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Am I missing something? I can't find a maximum altitude for this thing. Maybe this was corrected in a rifter?

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I know this is almost a month old, but I understand what you are getting at here. I too am in the same boat and I Wanted something for my group, so I did a couple of YT videos going over the history in the book so they wouldn't have to read it and so far its got them excited. Just now seeing this, ...

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In the juicer uprising the pre rift design of the mega juicer was during the golden age so they had something more prowerful then even that as with the blue lines this king there was a psychic super soldier during that time But without stats for a mega juicer in a low magic environment it's hard to...

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Ok, I guess the claws are only mentioned once, but then you have the full page artwork by kevin himself that makes it look like some pretty wicked claws.

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The description makes a big deal about them having metal claws. No bonus damage for the claws or a claw attack?

Also do they get a HTH?

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If they did a big purge of dead accounts, would have been nice to give some advance notice so we could archive the great materials.

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I'm sure this is way out there, but any chance the posts were pulled because they're being used in official books somehow?

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Actually, I could see some version of that. I don't recall the books saying the CS was going to just empty out their prisons, run the convicts through boot camp, and send them to the Tolkeen front, BUT it would fit pretty well with their massive recruitment from the Burbs, and the number of new rec...

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World Book 23 Xiticix Invasion details out a CS base. One large - held like an entire division or so. Another smaller one held a brigade or regiment I think. World Book 10 had several defenses built by the CS. You could probably review the "Internal Security" options from Rifts Mercenarie...

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Thanks everyone. I'm not trying to make it impossible, just starting with feasible/believable defenses and then see what they come up with. There's a Psi-Tech and Psi-Ghost in the group so if they can get to the door without raising an alarm, or by drawing guards away with a distraction somehow, the...

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I don't recall any of the books detailing this (maybe a Rifter?), but if they do kindly point me in the right direction. Otherwise, I would assume someone has needed this in their own game. My group is planning a stealth mission to break into a small CS outpost, they're wanting to hack a server and ...

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I should have been clearer in my original post. Hazards of posting quickly from my phone when I have a chance. Surprisingly I had time to read the first 20 pages today and make some notes on that early timeline. So I revised my original post.

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I think you meant to ask if Someone has written out a " Timeline " of events for the first few days. months, years for the CE game. I actually meant primer (a short informative piece of writing). A summarized "this is the essentials of this world" that could be handed out to pla...

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IIRC the juicer found in the Triax book is basically the pre-rifts version. Or at least far closer than the main book version.

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Sadly http://www.jasonrichards.net is redirecting me to a kickstarter for miniatures.

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Just starting to read the books and preparing to run a game. Has anyone written a primer? Just a brief summary of the setting in a page or two. Useful to wrap my mind and the players minds around the setting before we jump in. I have started reading the main book but free time to prep between games ...

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Sorry for the thread necromancy. I'm finally getting around to a point where I'm actually hoping to play a Transcended or Advanced Biotic, figure I'll roll up both and see which one looks better on paper before deciding. Unless I'm blind I'm not seeing listed which XP table they use, so I'm going wi...

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(OP here) We've settled on Discord for us. Audio only. We're all 38+ years old, no one is interested in cheating and I trust them. They roll badly enough they aren't fudging even if I felt inclined to question it.

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Blackwater Sniper wrote:Whatever you do keep us informed.

Right now it's wild speculation and brainstorming. It might never come to fruition as my group is pretty great at torpedoing long term storylines unintentionally or zigging when I expect them to zag. They're rather chaotic.

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Thanks! I don't know why but I had Madhaven in my head as somewhere closer to Chi-Town than NYC. But I also don't own that one so haven't had a chance to read it.

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I don't remember reading this in the books anywhere. But if somehow, at the end of a major campaign with an enormous ritual or other triggering factor the Nightlands and Earth are separated again, what happens? Do the nightbane go back to vanilla human? Guardians? I assume Hounds and Night Princes a...

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Where all can I find info about New York, both the state and the city, as it stands in Rifts Earth? I'm assuming NYC is a horrible ruin full of undead or demons or something but was hoping for details. Is it in the Rifter or one of the world books? I am not remembering ever reading about it. Was cur...

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thorr-kan wrote:I think I'd stick with Nightbane's enchantment rituals. They can't reproduce spells, but they're indestructible and the high-level ones are permanent.

Where can I find those?

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NG doesn't seem to have the tech for this. I mean they can copy existing juicer and MOM tech to sell but they don't seem to have any of the biomedical facilities necessary to produce anything like dog boys. Is there a facility in the two NG books that can do this that I missed? Also, there is a hug...

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So I'm not married to the CS running the prison, that would simply be easiest for the group to plan for and possibly pull off. Anyone else would have defenses harder for the group to feasibly overcome such as enchantments, wards, area effect spells, geas, invisible guards with spells and supernatura...

