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I sometimes need a computerized version of this in my life.

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I am really curious what attacks are doing 200 points of damage every attack. Especially given a GB damage would max out at 180. Other than unlimited supply of missile barrages I guess I am drawing a total blank at anything with that damage output as an average. Cosmo knight with 51 PS+ paired weap...

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One other thing that will REALLY curtail the abuse of this is the 'Gander rule' Aka what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Just explain to the Players that if they wish to use this as one of their 'go to' tactics, that that is fine. But that the NPCs of the world will similarly be using...

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Depends on how must science versus !!!SCIENCE!!! you wanna go with it... TW is basically a somewhat abusable ruleset that gives you some constraints behind "how much does the gm like me/how stupidly powerful does he want me to be". See the perfectly book legal Annihilate gun for reference ...

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drewkitty ~..~ wrote:Then the 1st part of the text and the 2nd part disagrees with each other. Which is the 'why' I said something.

The power needs to be rewritten so it is internally agreeing with itself.

All of Rifts needs this, I sometimes think. Downside of 30 years of books and revisions.

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I wonder a bit at the zeitgeist of it all sometimes. If there's one thing I have to say 3 galaxies did well, it is by making the Transgalactic Empire straight up controlled by a hidden malevolent lovecraftian entity and their only "good" element is their willingness to include the Machine ...

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I'd also wonder how your PCs got their hands on Annihilate so early/easily, and how they can manage to cast it more than once every now and then, given that it costs 600 PPE and even a 15th level LLW isnt going to have that kind of PPE without lots of Talismans or other gear. A few other casters co...

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I like it a lot!

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I never even thought about it. I just figured it was maybe before psionics became legitimized as a "human" power against the supernatural in the CS mindset. As story soil though... the experience did change Her view on things. This has to have slopover onto Karl and Joseph, so maybe its no...

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I like to think glitter boys are heavy role-play not so much roll-play... I mean, a GB drops anchors, shoots, and prays nothing melees him. But his role-play as a wandering hero/paladin-esque good guy with a long family tradition of goodness goes a long way to tickling my fancy.

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To be clear: Some of those martial arts it is listed (fairly clearly, if IIRC) as automatic critical strike from behind OR surprise. You dont have to sneak up on them, just be behind them. Radar on small units would work just fine in a melee, as long as the pulse emitter isnt higher than the person...

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It doesn't do anybody any good to debate over what's in the dictionary or make things personal attacks on eachother's character, guys. The Federation of Magic book's first section explains it well, I think. FoM book actually says the magic kingdoms were pretty well established before the CS even go...

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I am starting to get interested in Heroes of Humanity. I am curious of what you like about the book and what it contains (apart from the Palladium Book Store info). An index of what will be found in the book would be great. The reason that i ask is that I do not like the Coalition War Machine as it...

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Hi. So my game has ninjas & superspies h2h styles in the Rifts earth setting, because I and my players found "basic, expert, martial arts, commando, assassin" to be dry bread. Some styles from N&SS have automatic critical strike from behind. This bleeds into "unable to parry/d...

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Chaos Earth makes it seem like just a bad case of everything going wrong at the same time. That's how it's always SEEMED, sure, but I'm kinda wondering if word-of-god humanity alone was ever blamed by this by the authors, explicitly excepting the possibility of outside engineering. It is possible s...

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I had to houserule a lot of things to make palladium flow and I'm still working on it. I treat entangle like it's fluff implies... I use my free hand to grab my opponent's weapon, perhaps as a shoulder lock or however I would like to describe it. This keeps my hand busy, but if I have a weapon in my...

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It doesn't do anybody any good to debate over what's in the dictionary or make things personal attacks on eachother's character, guys. The Federation of Magic book's first section explains it well, I think. FoM book actually says the magic kingdoms were pretty well established before the CS even got...

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Thanks everybody. I should learn roll20. It sounds interesting. I like the idea of there being too much cover in the way sometimes to really get max use out of long range weaponry. Mostly having maps speeds up combat a LOT because people don't need to keep verifying where they and their enemies are.

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Chaos Earth makes it seem like just a bad case of everything going wrong at the same time. My campaign I am trying to get various gods a lot more involved and incarnate, so I could see that notion being a good story hook though

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I think Doc Reid's writings in VKR say that a vampire isnt really the original person, it's just a demon inhabiting the corpse that copies the memories of the deceased yet has an entirely differrent thought process and emotional spectrum. Hence the whole "I really love my wife, oh **** I'm a va...

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Magic and technology can both be dangerous. Very dangerous, in some cases. The difference is that dangerous technologies are very well understood, usually require a significant industrial base to produce, and we have (by Rifts Earth time) centuries of experience in regulating and controlling them. ...

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So it's a thing that you might have samurai warriors with magic swords and telekinetic leaping fighting against or alongside power armor that flies at 300mph and engages from a mile away. It's a headache but also the core appeal of the setting, right? So how do you guys make it work? Like take that ...

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Originally this was how the system worked actually. Everything had one "damage pool" But then people wanted hit locations to allow for you to do stuff like shooting out a spotlight, or shooting out tires, or what have you. The locational system is still basically set up with that as the m...

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I think going American Gods and getting assorted pantheons involved with Zeus, Brahma, and Odin walking the earth would make something happen. The book-originated Big Bads are generally predicated on the "Evil actually does stuff, good doesn't do anything unless it's to react to evil" prob...

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jaymz wrote:Wow...just wow......the trolling word games in this thread is....just wow.

It's the way people like to argue here sometimes. Certain personality types go very hard on the letter of the law, and disregard the spirit of the law. I deal with it at work a lot.

