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- Sun Nov 12, 2017 12:03 am
- Forum: Palladium Open House
- Topic: any thoughts on possibly collaborating with a mmorpg?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5393
any thoughts on possibly collaborating with a mmorpg?
A few years back there that 'other company' was doing the Everquest mmo, etc.? For many years now I've been playing Entropia Universe. The guys behind that game, you know, the game with the most expensive virtual assets in the world, etc., are sometimes always looking for partners for different proj...
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 4:30 am
- Forum: Ninjas & Superspies™ & Mystic China™
- Topic: Imbue objects with Chi question
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7991
Re: Imbue objects with Chi question
Magic Item collectors make for great NPCs. One really oddball Heroes Unlimited NPC I did a very, very long time ago collected all sorts of artifacts and magic item weapons from all over the place, and basically became a one man army with his stash. However, he did look odd as hell wearing/using some...
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 4:17 am
- Forum: Beyond the Supernatural™
- Topic: Black-Eyed Children
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7739
Re: Black-Eyed Children
not exactly the same thing, but the gas mask kids in Dr Who who ask "are you my mummy" in Empty Child episode are freaky as hell.
http://youtu.be/SliF64OIdcw
http://youtu.be/SliF64OIdcw
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 3:54 am
- Forum: Beyond the Supernatural™
- Topic: Ghost in BTS
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8895
Re: Ghost in BTS
Yes, Palladium officially says you should not crossover to other games, etc. but I got to say World of Darkness Wraith Series opens up a lot of ideas... especially if mixed with the astral kingdom ideas in Nightbane. Officially, yes, there is no real ghosts in game as it is now... but at the same ti...
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 3:51 am
- Forum: Beyond the Supernatural™
- Topic: crazy loot, what can i do with it?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7057
Re: crazy loot, what can i do with it?
Teach them to cook and put them in commercials for Hamburger Helper to give you a supplemental income in game.
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 3:45 am
- Forum: Nightbane®
- Topic: Sell me on Nightbane
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6171
Re: Sell me on Nightbane
Ever watched a Hellraiser movie and thought it'd be nice to see as an rpg? Here you go...
- Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:26 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: A dual personality Entity idea: two players one Character
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3703
Re: A dual personality Entity idea: two players one Characte
actually created a character like that once as an npc... Actually he had 5 different personalities, and was sort of a jester/side story to the main story... can make for some fun times... not sure I'd want it as a player character though... closest thing in player characters was when I had an intell...
- Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:20 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: I never expected that...
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12288
Re: I never expected that...
Nice to see someone from Mizzou on here. (I work for the Hospital.) Now that there's high megapixel cameras out there (and flatbed scanners) GM should make a copy of the sheets, and let player keep the originals.
- Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:08 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Instant Death From Teleporting Into An Object?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 17315
Re: Instant Death From Teleporting Into An Object?
say652 wrote:would the power combo of intangibility and teleportation eliminate the intstant death sentence for teleporting into stuff?
I'd say yes, but it'd be a house rule... also it'd depend on if the character was intangible before the teleport...
Magnetism and Intangibility are a nice combo too.
http://www.oocities.org/soho/8006/Wren.html
- Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:56 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Cost of Fuel
- Replies: 46
- Views: 18343
Re: Cost of Fuel
I think Road Hogs has some rules.
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:43 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: anyone play villains
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5624
Re: anyone play villains
villains are just heroes with different goals... been plenty of anti-heroes as pcs over the years... As far as true 'villians' go worst 'crossing the line' I ever did was as a GM once many years ago... a mage made a 'deal' with an evil intelligence in a game I ran... he got additional powers from th...
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 9:01 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Physical Skills Question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2177
Re: Physical Skills Question
yes, it all adds together, but it depends on the 'house rules' to a large extent... just make sure the gm and all players are playing by the same 'rules' in your 'house'. For instance, our house rules back in the day always allowed ALL CHARACTERS to start with the 2 attacks per melee and then you AD...
