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- Fri Nov 17, 2023 5:07 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Charisma/Persuade/Intimidate checks in HU
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3381
Re: Charisma/Persuade/Intimidate checks in HU
I add it to skills like seduction, interrogation, public speaking, and other skills where the character is trying to influence a person or people through their looks (PB) or personality (MA). I use either as a offset of penalties or sometimes as a direct add, depending on the situation. The add is a...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:43 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: What would be the effect of a silencer/supressor?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3623
Re: What would be the effect of a silencer/supressor?
Thank you for the information
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 3:20 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: What would be the effect of a silencer/supressor?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3623
What would be the effect of a silencer/supressor?
What would be the game effect of having a silencer/suppressor on a pistol/smg/rifle?
- Fri Jul 14, 2023 6:29 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Most Useful Super Power IRL?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4846
Re: Most Useful Super Power IRL?
NMI wrote:EliBenedict wrote:What HU2 super power would benefit you most in your life right now? I'm aching for Multiple Selves.
regeneration or healing factor.
I second that.
- Mon May 01, 2023 3:08 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: A few questions on Horror Factor
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2741
A few questions on Horror Factor
One of my gaming group asked me to post some questions about Horror Factor. Horror Factor "HF" All sources agree that to pass a HF check you need to roll equal to or better than the HF number with adds. Most sources agree that HF lasts 1 round. There was one source that stated that it need...
- Tue Mar 28, 2023 9:12 am
- Forum: Nightbane®
- Topic: Best and worst talents?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7150
Re: Best and worst talents?
I read people swearing by Anti-Arcane, Darkwhip and Shadow Blast, but others dismissing the same talents. So I want to know what is the consensus (if any) about what are the best and worst talents, including but no limited to combat. By best I mean the most bang for your P.P.E. buck, the best effec...
- Mon Mar 06, 2023 9:54 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Creatures/Beings who regenerate
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1157
Re: Creatures/Beings who regenerate
Could a baby-dragon clip their claws pop their teeth to sell to a necromancer or someone for money? Shoot, a dragon juicer would pay for a baby-dragon's blood. Yes. Generally we always said that dragons were loathe to do this, though. Body parts tend to be used in magic rituals and such, in ways de...
- Mon Feb 20, 2023 4:35 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Ranged weapon attacks
- Replies: 2
- Views: 567
Re: Ranged weapon attacks
Does throwing two knives or shurikens at once require paired weapons? Where did W.P. Small Thrown go? Targeting talks about adding to W.P.s but there isn't one that covers shurikens, throwing dart/spikes or other small weapons designed for being thrown only. Per the Skill "WP Targeting" i...
- Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:12 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Ranged weapon attacks
- Replies: 2
- Views: 567
Ranged weapon attacks
Does throwing two knives or shurikens at once require paired weapons?
Where did W.P. Small Thrown go? Targeting talks about adding to W.P.s but there isn't one that covers shurikens, throwing dart/spikes or other small weapons designed for being thrown only.
Where did W.P. Small Thrown go? Targeting talks about adding to W.P.s but there isn't one that covers shurikens, throwing dart/spikes or other small weapons designed for being thrown only.
- Mon Feb 06, 2023 5:51 pm
- Forum: Guild of Magic & Psionics
- Topic: Why does Kevin Siembieda hate Healing spells and Psionics?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4552
Re: Why does Kevin Siembieda hate Healing spells and Psionic
I've also noted a reluctance in some older games (and older gamers, of whom Kevin can be considered) to have good tactical healing... i.e. "Healing that will happen quickly and maintain someone during a fight." Healing spells tend to be relatively limited in power, and Palladium really li...
- Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:18 am
- Forum: Guild of Magic & Psionics
- Topic: Why does Kevin Siembieda hate Healing spells and Psionics?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4552
Re: Why does Kevin Siembieda hate Healing spells and Psionic
Some of it, I think, comes from inflation of available HP and SDC. When your base HP are 3d6+1d6/level, 2d6 per casting, or 1d8 per touch, isn't that bad, especially if you anticipate a cap of of about 12d6 HP (3d6 for PE, plus 9 levels). But, once you get past PFRPG Revised , you get personal SDC,...
- Sat Jan 14, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: Guild of Magic & Psionics
- Topic: Why does Kevin Siembieda hate Healing spells and Psionics?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4552
Why does Kevin Siembieda hate Healing spells and Psionics?
Why does Kevin hate players being able to heal during an adventure? Why do healing spells and psionics do such a piddling amount of SDC/MDC and hit point for the cost?
- Sat Nov 26, 2022 1:20 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: HU2 Ancient Master crit
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5028
HU2 Ancient Master crit
Can anyone tell me why the HU2 Ancient Master doesn't get a better crit chance by level. They start with a crit of 20 and it never gets better. Almost every other hand to hand at 6th level get a crit on a 18-20.
- Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:51 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Magic Weapon transformation
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2321
Re: Magic Weapon transformation
Thank you everyone.
