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Lord Z

I have been on an Ito kick recently. I mean reading the horror mangas of Junji Ito. Most of it would not make for rewarding roleplaying, but small stories here and there would adapt to BtS beautifully. I did that just last night when I made an adaptation of "The Intruder" a short story for...

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Fantastic after-action report, Captain. I enjoyed every line.

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This came up when we held a round table discussion of the first edition book for the podcast that I was co-hosting with Doublenix. I think it was Mr Loucifer who suggested that the cover model was the randomly generated monster from the GM's section in the back of the book. To my mind, this is almos...

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It is a solid show. I am up to Episode 11 and enjoying the grind of getting caught up.

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Does no one want to talk about their submissions on the show?

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Nobody?

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For anyone who doesn't know, Doublenix and I have a podcast now. We haven't addressed any Palladium subjects directly yet, partly because we wanted to establish our show's identity before being compared to the Palladium-centric gaming shows. We just uploaded our 7th episode tonight. We are gearing u...

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I thank you for keeping us informed, Prysus. Your diligence is admirable. For anyone who doesn't know, Doublenix and I have a podcast now. We haven't addressed any Palladium subjects directly yet, partly because we wanted to establish our show's identity before being compared to the Palladium-centri...

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Black-Eyed Children have become a very popular urban legends in recent years. The Black-Eyed Children (sometimes called Black-Eyed People, Black-Eyed Kids, BEKs, or BECs) are reported to approach victims at the front doors and ask to be allowed inside. These children are distinctive due to their sol...

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Mwa-ha-ha, I have dragged Mr. Loucifer away from the House to work on another project. You may have him back -- or the shell of the man that is left -- when I am done.

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Honestly, Rifts is not the best game for players who are brand new to gaming. The rules are moderately complicated, and the setting is very complicated.

If you are determined to run Rifts for new gamers, check out the suggestions that I made earlier tonight in the other thread.

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Knowing the alignments of the PCs would be more useful to me than knowing the specific classes. Anyway, the classic HL&S, The Boogie Man by Eric Thompson (Rifters Index & Adventures Volume 2) always works for a new group. Basically, a child goes missing, and the PCs are the closest people wh...

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Thank you for these charts, Mo.

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Regarding the Mystically Bestowed class, yeah they can be quite potent. I roleplayed a Mystically Bestowed character in a huge cross-genre world-hopping pbp campaign that Logan the Defiant ran for a long time. I built her to be a grown-up version of the magical girl anime concept. I am thinking that...

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Okay, I was thinking of an answer to the question. Instead, I liked Krate's answer much better than my own. To that, I will just add that the Court will be attempting to buy up influence in places where things happen like Century Station, but its efforts will be slowed by the presence of other super...

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Oh yeah, Mr. Loucifer has a Court agent-character who is a former U.S. Army officer and expert in demolitions. Boom = fun.

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First of all, I apologize for doing zilch on Laz...org. A schedule change has kept me away from home a heck of a lot recently. I am only home for about 7 hours per day, and I spend that time sleeping. The .org still hates my mobile browser, so posting while away from home is not really an option. To...

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Let me think about that a bit, Gaby.

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I enjoyed reading about the Penanggalan. Thanks for the link, GB.

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I should mention that there was an excellent fat article on Yokai submitted to the Rifter Zero project. This particular article was set for BtS so the monsters may or may not be present in Rifts Japan.

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I should be able to participate some in the upcoming month. I don't know how I would yet. It would likely be some minor involvement in the storylines of others than something new and ambitious for my own characters. Professor Ali (Sensitive & scholar of Middle Eastern history) is still in the de...

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Hello Jasper, Thank you very much for your kind words. I am more than pleased to answer some questions. The suits are patterned off of the tarot decks. I was confused, not Buzzard. The minor psychics got moved into a some material I added to The Rifter #0.1. That project is still up in the air. Mino...

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Happy Shameless Promotion Month! Yeah, it is a jerk move of me to drop back into this forum after months away just to promote something. I can cope with the guilt, if you can cope with me. So, let the shilling begin... My wife is currently writing a new novel in serial format. She is posting new cha...

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Lord B, welcome to the neighborhood. By 'neighbor', I mean that I am waaaaay south of you. Just so you know, there is a local convention coming up, Ancient City Con, on July 20th through 22nd. I think I will be working that weekend, but some gamers that I know will be there.

