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So, I had low energy nuclear reaction systems brought to my attention by Toc-Rat today....and it has been apparently under research since 1989.... I have always assumed that Rifts "nuclear" power was a form of fusion of some kind and now I am convinced it would be of this type. In additio...

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For an 18,000-foot weapon range, the horizon isn't small. Crappy field of view capabilities will increase the number, but it still might not be too bad. Duh. Feet, not miles. I was thinking of miles. Oh well. It's useful for something else. But the comment about the arc from horizon to horizon ...

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Users of this forum don't decide who gets to participate and how.

Content for the moderation doesn't mean they get to pretend they're a moderator.

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Paducah, Kentucky.

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Generally speaking, unless we're talking something small enough that it wouldn't really be classified as a true shield (like a buckler), you cant wear a shield on your arm and then use that arm to hold a weapon. Or unless we're talking about Rifts. Im not aware of any rule in Rifts that lets you us...

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Colonel_Tetsuya wrote:Generally speaking, unless we're talking something small enough that it wouldn't really be classified as a true shield (like a buckler), you cant wear a shield on your arm and then use that arm to hold a weapon.

Or unless we're talking about Rifts.

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Not going to dig into it but, generally speaking, in Rifts you can't use two-handed weapons paired so you probably aren't supposed to use them one-handed.
He could take his shield hand off the sword to parry with the shield.
He also carries a one-handed weapon, which he could use with his shield.

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The range is listed as "self, object or 20' radius". It's the object part that gets me, as there is no limit. You should be able to pick a skyscraper, increase it's gravity 50 times, and collapse it. It is a single object. Same goes for a moon. I don't think the writer thought about the g...

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In Rifts, the MDC tank and troops are going to raze the town to the ground.

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I'd go with Palladium being Palladium.

In addition, there is a circle of immortality in the High Seas book, I think.

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I'm reminded of one of the iterations of the angels/spirits of light which don't even level up their skills (although they're pretty high to start) let alone gain new skills.

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Plus in the time it takes to get from the inner solar system to Pluto's orbit with a traction drive, Pluto will only move about a 20th of an AU. So even if you're terrible at navigation and you've got no data on Pluto at all apart from "it's 30-odd AUs away in that direction right now", g...

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It's as if she believes Space Navigation is a skill, which "allows a character to plot and lay in a course for the large distances between the planets," and you've just described an example of using that non-existent skill. Wouldn't that be "Interplanetary Navigation" found on p...

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And we found Neptune without ever seeing it. One can afford a few degrees of inaccuracy when plotting on paper or programming a telescope to track Pluto given the large acceptable margin for error. It's easy to justify that putting those state vectors into a navigation computer is a challenge to sp...

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Simply, the game's designer doesn't pay that kind of attention to detail. Rifts just doesn't scale well as a result.

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i simply use the armour rating rules of palladium's SDC games. the bigger the shield, the bigger the bonus. This prompted me to look at shields in PF2, and I just noticed that shields appear to missing from the book. Anyone got a page number where I missed them? That aside, I like the idea of simpl...

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Never really been a big deal. Since shields are only damaged by called shots (which may or may not be possible in HtH combat ), they are just an extra layer of armor. The best fix I've found is to not pay more attention to rules detail than the game's designer and play the game the way the game's de...

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actually the rules explaining how vulnerabilities work for supernatural creatures could be found on pg249 of the RMB, as part of the random roll monster section. it explicitly states that creatures with vulnerbilities of that kind take MDC even if the item inflicting the vulnerability damage is sdc...

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Off the top of my head, if the character already had Computer Programming and Computer Hacking, then I might allow a bonus to those skills.
Understanding the syntax of a programming language is only a part of Computer Programming.

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I think I'm just having trouble connecting this to preceding conversation, who made both halves of this argument and where? Here's a few samples. The only logical frame of reference to measure target speed by is the attacker, because the attacker is the only other frame of reference GUARANTEED to b...

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Recon (color), Revised, Advanced, and Deluxe. If I stumbled across any of the others, I'd probably pick them up but I'm not really looking for anything. I haven't played in years. We mostly stuck to generic urban settings without much in the way of real life/historical accuracy because one of the pl...

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We dont even call them rules. We call them Guidelines. And the first guideline is games are supposed to be fun. Its not an opportunity for you to show how well you've memorized an alleged "rule" book. Its about enjoying a group experience that doesnt involve alcohol or television. Great p...

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First, is to reject rules lawyering completely. What and how do you mean? I'm thinking primarily of mix-maxing and the "it doesn't say I can't, so I can" line of thinking. The point those become inappropriate is subjective. It's a case by case judgment. Looking at power creep as enabling ...

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I can't make sense of this... no matter what the shooter is doing, the speed remains the same because the shooter is all that matters That was her point: saying that the shooter simultaneously does and does not matter is nonsense. I think a more accurate representation of what she said is odd follo...

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I don't have a problem with a GM controlling what is available. Easy for me to say. I only game with people I like, so we agree to what we're getting into regarding combat power levels and want to play under those constraints. I guess that means I think something other than laziness can motivate a G...

