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One of the themes of Rifts is people sacrificing part of themselves for survive a cruel, dangerous world. Crazies sacrifice their sanity, Juicers sacrifice most of their lifespan, even Full conversion Borgs sacrifice a part of their humanity- the ability to feel the warmth of an embrace etc ...

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Interestingly, GMG pg 221 lists damage as 2d4x10 (burst) and 4d4x10 (dual burst) !!!!

So, I guess they can fire concurrently...

Given a burst is 80 rounds, which is roughly twice what a regular man portable rail gun would fire, I don't see the C100R as overpowered. In fact, it would explain the ...

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The Spider-Skull Walker has two C-100R Rail guns- is the damage listed for both guns shooting at the same time or is that the damage for one gun? Can the pilot and co-pilot shoot each independently?
Normally when two guns are shot together (i.e. the CR-4T Laser Turrets also on the Skull Walker) is ...

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Ahhhh yes, essentially you can add "Ninja" to a pre-existing OCC and they are just better. The only OCC I can think of that suffered from this in New West was the Crazy Gun Slinger because they got auto-dodge whereas the normal Crazy didn't at the time of publication. However now that the RUE ...

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Yes you're correct Prysus, my confusion was based on this entry from the GMG:
Do Hand to Hand P.S. damage bonuses apply to energy melee weapons?
No damage bonuses apply to the use of energy melee weapons unless there is a physical damage component to the weapon involved. Not even if the attacker ...

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IMO RUE supersedes all other rules (RAW) so you take whichever damage is higher. Before RUE there were different rules published in different books, even just in dedicated Rifts books. From memory there was even a ruling that you added SN PS damage to weapon damage if the weapon had a physical core ...

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I think you use whichever damage is higher.

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EltonRobb wrote:I did a review of World Book 14: New West. You can access it here. The New West world book is one of my favorites. Check it out.

I agree that it's one of the better settings and world books. Can you elaborate on what you mean by "OCCs aren't balanced with other World books."?

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Why not keep Barsoom the actual planet Mars but make a part of Utah dimensionally attached to it like a fade town or something?

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Thanks Grand Master Zob,

I completely did not know about the vibro-claws; like wolverine I suppose.

Question. Should I list the Streetwise : Drugs as a skill or should it all be just Streetwise?
Streetwise: Drugs is it's own skill I believe that appears in Juicer Uprising and is a lot less ...

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WP Knife is also used for vibro-claws which can do the same damage or even better than a vibro sword.

Surveillance Systems and Electrical Engineer together are an important combination of skills to bypass alarms and other security systems. Very important in my games at least, whether you're ...

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Every setting has mega-damage stuff, and it is just the representation of high levels of damage or armour. So there is a lot of division on this. Is it a good thing, or bad thing?

Is it done well in Palladium? Not at all, in fact the idea is amazing, but execution is abysmal. So what about other ...

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Tor wrote:I figured heavy stuff would be called something other than rifle like the plasma "cannon" the CS used.

That's what I figured but I think KCs right, or at least that's how I will play it.

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Yeah you need a pretty powerful party. I would think a mage would be useful as they don't have much ability to counter magic. Also a Psi-Stalker would be good for tracking them and they have a great save vs. psionics. As has been said a Mind Melter with Group Mind Block, a Cyberknight with all those ...

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I would use it if the other players in the party were all more powerful for some reason e.g. the others were true atlanteans, sea titans, powerful dee bees etc.

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Is the NG-P7 really a heavy energy weapon? It says "rifle" in the description, I always thought it was just a powerful rifle. Which WP does it require?

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I imagine it'd also help game sales, since it would allow for things like 'Pathfinder Society' and such.

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Yup, Pathfinder is pretty much what I was thinking about.

I've never actually played Pathfinder Society, just Pathfinder with my friends. However it is good to have a game where ...

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I imagine it'd also help game sales, since it would allow for things like 'Pathfinder Society' and such.

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Yup, Pathfinder is pretty much what I was thinking about.

I've never actually played Pathfinder Society, just Pathfinder with my friends. However it is good to have a game where ...

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Here is a good examples of MDC vs SDC in a movie which I think helps.

In the original Terminator movie, the Terminator itself is a good example of an MDC being with an SDC skin. No normal weapons from the time can damage the MDC skeleton but they can damage the SDC skin on top. Weapons from the ...

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*sigh*

Either they shouldn't have hit points or they should have SDC.

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Why?

Just because most things have SDC dosn't mean they all have to. There is no sacredness to consistancy.
Yeah but when game rules have consistency everyone wins, when game rules are not consistent everyone just gets ...

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*sigh*

Either they shouldn't have hit points or they should have SDC.

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Why?

Just because most things have SDC dosn't mean they all have to. There is no sacredness to consistancy.
Yeah but when game rules have consistency everyone wins, when game rules are not consistent everyone just gets ...

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*sigh*

Either they shouldn't have hit points or they should have SDC.

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Exception: guys like vampires and werewolves.

I don't have any problem with some races starting with no SDC. Gnomes and Humans don't have such a bonus. But a Slaver should get bonuses from physical skills or OCCs is ...

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Yeah, my sheet calculates skills and combat bonuses mainly buy certainly isn't a replacement for books as it does not take OCC/RCC into account. So without books you wouldn't know how many skills to choose or the OCC bonuses to those skills or any combat bonuses provided by your class.

I made it as ...

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Point of FACT, in the original Source Book 1 there are 5r instances of HP >0 w/SDC n/a AND MDC >0. Now most of those instances I know have been revised in later books, but with regard to SB1o it was hardly a single instance.