- Thu Apr 07, 2022 9:29 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Magic Weapon transformation
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2321
Magic Weapon transformation
How long can a person with Magic Weapon stay transformed into his heroic self? Can a person sleep while transformed or do they revert? If someone disarms the hero do they revert?
- Tue Mar 08, 2022 2:51 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Dispersal
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1294
Dispersal
Several questions have come up with my gaming group about the power Dispersal from PU3/9 1) can a person pass through locked doors and solid walls with this power? 2) is a person vulnerable to gasses when dispersed like a person with Intangiblity? 3) can powers that sense ghost and spirits also dete...
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 4:50 am
- Forum: Gamers Looking for Other Gamers
- Topic: Looking for HU/Megaverse players in the Concord, CA area
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3868
Looking for HU/Megaverse players in the Concord, CA area
Looking for players in the Concord CA area for a contemporary HU2/Megaverse game.
Re: PS cap
Thanks everyone.
- Sat Feb 05, 2022 5:32 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: PS cap
- Replies: 1
- Views: 921
PS cap
What is the PS cap for normal humanoids, 30 or 40?
PS cap
is the cap on PS 30 or 40 for normal humanoids?
- Wed Dec 22, 2021 10:32 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: SPD to MPH
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7253
Re: SPD to MPH
We use MPH x 1.47 = SPD, and SPD x .68 = MPH
- Wed Dec 22, 2021 10:30 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Winged Flight
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1546
Re: Winged Flight
Wingspan is always tip to tip. However, with the HU super ability...the listed wingspan seams just a tad (quite a bit) to short. That is why at one point I rewrote the power to better address the wingspan issue. The heavier a character is, the bigger a wingspan they need to get off the ground. That...
- Sun Dec 19, 2021 6:40 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Winged Flight
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1546
Winged Flight
With the various winged flights they talk about wingspan. How is wingspan defined in Pallidum? Is it centerline to wing tip or is it wing tip to wing tip?
- Mon Sep 06, 2021 4:42 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Melee called shots *Rifts Newbie
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2058
Re: Melee called shots *Rifts Newbie
I'm new to playing rifts and currently making my first character. Been playing HU for years now. I am not able to find anything on Called shots for Melee combat. Was this a over look, miss print, or later corrected by a rifter issue, I'm not aware of? I have RUE and a few rifters and SB, and everyt...
- Sat Sep 04, 2021 1:53 am
- Forum: Guild of Magic & Psionics
- Topic: Protection from banishment
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7161
Re: Protection from banishment
A circle of protection should block a banishment.
- Sat Jul 31, 2021 5:12 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Undead Slayer Monster Tattoo
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2227
Re: Undead Slayer Monster Tattoo
Hey folks. I'm in the process of making an Undead Slayer character and I've hit a snag. I'd like to have a waghalter from Land of the Damned book 1 as a monster tattoo. I was reading through the information given and I noticed that their intelligence was more than an animal, but not quite human. Wo...
- Wed Jul 21, 2021 3:32 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Do you think it,s time for 3nd Edition Heroes Unlimited?
- Replies: 127
- Views: 40605
Re: Do you think it,s time for 3nd Edition Heroes Unlimited?
gaby wrote:Do you think it,s time for 3nd Edition Heroes Unlimited?
How would you set it up?
I thought that the latest edition WAS the third edition.
Lets see, there was Heroes Unlimited, then there was Heroes Unlimited revised, then came Heroes Unlimited 2nd Edition.
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 7:56 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Strength classes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2927
Re: Strength classes
I remember seeing a drawing of the differences of strength levels. It showed a couple of humans fighting on a vehicle, a cyborg/juicer/crazy rolling the vehicle over, and a supernatural monster lifting the ground and everything above it with one hand effortlessly. Visual representations are sometim...
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:16 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Strength classes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2927
Re: Strength classes
Thanks drewkitty.
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:15 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Spirit Host
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1894
Spirit Host
Do Spirit Host age? If so at what rate? Or does the melding stop the aging process?
- Tue Jun 29, 2021 4:06 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Strength classes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2927
Strength classes
I keep coming across references to Augmented Strength. Where does it fit in with Normal, Extraordinary, Robotic/Superhuman, Supernatural?
- Thu Jun 17, 2021 4:52 am
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Space Ships
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2092
Re: Space Ships
Thank you for the information.
- Sun Jun 13, 2021 3:53 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Space Ships
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2092
Space Ships
Is there a 2-3 person long range FTL Fast Scout/Patrol ships in the Phase World systems?
- Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:14 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Doors are OP!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1748
Re: Doors are OP!
OK, maybe it's just me, and I know the Heroes Unlimited setting is made to cater to a range of characters from "puny human" to "superman", but... do doors seem ridiculously OP to anyone else? Imagine you're a human police officer, standing in front of a regular wooden bathroom d...
- Mon May 03, 2021 9:55 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Techno-Form questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2576
Techno-Form questions
I have some quick questions about vehicle/machine form parameters.
1) what is the largest vehicle can they turn into?
2) do you use the empty weight for their mass?
