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Let's consider how complicated this is. Say your client is accused of sex-texting with a 14-year-old. That's a crime if he's an adult. You should probably request a bench trial, right? So that would be a bonus on your "guilty/not-guilty" roll. Except you need to know the judge - is he or she defense ...

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Yikes.

Okay, I'm not going to put myself out as an expert here. I did my 17th court-martial yesterday. Guilty plea. Only issue was degree of punishment. That was still way, way up in the air.

I think dice rolls are appropriate in role-playing a trial, because from what I've seen so far, there just ...

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The thing about vigilantes that I keep running into is, how much do they actually affect criminals, and how?
If a super-hero doesn't have the power to arrest the bad guys, and doesn't have the moral flexibility to KILL them outright, and also doesn't have the good fortune to be pressed into a ...

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Tell Me Your ideas on how to set-up a H,U and Robotech,s Crossover setting?

Hilariously.

Mutant animals crawling around the ducts of the SDF-1, snatching up the deck crew. Hardware villains stealing rations from the innocent citizens of Macross. Super-serums turning regular pilots into ...

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taalismn wrote:I only discover this thread now?
Again, parkhyun, you amaze and entertain.

Thanks, but you didn't miss it. You commented above that you printed it out. Hey, it's an old thread!

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Hunterrose wrote:Thanks again! I'm really looking forward to setting up the Razor story with my players. Although it is a bit dark.

Awesome! Let me know how it works out.

parkhyun

http://palladium-megaverse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=142544

Here's a supplement I wrote up years ago after law school and before work started. I think all the adventures will work but specifically recommend Under the Razor, and after that Sickle Seeks Hammer.

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If you aren't familiar with the Mount & Blade games (and if you aren't, I strongly recommend Warband), check it out. It's a sandbox medieval-battle simulator single-player campaign with multi-player skirmishes.

What makes this a great model for Rifts is that it's really designed for first-person ...

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The US Civil Rights Act brings us the definition of Hate Crimes as any action "by force or by threat of force, injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone who is engaged in six specified protected activities, by reason of their race, color, religion, or national origin." That has become the ...

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Well, that makes me wonder about the two Russia books, the China books, Australia, and so on. It does seem as though the North America setting is prime territory, and yet there's a lot of material for places that have really no interaction with it at all.

The biggest problem with most of RIFTs ...

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Remote island state nations do nothing for the core of the setting NA and typically just isolated 2 book campaigns. Rifts japan is only useful for playing in Japan it might as well been a dimension book.

There was no draw to me for the location. Nothing about Korea really calls to me, it does not ...

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taalismn wrote:"Bring on the zombie hordes. I got this."(ominous hummmmm)

Taalismn knows I prefer morlocs to zombies.

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I liked your crunch. The mechanics, the interesting OCCs. Most of that stuff was A-OK. I didn't get into your setting at all, possibly because I assumed I knew what it involved (having been exposed to a lot asian culture in my life). That could be my bad, but honestly I just prefer North America ...

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Dear Parkhyun,

The reason I wasn't particularly interested in your setting is because I have the exact opposite view of RIFTs as Killer Cyborg. I love the hyper-frenetic over-the-top warring-states setting as it stands now, where everything is hyper-technologically advanced, supernatural, or as ...

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I had zero interest in Korea as a setting, so I never looked at it. I already know too much about the rest of the world and have plenty to do in those places. Nothing personal, but that's why I didn't even look.

Thanks! Perfectly valid answer. Let me ask you: were there any Worldbooks you didn't ...

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It's okay - I can take it!

Long story short: I thought my Korea setting/campaign was great, but I'm admittedly biased, since I wrote it. I'm probably more biased toward my ideas and writing than most people are. That said, I'm kind of surprised that only a couple of people liked it. I thought it ...

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So...ancient North Korean underground nuclear testing grounds gonna bite the present day locals in the arse with Korean Godzilloids?

