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by Unfortunate Son
Wed Feb 28, 2018 1:13 am
Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
Topic: Gorgon Hit points
Replies: 1
Views: 3122

Gorgon Hit points

So I'm rereading Dyval and noticed that according to that book Gorgon get 6d6x10 hit points but fantasy says just 6d6. Was this an official change does anyone know? something I've been curious on for a while...
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Feb 12, 2018 12:33 am
Forum: Nightbane®
Topic: Can Dog Boyd sense nightbane?
Replies: 84
Views: 111934

Can Dog Boyd sense nightbane?

I remember reading this but I can't remember where.
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:08 pm
Forum: Palladium Fantasy RPG®
Topic: Name your tavern
Replies: 50
Views: 36584

Re: Name your tavern

The first they have visited in my game is Lillianas' Inn. By when they gain more power, they might just get invited to the Bent Sword.
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:01 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Necromancers in DR
Replies: 13
Views: 20287

Re: Necromancers in DR

I'm actually experimenting with this right now. As of now I have Necromancers left alone by the zombies and using animated dead to steal control of them for a limited time. My basis for this being the zombies are in this limbo between animated dead and but don't quite fit in amongst most palladium u...
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Jan 01, 2018 2:57 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Do natural 20s to strike always surpass zombie AR and hurt?
Replies: 29
Views: 26879

Re: Do natural 20s to strike always surpass zombie AR and hu

It flat out says it hits and does double damage. You just quoted it. And page 185 says it inflicts double damage. Not to mention conventional RPG wisdom always has it hit and inflict double. You are playing a pedantic approach here and it beats me has this has garnered the attention it has. If it al...
by Unfortunate Son
Tue Dec 26, 2017 4:05 pm
Forum: Nightbane®
Topic: Historical Campaigns
Replies: 7
Views: 7558

Re: Historical Campaigns

I would that then skills in Fantasy would help you out the most, as well as classes. I had to use that when I made an Ancient.
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Dec 25, 2017 1:06 pm
Forum: Nightbane®
Topic: My Books Have Arrived!
Replies: 15
Views: 14989

Re: My Books Have Arrived!

I've been having that issue through the holiday season. But all one can do is work to make the campaign and watch them come. My Nightbane game rich now has the group on Seattle after leaving a UR safehouse and hearing about three "Terror Attacks". Going to use these to introduce the ADA.
by Unfortunate Son
Fri Dec 22, 2017 1:27 am
Forum: Nightbane®
Topic: My Books Have Arrived!
Replies: 15
Views: 14989

Re: My Books Have Arrived!

Just got my books in too. Got the main book, Through the Glass Darkly, Survival Guide and Dark Designs. Going to work some of it my current DR game, and work on getting a 'Bane game going as well.
by Unfortunate Son
Sat Dec 16, 2017 2:36 am
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Do natural 20s to strike always surpass zombie AR and hurt?
Replies: 29
Views: 26879

Re: Do natural 20s to strike always surpass zombie AR and hu

So, we're going to ignore where it says it always succeeds? And now I know you are trolling.
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Dec 11, 2017 5:02 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Do natural 20s to strike always surpass zombie AR and hurt?
Replies: 29
Views: 26879

Re: Do natural 20s to strike always surpass zombie AR and hu

A Nat always inflicts damage over AR. Its ludicrous to even think otherwise. RTFB my man.
by Unfortunate Son
Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:27 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Randomer Item Table, Dead Reign Edition
Replies: 62
Views: 62111

Re: Randomer Item Table, Dead Reign Edition

54. You find a fanny pack with a tourists wallet And an Altoid tin full of weed and one full oxytocin
by Unfortunate Son
Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:14 am
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: trying to decide which sourcebook to get first
Replies: 1
Views: 3910

Re: trying to decide which sourcebook to get first

Dark Places has a decent section on Sewer's, but this section is mainly geared to how it would work in Reads Reign. Even the zombies focus a bit on how they would be in sewer's. Also has a decent section on railroads and some decent tables. All in all, a decent book. Endless Dead is well worth it. S...
by Unfortunate Son
Tue Sep 05, 2017 5:54 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Interesting questions about vehicles.
Replies: 1
Views: 4027

Re: Interesting questions about vehicles.

