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This just seems like another kinda passive aggressive post about a question that could easily have been answered, not just by me, but by almost anyone who follows But it was asked, and answered by you. Another answer was given by Kevin Simbeida in a weekly update later that year, one of his famous ...

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I say this as someone with first hand knowledge. The new KS, or whatever platform is used, will be run by Pinnacle at the right time. Last year, Pinnacle ran KS campaigns in April, so that seems like a reasonable guess. This was said about April... 2018... I think now that it's January 2019, its fa...

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third option could be "they already legitimately spent more than they could ever hope in a million years to be able to recover from the fire sale on this",. The idea they went into so much debt printing phase 1 that subsequent sales and fire sale has only resulted in breaking even is absu...

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As for where retail funds went, I believe they went into the development that we saw reported during this timeframe. As we've seen throughout this process, that has been a major money sink for this project. There is no indication or evidence that those funds went to anything else but RTT. If the ab...

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That doesn't change the statement that it was Ninja Division that convinced them to go with the Wave 1/2 plan. However, I don't hold that decision against either of them. The unfortunate result of that however gives a 100% clear picture. They overprinted Wave 1 material in the hopes of using sales ...

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Honestly, this is mostly on Ninja Division, every single error, misstep, miscalculation links back to decisions ND made or recommendations ND made. Minor problem with this reading. A quick review of Robotech tactics in comparison with the plethora of other mini games out there (including Ninja Divi...

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"Sean Tate Bircher said in the replies, that the writing is pretty far advanced, but he wasn't able to elaborate on it, any more than that. Hopefully we'll see the official announcement on Pinnacle's website, with more details, soon" This was written a year ago.. and we've not even seen a ...

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As everything Fannon said about the next Savage Rifts books could be applied to Mechanoids Space (With the exception that Mechanoids Space is also available for pre-order), a tempering of enthusiasm may be warranted.

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Jason Richards wrote:I'll be there, so... let's hang out.

But do you know if there's a finalized list somewhere?

It's only about a month out, and there are still a lot of "Tentatives" sitting on the guest list...

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It would be a very bad idea to run a Palladium linked kickstarter directly in the aftermath of Palladium abandoning a $1.4 million dollar project crowdfunded by over 5,000 customers. I could see it go either way, "Catastrophic Kickstarter" vs "Well the backers know Pinnacle make thes...

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Fannon's not going, but he's still on the POH site as a "likely" guest..

I'm wondering how many others share the same situation.

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I never said anyone *promised* to have more savage Rifts books by Spring of this year... but given we've not heard anything recently, it's pretty obvious we're not going to get a savage rifts kickstarter by this spring. If you don't agree, we can bet 50$ on whether we'll see one by June. SPF absolut...

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I was wondering if the Open House guest list has been finalized and if so where it is being posted.

Seeing the Palladium "Likely guests may include....." is making me wonder if the actual guests are all finalized...

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I haven't heard anything to that effect. I also never saw a schedule or anything, but I inferred that Spring 2018 was the target. Based on what Shane has said about KS in the past (that you basically MUST do it for new books these days) I'd expect that to be the platform used. It's spring 2018 righ...

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It has been about a year since the announcement, no kickstarter has been launched, and there doesn't seem to be a breath of this on Pinnacle's site. I wonder if they're wondering how risky it would be to do a Kickstarter on a Palladium linked project at the moment. If the plan was to kickstart all S...

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Them asking for people to pay S&H on previous produced items as an offer of a refund, totally says more than enough. 'We're sorry we took your money and didn't give you anything... we're not going to give you your money back, but if you give us *more* money... we promise to give you something.....

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I'm reluctant to tell you what happened plot-wise as I think it'd be more fun to play yourself. But to keep it vague you basically go to a town to recover something from a group of Brodkil. Given how it's not going to be a published adventure, it was full at Gencon, and Gencon is only once a year, ...

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There was a Rifts game at Gencon, "The Angel Falls", I really wanted to join it but there wasn't space.

Does anyone here know how the game went and what happened in it?

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palladiumjunkie wrote:Fortunately, Sean Patrick Fannon

It's like they said "Do you know who should write this?.. Only someone with the most Irish name imaginable...." and though Eamon Fergus Collins was unavailable Sean Patrick Fannon had an opening in his schedule.

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As a sidenote...

Instead of TW implants if you call them 'Psynetic' implants... the idea that there would be cybernetic implants conducive to psionic abilities not only becomes within the rules, it becomes very compatible with Rifts as written.

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Mark Hall wrote:I went with no BUT I would allow them to enhance the functionality of the item without increasing the Strain.

But the book's pretty clear... it's 'yes'.

Which makes me wonder why you say 'no' when the book explicitly gives a 'yes'

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You could play one, if your GM allowed, or you could have one that was one of the advanced thinking models that became 'corrupted' and truely aware and sentient. You've just made my point for me... you've just had to take a character type defined by having no free will... and given it free will so ...

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Form a GM or Player's perspective? I find that some books are geared toward GMs to a high degree (if not completely) with the majority being geared toward both. Shemmarrian Nation is clearly geared toward GMs, just like SB2 is. Shemmarian Nation can help a GM to run Shemmarrians and give them some ...

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As a sidenote on Shemarrians.. the Shemarrians are gorgeous women whose purpose is simply to demand attention. However, they fundamentally have no inner life or innate motivations beyond a need to monopolize attention. When others are not looking at them they literally have no reason to act in any w...

