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316 under acrobatics skill.
An automatic kick attack
Should be automatically gets kick attack
(same with gymnastics)
Unless the goal was to provide a kick attack that does not use an action.

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Assuming the attack knows (Sixth Sense or sees you turn invisible) or suspects an enemy is present they should always have the option of shooting at their opponent with penalities to hit.

Of course, if you keep track of such things as E-clip rounds and so forth, would leave an attacker out of ...

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the thing with TW it is up to each individual GM what can be done in there games. Many would stop things they see as breaking or not in line with how they see things working. So in the end ask your GM.

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Invisibility superior makes you invisible to electronic detection also.

Right, but you can't attack without breaking it. Hence the need to combine simple invisibility with AoD to get something offensively useful.

I am not so sure about that. While you are invisible the nimbus of black fire ...

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The foraging could reduce or reverse food depletion rate of food. -the quality of food from foraging based off skill rolls.
Food from foraging would be immersive based things. But the amount of food they start with is key.

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I usually play TWs so my list would be a little different.

Armor of ithan -standard tw armor/vehicle defense low PPE cost.
Mend the broken- You can use the savings on repairs to build new TW devices.
Sustain-standard TW armor/vehcile mod life support.
Invulnerability -standard TW armor mod defense ...

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The advantage of PPE over e-clips is that ppe recovers naturally, and can be harvested from ley lines. If the group does not have a e-clip charger (something that is supposed to be expensive and rare) then ppe can recovery means you can spend more time in the field.

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The easist way is to just assine numbers you can track.
Food could be either total days or number of people/days. an example would be the way one of the APT in NG2 says it has food for 8 people for a month.
Fuel for each vehicle to travel X miles and run generators for Y number of days.
Parts valued ...

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TWs should be working with non living tech. While there may be some TW cyber/bioware however any regenerating living armor would force out such implants.

I would not allow a TW to augment biomancy armor, living armor, millennium tree armor ect in my games.

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The occ is in a book that was published 30 years ago. (1994) The way occs are written has changed, many old occs need to be updated to RUE format. I would look at the updated Triax occs in rifter 55 (PA commando, or intellegence agent.) or CS commando/SF classes.

Me personally I despise the ...

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PB does have rules for changing your class. It recommends to limited it to one time, you can find the rules in High seas Adeventures for PF. (a earlier draft is in the cutting room floor under PF on the PB websight) there is a school in NG book that likely has courses for combat classes. Most major ...

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The TW ability to make TW devices, is based off a skill found in the list of normal OCC skills not as a ability. So it could be possible to learn the TW skill or transfer it with instill knowledge.

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Most resurrection in rifts does not remove injuries or cause of death. So resurrecting a juicer that died to last call, will still have the burn out last call death looming over their head. So you would just bring them back to die again.

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NG has a back pack/hip style power pack. Is that what you are thinking of?

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1 yes.
2 based off the most updated dual classing rules in PB you get the Highest PPE (most classes are setting base PPE to X not adding X to base PPE at first level. The Demi-god bonus to base PPE would be added it is worded different.)
3 same as above when multiple OCC grant the same type of bonus ...

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well it was clear that the Tolkeen even though they thought they won had no intention of invading CS territory.

So if they had won, we would have a magic based some what fleshed out city to use as a back drop. (Some bad elements in it.) Instead they wait until it gets destroyed to give us a map ...

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There are 4 locations off the top of my head that make good bases for tech nations.

-The area around Seattle, you have Microsoft, Boeing and the Bremintion naval ship yard.

Joint base Lewis McCord(JBLM) could also be a tech center.

Yakama in western WA has another large military training base ...

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As far as the Cyber-Knight goes, well look at Reids Rangers and Lazarious. Another option could be that Erin Tarn never actually visited Whykin and it's some other type of OCC.

The SoT cyberknights book had fallen cyber knights. Basically they do not loose their powers for breaking the code ...

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Get rid of merc town.
Have the people of CS over through corrupt nazi regime.
Stop making world books.

Start creating new worlds to explore.

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I would look at it this way.

Recycle take it down to base materials to build something new, or for sell.

Salvage, getting usable parts for repairs and material to sell.

that means recycling would be a better for when you need to recover materials to build with, and in cities. Salvage would be ...

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One thing I notice PB does not have is intro box sets.
Basically, a simplified rule set pregen characters and maybe an adventure or two to introduce new players to PB games. Most RPGs now have a beginners gate way box set.

What do you think would it be a good idea?

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The natural ability to turn invisible at will is stated to be the same as the spell invisibility simple.

While a natural ability of a Supernatural race it still a magic affect. So will be affected.

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The GMG and BoM are good refence books even though they are out dated. Requiring people to rebuy a bunch of books they already own to get the updated OCC seams a horrible system to me. A new book can justify the time better as it is a potential income source. If we wait for the spirt to move them it ...

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They could just make a big book of OCCS.

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The Superpsionic power of "Mind Bond" is the first to come to mind.

I suppose under the "right" circumstances a mystic might be able to acquire the ability for a couple of weeks. Still has to put in the PPE, cast the spells, destroy the gems in the constrution process, and make the skill check ...

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So rereading the TW occ. I discovered something odd.
Creation of TW items is not listed as a class power in RUE.
It is instead listed as a exclusive OCC skill.

What would happen if a non-Tw temporary or permanently gained the TW creation skill?

