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If you simply must have a bigger, LRM... Just take four of the MRM Cruise Missiles on page 131 of Underseas. each is 2d6x100 Now put them in your Multi-Warhead LRM (fires for Medium Missiles...) Presto 8d6x100 You can use the Firefly nuke if you want to go even bigger (and before people whine about ...

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[ and I am picturing a VERY disgruntled spatial mage with a 600-page diagram of that containment pentagram lividly explaining why lazlo MUST construct one and advance the field of magical research or they will be as good as dooming the city, while someone on the board calmly explains that what he i...

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In a game I ran the nuclear war turned out to be a cover. The entire thing was a carefully orchestrated ritual (what? you thought that the death of billions would happen at the exact moment of peak energy by accident?) The purpose of the ritual was... opaque (monomaniacal rambling about "we sh...

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I have to say it's fun seeing how i managed to derail the (Admittedly resolved) topic entirely asking what spells would benefit from being able to be pumped up, and nobody's even made suggestions for what might work. energy field seems like a good one for that to me, let a mage burn all his energy ...

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i dunno about whether or not magic "should" dominate, but i do know that i prefer mages and i have absolutely no concerns about magic being insufficiently powerful. frankly, if direct damage nukes *were* efficient and powerful, i would be having major concerns, because at that point what ...

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In a game I ran the nuclear war turned out to be a cover. The entire thing was a carefully orchestrated ritual (what? you thought that the death of billions would happen at the exact moment of peak energy by accident?) The purpose of the ritual was... opaque (monomaniacal rambling about "we sha...

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Mlp7029 wrote:I found one set of Rune Armor in the Dragons and Gods book but not Rune Shields. Anyone know of any in the books?

Yes there is a Rune Shield in Mount Nimiro

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[ Is there a safety pentagram somewhere in the books i've missed? Not that I'm aware of, but I'm imagining something like a multi-layered inverted Circle of Protection/Energy Field/Impenetrable Wall, with add-on wards for Constrain Being or dampening magic energies. Something not likely to be well-...

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So many problems with this I almost don't know where to start. My point is that things like 'borders' are pretty pointless unless your making a 3D map. Ignoring the fact that on the scale of a galaxy it is pretty impossible to have a border, it isn't going to be a straight line down the entire galac...

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Long version =physics, geometry, math, boring [censored]. TL:DR = You stupid why you want map? Seriously, no one CARES about scale, scope or the "reality". They don't. At all. They want pretty pictures with dots saying YOU ARE HERE. That is it. STOP ALWAYS MAKING IT ABOUT YOU! I am so gla...

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The problem with a galactic map is that it is basically pointless. Space is big. No, bigger than that. Which means that you can't have silly stuff like 'patrolled borders' that run through half a galaxy. And the population totals in the book aren't even jokes. The stated size of the militaries of f...

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Not lethal combat is tricky, but I've actually been working on that too. It's a great idea to meet the two concepts! More responses when I get home It is. Right now many of my PCs pack non-lethal weapons rather than guns and blasters... because they are horrifically more effective. Many are 'save o...

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The problem with a galactic map is that it is basically pointless. Space is big. No, bigger than that. Which means that you can't have silly stuff like 'patrolled borders' that run through half a galaxy. And the population totals in the book aren't even jokes. The stated size of the militaries of fo...

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ISP is still used for healers and illusionists in first ed, not just psionicists. Hence why I said "psi or the like (usually)" ISP powers: Psionics Nega-psionics/anti-psi 1e healing 1e illusions Rifts China Chi abilities, powers and skills Rifts China Chi-Gung abilities Phase Powers Oni P...

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One of the biggest problems here is that a micrometeor strike at full speed on a trip to Jupiter is going to do a heck of a lot of damage. How much damage? Well a 20lb KK weapon moving at only Mach 2 does 3d6 MD That starts to give you some idea of the dangers of hitting a rock at several hundred ti...

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I would just like to point out here also that robots CAN reproduce. Aliens Unlimited in fact has entire races of robotic species. And the Machine People. And maybe the Haydonites And the Manhunters I could go on... But the point is that being a robot is just a background detail. It doesn't set any ...

