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Sex, in any of it's myriad and delightful forms, becomes a whole new phenomenon. Sure, you've got the obvious bit--shapeshifters, alien creatures looking to harvest lonely mortals (or is that morsels?), and so on. But historically, in Earth culture, sex-magic is about as frequent as death-magic. Arg...

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Mikel: Well, there ya go--I was going entirely off your earlier posts here. The intel you provided just now? Yeah, that's sufficient to allay my own concerns (though, yeah, when I get time I might go reading through the archives). Old Chicago is probably one of the few theaters of operations where I...

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Folks also aren't understanding Pinnacle's approach to KS. Unlike a lot of publishers, not only do they withhold the announcement until a few months before the KS proper, but they also don't make that announcement until a lot of the work is already finished. By the time the KS hits the page, most of...

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1: The mark-up is whatever you want it to be for custom gear. You're going to a skilled craftsman, and asking him to customize this particular item. It's not a price-list, or at least, it's not an established market (unlike the standardized TW gear available for purchase from your local Stormspire r...

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Mikel: I think you do a disservice to the setting when you craft a campaign that deliberately ignores everything the Coalition does that is morally reprehensible. No, that doesn't mean that it has to come up every mission. But eventually, Coalition troops should get put in a position where they have...

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I rather enjoyed Robin Laws' Feng Shui game's approach to time travel: There's an otherworldly limbo dimension called the Netherworld, that exists outside of time. This dimension taps into Earth's timeline at four points: First Century AD, mid-1800s, contemporary era, and about 60 years later. Furth...

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Generally, the rule seems to be, "The Coalition can beat down any other force on the continent, but not ALL the other forces, simultaneously." So they pick and choose the weakest targets (ones they can take out without over-committing) and those that have the most credible reasons for rece...

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There are plenty of ways to get money in Rifts without ambushing the CS. Not sure why that's become the center of the conversation. All conversations are ultimately about the CS, it seems.... On that subject, briefly, perhaps an opposed Strategy/Tactics roll by the two teams could be used to determ...

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I still say the error is the notion that one reading of the rules is 'cheesy'. If everyone is at the cheese shop already, it doesn't matter. If the cheese shop is closed to all, it still doesn't matter. It's only if one player gets to go to the cheese shop and everyone else has to stay home that the...

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I would be part of the 'why are you using torture in the first place' crowd, except that question was already answered--the party only ever gets intel from a captive if they use, or at least threaten to use, torture and other extreme interrogation methods. This is a problem with the GM, not a lack ...

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I would be part of the 'why are you using torture in the first place' crowd, except that question was already answered--the party only ever gets intel from a captive if they use, or at least threaten to use, torture and other extreme interrogation methods. This is a problem with the GM, not a lack o...

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Honestly, work out with the table GM what the local ruling is. Then it's up to the GM to remember that anything the players can do, the bad guys can do, too. It's one of those things that's going to be a level playing field, regardless--you're just going to have to decide in-group if you want a heav...

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Another option. Let the character summon a 'shield', and use it as a weapon under WP Shield.... but not in a shield-fashion. No defensive advantages whatsoever. The fact that the mundane version grants such benefits has nothing to do with the psychic construct that is being used as a manifestation o...

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That's a good one. Room for modified OCCs, enchanted "holy" artifacts, history revolving around the King's Burden (and whether or not it's still correct, oral history *always* gets corrupted and if it isn't oral history, how's it written down? Perhaps magically baked into the crown?) What...

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Mixing up the discussion of "mercenaries" and "bounties" makes it a bit more confounding. A Merc takes a job, with a contract, even just a verbal understanding. Any decent Merc is going to want expenses as part of the deal, or they're going to demand so much money for the job tha...

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That's a good one. Room for modified OCCs, enchanted "holy" artifacts, history revolving around the King's Burden (and whether or not it's still correct, oral history *always* gets corrupted and if it isn't oral history, how's it written down? Perhaps magically baked into the crown?) What...

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Okay, I'm gonna go a bit left-field here: Somewhere in the south of France, surrounded on all sides by various D-bee hordes, there's a small human kingdom that somehow manages to keep the monsters at bay, pretty much through pure faith alone. Their prayers are answered, consistently, laying out thos...

