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Mister Death A serial killer with Natural Combat Ability, Lightning Reflexes, Living Anatomy, and Unnoteworthy/Forgettable. He was just a normal, average looking, working class stiff with glasses. At least until he discovered during a random mugging that he had a talent for killing... and enjoyed it...

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My list is pretty similar to Killer Cyborg's list, but I'd add
District 9
Equilibrium
Mutant Chronicles
Reign of Fire
No Escape
Steel Frontier
Soldier
and just because I acquired it recently, the Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future television series.

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I think the Circle of Wizards is likely a reference to the Whale Singers and their allies. Personally, I envision the non-believer to be someone who has no faith in the prophesy and believes that the whole war against the Lord of the Deep is a fools errand that will kill every one involved. He only ...

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With most games that have a skill mechanic like Rifts, I use a 'Closest to without going over' equals a better degree of success. It's mainly just a storytelling gauge. But, if you actually hit your target number (ie you roll a 55 when you need a 55 or less) I rule it's a special success that might...

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With most games that have a skill mechanic like Rifts, I use a 'Closest to without going over' equals a better degree of success. It's mainly just a storytelling gauge. But, if you actually hit your target number (ie you roll a 55 when you need a 55 or less) I rule it's a special success that might...

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With most games that have a skill mechanic like Rifts, I use a 'Closest to without going over' equals a better degree of success. It's mainly just a storytelling gauge. But, if you actually hit your target number (ie you roll a 55 when you need a 55 or less) I rule it's a special success that might ...

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IMO, Psi-swords and such should be able to harm them. Also, I believe gassing them would prove very effective unless they also happen to be immune to such attacks. Even if wearing protective breathing apparatus, I think the gas would simply mix with their dispersed molecules more easily. I'd persona...

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I believe that the authors wanted to keep things somewhat vague, allowing individual GMs to customize these things to their needs. I have always seen the Iron Juggernauts as a kind of Smart Tank, with minimal skills and a fairly direct mentality towards orders, but with just enough flexibility to m...

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Daniel Stoker wrote:Hmm.. Not from what I see in my book's version of the power.

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Nor mine now that I was able to check. I must be thinking of something different.

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Unable to check at the Moment, but IIRC, inherent in the adrenaline surge power is a 10 point increase in PS in addition to the other benefits.

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Personally, I'd still have the insanities apply. After all, you're messing with time and space, get deep enough into that and you'll encounter enough paradoxes to skew your perceptions and make you wonder if you're there now, or you're here then. The insanities don't have anything to do with the ma...

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Personally, I'd still have the insanities apply. After all, you're messing with time and space, get deep enough into that and you'll encounter enough paradoxes to skew your perceptions and make you wonder if you're there now, or you're here then.

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RGG wrote:Dr Bradford is a vampire... I'm waiting for that to be the next twist in a book.

And with all that cloning equipment, he'll never run out of food.

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I don't hate them or love them, I play them as both antagonists and protagonists. I see the CS as shades of grey, charcoal at the heart, but cloudy sky at the edges. I also don't think of them as 'Nazis'. Sure there are some elements in there, but for the most part I view the CS as the culmination o...

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Just my opinion, but I think the top 3 strongest heroes in Marvel are; 1. Hulk 2. Hercules 3. Thor Note that I'm only talking strength. Thor's got more raw power than Herc, plus that nifty hammer and girdle/belt/armor that increases his strength. But IMHO, without the foreign objects, Herc's got Tho...

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Since I brought one of my Official Marvel Handbooks (volume 7) with me today, and things are a little slow, here are the Rank 7 (ie. Capable of Lifting in 100 Tons or more) listings. Maestro (Evil Alternate Future Hulk) Magus (Evil Alternate Future Adam Warlock) Mahkizmo (Fantastic Four Foe) Meggan ...

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Resorting to fallacies won't make you right, and not everyone who can do such things are mentally disabled either, they're just a more extreme example. You are however right about the CS, the mentally disabled would be sterilized or murdered (or to put it clinically, euthanized) if their condition ...

