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Scooter the Outlaw

The Rolling Thunder Combat Truck has a minelayer. It is awesome. I thought I'd throw that out. That vehicle is incredible for the price... and the minelayer gives it a nice backup weapon for escaping, not to mention just making minefields.

Otherwise, mines can be a lot of fun. You can use them as ...

Scooter the Outlaw

I have dealt with them, both as an enemy I throw at a group, as a player in my game, and a member of a party I played with. In my experience, they are insanely dangerous if not handled quickly at medium ranges provided they are sporting decent hardware (dual pump pistols, or a Big Bore Six Shooter ...

Scooter the Outlaw

Well, I haven't played in a long time, but in our old (outrageous) game, we used the Macross to fist-fight a giant dragon-god-type-thingie in downtown Tokyo. It was awesome!

Scooter the Outlaw

An anti-tank weapon is an anti-tank weapon. Like a Fire-Breather, or a heavy rail gun. A pistol is a sidearm. A back-up.
If a pistol is now an anti-tank weapon, then MDC is more broke than Automatic Dodge in N&SS.

I find it a lot harder to believe that someday a man will be able to punch ...

Scooter the Outlaw

While this has been thrilling, in the end, I still think magic itself is still too powerful, and unbalanced in it's current state.

It's power comes from it's diversity and speed at which it can be done, along with a LLW's (and mages in general) ability to use nearly any tech weapondry at the same ...

Scooter the Outlaw

Killer Cyborg wrote:They're like a gaybasher who hates gays in part because he really is one.

Game, set, match. Best thing I've read all day.

Chalk one up for Killer Cyborg.

Scooter the Outlaw

My condolences, especially to family and close friends.

Scooter the Outlaw

Interestingly enough, this is one of the ONLY excesses my players didn't decide was a great idea to indulge in when they were in Atlantis.

One of my players was a slave, so he would occasionally buy slaves to free them. One ended up sticking with him and serving as a squire. That's as close as my ...

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I agree with Dark Brandon (at least, his initial post). Men at Arms should be better men at arms than mages. I'm fine with the two being relatively balanced combat-wise (for example, I have no problem with a mage being able to defeat a headhunter), but this should be done in different ways. Men at ...

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Lord Cherico wrote:Im surprised no ones mentioned the astral transferance power.

Chalk one up for the Mind Melter...

Scooter the Outlaw

Those dogs are almost as tough as Manitoba Saskatchewan. Not quite... but in a few years, maybe they could beat him.

Scooter the Outlaw

What's wrong with Nega-Psychics? I don't see anybody complaining about Psi-Stalkers (other than the HP to MDC thing in RUE). It's the same concept. Over time, repeated exposure to supernatural, magic and psychic threats has triggered an evolutionary response for dealing with these problems. It's an ...

Scooter the Outlaw

#81: Battered and sun-faded poster from the movie 'Double Team', starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman. The poster is the double-sided one with both taglines.

When help up to a light, there is a map that appears... which leads the group to a location hidden somewhere in the American ...

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Josh Sinsapaugh wrote:John Travolta and Alivia Newton-John singing assine songs for all eternity.

And they're both M.D.C.

~ Josh

I'm going to have to support Killer Cyborg's idea for an empty Greece, if for no other reason to provide another voice against this idea coming anywhere near realization.

Scooter the Outlaw

Nekira Sudacne wrote:With Invunerability, Supernatural Strength, Extrodanary PP, Healing Factor, and Clock Manipulation?

It was all cool until you added that last power... then you went too far. Munchkin.

Scooter the Outlaw

This is why I loved Australia so much. It really gave you a feeling for the setting, as opposed to giving you a vauge idea of the setting and then throwing thirty pages of different power armor models at you. It gave a reasonable outline of the tech-cities (without over-mapping them) and rovided a ...

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I think Starship Troopers (book) Gave the best discription of how Power Armor works.

This is how I always imagined it also. There's also probably the occasional button, switch, and other control elements here and there (inside forearm panels, and the like), but for the most part the controls ...