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You can bet that any 'native' products are sweetened with corn syrup, since virtually all the cane sugar currently being grown for U.S. consumption is now either Vampire or Dinosaur territory. OTOH, the CS has turned Iowa into even more of a giant wheat, corn and soybean field than it is now. (Note...

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Just gonna note here: In Savage Rifts, C-Ks can learn to summon a Psi-Shield the same way as they summon their Sword; they can even choose to go sword-and-board if they summon the smaller version of the blade.

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KC: You've said you have a problem with a take that would cast most of human society throughout history as 'evil'. You can take that view--but only by tossing out the idea of a society having an alignment at all. At least, a mortal one. Beings tied to elemental concepts of good and evil might manage...

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You can bet that any 'native' products are sweetened with corn syrup, since virtually all the cane sugar currently being grown for U.S. consumption is now either Vampire or Dinosaur territory. OTOH, the CS has turned Iowa into even more of a giant wheat, corn and soybean field than it is now. (Note:...

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Of course, on the non-CS side, you have Dunscon and Co. Having access to and control of multiple Rifts means being able to trade with worlds where particular plant goods are abundant to the point of being treated as weeds. That's why the nascent coalition's demand that Dunscon Sr. stop trading with...

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Of course, on the non-CS side, you have Dunscon and Co. Having access to and control of multiple Rifts means being able to trade with worlds where particular plant goods are abundant to the point of being treated as weeds. That's why the nascent coalition's demand that Dunscon Sr. stop trading with ...

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The problem there is that if one is to take the simultaneous tacks that: 1: Supernatural powers are too dangerous to be permitted; 2: Supernatural powers can be in anyone, since dragons can metamorph and children can become wizards and mind-melters; You are once again left with the inescapable concl...

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Don't underestimate the level of science fiction of the setting, either. While it's pretty clear we're not looking at food-replicator technology, it's quite likely that synthetic fabrications of many foodstuffs exist--products of a lab, resembling the original only in the final form. Of course, such...

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Killer Cyborg: If the term 'evil' is to have any meaning in the world at all, I'd say that yes, they are committing evil acts. Sloth is one of the Seven Deadlies for a reason, and being unwilling to examine your beliefs and actually compare them to evidence available is very much a case of moral, et...

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1: You say you realize mechanically that this was a team effort. My first bit of advice is to emphasize this to the rest of your party, both in and out of character. Praising your comrades' very real contributions to setting up the kill-shot will help them be cool with you being The Closer. 2: If th...

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That is the alignment system on the books, if you do not allow for flexibility. Most GMs would in my expiernce not force you to change alignment if you attack a person you have reason to believe is guilty. -The thing that would cause a CS grunt to take to change alignment would be unarmed foe. Burn...

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To be clear, I'm not talking about someone getting shot, nor am I saying it would specifically be Muslims who got pissed off. Rather, I'm talking about a game book potentially pissing off a company's fanbase, and opting to stay clear of something that might hurt sales. Ironically, part of the proble...

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A strange decision imo. Other RPGs had no problems with talking about that area (Shadowrun for example) Even stranger when you remember Palladium had no problem covering the Hindu and Norse religions. The Norse faith has a fairly fringe population in the real world, as a side-note to neo-paganism, ...

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The argument that KC is putting forward is also VERY disingenuous. That is because he is conflating magic the fundamental force, and magic the "science" that manipulates that force. Sorry... was it specified earlier in the threat that we were only talking about the manipulation of magic f...

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As to why the books contain Erin so often and as heavily as they do.... It comes from Rifts being a child of the '80s, pure and simple. (Sure, the first book was published in 1990, but that means that it did all of its pre-debut 'growing up' in Kevin's brain during the 1980s.) It's useful to look, t...

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Something only a Mary Sue with plot armor would say! What.... it was to easy of a straight line, I couldn't resist. Daniel Stoker Okay, that made me snicker. This actually made me wonder if there were ever Mary Sue that didn't have plot armor. Rare, but yes. If the Mary Sue is Too Good For This Wor...

