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TiekoSora

Greetings all, Without going into detail on what the campaign will be centered around, it will be set in the modern era, and I will take full advantage of all the craziness that is in our 24 hour global news cycle. It will be a low power setting, so along the lines of Nightbane and Dead Reign (no M...

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Thanks for the responses. And I consider Nightbane to be low powered, in comparison to Rifts and Robotech, both of which have M.D.C. weapons, abilities, and characters. Yeah, it's a higher power level than BtS and even the HU line, but it's not the "knock a skyscraper down with one shot" s...

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Greetings all, I've been running a couple of D&D campaigns the last several months. One has run its course and the group has decided to play a game which holds no interest for me. My second group is on the cusp of rounding up phase 1, which could easily be a jumping off point to something differ...

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1. Don't know. 2. Depends on the type of movement. A dead sprint = shooting wild. A trained combatant, moving with a purpose, and especially using modern optics, I always adjudicated as at most, a -3 to hit penalty, with a 25% penalty on movement speed. Based on personal experience, you CAN move qui...

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I had it up on Geocities. Yeah, it's been a long time.

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Way back in the mid to late 90s, I collaborated on a project with Barry Beldam. We've since lost contact, and we never fully fleshed it out, but we intended to publish it as a netbook. I even found an artist that let us use a good deal of her artwork. The Team - Barry Beldam, myself Eric Graves, and...

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I clicked the link for http://www.rpggamefind.com/ and it took me to a page saying my account was suspended. Interesting, since I have never been there before.

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Depending on how prepared you were before SHTF, you could be pretty well off. Hydroponics gardening isn't all that difficult. While it does require power for the water pumps, this can easily be accomplished with a small solar panel, or an old car alternator paired with a "windmill". Gather...

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Unfortunate Son wrote:Will it actually ship by then? Just sayin'...

He said October, just didn't say what year. Keeps things covered lol.

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SittingBull wrote:In my HU/DR game. The outbreak/wave was started by a hero. A hero who could heal himself and others. His wife died from freak accident and he poured his healing power into her body for like 21 hours. She came back alright and that was the beginning.

Oh THAT'S good!

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A few decades ago, I was running a D&D game. One of the players was playing a paladin, from a noble family, with an eye for advancement and elevation. However, he was a greedy little twit. Always claiming the best magical items, stuff like that. The group was hired to recover a family heirloom f...

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I have yet to run a DR campaign, but I would set it up as a non-arcane cause. I like how Walking Dead has done it. Those that have been dead prior to the outbreak do not rise. It's only the people that are infected and then die, that rise again. I do think though that once the body decays to a certa...

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It would be a great way to relay recorded messages as well. Using a simple solar recharger and established "safe houses", survivors could record and leave messages for friends or teammates. And as mentioned before, any survivalist worth his salt would have already downloaded numerous e-boo...

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Tirisilex wrote:What is SNPS, PF, and HU?

Supernatural Physical Strength
Palladium Fantasy
Heroes Unlimited

Look for the rules regarding that, in those two books if you have them.

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As with most gaming groups, the system had been modified to one we had been using for several settings.

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I'm sorry, but as a GM I would let that fly as they planned just for the sheer creativity of it. Surely there's an experimental alchemical magazine that just happens to be damaged by the impact causing an explosion that chain reacts to erupt lava and destroy the base. That's how I like to see a gam...

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Thanks for the replies guys. The 10.1 would probably work best with my aging eyes, but if I am going to drop that kind of coin I may get one of those ultrathin notebooks instead.

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There's a reason asteroids and meteorites do so much damage when they manage to impact the Earth. They are already traveling tens of thousands of miles per hour when they enter the atmosphere. Unless the caster can find a way to propel the rock to such a speed, I concur that you will only achieve a ...

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While this technically isn't a GM question, it is aimed at those who use a tablet and PDFs for their sessions. I am about to get a campaign going, and no longer have a laptop. I would like to get a tablet to store the few books I will need, as well as some campaign information I have drawn up in PDF...

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The thought that you can't learn new skills always bothered me. Take my real life for example. I focused on music in high school and early college, but made a shift into restaurant management. A few years later I was being trained as an Infantryman. While in the Army, I graduated Airborne School, Ai...

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I haven't decided on which route I will take for my campaign. A bacterial infection that acts as a parasite that can control the motor functions of the body until it decays to the point that it has no muscle tissue left to function is one. Its bite will transmit the infection 100% of the time, causi...

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OK Thanks for the replies, I had a slim thought that might be them.

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Six years Infantry, 10th Mountain Division. Most American military bases would be as quickly over run as civilian cities. They simply are not protected enough to withstand the hordes of undead attempting to get in, not to mention those that rise or turn inside the fences. Units would break down, wit...

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Quick question, as I am not really familiar with digital books. What do you all mean by GW in your responses?

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Any number of arcane/occult causes could be employed by the Nazis to purposely or inadvertently cause a zombie outbreak. Hitler was obsessed with the occult, and popular media has already touched on this, most notably the Indiana Jones movies, and most recently Captain America. That's one way I woul...

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Where does Mr. Agrama reside? If not in Italy, and maybe not even anywhere in the EU, he is very likely not going to go to prison. The US may extradite him, especially since the current administration is very anti-business/rich, but if he was not present at the time of the conviction, and relocates ...