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Yooooou are trying to confuse me -- and there is no challenge in it!

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Another Shadow Person story occurred in a recent episode of Jim Harold's Campfire. It's the first story of the episode about five minutes into the program. Link! I will mention this in the .Org also, because Raven Davenport loves his Shadow People stories.

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I've only heard half of this episode thus far, but it is already one of the best ghost stories I have ever heard. It's about a haunted house. Link

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That's a good idea, Ricky. It does certainly look a little cleaner. We all appreciate that you resisted any temptations for conversions to or from the Palladium system.

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I have been a lazy s.o.b. doing nothing around here. In fact, I haven't been doing anything Palladium-related other than being a player in a few play-by-post games. I will be back into the thick of it when Julius finishes reading through The Rifter #0.1.

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Thank you for the link, Prysus. I wasn't even aware that there was a new episode of Gateway. Kevin also mentioned 0.1 and 0.2 in the last Weekly Update, only saying that these products were in production. Go Julius, go!

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This update is much appreciated, IO. Thanks go out to both you and Julius.

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My mother's dog -- her breath is toxic enough to slay dragons. Okay seriously, the Kroguar is an excellent choice and a nice finale. If you are looking for something more deadly, one of the Lords of Hades has the title 'Lord of the Sulphur Pits.' For something a little less deadly, there are the Sku...

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tmikesecrist3, if the goal is to gather wealth, I would suggest your bad guys are experimenting with alchemy. One of the major goals of alchemy was the ability to turn lead to gold. Exporting precious metals from a remote non-existent mine, perhaps in a Latin American country where Odessa is operati...

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Black Blizzard During the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s, a storm called Black Sunday occurred on April 14, 1935. This particular windstorm displaced more cubic meters of dirt than the entire Panama Canal project. On that afternoon, a small group of travelers are forced off the road and seek shelter ...

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I am revising the Raven-Hafoot story this evening. I might post it or just some of it tonight.

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Thank you, Hibik. That helps.

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Excellent stuff, everyone! As for the Babysitter Class reference, it did come from Erick's Victim Campaign section of the first edition. Although the term 'Babysitter O.C.C.' probably never specifically appeared, Erick did outline how the characters had a specific collection of Babysitter Skills whi...

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I just read that character sheet. Conrad is an excellent example of an interesting character build. I will be villainously stealing him for games in the future.

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I like the concept, Shang. I especially like the aspect about discussing the discussion out of character first. It's too bad that I don't have any magic-practicing characters on .org. On a different note, are the Toaist arcanists really less potent? They can take Tai Chi, can't they? If so, they can...

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I have good news for you, Involved! The submission deadline for the horror anthology has been moved back. The new deadline is August 1st.

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Good news for contributors -- the submission deadline has been pushed back to August 1st. Trinity Gateways has already received about 20 or so submissions, so the August 1st deadline is very likely to be the final deadline.

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I could use a summary of the entire month of April, actually.

This is the Raven Davenport I mentioned.

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Back off man, I'm a scientist.

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I found the original spider article. It did happen in Australia. Link to the web (pun intended)

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Raven Davenport now has his own Facebook page -- just saying.

Now, could someone please give me a brief summary of what has been happening on the .org? I particularly am interested if any new developments have happened in the Shadowy Cult storyline, but any summaries would be helpful.

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For those who have not been following, TSW caused quite a stir on Facebook last week. Funcom arranged a challenge for the beta players which somehow (I am not in the beta) involved in-game rewards for recruiting people into your faction. The recruitment was done entirely through Facebook friending (...

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It's a matter of personal preference. As I age as a gamer, I grow to appreciate a shorter list of broader skills. Other gamers prefer a full page or more of highly specialized skills, especially when some of those skills over unique benefits like attribute boosts or combat bonuses. I can see both si...

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Link! I remember someone, I think Mr. Loucifer, posting a story about spiders in Australia. The story involved spiders driven by a flood into farmlands and basically covering everything in sight with webs. Well, these events are not limited to Australia, it would seem. Pakistan is experiencing the ...

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Sorry, I never saw that article. Concerning the specific situation of your player, it seems like you are on the right track already. If your concern is game balance, than a Rifter article with guidelines is not necessarily more balanced or more playtested than the solutions you and your player have ...

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The horror fiction anthology has received two outside submissions thus far. There is still room and time left for more submissions.

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