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Michael Barakofsky

I was at my local game store today working on setting things up for my recent appointment as a Megaversal Ambassador. Well I got into a conversation with one of the few other people that runs palladium games in my area. Personally I don't care for his style of running games as he has a habbit of hav...

Michael Barakofsky

I was at my local game store today working on setting things up for my recent appointment as a Megaversal Ambassador. Well I got into a conversation with one of the few other people that runs palladium games in my area. Personally I don't care for his style of running games as he has a habbit of hav...

Michael Barakofsky

There is a formula for determining MDC by location? Where? What book is it in? I have been looking for something like that for several years. Game Master Guide near the front of the robots section if I recall correctly. Its also mentioned in the book of conventional weapons (Again, if I recall corr...

Michael Barakofsky

Yes Carl that does help me on several points. Thank you.

Novastar thank you as well, I already came across your game demos earlier today and DLed them to take a look at, been kinda busy today though.

Michael Barakofsky

Snake Eyes wrote:So is determinig S.D.C. & Hit Points by location the same formula as the M.D.C. by location.......if not how did you do it

There is a formula for determining MDC by location? Where? What book is it in? I have been looking for something like that for several years.

Michael Barakofsky

Thank you Bill for the suggestions and advice on how to run, can you provide me a link to the pre-gens you mentioned for you and Akashic to make it easier for me to find them.

Michael Barakofsky

[b]What game line/product would you like to see the next of?: Dead Reign with quick ref zombie stats for each of the main zombie types. Really I would like to see a kit for each setting. I was thinking of doing this for a Dead Reign; but I was having trouble coming up with more useful tables since ...

Michael Barakofsky

Hello, I was just made an MA today on my birthday. I was wondering if the other MAs could give me some suggestions for running games. See I am an experienced GM and have been running games in Palladium systems for going on 20 years but I have next to no experience when it comes to convention style r...

Michael Barakofsky

What did you like about them?: Everything, haven't had a chance to use it yet but the Rifts one looks great. What would have been better?: Not sure about better but the borg worksheets give the borgs 2 left legs and no right ones. What game line/product would you like to see the next of?: Dead Reig...

Michael Barakofsky

Natural 20's have never happened to often in my games for it to really be a problem. Not saying it doesn't happen, but it is rare for us. If it's happening constantly for your GM, then your group is in trouble. Count your blessings while they last my friend. My GM has a D20 that buggers the law of ...

Michael Barakofsky

Man you people must lead pristine lives if when a book ships gets you all up in arms. 1) I am not up in arms I was just commenting on the release time frame needing to be updated. 2) Waiting on PB to get books out has been a full time carreer for me since the late 90's. I am still waiting on Mechan...

Michael Barakofsky

I have to agree with jaymz where the Rifter is concerned. However I also agree with Athos that the PB crew needs to refocus their efforts. It seems to me that Kevin trys to micro manage every little detail within the company. Please someone correct me if I am wrong about that. I believe Kevin needs ...

Michael Barakofsky

Maybe I am just nit picking here I don't know but I just read the latest weekly update from Palladium and the entry for Megaverse in Flames still reads as "Early 2013 Release" . Now as I understand it from what I have been reading the guys there at PB have done next to nothing to get this ...

Michael Barakofsky

I guess that I missed that Rockwolf was dropping the "natural" part of the rule, I appologize.

Michael Barakofsky

I also agree with the Michael Barakofsky, in dropping the "Natural" part of "Natural 17". A 17+ headshot is difficult enough with bonuses included. You get a 17 to hit iff you use the penalties from the Compendium of Contemporary weapon. The head, neck, eyes, ears, hands, feet a...

Michael Barakofsky

Icefalcon wrote:Apparently, the original manuscript was different and balanced. All of it was changed in editing.

So they were smoking banana peels then

Michael Barakofsky

My advice would be 1) drop the natural 17 no bonus applies to hitting zombies in the head rule. Make fighting zombies more like regular combat so the players don't get the "why bother even trying" mind set. I tried the rules as written my 1st game session of DR and after about an hour my p...