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Daniel Stoker wrote:Something only a Mary Sue with plot armor would say!
What.... it was to easy of a straight line, I couldn't resist.

Daniel Stoker

Okay, that made me snicker.

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"Mary Sue", like "Plot Armor", is another one of those terms that started with a fairly specific definition, then over time got muddied until it came to mean "something I don't like and can't be bothered to put together a coherent reason for so I'll just slap an epithet on i...

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On the CS citizenry's reaction to the Sorcerer's Revenge: The bulk of the troops from that particular invasion force (and most of the subsequent ones, as well) were 'Burbs recruits, whose families would get bumped up in line for citizenship applications. Not, "became instant citizens of Chi-Tow...

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Chicago has, not only subways, but also a string of old coal-rail tunnels that connect many of the buildings downtown, and an underground Pedway system and multi-tiered roads--several years ago, there was a crack in one of the tunnels that led to several skyscrapers having flooded basements. I figur...

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I know this isn't the Savage Rifts board, but I figured I'd throw out how you can come close-but-not-quite-there in that adaptation: Start with a Dragon Hatchling, then take AB: Weird Science at some point in your development, and then the Gadgeteer and McGuyver Edges. It's not enough to make you a ...

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So, plot immunity is in the eye of the beholder. If John Snow dies one more time it would be "Plot Immunity". Gotcha. Um... I was echoing your request for the OP to define the term. Then I put out the TV Trope page as a baseline definition--if Dunia wants to use a different one, that woul...

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Is this the correct place to ask what you think "Plot Immunity" is? From what I've rad it is a catch-all phrase for "some things I din't like in the story". Gandalf had Plot immunity? Did Bilbo? Did Luke Skywalker's hand have plot imm...oh, wait. Honestly, this is a fair questio...

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Mass production is necessary for the large-scale tactical advantage to work, though. You need to be able to field sorties of aircraft, over a large territory, in order to be able to project consistent air power over foreign soil. I've already acknowledged that: 1: Within CS airspace, they CAN projec...

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a lot of the excuses people are coming up against air travel don't really make sense as something that would only impact air travel. it's easy to shoot them down? well it's easy to shoot a big boss ATV and destroy it too. mages working for magically inclined nations might be arbitrarily hanging out...

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Yeah, Rifts has been ruled by the Rule of Cool before the Rule of Cool was cool.....

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eliakon: There is not a single bit of your post I disagree with. Note my first option for this situation--working out with the GM where the lines should be. If the GM said, "Hey, this is how the power is meant to work," I'd look that over, say, "Hey, cool, I can reasonably not have to...

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Ambushes and Traps aren't guaranteed threats. You may not have been headed to step in the trap but you will sense it. Any threat in motion regardless of range is triggered. A new way to harry mind melters has occurred to me: mouse traps! Life-threatening danger. And I'm just gonna note... as a play...

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Where is the reference specifically to D-Bee servants from Minnesota, and when (and where) were they taken? Before, during or after the time when the place was an active war zone--and did they come from the death camps, which we know were not all misted despite Drouge's orders, or were they taken s...

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Also note: there are various other effects on Rifts Earth that limit purely technological air power. It takes one Ley Line storm to turn your entire sortie into a scrap pile hurtling towards the earth. Similarly, magical nations may make use of the nigh-unlimited power available to them on a Ley Lin...

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Interesting proposal. I disagree and believe it is a narrower sometimes. The Dbee servants the CS took from Minnesota clearly prove not every place with a Dbee in it gets wiped out. Where is the reference specifically to D-Bee servants from Minnesota, and when (and where) were they taken? Before, d...

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Frankly, it's more about tactics than builds. 1: Solo bosses go down VERY quickly. It's the nature of the system--one Wild Card vs. many, even when the one is considerably more powerful, will almost never actually be able to withstand concentrated assaults (the exception is where things like blanket...

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The CS is already cast in a bad light by tolerating this stuff with little oversight. Disagreeing with your casting them in a worse light isn't scrubbing them clean. I see this as more of an if..may rather than an if..must. It would be impossible for the CS to take Dbee servants if they completely ...

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