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Could be a matter of focus; maybe you can be amorphic, but. your powers are relatively weak and scattershot, because you have to devout some of your concentration to keep your energy/bodily integrity-
OR
-You can have a fixed form that you default to, that allows you to concentrate your power better ...

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thorr-kan wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 4:25 pm Of course not; winged wolverines are in NOONE'S best interests. It's one of the unspoken rules no power involved in North America is willing to cross.

I'm expecting winged wolverines to be issued from the City of Brass in the Magic Zone any day now, then.

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darthauthor wrote: Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:01 pm I see them as robots.

They're lobotomized Stonemen from Saturn

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Twaniland ----- GNE Colony World(Thundercloud)
(aka ‘Twani’, ‘Zillaland’, ‘Spliceland’)
“On long range scans, the Urgora system life zone was already looking attractive, and a number of nearby polities were gearing up to claim it with colonization survey expeditions. The United Systems Alliance ...

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Pretty much use an existing Earth or Naruni suit and rebrand it as a Galactic product, or come up with your own design.

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So, don't ask a god to pull out their wallet and produce some photo ID...
You might be standing there for -eons- waiting to see a card that matches their appearance..

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Though, an argument on the other side of that is SAMs, which the CS doesn't seem to have trouble with. Enough SAMs, especially in the mid-range, and you may not be able to control the sky, but you certainly can clear it.

Which is why I suspect the CS has anybody who can build surface to air ...

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Does the Megabot count?

I think not....not high performance enough, despite that big energy cannon.
When I think jet fighters in Rifts, I think high-speed(ideally supersonic), high-altitude with superior air-to-air and ideally air-to-ground combat capabilities. Megabot's at best a ground ...

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Plane wrote: Sat Jun 21, 2025 8:40 am and also, even if a lot of the gods aer based on our myths, in-universe that doesn't mean our myths created them - THEY created our myths, and may have done so in thousands of alternate dimensions

Worshippers simply embellish them or, in the worst cases, give the gods IDEAS.

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Palloc, the Larmac god of couch potatoes that thwarts the efforts of do-good PCs who should instead be chillin' with a six-pack of psi-cola...

"The Tao of Sloth----Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...In fact, Don't Sweat ANY of the Stuff."

Hey, I have an alien race whose god apparently likes to ...

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I agree with the assessment that the terms of continuing to do business with the CS as a neighbor was ' don't build anything that would threaten our control of the air'. Look what the CS did to IHA, which turned out the Grey Falcon AND the Air Castle, both of which posed threats to Coalition ...

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I've created a few. In the EShemarrian thread I've hinted at the emergence, through belief, of EShemarrian goddesses born from magic and technology.

There's also the non-human gods featured in the PFRPG book 'Gardens of the Gods', though the Palladium World gods may be localized(a fun campaign ...

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glitterboy2098 wrote: Wed Jun 18, 2025 6:50 pm so where did the ecology and especially the humans of twist 5 come from?

Digital gene banks and a space culture trying to re-terraform Earth? A faction of machines dedicated to environmental preservation and reconstruction?

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“Damn it, Tarker was supposed to bail out, not use the capsule to drop us a dancing girl!”
“A DEAD dancing girl that some other pirate killed...at least until he used his tech-wiz medkit to resurrect her.”
“Exactly! She can barely remember her name pre-skull facture, let alone tell us anything ...

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Well, time to get the magic researchers to work on a supersonic flight speed spell(though some would argue that the graduation would be Fly Like An Eagle/Winged Flight....then Teleportation(provided you know your destination).

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with a lot of the CCW's ships being built by the Wolfen, i tend to assume that their height is taken as the 'default' for things like ceiling height, and that the ship workstations just make use of either control panels and displays that can be adjusted in height, and/or seats that can be adjusted ...

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‘Fly-Traps’----Electronic Decoys
“Well, Farmer Joez, thanks to you letting us set up a decoy battery on the far end of your fields! With last night’s attack, after the hazmat boys finish sweeping for shrapnel and propellant residue, you now got a nice half-dozen small crater-ponds to use for ...

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Shorty Lickens wrote: Sat Jun 14, 2025 4:29 pm That sounds like a good reason to wear armor

And/Or get an Automatic Dodge advantage.

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PS-M/LAV81331 ‘Ona’ Security Vehicle
(aka ‘War-Wagoner’, ‘Rumble-Wagon’ , ‘Brush-firer’)
“This is a slab-sided paramilitary technical based on an offroad panel truck. Slab-sided, high profile, limited by what its wheels can carry it over. It’s been standardized, so the build-quality’s better than ...

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[quote=taalismn post_id=3161664 time=1749841633 user_id=5449
Your base values are correct. But I think they removed them from RUE and replaced it with the bonus SDC that each OCC gets.

I got rather confused when some of the mages didn't seem to get any bonus SDC, effectively making them tissue ...

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Okay, I'm having a senior moment...or a succession of them.....
While RUE lists SDC bonuses by individual OCCs, I cannot find the baseline for each class. All I've been able to find is the default 2d6+12 SDC for characters.
Nor can I find my 1st ed. copy for that matter.
Nor in the Ultimate Errata ...

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I am going to say the stupid thing out loud.

IMO the biggest issue with palladium "dreadnaughts" and ships in general is:
1 there are no "real" construction rules.
2 the powers that be (the people that "design" these things have no clue how these things should be built.

to use an example, I had ...

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"You can live well of the land, horrors at night keeping the children awake are nothing new. Its been long enough though for every one of us to know that our time is draining away... Only for the horrors of flesh and sinew to take over our domain."