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Right, do they still possess I.S.P.s or is that just silly? No ISP unless your a psi or the like (usually). Though your GM of course can make a waiver. There isn't much use for ISP though unless your a psi in PF. There aren't a lot of things you can use ISP on in the game anyway and precious few of...

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Agreed, if you have the cash and get a traction drive together with a self sustaining ship it’s a whole other ball game. I always imagined that there were still some stations and outposts in the outer solar system, abandoned or maybe not. The self-sustaining part, both in power and life support poi...

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What's the difference between what Machine People do, and a regular Sentient AI Robot who builds a factory to build other Sentient AI robots, putting in some proceedure to mix and match some features between pairs for variety? Well, as i pointed out already, even a Neural Intelligence would need to...

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I might take a different route. Insist that it's built per the normal TW rules, but it's only a one-time use device (normally one-time use devices get greatly reduced build requirements). All the gems & components are burned out when activated. For story telling purposes, I like the element tha...

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I would just like to point out here also that robots CAN reproduce. Aliens Unlimited in fact has entire races of robotic species. And the Machine People. And maybe the Haydonites And the Manhunters I could go on... But the point is that being a robot is just a background detail. It doesn't set any l...

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For the record I would personally say that a Spell of Legend would count as a level 20 or 30 spell for purposes of being put in a device. And I would probably not allow it to have the costs reduced by simply adding in new gems. Instead I would require an entire set of gems to be added for each one c...

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Thing is it's NOT an ordinary thing. It's super powers, and not in the skills section so you simply don't know. ummm huh? this is listed in her skills. And it provides the identical bonus as most W.P.s Ergo... it would appear to be, in point of fact... a skill. Ok smart guy, Point to the page in HU...

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i know energy blasts usually use your HTH bonus to hit, despite being ranged attacks.....wouldn't that mean rather than a weapon proficiency, skills to improve your ability to direct natural energy blasts would be filed under martial arts? ....."The human torch school of directed energy powers...

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I want to point out that in my post I stated specifically that I could be wrong and I have enough humility to admit that I still could be, but I don't think so. Hey Braden, since you weighed in earlier would you like to correct this? I agree it is silly. But we have this rule for both this and in A...

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Hey Braden, since you weighed in earlier would you like to correct this? Which is a Silly rule. MDC is supposed to represent the immunity of really heavy material to light fire. Now we have MDC that apparently is more than just MDC. it's completely silly. Even Robotech with city-sized transforming ...

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Which is a Silly rule. MDC is supposed to represent the immunity of really heavy material to light fire. Now we have MDC that apparently is more than just MDC. it's completely silly. Even Robotech with city-sized transforming spaceships didn't need a rule saying you can't damage a Zentradi Battlesh...

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Thing is it's NOT an ordinary thing. It's super powers, and not in the skills section so you simply don't know. ummm huh? this is listed in her skills. And it provides the identical bonus as most W.P.s Ergo... it would appear to be, in point of fact... a skill. And I have basic reading but my point...

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For the first part I am not aware of anything in the story that conflicts with the first 3 Three Galaxies books. Now it probably conflicts with some of the stuff from the more recent books but those books have a fair number of contradictions with each other so that is not saying much. Some of them ...

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Reading the entire description this is more a statement of Math than some sort of new rule or blanket immunity to MDC weapons. It clearly says that it can blow holes in the ship, it is just saying that realistically they can not fire enough, while dodging PD fire, to do real damage. I think he is c...

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HOTF was a fun read, but that bit about the forge picking up random guys from 20th century earth (not sure if that main char, Kyle or whatever, was meant to be from BTS or something?) and depositing them in the 3 galaxies is pretty odd. Far as I know the forge just empowers you wherever you're from...

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Since this as segued into a discussion about ships in general (and since the answer for the missile question appears to be 'because the authors did no research whatsoever') The tech differentials are absurd. For instance the Golgans have old tech, a thousand years out of date... except of course tha...

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fighter weapon packages can damage the "big boys", Actually, according to Fleets... they can't. Page 15 says that fighter class weapons (point and light) can not do any damage to 3,500 MDC or larger ships. So once you get past a small frigate/destroyer fighters can't damage the ship unles...

