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Orin J.

Wow, is your GM monty haul himself? how's ol' monty doin', haven't seen him in ages.

Orin J.

because the moment you put economics (the rich man's astrology) into a game, everyone has reasons to get upset.

Orin J.

Focus fire from a 10 man cs squad will put a hurt on you REAL fast. A sound tactic except that it only works so often before ut starts coming off as NPC metagaming. It's the same way the opponents in D&D game target the casters always bypassing dangerous foes. Such tactics can be used though in...

Orin J.

That 6th Sense might trigger from an atomic explosion is plausible, but the power itself is not as much help as some seem to think it is: "The character will not know what the danger is or where it will come from, nor who it will be direct at when in a group. All he will know is that something...

Orin J.

Don't clairvoyance / 6th sense also give warnings even of non-detected attacks? 6th Sense is iffy at best. Clairvoyance has a chance to predict bad events in advance. So something like a suitcase nuke could set it off spontaneously, even if psychics were for some reason not actively looking for suc...

Orin J.

Jaymz raises an interesting topic: Palladium's system of "objective good/evil" alignments seems to correspond to agreement and disagreement with characters and policies. In this paradigm, is it possible to have good people disagree on issues of policy, even to the point where they might f...

Orin J.

Hotrod wrote:
HarleeKnight wrote:I doubt you'll find anything with a mirror finish. The minis are just to small.

And yet, this exists (product of the Molotow liquid chrome on some 40k models).

It's apparently a fairly new product, so I doubt it was around 9 years ago.

link no worky, sir.

Orin J.

I think this is implied when they say your class is a living battery of mystic energy, meaning batteries can be recharged. My interpretation was the leyline being an electrical socket and the mage is plugging in his cellphone to charge. Once at 100% he disconnects and goes about his way The sad fac...

Orin J.

palladium's system makes powergaming relatively easy to figure out and involve much less twisiting the intent of things in the system so there's less of a negative stigma in this system. honestly i think very few rifts powergamers see what they're doing AS powergaming- they're just playing the game ...

Orin J.

Dragon is an R.C.C., not an O.C.C. Dragons can take O.C.C.s on top of that, but they don't get to start with an O.C.C. i reccomend fire dragons because they look cool and breathe fire. what the cludge happened in this thread? So you basically agree with me? To house rule their EXP to work like DND ...

Orin J.

if you want to take shots at specific part without aiming, my house rules on shooting were "non aimed/wild shots are a flat roll and are aimed always center of mass, taking non-aimed shots at a specific part counts as firing wild"

Orin J.

Dragon is an R.C.C., not an O.C.C. Dragons can take O.C.C.s on top of that, but they don't get to start with an O.C.C.

i reccomend fire dragons because they look cool and breathe fire.

what the cludge happened in this thread?

Orin J.

drewkitty ~..~ wrote:-people can help by sacrificing their Perm PPE, but then they will be co-creators of the realm.

sounds like a problem for my old friend mr. stabby.

Orin J.

i feel as though perhaps you GM baffled, bamboozaled, flummoxed or possibly even tricked you.

Orin J.

The rules I am looking for is shooting multiple weapons systems in one action (it burns 1 action per weapon system I know but takes place in 1 turn) like I shoot my missiles and my lasers at you at the same time. Generally, such a rule doesn't exist. However, Aliens Unlimited Galaxy Guide page 174 ...

Orin J.

taalismn wrote:
Mark Hall wrote:
"It's an .88 magnum. It shoots through schools."

NOT the sort of terminology I'd want used in an endorsement.

well now THAT depends on your market segment, doesn't it?

Orin J.

i think it's just the regular sequence and it happens to be one of those cases of awkwardly worded explanations.

Orin J.

Axelmania wrote:anybody with a pair of battle-fury blades able to power them?

what's that got to do with the O.C.C.?

Orin J.

