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by Zer0 Kay
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:28 pm
Forum: Megaversal Ambassadors
Topic: I'll be running a Megaversal game at Dragon Flight in Bellevue, WA
Replies: 3
Views: 700

Re: I'll be running a Megaversal game at Dragon Flight in Bellevue, WA

Any suggestions? Any ideas to help polish up the hooks?
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:56 pm
Forum: Megaversal Ambassadors
Topic: I'll be running a Megaversal game at Dragon Flight in Bellevue, WA
Replies: 3
Views: 700

Re: I'll be running a Megaversal game at Dragon Flight in Bellevue, WA

The game will be played on all three days with each being a continuation of the previous but not requiring players to have been in the previous games. Game 1 (Friday): It all starts in a city, more a town than city. The city is on an island in the middle of the Mississippi somewhere in the delta, on...
by Zer0 Kay
Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:51 pm
Forum: Megaversal Ambassadors
Topic: I'll be running a Megaversal game at Dragon Flight in Bellevue, WA
Replies: 3
Views: 700

I'll be running a Megaversal game at Dragon Flight in Bellevue, WA

Just wanted to make an announcement if anyone is in the area.
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:31 pm
Forum: Megaversal Ambassadors
Topic: How do I sign up and where is the application
Replies: 10
Views: 3443

Re: How do I sign up and where is the application

Thank you. You replied to one but I didn't see a response to the other about the possibility of a mailing list so the MAs can know if local stores or distributors carry Pally products.
by Zer0 Kay
Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:39 pm
Forum: Megaversal Ambassadors
Topic: How do I sign up and where is the application
Replies: 10
Views: 3443

Re: How do I sign up and where is the application

Lol. :) yeah into the ranks of Megaversal Ambassadors.
by Zer0 Kay
Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:57 am
Forum: Megaversal Ambassadors
Topic: How do I sign up and where is the application
Replies: 10
Views: 3443

Re: How do I sign up and where is the application

Any News on my... commission?
by Zer0 Kay
Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:05 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: What If Tolkeen Won...
Replies: 35
Views: 4860

Re: What If Tolkeen Won...

If Tolkeen had won, all of the cringy CS fan-boys would be weeping uncontrollably. Greetings and Salutations. When I read the above, my brain just translates it to ... "If Tolkeen had won, the thread title would instead be What if the CS Won ..." Which I find interesting, and probably fai...
by Zer0 Kay
Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:45 pm
Forum: Megaversal Ambassadors
Topic: How do I sign up and where is the application
Replies: 10
Views: 3443

Re: How do I sign up and where is the application

Thank you. Do you also need our game experience or want any other info?
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:47 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: What If Tolkeen Won...
Replies: 35
Views: 4860

Re: What If Tolkeen Won...

Iirc Federation of magic and None.
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:58 pm
Forum: Megaversal Ambassadors
Topic: How do I sign up and where is the application
Replies: 10
Views: 3443

How do I sign up and where is the application

So Why isn't there a locked sticky that is "How to Become a Megaversal Ambassador." That says what the process is and how to apply as the only post in the thread. I assumed that the stickied "So want to be a Megaversal Ambassador" was that... it is not. Heck I don't even see a re...
by Zer0 Kay
Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:39 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question
Replies: 64
Views: 8467

Re: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question

Well if KS posts anything here it will be new rather than a recap of something he's already posted here... since he hasn't posted here. Now if KC does... I guess. I'm still going to spectate. :D Typoed. Fixed. PS....KS never posts anything here even when there is a call for him to. To clear up ...u...
by Zer0 Kay
Thu Feb 08, 2024 7:37 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question
Replies: 64
Views: 8467

Re: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question

Well if KS posts anything here it will be new rather than a recap of something he's already posted here... since he hasn't posted here. Now if KC does... I guess. I'm still going to spectate. :D Typoed. Fixed. PS....KS never posts anything here even when there is a call for him to. To clear up ...u...
by Zer0 Kay
Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:28 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question
Replies: 64
Views: 8467

Re: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question

Well if KS posts anything here it will be new rather than a recap of something he's already posted here... since he hasn't posted here. Now if KC does... I guess. I'm still going to spectate. :D
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:54 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question
Replies: 64
Views: 8467

Re: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question

Grabs 🍿 takes seat.
Reminds me of the old days. :-)
Makes me miss those who don't frequent here anymore or can't :-(
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:37 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Would a Crazy prefer to ride the zombie unicorn, or dire platypus?
Replies: 11
Views: 3568

Re: Would a Crazy prefer to ride the zombie unicorn, or dire platypus?

knightmare6 wrote: Thu Feb 01, 2024 4:03 am I'd prefer a cybernetic dire prairie dog! Charge into battle as it shouts "Yahoo!"
IDK... that kind of be distracting cuz yahoo always gets prayer e- dog mail...
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:33 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: What If Tolkeen Won...
Replies: 35
Views: 4860

Re: What If Tolkeen Won...

