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- Sun Feb 04, 2024 10:47 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: What If Tolkeen Won...
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5021
Re: What If Tolkeen Won...
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...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 5:39 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: West of the Rockies
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1992
Re: West of the Rockies
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...
Re: Whykin
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...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 11:23 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Your Opinion: How Would Your Change the Rifts Setting?
- Replies: 95
- Views: 19455
Re: Your Opinion: How Would Your Change the Rifts Setting?
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.
Have the people of CS over through corrupt nazi regime.
Stop making world books.
Start creating new worlds to explore.
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 11:16 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Skills Recycle and Salvage
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2398
Re: Skills Recycle and Salvage
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...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:34 pm
- Forum: All Things Palladium Books®
- Topic: Into box sets.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2738
Into box sets.
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?
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?
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 2:02 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: question about magic
- Replies: 5
- Views: 784
Re: question about magic
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.
While a natural ability of a Supernatural race it still a magic affect. So will be affected.
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 2:00 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Update of old OCCs.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4824
Re: Update of old OCCs.
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...
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 12:19 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Update of old OCCs.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4824
Re: Update of old OCCs.
They could just make a big book of OCCS.
Re: TW skill
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 ...
TW skill
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.)
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.)
- Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:28 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Update of old OCCs.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4824
Re: Update of old OCCs.
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...
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 11:17 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Update of old OCCs.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4824
Re: Update of old OCCs.
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...
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:14 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Update of old OCCs.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4824
Update of old OCCs.
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...
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:07 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Coalition Civil War …. Go!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 5889
Re: Coalition Civil War …. Go!
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...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 1:08 am
- Forum: Gamers Looking for Other Gamers
- Topic: RIFTS on Roll20
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1408
Re: RIFTS on Roll20
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
https://discord.com/channels/4207310306 ... 1587395675
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:48 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Environmental Body Armor and Magic Users
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2301
Re: Environmental Body Armor and Magic Users
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...
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:43 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Environmental Body Armor and Magic Users
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2301
Re: Environmental Body Armor and Magic Users
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...
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:40 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Rider O.C.C.s
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1654
Re: Rider O.C.C.s
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.
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:26 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Coalition Civil War …. Go!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 5889
Re: Coalition Civil War …. Go!
The CS already had a civil war when FQ left.
I could see Dr Bradford going rouge and Lone star breaking away next.
I could see Dr Bradford going rouge and Lone star breaking away next.
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:24 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Spoiled for Choice? Wizards cause problems
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3889
Re: Spoiled for Choice? Wizards cause problems
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...
- Thu Apr 13, 2023 7:42 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Guys In ANY game system, is it possible to zombify a cyborg?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2067
Re: Guys In ANY game system, is it possible to zombify a cyb
If a TW was to build create zombie into Cyberware they might be able to create a zombie cyborg.
- Thu Apr 13, 2023 7:26 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: I was wondering conceal Magic spell...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1703
Re: I was wondering conceal Magic spell...
Even without a spell a mage has way to spend most their PPE to be below detectable level of dogboys and psi-stalkers.
- Thu Apr 13, 2023 7:15 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Magic weak, tech is better
- Replies: 53
- Views: 5405
Re: Magic weak, tech is better
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...
- Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:05 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Magic weak, tech is better
- Replies: 53
- Views: 5405
Re: Magic weak, tech is better
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 ...
- Thu Apr 13, 2023 11:59 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Magic weak, tech is better
- Replies: 53
- Views: 5405
Re: Magic weak, tech is better
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...
- Wed Apr 12, 2023 9:17 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Magic weak, tech is better
- Replies: 53
- Views: 5405
Re: Magic weak, tech is better
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...
- Wed Apr 12, 2023 7:50 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Power Line Repair---B.E. or E.E.?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3121
Re: Power Line Repair---B.E. or E.E.?
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.
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 7:59 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Guys In ANY game system, is it possible to zombify a cyborg?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2067
Re: Guys In ANY game system, is it possible to zombify a cyb
Yes, a partial conversion could be zombified but the bionics might not work.
There are TW zombie cyborgs as well.
There are TW zombie cyborgs as well.
- Sun Apr 09, 2023 11:58 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Mega-Damage
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5138
Re: Mega-Damage
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...
- Sun Apr 09, 2023 11:43 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Genetic Engineering and Bio-Wizardry?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2578
Re: Genetic Engineering and Bio-Wizardry?
While theoretically you could combine them, doing so would be up to the GM.
- Sun Apr 09, 2023 10:11 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Dog Boys and OCCs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1611
Re: Dog Boys and OCCs
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 ...
- Sun Apr 09, 2023 10:06 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Splugorth Ships
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1136
Re: Splugorth Ships
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, ...
- Sun Apr 09, 2023 11:28 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Magic weak, tech is better
- Replies: 53
- Views: 5405
Re: Magic weak, tech is better
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...
- Tue Feb 21, 2023 2:57 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: + to hit bonus's?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1860
Re: + to hit bonus's?
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...
- Fri Feb 03, 2023 3:27 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Dragons, Dragon Juicers, and Rifts
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3843
Re: Dragons, Dragon Juicers, and Rifts
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. ...
- Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:33 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: How do people "know" when they're out of PPE?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3289
Re: How do people "know" when they're out of PPE?
All mages can see their PPE bar, not ppe uses do not know.
- Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:32 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Have any of your characters ever used an exotic mount?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1932
Re: Have any of your characters ever used an exotic mount?
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.
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.
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:57 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: The family of Prosek
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4420
Re: The family of Prosek
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...
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:51 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: You guys routinely use Nightbane or Splicers material?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2736
Re: You guys routinely use Nightbane or Splicers material?
Typically no, but I might consider allowing a PC to be converted from nightbane world,or native to splicers.
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:47 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Any of you ever retire a Juicer mid campaign?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2738
Re: Any of you ever retire a Juicer mid campaign?
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 ...
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:43 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Did we ever get the official Rifts Dragons and Gods book?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2810
Re: Did we ever get the official Rifts Dragons and Gods book
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...
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:39 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: TW Bag of Holding
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13770
Re: TW Bag of Holding
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.
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:30 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: TW Bag of Holding
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13770
Re: TW Bag of Holding
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. ...
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 2:22 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Any of you ever retire a Juicer mid campaign?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2738
Re: Any of you ever retire a Juicer mid campaign?
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 ...
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 2:03 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: TW Bag of Holding
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13770
Re: TW Bag of Holding
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...
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 12:35 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: TW Bag of Holding
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13770
Re: TW Bag of Holding
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...
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 12:22 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: TW Bag of Holding
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13770
Re: TW Bag of Holding
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...
- Sat Oct 08, 2022 10:17 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Any of you ever retire a Juicer mid campaign?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2738
Re: Any of you ever retire a Juicer mid campaign?
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.
- Sat Oct 08, 2022 8:42 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Did we ever get the official Rifts Dragons and Gods book?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2810
Re: Did we ever get the official Rifts Dragons and Gods book
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...