I mean, if you aren't consistantly leaping into close combat, abusing entanglement and body flips while dodging gunfire and letting it hit the people you're fighting, then striking from behind the people you've forced into facing the other way, are you really playing a juicer correctly?

Orin J.

I want to see a dark hidden faction within Lazlo. Maybe even two. If folks want to go with the college vibe, make it secret society style: Skull and Bones (A pro CS organization), Order of the Silver Eagle (A NEMA/Republican Society), Society of Thoth (A magical society bent on bringing Thoth). Som...

Orin J.

GAW produces a LOT of models of conventional guns, it's just not gone into much detail (maybe because it's a bit of a crapshoot, doing limited runs inbetween needing the milling tools elsewhere based on what they feel will well fast) or with much concern. since they're probably not big earners it's ...

Orin J.

Kevin once said to me, "there are no utopias in Rifts." I don't want Lazlo to be an exception. I don't want it to be a grim, dark hellhole. I want it to be a beautiful, hot mess of a city with a sense of hope and high ideals despite its warts, internal debates, and political wrangling. I ...

Orin J.

I'm a bit apprehensive of the Lazlo book, only because it's one fans have asked about for 30 years. There's a lot of built up anticipation, and it's assured to be just a bit different than everyone's head-canon. This is my concern as well. Let's face it we are all guilty of this with any book that ...

Orin J.

anyways, in regard to OP's original question, i think it's just the WI-GL8 doesn't factor in the weight from the ammo drums like the WI-GL4. the two weapons are visually identical but the -GL8 doesn't have an integral ammo drum so i think they forgot to factor the weight of the larger ammo capacity ...

Orin J.

Doesn't the book Heroes Of Humanity have some further information about this? It's what got me wondering even more. They do give an MOS in a way but I would have thought there'd be more OCCs and regular MOSs without the Special Training Schools. Also some don't really seem to fit. At least not with...

Orin J.

given how common radiation sniffers are in Rifts i wouldn't expect it to work. not to mention there's probably several checkpoints for these things before you even reach the city limits, what with the long period of agression the CS has has with tolkeen since the first days of the game. That doesn't...

Orin J.

-The FIWS can be used single-handed, which means that it can more easily be used Paired than NG-P7s. If you have paired FIWS, and you fire a dual blast from each weapon, that's 2d6x10 MD. If you use the Sharpshooting skill to be able to fire rifles single-handed, and you pick up two NG-P7s, you'll ...

Orin J.

Here is an extreme VP: ALL weapons that were not in the RMB are broken due to power creep. Can you give an example of the creep you're referring to? Because I don't remember many units more powerful than the glitterboy. the NG-P7 remains the most powerful, cost effective hand held energy rifle in t...

Orin J.

Example from media: from the Dark Knight batman movies: Wayne Ind. made a built proof armor, but the DOD didn't buy it because it cost too much. per the actual dialog of the scene, said armor wasn't bullet proof. "bulletproof?" "anything but a straight shot" was the line.. when ...

Orin J.

the only HTH bonues i maintain is the number of attacks because i've never been clear how you divide that for shooting.....

Orin J.

Axelmania wrote:have all the extra tattoos on the 3rd pair of limbs. The ones that VANISH when morph into a 4-limbed being.

they don't "vanish" they just return to the general mass of the body. so those tatoos end up on their abdomen.

Orin J.

Really, SDC weapons aren't the bread and butter of any serious arms company in the RIFTS era, are they? it's common knowledge there's more people doing knockoffs of pre-rifts firearms than there probably are people needing them, so it's more of an impulse buy item for companies nowadays. you compete...

Orin J.

Well assuming Century Station was made into an M.D.C. city there would be at least some of the city left. given the level of destruction caused by the rifts tearing open the way they did, i wouldn't exactly doubt they could total a fully MDC-city like the arcologies the coalition is building. very ...

Orin J.

honestly, this doesn't seem to be a transmutation spell, it just lets you phase through the earth similar to how earth elementals do.so i'd assum it lets you see through the matter you're phasing through to some degree as well. and i wouldn't let any spell that doesn't state it restores your body do...