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IMHO, while there aren't any formal educational facilities for the general public, those who can afford to can hire a tutor (CS certified of course). If your gifted and lucky, you might just find a patron in the upper classes who can get you into a University. As far as the military, I'm sure when a...

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Other than the technology and some of the skill descriptions, is there anything that needs to be done to the core of the game to update it? -STS The styles need some serious reworking. Also the OCC system is interesting of itself but I don't know how well it holds up next to the HU2 Special Trainin...

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I've been tinkering and toying with the idea of attempting a N&SS update/revamp. I've got quite a few notes scattered about, but I can never seem to find the time or energy to actually sit down and really work on it.

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I'll allow them, but generally only for low powered 'Average Joe' O.C.C.s (for example the Merc Soldier, City Rat, Rogue Scholar, Wilderness Scout, or CS Grunt.) Conversion book says scholars and adventurers, which, traditionally, excludes men at arms like the Merc Soldier and CS Grunt, but really ...

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I'll allow them, but generally only for low powered 'Average Joe' O.C.C.s (for example the Merc Soldier, City Rat, Rogue Scholar, Wilderness Scout, or CS Grunt.)

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Maybe it's a Save to determine if you launch the ejector seat before smashing into a mountain at top speed? It's hard to tell without elaboration.

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I like doing conversions of Marvel characters as sort of a mental exercise, but never with the intent of using them in a game. But then, I do the same thing with just about anything that strikes my fancy when I get a little bored.

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I had a player who would literally always make his character a stoner. Not a good idea for him to do that when most of the campaign was set in Ravenloft. The land of Borca in particular.

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I've never heard of the +1d6 to damage with a sword. if that's true (can anyone confirm) then it's a must have for all my melee pc's That's how it's stated in Dead Reign, and in RUE if I'm not mistaken, though I don't have my books to check. I personally think it should be listed among the Ancient ...

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Super Origami- "Villain! Cease you're sinful ways or face the wrath of my well crafted wooden Cranes!" Allows you the ability to fold any flat item approximately the size and thickness of a sheet of paper, regardless if its make up (ie. cardboard, thin wood, or sheet metal) into a menageri...

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Without double checking, I assume the power is meant to mimic the Cosmo-knight's ability to create a signature weapon. As far as the Hammer of the Forge storyline from the Rifter is concerned, a Cosmo-knight's weapon is insufficient to harm an Invulnerable Foe. I personally would abide by that. But ...

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An indestructable Elephant with a shark's head. Just eating and trampling everything in its path. I believe that mentioning Furbies is a violation of some kind... Wow. There must have been more to Furbies than I had been led to believe. I was just riffing an old 'Deep Thought' by Jack Handy from SN...

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Hmmm... Off the top of my head; A shadowy figure with intangibility and powers over darkness. Punish them for getting in close with a fellow that has Shrapnel or Self-Detonation type powers. An ancient alchemist who empowers random thugs and mercenaries via mystic power imbuing potions, but remains ...

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Wait...does it actually state you take time to wind up? We always had the next action taken up, rather than the previous. it just says "takes 2 attacks/actions" some people run it as a one phase build up, then hits on the next phase. others hit on the first phase, then a one phase cooldow...

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Considering the number of horrific experiments the Nazi's performed on some prisoners, an escapee from the tables joining the Allies wouldn't be a stretch. And of course theres always the possibility of a Golem created by Jewish freedom fighters, or an alliance with Cossack werewolves. Also, while ...

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Considering the number of horrific experiments the Nazi's performed on some prisoners, an escapee from the tables joining the Allies wouldn't be a stretch. And of course theres always the possibility of a Golem created by Jewish freedom fighters, or an alliance with Cossack werewolves. Also, while ...

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Considering the number of horrific experiments the Nazi's performed on some prisoners, an escapee from the tables joining the Allies wouldn't be a stretch. And of course theres always the possibility of a Golem created by Jewish freedom fighters, or an alliance with Cossack werewolves. Also, while I...

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Also: anyone have any idea how Infernals and Fox Spirits are born? Well, just spit-balling, but IMO supernatural or spirit entities tend to spontaneously 'manifest'. Either born from a fevered imagination of a God or Alien Intelligence, or the simply emerge from the void like the 'isos' in Tron: Le...