They're basically modified vans as fast as I know, just altered to carry detainees. At least that's my knowledge from being in the back of on.
by Unfortunate Son
Sun Sep 03, 2017 6:53 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Is Hell Followed worth buying?
Replies: 16
Views: 14993

Re: Is Hell Followed worth buying?

One Percenter and One Man Army start off with a a lot of gear. And I mean a ton.
by Unfortunate Son
Sun Sep 03, 2017 6:52 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Blacksmithing
Replies: 6
Views: 12513

Re: Blacksmithing

Welcome. Here to help.
by Unfortunate Son
Fri Sep 01, 2017 6:22 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Blacksmithing
Replies: 6
Views: 12513

Re: Blacksmithing

Its presented as a class and skill in Northern Hinterlands I believe. Also seems to be possible on a very it basic level with general repair, field armorer, and other mechanical skills.
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Aug 28, 2017 5:32 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Randomer Item Table, Dead Reign Edition
Replies: 62
Views: 62111

Re: Randomer Item Table, Dead Reign Edition

51. On a body of a man in a baseball uniform you find a wooden bat with nails on the hitting end a 3 hollowed out baseball's filled with shrapnel and C-4 with jury rigged time detonators. They each do 1d6x10 to a ten foot radius.
by Unfortunate Son
Sun Aug 27, 2017 11:53 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Pre/Fan-Made Adventures/Events?
Replies: 8
Views: 8468

Re: Pre/Fan-Made Adventures/Events?

You can join me on my Skype game if you wish. Same name there as on here. Picture is of a Reaper Vest.
by Unfortunate Son
Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:54 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Masked men
Replies: 2
Views: 4494

Re: Masked men

Snoose and Wicked Pisser
by Unfortunate Son
Tue Aug 22, 2017 10:49 am
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Nuclear power plant meltdowns?
Replies: 7
Views: 8416

Re: Nuclear power plant meltdowns?

We do have a radioactive zombie. Hell Followed brought us some nice ****. Like the loot piñata zombie.
by Unfortunate Son
Sun Aug 20, 2017 11:34 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Zombies & Heat
Replies: 5
Views: 6554

Re: Zombies & Heat

It's just one of the many things Palladium gets wrong. Hell, decomposition cause heat and they would be a degree or so warmer then the background.
by Unfortunate Son
Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:30 am
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Is Hell Followed worth buying?
Replies: 16
Views: 14993

Re: Is Hell Followed worth buying?

It is so worth buying. 11 new zombie types seven classes, even if two are over powered. It adds some NPCs for your use and rules on disasters. And then you got the conspiracy section. Plenty of stuff for both GM's and players alike.
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Aug 14, 2017 12:39 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Randomer Item Table, Dead Reign Edition
Replies: 62
Views: 62111

Re: Randomer Item Table, Dead Reign Edition

44. While searching a mechanics shop you find a five gallon gas can full of a clear liquid. Upon further examination it smells like liquor and tastes like moonshine.
by Unfortunate Son
Sat Aug 05, 2017 6:30 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Randomer Item Table, Dead Reign Edition
Replies: 62
Views: 62111

Re: Randomer Item Table, Dead Reign Edition

42: You find a dead body in a white and black robe with bones sewn into it, wearing sunglasses that have a white X on each lens and a M-60 machine by it with no ammo, but dies have a whole belt of links near it. The body it's self has a tattoo on the neck that says DOA.
by Unfortunate Son
Sat Mar 18, 2017 12:22 am
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Randomer Item Table, Dead Reign Edition
Replies: 62
Views: 62111

Re: Randomer Item Table, Dead Reign Edition

22. You find a child's backpack. Inside are the following: Star Wars figures, a composition book with a boys journal, the last pages detailing him and his parents escaping a city, six comic books, bag of trail mix and .22 Handgun with 2 spare mags.
by Unfortunate Son
Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:13 am
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Opinions on the New Zombies
Replies: 17
Views: 12431

