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I was stoked to hear about this series, especially as the first episode is "Sonna's Edge", which is almost Splicers territory. They took some quality stories by quality writers and gave them a good animated treatment. So far, I have not been disappointed. (I'm on the episode "Helping...

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"LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS" It's a new series on Netflix, kind of like "Black Mirror," but in the far future, and set mostly in space or on distant worlds. WARNING: It's absolutely NOT for children! (Language, Nudity, Sexuality, and Graphic Violence) Anyhow..... In the episode, "...

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Apparently, in the Holmes scenario, not a single one of the soldiers there were privates fresh out of boot camp with itchy trigger fingers, or people with psychological problems sustained from the previous, horrendous fight with the Tolkeenites which dumped them into Xiticix territory in the first ...

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The bugs don't always go crazy over it. During a challenge, the bugs will take their dead guy and leave. "Not a single death" is not something that the books say happened, nor something that the books would require to have happened. That's the point. They don't go crazy over the Death Sce...

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You're holding the CS soldiers to a higher standard than is necessary. The Xiticix Invasion book has a passage (quoted earlier in the thread, I'm not going to go searching for it now) that says that when a force is moving through their territory, they will sometimes send individual bugs down to fig...

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Argh, I just lost a longer post. Long story short, SoT books 5 and 6 sure make it sound like no soldiers fired off a shot; they talk about Holmes being an incredible leader: "Few leaders anywhere in the world could get their troops to trust in them so strongly that they would literally follow ...

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Well, about 100,000 of the CS were 'harvested'. A single human should be able to provide a meal for a dozen Xitixic, assuming they eat most of the organs as well as the flesh; why kill the rest of the herd, when you may want to eat them next week? Xiticix don't consume people that way. They use the...

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just to be clear, is there ANYTHING that suggests that the xiticix will let you punch or kick them, shoot their wings, destroy their gear, etc, and not immediately treat that as hostile activity and kill you? No, but it does say that they will kill you just for existing. Good one!! Xiticix Queen: &...

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The entire survival thing is a complete plot armored ^$# grab. The Xiticix book goes to pains to tell how suicidaly hard it is to move in bug territory with out being constantly attacked, and how it takes special skills and training and supplies to sneak around. it goes on at length about how the b...

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In one of the Sourcebooks centered around the Phase World sector of the Rifts Multiverse, there is a Hook/Line/Sinker involving a colony that has been overrun with vampires. The "exercise" requires the heroes to stay alive, for an extended period of time -assuming they even catch on to wh...

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In one of the Sourcebooks centered around the Phase World sector of the Rifts Multiverse, there is a Hook/Line/Sinker involving a colony that has been overrun with vampires. The "exercise" requires the heroes to stay alive, for an extended period of time -assuming they even catch on to wha...

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For what it is worth, I have run a game in which the players were allowed super abilities. I was persuaded by the group because they felt that the difficulty level was too high for their ability, and they needed a boost to help with survival. With reluctance I allowed them to pick: 1 minor power, a...

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Hunterrose wrote:What about something like APS: xxx but always on. A Zombified Metal Guy would be terrifying.

I'm still away from my books, and don't remember, but don't most Heroes Unlimited powers have to be consciously activated?

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Would zombified supers be too over the top, or just the right about of over the top? Dead Reign zombies are too stupid to use most powers. And powers you choose to give them, should be limited (by you) to ones which the living character had "on" constantly and which required no conscious ...

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The people who say C.J. brought in the power creep and that his S.A. books were over powered are clearly K.S. fanboys who back K.S. up in regards for their hate on C.J. Rifts is a power creep line. From the start Rifts had tons of power creep. Juicers in melee combat. Heavy cyborgs. Shifters. LL Wa...

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There should be no substantive difference between what an exploding bullet does whether it's made of normal materials or silver....... EXCEPT........ For those creatures who are supernaturally vulnerable to silver, the damage would automatically scale to match their durability -SDC damage against SD...

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The people who say C.J. brought in the power creep and that his S.A. books were over powered are clearly K.S. fanboys who back K.S. up in regards for their hate on C.J. Rifts is a power creep line. From the start Rifts had tons of power creep. Juicers in melee combat. Heavy cyborgs. Shifters. LL Wa...