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On a little aside, while re-reading WB2, it really got my attention that Mind Bleeders are mentioned among the "Common divisions of O.C.C.s among True Atlanteans" along with Mind Melters. About 5% of the True Atlanteans are Mind Melters and 4% Mind Bleeders (no other psychics in noteworth...

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- Point Defense: Is clearly a victory for the Emancipator. It has 16 mile to 2 mile range advantage and the cannons are twice as powerful. The missiles on the Emancipator are also SR guided it doesnt say any such thing. The missiles are just missiles. Read the whole ship description back and forth....

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1) Shadow Warlocks, Reshapers, Athanos, Artifacts, and anything else that provides/gets Talents but isn't an actual Nightbane 2) Possession (that dominates your mind, briefly, though it doesn't control it) 3) It would seem that a Soul Shield will protect even from things like Empathic Transmission (...

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In the serial story from the Rifter Hammer of the Forge we do see the Forge directly communicate with the Knights but I don't think that we have a canon example of this. So, while the serial's canonicity is not established, we can keep the "cosmic forge as an entity" can of worms quite sa...

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As a complete aside, can someone point me out some race of large (not quite giant like Rahu Men) four armed people thaat could make expies for the Shokan (Goro's) race from Mortal Kombat? Offhand I don't know of any...there's a six-armed species(the Jeridu) in Land of the Damned, but they're more a...

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The write up says she gave up three skills to gain profeciency in her powers, to get the bonuses. It could be read that each super power WP needs 3 skills (Meaning 9 total) Or.. That she gave up three skills and got the WP in each of her three powers in the exchange (3 skills total) Thing is one of...

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I am reminded of a NPC presented in the GM Guide and one of the Rifters... I believe her name was Shock or something like that. If I remember correctly, she used her Secondary Skills to purchase proficiency in her powers, which did include an Energy Expulsion power. Don't remember the specifics of ...

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"And more" - like what? Doesn't work that way in ATB that i'm aware of (unless your copy of the book is a special magical printing that is different from mine), doesn't work that way in Systems Failure, doesn't work that way in Dead Reign, doesn't work that way in Nightbane, and doesn't w...

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Actually It makes a lii sense to have 3 as in rifts This isn't Rifts. Writing rules in your Super Hero game for how they MIGHT get translated into your post apocalyptic sci-fantasy game is a non-starter. If you're doing that, you've already failed. good thing to see you have an open mind about how ...

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Actually It makes a lii sense to have 3 as in rifts This isn't Rifts. Writing rules in your Super Hero game for how they MIGHT get translated into your post apocalyptic sci-fantasy game is a non-starter. If you're doing that, you've already failed. good thing to see you have an open mind about how ...

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I would also like to point out that the IHA stuff is easy peasy to make. Other than the big ships (which only need a ship yard of which there appear to be a number of options to pick from considering the huge availability of MD ships on the open market in canon) the rest can be made pretty much anyw...

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Yea. More or less in Phase World, C.J. Was just making up numbers and going "Super advanced tech can make really light missiles" so he jotted down some numbers without thinking about it. The one writing Fleets actually tried to consider a bit more Hard sci-fi in that yes lighter materials...

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dreicunan wrote:I suppose that we should have expected that fractions would prove to be such a fractious issue.

you win

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I'm just gonna toss this out... But why is "my fighter can't fly into outer space from earth" such a huge problem that it must be solved? I mean they DO have space ships that they are usually based out of... its not like the normal situation is that you start on earth, fly up for half an h...

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The range increase of weapons in space has been uneven (at best) through out the books. Which should come as no surprise as none of the authors really check to see what the previous ones have said on the subject and instead just write what they think it should be... I have found for example x1, x1.6...

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Anyone expecting Palladium robot design to make real world sense... Yes because robot vehicles in other games make perfect sense The whole concept of robot combat vehicles is kind of silly. There are some fairly good justifications for robot combat vehicles that can be used to explain them... none ...

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Anyone expecting Palladium robot design to make real world sense... Yes because robot vehicles in other games make perfect sense The whole concept of robot combat vehicles is kind of silly. There are some fairly good justifications for robot combat vehicles that can be used to explain them... none ...

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