3) how do you figure the vehicles carry capacity?
4) is there a limit on the kinds of machines they can turn into?
1) what is the largest vehicle can they turn into?
2) do you use the empty weight for their mass?
3) how do you figure the vehicles carry capacity?
4) is there a limit on the kinds of machines they can turn into?
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:26 am
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: supernatural or not?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7475
Re: supernatural or not?
eliakon wrote:As per the Rifts Bestiary it is possible to have SN strength and not be a supernatural being.
But having both does?
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 5:51 am
- Forum: Guild of Magic & Psionics
- Topic: Magic Limitation 'flawed sight'
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2234
Re: Magic Limitation 'flawed sight'
With the magic limitation 'Flawed Sight' from the NB: TtGD book page 27, if the flaw is that their natural sight is limited to 200 in full daylight/ 10 ft in fully lit ballroom, but otherwise sees the world through their magical auras. So without needing the power/spell see/sense aura. What would a...
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 1:59 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Colony Ship plans anyone?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10557
Re: Colony Ship plans anyone?
Does the OP want ship stats or deck plans?
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 12:53 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Looking amphibian/aquatic SDC humanoids
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3281
Re: Looking amphibian/aquatic SDC humanoids
Preferably tech-based, but TW-oriented could work too. More on the Good/Neutral spectrum of alignment, but not strictly required either. Truth be told tech-based is not even essential, having human-level intelligence is good enough for having a flexible definition of "advanced" societies ...
- Tue Oct 13, 2020 3:54 pm
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Colony Ship plans anyone?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10557
Re: Colony Ship plans anyone?
There might be some old Traveler ship deck plans out there.
- Sun Aug 30, 2020 8:47 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Warlock Fire Sponge spell
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2624
Re: Warlock Fire Sponge spell
The RBoM says it works on plasma energy blasts, like those produced by CS plasma rifles, NE PC weapons and wilk's PC smallarms. The effects from a Plasma Warhead.....yes. It is a super NAPALM which means it is burning stuff. So it is Fire. P.S.: It would be better if you give the location of the sp...
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 6:44 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Warlock Fire Sponge spell
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2624
Warlock Fire Sponge spell
My gaming group came up with a tough nut Does the 7th level Fire Warlock spell 'Fire Sponge' work on plasma rounds? Would the plasma bolt from a NE plasma cartridge round be absorbed? Would the blast effect of a plasma missile?
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 6:53 am
- Forum: Heroes Unlimited™
- Topic: Are there any powers which let you create a costume?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7344
Re: Are there any powers which let you create a costume?
I’d like to have a character with the power to create a costume from thin air. The way Thor, Wonder Woman, or Firestar can instantly appear in costume. What are my options, other than having an armored appearance from Bio-Armor or similar? Take a look at Powers Unlimited 1 page 33, Instant Wardrobe.
- Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:25 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Degree of granularity, specificity or detail...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4148
Re: Degree of granularity, specificity or detail...
The group I game with is made up of ex-military, history buffs, and firearms aficionados so we get specific and detailed. We set up a table with ranges of calibers and their damage to make it simpler, but we keep track of ammo and other expendables. Tactical reload is your friend.
- Sat Aug 01, 2020 9:12 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Ways to make an NPC that appears human be an M.D.C. creature
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5068
Re: Ways to make an NPC that appears human be an M.D.C. crea
Zenith Moon Warpers are good at that.
- Thu Jul 30, 2020 4:59 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: I want to build a stone pyramid - is it possible?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 23027
Re: I want to build a stone pyramid - is it possible?
How does one take control of a pyramid and how do you change who controls it? Can someone try and wrest control away from the person who currently controls it? I was under the impression that everyone within the pyramid that is capable of using the pyramid's functions is able to do so. Someone deci...
- Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:44 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: I want to build a stone pyramid - is it possible?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 23027
Re: I want to build a stone pyramid - is it possible?
How does one take control of a pyramid and how do you change who controls it? Can someone try and wrest control away from the person who currently controls it?
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:10 am
- Forum: Guild of Magic & Psionics
- Topic: 2 Ravens 1 Odin
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5224
Re: 2 Ravens 1 Odin
In every table top RPG I have played the writer made NPC almost always break the rules.
To properly masquerade as Odin he would need two Ravens, an eight legged flying horse, and a giant wolf.
To properly masquerade as Odin he would need two Ravens, an eight legged flying horse, and a giant wolf.
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:05 am
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Fallen Cosmo-Knights
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5318
Re: Fallen Cosmo-Knights
Does anyone know what XP table they are supposed to use? I use the Phase Mystic table, but the book doesn't say. I'm assuming that since their MDC is halved, so is the level at which it's gained after the Fall... so 2d6 per level. I'm assuming that if they choose the magic route (makes sense, consi...
- Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:23 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Extra Secondary Skills in Modern Games
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14300
Re: Extra Secondary Skills in Modern Games
We came up with a list of skills that everyone know, such as read and write English, drive automobile, basic math, basic computers, cooking, ect. and said everyone gets these skills for free.