Michael Barakofsky

Palladium has rules for Starvation & Dehydration, Effects of Drinking Bad Water, Heat Exhaustion, Hypothermia & Exposure, Skill Penalties for different Environmental/Physical/Psychological Situations, Fatigue & Exhaustion, Sleep Deprivation, Common Illnesses… even Radiation Poisoning. I...

Michael Barakofsky

Aside from the various mutations that RE has DR can make a good RE campaign setting, though the rules governing combat especially making head shots on the zombies do need adjusting. I wonder if the Palladium gang were smoking banana peels or something when they wrote those rules.

Michael Barakofsky

Actually this is my first palladium game ever. (I am GM) As I have done some d&d and vampire (white wolf) I feel the rules are not as obvious and well explained in Dead Reign. (no offence) The % on skills confuse me since there is no good explanation for those in the book, I feel like I am watc...

Michael Barakofsky

Another rule we have is we vote at the end of the session on who was best roleplayer and best idea or combat person. Secret ballot of course and whoever wins each category get bonus xp for the session. Can be the same person and if there is a tie both get the bonus. It's secret though and I as dm c...

Michael Barakofsky

PS. Side question (Because no one improvises weapons like DR survivors), I want to make a cat-o-nine tails style whip out of a piece of pipe and broken lengths of Chain Saw chain. By that I mean using the whole chain, blade bits and connecting links still attached together, just no longer in a comp...

Michael Barakofsky

Sounds good so far, the random encounter tables also work fine given the random nature of a ZA setting. Will there be zeds, hostile humans, friendly humans or worse waiting around the next corner? You won't know until you look, and potentially get your face bit off.

Michael Barakofsky

I know it has been a while since my last post, sorry about that. My group finally decided that it was my turn to run today and wanted to do some more in my DR campaign so here are the results. Day 7, Sunday, the crew awakes to the smell of breakfast filling the HQ. Brodie dipped into the stores to m...

Michael Barakofsky

The Oh So Amazing Nate wrote:Your true love gave you 10 slouchers lurking and a thinker in the car trunk? What a no good #$#@$@ ! Guess who's "accidentally" getting left behind.

Well it sounded good at the time and it was all I could think of to give it a direct tie to DR. Hope you got a luagh out of it.

Michael Barakofsky

Hey, I wasn't attacking you. I was kind of playing advocate by picking apart peoples' plans to find the flaws. I am doing so by taking a neutral stance. I don't know any of the guys here on the board in real life except for a couple of the Freelancers and Killer Cyborg (and all of them I met recent...

Michael Barakofsky

Well since I never go anywhere without my pocket knife I would still have at least that 1 weapon. This is always one of the statement that make me from. "I never go anywhere without...". I used to say the same thing, that is until I took my first plane trip. I no longer say things like th...

Michael Barakofsky

Panomas wrote:Not to shabby-

Now if only the Palladium Staff would sing us a soundrack and post it on Youtube....

That would truely be something to see.

Michael Barakofsky

Well since I never go anywhere without my pocket knife I would still have at least that 1 weapon. I have even accidentally carried it into a government building once and it didn't set off the metal detector. I dont know what it is made of but I have had it since my 12th christmas, it was a gift from...

Michael Barakofsky

Well given its that time of year again my mind was trying to remember a few of my old time favorite songs and I got the recent Palladium news letter. In that letter I saw the header over the Dead Reign add "Tis the season" that got my mind working on corrupting a few songs. My friend found...

Michael Barakofsky

My survival knife (its empty as far as extra stuff goes & the compass cracked and lost its lubricant) and a roll of duck tape

Michael Barakofsky

What would you consider to be a minor, major, and great menace for awarding XP? A small party against even a group of equal or less number of normal zombies can seem pretty daunting with the party using up significant resources and damage taken. Same thing with a group of armed bandits if they have...

Michael Barakofsky

South Eastern corner of New Mexico, the Lea County area is where my campaign is set. Centered in Hobbs I made 90% of the population zombies because I am lazy and don't want to role up NPC stats more than I have to.

Michael Barakofsky

This should have been posted 2 weeks ago but our game session got interupted in the middle of a fight and so didn't get finished until this weekend. Day 5 begins with the crew sleeping from the fire fighting the night before. The down pour lightens up to a gentle rain by noon when most of the group ...

