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DD The Shmey

Hey Guys, I've been reading and looking closely at all of Kitsune's starships lately, and I've noticed a pattern in his starfighter. The main guns of every single light starfighter made by kitsune do 2d4x10+20 damage, while medium filters almost universally do 4d4x10+40. It can be old human alliance...

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Novel and very interesting(and I'm not just saying that because you used my formatting ) Excellent work, DDtS! I will adding this to my growing list of fan space-polities! Since you liked it why don't I give you some more info on the members of the Gemini Council. This stuff is a little less organi...

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Gemini Colonial Collective This is a stand-alone independent faction I made up years ago that a game master building a universe could really fit in anywhere they want so long as it is somewhere on the ‘Frontier’. Yesterday I spent some time filling in some information according to Taalismn’s format...

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Alright, it’s been three weeks, and nobody has called me out on my numbers for Diablo Island, which I consider my biggest stretch. I have calculated that the population of Diablo Island to be 10,652,733. This includes: 2 million sub-demons known as The Host 1.7 million Lesser Deevils 300,000 Greater...

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Who says PPE is not a particle? Who knows what kind of scientific theories those Dimension Door Project researchers on the 9th level of the Lone Star Complex were developing to explain the how the mystic energy of ley lines works. They apparently found a technological means to generate PPE and creat...

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Since the world's ambient PPE is so low, I think I'd go the Techno-Shifter route. Maybe cross your idea with Ghost Busters, and have your physics guy turned techno-wizard be involved in lots of physics pseudoscience research, and leverage that background to find a way to capture some ghosts and haun...

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There have been lots of debates here on the forums over whether the population numbers presented make sense (are too big) given the numerous depictions of the world as being mostly uninhabited wilderness with only a few small pockets of population here and there. I never really found it all that har...

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When I started this project I had the same inclination as you, nercissus, regarding population creep as Palladium published more books over the years, but after going through everything I really don't think that is the case now. Heck 7 of the top 10 factions I listed were established within the time...

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Population Census of every faction on Rifts Earth I've been working on a big spreadsheet listing the population of every single kingdom, empire, and independent town on Rifts Earth, along with a citation of where the population numbers came from. Hard numbers in Palladium are often contradictory, an...

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-Istanbul Death Cult- The more that I think about it, I really can't think of a better location for a death cult than Istanbul. I mean talk about ideal spooky locations rife with history. Istanbul has an incredibly long history, with cities being built right on top of each other since 650 BC. It has...

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SolCannibal its funny you should ask. I made such an influence map a year ago. See link https://imgur.com/a/jepF7BK For that image I had only consulted reference material in World Book 4 and Aftermath and may have taken a liberty here and there to determine the exact borders. As you alluded to in yo...

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Yep, Mechanoid Spider Fortress is pretty big, just looked it up, Sourcebook 2 pg83, Height 1598ft (487m). But, the Mechanoid Digger is even bigger, Body length 1080m width 732m, or 1772m with arms outstretched. The Mechanoid Octopus Type 1 and Type 2 are also around 50ft in height or length. Another...

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Madmorigan that map looks great! I can totally see that being useful to pull out in a game where the party is going to Lazlo. It was mentioned earlier that the scale of the city might be smaller than 3 million people, but honestly if you were to keep scaling the city up you're likely to lose detail ...

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Thanks, but you misunderstand my intent. I'm not planning on a "Return of the Four Horsemen", more like a remake/extended cut of the original Gathering of Heroes, story arc set in Africa during 103 PA... Ah, ok, that makes more sense. Like what would we do if we did a revised and expanded...

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i might as well homebrew the land based on the "needs" of the most notable force/threat to come out of the continent, eh? In the case of Death, optimum scenario would be locales with cemeteries, mortuary centers, mass graves (sapient or animal) or any regions with a great quantity of corp...

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Sure, you can mix and match your attacks any way you want so long as you limit your robot to the number of actions that your character has. You could spend all of your attacks firing one weapon system if its listed rate of fire says that it is only limited by the number of actions of the pilot, or y...

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Pretty sure that all of the robot and power armor sized nuclear power plants are fusion. The only explicit examples are fusion, mutants in orbit describes the vehicles being powered by fusion. And although I can't think of where in the books, I do recall other references to fusion reactors. Plus the...