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Demigods, Godlings, Norse Giants, Holy Terrors, Glitterboys, any Robot with a Gunner all these things predate South America books. That may be true......but some of the Carella handheld weapons packed more punch than a Glitterboy flechette, let alone heavy weaponry.... ...and this back in the time ...

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Yes they were considered Overpowered. Note the tense there. When SA1 and 2 came out, we didn't have 50+ Rifts books coming in at the 6th world book it was very overpowered for the time being. Also a great great Great number of people blately ignore the "If you're not in South America, there's ...

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cyberdon wrote:......

In earlier arguments going on in these Forums, Carella's works were often called the father of Power Creep in the Rifts books.

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Splicers: Think of it as what the setting of "The Terminator" would be if Skynet were smarter about killing off humans. And effectively invincible (unlike Skynet). And the ONLY reason why humans are still left alive in this setting, is because the enemy A.I. is so well constructed electro...

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This has made me think of a follow up question, how do vampires work in outer space, specifically closer to a star? Would they, say for instance, act like it's always daytime? Would they take damage from looking at a star through a space ship/stations view port? As per heros unlimited i think they ...

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Gurgoyles/Gargoyles supernatural creatures (albeit sub-demons) ? They and reproduce normally (birdlike w/ eggs) and I think probably have some kind of maximum lifespan, although it's probably worded 'average'... What's the point of having rules for a label that o...

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Has anyone come up with a clear definition between Creatures of Magic and Supernatural Creatures? Are all Supernatural Creatures evil? With rare exceptions, a Creature of Magic is a creature that has magical energies infused into its being, but which otherwise conforms to natural biological functio...

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I personally believe a live action movie is NOT the way to go at all with pretty much ANY of Palladium's properties. Rifts you NEED it to be anime to get the right feel The others can be more what we consider "regular" animation, or cgi (ala Star Wars Clone Wars and Rebels) to work. That;...

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Hello everyone! I'm writing a novel that I hope to publish through Palladium, but I need a title. There are two main protagonists, an ex-Harvester who ran off after having a moral rebirth, and an angel. Out of the two, the Harvester is the one that the story will mostly follow. Anyone got any ideas...

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I would point out to Kagashi and any other 'Rifts Movie Fatalist' that Hollywood makes the vast majority of its money -to the tune of billions and billions and billions of dollars -on sequels, remakes, and other versions of movies based on the principle of recycling ideas that have already been made...

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So....I've had a question bouncing around in my head off and on for several years, and I'm hoping that someone can shed some light on my query. Aberdeen, South Dakota (not Maryland, mind you). I have seen this small town of approximately 30,000 people on several maps throughout the various Rifts® b...

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I'll keep this as professional as possible, and I won't spam. I have received my Showdown + Battlecry + Wave 1 Add Ons and after putting together 9 figures...I quit. The product, in my opinion, is sub par. Without going into detail, the engineering of these pieces was hideous. So on that note, I am...

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The Four Horsemen in Christian Theology aren't actually evil, they're 'emissaries' of God sent to do His will --quite unlike the omni -cidal Greater Demons in Palladium who are so obsessed with death that they'd even kill bacteria if they could get their hands on them. Not necessarily unlike, I do ...

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Also.....has anyone heard about how former forum member Sentinel is doing these days IRL, years after his near-fatal motorcycle accident?

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Does anybody know about the lovably eccentric forum member Smiling_Bandit and what he's doing in real life? Cornholio_Prime -frequently makes these little side comments as an homage to The Smiling One; also, in coming back to this Thread he saw that the first post included a 2004 reply from Erick Wu...

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Well the thing to remember is that 'Palladium' angels/spirits of light need not, to have anything to do with 'christian' angels. Other than the 'old gods' in Pantheons, Palladium goes to pretty good length to not touch on 'real world' religions too terribly much. A policy I find smart and don't min...