I can only hope. I'm running a Rifts Japan game, so Kirean Mutant Kaiju would definately be a worthy enemy

The North Korean monster movie "Bulgasari" is ...

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I want a sourcebook for this world book to be called Rifts: Hell March and Korea will march to war against the Yama Kings!

Thanks for the enthusiasm!

I see Rifts: Korea as being less of a world book and more of a campaign, in that there is a story progression tied to the information about the ...

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The Eastern Cho

The Eastern Cho hugs Korea's coastline, stretched thin along a hundred miles or so of lowlands. To their west is a wall of mountain, which at its widest is still only four miles from the sea. At its narrowest, mere yards. This landscape has allowed the human population to go from ...

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'Tal' - Magic Masks
A unique form of magic similar to Techno-Wizardry

"Tal" (pronounced "tall" or "tahl") are wooden masks carved and painted in specific patterns, each pattern granting the wearer a single magical power. Foreigners to Korea may assume that the masks are techno-wizardry items ...

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Razor Venus - Hardware.

She ran a snuff brothel, where rich clients would pay for the privilege of mutilating and killing pretty girls. Her S&M outfit included lots of shockers and stingers.

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This exact issue came up in my Rifts: Korea thread. I never really figured out the specifics of how it would work, because what I really wanted was an OCC that could make tactical choices to just... go die.

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Dogs and Demons
A follow-up adventure to The Journey North

Hook : After arriving in Pyongyang, the PCs are approached by a seer, asking them to come to the palace to testify in a trial.

Line : The trial is of a renown Japanese demon-hunting ronin arrested for entering the Northern Kim's ...

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I like it. Can you make a fillable pdf?

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Re: "Organic Bionics"
Those already exist in several forms:
-Bio-Wizardry's Bio-Borgs (WB2/WB21)
-Genetic Engineering (Gene Splicers/Tech, CS, SA mutants, etc) and cloning
-Bio-System Cybernetics, not bionic grade I admit
-Phase World even has the Necro with the "Splicers"-esque organic hardware ...

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I thought my Rifts: Korea campaign setting was cool, but apparently it didn't catch on. How about Rifts: Oregon?

You could have organic bionics, local techno-wizardry and sustainable power armor. All magic would be ley-line-to-market. New Portland would be an inclusive, tolerant safe space for d ...

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Otherwise, I would suggest some special stealth and/or movement Psionic powers for the character to help him sneak in and do his job...
Maybe some choices, like the following:

Obfuscation - 20 I.S.P. for 5 min per level of experience. This power makes the character seem unimportant, insignificant ...

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I love this and the jury-rigger.
But, I have a couple of thoughts on the Ki Assassin...
First, wouldn't that be a Gi Assassin in Rifts Korea, rather than a Ki Assassin or Chi Assassin?

YES! "Gi" is technically the correct way to romanize the Korean word. I struggle with how to write Korean ...

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River Monster - N.P.C. Villain

The River Monster (" gahng gway-mool ") is not actually a creature from the Rifts, but an evolved mutant that was enlarged and empowered by rifts energy. Not that adventurers should particularly care - it's big, it's nasty, and it swallows things whole.

Legend has ...

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These aren't my pictures or drawings, but here's some art to bring this to life a little more.

A ttokebi (dokkaebi) dodges fire, having stolen someone's purse:
http://img02.deviantart.net/60bf/i/2013/342/2/4/dokkaebi_by_dmstrecker-d6x643g.jpg

A mudang walks the town streets ...

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say652 wrote:That is a concept I really really like.
But what about vs MDC targets? ?
Could the direct to Hp attacks damage mdc creatures??

The assassin can do damage, but in SDC proportions (i.e. 1/100th an MD). Keep an energy pistol handy!

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Ki Assassin O.C.C.
You might say a ki assassin is what happens when an arms race runs backwards.

2050 A.D. - The Republic of Korea (ROK) occupies the former territory of North Korea.
2056 - The United Nations welcomes the Unified Korean Republic (UKR) as its newest member, de-listing the ROK and ...