Michael Barakofsky

I just noticed there is 1 BIG house rule we are playing with that I failed to post in the begining of this thread, I appologize. I am treating the zombies kind of like reverse vampires. In the original Vampire Kingdoms book vampires have hit points but no SDC. My zombies have SDC and no hit points, ...

Michael Barakofsky

EDIT to add: Something else... you don't have to destroy the head to take a zombie out of combat. Doing so kills it permanently. However, if you reduce their main body SDC to zero (easier than headshots) and then deplete their hit points they still drop, until they begin to regenerate an hour later...

Michael Barakofsky

Exactly this. Heck you drive 20 miles down any highwayy and you're going to find a 'Construction zone" but anywhere they're building stuff will have them. And yes, you're 100% right that tanks aren't easy to find or just anywhere, but my logic was a sort of two tier thing. If it works for Tank...

Michael Barakofsky

You could get bulldozers (or other large construction vehicles) almost anywhere. They are found in many areas and the only obstacle is making sure they have the fuel to run. Exactly this. Heck you drive 20 miles down any highwayy and you're going to find a 'Construction zone" but anywhere they...

Michael Barakofsky

In my DR games, any natural strike roll of 17+ is a head shot. Why? Because the zombie genre is all about blowing up heads. And you can always just do called shots too if you don't trust the dice to save you. You know I wonder if its not a mistake in wording. In the original Vampire Kingdoms there ...

Michael Barakofsky

You could get bulldozers (or other large construction vehicles) almost anywhere. They are found in many areas and the only obstacle is making sure they have the fuel to run. Exactly this. Heck you drive 20 miles down any highwayy and you're going to find a 'Construction zone" but anywhere they...

Michael Barakofsky

Here it is as I promised, sorry again for all the hassles and bugs I have been having. Given all the extra zombie types in the 3 additional books that have come out since the main DR book I have taken the time between game sessions to refigure the surviving (if that is the word that can be used sinc...

Michael Barakofsky

To those who have read this thread I am happy to say that whatever the problem was with my computer seems to have corrected itself. I am happy to reprot that I plan to resume my posting of my DR campaign with tomorrows DR session (sadly it is the next session since the last chapter entry I made abov...

Michael Barakofsky

To all the fans I have made on this thread and those who have read it but not commented though liking it. I regret to inform you that due to some complication I dont understand I will no longer be posting on this thread. For some reason my home computer can no longer log in to the forums page, heck ...

Michael Barakofsky

awsome story i love it but i have to say the way u started the game was better. i know the pcs that had the mutations were overpowered compared to the none mutated ones. but u go me thinking of something like that where a pcs mutates but not in such a dramatic way. i took from the half living that ...

Michael Barakofsky

Love how you put the human equation in this episode. " The killing of the zombie startles Brodie and he pisses his pants as well." Just classic! Looking forward to your next episode. I am glad your enjoying how our DR game is going, thank you for the feedback and as soon as we have anothe...

Michael Barakofsky

The group decides that instead of cleaning the trailer at the HQ to go collect a power washer mounted on a trailer from a local car service station and head out to the home of an old long time friend who has a private well and clean the trailer there. At the service station while the semi trucks rem...

Michael Barakofsky

That evening as our growing group of heroes settle down from the days endeavors Jeff assigns a watch rotation to keep the HQ secure. Jeff at 2100 hours to 2230, Michael from 2230 to 000, Pam (one of the 2 police officers) from 000 to 0130, Silas (the other officer) from 0130 to 0300, Ruth from 0300 ...

Michael Barakofsky

This past weekends adventure finds our heroes in the fire station going down into the underground command center/bunker. The stairs leading down enter into the common/rec room. In a rather small broom closet they find one of the fire station attendants that had somehow been locked inside. The attend...

Michael Barakofsky

One can find decent machetes at any sporting goods store or wal-mart. All the machetes sold in the wal-mart by me are junk. I have owned 5 and destroyed all of them within the first few hours of using them to whack through the forrest of weeds behind my old house. The handle goes first in 3 to 7 sw...

Michael Barakofsky

You have 5 minutes to grab what you can...the zombies are slavering at your door...it's about to be torn open...grab what you can and run. Using what you actually have in your actual house as is. What do you grab? Guess I would have it kind of easy, I have moved so much over the last 10 years that ...

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