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My apologies if this has been asked before. I haven't p&p rpg'd in years but still buy the Rifts books because I like the ideas, artwork, etc... Picked up Megaverse in Flames and I keep finding myself asking the same question. Where are the angels? Well, seraphim or whatever else they are calle...

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+1 on PDFs.....with caveats. First of all, many who oppose it seem to think whenever this is brought up that is an either or proposition. I am not in favour of that at all. I want my dead tree in my hands when I am at home thank you very much. I want both. That being said I would like to see it don...

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I have to say I am surprised no one has actually derided or criticized my podcasts yet truth be told. As for Tea? No. Coffee in most cases and on one occasion Coke Zero. I like to talk but generally speaking all my chatter is typed so I need to drink while doing the podcasts or my throat croaks etc...

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AzathothXy wrote:Just borrow Odin's spear.

Only kills 'lesser' Rune Weapons.

A hell of a power to have, but still doesn't destroy everything rune weapon-ish.

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1st ed PFRPG gives methods of destruction. It is given in the form of a list of possibilities that pc's would know in game. Kind of legends that may or may not be true. Iirc volcano was one of them, of course the cloud at the edge of the world was one. Properly speaking, those are more means of dis...

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I'm starting to wonder if you are poking fun or actually insulting me No Sir, I am actually enjoying your podcasts a great deal while having fun at your expense. You just sit tight, between the information in your podcasts and my use of 'artistic license' in giving the audience a tl;dr recap of you...

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ANY supposed weakness based on the rules of biology fails automatically against the supernaturally-animated zombies of the Dead Reign setting.

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Episode #3: "Hello folks, jaymz here again. In Episode Three, there will be more sipping of Tea (or is it something stronger?? ) as I go into the process of Character Creation but break it down so that even the newest game player can roll one up with ease. Also, in this episode I warn posers t...

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Oh and the best way to spell it out would be abowt and owt. Not the way that those words came from your lips. good sir. The closest that I can come to is "Ah-bee-aaay-owt" and "Ay-eee-owt," It was like hearing somebody combine the words 'About,' 'Abate, and 'A-Boot' all together...

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A conlang is a constructed language Like Klingon, Dothraki, the Navi's language, and a handful of others. Would you want one in the Rift's movie? No. I don't think, and have never thought, that so-called conlangs are all that useful, except to the most hardcore of the hardcore fan. Let them just ha...

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Episode #1: "Hello, and welcome to the first episode of The Palladium Files Podcast. My name is Jaymz, and I dare you to TRY and spell out in letters the way that I pronounce 'about' and 'out.' " Episode #2: "In this episode, there is much sipping of Tea, and much expectorating as I ...

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Only LRMs & Mulit-warheads are smart these days. Same RUE page as the other stuff. Is Guided and Smart the same thing? In the real world, the difference between the two might very well depend upon the guidance system. My offhand guess is that a 'guided' missile is sent on its way to the target ...

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What I want to know is:

How badass do you have to be before you can get the enemy to waste entire volleys of missiles at little ol' you?

Cornholio_Prime -just deducted 50 Geek Points from Zer0 Kay's lifetime total for using the word 'irregardless'

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On Page 37 in the Base book the rules under "Inflicting Damage to The Neck or Head" it states under point 2 that Roll Strike as Usual, Only this time DO NOT include ANY combined Bonuses to strike "NATURAL" die roll ONLY! and Point 4 Only a Natural die Roll (no Bonuses applied) o...

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Episode 5 is up I shall put your Podcasts into my Pod Player, and start listening to you from the beginning. Wish my ears luck!! What Cornholioprime expects to hear: Cornholioprime's Idea Of What Someone Named 'Jaymz' Should Sound Like --> <-- Cornholioprime's Ears What Cornholioprime will probably...

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Acid0philus wrote:The Republicans in old DC?

They have been mentioned significantly in the revised Sourcebook that has ARCHIE in it (the same one where the Frozen Hidden Army is revealed to Hagan Lonovich).

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Quick question about an "act of aggression or combat": Would planting/positioning explosives bring you out of invisibility? Would it make a difference if you were setting a timer or using a remote detonator once you get clear? What about placing mines or trip-wire grenades? The text behin...

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