Question, which book has the LAST KNOW UPDATE on the Empress?...Prozac's wife. Do you guys think that she would come out of hiding, form a faction, and try to take over the CS? No. She doesn't seem political. Plus your assuming the evil C.S. didn't regress into an actual Misogynistic Patrarchy that...
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:26 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: What If Tolkeen Won...
Replies: 35
Views: 4860

Re: What If Tolkeen Won...

If Tolkeen had won, all of the cringy CS fan-boys would be weeping uncontrollably. Greetings and Salutations. When I read the above, my brain just translates it to ... "If Tolkeen had won, the thread title would instead be What if the CS Won ..." Which I find interesting, and probably fai...
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:45 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: What If Tolkeen Won...
Replies: 35
Views: 4860

Re: What If Tolkeen Won...

What if Tolkeen won the war? Players went back in time with a game plan, sent a clean up crew after in, following the sorcerers revenge, got as many CS dead bodies as the could with a summoner and animate dead, then teleports them to a group of necromancer, who turn them into zombies, then they put...
by Zer0 Kay
Fri Feb 02, 2024 12:02 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Supernatural creatures and Parrying
Replies: 11
Views: 4351

Re: Supernatural creatures and Parrying

Hmm... N&S does a lot better at the multitude of moves but also makes combat FAR more complicated.
by Zer0 Kay
Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:23 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Supernatural creatures and Parrying
Replies: 11
Views: 4351

Re: Supernatural creatures and Parrying

SPD used to count toward dodge in TMNT and 1E PFRPG and non-revised N&S. I just still use the tables since fast twitch muscles are used for more than just running. Yeah, I still use Speed for the Initiative bonus too! As for parrying, I allow characters unarmed to try to parry an armed melee at...
by Zer0 Kay
Wed Jan 31, 2024 7:28 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Honor Guards for the Coalition and NGR?
Replies: 3
Views: 1959

Re: Honor Guards for the Coalition and NGR?

I think they'd be members of commando units, hand picked using the commando armor with the military etiquette skill since there is no diplomacy skill. The military etiquette skill is supposed to provide all the ins and outs of military politics and traditions which in the case of high ranking office...
by Zer0 Kay
Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:00 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Snake people?
Replies: 16
Views: 2353

Re: Snake people?

You could use a Yin-Lord from the Palladium Fantasy sourcebook, Library of Bletherad. Why a Yin-Lord? Why not just a Yuan-ti? From the Yinsloth Jungle? I've no idea what a Yuan-Ti is, sorry. Yin-Lords are also from the Yin-Sloth Jungle (as well as the Floenry Isles and the Land of the South Winds)....
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:07 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Snake people?
Replies: 16
Views: 2353

Re: Snake people?

You could use a Yin-Lord from the Palladium Fantasy sourcebook, Library of Bletherad. Why a Yin-Lord? Why not just a Yuan-ti? From the Yinsloth Jungle? I've no idea what a Yuan-Ti is, sorry. Yin-Lords are also from the Yin-Sloth Jungle (as well as the Floenry Isles and the Land of the South Winds)....
by Zer0 Kay
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:26 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Snake people?
Replies: 16
Views: 2353

Re: Snake people?

Soldier of Od wrote: Sun Jan 14, 2024 8:55 am You could use a Yin-Lord from the Palladium Fantasy sourcebook, Library of Bletherad.
Why a Yin-Lord? Why not just a Yuan-ti? From the Yinsloth Jungle?
by Zer0 Kay
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:23 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Supernatural creatures and Parrying
Replies: 11
Views: 4351

Re: Supernatural creatures and Parrying

SPD used to count toward dodge in TMNT and 1E PFRPG and non-revised N&S. I just still use the tables since fast twitch muscles are used for more than just running.
by Zer0 Kay
Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:36 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Supernatural creatures and Parrying
Replies: 11
Views: 4351

Re: Supernatural creatures and Parrying

If you read dragons on page 160+ in RUE you can note that dragons get a parry bonus and inflict MD with their claws. Then on page 340 under combat... "A physical Mega-Damage (M.D.) attack from a Supernatural punch or claw, or an attack with an M.D. melee weapon (magic sword, Vibro-Blade, etc.)...
by Zer0 Kay
Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:32 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Would a Crazy prefer to ride the zombie unicorn, or dire platypus?
Replies: 11
Views: 3568

Re: Would a Crazy prefer to ride the zombie unicorn, or dire platypus?

