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So I just got this book the other day, and after looking for a system that handles Cold War-era combat for years I'm pretty happy with it. I do need a rules clarification though: how does reloading work? Maybe I missed it, but it seems that there is no actual 'reloading' in the game, and that's inst...

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I'm actually curious, once this comes out, how will this affect the No Conversions rule? Will conversion from the Palladium system to Savage Worlds be allowed, or not?

Other than that, I'm really excited about this game and I can't wait to get ahold of it.

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It's been about ten years since I've actually played Rifts, and I'm looking to get back into it and run a game for my usual gaming group. Back when I last played Rifts, we used the combat rules straight out of RUE, and I wasn't even aware that ranged combat had been revised a bit in the Game Master'...

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I'm sending the party in my game from Florida to Mexico, mainly because of all the places in RIFTS America I've never really been in any games set in Mexico. The biggest thing is that I want to power down vampires a bit, just to make things a little bit easier for them (since it seems to be the gene...

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My house rules are generally pretty simple, but I'm still quite new to RIFTS. Essentially, any weapon that has a "pulse" setting, like say a Wilk's laser pulse rifle or any of the CS assault rifles, doesn't inflict burst-fire penalties. The shots are said to be near-simultaneous anyway, so...

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Basically, how do you stat out dime-a-dozen mooks that your players take on in bulk. The CS Grunts or Bandits who are basically villainous cannon fodder and all that? With the time it takes to stat out one full character, I'm looking for a quick and easy method to make a bunch of bad guys in one go.

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Probably a toss-up between Vampire Kingdoms and New West, but mostly New West, largely because I'm a huge fan of Westerns in general.

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1) I can't even remember, it's been so long. 2) Rogue Dog-Boy (actually a hyena, but I used the Dog Boy RCC as a template) Wilderness Scout. 3) It sounded like a fun idea at the time. I'm not even sure what motivated me to make him a mutant hyena, but I knew from the beginning I wanted to play a Wil...

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I sort of figured the art wasn't canon ever since the beginning. There's no way people would survive running around Rifts Earth wearing what they do without some serious esoteric protection.

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If they're going to be out on their own, and they have the right equipment and skills, they could make new or additional armor from MDC hides as necessary. If nothing else, they could probably make some kind of bulky (penalties) ponchos from dino hide to wear over their normal armor. And/or find ou...

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Yup. It's not something that you can do again until the armor loses the last repairs you did on it, either. And I don't think that both of those would stack either: the 1d6 from General Maintenance & Repair shouldn't be added on top of the 20 that the Field Armorer should be able to repair. And...

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Right, right. I know what skills to use, and how much repairs would cost. What I'm asking is how much MDC would be repaired if it's the player specifically doing the repairs, not them hiring someone to do it. Unless Blood Samel is referring to how much it would cost in raw materials to repair stuff....

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This is probably a bit of a dumb question, but I still need to ask. So I'm running a one-shot adventure where the party is a Coalition patrol that has ended up in Dinosaur Swamp, specifically Florida. The thing is, they're going to be effectively on their own for the duration of the adventure, with ...

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I've only had one character die, and he committed suicide by BigBore to the brain while surrounded by vampires. Of course, it was a BigBore pistol. So it pretty much insta-gibbed his head.

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Really, I'd have to say anything from the New West book. In my opinion, it had the best representation of Deadboy armor, along with all sorts of cool OCC drawings.

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Yeah, I noticed our Sean in that picture straight away. Big fan of Sharpe. Also, check out the group picture on page 15 of the main book. From left to right: Val Kilmer's character in Willow, the Jason Connery era Robin Hood TV series, and I think perhaps Red Sonja? And don't even get me started on...

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Cold's "With My Mind" is a good one I've discovered recently. You could call it "The Psychic Song" and the name would fit like a glove. Anyone who played that uncelebrated classic Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy would recognize it instantly.

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I've really only had two characters so far, a Scrupulous one and an Unprincipled one. Between the two, though, I think Scrupulous was definitely a lot more fun to play, so it gets my vote.

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I've a question. Someone mentioned that only the Priest OCC can make holy water but...