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Similiarly, for two missiles on course for a head-on collision, we can find one missile w.r.t. to the other if we know their velocities w.r.t. to Earth. Suppose a s low missile travels at 500 mph west and a f ast missile travels at 2500 mph east. So we are given the following v se = -500 mph v fe =...

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A rich space environment just doesn't fit the original theme of Rifts, which was always supposed to be local.
An idea that perhaps hasn't aged well.

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Axelmania wrote:Take walking along the top of a car of a train chugging along at 100mph for example.

And boom goes the dynamite.
You just killed your own point.

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Doesn't sound like it.
And I'm sorry to hear about it.
I only game with friends because I've been in similar boats more than once. If that means no game, it's better than trying to play something that sucks. That's my approach, which I understand isn't for everybody.

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I remember reading something about it but I don't remember. If memory serves, the CS doesn't sweat the small stuff and the black market costs on the equipment tends to give the rarity of the equipment. I'd expect them to keep tabs on the high high tech stuff at least.

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To help with RPing that, GMs should roll damage secretly and not tell the other players anything but vague stuff unless they have Dead Boy armor, so they can benefit from that exact knowledge. I've seen Erin Tarn use it in Vampire Kingdoms. Searching... pg 39 under "Vampire Legends", 30 A...

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Borgs don't have too much MDC, theirs makes sense compared to body/power armor. The issue is moreso that robots and vehicles have far too little compared to body/power armor. The concept of “mega-damage” is pretty abstract. It’s for our use only — Rifts characters would use different terminology. I...

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I would take the shadow updates to later printings of older books, such a Atlantis, the CWC, and Juicer Uprising, that remove RMB era text, like secondary skills being taken from the 'above list' and replacing such text with RUE era text, such as a note referring the reader to the RUE secondary ski...

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Probably because they like science and math....

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I would take the shadow updates to later printings of older books, such a Atlantis, the CWC, and Juicer Uprising, that remove RMB era text, like secondary skills being taken from the 'above list' and replacing such text with RUE era text, such as a note referring the reader to the RUE secondary ski...

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I would take the shadow updates to later printings of older books, such a Atlantis, the CWC, and Juicer Uprising, that remove RMB era text, like secondary skills being taken from the 'above list' and replacing such text with RUE era text, such as a note referring the reader to the RUE secondary ski...

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But the fact that the game has changed editions doesn't mean that people can use the old rules if they prefer. That is an interesting House Rule. Actually it is the rules. That is what editions means. Now you can, if you prefer, use a House Rule to use the old rule by all means. But you can't simpl...

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But the fact that the game has changed editions doesn't mean that people can use the old rules if they prefer. That is an interesting House Rule. Actually it is the rules. That is what editions means. Now you can, if you prefer, use a House Rule to use the old rule by all means. But you can't simpl...

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eliakon wrote:But the fact that the game has changed editions doesn't mean that people can use the old rules if they prefer.

That is an interesting House Rule.

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Which means silver bullets inflict their normal S.D.C. damage to vampires.

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You could always use TW if you're wanting an energy weapon, but, of course, that limits the folks that can use it.

Or GM fiat. It's a made-up future, after all.

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What would happen if instead of subatomic particles a particle beam weapon (PBW) launched a stream of atoms? What would the weapon have to look like in order to fire these larger masses? I'd assume a particle accelerator would be able to accelerate them but it would be at much lower speeds before t...

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Rifts has no mechanism for this. The Palladium Fantasy one works for that game because O.C.C.s are handled properly in that game. So it's totally Game Master's call. If allowed, then how it works. I'd consider if it's a character change or a class change. In the former, just make a new character. In...

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Exploration and finding new places is a lot harder in rifts and giving the low populations of most countries and the need to deal with immanent real threats organized expedition. Many of the would be explores are exploring other dimensions. Basically, you're providing reasons why people would not, ...

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I said nothing about what can or cannot be imagined. I spoke only of limits by imagination, not limits of imagination. RUE says, "It is always the Game Master's call as to exactly how something turns out." That is not the limit of imagination; it is the imagined limit, which is supplied by...

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They could turn to techno-wizardry which is truly limited only by imagination, by definition. Techno-Wizardry is only limited by the Game Master . Same difference. Not at all. Game masters ruling something out doesn't mean that those things cannot be imagined. And Game Masters determine the exact f...

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I'm not ignoring canon (although we do as a basic necessity for playing Rifts). I've considered the canon and concluded some things are possible. In some places, it is not only possible but also a part of the daily routine. What I am ignoring is the imposition of ridiculous preconditions like becaus...

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Since you only disagreed with but did not invalidate the premises, the conclusion stands. It is possible to transmit and receive intelligible messages. For example, a mobile antenna addresses the need for directionality. Earth-based societies may lack the equipment. I don't really know; I do not pa...

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Killer Cyborg wrote:
lather wrote:They could turn to techno-wizardry which is truly limited only by imagination, by definition.

Techno-Wizardry is only limited by the Game Master.

Same difference.

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Since you only disagreed with but did not invalidate the premises, the conclusion stands. It is possible to transmit and receive intelligible messages. For example, a mobile antenna addresses the need for directionality. Earth-based societies may lack the equipment. I don't really know; I do not pa...

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