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dark brandon

In our games (and several of the ones on the chat room) we use what is known as the "5 pass system" Each round of 15 seconds is divided up into 5 3 second 'passes' You distribute your actions equally in each pass. With left overs being assigned via dealers choice. Thus if you have 5 APM y...

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Would depend is the answer. I mean I would, but your talking the same as an online game. Maybe $20 a month, and there has to be effort put into the game world, props...ect... There would also be the idea the GM has to push the game forward. When you're with friends, it can sometimes move away from t...

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Dragons

Ice magic

Bio-domes

Pauly shore.

/thread.

dark brandon

what exactly is the problem here? Rifts China characters use I.S.P. to fuel their powers. Rifts Japan characters use P.P.E. to fuel their powers. Ninjas & Superspies characters use Chi to fuel their powers. what does it matter if its called ISP, PPE, Chi, or pepperjack cheese? the name problem....

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I only play aberrant characters. It allows most freedom I feel. Not a fan of alignments personally. I play in an all evil/selfish group. It works out because one, we don't do any IC fighting (at least not anymore). I'm not a fan of Character fighting and now feel that I'm too grown up for that kind ...

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The city of Lazlo This city seems to be like the perfect utopia, in a world of fear, chaos, demons, hatred and the Coalition States, Lazlo has somehow managed to stand pretty much unmolested as the perect paradise where all induviduals regardless of their origin, race, eye-colour and philosophy, we...

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RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE

dark brandon

How would the Coalition react .. to a Splugorthian Messanger .. sent to deliver a message directly to the Coalition High Counsel ? Reason: Because Lord Splynn wants to create a new betting pool in which one of the following will happen. A) - The Messanger WILL .. succeed .. B) - The Messanger will ...

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While constraining and incapacitating the creature is possible, it doesn't reflect the CS mindset to me. The CS would constrain just long enough to find a way to kill it. Kinda like how I might say "nice doggie" while looking for a big stick. all else fails, throw it in the st. Louis rift...

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personally, for players, I don't think it really matters on average.

I don't think the average game/story lines go into the years, so I don't think it matters one way or another.

dark brandon

It wouldn't need a battalion, just one or two mind melters or controllers.

"there are fates worse than death".

dark brandon

I like juicer. Juicer is fun when I think about it, to be super athletic...jumping 15ft high...and only having to sleep like 3 hours a night. I also like how they usually keep control of their mental facets. Also, i'd like to think that either the CS or atlantis would have a way to keep the body &qu...

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With an sdc creature, the internal sdc organs all impact with each other, the sdc body and the sdc ground. But, with an mdc creature, the mdc organs impact with with each other, with the mdc exterior, and the sdc ground So, siding with the interpretation that velocity is the determiining factor rat...

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"Do as thou will" seems to be the heart of Rifts, a GM's discretion trumps all. I originally asked a fairly basic question "What, in Rifts, do you find unbelievable?" Where do you draw the line to make the game believable for you . I provided my answer. I accept that not everyon...

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The same material is not being impacted because there is more impact going on than just with the ground... Question: If I drop a cannonball made pf mdc material from such a height that it reaches terminal velocity and it strikes an mdc creature on the ground, does the mdc creature take mdc damage f...

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The same material is not being impacted because there is more impact going on than just with the ground... Question: If I drop a cannonball made pf mdc material from such a height that it reaches terminal velocity and it strikes an mdc creature on the ground, does the mdc creature take mdc damage f...

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so, in game terms, how would you simplify the "terminal velocity" thing so that it doesn't hinder the game, is quick to use and is understandable by a 13 year old?

dark brandon

Yes so much; I don't complain or harp on the setting 'problems'; honestly, the only thing about the setting I don't like is the names of the aliens. Goddamn "Gorilla-Men" and "Cactus People". I actually don't mind this so much, because I think generally if that race's name was u...

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Actually, he'd reach terminal velocity long before he was in near orbital levels, so it wouldn't make any difference how high up he was beyond a certain point, if you want to go for realism. Falling from low Earth orbit likely wouldn't do any more damage than falling off of the Sears Tower would. O...