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:47 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Multiple selves: Copies carry overy SICKNESS to Original
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7501
Re: Multiple selves: Copies carry overy SICKNESS to Original
yes, IF THE GM ALLOWS IT... BUT... GM is also going to allow NPCs to have similar levels of power Time to pull out the old Demigod who is a magic weapon collector and has already collected about 50 magic items and another 50 rune weapons as an NPC...
- Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:01 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: HEROES UNLIMITED RELATED WEB SITES!!!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 42677
- Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:50 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: what power sets make a great team?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1860
Re: what power sets make a great team?
link so some very old characters our group used to use. Wren is actually almost 'too powerful' for most PCs but he does have some vulnerabilities under the right gm.
http://www.oocities.org/soho/8006/Heroes.html
http://www.oocities.org/soho/8006/Heroes.html
- Sun Jun 30, 2013 3:21 am
- Forum: Rifts® Movie
- Topic: What charachter should be the STAR of the movie?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 182872
Re: What charachter should be the STAR of the movie?
Glitter boy would be neat... HOWEVER, on screen, all of them will look alike so it'll be really hard to follow the battles if there's a bunch of them... sort of like the ol star war movies were all the ships and foot soldiers all look identical for the most part - that's a bad thing. both good guys ...
- Sun Jun 30, 2013 3:15 am
- Forum: Rifts® Movie
- Topic: Dungeons & Dragons
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17028
Re: Dungeons & Dragons
Rifts are Multi-dimensional. No reason the Millennium Falcon can't come flying out of a rift.
As far as D&D goes... the last D&D based movie was pure and utter waste of time to watch.
As far as D&D goes... the last D&D based movie was pure and utter waste of time to watch.
- Sun Jun 30, 2013 3:12 am
- Forum: Rifts® Movie
- Topic: Rifts Movie? We'll see
- Replies: 35
- Views: 57768
Re: Rifts Movie? We'll see
as far as scripts go... why not actually use material from the core books as the plot lines... You could probably make a couple of trilogies from some of that stuff honestly... and tie them all together with a major overhead plotline like the biggies of the mechanoids, 4 horsemen, etc. Tough part, I...
- Fri May 11, 2012 8:39 am
- Forum: Nightbane®
- Topic: Vampires in Your Nightbane World...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8607
Re: Vampires in Your Nightbane World...
mix and match. All of the above. It's nice to have variety. I have a lot of the Old World of Darkness games, so some inspiration comes from there from time to time.
- Sun Mar 18, 2012 3:20 am
- Forum: Nightbane®
- Topic: 1990 movie
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3856
Re: 1990 movie
Barker's stuff is all sort of similar to Nightbane on some levels. Want another NB similarity... What about the ectokid Comic? The comic about the kid that could enter the astral plane/plane of the dead by switching which eye the patch was on since one of his parents was a ghost? Not exactly a walk ...
- Sun Mar 18, 2012 12:53 am
- Forum: Nightbane®
- Topic: Warlock Abilities
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10153
Re: Warlock Abilities
I know, I know, not supposed to talk about other games... but... uh.... sounds like you are wanting something like Obtenebration from World of Darkness...
http://wiki.white-wolf.com/worldofdarkn ... querade%29
http://wiki.white-wolf.com/worldofdarkn ... querade%29
- Sun Mar 18, 2012 12:31 am
- Forum: Systems Failure™
- Topic: Return of the Resource Thread
- Replies: 18
- Views: 81070
- Sun Mar 18, 2012 12:29 am
- Forum: Systems Failure™
- Topic: Area 51
- Replies: 9
- Views: 36377
Re: Area 51
would be nice to own an area 51...
http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-area51/pd
http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-area51/pd
- Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:28 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Parrying Bullets
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5685
Re: Parrying Bullets
yep. it's an entangle and will require an action/attack per melee to do since it's not auto. However... I think some super powers like bend light let you parry lasers and stuff like that, so it might, at gm discretion be possible to parry with some power or psionic thing such at telekenesis, etc. bu...
- Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:22 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Total Party Wipeout!
- Replies: 33
- Views: 31396
Re: Total Party Wipeout!