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I recall somewhere (NG book?) having the OPTION of mines hitting wheels instead of main body, because mine. But I don't recall. Missiles can only hit main body (RUE 362) which makes the Glitterboy Killer all the more amusing. It's primary tactic is to use the missile launcher that it doesn't have s...

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That was one of the books I missed picking up when it came out and I'm hoping when the finances are right I can circle back around and pick some of those up. But you bring up a good point. A simple lie from a reputable source can smooth over a lot to the masses so it might make it easier to cope wi...

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It can make doing anything but called shots pointless if not abstracted to some degree.

In some ways I think the palladium system would be better from a smooth play pov if there were no individual hit-point totals per body part.

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I think whether a person owns Heroes of Humanity or not is a big factor on whether the CS are just a trolley problem (no non-harmful choices, including inaction. Somebody's gotta die and you are the one who chooses who) society or an edgier evil interpretation of COBRA. Without getting lost in numbe...

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They are Nazis that murder defenseless women and children. There is nothing redeeming about them. I mean, sure, it's easy to see them as heroes when killing a big snarling demon... How do you reconcile that with gunning down a human kid? You know that happens in basically every war, right? There ar...

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Is the superior invis expensive to activate? Recasting every shot would be rough.

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Truly Dunscon's gotta die and the lords of magic have to step the hell up. Like of all the factions and npcs described in all the worldbooks the only no shades of grey or moral kerfluffle about it monsters are general drogue, alistair dunscon, and desmond bradford. There are a lot of other NPCs out...

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Not skeptical enough. How do you know you killed actual children and not illusions? How often would you stick around to dissect the bodies? How do you know it wasn't a Scarecrow using Metamorphosis: Humanoid and it was just playing dead to make you feel bad, but then followed you home and gave your...

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In my setting the CS doesn't have the capability to deploy like that. Naruni, as a countermeasure, has a Ghost Fighter from Phaseworld flying around. It kills Deaths Head Transports that it finds alone. See, then they'd just never send them out alone. That also requires active intervention by a thi...

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I think the CS would be more understandable if there was a movie or something written from the point of view of a CS citizen.. which is every soldiers vs aliens movie ever. The Predator isnt something your instincts tell you deserves your patience and understanding. Not saying its right to apply tha...

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I just let it happen if the attack is coming from somewhere the character can see the aim/triggerpull reasonably (within 400ft generally) and if they have something that makes it sensible as a possibility (rune weapon, shield). If it could happen in a GOOD anime or comic book I allow it, since Rule ...

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♪alignment stuuuuuuuff♫ Fatal and Friends has a takedown of the alignment thing when it reviews sourcebook 1 . The book also stats up Prosek as diabolic evil. I mean you're ABSOLUTELY within your rights to change things, it's a game where you're fundamentally shattering the system and it's status q...

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HEMA is really cool just because I can post GIFS from HEMA fights into my game's groupchat to remind everybody how little "time" a Rifts "Action" actually represents. That or jet li movies. wapwapwapwapwapwap.

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Well, I have the source books and have after the bomb, and the new after the bomb as well, but that one I got on drive through rpg. Are you physically in colorado springs and can play wednesday mornings 9am to 2pm or so weekly? Hehe. We're five people. Rather grimdark game with a lot of insanity mi...

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Truly Dunscon's gotta die and the lords of magic have to step the hell up. Like of all the factions and npcs described in all the worldbooks the only no shades of grey or moral kerfluffle about it monsters are general drogue, alistair dunscon, and desmond bradford.

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No PS on thrown just leads to people never using thrown weapons OR playing a very brittle-boned campaign that doesnt take advantage of the fact that RIFTS has hovertanks and statted out babylonian gods. Maybe some kind of cyberpunk sdc-only campaign in a burb or the republic of japan... but thats a...

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Well, I have the source books and have after the bomb, and the new after the bomb as well, but that one I got on drive through rpg. Are you physically in colorado springs and can play wednesday mornings 9am to 2pm or so weekly? Hehe. We're five people. Rather grimdark game with a lot of insanity mi...

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I'm sorry your health isn't in good shape Boxee! You are free to join my game in Colorado Springs hehe.

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This is an interesting thread from a technical point of view, but getting too lost in the details is not a healthy approach to anything. It's better to listen to the spirit of the written word than the actual word itself, just as in law. I personally see the BG as a cartridge-ejecting megashotgun of...

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I think shifters can change the destination of dimension spells if they sense them being cast by someone else.. not sure about switching rifts that are still open but hmmm. Even if "moving" a hellpit or invasion rift isn't an option (a perfectly reasonable call), finding out the general l...

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as an aside... WTH is a vomit grenade? Is that an Axel creation or is in print somewhere? (I could easily have missed it, i'm sure). A magical the grenade used by the referenced antagonist by the original poster. So, something he made up and not something in a book somewhere that i missed, then. Go...

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Dinosaur pulled cart! Mexico book revised.

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Palladium really could use a second edition, hehehe. Ok let me reframe the question then. Firequake under a pair of CS Mark IV APCs... if I treat that as literally as possible since their speed would be hampered by the firequake's effects and their tires/underbelly would take damage logically from t...

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Will your GM let you slide on that any? As long as the game stays consistent, the words on the page are just there to inspire the creativity of the storyteller and players.

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Odin is Aberrant and Tyr is principled but believes in human sacrifice is my favorite go-to when explaining how widely interpretable the rifts alignments can be. I dont think most of the people in the CS are baby eaters that host deliriously entertaining baby eating parties (compete for best sauce!)...

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