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I personally didn't care for the Special Trainng Categry Updates by Matt Reeves. They were needlessly complicated and added aspects that pretty much dictate how to play your character rather than adding anythng useful. yeah thats fair, its a bit too indepth really. I'm working on them up a bit more...

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This has been discussed a few times in other topics but what I have always wanted is series of digital products that I call Rogues Galleries and all they are is a collection of single sheets for various generic bad guys with just average stats and equipment. No names, no physical descriptions, just...

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Also, what's Dark City? That sounds like exactly my jam. Edit: honestly, there has to be a market for it. Some of the most popular comics are relatively "low powered". Spiderman, the Punisher, BATMAN. Edit2: also, if they are especially concerned about sales, they could release the more &...

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I like to think that Batman is every Special Training category. Stealth and misdirection with sleight of hand, cunning detective, high tech hacker, infiltrator of anywhere, master of martial arts, track down anyone and anticipate their actions.

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whatcha got in mind?

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I'd make the crit chance 2 pts better than the deathblow

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What I've been doing, which some players like, others do not, is that we remove the AR from armor altogether. You get to choose when your armor is struck. Now this does guarantee something like 'you're not just going to get shot in the head on a nat 20 and thats the end of you' but I will point out ...

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I think it also comes down to 'how much draw is there for it?' Let us assume that Palladium is not in good shape. I don't know either way if it is or not but lets assume a worse case scenario. Is there enough of a draw for a book focusing on this subset of Heroes Unlimited? The Powers Unlimited book...

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yeah I've been tempted to go back for another go at those, simplify them up a bit, and ensure all mechanics work across all the characters for consistency.

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I thought I'd throw this up there for anyone who wished to read a bit of a review. Full review of each article at the link. Scholar’s Review #59: Rifter #85 . After a subdued silence, we have the Rifter roaring back with a meaty, 224 page long, annual entry. Supporting all the PB gaming systems, we...

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Transmutation is very very powerful. So much so that I banned it

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totally, their only real asset is that they work together. Using anything as a weapon is okay and all, but 1D4 damage is the same as a fist, so how does it really matter? W.P. Bonuses. You don't get any W.P. bonuses to your fist, you only get them with weapons. Moo Gi Gong gives you a W.P. in every...

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a lot more backlash here than I expected. Huh.

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Both of my games are with the same pregen group known as the Paragons. They're larger than life heroes in palladium fantasy (in a pseudo-alternative timeline) Its meant to be a bit more high octane and high fantasy, The sort of world where you might deal with enormous polar bears made of ice, or ste...

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as for rest I just mean 'an hour's rest', no metered recovery period. Mages in film and TV can be exhausted in combat and then recover quickly, there's no reason it can't be the same here especially because both mages and psychics in a high powered game are going to be underwhelming compared to the ...

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totally, their only real asset is that they work together. Using anything as a weapon is okay and all, but 1D4 damage is the same as a fist, so how does it really matter?

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I've got two I want to run myself. IDK where to submit them currently. I do know the two ppl who generally take care of this are both waylaid unfortunately.

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same here, nothing selected this time, awww well. But yeah, I'll tighten up what I wrote and unify things a bit.

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I actually was meaning to look into the phase style combat. Can I get a link?

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yeah I do agree that you shouldn't just throw in new rules in a supplement. If you do at least errata the main books. Heck do what Jolly Blackburn did, print out the updated/fixed rule in its new place, and let players paste the addendum into their rulebook. it was really novel

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1. Active combat. Anything else feels like I'm helpless 2. Armor degradation 3. P.P.E. everything else is negligible to me, in terms of mechanics. Yes I like SDC, and percentile skills, but those three are my necessities. I think I can do without Five hundred frickin skills A dozen attacks per round...

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there's a ton of changes that could be made, I think its more important to ask 'what feels like Palladium?' if we remove active defense from the game, does it still feel like Palladium to you? How about if we lump dodge and parry into a single defense roll, how about now? What if we lower the attack...

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falsify evidence? I could see a power that essentially erases all DNA signs from anyone not present in an area, or even a companion power to Forgettable, that the person never leaves footprints or fingerprints, never leaves DNA at scenes, etc.

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I am attempting a major power based on by Them Bones minor superability. It is too weak for a major right now, so I am making this a revised version. Any feedback is helpful. Them Bones - Revised (minor) by Stone Gargoyle The hero can alter the calcium and carbons in items to make them resemble bon...