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*laughs and nods* DBZ characters have what you could consider mega-amped chi powers from Ninjas and Superspies, and one of those is using their Ki as extra SDC (or MDC given what the setting quickly amped up into). When they fight it's as much then physical strength damage to SDC as it is their Ki ...

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Not surprising, punches in DBZ are backed by the Ki of the attacker it's not pure physical damage, meanwhile that solid granite that they always find to crunch into is just mere stone and can't begin to really harm them unless they're almost totally depleted on Ki and sometimes not even then as som...

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Correct; MDC creatures are usually tough enough to survive falls without much trouble. There have been a few threads on this. People keep trying to turn MDC into SDC, thinking that since falling is scary to SDC people that it should be just as scary to MDC creatures, but that's just not how things ...

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I really don't have any limit. It's a game to me, and by far the most important thing is that it's fun. Being that it's a game, I take it for what it's worth and will take cool/fun over realistic. I want rifts to play like a movie, not like a documentary.

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Interseting observations. @dark brandon, that's part of my problem is that I s"see" how these GB units "fit" the NGR. They built their own GB but decided not to use chromium armor as it didn't fit w/ their military. Now I'm not saying they can't change their minds, but the "...

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I think that the CS' hatred of magic comes from two areas: 1. Fear and paranoia about magic due to its association with demons and other dark forces. 2. The CS can't use it. The people in charge aren't mages, and mages are so powerful in comparison that they can't be trusted. If the CS ever unravel...

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Mister Galactus Kid, Sir..... I have only ONE complaint with your book....and it might NOT be what you think it is. My only complaint with your book.....is that the future looked a little bit TOO sunny for the NGR!! Between the Robo-Furry spies, the Egg Killers, the internecine strife between the v...

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I think something to remember is that when writing there are priorities on which you need to focus. The first is the players. How are the players going to use this? will they enjoy it? will they even use it? Generally speaking, while tanks and such are cool...honestly few people probably play them. ...

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Always seemed to me the OCC is in direct violation of the 'magic and powers is evil' mindset of the Coalition, given they have clearly developed powers and should be in the mindset shown of the Coalition immediately destroyed as 'contaminated'. The Coalition can't even handle psionic powers yet the...

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When this topic comes up people never really stop to think about what music would be made by people in rifts, which always gets on my nerves a bit. The majority of posters on here over the years tend not to know a lot about music beyond top 40 stuff and major label bands, which I guess limits peopl...

dark brandon

Get the MJ cd, find a very charismatic flooper.

Make new king of Pop.

dark brandon

depending on who I was playing. If I'm looking to do fast money, I'd take it to a city state and sell it to a promising entrepreneur to re-mass market it. The more music (and type) the more I'd ask for it. Punk/metal music I'd defiantly sell higher because I know there'd be a want for it (Juicers an...

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As for what I consider treasure... Yeah a parking meter could be considered treasure (I remember a Sliders episode similar to this), but you'd have to come out of Madhaven w/ a lot of parking meters, etc. to pay for the repairs that one (or more) 1,100 MD mutant could inflict (going by the regular ...

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The description for what happened to NY/Manhattan states "they didn't know what hit them", they were not prepared for it. So unless someone buried books in a sealed container (next to impossible to do considering how buitl up those areas are/will be) before hand, I don't see them surving ...

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As for books, I see no reason for their existence in 2098...but clearly in the Rifts Universe they are all over the place...and not really made of paper since they are found intact in 300 years. So therefore, we must ask why? Strangely enough, i'm in the camp that believes books will never go away....

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Re CD's/information tech: I realize per "canon" (God's is that a stupid word, it's "official" not "canon") that disks are supposedly still extant, but KS didn't really expect some of the technological leaps we've made since he started Rifts,(like the fact that disk tec...