Orin J.

The previous version of the grenade launcher, had a penalty to use, but the smaller one that should have more recoil doesn't have this problem, despite it being 7 pounds instead of 20. On top of that, the Game Master guide lists MDC shotgun rounds that have stupid high damage for cost. Those also m...

Orin J.

i think one of the things you're overlooking is that the grenade launcher might be able to fire shotgun shells, it can't load them into the same drum magazine as the grenades, and it can't single load anything, meaning you have to change out the entire drum cassette to switch over ammo type. and the...

Orin J.

I probably spent way more time on it than I should have. I took the number of impacts from the Compendium of Weapons, Armour, and Castles and figured the average and maximum damage based on siege weapon damage based on the projectile sizes for those impacts. Then I averaged them out, did a fair bit...

Orin J.

I probably spent way more time on it than I should have. I took the number of impacts from the Compendium of Weapons, Armour, and Castles and figured the average and maximum damage based on siege weapon damage based on the projectile sizes for those impacts. Then I averaged them out, did a fair bit...

Orin J.

I didn't even think to check 2E Fantasy books (although I only own the first 2). I had thought that book 2 included some info like this when talking about the different types of forts, but there is nothing in either edition about how much punishment the walls can take. I'll have a look at CityTech....

Orin J.

oh, plenty of stuff's been added. just details of who prefers what never is. that's a matter for the GM. firefighter, ironically doesn't seem to be an OCC from what i've read though. funny. Yeah. Those were the details I was asking about. Oh well. Maybe one day. If the Rifter were still going maybe...

Orin J.

Veknironth wrote:I sure would as a person but I wouldn’t want armor to just be extra HP.

-Vek
“It would make things easier.”

it's not extra HP. it's extra SDC, which is more or less how modern armor works now.....

Orin J.

oh, plenty of stuff's been added. just details of who prefers what never is. that's a matter for the GM.

firefighter, ironically doesn't seem to be an OCC from what i've read though. funny.

Orin J.

no, it's pretty open what careers and skills are available. just more a matter of which ones they commonly use.

Orin J.

I honestly haven't dug into Tolkeen's background enough to have given its heraldry much thought that's because it wasn't there until it was getting blown up. kind of a critical problem when trying to find it. that's honestly the core of the issue i had with tolkeen. the coalition is treated as an a...

Orin J.

Simple question, can a Shifter have multiple familiar links? Because i remember the Supernatural Link being described as a variant of this with the roles reversed. Either way, for those bringing up the "servant of a pantheon" angle, i would like to point out Salkind the Metal Mage (SoT6, ...

Orin J.

As for Earth and Orbit not working together, there's been 200+ years of separation. It be like the old world abandoning the new world after America's Revolutionary War, and then having England show up during their WWI and ask for help. After so many years of separation the American's would either s...

Orin J.

It IS a great lair power supply. The text says that the medium one can run an office building, so I'm guessing the large one is comparable to a small substation. One solution to the size of topaz rods would be a stone master, who can fuse chunks to the right length and size. that will probably cost...

Orin J.

i'm here to be a killjoy! given the sheer level of tech discrepancy in Rifts, it's probably worth pointing out a "small town" probably doesn't have most of the houses wired like a modern city does, so i wouldn't put it up in the "micro nuclear plant" levels of power. it's also a ...

Orin J.

at this point they're held together by being magic. stones come apart, ceases to be a stone pyramid. would be neat for them to go into detail how one enchants individual SDC bricks to become a collective MDC structure like if stone masters spend an amount of PPE/time doing so Caster: "magic, t...

Orin J.

As several people have said...ensure the ground is stable and able to support the mass of all that stone...and then some! (A geological engineer would be a great thing! ) If you're concerned about people trying to take it over, you can always try to build into a hill... Nothing I can remember says ...

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