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This is an edit of my Crossbones major power to focus more on just the crossbow ability. Bone Crossbow (Major) by Stone Gargoyle This is basically the same as the Crossbones minor super ability but with modifications.\ Each of the hero's forearms has extra bones which can pop out of the skin, stret...

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TK crushing a heart is one that is mentioned in a canon rifter article. The power that I always reference is Transmutation. Turn into any element or basic compound. Okay, how about antimatter? Even if that's out. You can turn anything on a person into Potassium, which burns incredibly hot on contact...

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so kinda like how we no longer have TMNT RPG (unless you bought the books way back when) but now have After the Bomb, you're thinking something like that for Robotech? I worry that it would be much harder to do since the book is so tightly wrapped around someone else's IP, but I guess that's for Ke...

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Killer Cyborg wrote:
matt.reed wrote:is there any intention of filling the 'giant robot combat' hole in the megaverse that is being currently pursued?

What giant robot combat hole?

the one left by Robotech, I didn't want to mention it by name if it got selected, but I think there needs to be a good mecha game still in the megaverse.

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is there any intention of filling the 'giant robot combat' hole in the megaverse that is being currently pursued?

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Palladium's never been too heavy in modules themselves, much less even a real dungeon crawl, still I hear people looking for elements for that. Has there ever been consideration for a book solely about dungeon creation, and fun examples to work with? You could go into more 'classic' concepts such as...

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neat!

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gaby wrote:All the Special Training type from Rifter are Great,I hope they and the abilities they get will be in Training Unlimited if Palladium books make it.

Thank you!

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I think Hackmaster borrowed some of Palladium goodness since Kev and Jolly are good friends. I think that's where the active defense comes from. Its definitely pretty minutiae based though, and I'm not sure I'd play it, but I do like the running count for initiative.

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You should probably look into the Aliens Unlimited: Galaxy Guide. It has the space-/starship construction text. They have hull types from shuttle & Interceptors--to battleships. Along with Ship's systems military and civilian. I posted some text about creating hyper-thrusters here---> m . And h...

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indeed, its one of the things that put me off Rifts overall is to hear people go on and on about how they cherry picked their character. I gotta say though, I rarely hear that sort of thing anymore.

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I was planning on writing up something for giant mecha fun, it won't be a full replacement for Robotech of course, but I want to emulate that mecha feel. Here's my initial concepts and thoughts There'll be three basic types of vehicles for players Vehicles Starfighters - Victory Viper and all the Gr...

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call their bluff, at least with Jem, have the heroes do a job involving them

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Holograms are a power

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as with the other post, depends on what you want. Capitalizer is a good one, Parkour master is good because you can get some good damage out of that skill if you use it. There's a good one for extra P.S. damage with two handed weapons which is nice too.

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Ancient Weapons Master Abilities are Great. I think they can wokr for Palladium Fantasy rpg,s OCC.I may give them as rewards if player to level 5,9 and 13. What do you think are the 5 best Range and Best Melee,s abilities? hmm. I like the melee 'attack ghosts' ability, the elemental damage ones are...

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gaby wrote:thanks you Zerombr.

depends on what you want to do. I think the turn and the prestige are very powerful if you can get the drop on people. I had Regalia Red hit a player for about 100 dmg using a volley of sharp (to the tune of +5 dmg) cards.

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dang, got create forcefields and still got KO'd? tough fight

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Stone Gargoyle wrote:Please do. I have been very vocal about the current shortcomings of the Robotics category.

I'm accepting wishlists from ya, Stone. Just note this is specifically about the 'giant robot fights armies' gundam/robotech trope, when you give me your thoughts. I look forward to it.

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sounds like there's a market for it. I'll think about it some more.

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drewkitty ~..~ wrote:I would rather any giant robot construction tables be more like the HU tables for space- and Starship construction texts. Leaving the Rifts style tables to rifts.

I'll have to look at that.

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I've got a sweet spot for giant robots. Gundams, Voltron, if its a series of single person unique mechs with special weaponry, and targetting systems, I'm liking it. Naturally, Robotech was my jam for years. So I was thinking about writing something up about a different way to set up giant robots. A...

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BTW does anyone know how big the tablet is? It doesn't look big enough for a character sheet but I agree with Matt it would be great to incorporate art into the character sheet. its a bit smaller than an average sheet of paper as it stands, so the current size won't work for a char sheet unless we ...

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I think taking that notepad and using that as a basis for a new character sheet would be great

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not to my knowledge, since that's almost always an off-screen or at least non-mechanical event pre-game

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essentially this is turning into Yokai from Big Hero Six

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