You can see that with:
-ARCHIE-3 (real ARCHIE not the OZ double, AFAIK it ...

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This is especially interesting when it comes to undersea adventures and high altitudes as well. I think Ley lines go along the sea floor as well which could be a lot deeper than digging in some cases.

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Size and Shape: Typically humanoid in shape and form, but usually oversized, robotic construct that towers 7-10 feet tall and bristles with weapons and moving parts.

Most power armors will accept pilots up to 7' tall, even the classic dead-boy SAMAS is 8' tall, so a 7' pilot should, in theory ...

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Subjugator wrote:*sigh*

Either they shouldn't have hit points or they should have SDC.

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Exactly.

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I get the different revisions.

However it's not as simple as you're making out. It doesn't say SDC=0, it says "SDC: Not applicable". All other SDC beings (except Vampires) have HP and SDC and only MDC beings have "SDC: Not applicable". There is a specific reason Vamps have HP but no SDC but no ...

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I agree that it's not the strength that's the problem with a borg in a PA, it's that a full conversion borg's body is too big to fit inside a standard PA.

Either way most GMs wouldn't allow it unless it's a very high powered game.

I've allowed partial conversion borgs to pilot PA though.

To ...

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I'm trying to work out why the Splugorth Slaver has Hit Points but under SDC it says "Not applicable". Is it because the Hit Points are MDC although this is never stated? Is it because it simply doesn't get SDC but just lots of hit points?

Usually when it says "SDC: Not applicable" it's because ...

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I have done something similar you might want to have a look at. It can calculate hand to hand and WP combat bonuses (except those that come from OCCs). If you want to share resources PM me.

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Nice.

Ive also made a full character sheet with all its sections in excel, which is more limited than ...

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I have done something similar you might want to have a look at. It can calculate hand to hand and WP combat bonuses (except those that come from OCCs). If you want to share resources PM me.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

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Thanks heaps for these NPCs, a GM can never have enough.

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Classes......It is more the concept than the mechanics that make them....because the concepts come with the culture they are arise from. sort of like the differences between the CS, Triax, and UEEG ground infantry classes arise from the culture that they come from.
The concept of the class also ...

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I do agree with the earlier assertion that Baal-rogs should be a bit more powerful to truly warrant the flavour text "one of the most feared and powerful of all the greater
demons". I personally would like to give them extra levels of fire elemental spells and/or magic weapons just to buff their ...

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In a game I ran with 3 people I had a guy play a dragon, however his true identity was a secret to the crazy in the party. He pretended to be a mystic which explained his magic and psychic powers.

Eventually he was bitten by a mutant spider whose venom forced him into his true form, however even ...

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In a game I ran with 3 people I had a guy play a dragon, however his true identity was a secret to the crazy in the party. He pretended to be a mystic which explained his magic and psychic powers.

Eventually he was bitten by a mutant spider whose venom forced him into his true form, however even ...

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Also the deaths of lots of people near each other (from an explosion, a battle, an act of nature like a flood or fire etc.) could cause a ley line storm.

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I can never understand why they removed the damage bonus for spells at a ley line/nexus point but left the damage bonus for certain psychic powers.
I can see the reasoning why: magic was given quite the buff in RUE now that most spells can be cast in one or two actions rather than the old system ...

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I don't think they've been forgotten; the South America books, Australia and Japan all discuss the implications of the local triangle anomalies. There's not a lot of info about the Mediterranean one in either Africa or Triax but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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Agree that Techno Wiz, Rogue Scholar/Scientist and CyberKnight are very versatile OCCs.

Operators are very useful, both the psychic and non-psychic versions.

Ley Line Walkers are surprisingly versatile, both with their spells and skills which can often complement each other.

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I've been thinking of having Archie put a basic circulatory system in the Shemarians, a nutrient fluid that carries bacteria so that they have one or two points of PPE to fool those that can see or sense PPE.

Apparently great minds think alike, in parallel development.
That's similar to what ...

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I've been thinking of having Archie put a basic circulatory system in the Shemarians, a nutrient fluid that carries bacteria so that they have one or two points of PPE to fool those that can see or sense PPE.

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Has anyone actually checked with Palladium as to whether it's ok to distribute a character generator or has everyone just assumed from rumours that it's not ok?

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As has already been said the CS has lost at least once to FQ. It wasn't a devastating loss but it was still pretty bad. Trying to attack FQ at the same time as Tolkeen was a strategic mistake and had they not withdrawn and made peace, could have led to the CS losing the war. Much in the same way ...

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As has already been said the CS has lost at least once to FQ. It wasn't a devastating loss but it was still pretty bad. Trying to attack FQ at the same time as Tolkeen was a strategic mistake and had they not withdrawn and made peace, could have led to the CS losing the war. Much in the same way ...

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OK, I see. But as I said I never mentioned Mary Sues.

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RUE Cyber Knights are pretty powerful, particularly against tech. Master Psionic CKs are also nasty. However yes they aren't particularly kick ass against the supernatural.

RUE Cyber-Knights are the SoT4 Cyber-Knights.

Yeah they can be nasty. Mary Sue though? Hardly.
Well I wasn't 100% sure ...

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RUE Cyber Knights are pretty powerful, particularly against tech. Master Psionic CKs are also nasty. However yes they aren't particularly kick ass against the supernatural.

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Actually I wondered this myself, before I post a question here I usually search the forums to check if it has been discussed before however if I still have a question I'm not sure whether I should start a new thread or necro the old one.

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