Just have the dead characters make up ghostly characters and/or some other undead critter... of course, bringing them back to life with a spell might just work as well.
- Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:59 am
- Forum: Palladium Fantasy RPG®
- Topic: Shields useless?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 8294
Re: Shields useless?
Shield uses? See Captain America movie.
- Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:55 am
- Forum: Palladium Fantasy RPG®
- Topic: rune font?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 790
rune font?
Anyone put the runes in the book together as a font yet? If so, where's it?
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:13 am
- Forum: Nightbane®
- Topic: Psychic vs. Mind Master and Kinetic
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11367
Re: Psychic vs. Mind Master and Kinetic
Just give him a nice little 'toy' that boosts him up to where you want him to be.... I always liked using special items that give different powers and things in Heroes and Ninjas games. Could work for NB games as well... Headband that doubles ISP, a ring that has superpowers (use heroes mystically b...
- Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:51 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Portraying a cartoon-like character (Rifts and HU2) !
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5243
Re: Portraying a cartoon-like character (Rifts and HU2) !
I used to have a character named 'BOING' that was sort of similar... Elasticity and Supersonic Flight. He was like a rubberball bouncing all over the place.
- Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:49 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Macross/Robotech in Rifts/Megaverse
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6242
Re: Macross/Robotech in Rifts/Megaverse
the official answer is "copy right issues". the same reason there are not any offical converison book sections on it. since Robotech is a liscense obtained fro manother company, palladium has to keep the game lines seperate officially. certainly as a GM you could have flower of life growi...
- Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:47 pm
- Forum: Beyond the Supernatural™
- Topic: Victors stats?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5129
Victors stats?
Do any of the books actually list the stats for Victor Lazlo?
- Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:02 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Macross/Robotech in Rifts/Megaverse
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6242
Re: Macross/Robotech in Rifts/Megaverse
WTH is protoculture anyways? Read it a time or three in some of the books, but am not sure it ever describes it in detail. ok.. found it on google.. m) By processing the Flowers of Life, the energy source, known as Protoculture, was created.[12] Due to the greed and growing thirst for power of the T...
- Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:38 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Playing's Women
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3831
Re: Playing's Women
Back when I used to role play in college I had both men and women characters... both as npc when I gmed and as a player. I know, I know... not supposed to mention other rpgs than palladium, but I have to since I played in other folk's white wolf games and they played in my palladium games... Everyn ...
- Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:16 pm
- Forum: Beyond the Supernatural™
- Topic: WHY?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5013
Re: WHY?
intangible mutant liked to 'swim' under ground after jumping off of skyscrapers... He'd jump up from underground and scare people. Very bad thing to do when near someone with negate powers power.
- Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:10 pm
- Forum: Beyond the Supernatural™
- Topic: Introducing, my BTS fan site: "The House of BTS"
- Replies: 60
- Views: 43330
Re: Introducing, my BTS fan site!
slow loading. didn't load at all...
Try http://www.000webhost.com/ - Never had any problem with them putting ads on my site.
Try http://www.000webhost.com/ - Never had any problem with them putting ads on my site.
- Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:19 pm
- Forum: Ninjas & Superspies™ & Mystic China™
- Topic: Dim Mak Cure?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 60236
Re: Dim Mak Cure?
in my campaigns the cure is living in the land of Winshiloskira for a year. It's an time displaced island that a bunch of ancient ninja monks and wizards use that is nearly impossible to find since the whole island is sort of in a dimensional bubble bouncing through time and space... sort of like Dr...
- Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:48 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Best way to kill a dragon?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1435
Re: Best way to kill a dragon?
Dragons live for many, many, many years because a lot of them don't like physically fighting.... Think I was reading up on dragons in Dragons and Gods the the other day and remember reading about the mini-bubble dimensions where they can horde stuff... could be a lot of espionage stuff working aroun...
- Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:56 pm
- Forum: Guild of Magic & Psionics
- Topic: Gaining PPE for a witch
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4860
Re: Gaining PPE for a witch
I did something nasty many, many years ago as a GM. I had a magician pc actually make a pact witha demon so he got more powers. He was a power hungry character... and there was a rift opened to the greater being's home dimension in a cave under the city park... The way I worked it was that he had to...
- Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:47 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Best way to kill a dragon?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1435
Re: Best way to kill a dragon?
Use imagination and story telling. Watch Dragon Heart movie sometime...
- Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:16 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Comprehensive List
- Replies: 29
- Views: 61502
Re: Comprehensive List
nice list. Maybe someday all the characters from all the other game books could be added too.
- Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:10 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: a couple of old pcs...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 905
a couple of old pcs...
Here's a couple of old characters my rpg group used to have back in high school. Feel free to use them in your own games. Pretty powerful combo... http://shoethatsnaps.com/Jeff/Thomann/Portfolio/rpg/Denostar_files/Denostar.htm - Denostar, the man of metal http://shoethatsnaps.com/Jeff/Thomann/Portfo...
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:04 pm
- Forum: Rifts® Movie
- Topic: Rifts® Movie Letter Writing Campaign
- Replies: 14
- Views: 43847
Re: Rifts® Movie Letter Writing Campaign
It's an interesting idea... but why leave it in Jerry's court? It's your Intellectual Property. If he's not moving on it, talk to other studios. Need some names, pick up a few CGW magazines and make some phone calls. I still think it'd be cool to see both a movie and a video game, mmo. RIFT mmo is a...
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:32 pm
- Forum: Ninjas & Superspies™ & Mystic China™
- Topic: Should there be more?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 28800
Re: Should there be more?
not sure about actual types, but new chi powers would be interesting additions for sure... Read some book on kung fu a while back and one of the so called powers was the ability to climb brick walls with your shoulderblades!
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:21 pm
- Forum: The Mechanoids®
- Topic: Anyone use Mechanoids in their games?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 105550
Re: Anyone use Mechanoids in their games?
In various rifts books they talk about the storms that come sometimes... sometimes blobby creatures fall from the sky and stuff. Always envisioned some of those as being mechanoids without the armor, but still having all the psionics, and actually did play it out that way a time or two. Other then t...
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:16 pm
- Forum: Systems Failure™
- Topic: Sell me on this game please
- Replies: 26
- Views: 44417
Re: Sell me on this game please
it was an awesome book and was neat reading it before year 2000. Would be neat if Kevin would do a 2012 book in a similar vein real quick, lol.
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:12 pm
- Forum: Beyond the Supernatural™
- Topic: Any word when the sourcebooks will be out?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20777
Re: Any word when the sourcebooks will be out?
WHY Not use : NIGHTBANE : Through The Glass Darkly it has: SORCERER OCC MYSTIC OCC ACOLYTE OCC CHANNELLER OCC CYBER-MAGE OCC FLESHSCULPTOR OCC MIRRORMAGE OCC I'm sure these SDC Men-of-Magic would fit in the worlf of BEYOND the SUPERNATURAL well enough. The Sorcerer gets 10 to 60 PPE + PE attribute ...
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:00 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: magic
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3065
Re: magic
always save throw or "dodge" in some cases if the effect is physical.
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:54 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Level 1 Attacks per melee round?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6171
Re: Level 1 Attacks per melee round?
I always went with 2 to start, and then added more for every hth bonus for each hth the character had... of course we played uber massively overpowered games, so to crank up the stats on ninjas, I would add the apms on every level that the ninjas and superspies books said they got new attacks in add...
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:47 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Balancing a Game
- Replies: 79
- Views: 24481
Re: Balancing a Game
Remember, not every battle has to be "to the death" or anywhere close to it... remember to have different levels of npcs as backup in case the ones on hand you had plans for die. Tie everything together.... When I used to do a lot of GMing one way I balanced things was to always have about...
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:32 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Player Character Hostage
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5930
Re: Player Character Hostage
"What are you doing?" or "What are you doing now?" That is one question I constantly used to ask my gaming groups... Ask it to each individual, the group in general, etc. Always ask so that it sort of implies to them that they need to DO something - even if it is something passiv...