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I know a few games where weapons do standard damage base on the type and it has been that way since the game came out. I have also bought books with no gear or classes in them it was all world information.
So while i do think gear books are great that is not the only selling point.
By that logic ...

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I've wondered about this topic pretty much ever since I first read RMB back in the 90s. My take on it is that this is where storytelling runs into book-selling. It's hard to sell your books (and keep your business alive) with no power creep and a setting in which most people are normal schmoes.

Let ...

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My main problems with the OCCs are ones of power level (known as scope and scale)
The Seer for example
I know that the intent was to create a cool diviner class....but the result is to make a nigh-omniscient person who can solve any mystery, and turn most anyone around them into puppets. The idea ...

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blade76 wrote:I'm waiting to see your Ki Assassin write-up. Sounds Interesting!!

It's coming. Give me some time to think about how to do it right.

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Sergei's Guide to Korean Names

Sergei, the Russian cyborg, has learned enough Korean at this point to explain Korean names to your non-Korean PCs. He's not sure what everything means, but he's picked up enough to understand why they are what they are.

Noble Names
Korea's noble family continue ...

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Warrior of Khan - NPC villain

While Master Khan sleeps deep beneath Dragon Mountain, his warriors have begun to emerge from stasis and move out to demand submission to the master. These men, the ancestors of the Courtier Clones, are effectively undead, acting and moving as if compelled by the ...

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The Northern Kim

The territory of the Kim family covers roughly a third of modern-day North Korea's area, comprising the eastern valley that faces the Yellow Sea, running down from the Yalu river to the Taedong river, which cuts through Pyongyang. It is ringed by rough mountains, containing ...

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Jangseung - N.P.C. villains

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jangseung#/media/File:Korean.Folk.Village-Minsokchon-15.jpg

The jangseung (pronounced, "jahng-sng," as the "eu" sound is barely pronounced) were totem poles common across Korea as village protectors and ...

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A clone shouldn't have any magic, limited P.P.E. (and only when activated), and no psionics. The idea is that being virtually immortal is enough of an advantage.

If a clone dies and is put in a newly activated body, resurrecting the "old" body gets you a body with no intelligence and no memory ...

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Hong-gu's Cookbook, Recipe #2: "Jilal" Landcrawler
Hong-gu, the Northern Kim's top in-house jury-rigger, got lucky with spare parts and put them to good use, making an all-terrain vehicle that can handle the mountains and anything (or most things, as least) that dwell in them. The "jilal ...

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Stop arguing about whether there should be the book and just write it.

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I also intentionally include the Courtier Clone OCC as a nod to Korea's advances in cloning technology. If you think of Japan, you think giant robots - well, if you think Korea, you should think cloning. It's true that the Korean scientist Hwang Woo-seok faked a paper he submitted to the magazine ...

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Eliakon, if someone has a constructive criticism or a personal "x or y is not my thing," I'm fine with just putting it on a board. If there's something really concerning, maybe PM is better.
I'll do a PM first. Its much easier to put things from PM to Board than it is to undo a post and send it to ...

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say652 wrote:I like the setting and Totally support fan created material.

Thanks! If you've got a minute, tell me what's good and what's bad (or just not interesting).

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Eliakon, if someone has a constructive criticism or a personal "x or y is not my thing," I'm fine with just putting it on a board. If there's something really concerning, maybe PM is better.

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It looks like a lot of people are checking in and following this thread. I'd appreciate some feedback, if you can give it - what's working, what's not, what's interesting, what you'd never use.
Go ahead, Internet - do your worst!

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taalismn wrote:Melting stasis-goop is never a good sign. 'Demon guardian' is a worse sign.

Analogies to any of the "Alien" movies, or "Prometheus," are fair game.

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The Journey North
A follow-up to "The First Move" or an alternate way to bring the PCs into the action.

Hook : A jury-rigger picks up the scrap from the town in "The First Move" and wants protection moving it to the market of the Northern Kim.
Line : The route includes a stop at an abandoned ...

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