Re: Opinions on the New Zombies

I see it not so much as campy or silly, but a logical progression of Palladium doing a zombie game. It doesn't at all surprise me that the minds behind Nightbane gave us multi armed zombies. The way I see it, these zombies all fit in during an Apocalypse that was designed and Implemented by an intel...
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:08 am
Forum: Palladium Fantasy RPG®
Topic: Enemy Density in a Dungeon
Replies: 7
Views: 4587

Re: Enemy Density in a Dungeon

Thanks Kiralon. That actually helps a bit
by Unfortunate Son
Sun Feb 19, 2017 8:08 pm
Forum: Palladium Fantasy RPG®
Topic: Enemy Density in a Dungeon
Replies: 7
Views: 4587

Re: Enemy Density in a Dungeon

We are starting at level One and the only confirmed character is the mage.
by Unfortunate Son
Sun Feb 19, 2017 5:11 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Dead Reign™ versus Heroes Unlimited™
Replies: 18
Views: 16994

Re: Dead Reign™ versus Heroes Unlimited™

The biggest problem I have had with this is making Super Zombies. Super powered characters can more then handle a horde, and to a very great degree. Adding powers to Zombies, that's where it gets dicey. Personally, I view them as boss zombies, and go all out with them, because as we all know HU char...
by Unfortunate Son
Sun Feb 19, 2017 5:00 pm
Forum: Palladium Fantasy RPG®
Topic: Enemy Density in a Dungeon
Replies: 7
Views: 4587

Enemy Density in a Dungeon

I am working on the most ambitious project of my GMing and building a multiple level dungeon that is four sheets of Graph paper per level. Sadly, not to familiar the Dungeon Crawl as a GM, and had a question on monster density. The first level of the dungeon is populated by an Orc and Goblin tribe n...
by Unfortunate Son
Fri Feb 17, 2017 4:36 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Randomer Item Table, Dead Reign Edition
Replies: 62
Views: 62111

Re: Randomer Item Table, Dead Reign Edition

17. You find a small black box clearly used to hold some cards. It weighs about two pounds and upon opening holds two M-67 Frag grenades.
by Unfortunate Son
Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:51 am
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Zombies need a PE or otherwise HP boost
Replies: 18
Views: 14939

Re: Zombies need a PE or otherwise HP boost

I'm starting a campaign tomorrow and I plan to do a horde mechanic that the more zombies there are, the less health each zombie has. Also doing multiple of each zombies including some weak ones.
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Jan 16, 2017 3:55 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Randomer Item Table, Dead Reign Edition
Replies: 62
Views: 62111

Re: Randomer Items... Heeeeeey Zombie style, whoop, whoop, w

10. You find a coloring book and crayons next to a teddy bear with a tear in it. Examining the bear, you find three one ounce vials of nitro glycerin stuffed inside it.
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Jan 16, 2017 3:14 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Zombies need a PE or otherwise HP boost
Replies: 18
Views: 14939

Re: Zombies need a PE or otherwise HP boost

Or just count damage. And ignore a rule that makes no sense. Palladium does this every so often, and Dead Reign has its share of them.
by Unfortunate Son
Fri Jan 06, 2017 2:28 am
Forum: Palladium Books® Games Q. & A.
Topic: Was there a change in Dead Reign canon?
Replies: 5
Views: 10779

Was there a change in Dead Reign canon?

The Dead Reign main book states that a zombie must kill you for you to become a zombie, states so on page 29. Graveyard Earth however states on page 13 that people dying from starvation and exposure become zombies. And page 14 from Hell Followed also implies that people who die come back regardless....
by Unfortunate Son
Thu Jan 05, 2017 4:23 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Hell Followed classes
Replies: 1
Views: 3664

Hell Followed classes

So has anyone else seen the increase of power in the new classes presented? The equipment sections are out of this world, and show a drastic increase. Thoughts on this guys?
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:23 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Zombies need a PE or otherwise HP boost
Replies: 18
Views: 14939

Re: Zombies need a PE or otherwise HP boost

The general problem, as has been pointed out is how the zombies are already to fraking tough. Increasing HP only compounds that, decreasing SDC doesn't make them all that weaker. The rule in question is just one of many in Dead Reign that makes no sense.
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Jan 02, 2017 12:36 am
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Zombies need a PE or otherwise HP boost
Replies: 18
Views: 14939

Re: Zombies need a PE or otherwise HP boost

Thinking about only using AR on specific zombies. Make it an encounter based thing, with only Boss Zombies having AR.
by Unfortunate Son
Fri Dec 23, 2016 2:43 am
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Movement and attacks - how do they interact?
Replies: 6
Views: 6462

Re: Movement and attacks - how do they interact?

