as Advanced Options are now live!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUWjzM ... tdqdAuQ5kQ

Greg Diaczyk

Yes, there a bunch of videos going up in the next 24 our so I think? all about 6 mins, with the last one 14 minutes. Each goes through the ins and outs of the sheets. The last one is an "Advanced Options" and it talks about protecting/unprotecting sheets, moving things around etc. Note: Th...

Greg Diaczyk

Warshield73 It was kind of a stealth release...Many of Palladium products get waylaid by a number of factors and we wanted to not disappoint, so we held off until the project was ready for release. Mack It took about 10 years, with the bulk of it being done in the last 2 years. It started as a simp...

Greg Diaczyk

Hey folks, The Rifts Automated Character sheet is now up on DriveThruRPG: m And the instructional Videos are starting to roll out on the Palladium Books Inc. YouTube Channel: m This thread is for anyone who has questions about the Rifts Automated Character Sheet, how to use it, what's part of it, tr...

Greg Diaczyk

Just got my copy of the Rifts Bestiary Ones (and loving it) and was wondering what people's thoughts were on the implications for practitioners of magic using the various animal related spells, specifically: Repel Animals, Influence the Beast, Metamorphosis: Animal, Tame Beast and Summon and Control...

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