What about the Preacher OCC from New West? I know a priest and a preacher are not exactly the same thing, but I do recall that preacher from From Dusk Till Dawn blessing those holy-water filled ah... things.

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I rather liked the way my GM handled it. We just got a certain number of points each session depending on what we did and how well we did it, and when our point total reached one hundred, we levelled up and went back to 0 points. It made us level fairly quickly, but not so quickly that the game felt...

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Though the movie doesn't feel too much like Rifts to me, I like "A Boy and His Dog". It's fun to watch before a game, especially because the campaign I'm currently in can be summed up as "A Boy and His Dog-Boy"

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Okay, so I was reading through my Palladium Fantasy book when I came across a picture that looked quite familiar. It was for the Soldier OCC, and I couldn't help but think that the soldier depicted looked an awful lot like Sean Bean. I'm sure anyone with the book knows where to find the illustration...

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The one time our party ever left Rifts-Earth, we ended up in Heroes Unlimited-Earth, and he kept it so that MDC weapons still did mega-damage, MDC armor were still as durable, et cetera. I'm not actually sure how Heroes Unlimited works normally, but the only reason we went was just to have a fun fis...

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If you count CA-6EX as power armor, then I'd definitely go with that. It's saved my character's life a fair number of times during my current campaign. Also, he punched a lion in half with it once.

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I actually play a mutant hyena as my regular character. Granted, all we did was take a Wolf variant of the regular Dog Boy... But still, he's been really fun to play.

Also, mutant lemurs. But then I suppose you could just use the Monkey Boy from Lone Star as a template for that.

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I usually listen to video game soundtracks depending on the situation. Gears of War is a good one, as is Morrowind or Oblivion for when the party is travelling through a mystical or wondrous land. Coalition-themed adventures usual warrant music from Battlefield 2 or Command & Conquer. New West a...

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My guy's got a PS of like 35, so he's sort of the official pack mule of the party when we go away from our EPC. So he carries about three dozen or more e-clips in a haversack and in his normal backpack, with about six of those actually out and on his person, and one in the gun.

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Anyone have any ideas or suggestions as to what color the various Coalition military insignias in RUE (pages 233 to 237) might be? Reason I ask is because a friend of mine wants to do some art of our characters, and he's curious enough to have me come on here and ask . Specifically, we're looking fo...

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I haven't heard much about Oklahoma, my home state. I mean, I know it's there and it's mentioned a couple of times, but as far as I know isn't it just considered to be made up entirely of wilderness? I don't have any of my books with me, but I seem to recall that there aren't many major leylines goi...

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This is probably a bit of a newbie-ish question, but do you still halve your strike bonus when making a pulse shot? I guess the best example would be if using a Coalition assault rifle or (in my case) a Wilks 447 Pulse Rifle. Since it's described as being three near-simultaneous shots, I figured you...

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I'd have to say, in no particular order:

RUE
Lone Star
New West
Coalition War Campaign

Of course, it MIGHT just be because these are the only four books I have... But even still, I like the subject matter in each of 'em.

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While it was more of a roleplaying huh??? and not so much a combat or mechanical one, one time my character stole the villain's chamberpot (it was empty) and ran away with it. The GM thought it was so funny that he had said villain be too dumbfounded to do anything until my guy was gone from the bui...

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Major Winston Claval from Lone Star. He and my Psi-Hound Hyena CS Ranger went round and round quite a few times. 'Course after the party rifted to the Dakotas, they won't get to fight each other anymore. But the rivalry was fun while it lasted!

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I always thought New West had some pretty great art. My favorite'd have to be the Gunslinger on page 92. Awesome piece of badassery right there.

RUE had some pretty good artwork too, though.

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We started a New West/Lonestar game back in like... April or May of last year I think it was. The party consisted of a rogue Psi-Hound Hyena (yeah, hyenas aren't dogs, I know) named Ed, who was also a CS Ranger due to some house ruling, and a Mystic named Weaver. The two met up in a forest outside o...

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How 'bout Coalition Rangers? Can we sleep in trees

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