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You seem to have a math inconsistency in the wilks 1000 arm laser. One shot does 5d6+3, but a burst of 3 does 3d4x10? The wilks 1000 was not created by myself. It is a published weapon in the Merc Ops book. Now if you want to alter the damage for your campaign go right ahead, but the version I am u...

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Yep, when I read it the underwater speed jumped out at me too as being a little bit high for something not purpose designed for underwater operations, but like taalismn said it's not anything obscene in terms of speeds. The heat resistant armor idea is great. I've made space ships from one of the ra...

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I was curious if anyone had done anything like this yet? Figured if they had I wouldn't reinvent the wheel. Looking to design something like a Technowizard who focuses on the dark arts. Devices that trivialize and accelerate necromantic rituals. Throw a device down in a graveyard and get skeletons....

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Yeah it seems like Brandon had some good stuff. Everything you mentioned sounds golden. Also the description for the UAR-1 says The development of this mechanized behemoth grew out of the conflict with the federation of magic in the ruins of Old Chicago, in the year 12 PA. The enemy forces were firm...

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By the way, going back to my earlier post Here is another necromancer cult, this one built around a temple and place of magic. Please give me some feedback. If you guys were going to add this cult into your games, what kinds of things would you change to adapt it to your world? Cult of the Dark Temp...

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Paraphrasing what you said Cyprian ruled Lyonesse, a pirate republic, an isle close to Britain that would D-shift back and forth in strange patterns know only to him and his captains. ... exploiting Splugorth marauding ... freeing slaves, ... helping them make fortified hideouts ... established a ne...

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There are supposed to be a bunch of orcs and DeBee's in the area around the tree of darkness, ... I would probably make the dark millennium druids one of these. Maybe a kabal of orcish Millennium druids leading a clan of orc barbarians or something of the sort. That would be cool.

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As mentioned above, i have toyed a little with the druids, though it's mostly in a conceptual/fluff stage so far, most of it has entered through a pair of NPCs, Alain Carnacki, a wandering (blood) druid that is a somewhat ok dude nostalgic of the wild times of the "Bretagne War" (still ca...

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Must admit initially i misunderstood you to mean those OCCs might get benefits from making pacts with the Library, so was confused with the actual benefits, but then it clicked to me the list was actually about what a librarian "poaches" from those OCCs and things finally made sense. Nice...

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Here is another necromancer cult, this one built around a temple and place of magic. Please give me some feedback. If you guys were going to add this cult into your games, what kinds of things would you change to adapt it to your world? Cult of the Dark Temple The cultist of the Dark Temple are know...

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all this does is make me wonder if a full conversion necroborg would a feasable concept and why would anyone do that. Because some depraved and likely heavily drunk necromage thinks it would be a really COOL idea? That's usually good enough of a reason. I think that these might be a good start for ...

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Basically my problem isn't the item, it's cool, it's that it makes Necro Tech step on Soulcrafters turf. There is already a Soulmancy version of this item, so after discovering it's existence, I was hoping to make a less power version using pure Necro-Tech. Are you sure about that Nekira? Techno-wi...

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hmmm... you know Biomanipulation really is a powerful ability though, you had a good point about that. The Paralysis sub-ability alone will completely disable a target on the field for a long duration. Maybe I should limit the power of the Bio-Manipulation available to my NT Staff of Nightmare to re...

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Rule of cool only justifies so much: Simply letting TW do probablly the most powerful psionic in the game for no reason is probablly too unbalanced. TW doesn't do psionics for pretty good reasons we should stick with. Are you sure about that Nekira? Techno-wizardry does psionic abilities all the ti...

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Some pretty nifty sounding devices there! But as I don't have the Rifter in question handy I have to ask: Are there any mechanical differences between necro-tech and regular TW, or is it just a reskin of TW? Thanks for he complement Mechanically speaking it really is a reskinned TW device. The Rift...

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Alright guys, it's time for me to post my greater necro-tech magic weapons. These weapons are intended to have a power level on par with Splugorthian biowizard weapons like the Staff of Eylor. Storm Rider Greater NecroTech Skeletal Power Staff: This powerful necrotech weapon is made from the skeleta...

