Yeah, as in "I throw a moon at you".
Basically, your average Rifts infantryman or power armor jockey's going to be looking at the muscle-goon in the baggy clothing and the bad haircut and thinking 'Juicer' and then seeing power-up mode and going immediately to 'OHSHI-"
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- Wed May 15, 2024 2:49 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: NOT a conversion, but where do DBZ characters...
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- Mon May 13, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Random Interstellar Empires/Star Kingdoms
- Replies: 911
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Re: Random Interstellar Empires/Star Kingdoms
Silydge (United Systems Alliance Colony)(Thundercloud Galaxy) “For such a small star, Cholden’s gathered quite the collection of interesting marbles.” “Cholden’s not a particularly attractive colonization prospect unless you like domes and tunnels, but it’s a good working prospect and resource syst...
- Mon May 13, 2024 7:22 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Paladin Steel Storefront
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Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
PS-MMLC(T)118 ‘Braxton’ Light Missile-Tank ( APC(T)118 Linden Variant) (aka ‘Boom-Box’, ‘Braxton-Boomer’, ‘Attack-Shack’) With a scream of escaping high-pressure air, its ruptured skirt throwing off pieces and its overloaded lift fans howling in protest, the top-heavy hovercraft slewed over onto it...
- Sun May 12, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Shemarrian-related fan creations
- Replies: 5399
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Re: Shemarrian-related fan creations
"So, yeah, if you think you can use your enhanced strength to pick one of those snakies up by one end and bash it against the ground or a wall, guess again. While you're trying to whiplash it to pieces, it's going chainsaw on the rest of you."
- Sun May 12, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Established trade routes from South America to North America
- Replies: 12
- Views: 139
Re: Established trade routes from South America to North America
That also means I'll have to return to working on my Mystic Navigator OCC....
- Sat May 11, 2024 10:51 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Established trade routes from South America to North America
- Replies: 12
- Views: 139
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Established trade routes from South America to North America
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- Views: 139
Re: Established trade routes from South America to North America
Teleportation Superior spell (RUE pg 225) can be useful for larger loads [1000lbs per level], but what self-respecting high level Ley Line Rifter would stoop to being a courier of base cargo? Even one of the lighter GB7 suits would require a mage of at least 3rd level to move. Rift Runners could al...
- Sat May 11, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Established trade routes from South America to North America
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Re: Established trade routes from South America to North America
For the REALLY magically powerful or well connected they will use a "Circle of Travel" These are the kind of people who can cast teleportation spell and be on another continent. Helps to have an advance agent establish a precise destination so you know exactly where you can safely telepor...
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:13 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Established trade routes from South America to North America
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- Views: 139
Re: Established trade routes from South America to North America
In particular, when looking at the risk of attack, the analogous model to consider is the losses suffered in the Atlantic during WW2 when there was an active effort to locate and destroy shipping going from one side of the ocean to the other. Of course, losses varied throughout the war, but the ton...
- Wed May 08, 2024 7:36 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Random Interstellar Empires/Star Kingdoms
- Replies: 911
- Views: 1767858
Re: Random Interstellar Empires/Star Kingdoms
Brudheinn - ---Independent Polity(Anvil Galaxy) “Brudheinnites dress and act like something out of the Middle Ages, but next to the sword scabbard is holstered a blaster, and under the chainmail sleeve is a compband with wireless broadband access. The aristos use drones to keep eyes on their lands ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Trade/Hyperlanes of the Three Galaxies
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3565
Re: Trade/Hyperlanes of the Three Galaxies
Still doesn't explain what it has to do with issues of interstellar navigation/travel, but since you brought it up, you might be interested in https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads ... s.1144975/.
- Mon May 06, 2024 7:10 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Paladin Steel Storefront
- Replies: 6262
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Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Paladin Steel ‘Kimberly’ Militia Air Defense Vehicle (aka ‘Kimmy’, ‘Bang-strober’) “Thing looks like a technical, and it is a gun-truck, but a gun-truck built RIGHT. Range on the weapons is decent so you can engage targets without having to wait to see the whites of their eyes...if they have whites...
- Sun May 05, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: The Order of the White Coats
- Replies: 13
- Views: 258
Re: The Order of the White Coats
Naturally, at some point in the course of searching for new remedies, a White Coat will travel to PhaseWorld and wind up blowing their travel budget just going through the front 'common' remedy racks at the local equivalent of CVS, before ever even making it to the hardcore medical marketplace. Now ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Starship designs...