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Well I was going to say most of the examples everybody else already gave, so I will stress the episodic nature of the sessions. Oh I don't remember if anybody mentioned the show Bones. Take out the cheesey underlying romance tones, and you can get some good stories. I like to do my game sessions in ...

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Way back in the 90's, I helped a guy write a setting that I hosted on my website, it was called Metroplex. I still have all the files, and almost all of it was fleshed out before he stopped playing any games. I used artwork from a couple artists, with their permission, and wrote some of the rules al...

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While in the army, I would bring along my foot locker filled with books. We would get at least one gaming group going, often two due to people being bored that wouldn't normally game back home. We were at West Point for the summer, and I had just gotten the Nightbane books. I set down one hard rule ...

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For the current Rifts game I'm playing in the primary "plot" is basically an alternate Chaos Earth time-line where a group of D-bees (the players) end up having some idea of what's about to hit Earth before it actually does (though we don't have all the details of course). So far we've pr...

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The scenario is not making it clear if it is a video game or if they are in some kind of altered dimension, so the actions of the individual still carry the same weight as if they were running around in real life. This is actually kinda the point. Is it up to the perspective of the character, or up...

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I always understood the theory of space-folding as being when the drive system literally manipulates the fabric of space-time, folding it, and the ship then punches through the different layers until it reaches its destination, usually in a matter of seconds for a short jump. Hyperspace is a totally...

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In addition to what has already been discussed, in regards to psionics, I suggest at most minor psionics be allowed. Roll dice at character creation, and if the result would normally be master pisonics, then it is automatically minor pisonics. Any other roll would be none at all. Just a suggestion. ...

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From a professional standpoint, any weapon that uses a magazine would take about 5-7 seconds to drop the magazine while reaching for the new one, and slapping it in place, and releasing the slide/action to ready the weapon. That's about one combat round. For belt-fed weapons, it can take up to 15 s...

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Popping zeds in the brain basket is all the entertainment I will need. While I am waiting for more to show up in my kill zone though, I will partake of my books in pdf format.

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Do the characters know they are in a virtual world, and that killing the avatar does not harm the real person? That will change the dynamic immensely. For example, I will kill the crap out of other players in CoD, yet I would only kill a real person under specific and limited circumstances. No chang...

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From a professional standpoint, any weapon that uses a magazine would take about 5-7 seconds to drop the magazine while reaching for the new one, and slapping it in place, and releasing the slide/action to ready the weapon. That's about one combat round. For belt-fed weapons, it can take up to 15 se...

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I am working on a campaign that uses a non-affiliated IP. In calculating the speeds of these ships which have the capability to travel between galaxies, I am coming up with some insane numbers. I am of course going to tone them down to be close to what is out in Phase World, but I wanted to share t...

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It is said amongst my people, that gingers have no souls...

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I would love to refer you to my sources here, but the forum rules explicitly prohibit crossovers. I will however PM you what IP I am using. Space travel will not initially be an issue, and has only ever been a small detail in my past space campaigns anyway. I just thought that it was interesting tha...

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Back around 9/11 I started compiling my game stuff into a web page format using FrontPage. I formatted and typed everything, including character creation rules, combat rules, the most up to date versions of the HTH Combat skills, stuff like that. I even had separate entries for the various OCC's. Bu...

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I have started up this cross-over campaign. It uses a popular sci-fi IP that has developed into three TV series, a short lived animated series, and two direct to DVD movies. Initially there will be very limited MDC weapons, no magic (except very advanced tech they players will not understand), and i...

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Good read. I served with the 10th Mountain for six years in a light infantry company. We had one vehicle assigned to the HQ section, a HUMVEE with no weapon mounts, and only the canvas cover for the rear. That HUMVEE was only used in garrison, and to support us while in training on Fort Drum. When w...

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11-Bonehead, with a C2 and P modifier tossed in.

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The White Wolf lore is pretty good, but the game itself sucks. I stopped playing after a buddy, who played a diabetic werewolf, opened a high security lock with a Snickers bar. Just because there wasn't a rule in the book about it. That and I kept running into creepier and creepier people who played...

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Right after the battle of Midway in 1942 a Meteor the size of 1800m long,370m wide and 248m height,Hits Hiroshima Japan. What do you think happed after that? . Gaby, you would not be born; something that honking big would crack Japan wide open,trigger the Ring of Fire, firing off volcanos all aroun...

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Okay, David Weber's latest book, 'Out of the Darkness', deals with an alien invasion in the present time frame, which goes afoul when it's discovered that VAMPIRES are real, and come forth to fight the aliens. Obviously, one can have infinite fun with 'hidden allies' from Earth's mythology stepping...

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King George listens to reason, and allows proper representation in Parliament for the American colonies. Many notable colonials serve in parliament, several given hereditary title such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. During a period of expansion at the beginning of the...

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Here's a thought. Since it's essentially a parallel reality, The Robotech Masters could be benevolent. The SDF-1 crashes on Earth but about the time of the Tolkeen War, and the Masters are in the are to revocer it. They see the ICC fold in on sensors, and after some scans determine that there is ano...

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It's almost attained the status of Duke Nukem Forever!

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