Yea, those zombies can move faster then one thinks it can. But attacks and movement should be joint actions but they incur appropriate penalties
by Unfortunate Son
Sun Dec 18, 2016 8:44 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: NEW! Hell Followed™ – Ships in October outlook
Replies: 4
Views: 5432

Re: NEW! Hell Followed™ – Ships in October outlook

This book has seriously breathed some life into Dead Reign. Think my gfavorite thing is the Sidewalk Pizza zombie
by Unfortunate Son
Sat Dec 17, 2016 8:29 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Cowboys Vs. Zombies
Replies: 18
Views: 14928

Re: Cowboys Vs. Zombies

Me too. Sadly ended that project.
by Unfortunate Son
Sat Dec 17, 2016 7:45 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Question for Dead Reign fans.
Replies: 3
Views: 4103

Re: Question for Dead Reign fans.

I tried survival and found out story is needed for the players to feel like they can win. Also, nice artwork in Hell Followed
by Unfortunate Son
Thu Sep 15, 2016 5:47 pm
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Cowboys Vs. Zombies
Replies: 18
Views: 14928

Re: Cowboys Vs. Zombies

I know the common calibers, !ore interested in if anyone has said calibers stated out as a start point for me. Seeing that I may need need to write over a hundred pages of notes, it would save me some time. Working on alterations of those classes to fit more into an Old Western setting, thinking thi...
by Unfortunate Son
Thu Sep 15, 2016 12:54 am
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Cowboys Vs. Zombies
Replies: 18
Views: 14928

Cowboys Vs. Zombies

Currently working on a campaign set in the late 1800's and was wondering if anyone has any resources that might he helpful in that. Any help is appreciated, more so any damage list on calibers
by Unfortunate Son
Tue Sep 13, 2016 11:01 pm
Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
Topic: Armor stats
Replies: 4
Views: 5261

Armor stats

Does anyone know where armor stats for phase world with head legs and arms stats are?
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Sep 12, 2016 4:18 am
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: NEW! Hell Followed™ – Ships in October outlook
Replies: 4
Views: 5432

Re: NEW! Hell Followed™ – Ships in October outlook

Will it actually ship by then? Just sayin'...
by Unfortunate Son
Mon Sep 12, 2016 4:13 am
Forum: Dead Reign™
Topic: Zombies need a PE or otherwise HP boost
Replies: 18
Views: 14939

Re: Zombies need a PE or otherwise HP boost

Personally, I found the best balance is no HP for zombies. While Dead Reign holds a special place in my heart, it needs heavy house ruling to make it playable. Ten zombies should not be a TPK, it should be a turkey shoot.

Edited for spelling error.
by Unfortunate Son
Tue Sep 06, 2016 2:38 pm
Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
Topic: Currency Exchange rates
Replies: 4
Views: 4758

Re: Currency Exchange rates

Where is it? My players are going to Phase World and I do need to know exactly wherewhere.
by Unfortunate Son
Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:27 am
Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
Topic: Currency Exchange rates
Replies: 4
Views: 4758

Currency Exchange rates

Does anybody know where the currency exchange rates for Earth credits to Phase World credits? Much appreciated.
by Unfortunate Son
Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:56 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Iron Maiden APC, GAW A-10 and the silliness of APRJ
Replies: 83
Views: 7396

Re: Iron Maiden APC, GAW A-10 and the silliness of APRJ

Except when you remember that a munition several kilos does the same damage as an ion pistol, Energy weapons do more damage than kinetic weapons as a rule in Rifts. It's always been that way--energy is more efficient. You're talking about a setting where a standard low-end RMB laser pistol inflicts...

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