Someone is taking this WAY TOO SERIOUSLY. You take a beef with Bob and not the Zombie U corn and Dire Platypus? Obviously your reading it wrong. Now go to your room and think about what you've done. You can come out when your think lines are congruent with the guide noodle in the shape of a ding-don...
by Zer0 Kay
Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:31 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Would a Crazy prefer to ride the zombie unicorn, or dire platypus?
Replies: 11
Views: 3568

Re: Would a Crazy prefer to ride the zombie unicorn, or dire platypus?

What a (presumably generic) Crazy would prefer to ride is going to come down to individual preferences and not be universal. You sure? Or do they all ride the same thing and we just see different things? They all ride Bob. Whom we ma see as a trash dumpster drawn by a horde of zombie narwhal. While...
by Zer0 Kay
Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:24 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Would a Crazy prefer to ride the zombie unicorn, or dire platypus?
Replies: 11
Views: 3568

Re: Would a Crazy prefer to ride the zombie unicorn, or dire platypus?

the 1st thing I thought of when faced with the words Kaiju Chihuahua...is a chihuahua the size of a great dane. (trivia: the dog breed Great Dane was developed/breed in Germany.) I think that i'm going to write up a revision because of bad word usage and so that it's closer to game wording. Revisio...
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Jan 02, 2024 3:10 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Barter skill
Replies: 9
Views: 2536

Re: Barter skill

I figure it is like all the other skills. Everyone else can do it they're just not good at it. Any discounts received without it are likely cuz the merchant wants to give you a discount. While with the skill you know things like the items actual worth, what the merchant probably purchased it for and...
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Jan 02, 2024 3:02 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Barter skill
Replies: 9
Views: 2536

Re: Barter skill

I have but one... two questions. Can one use the barter skill in Bartertown and who runs Bartertown?
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Jan 02, 2024 2:59 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Would a Crazy prefer to ride the zombie unicorn, or dire platypus?
Replies: 11
Views: 3568

Re: Would a Crazy prefer to ride the zombie unicorn, or dire platypus?

What about the Kaiju Chihuahua Diosyipyap? His primary attack is the high frequency machingun bark. The sound is enough to cause painful tinnitus and the frequency spectrum makes glass and cryatals shatter. But that's not all, combined with the impact tremors caused by the bouncing bark set up with ...
by Zer0 Kay
Fri Dec 08, 2023 7:33 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question
Replies: 64
Views: 8467

Re: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question

I have a question about the Techno-Wizard. Can they use a vehicle as a spell focus? I ask this because one of the videos Legion of Myth had: highlighted a rule where you cannot cast from inside a vehicle. I get the rational for that rule if you were a traditional caster; however, the techo-wizard i...
by Zer0 Kay
Thu Dec 07, 2023 4:53 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question
Replies: 64
Views: 8467

Re: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question

I have a question about the Techno-Wizard. Can they use a vehicle as a spell focus? I ask this because one of the videos Legion of Myth had: highlighted a rule where you cannot cast from inside a vehicle. I get the rational for that rule if you were a traditional caster; however, the techo-wizard i...
by Zer0 Kay
Thu Dec 07, 2023 4:49 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question
Replies: 64
Views: 8467

Re: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question

The only examples for the technowizard require it in contact with the machine casting the spell to use it, and i'm calling that machine the focus to smooth the description. Using terminology that is not in the lexicon for Technowizardry is not helping your argument. Read RUE 128. Using a piece of t...
by Zer0 Kay
Wed Dec 06, 2023 2:08 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question
Replies: 64
Views: 8467

Re: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question

How about a weapon which is loaded from within the vehicle like a tanks cannon and rather than the cannon being enchanted the munitions. Even combine them with tank munitions types. So HEAP, HESH, APFSDS and cannister. Each modifies the spell in a different way so maybe: Standard shell- no spell mod...
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:09 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: CS and Glitter Boys
Replies: 67
Views: 53222

Re: CS and Glitter Boys

I know M2 is easy to forget about, few topics in the forums on it even in the past though I thought the context would have made it clear. The discussion that initially prompted it was comparing armor values, specifically the og SAMAS and Cyclone (1E and the -052 IIRC). The other party was pushing t...
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:08 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: CS and Glitter Boys
Replies: 67
Views: 53222