Scooter the Outlaw

That would be hillarious CS on a 'Wildlife Refuge' type planet in the UWW where it seems like everything is primative. They start attacking the privative D-bees and are annihilated by the 'Zoo keepers' as pests. see there you go with some lame reply i figure the coalition troops would round a tribe ...

Scooter the Outlaw

Nesting like that is unplesant, could we please put the brakes on that? This is a pretty interesting thread.

Scooter the Outlaw

I am glad they dropped the old burst rules. I think it balances the game much better.

I completely disagree.
Nothing balances the game like fully automatic laserfire.
Even Glitterboys had to think twice about who they ticked off.

Definitely... firing single shots and pulses from energy ...

Scooter the Outlaw

I imagine a lot of the time, CS boot camp isn't really 'boot camp' so much as a conscription service. It's mass-production training, and in times like the Tolkeen war, it seems like all that's needed is bodies to move armor in front of mages. "Here's how the CP-40 works, here's how your armor fits ...

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Well, I tend to more or less assign those things somewhat arbitrarily. This is kind of a neat system, but most of all, I found the repeated use of 'half assed', like it was a quantifiable or scientific term of measurement, to be a good chuckle.

But there are probably other things involved in a ...

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There's a reason I try to make up everything my players go up against myself. No "I knows what this does from the books" smugness...

Alternatively, you can just blatantly change something from the books as you please... just to keep people off guard.

Scooter the Outlaw

(well-put post)

Most definitely true.

As for the EXP system, I find it is a bit sketchy in a lot of places (like the fact that it obviously is skewed towards good characters), so I don't really use it anymore and just go with my gut. "<player> made a profound, in-character revalation. That's ...

Scooter the Outlaw

I try to make people use D8 and D12 all the time. If I'm making up items or weapons, you can bet D8/12 will likely be involved. D12 is also something of a joke in our game ('the forsaken die'), so whenever you need to roll random times or other miscellaneous stuff, I say "...roll D12!" with a grin ...

Scooter the Outlaw

Manitoba Saskatchewan. The toughest thing in the megaverse! If those stupid Old Ones try and give him any static, he'll totally just punch them real hard and they'll fold up like an old wallet. The CS as a whole? Please. He can just shoot them with his guns. Lord of the Deep? He might as well hide ...

Scooter the Outlaw

At current, I'm trying to get a few weapons for my HU2 character 'Downforce'. Because one of her super powers is Sense Death & Destruction, she is incapable of killing people (seeing the blood on her own hands would drive her insane), and so has to devise techniques for dealing with them in ...

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Third, and maybe this is the one furthest out on the limb, but from watching some football players with tinted visors it occurred to me that it's much harder to read someone's expression when you can't see their eyes. Perhaps that could have something to do with the 'all-inclusive visor' motif ...

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Dr. Doom III wrote:FINISH THE WORLD!!!

The Australia books.

Huge must. Although I'd like to see them finish up North America first (a Northern Gun/Mantistique book would be especially nice), as a whole, deep in my heart I keep wishing that Australia II would magically appear on my bookstore shelf...

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Doesn't it say in CWC that 10% of the population is in the army? I remember it being around that page with the sweet picture of the Super SAMAS fighting that dragon... (I don't have my books here right now) on the other hand, I can't remember what happened five minutes ago, so it's quite possible ...

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The old armor (and vehicle) styles were ridiculous and ugly, IMO. Though I suppose the Spider Skull Walker incapacitating its opponents with laughter is a valid combat tactic...

The newer style is much, much better. Sleeker, sexier, less monstrous-looking (I mean, seriously, do you really want to ...

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We use exploding e-clips because it's fun and makes interesting improvised grenades, but then, my games have never been known for realism.

Scooter the Outlaw

I usually come up with a rough concept based on R.C.C. or O.C.C. and then pick one aspect of a person I know and exaggerate it, or of a fictional character and expand on it to transform it into the central theme of the character. Because of this, a lot of bit characters who were never intended to ...

Scooter the Outlaw

Rifts: Australia was described from three points of view; an outback explorer, an aboriginal, and a tech-city aerojock. It was great, provided three very interesting and different viewpoints on the subject matter, and made it much easier to imagine the whole of Australia's setting, as opposed to ...