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Another threat in the area are the Black-Winged Monster Men (Spirit West pg106). They have a small kingdom in Idaho with small pockets in Montana and southwest Canada and often raid other small villages to take in slaves. They have an ongoing war with the Nez Perce tribe. The Black-Winged Monster-Me...

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This forum is actually the best place if the guns are set on Rifts Earth. Some people come to the forums just to post some cool stuff they made for their games, and get reviews and feedback. "Paladin Steel Storefront" thread by Taalismn, it's one of the longest active threads here and has ...

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My first Rifts group played on and off for almost 20 years and in that time ...: That's a nice list of accomplishments there. ... the Norse goddess Hel in her attempt to gather the ingredients necessary to create a non-humanoid body so she could become the goddess of the Mechanoids, they then had t...

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Rifter 61 has some True Atlantian Techno Wizard stuff including staves, a TW factory, TW charging station, TW Force Fields over pyramids, and some stone magic stuff.

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So, let me get this straight, your town is 80 miles away from Calgary? Give me a minute, I want to check how far out away from the city the demonic patrolling kill teams usually go. Yep, the borders of the demonic kingdom of Calgary "extends several hundred miles around the city of Calgary"...

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Hello Orin This is a wonderful writeup that you have made. You have actually gone more in depth on the description of the physics behind these weapons than I have seen from Palladium, and I cannot find anything that you have written that contradicts publish material within the Rifts universe. Some t...

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I know it's probably not what you are looking for, but Servants of the Deep (WB7 Underseas pg47) have an interesting level progression. Although now that I look at it, they are also casters, and the progression is measure in years of service to the lord of the deep, not their experience level.

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Don't forget the plethora of prerifts shotgun designs. The Model 3000 police Smith & Wesson Shotgun is listed in the "Conventional Weapons" section of the RMB. It is very easy to adapt any number of conventional shot gun models that we have in the real world using these stats, and just...

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I was just thinking it was TW devices that cast necro spells which must be super-cheap to make since ivory is (for some reason... elephant overbreeding?) super-cheap compared to gems. There should be Magot-summoning ivory-inlaid Moccasins worn by every evil mage on earth. I guess Ivory could be con...

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Guada Marta Ironmage “Bloody Saber” Appearance: A USA-10 Glitterboy with a shimmering red color. Close examination reveals that there is a thin film of flowing human blood covering the surface of the armor. The blood is very shiny, and slightly sticky to the touch. As a result of the blood the armo...

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In my first campaign growing up, the game master liked the idea of the party growing in power, forming a nation, and conquering the world. There were a number of things that he let us do that upon looking back wasn't very realistic to the setting. Part 1 We started out protecting a small town on the...

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The Crimson Tears - Unique Necro-Tech Bone Corvette The Crimson Tears is a large 494 foot long trans-atmospheric corvette powered by dark magic. The ship is a hybrid of Techno Wizardry and Necro-Tech construction techniques and incorporates a significant amount of remolded and enchanted bone, and o...

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This is a joke, right? A loaf of bread or a pitcher of milk would quickly reach terminal velocity in a few hundred feet. They both would be traveling less than 100mph, which is roughly the speed of a pro baseball pitcher. I would imagine the glass pitcher of milk would inflict 1d4 to 1d6 sdc. The br...

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The Scarlet Cult is popular among the wealthy slave owners in the Pheonix kingdom. These nobleman, noblewoman, and wealthy but not so noble monsters often live decadent lives only made possible through the use of slavery. They do not place much value on a human life, and will use their slaves in bl...

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Also, if anyone has any adventure ideas they wanted to throw out there I'd be pretty appreciative. I always like to bring Conversion Book 1 along. You never know when you'll need the stats for a harpies, or somebody summons a demon, or poltergeist. It's the original monster manual for Rifts. It's a...

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might i suggest you start with defining what exactly a necro-tech magic device is? Sure thing, Necro-Tech devices were originally introduced in Rifter #13. They are a form of Technowizardry that employs necromancy and dead body parts similar to how Biowizardry employs living organisms. The article ...

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Cults of the Faceless One Murder, Deceit, Cohesion, and Lies form the cornerstones of the Cults of the Faceless One, a cult which is centered around one man known as the Puppet Master or The Faceless One. There have been several different chapters and iterations of these cults that have sprung up o...

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