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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. A l...

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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 that c...

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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, and th...

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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 better...

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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 ...

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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 errat...

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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 S...

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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 e...

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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 pr...

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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 ho...

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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 interfe...

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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 hav...

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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 o...

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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 -9 ...

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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. Clearl...

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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 Kreegh...

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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 (and I...

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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 ...

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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 pisto...

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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 countin...

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Pacts with dragons can have lots of unexpected risk. Draconic logic can be complex and difficult for less intelligent life forms to understand. To dragons often all those around them are just chess pieces to manipulate to gain their own advantage. So its gifts might have a price you did not expect. ...

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All mages can see their PPE bar, not ppe uses do not know.

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yes, a few times things like furry beatless dinosaurs and even a dragon that let the my pc ride it.

Typically I do not let players start with things robot horses and such only a couple went out of their way to acquire one. One TW did build a robot turtle to ride on.

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Go one step further. Be the real Prosek who was replaced by a doppleganger, but his face/prints/DNA/whole body was altered by said doppleganger. Unable to convince anyone, he's had to join forces with the very people he hates in order to try to find some way to bring his replacement down and reassu...

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Typically no, but I might consider allowing a PC to be converted from nightbane world,or native to splicers.

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Yes, I know. Which is what I both said and directly inferred. Dying early at ~45 due to the "stress on the body" is just as narratively reflective of the process as dying in five years. One just keeps them playable in long campaigns while retaining exactly the same flavor, the other does ...

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I don't know if this will help very much, but several folks on the forums told me that the Pathfinder Fantasy Dragons and Gods books does a great job of covering Dragons for all the Palladium RPG lines. Maybe that can be of some use. The main thing that's still missing that the Rifts book would hav...

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Mack wrote:Saw an amusing joke that fits here: sell they players a gently used bag of holding. Works just like a normal bag, but everything comes out with a light coating of glitter.

Dear lord that is one heck of cursed item, the glitter bag of holding.

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No, it's not false. It's fact. Also, it's right there in black and white . Which you know since you selectively quoted from that very post. Talk about being disingenuous. You're the one who's wrong, and the one who can't admit that they are. You're also the one who keeps bringing it up repeatedly. ...

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Honestly, I greatly increase the amount of time they get. Five+<random> years is ridiculously goofy, especially for a class that isn't nearly as powerful or over-the-top as oodles of other classes. Knowing you're going to die before you reach middle-age is just as germane to the roleplaying aspect ...

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What they objected to is lumping all non-TW together as a fair/honest standard. And they are wrong as far as this conversation is concerned. "There's more than just TW items in the game." "Nuh uh, that's disingenuous and not a fair/honest standard!" "There's more letters in...

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Sources of non-TW magic items. Any spell caster with high level invocation spells. Biowizardy Japan sword master/smith Druids in england fairy any one that can make a pyramid alchemist Rune smiths (who ever makes rune weapons.) I am sure I am missing allot. (what fallows is my opinion and not a prov...

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No one disputed that, there is more than just TW in the game. What they objected to is lumping all non-TW together as a fair/honest standard. You never proved that non-TW items outnumber TW, the only number I seen provided was page count, and when I went through and counted items in the BoM there wa...

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Orin J. wrote:i've always felt that retiring a juicer is the duty of a GM, myself.

Making choices for a character is the duty of the person playing it. The GM should not be retiring/making choices for PCs.

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I don't know if this will help very much, but several folks on the forums told me that the Pathfinder Fantasy Dragons and Gods books does a great job of covering Dragons for all the Palladium RPG lines. Maybe that can be of some use. It does well at that, that is why I was confused at why they woul...

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