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So I'm hoping to plan a scenario where the group needs to extract someone from an ultra max security facility on Rifts Earth. They might need to get themselves incarcerated to pull it off. I'm still brainstorming and deciding if it is feasible. It would probably run by Coalition but could be another...

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Mystic Kuznya cannot make Rune Weapons, wherever did you get that they could? Not true rune weapons. But they can make indestructible magical weapons. For all practical purposes that's one step below a lesser rune weapon, basically missing the saving throw bonus and zapping people of a different al...

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Dwarves? I take it that's lore from PFRPG? I never really dabbled in that setting at all. But I can borrow them if you can point me to a specific book and section that would educate me on that. I could easily pull a clan thought lost/slain but was actually yanked out of time and space to Rifts. That...

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Who all in the books can make indestructible rune weapons of varying power? Splugorth, Mystic Kuznya, who else?

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I would argue that most civilian construction areas would have many SDC features simply to keep costs down. Not every company can afford to build to military grade bunker standards. But also take into account the radiation. That could be devastating to all the mere mortals in the city for a long tim...

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All sixth sense tells you is danger in the next minute. That might mean the nuke three miles away will go off and everything within 90ft of you will be flattened by a lethal shockwave in one minute. You don't know what is coming and unless you happen to be right by it the device and can identify the...

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Sure it is. We are talking about a city full of mages, on a Nexus. Getting that much PPE would take a group of four mages less than five minutes. Not to mention that PPE is effectively infinite with a level five or higher Warlock around, even without a Nexus; or that Techno-Wizardry could reduce th...

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The main defense against it I would use (the main defense I'd use against anything) if I were Tolkeen would be covering the city in Sanctuary spells. Hell, I'd use that spell offensively too and daisy-chain it right in to the heart of Chi-Town, so the caster can attack the city without impunity. Th...

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I'm assuming the CS would have the capability to build these if they so chose. Yes, high yield nukes are blamed for the coming of the rifts, but if the war against Tolkeen had gone differently and the CS was losing badly, or if they entered a new war against the Fed of Magic and were not doing well,...

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It would definitely help keep them in check when they start going insane.

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Yeah. It just isn't worded that way really. I sure wouldn't let a player do it. But for a shock for the players I still might. I'll sit on it, it's a ways down the road.

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Ignore the obvious munchkinism here, this would be for an NPC ace in the hole situation to surprise the players. How do people feel about the feasibility of a biotic getting the elixir of life and scarecrow bonuses? Would they somehow cancel each other out? My thought here (spitballing, just came up...

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I actually really like that concept, I'm sure some tweaking would need to happen for balance/use. Also I've never taken a character to double digit levels in Rifts so I'd never get to experience the joy of a full conversion cyber-knight. One thing you might consider adding if it isn't assumed to be ...

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I'm actually not loving google sheets, but I'm also not using it the way Google would prefer. I'm making an excel sheet on my PC and opening that in google sheets (android app) on my chromebook. That version of sheets is not as stable and when it crashes it tends to corrupt the sheet. But I'm only u...

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To fight. Yeah, quick isn't easy that's why I was reaching out here. Don't care if they were PCs or NPCs, some may end up long term NPCs some may die horrible deaths or escape the battle to haunt the players another day. This is dark day where new Nightbane will be freaking out thinking they're mons...

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Running a dark day event, I was hoping someone had some pre-rolled nightbane stat blocks for easy reference for random encounter battles on dark day.

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Thanks for the replies everyone. We tried discord and it was mostly fine. One player got disconnected about hourly and another kept cutting out (I believe he was on wifi with a slower type like B, I suggested if he could to try a wired connection next time). But it was doable. And free is good. We j...

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What is the Avrae bot?

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We've been exploring options, I think we're going to try discord. Honor system since we normally are so spread out no one can see each others rolls anyway and we're old enough to enjoy the bad luck rolls along with the good. Sometimes the best stories come when someone critically fails a roll.

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See I'm sticking around because I don't have a lot of options for gaming groups here. My job forces me to move a lot IRL so I'm always having to make new gaming friends. Sometimes my options are limited to 1.) play with this douche or 2.) don't play at all. Yeah, that sucks. If you still keep in to...

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I've been in that situation a couple times. Once it boiled down to: The GM didn't know me, didn't really want to take on another player, but our mutual friend who had invited me pressured him into it. So he basically made the game suck for me until I left. There were plenty of other groups so I didn...

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Who is gaming remotely with their group? What tools and services are you using? What has worked and not worked for you?

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Would be awesome if someone on staff kept this on the webpage and updated it whenever a new book came out. But maybe a fan has done it and has it somewhere too. I'm looking for a simple text or pdf or spreadsheet file I can grab the newest version of as needed from the webpage and keep on my phone o...

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Thank you! That was much more thorough than I expected and very helpful.

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Feel free to take what you want to use in yours. I don't have as much time to do this stuff as I used to. Just looking for things to throw at players that aren't found in the books.

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