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Just myself, but I spend a lot of time lurking and only post once every two days, maybe that. Mostly, it's because I've just started to think 'If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.' That and I don't feel the need to spam threads with 'Agreed' as a full post... that kind of ...

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Not Rifts, per se (sometime when I get my scanner back I'll do some of my Rifts pictures and post them here), but it's all I have right now... my Hu2 character, Downforce.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b336/SprigganScooter/Downforce2.jpg

Scooter the Outlaw

I also use the fragmentation missiles alot because they have a superior blast radius, allowing me to cook 4-5 guys at once. When you spray the missiles in a volley, you also create a long line of explosions that act as a makeshift smokescreen, which is nice. They also affect Invulnerable/Impervious ...

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You could try counting them as heavy machineguns under the original burst rules (Rifts, p. 34), only they fire even faster and can unload a "full clip burst/spray" in 1 attack. Hypothetical clip of 40 rounds.

Short Burst: four rounds, 2d4 MD
Long Burst: thirteen rounds, 1d4x5 MD
Full Clip: 40 ...

Scooter the Outlaw

I don't like having Commando thrown out like candy. The fact that Gunslingers can have it is somethig that would never pass in my games. They way I imagined it was an intensely trained, military-style martial art form that was only accessable in special forces programs, and even then, only the most ...

Scooter the Outlaw

Only...

1) Stuff from books I physically own.
2) Stuff I don't hate.
3) Stuff that won't be out of context for my game.
4) Stuff that is acceptable, rule-wise and gameplay wise, for the planned game.

Needless to say, I probably use less than ten percent of what's available.

Scooter the Outlaw

i find just roleplaying making a merc company is better than using any rules found in the books.

I also found the rules in the book rather limiting and prefer to just write down what I want a group to have access to, special characters (i.e. not red shirts) and the like. Especially if it's ...

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I was hoping that they'd flesh out the WP descriptions a bit more in RUE, or even have each weapon state what WP is needed for it.

Oh man, they should have been doing this from the beginning... weapons should list what W.P. is required to use it. Some weapons could have multiple possibilities ...

Scooter the Outlaw

I think there was a topic on this a while ago.

Anyway, Songjuicer, if you count them. They're the greatest. If you're not counting them, I'm going to have to go with the good old classic Juicer from the RMB.

Scooter the Outlaw

I don't like it, it's a good way to torment players.

We used to run Critial Failures with a D20 check after the initial Natural 1; the level of disaster the character was struck by ws dependent on the second roll. Over time, we realized it was leaving too much to chance, and didn't make much ...

Scooter the Outlaw

I like the "because it's the right thing to do" motivation. I also like the angry hero who doesn't have revenge in mind. Sometimes they just see so many bad people they decide its time to go put a stop to them, give them a taste of their own medicine.

Why I oughta!!!

These guys also make great ...

Scooter the Outlaw

Full conversion 'Borg! That way, I could stomp around acting all cold and aloof, and looking totally tough. Then, when approached by a member of the opposite sex for doing something completely awesome (like flexing), I'd be all, "No dice, I'm made of metal."

Seriously, though... I love 'Borgs ...

Scooter the Outlaw

The best books, overall, I would way were Rifts Australia, the Book of Magic, and the Game Master's Guide. I think the Australia book is fantastic, the best book in the Rifts line. Like others, I also really enjoyed the Canada book.

The worst books? I'd have to agree with Psyscape. It sucked. The ...

Scooter the Outlaw

Do they list Fury Beetle Armor? I've had quite a few mages using it and it's not half bad.

Scooter the Outlaw

Personally, I don't like pre-made NPCs, adventures, or even maps and locations. I like to do everything from scratch, because not only does that insure my familiarity with the material I'm GMing, but also assures a player won't pull something like, "No, this item is for sale here!" I love having my ...

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I very strongly dislike this, and certainly plan on not using it in my games. I really like Techno-Wizardry, and so do my players. It was one of the big reasons to pick a mage; you could use the stuff, and it's fantastic, especially when you're using high P.P.E. spells because it will cast things ...

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