Hell...I'm growing thermite apples. Or tactical ...

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Magic Base Enhancements(Biotech)
“Okay, we know that psychic energy potentials seem to be endurance-based, if you’re going the conservative route. That also seems to be the healthiest route, since it encourages magic-users to maintain good physical tone. So why aren’t we encountering more mages ...

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dethbegins wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 4:06 am goes well with the new Horrors left behind by tormentor hatchlings

"You can have a whole new world of abundance and resources....but you have to share it with THIS."

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Mmmm...future terraforming organisms and colony fodder....

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Warshield73 wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 8:22 pm Is that in Hades or Dyval?

That may explain why I keep looking in the wrong places for the old file...

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Wouldn't it be more of a Sentinels situation? Kill all the mutants but they kill humans too?

Not INTENTIONALLY....welll, okay, long term they accidentally extinct 'pure' humans because without mutation and fresh DNA, and probably lowering standard of what counts as a 'mutation', 'pure' humans ...

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Eww.....Now I'm thinking of a 'Home Depot' for the Cambridge Jungle in my Rifts'verse.
Thanks!

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Eldritch Abominations tend to be freaking huge.

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thorr-kan wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:30 pm I'll admit, them being the source of the machine problems in various twists had occurred to me. But I can't come up with any elegant way to do it.

They try a Skynet....

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That reminds me...I gotta get back to my Kittani-built Demon Planet-Slayer Cannon Ship. It's languished for over 12 years in WIP hell...

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The irony would be if the human purists decided to go transhuman and started transforming Venus into computronium to support their uploaded consciousnesses.
Maybe as a way of escaping the corruption of human flesh by rampant mutagens they couldn't keep out of their environment.

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Space Opera: it's not enough to have battleships, you have to have dreadnoughts, then SUPER-dreadnoughts, then super-DUPER-dreadnoughts, until you go through mobile planets(Lensmen arms race!!!!!) and start throwing galaxies around. .
It's almost like Potlatch; you show how powerful you are ...

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Heh heh, GM discretion, but without doing spell modification or adjusting PPE levels or accounting for the TW's level, I'd say utility grade mystery meat... kinda like what you'd find inside a discount brand hotdog, but in this case perhaps a shade more grey... still, it would be fat and protein ...

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Given how the original sketches for the Sentinels showed a very oddball assortment, including some outright insectoid types, some of the bug-types from Aliens Unlimited would fit right in.

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Write ups on the Nightlands or Shadow dimensions indicate that instances of them may exist in parallel with other dimensions, suggesting that for any given dimension there is a series of parallel dimensions that have certain properties. Leaving one to wonder what a Rifts Earth Nightlands looks ...

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I'm kind of serious about this. In game what beings can actually create a dimension and how much control do they have with its characteristics? I mean I assume the Old Ones could but clearly most Supernatural Intelligences can't.

Well, if we include Nightspawn and the Dreamstream, I believe ...

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Warshield73 wrote: Wed Jun 04, 2025 4:46 pm Always possible, although in terms of the game mechanics which beings can actually create a dimension is kind of up in the air.

There's a rumor they're called GMs....

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It's almost s if there's some intelligence behind the scenes cherrypicking what works and what doesn't....

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Hey, we hold certain types of people in reverence and still can treat then like dirt. The Splugorth may be just as varied in their degree of loving reverence.
But I agree with Warshield...A visiting dragon with connections may get the benefit of the doubt, but behind the scenes, if they don't have ...

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The thing is plasma cartridge weapons have no separate power source. You would think they would need an e-clip to power it but they don't have one. Add to the in WB 11 CS War Campaign pg. 64 it describes a trap you can build with a plasma cartridge where just the pressure of stepping on it ...

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Ice Dragon wrote: Tue Jun 03, 2025 6:18 am I do not see dragons as minions of the Splugorth, yes evil one will work for a Splugorth, good ones maybe be kept as slaves or killed.

"I will hug him, squeeze him, and call him George!"

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Oh good, so my zippo lighter should work just fine?
The spark isn't so much a current as a friction effect, lasting long enough to ignite the fuel vapor.

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For Naruni Plasma Cartridges? I'd say NO....the chemical reaction may produce the gas medium that transitions into plasma, but containing and directing the plasma is going to require an electrical charge....in addition to the electrical current that triggers the cartridge.

I've always figured the ...

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Look up Virgil.

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PS/ASI-LRV20 ‘Paneshi ’ Light Recon Vehicle
(aka ‘Blender-Wagon’, ‘Wardove’, ‘Pipitshi’, ‘Kabotar’, ‘Kabby’)
“There’s been lots of efforts to create practical ‘convertiplanes’ or ‘roadables’ on low-tech worlds, but few have panned out. By the time the technology gets to the point that they’re ...

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Well, Prosek is virtually "I am the State!"

Though the impression I get is he's less adored as a messianic figure and more as the recognized strongman who knows what to get done and who to order to get it done.

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The 'Evangelist' character of any religion (that doesn't expressly forbid such activity) is a good recurring hero/villain, depending on whether they are true altruists, crusaders, deceivers, or conmen. And encountering a known villain/snake-oil salesman again can be a problem for PCs, especially if ...

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Well, I was creating an NPC priestess of Ippotomi, who in my worldliness is seeking to expand her influence off the Palladium Fantasy World.

But I should also look to include a 'granted Priest powers' to the various minor(and alien) gods/goddesses' write-ups I off and on work on.

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