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I have a demi-god Shifter I call Sethem, son of the Aztec Goddess of vice and sin, hunting for a young girl seven months pregnant with his child. This makes me wonder, what would the spawn of a mortal and a demigod be called? Or a demigod and a god? 1/4 or 3/4 gods? This could get complicated. Anyw...

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I've always house ruled that so long as Wormwood symbiotes remain connected to their host (so long as the host is a Wormwood native), that the host is by extension something akin to an essence fragment of Wormwood, and thus the symbiotes will remain healthy so long as their host does. Should they be...

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It is possible for a Sea Inquisitor to have insanities (especially if, as the player, it's something you desire), but I'd say it's unlikely for them to start with one considering one of their class abilities is essentially an automatic minimum M.E. of 18. I don't have the book to check, but IIRC, th...

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I think I'd be tempted to lift more than a few ideas from the Requiem series that appeared in Heavy Metal magazine. Sure, that's really supposed to be a story set in Hell, but what else would a human call a planet over-run with vampires?

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Well, with a few changes to his motivation, I have a demi-god Shifter I call Sethem, who's dimension hopped around and gathered up a retinue of demonic beings from across the Megaverse. He is the son of the Aztec Goddess of vice and sin, and he makes his mother proud. Currently he is hunting for a y...

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1) Chaos Earth is essentially Rifts with a different timeline. CE takes place immediately after the Coming of the Rifts when all hell is breaking loose and it's a day to day struggle to survive. Rifts takes place a few hundred years later, when things have more or less stabilized and the remnants of...

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The closest I can think of to Broken Bone rules are covered in the 'Locks' of Ninjas and Superspies. I don't have the book with me, but IIRC, attempting to escape a lock can result in dislocating/breaking of bones, which inflicts X amount of damage direct to Hit Points. That's all I can remember off...

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Split Second, Six Stringed Samurai, and most of Oliver Gruniers efforts are really great, at least for mostly B grade material. Can't believe I forgot Split Second. Beowulf, Screamers and APEX were all third stringer C affairs, but fun anyhow. There is a Screamers 2 as well (might be a 3), and it a...

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Thought of a couple more... Reign of Fire, post apocalypse plus dragons, a winning combination! Beowulf (1999) with Christopher Lambert, simply transports the epic tale into a post-apocalypse setting. It also treats Beowulf as a demi-god type. Screamers and APEX, both more or less pretty much featur...

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Warriors of the Wasteland, from 1983. One of those Italian low-budget movies, but it boasts Fred Williamson (of many a blaxploitation film, but also of the Starsky & Hutch movie and From Dusk Till Dawn) as a roaming mercenary that uses a bow with high-tech explosive warheads he stores on his fo...

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Just my 2 cents, but I don't think he uses any Robot Combat. Telemechanics only gives him knowledge of how the suit works and allows him to pilot it and know where the trigger is for the weapon systems. It does not, however, teach him how to fight in the Power Armor. IMO, the pilot in question only ...

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Pretty much agree with everybody so far, but I might allow a metamorphed character shifting into a stronger form to gain Augmented PS. His P.S. attribute would be unchanged, just bumped up to Augmented level, and no further.

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I offer wonder what way the CS would handle a superman/Hyperion baby, raise it as a child of CS or try to kill him. IMO, that level of power, even in an infant, would be far too much of a risk for the Emperor to take. They would do whatever it took to ensure that the baby did not grow up to become ...

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I have to wonder if in Rifts Earth if ALL superhuman powers are tied to P.P.E. usage in some small way? Not so much "use X power for Y points" type stuff, but sufficient so that dog boys can tell when they are in use. Otherwise, the CS will be out for the elimination of all super powered ...

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While not Rifts books, IIRC, HU2 has some gun mods under the Hardware: Weapons Expert section. I believe that there are a few more listed in the HU2 Game Masters Guide and Aliens Unlimited as well. If you know someone with access to these books, they might be worth skimming to see if you can find so...

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