(There are few cannon ways this could happen.)

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I thought the I heard the older books had "shadow updates" in new printings that where supposed to bring RMB-era books up to RUE-era standards?
Shadow updates are a bad system.
If the goal is to make is so players do not feel the need to rebuy a book, doing a update with an official errata would ...

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There is one Character Class that needs some clarification with an update. That is the Titan Juicer in the Juicer Uprising. When the gamebook was written SNPS was just a PS score above 25. The Lexicon meaning has since changed to mean a mystical type of PS.
Opposed to the 'New' lexicon meaning of ...

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Has there been much update on old OCCs.

There a few quite a few OCCS that need to be revised to match the current rules.
As well as others that need to be updated to be put in line with current creation style.

These are primarily occs in regions outside of NA like Triax and Japan.
The ninja TW for ...

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Wasn't Erin Tarn in Africa, then Wormwood, when Lady Prosek was rescued?

Well she could have been do all of that while "imprisoned". Erin Tarn has actually been pretty quiet since her "rescue".
Photo of her younger self is on the back of her book.
I would think photos of Lady prosek are ...

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I would say list it in the discord as well. It gets some trafic not here. (I work Mondays so that may not be good.)

https://discord.com/channels/4207310306 ... 1587395675

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I know this is slightly off-topic, but do any of you know if there's an O.C.C. that grants spellcasting but which isn't a Practitioner/Creature of Magic class? Kind of like how several classes grant psionics but aren't Psychic classes.

I was wondering mostly because I was thinking about making a ...

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I know there has been a rule about EBA body armor causing problems with Magic users magic. I am having trouble finding where it says this in the RMB and Ultimate Edition. Does anyone have any further information on this ruling? Thanks!

It’s not in the RMB; mages could wear any armor without ...

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A Phaeton Juicer combat biker would be a fairly bad mo fool of a biker. While there may be other obscure ones they would be the go to bad mo fool for a biker gang. Not to mention the mot common in NA.

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The CS already had a civil war when FQ left.

I could see Dr Bradford going rouge and Lone star breaking away next.

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It really comes down to the players. Some are good at finding being creative with their spells and equipment quickly and efficiently. Some get distracted by the choices and slow the game or make poor choices.
Magic users are defiantly one of the harder to play because of the amount of choices.

I ...

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If a TW was to build create zombie into Cyberware they might be able to create a zombie cyborg.

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Even without a spell a mage has way to spend most their PPE to be below detectable level of dogboys and psi-stalkers.

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looking at it from the persepctive of the GM, my strategey for making magic users feel contributing can be summed up with "magic is only as powerful as it's prep time". magic can do a LOT of stuff nothing else can and used correctly can win you a lot of fights that would not be winnible otherwise ...

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Not standard equipment, but note to self.

Requisition thermal optics for dealing with Invisibility Simple
Back up C5 Pump Pistol for Impervious to Energy
Not sure thermal optics work the spell says only people with the ability to see invisible can see them.

Although the penalty should have been ...

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Pulse rifles so energy weapons of some sort. Is there a rason you did not use a spell like impervious to energy?
It was an old build I pulled out that didn't have much combat related spells, so no ItoE. I wanted to see how it would fare just trying to shoot back with no mystical shenanigans ...

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So, thought I'd try an experiment this weekend. Direct combat: Lizard Mage (12th LLW/8th Temporal Warrior) vs six heavily armed Kreeghor warriors using tech.

Early on, the Lizard Mage feigned weakness to lure the Kreeghor in and, as they charged, let loose with fire bolt after fire bolt. The ...

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drewkitty ~..~ wrote:
Killer Cyborg wrote:Hm.
Realistically, it’d be its own skill.
...snip

Agrees with KC on this.

Saw a skill for it in house rules for a game, but not my house rule so not sure if it would be right to share.

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Yes, a partial conversion could be zombified but the bionics might not work.

There are TW zombie cyborgs as well.

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I agree that certain things about it are unbalanced, but overall, I think it works just fine.

What it needs is essentially breaking down into categories, such that everyone does the essentially the same damage based upon that. It would equalise stuff out.

So say when it comes to MDC Handguns ...

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While theoretically you could combine them, doing so would be up to the GM.

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Want to know.

Are Dog Boys restricted to the Dog Boy RCC?

Or can they be free born and begin as any OCC?

Or "just" adventurer OCCs?

If they are a CS deserter, can they pick another OCC?
No Lone star has alternate occ for dog boys and feral are known to be non dog boy OCCs.

As long as the OCC ...

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Vehicle defaults is to assume Robot-level sensors in other vehicles. World Book 7 doesn't have these two vessels, but two different ones with magical sensors which could be substituted in I suppose (maybe for the Mothership and not the Raider)
I do not think so, it is never stated to my knowledge ...

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Matching up one strength to another's weakness does not prove weakness.
Damage is not magic strength.

Lets say there is a fight between two humans 1 is a tech user in MDC body armor 100MDC with a laser rifle, plasma weapon and ion pistol, the other is a mystic knight armed only with a TW laser ...

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Chaos Earth: P.P. always matters.
Rifts UE: P.P. is just for punching and cutting, not for shooting.

Chaos Earth page 149 “Character P.P. Bonuses do NOT count when shooting an automatic weapon, rail gun, shotgun, energy weapon or any modern weapon.”
If I recall correctly older books had PP ...

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