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Got my hands on the Rifter that has the "treasure" for Madhaven aaannnndddd less impressive than I'd hoped. I'm sorry you didn't like it, honestly. The stuff I don't agree w/are things like discs of music or such things, if NY is supposed to be the epitome of Golden Age tech when power ar...

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Y'know I fell totally stupid for not thinking of those things myself, tho' I slightly disagree on one subject; Skelebots being crud in combat, they're not great I'll grant you but they're better than nothing (I'd use NG albor 'bots instead). I will keep those very pertinant facts well in mind Sir D...

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materials: 9th lvl of lonestar has a working rift open to a world filled with raw materials. They use skelebots to mine it so no human actually goes there. . Are you sure? I think that is just in Japan. Well, CS does have a "rift" machine in lvl 9 of Lone star. In canon it's not running (...

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Consider in todays world, we can grow meat in a dish, cross-breed plants even change their genetic structure, it's not too hard to think that CS has this down to an art (they do make talking dogs) If you make a genetically engineered cow, it'll still have to eat, and that food goes to different proc...

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Y'know I fell totally stupid for not thinking of those things myself, tho' I slightly disagree on one subject; Skelebots being crud in combat, they're not great I'll grant you but they're better than nothing (I'd use NG albor 'bots instead). I will keep those very pertinant facts well in mind Sir D...

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I really wanted more from the book, I wanted more basic vehicles, like the ones on the cover. The way they set it up you NEED to have an insanely high M.E. to effectively make it in Madhaven, lack of psionics actually makes you even more vulnerable and even those in power armor having no protection...

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materials: 9th lvl of lonestar has a working rift open to a world filled with raw materials. They use skelebots to mine it so no human actually goes there. food: if they can grow talking dogs they grow giant rib-eye steaks. *note, none of this is canon. I don't even use it in my games* resources are...

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You're right, it is cheap, and sure you may be better than that, but is the Mind Melter that has been going around terrorizing people and kidnapping children better than that? Maybe not. I was referring to game play, not IG morality. By "cheap" and "better than that" meaning tha...

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I can see where you are coming from, but my GM actually 'taught' me that little trick by having it performed on one of my other characters. He had a bandoleer with three grenades on it and the main villain at the time, a Mind Melter, simply pulled the pins and had him destroyed. Taught me never to ...

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i play a lotta mage so i _expect_ the gm to be as creative as us about screwin everyone over with creative uses of kewl powerz. why? were u goin somewhere with this? Just curious. In talking about it, many people seem to be ok with it. Remove a pin from the grenade, or unlock an Eclip, shoot 10 gun...

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Always the dread TK Wedgie. Or the simple e-clip release or firarm safety flick. Or flip the light switch in the room. Pull the pin on that grenade on the guy's combat webbing. Or draw the blade from that shoulder scabbard he's wearing and resheath it in his neck. As players...how do you all feel w...

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RoadWarriorFWaNK wrote:
dark brandon wrote:
RoadWarriorFWaNK wrote:
dark brandon wrote:
RoadWarriorFWaNK wrote:i just think its funny that in chaos earth you can learn to kill people as a hobby.

Guns?

learning to shoot guns =/= learning to kill people

I use my guns to tickle babies.

dude that's a W.P. sharpshooting trick. you don't have that WP. stop cheating

ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES!!!!

dark brandon

I'm thinking of writing up a campaign idea, one dealing with a kind of "technology vs. magic" approach, in an SDC setting. I need to know about ways a group of techies can deal with higher-level magic, supernatural creatures, that kind of thing. I read that DUC rounds hinder regeneration,...

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Apparently I'm at the other end of the spectrum. Psychic Beliefs 19 According to your score, you don't believe that people can be gifted with the power to see into the future and predict things to come. You seem to find it hard to believe that psychic practitioners are legitimate, and that someone ...

dark brandon

RoadWarriorFWaNK wrote:
dark brandon wrote:
RoadWarriorFWaNK wrote:i just think its funny that in chaos earth you can learn to kill people as a hobby.

Guns?

learning to shoot guns =/= learning to kill people

I use my guns to tickle babies.

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