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I'm from South Dakota (lived my whole life here actually) and this place may be as large as Manhattan but there are only 575 bunkers and each is 1800-2400 sq ft so 1.38 million sq feet and its not connected underground they are above ground independent quonset hut style storage bunkers. Stout constr...

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Thanks!

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I have been running an epic level LotD campaign on and off over the last 2 years and am approaching allowing the characters to reach Therendil and attempt to rouse the stagnant elves. Since there is like 117,000 elves there and I'm planning on make it take some real work (and therefore lots of time ...

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A mechanical system (Palladium, D20, the beloved or hated THAC0 from AD&D, etc.) is not meant to be a exact representation of reality. There comes a point where you have to have a concession to playability. If you are trying to fully emulate reality with an RPG you're not gonna have any fun. I'v...

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A round house kick doing as much damage as a claymore is a little hard to stomach. Weapon damages were fine for Palladium Fantasy when you only had hit points. Now that all settings have SDC, perhaps it's time to go through the ancient weapon chart and re-scale the damage ratings a bit. That is the...

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You wield 1 weapon, you attack with it. You can still make auto-parries. You wield 2 weapons, you attack with both. Suddenly you can't make auto-parries. Oh, but you can still dodge, and if you have an ability that lets you dodge without using an action, it's assumed you can use that as well. Perfe...

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Thanks a bunch!

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My GM back in the day used it on one of his NPCs and I don't think I've ever ran across it in a book. Is it listed anywhere as a physical skill or is it a special HtH? and what book(s) is(are) it in?

Thanks in advance!

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Good job. Would love to see your version of the details of the mountains. I know it's a lot of work but IMO it really does need its own map since most adventurers never make it past the mountains.

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Hotrod wrote:
Oh, for some tool that would let me word-search the published canon.

AMEN!

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I'm trying to come up with an icon concept for the City of Therendil; it's hard to think of a symbolic metaphor for a snobbish ivory tower culture that's failed its sworn duty. My best idea so far has been a sword stuck into a stone; they're useless, but they have the potential to be great again. G...

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Darkest heart is a forest of varying thickness, thinner in the west and thicker in the east. The dimensional weirdness of it is not conclusive; the descriptions are anecdotal and refer to explorers getting lost. It may simply be some of the underlying enchantments or high concentrations of supernat...

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Darkest heart is a forest of varying thickness, thinner in the west and thicker in the east. The dimensional weirdness of it is not conclusive; the descriptions are anecdotal and refer to explorers getting lost. It may simply be some of the underlying enchantments or high concentrations of supernat...

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I like the artistic aspect of you map. I would like more mountian detail, like in the source map. The main peaks visible and labeled, the hedgehog detailed as a cluster of equal peaks, etc. There is a lot of detail in that map and yours would be awesome if it had the mountains like that but depicted...

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Well, technically a light switch could exist in a Palladium World. If you wanted to punish someone with a long, flexible stick, but didn't want one that was very heavy or thick a light switch would be just the thing. -Vek "Not sure how that would help in a cave, though." Well played sir, ...

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I tell them they see darkness...They have entered a cave and are well enough away from the entrance and didn't light torches or anything. Player 1 "Feel for a light switch." me: "Your character has no idea what a light switch is, it's the equivalent to the middle ages, and this a cav...

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I tell them they see darkness...They have entered a cave and are well enough away from the entrance and didn't light torches or anything. Player 1 "Feel for a light switch." me: "Your character has no idea what a light switch is, it's the equivalent to the middle ages, and this a cav...

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SpiritInterface wrote:In the Palladium Monsters and Animals on page 121 is the Mummy Immortalus. According to the write up it is a person, often mage, who was turned into a type of undead while retaining its mind and magic.

This is the simplest by the book lich equivalent.

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Glistam wrote:I looked at the poll again for this topic and I was amused that there's still no-one who selected Water Warlock as the sole element. Poor Water!

Water sucks it really really sucks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcTrI6W8vIY

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Unless you want to shift power attack and other two action maneuvers up to three actions, kick seems unlikely to ever be used if you make it a two action option. That said if you want to make level 3 count for something make it an extra attack per melee that can ONLY be used in melee and ONLY to do...

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One other oddity about using head shots unless you are immobilizing them is on a lot of armors the head is the second most heavily armed part of the body and considered a smaller target. I tend to have better luck "disarming" pardon the pun my opponents. Being a Small target doesn't matte...

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One other oddity about using head shots unless you are immobilizing them is on a lot of armors the head is the second most heavily armed part of the body and considered a smaller target. I tend to have better luck "disarming" pardon the pun my opponents. Being a Small target doesn't matte...

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At 3BPA, I don't imagine there's going to be too much difference in available technology, just in technology availability. A good chunk of the higher-end stuff is pre-Rifts, so it exists, but a lot of the bigger players are smaller. There may also be some old big players who are now gone, and the v...

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So my campaign has a group of super-soldiers dropped from orbit to Rifts Earth at -3 P.A. (thats three years before the P.A. Calendar starts or 2283 A.D. of our calendar) and have only a vague idea of what level of tech should be around at that time. Obviously there are MD weapons and MDC armor to ...

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Take a Hawrk-ka RCC (Atlantis p75) which is completely immune to magic. Add the Maxi-Killer (aka Bio-Wizard Juicer augmentation) from Juicer Uprisings, p53. The combo is expressly permitted on JU p54, and you get a warrior with: - 4D4x10 plus 2D4x10+60 MDC (average of 210) - Additional natural armo...

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In the Kansas/Colorado area, it's going to be mostly up to you; there just aren't many canon references in that time frame. Bandito Arms (or an early version of it) 'may' exist, but no Area 51 tech (as they haven't found it yet). Pg 8 of Bionic Sourcebook says, "...throughout the devouring Dar...

