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I really like this character system! I have to admit that the middling level of "super" in this game doesn't feel very four-color to me, so this is a great boost to that system, and also allows a character to really grow with each level.

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I'd like to see it broken into four books, overall: super powers (mutants, symbiotes, aliens), tech (hardware, robots, bionics), magic, and unpowered heroes (from stage magicians to physical training.) If someone doesn't like magic in their superhero games, that takes care of that. Now, each book sh...

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Tirisilex wrote:Soo.. RPG's are a valuable resource for surviving a Zombie Apocalypse?

Not really. They're loud, you need a long LOS to fire them because of splash damage, and the ammo is gonna be a pain to find.

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Razorwing wrote:Working on it.

Maybe a villain next... one that was a colleague of Trystan's on the Terra Nova Reactor who wasn't as lucky as Trystan when it came to being exposed to the reactor's energies.

Fission?

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Dimensional leakage from a universe where all life has become zombified? Genetic manipulation gone wrong (i.e, someone trying to make foods stocks hardier and it backfired). BONUS: If there ever was a cure, it was lost when the original scientists were turned. Antarctic ice melt exposes something mi...

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Crashed alien space craft leaks weird virus into the atmosphere.

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- Every super except the PCs has had their alignment reversed! Heroes are robbing banks, villains are rescuing people from burning buildings. And there's their arch nemesis... who seems to be a pretty decent guy after all, when he's not trying to kill them. Twist: One of the PCs *has* been affected,...

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House Rule: Lasers. If you can see them, light does *not* pass harmlessly through them.

Same house rule: Invisibility grants immunity to lasers.

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IMO, the best way to handle the glow is this: Imagine being covered head to toe in phosphorescent paint.

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Campaign setting idea: The government experiments on people to try to instill super powers. But something goes horribly wrong, and now a small group of people will legitimate (albeit minor) super powers is stuck in the middle of a sea of zombies, because the research itself is Ground Zero. Once the ...

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Shanghai Noon, Armageddon, Starship Troopers, Con Air, Face/Off these were good the rest were all crap Of that entire list, The Ref is the only one I'll go out of my way to see. Armageddon was the stuff that feces wipes off of its shoe. you know you cried at the end when bruce willis sacrificed him...

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CS Special Forces wrote:Amazing ... The DL chronicles were some of the most epic books I've ever read and the only thing that came of it was..was... A cartoon?

Correction: a CRAPPY animated film.

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say652 wrote:Shanghai Noon, Armageddon, Starship Troopers, Con Air, Face/Off
these were good the rest were all crap

Of that entire list, The Ref is the only one I'll go out of my way to see.

Armageddon was the stuff that feces wipes off of its shoe.

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Most of the DnD movies are garbage. Bad acting worse storylines terrible scenery and horrible CGI. As far as Disney goes their target audience is kids and pre-teen girls, I doubt the realistic gritty and dangerous world of RIFTS could be softened up enough(and still be RIFTS) for a disney movie. Be...

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Rali wrote:Since we are on the topic of Krang:
http://cheezburger.com/6719654656

That is awesome. That should be placed in the stomach of a jack-o-lantern scarecrow.

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Within the last couple of years, there was a stretch where everyone got affected by gamma rays. Captain America, Thor, Spidey, everyone. Template swaps/combining was happening quite a bit in the 90s I think. Captain America got to spend time as 'Captain Ameriwolf' courtesy of a villain that used Jo...

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Within the last couple of years, there was a stretch where everyone got affected by gamma rays. Captain America, Thor, Spidey, everyone.

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Marvel can't possibly trademark Goliath, as it's public domain (the Bible is a pretty old piece of literature, it turns out). Goliath would be safe. Now, if you made Goliath to be a former archery hero prior to his getting size changing powers, that would be another story altogether. That said, I li...

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Pepsi Jedi wrote:All that being said.. rolling those two powers.. in a Super hero game? Wouldn't be very FUN for me. If I'm playing a super hero game I wanna be a super hero. Not "That guy that can learn languages really fast".

I *know* you ain't hatin' on Cypher!

/New Mutants represent!

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Stone Gargoyle wrote:People use arguments like that to justify eliminating skills or simplifying them all the time, though.

It's kind of like saying if you can drive a Fiat you can drive a Mack because they're both ground vehicles with wheels, gears, windows, and a steering wheel.

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This is beyond the scope of this topic, but personally, I'd be in favor of consolidating and reducing the skill list anyway, to just include the most useful ones. For my style of supers gaming, I really don't need twenty different pilot skills, three computer skills, 4 or 5 radio skills, etc. It ju...

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MR Grimm As one of four friends who launched an unauthorized rocket, Ben Gri [REDACTED DUE TO CONVERSION CONCERNS] Seriously now. As a Fultomite, D'rire has a great poker face. That is, his race lacks any connection between facial expression and emotion. They tend to be utterly and completely deadp...

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gaby wrote:Lady Wicked

Nope. It'll get me banned.

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He winds up in the burbs without his security detatchment, and gets organlegged.

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She steps through a rift to explore, never to be seen again.

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Everyone knows that some villains aren't in it for the crime or the power... they want to make an honest buck by helping some other guy make a dishonest buck. Most of the time, they're muscle or snipers. But Turbo is a different breed. He has one power, and it doesn't even work on Turbo himself; he ...

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Shapeshifters seem to be a dime a dozen, but Charade is a bit of an odd duck. For starters, no one knows what Charade looks like... every time Charade's been put under power restraints, somehow Charade's form is different, despite Charade's protests that this is what they ALWAYS look like. Secondly,...