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Re: Starship designs...
You want to go cheap and expendable. Admittedly, though, in the Shemarrian fan thread we have a robot centipede/rail gun that makes its own ammo by chewing up scrap metal(the EShemarrians dump a **** of the robot-critters in a Kittani shipyard and they shoot up the Splugorth counterattack while at t...
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:21 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: The Order of the White Coats
- Replies: 13
- Views: 258
Re: The Order of the White Coats
I'm reminded of a comic one issue of which used the 'kidnapped doctor' adventure move; a notorious warlord raids a caravan to kidnap a doctor that the characters have to go after. When they get the warlord's camp*, the doctor refuses to leave his patient, the warlord's daughter, because of her condi...
- Fri May 03, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: The Order of the White Coats
- Replies: 13
- Views: 258
Re: The Order of the White Coats
"You'd have to be stupid, insane, misguided, or very very desperate to harm a member of the White Coats.
Unfortunately, there is no shortage of such people in the world."
Unfortunately, there is no shortage of such people in the world."
- Fri May 03, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Starship designs...
- Replies: 2912
- Views: 2762056
Re: Starship designs...
Drop Mines---Robotic Weapons Platform Surface Landers “We drop a cordon of ack-ack drop-drones fifty-eighty mikes out from the landing zone, so if they scramble any mud-birds and fly them nape so our orbitals can’t see them in the ground clutter, we can still smoke them from below.” “Fedlow the Ski...
- Wed May 01, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Shemarrian-related fan creations
- Replies: 5399
- Views: 4245685
Re: Shemarrian-related fan creations
EShemarrian Crossover Hook Line and Sinker with https://palladiumbooks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=187205 Hook: A party of the White Coats, an Order of Healers, have entered a combat zone in or near the Shemarrian Nation in response to reports of endangered civilians. Line: An Eshemarrian Valkyri sha...
- Wed May 01, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: The Order of the White Coats
- Replies: 13
- Views: 258
Re: The Order of the White Coats
Hook: A White Coat approaches the PCs/calls in a favor from one of the PCs; a life is at stake. Line: A child is dying of an ailment that the White Coat knows can only be cured with a special elixir/artifact. Fortunately the White Coat knows an old contact in the Magic Zone who has access to the rig...
- Wed May 01, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Random Interstellar Empires/Star Kingdoms
- Replies: 911
- Views: 1767858
Re: Random Interstellar Empires/Star Kingdoms
Ultor -----Aboroc Homeworld(Potential United Systems Alliance member)(Thundercloud Galaxy) “Jestavee was one of the harder and larger campaigns we saw directly pitched against the Infernals. If we hadn’t been incorporating technowizardry into our ships, though, the outcome would have been a lot mor...
- Wed May 01, 2024 12:51 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: The Order of the White Coats
- Replies: 13
- Views: 258
Re: The Order of the White Coats
Ah, but does the Coalition States(or similar anti-magic/xenophobic) recognize them, or are their ambulances and clinics convenient targets? Do they rely on strictly defensive magic and their reputations to protect them, or do they hire(or accept) security contingents of armed guards to keep them saf...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:05 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Trade/Hyperlanes of the Three Galaxies
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3565
Re: Trade/Hyperlanes of the Three Galaxies
Not sure where you're getting the 'Humans as space orcs' out of a discussion of stellar navigation....
Lot of species could have the 'toss the problem out the airlock' mentality.
Lot of species could have the 'toss the problem out the airlock' mentality.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:01 pm
- Forum: Robotech® - The Shadow Chronicles® - Macross II®
- Topic: Everything you think about the VF-8 Logan is probably wrong
- Replies: 14
- Views: 460
Re: Everything you think about the VF-8 Logan is probably wrong
I always regarded the Logan as the VW Bug of the Veritech line; light, reliable, affordable, tough, easy on parking space, if rather limited utility-wise.
The VF-1 Valkyrie's the Mustang of the Veritechs.
The Alpha, judging from the above comments, seems to be a Ford Pinto....
The VF-1 Valkyrie's the Mustang of the Veritechs.
The Alpha, judging from the above comments, seems to be a Ford Pinto....
