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Go for it...if you can get so many disparate species with few physical commonalities able to work together and work together EFFECTIVELY, all the more power to you. Though these folks are going to be facing problems from both their canonical kin and scared paranoid good (or at least 'looking out fo...

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So I've been kicking around an idea to form a monster/dbee kingdom with refugees from the Calgary Rift (ex-minions, slaves, political dissidents). Probably not a big kingdom given the difficulties I'd imagine some of them would have actually escaping if that was something they desired. What I'm havi...

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Techno wizardry

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Which book or books would you recommend as a go-to resource?

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A lot of the tobacco and other types of "crops" sounds a lot like Season 1 of Into the Badlands, which is a pretty good series and one could draw plenty of ideas from it if you wanted to corner the market in a crop

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What do the Following Games have in Common? * Ars Magica * Rolemaster * Hero system * Shadowrun * Runequest * Blue Planet * Battletech * Vampire the Masquerade ********* * Werewolf the Apocalypse * Vampire, (Africa setting) * GURPS Just to name a few. Well they all depicted Islam and Middle East an...

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house ruling is usually very specific.. adding new countries to your game does not automatically mean that you've rewritten werewolves. especially since any GM will have to invent towns, countries, NPC's, and so on even if they are observing every rule, stat, and *CC of the game without changes. be...

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Make sure the conversion process is difficult. Otherwise you have to deal with there being too many werewolves around. Also, WHICH werewolf? I was looking into playing one and found widely-varying stats/abilities depending on the book. Wasn't their main write up in the Conversion book. Admittedly I...

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Going out on a limb as I don't have the books handy but those comments if true likely came from the two Triax books

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wow I totally forgot about that political thing because it's been years. But now that you mention it I remember KS mentioning that in some foreword somewhere. I can't recall exactly

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I don't think so. The most you might see is off hand references. Greece, Turkey IIRC get mentioned in Conversion Book 1, and Greece might get further mentions in Europe. India might get references in Pantheons, and maybe off hand references elsewhere. The middle east proper (Syria, Israel, Iran, Ir...

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unless you have houseruled werebeasts fairly heavily in your games that exact situation seems unlikely.. werebeasts being a seperate race, and not infectious. I was under the impression that, when you mention making up your own kingdoms, you're already house-ruling your game. Hence my idea and sour...

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If you go with werewolves as a ruling body in Romania (or near it) I would suggest the Underworld series of movies, specifically the prequel Rise of the Lycans. Only instead of the vampires as the ruling body sub in the wolves. And while it doesn't have to be huge I would give yourself 2 or 3 clans ...

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As the Golden Age was spiraling into new cold war, who's to say the Swiss didn't get heavier into MDC armor and weapons. I could easily see them turning neutrality into isolationism, surviving the Cataclysm relatively unscathed but never venturing beyond their borders and just minding their own bus...

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Or maybe he thinks himself a descendant of Ulrich von Liechtenstein but confuses the details from A Knights Tale and the book "The Service of Ladies" and becomes a well known romantic king with access to oddly tailored clothing (supposedly authentic), an angry squire, and a very boisterous...

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One thing I just thought of was this: if you plan on making 1 or more small kingdoms they should likely have some kind of natural defense that works in their favor. Hard to find, built into a valley, remains of a military base, etc. You can of course go a step further and add on to that like a mysti...

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Prussians or you could drop a quasi Romanian voivodeship of some kind (perhaps even guarded over by a vampire who disagrees with the Brodkill and Gargoyles) on the southern tip of Poland. You could run with a mix of people from Polish and Turkish descent and come up with some sort of feudal dictator...

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I never felt like she had god like presence, she always to me came acrossed as a plot mechanic to explain things. Honestly that's why I had to double take on the opening of this thread. I thought at first it was a snarky joke against the recent CS threads that have popped up. For me the big differe...

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ahhhhhhh I think I only have the soft cover Shadow Chronicles because I missed that completely. I knew about the Genesis Pit ships though.

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Ok so I know it was mentioned in the 2nd edition Masters book but did Palladium ever come out with more spaceship stats for the various fleets like in Macross 2? Or do you guys still use the 1st edition stuff for some of that? Case in point I was thinking of using the Ikazuchi for a story idea and n...

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well with the maps I have from the New West books and maps like this 3rd party one I should be good.

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I think that's the one. It's definitely 3rd party.

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They had a link to it at one point I think in the Rifts map pinned section but most of the 3rd party maps there are bad links

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does anyone have the Tribal Wars map with Simvan, Psi-Stalker and Native American ranges listed on it that was mention awhile back?

**posted this up in the Rifts map section but it doesn't look like it's around anymore. Hoping someone has a copy of it.

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man, this is a whole lot of anguish over what is, ultimately, a relatively minor thing. It was just a question and from my perspective I got several good answers. I wasn't looking for a debate on how a player should react because I happened to make it less omnipotent and slightly (emphasis on sligh...