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I thought Wilks Laser Technology was around. Let me check New West... Nope, not active yet. The Rogue Scientist Wallace John Wilk won't discover the South Dakota factory (which was spared during the cominc of the Rifts) until around 21 P.A. (24 years after your campaign is set). This is on page 203...

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Mr. Jays wrote:Triax was around, so some of its older equipment must have been

You are correct and thank you for the reference also! That said a detail I left out was that the group landed in what was west Kansas and is now in what was Colorado.

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You may want to take a gander at Rifts® Chaos Earth (specifically pages 50-94). It deals with pre-Rifts technology in a landscape set directly after the Apocalypse. Problem with that is that we are talking about a time almost 200 years after the apocalypse not in the few years directly following it...

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So my campaign has a group of super-soldiers dropped from orbit to Rifts Earth at -3 P.A. (thats three years before the P.A. Calendar starts or 2283 A.D. of our calendar) and have only a vague idea of what level of tech should be around at that time. Obviously there are MD weapons and MDC armor to b...

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Invisibility Simple+Aura of Death(renders heat sensing scopes useless) Invisibility Simple notwithstanding Aura of Death still surrounds you with a nimbus of flickering purplish black flame, and there is nothing in Invisibility Simple that will make that go away, so while you yourself may not be ab...

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but, lets look at it another way. so, according to the 1,000 car battery figure for e-clips, a single shot of a 30 round mag is 15MJ. that's about 3d6MD. the boom gun does 10x that, so a single shot delivers 150MJ? I ran that and it came up with like a 109kg round that travels at mach 5. haha...so,...

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Alrik Vas wrote:what's funny about this, is based of the Mach 5 speed and if we assume the GB travels 18.25 m/s if the recoil system is disengaged...it means the suit should weigh around 31 tons.

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Seriously? On a huge number of threads everyone seems to go on about how their characters all use headshots all the time to speed up combat, minimize risk, maximize salvage ect..... So my question is this? Do the NPCs in these games do the same things? It seems a lot like it is assumed that PCs get...

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Something is wrong. Either RUE is wrong, in many different places; or the one mention of a kick attack at level 3 reprinted from RBM is just a cut and paste error. Thats 99.9% likely the reason. That said if you want to make level 3 count for something make it an extra attack per melee that can ONL...

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Good luck getting it published and congratulations on completion of your hard work!

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A very significant improvement. but still slower than a turd out of Prosek's Imperial Exit...for an anti-armor round. Well lemme check on that. So assuming the armor really weighs in at 5400kg and gets tossed back at 18.25m/s that gives us 8.9927e+5 Joules (call that 900,000) Channel that into a 5k...

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well...not even 1md a slug, but there's 200 and max damage is 180. if you would allow 200 separate shooters wielding AK-47's to each fire one round (capable of a mere 6d6 SDC using Armor Piercing rounds) simultaneously and do 3d6x10 MD then it makes sense... if you treat them as the RAW indicate (a...

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Its pretty straight forward if you know the projectile's mass which we don't but we can make several calculations to get an idea. If you assume the 1.2 ton unit gets tossed back 30' in .5 sec thats 60'/sec as an impulse velocity. To make this math easier it is best to convert to metric as joules are...

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13eowulf wrote:Human Super-Powered-Vagabond Half-Wizard Sea-Inquisitor Absconder

because... reasons...

(totally never played one, too bronken, but completely legal if you accept the Absconder OCC, and if not remove it and completely book legal)

Where is the Absconder? I've not heard of it.

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If I HAD to pick it would be air or air/water.

Spoiler:

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We generally glossed over the nitty gritty of finding a fence (make at least 2 successful streetwise rolls) and the value was pretty poor most of the time if you wanted credits but it would double if you wanted merchandise. If you brought in a suit of "Bushman" armor worth 32,000 credits n...

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Is there any book reference as to exactly when Area 51 was discovered and by who specifically? The supersolders in my game were developed there (very black program) and since they failed to link up with anybody at NORAD (as it was totally empty) they plan on heading to Groom Lake next. I'm wonderin...

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having not read it, but knowing the basic details, it seems you have an opportunity to derail the rifts timeline. Yes that's the possibility, and the concern. Part of the reason I put them at the time prior to the PA calendar starting was to have less restriction in the course of events (and also h...

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Blastaar wrote:it is mentioned in world book 14 the new west and as well as the black market has more information on area 51

Thanks... now tell me something I don't know.

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Is there any book reference as to exactly when Area 51 was discovered and by who specifically? The supersolders in my game were developed there (very black program) and since they failed to link up with anybody at NORAD (as it was totally empty) they plan on heading to Groom Lake next. I'm wondering...

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Magical-Adrenal Rush Not so much a "combo" as a trick of the spell. Since it has no saving throw and fairly "bad" penalties once the spell wears off, consider a cast of this spell upon an opponent and then next action, the caster cancels the spell. Goodbye bonuses, hello penalti...

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Good suggestions all, keep them coming! I think the reason why he wants to steamroll combat is because he thinks (and I rather agree) that the combat system is slow. I mean a 30 second combat can easily take 30+ minutes, and a "boss" type combat that might take 1-2 minutes of in game time ...

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Looking over the summary of your games, it seems like there hasn't been a lot of action in the last few games. The Neuron Beast plot is interesting, but will take a little while to resolve. Without knowing any other specifics (such as what the player would find interesting) here's a couple of sugge...

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Is it an internet game? Is the game text only? Do you use skype for voice? For internet games, I used to hate skype because the best connection used to "step on" the others, but it has gotten much better than the old days. The best thing about skype I have found is that it is harder for p...

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