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Random Starship Encounters
- Replies: 5
- Views: 657
Re: Random Starship Encounters
36- *Armod’s Inquiry ----Modified Gas Mining Ship, Science Vessel. The Armod’s Inquiry is a scientific research vessel sponsored in part by General Galaxy(the major ship supplier to the CAF) to study hyperspace phenomena, to gain a better understanding of subspace dimensions(ideally with an eye towa...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:09 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Making Roads?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 354
Re: Making Roads?
Of course, with good roads, you'll want road patrols....because even if bandits don't show up, predators might recognize them for game trails...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Making Roads?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 354
Re: Making Roads?
One of my earliest PaladinSteel creations was a large crawler that was a combination bulldozer/clear-cutter that used a reactor-powered array of plasma torches to melt the ground into a quick-cooling hard surface(extra material could be added if the local ground didn't lend itself to a good quality ...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Starship designs...
- Replies: 2912
- Views: 2762056
Re: Starship designs...
PS/ASI ‘Union’ Stations--Standardized Orbital Habitat Facilities (aka ‘Hexadromes’) “Right now, the Union’s being produced only for the Usa Alliance and its affiliates, so if you see one, it means the Usans got a presence, and more than a passing one, in that part of space. A lot of the pirate cart...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Rabdom thought for Rifts England:
- Replies: 3
- Views: 419
Re: Rabdom thought for Rifts England:
Or make Morgan le Fay a moniker for a particularly long-lived dimensional traveller(a nonhuman masquerading as human, an Atlantean, a pre-Rifts scientist, parapsychic, or soldier who became d-stranded and wandered other dimensions/times before returning to Rifts Earth) who has encountered Myrrlin(or...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: Guild of Magic & Psionics
- Topic: Invented Spells
- Replies: 1561
- Views: 1745821
Re: Invented Spells
Read Spell Signature (Invocation/Ritual) Level: 7 Type: Invocation/Ritual Range: 10 ft +5 ft per level of experience Duration: Instant Saving Throw: None PPE Cost: 25 for the Invocation, 150 for the Ritual Effects: This spell is magic forensics; cast on the suspected scene or victim of magic activi...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:50 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Paladin Steel Storefront
- Replies: 6262
- Views: 8032274
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
TW Solarplex Sun-Tower (aka ‘Sunflower Tower’) “There’s four traditional kingdoms of materials used through history; organics, stone, metal and manmade, but now there’s a fifth kingdom...the metaphysical materials, such as ectoplasm. We’ve barely scratched the possible applications of the new mater...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:46 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Atlantean Clan of the Sunken Kingdom
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1014
Re: Atlantean Clan of the Sunken Kingdom
Ah, magic forensics...difficult enough for mages, almost impossible for non-mages, what with regards to 'admissible in court' issues. In magic/psychic cultures, I figure there would be research into 'reading' the PPE 'residue' for a mage's aura-'thumbprint' at the scene of a crime, or at least detec...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Random Interstellar Empires/Star Kingdoms
- Replies: 911
- Views: 1767858
Re: Random Interstellar Empires/Star Kingdoms
Ex-Slave Species in the United Systems Alliance “The Servitors? They’re not so much conscientious objectors as subconsciously-engineered pacifists. Sometime in their ancestry somebody else diddled their genes so these folks’ descendants couldn’t rise up against abusive masters. Sometimes they can’t...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Paladin Steel Storefront
- Replies: 6262
- Views: 8032274
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
Greater New England Freebot Units (aka ‘Legions of Steel’) “Headquarters started getting concerned when several of my unit ‘tripped the line’ during routine performance reviews. They pulled my entire production batch off the line for evaluation and ended up revising our ratings and offering us the ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Real environmental dangers? Toxic air, poison water, alien radiation.....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 451
Re: Real environmental dangers? Toxic air, poison water, alien radiation.....
Somebody's been reading "A Roadside Picnic"......
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: LandShips - Boats on tank treads! (yeah its crazy.....)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 320
Re: LandShips - Boats on tank treads! (yeah its crazy.....)