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I'll bite, why Shemarrian Nation? The others make sense, but the Shemarrians always baffled me. On the surface they're just another race of nomadic D-bee's who use a mixture of riding animals and high tech, so basically Simvan monster riders only less interesting and varied. and the deception compl...

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CJ Carella wanted to convey a wide range of technological capabilities. So yes, some people from incredibly high technology empires had guns that did much more damage than people from much lower technology..... which is how technology works. The desire for 'balance' in a setting which is supposed to...

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CJ Carella writes with a broad brush, God bless 'im! I joke that the South America books are 450 pages of really fun ideas with the last 20 pages being painfully stupid... which is a pretty solid thing. I think it's because CJ realized the 'Christmas tree' nature of most Rifts characters, most of th...

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What people ARE saying though is that it would be a house rule since the books do not seem to say anywhere that I can find that this ability is considered a universal ability of multiple limbs. AND note that the argument here is not JUST about borgs, it is about anything and everything with multipl...

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I'm an avid Cyborg player, absolute favorite character actually. Even with two arms, the right sensors can outdo high level juicers in bonuses. The Auto dodge is a big deal though.... it's hard to overcome that he gets to dodge your blasts without losing an attack but you need to lose an attack to ...

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If a character is protected by a force field, does the GI joe rule apply?

If so, and said character is wearing armor underneath the force field, does the shot that downs the force field also do the GI Joe rule?

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Axelmania wrote:The problem is that it takes away a niche skill from the Xiticix and allows just anybody to do it.

"anybody" is a pretty nebulous term when there are so relatively few ways to get more limbs.

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No reason why they couldn't. The point of debate is usually whether you can use one pair of arms to attack, and the other to parry, or fight two people at once. It's very vague, and seems kind of tricky either way. TK extensions allow *six* extensions, and these are *in addition* to your arms, So a...

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If a cyborg has 4 arms and paired weapons, can it attack with all 4 simultaneously?

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if they sincerely thought *not* to picture the big villain who among other things would have nice chat with the pc's... that seems a very strange decision.

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Anyone have a picture of Maurice Lemarchand?

Chaos Earth Resurrection really needed a picture of him.

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A running theme in Rifts is the unique chaotic nature of Rifts Earth..

I'd like to think Rifts Earth is proverbially 'too spicy a meatball' for any one alien intelligence to be able to take and hold for very long.

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As I remember, per mindwerks, you can have 6 or8 arms per the telekinetic extensions, so long as you're ok with being a psynetic borg

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say652 wrote:Page 48 Coalition New Navy book.
Any character in environmental armor is unaffected by an EMP, all other have a 90% chance of failure even shielded electronics have a 25% chance of failure.
#Research

25% chance of your bionic heart stopping...

That's.. erm... unfortunate...

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The big rail gun you are asking if it uses just the gunners attacks or if combines the gunners and the pilots. Well what does the entry say-it says only the gunners attacks. (Not only proves there is a gunner but defeats your whole question showing that it appears the problem is you and not the wha...

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The big rail gun you are asking if it uses just the gunners attacks or if combines the gunners and the pilots. Well what does the entry say-it says only the gunners attacks. (Not only proves there is a gunner but defeats your whole question showing that it appears the problem is you and not the wha...

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The UAR is a bit uncomon as all systems are designed to be used by the pilot but it can accommodate a second person to serve as a gunner. Basically every thing is defaulted to the pilot and only things that make reference to a gunner are used by second person. The fact that it tells you in one of t...

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Well if you really want to make yourself crazy, look at robots with crews of 2 or 3 and try to understand exactly how that would work in the Palladium system.. 1 Does the robot have the combined attacks per melee of all crew members? 2 Does the pilot do melee while the gunner does the guns? 3 Are s...

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Well if you really want to make yourself crazy, look at robots with crews of 2 or 3 and try to understand exactly how that would work in the Palladium system.. Does the robot have the combined attacks per melee of all crew members? Does the pilot do melee while the gunner does the guns? Are some gun...

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I think a fun idea is why TW borgs may not be a good idea... I like the idea that PPE is an energy that needs to be kept at 'arms reach' from your inner self. Spells and TW devices being a way to channel the energy safely through your body without it corrupting very fundamental parts of you. Meanwhi...

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The psynetic crazy seems a counter-example to this... They have lots of MOM implants and are chock full of psionic power. Meanwhile, Psynetics give or enhance psionic powers, so it doesn't quite make sense to say 'if you have enough implants enhancing your psi powers you lose your psi powers...'. of...

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. Tell your players: "Pick stuff in RUE only." 3. Learn to say, "No." No isn't a dirty word. I disagree. The first piece of advice is a good one. Be *clear and concise* as to the allowable character types. However on the 'no', I've found 'no' is kind of a dirty word. 'no' means ...

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Given how potent ARCHIE-3 is as an antagonist, I think proposing him 'lose' to an NPC group fundamentally costs the game setting. Heroic groups in general, while interesting in a 'Rifts as a novel' setting, are kind of counter to an RPG, which should be short 'people solving problems' so that small ...

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I know one thing it does not prohibit..

Crazies are not stopped from using JAEP

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The hardest part of Juicer conversion is getting the rabbi's permission...

Thank you, I'm here all week, don't forget to tip your waitress on the way out...

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I can't imagine Lemarchand couldn't figure out an aquatic scrap zombie, and radio signals etc can penetrate water just fine.

If Lemarchand can take two whole continents, that should give him more than enough resources to go seaward, or maybe just march over the bering strait,

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