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The articles from the hardware unlimited manuscript lead to half the new classes in PU2. the rest is history. WRONG! The classes in PU2 were written by Carmen Bellaire who DID NOT write nor have access to the Hardware Unlimited manuscripts. Please be accurate in your statements before posting them ...

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Around the 'net, there are rumors, always rumors. A long dead superhero is really alive and waging war from the shadows. A clandestine government agency is shipping all the villains off to a penal planet. But none so whispered about as The Informer. It all started a year ago, when the plot to assass...

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Hi, One of the PC's in my new campaign wishes to play a half human/half demon hybrid something along the lines of maybe dante or Blade(although with Demon traits instead of Vampire), just curious as to any thoughts you might have as to the best Power Category to fit this so hopefully i dont have to...

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Lazy Boy was always a slacker. He did the exact minimum needed to get by. Straight C student, did the chores his parents asked of him, but never put in any effort. Until the day he discovered he could possess others. Suddenly, he could do whatever he wanted by proxy. No sweat, no strain, no exertion...

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Yes, all skills of the previous OCC are retained, and No - there really isn't any Sunlight Spell that will hurt them. The reasoning behind sun hurting a vampire is the mysticism behind it, in many religious cultures the Sun is the physical equivalent of God. Same reason Crosses hurt them and holy w...

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How about going the other way? I ran a Heroes Unlimited campaign where the main bad guy was an assassin/serial killer/mutant slayer. There were a few deaths before they meet up with the baddie (tech villain named Death From Above, usually referred to as DFA), where they were greeted by the sight of ...

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Only if you could somehow enchant the slug so that the instant it deforms it triggers a release of a Globe of Daylight...

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Laughing Fox High Roller SlientStrike Ms Ruse The Fearless Four started as four individual heroes... Laughing Fox, a dashing swashbuckler who, by day, works as an accountant, and by night dons a Zorro-inspired costume (complete with domino mask), and fights crime dual rapier style... High Roller, a...

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Robert Jenkins was a beat cop, your ordinary joe, until the night he tried to bust a member of the Varelli family. Nicholas "Nicky" Varelli virtually owned the law, but Jenkins wasn't paying attention to the subtle hints to back off. So they sent him a more serious one. One night, while he...

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Cheerleader Abigail Greene was always an outcast. She wasn't popular like the jocks, but she wasn't shunned like the nerds. She was a clique of one, and not by choice. She was often sullen and depressed, and never more so than when her parents would tell her "cheer up kiddo, it doesn't rain ev...

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Kyle Woods was always the odd one. In junior high, he was an emo kid, and in high school he went full goth (you never go full goth). He was also into cutting, rarely going a week without sporting a new stripe. On his 21st birthday, he was in a club, alone (Kyle never was one for having (m)any friend...

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Heroes Unlimited Ultimate Edition : (Yes, I'm bandwagoning). I'd say have it include all three PU books, because powers *are* the main draw of comic books. Heroes Unlimited Atlas : Maps of HU Earth, including fictional cities, fictional nations, etc. Make a world setting and enforce it, but leave e...

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As a MMO player, I can answer that. AoE is "Area of Effect", meaning the attack affects multiple targets, like a grenade (circular AoE) or a fan of gunfire (cone AoE).

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I think the writers of this game we play expect us to use our brains and imagination. They shouldn't and cant spell out every thing to us. Can no one see how unbalancing this would be? Is the flight speed of a Cosmo Knight *really* going to be your camel's back straw for the character class? That's...

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It's a Cosmo Knight. If he wants to skull[redacted] the laws of physics, he can jolly well do so.

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Beaker: Jason Harding was always a nerd. Actually, to call him a nerd is like calling Mercury warm. Jason spent all of his time in the lab, trying to invent a chemical that could bestow superpowers. He succeeded, but not in any way he would have preferred. In a lab accident, he was doused with his l...

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Karl Prosek in a ponygirl suit.

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No? Then if we're talking mage, why not give them something unique. I mean, this is Rifts, where the books are suggestions when it comes to critters. How about a saddled giant snake (cobra, rattler, boa...)?

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Routine uses of language and literacy shouldn't require skill rolls or earn experience, and merely speaking to someone or reading a book should be considered automatic abilities. Tasks which would require skill rolls (and which may earn experience if the task is significant to the game) might inclu...

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What your character is thinking: "So I was walking to the supermarket..."
What your character says with 50% skill (and a failed roll): "Was walking to... to... what is word..."

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RIFTS: We have dragons and hovercraft and flying motorcycles and roided out freaks and brain implant lunatics and cyborgs and robots and flying armor and laser guns and magic and demons and unicorns and rail guns that will knock a half ton suit on its tin plated kiester and doorways to other worlds ...

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(Spookshow) No one knows where this hero hails from originally, but he seems determined to save this city. He isn't the prettiest hero to look at (in fact, he looks like he was defenestrated, incinerated, and then quartered, before they reattached his limbs), but as bad as he looks, he seems to look...

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I don't like the idea of anyone escaping from Gramercy..ever...at all. Especially for evil players, they have to know that if they end up in Gramercy thats it, its game over. I detest the idea that anything is 100% foolproof, 100% absolute. Flip a coin enough times, it'll land on edge. While I don'...

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G wrote:I don't like the idea of anyone escaping from Gramercy..ever...at all. Especially for evil players, they have to know that if they end up in Gramercy thats it, its game over.

I detest the idea that anything is 100% foolproof, 100% absolute. Flip a coin enough times, it'll land on edge.

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