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does anyone have the Tribal Wars map with Simvan, Psi-Stalker and Native American ranges listed on it that was mention awhile back?

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I don't need a huge list but what is the first thing that comes to mind that foils a Mind Melter's automatic danger sense thing?

I want to make sure I keep things a little scary for our resident psycher

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The Terminator theme song

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Killer Cyborg: I actually agree with most of your Postzilla comment before (not going to quote it and make this post doubly huge). I think that while KS may have wanted Tolkeen to be a minor player but by dropping them into a 7 part series (1-6 War books and Aftermath) he went from what should have ...

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Freemage: you know how you have one of those gut feelings where you can see the direction and know the answer but something always conspires against you trying to get it specifically? Especially in movies and in print? You just did that for me just now with your most recent post "Posted: Thu Ju...

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cool that works thank you

I figured it might have been

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I don't recall the book being specific except to say that it sits on the northern edge of the Grand Canyon. But just as a random question do you think it's location is at the North Rim Visitor Center? Not that it's too important just thought I'd gauge the question's answer here via feedback for my t...

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Magic is incredibly dangerous. It's not only dangerous in the "oops, here come the Mechanoids" sense, but it's dangerous to society in the "this can't be controlled" sense. A nuclear reactor is a detectable thing. It produces radiation that is picked up by geiger counters. You'd...

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....so I got my answer then. There isn't a reason I guess, just a series of counter points to boring7's comments. Ok works for me.

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Subject change: Capital Building! What are good ways for a party of insanely-powerful murderhobos who do not (yet) have an empire or even a home to go make big money fast? Remember that morality *is* an issue and just robbing the CS is probably not in the cards. Related: what are good ways to get c...

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Pepsi Jedi/Axelmania: I posed the question before but either it was missed or the attention is elsewhere so I'll pose it again. Even if Boring7 posts again if you could refrain from going *** for tat with him and just put down your thoughts on why you feel the CS is not the Rifts version of Nazis. I...

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That was one of the books I missed picking up when it came out and I'm hoping when the finances are right I can circle back around and pick some of those up. But you bring up a good point. A simple lie from a reputable source can smooth over a lot to the masses so it might make it easier to cope with.

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[quote="eliakon] Well... ...I find it interesting that it is always the same two or three people that claim that the CS is not based on Nazis/evil/committing genocide/aggressors/what ever And the arguments always seem to boil down to "all examples of bad things from the book are mistakes, ...

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I've always seen the parallels between the CS and the Nazis ever since I picked up the first books and I've never felt like I was on a soap box for using that frame of reference to my players (who also tend to see the same things without my descriptors). Not that I have a dog in this hunt but I'm c...

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I've always seen the parallels between the CS and the Nazis ever since I picked up the first books and I've never felt like I was on a soap box for using that frame of reference to my players (who also tend to see the same things without my descriptors). Not that I have a dog in this hunt but I'm cu...

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So why don't we circle back to the original premise of this thread? Which I think was along the lines of kingdom building

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The CS has a lot of vehicles which go at higher speeds than their neighbours. You're right he doesn't seem as brutal as Khan, maybe that is a trait he didn't like and it was tempered by more tolerant guys like Napoleon? Even if they do it doesn't look like the CS uses them in that fashion. If the C...

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The names were likely thrown out as hyperbole but it is an interesting topic never the less. I'm not sure about Genghis Khan being any sort of relation, ideology or politically speaking. As a general Genghis and his soldiers were masters of horseback combat for that era which allowed them attack spe...

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No PS on thrown just leads to people never using thrown weapons OR playing a very brittle-boned campaign that doesnt take advantage of the fact that RIFTS has hovertanks and statted out babylonian gods. Maybe some kind of cyberpunk sdc-only campaign in a burb or the republic of japan... but thats a...

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I am really enjoying this thread. I'm not for trying to make the CS leadership less evil but the ideas on kingdom building have been good so far. I've often thought of similar ideas when I began putting together my games (most recently using a portion of the Army of the Southern Cross dropping into ...

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Mountaineer and the Big Boss from the main book are usually popular. Also the MZ-10 Crusader that Jefffar mentioned was one that got a lot of play

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I was only using the terms to denote the unit not the actual size but thank you for clarifying As for your comments before GB: no I read them and I like them a lot. I probably should have clarified more and said "what else". Because it seems like mechs would need some kind of additional su...

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also does the Coalition or anyone in Rifts have an AWACS style plane for advanced observation/coordination? I went through the books I have and I'm not seeing anything like it

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I'm glad they de-canonized them. I never read them all but I knew a guy who did who infrequently told me about them and tried to bring up stuff in the books for the game. So then follow up question to the comments above: so the merc group/defenders will be about 300 strong not counting the PCs. In a...

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