Re: CS and Glitter Boys

nord67 wrote: Mon Dec 04, 2023 11:03 am Coalition States in Rifts tends to view Glitter Boys with a combination of admiration and wariness. While recognizing their prowess as defenders, the CS may respond with caution, attempts at recruitment, or even hostility, depending on the perceived threat to CS authority.
Citation please
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Dec 05, 2023 12:56 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Multiple accions/attacks house rules
Replies: 21
Views: 3621

Re: Multiple accions/attacks house rules

I personally consider each attack to be something time based, if you can feasibly use 4 weapons at once in 15 seconds, you should. However, i borrow from BattleTech, where each round happens at the same time, but the damage isn't calculated until the end of the round. Helps keep everyone's actions ...
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Dec 05, 2023 12:03 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Multiple accions/attacks house rules
Replies: 21
Views: 3621

Re: Multiple accions/attacks house rules

I personally consider each attack to be something time based, if you can feasibly use 4 weapons at once in 15 seconds, you should. However, i borrow from BattleTech, where each round happens at the same time, but the damage isn't calculated until the end of the round. Helps keep everyone's actions ...
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Dec 05, 2023 11:59 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Multiple accions/attacks house rules
Replies: 21
Views: 3621

Re: Multiple accions/attacks house rules

I've been looking at stealing Pathfinder 2's action system. X actions 1 reaction mechanic. Each action can be a move, attack, manipulate or other action. The reaction can be a traditional Palladium style dodge. "Parry/Doge" actions spent would add a penalty to people trying to hit you unt...
by Zer0 Kay
Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:51 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: CS and Glitter Boys
Replies: 67
Views: 53222

Re: CS and Glitter Boys

Wait what's M2? M2 = Macross 2 AFAIK, Palladium has only acquired x3 licensed properties, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Robotech, and Macross 2. Macross 2 is not part of Robotech proper, and at best could be seen as a distant relative on a "family tree" branching off from the original SDF...
by Zer0 Kay
Fri Dec 01, 2023 5:18 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question
Replies: 64
Views: 8467

Re: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question

I have always translated that as any spell which is direct fire, where the conjured projectile originates at the caster, and has a corporeal projectile can't be fired through the vehicle. Simply put your shooting at someone through your vehicle. But something like call lightning where it is you dire...
by Zer0 Kay
Fri Dec 01, 2023 5:00 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question
Replies: 64
Views: 8467

Re: Techno Wizard Casting Through a Machine Question

:) Think this is still the longest rules based thread.
viewtopic.php?t=24975&hilit=This+is+the ... never+ends
by Zer0 Kay
Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:58 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: CS and Glitter Boys
Replies: 67
Views: 53222

Re: CS and Glitter Boys

1. So what if GBs have become a legend and shown that they save people so have mages and cyberknights and angels and dragons and Rogue Scientists and Rogue Scholars and Unicorns but they're all labeled enemies of the state. When the CS is on the list of those bad things that Glitterboys have saved ...
by Zer0 Kay
Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:11 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: CS and Glitter Boys
Replies: 67
Views: 53222

Re: CS and Glitter Boys

I have to disagree on the subcomponents. Officially SDC and MDC have a ratio (100 SDC/HP = 1MD). You'd also have to prove that those components cannot be rated at MDC levels (Megaversally there are MDC examples of wire/cables, non-magic "fabrics", and even foam). You'd also have to show t...
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:37 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: CS and Glitter Boys
Replies: 67
Views: 53222

Re: CS and Glitter Boys

Most people treat mass/weight as synonymous. Major point being that though we can be pretty sure that a vest is mostly armor we can't apply the same to PA which will have a lot more inner working which won't count toward the armor the GB more so and tanks and giant robots even more so. So while you...
by Zer0 Kay
Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:10 am
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: CS and Glitter Boys
Replies: 67
Views: 53222

Re: CS and Glitter Boys

Re: FQ having GB since always... I'll have to go back and read again. Re: transponder codes... that isn't how they work. The interrogator in one unit sends out signals at 1030MHz requesting data from any transponders in range when a transponder acknowledges it responds at 1090MHz and they start com...
by Zer0 Kay
Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:07 pm
Forum: Rifts®
Topic: randomer item table
Replies: 1173
Views: 2318016

Re: randomer item table

23. Missing Eyebrows-- they look familiar... hopefully everyone is in PA wearing an EBA because all that worrying and rubbing the brow of your armor because everyone thinks they look familiar but aren't sure if it is theirs would be a lot more fun than just being the person that figures it out becau...

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