The 'Big Rig' dialed up to 'Extreme'. They need those onboard exoskeletons if they throw a tread or if a boogie-wheel slips on its axle. Thanks to compact nuclear power plants, because if these things were liquid-fueled, mileage would seriously suck. And by sheer size and power output they overcome ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:06 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Random Interstellar Empires/Star Kingdoms
- Replies: 911
- Views: 1767858
Re: Random Interstellar Empires/Star Kingdoms
(BIG color post) Food Production and United Systems Alliance Soft Power “They’ll feed you when you’re down and while you’re eating, they’ll work to fix your world if they can.” “When the call went out about the solar flare-caused famine looming on Tessburghen. it was hardly a week before the first u...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:03 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Sleepers from the Coalition War Campaign H,L & S
- Replies: 10
- Views: 659
Re: Sleepers from the Coalition War Campaign H,L & S
They were placing an awful amount of trust in the trouble eventually blowing over and not simply murdering them in their sleep.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:18 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Sleepers from the Coalition War Campaign H,L & S
- Replies: 10
- Views: 659
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Eclipse in Rifts
- Replies: 10
- Views: 473
Re: Eclipse in Rifts
Magic Overload Effects Tables “For a moment there I could...smell purple in C Minor.” Sometimes a magic-user lucks into a motherlode of mystic power. Sometimes a LOT of power. Sometimes TOO MUCH power. But ever receptive to the energy of the megaverse, the magic user throws themselves wide open to ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:41 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Atlantean Clan of the Sunken Kingdom
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1014
Re: Clan of the Sunken Kingdom
Nice slices of life here; it shows the strengths(and weaknesses) of Atlantean clannish society(I tended to think of them as 'those guys who screwed up big time with regards to sinking their own homeland and. it's implied, created the Mechanoids'...and, until they retconned out half-Atlantean charact...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:40 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Random Starship Encounters
- Replies: 5
- Views: 657
Re: Random Starship Encounters
Random Spacecraft Ideas: -23 * Starseed ---- Merchantman -Yacht Conversion -Co-Captains are Polskar Neev, an 11th-level Franaj businessbeing, and Yaohov Doblo, a 7th level LLiemid agronomist. The two are indulging a lucrative hobby of theirs in traveling the Three Galaxies, collecting the seeds of v...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:48 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: A cargo plane for civilian or adventurer use, VTOL too!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 662
Re: A cargo plane for civilian or adventurer use, VTOL too!
Have a C-130/2 with tilt-wing as well.... Paladin Steel C-130/2 Hercules II Air Transport (aka ‘Herky-Bird’, ‘Dumbo’, ‘Herc’, ‘Tilt-o--Whirl’) “It’s not the fastest, it’s not the sleekest, it’s not the best armed, or the best armored, it’s not particularly pretty, or anywhere stealthy...but IT GETS ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:42 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: A cargo plane for civilian or adventurer use, VTOL too!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 662
Re: A cargo plane for civilian or adventurer use, VTOL too!
all excellent thoughts people, thank you! does anyone have stats for their own design? You might regret this request.... Paladin Steel V-22 Osprey II Vertol Tiltrotor “When I asked for air support you coulda warned me you were sending an Irregular unit; when those six jet-black tiltrotors came buzz...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Paladin Steel Storefront
- Replies: 6262
- Views: 8032274
Re: Paladin Steel Storefront
TW Curse-Buster Amulet “The Greater New England military’s been around long enough to have earned its share of curses...mostly nuisance ones like irritating rashes or excessive body odor...but occasionally some ******** digs up what they think is an ultimate malady-weapon worse than death to inflic...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Eclipse in Rifts
- Replies: 10
- Views: 473
Re: Eclipse in Rifts
Now imagine standing on a dimensional pyramid during an eclipse...
Or does that take us back into frying-mages territory?
Or does that take us back into frying-mages territory?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Eclipse in Rifts
- Replies: 10
- Views: 473
Re: Eclipse in Rifts
Thanks Grazzik, and great catch on the BoM. I read it, and **completely** fanned on that FAQ response. So, technically, a LLW with a "measly" P.E. of 10, at a nexus during an eclipse, could "soak up" almost 20,000 PPE (woah....). I honestly think mages should have a baseline mag...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:51 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Eclipse in Rifts
- Replies: 10
- Views: 473
Re: Eclipse in Rifts
Excellent essay and rules. A quality post.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Can railgun fire underwater?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 444
Re: Can railgun fire underwater?
Supercavitating ammunition is my answer to making more efficient underwater rail guns.
But also pay more attention to cleaning them between immersions, to clean out salt/crud build-up.
But also pay more attention to cleaning them between immersions, to clean out salt/crud build-up.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: the self replicating skelebot?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 539
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: the self replicating skelebot?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 539
Re: the self replicating skelebot?
Tectonic Entities...turning your scrap loot into killer garbage.