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Qev

I just had a goofy thought about making a semi-pacifist Rifts character, and that made me wonder: are there stats for the MDC of the various man-portable MD weapons, ie. rifles etc? The idea was an (likey alien/DB) extremely strong and durable character who doesn't want to kill... so s/he wades thro...

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99% efficient is also ludicrous. the kind of things that get over 90% efficiency are devices which are designed to generate heat (thus making what would normally be wasted electricity released in the form of heat actually become useful), and transformers (which don't actually have a load, and thus ...

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if a laser uses X amount of energy to generate Y amount of energy output, the efficiency is Y/X, is it not? then if a polariton laser uses X/250 to generate Y output, the efficiency of the polariton laser would be Y/(X/250) so let's suppose, to get your 10-15% range, we go with values of 100 for X,...

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and yet the sentence before clearly states that they're predicting it to be more efficient than traditional lasers. you don't need to predict squat if you have experimental proof, particularly if it's by that large of a margin. far more of the article is spent discussing the differences compared to...

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on a side note, i suspect this system is actually only 250 times as efficient as other polariton lasers, not so much as compared to conventional lasers. why, you ask? This bit from the article seems to imply that this particular design is 250 times more efficient than a conventional GaAs laser: The...

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m So yeah, instead of using boring old population-inversion in a gain medium for your lasing fun, with all the attendant waste heat that produces, these blokes have come up with a better way. Two hundred and fifty times better, in fact. And it sounds like Star Trek. A polariton is a combination of a...

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I'm not sure why Macross is coming up at all in this discussion, since it's entirely irrelevant to how anything works in Robotech and/or Palladium. They're entirely separate canon. Er... not wishing to be rude, but is it possible you've forgotten about Palladium's Macross II RPG from the 90s? That'...

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I'm not sure why Macross is coming up at all in this discussion, since it's entirely irrelevant to how anything works in Robotech and/or Palladium. They're entirely separate canon. Anyway, there's one huge upside to fold drives in the 3G. A dangerously unreliable FTL drive of this nature should be e...

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Re: badBIOS, it's almost certainly either security researchers not doing their homework, or a hoax in poor taste. As Morbo would say, " BIOS DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! " Realistically speaking, hacking an opposing spaceship, especially remotely, would be... implausibly difficult, barring a fe...

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When it comes right down to it, the alien intelligences in Rifts are actually fairly petty and banal for vastly-intelligent immortal entities. "Let's conquer some planets, run a business conglomerate," really? Take something that's undying, more intelligent than entire worlds full of morta...

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The alien intelligences primarily described in Rifts are the good ones. You don't want to meet the evil ones.

Qev

*shrugs* Just take a thermal aeroshell with you when you fall out of orbit. It can do all the work dealing with re-entry (and, properly designed, it keeps you from tumbling until your limbs fly off), then once you're in the thicker bits of the atmosphere you can discard it and fall the rest of the w...

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Palladium's ruleset makes headshots waaaaaay to easy compared to IRL.

I love how the tailors have to use bandsaws to cut the material. That's some serious fabric.

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I still like my idea. Holy Poo-Poo! Holy Poo-Poo! C'mon, I at least see one inebriated Preacher on Rifts Earth trying it in desperation... This reminds me of a novel I read not that long ago, where gods' um... excretions (of whatever type) had various divine properties. Their solid waste apparently...

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The only rule in RPGs that really matters is Rule 0 - the GM overrules all. Otherwise you're implying that you must follow every rule in every published book of the game you have access to, because those are the rules. And Palladium has a lot of those, some of which are silly. Or you're implying th...

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The only rule in RPGs that really matters is Rule 0 - the GM overrules all. Otherwise you're implying that you must follow every rule in every published book of the game you have access to, because those are the rules. And Palladium has a lot of those, some of which are silly. The rules are there to...

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Rules lawyers are unpopular because role-playing games aren't about the rules.

Qev

taalismn wrote:Now imagine it on a plane.

Now imagine an insane cyberneticist has turned it into a plane.

Qev

Have your character's blood removed and replaced with a synthetic substitute. Soul drinking requires drawing the victim's blood, but it's not in their body, it's been sold from some blood bank someplace.

Qev

Line your armor with a paper armor undersuit that's been covered in silver runes. Rune weapon can no longer draw blood, problem solved.

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Magically modify your soul to become the Rune Weapon equivalent of malware. Someone's dumb enough to soul-drink you and you root their Rune Weapon and turn it against them. Job done.

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I wonder if anyone has ever made a rune-spoon. There's nothing uglier than a spoon wound.

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Other than rigged dice, I always seem to fall back on my trusty NG-57, so I guess that's my actual answer.

Qev

Galroth wrote:
Qev wrote:My friend's suspiciously-worn, high-rolling d20.

My friend has a green d20 we call the Dice of Doom. It only rolls high when he's GM'ing and has been the accidental death of more than a few characters.

Interesting; my friend's notorious d20 was also green. Coincidence??

Qev

My friend's suspiciously-worn, high-rolling d20.

Qev

Just throw an enchanted steak at the opponent. Job done.

Qev

Re: Telekinesis, "Objects thrown [with Telekinesis] would be equivalent to objects thrown by a physical hand." - RUE p 170

Re: Telekinesis (Super), no real information given.

Qev

1. 126 in realtime-years.
2. Probably offworld someplace in my cool Gleisner robot body.

3. Pretty good, being offworld.
4. Pssh, I'm already a robot.

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And here I was hoping this was a thread about gun-kata in Rifts.

I'd say anything that causes the character to make a major body movement would interrupt an aimed shot (eg. dodging, getting knocked back/over, whatever), but yeah that's total house rule territory.

Qev

Mutant porcupine with Mystic Object granted powers of APS: Metal, Immune to Magic, and Extraordinary ME. Our GM liked to gank us with ridiculously overpowered magic/psi opponents, so...

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Obviously, full-conversion borgs have an armature inside their frame which carries their organic parts, and this is configured to automatically move these parts around in order to dodge incoming phase-beamer fire. You might say they have wandering minds.

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Oh god here I come with physics again. Anyway if a continent the size of Atlantis popped into the ocean, displacing its total volume of water outward, there might not actually be much left of North America (edit: or Europe, or Africa, or the Mediterranean) other than bedrock. Such an event would gen...

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Oh, you could also construct a wormhole, accelerate one endpoint to as close to the speed of light as you can (faster is better) while riding along with it, and wait a while. Then jump into the wormhole, and you'll pop out of the 'stationary' one back at the time when it was first created (more or l...

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Icefalcon wrote:
Looonatic wrote:Bob..

You can't name a planet Bob.

Oh, so now you're the boss. You're the King of Bob.

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Or I suppose, if you want to do this on a budget, you could use a Rift to nip over to Vernor Vinge's Realtime universe and borrow a bobble generator...

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-sigh- the only reason I'm seeing people want to do the whole "4 arms" thing with the Quatoria is to munch out their PC even further with the paired weapons in two sets of arms AND the extra attack. Personally, I see this as being immature, and going against EVERYTHING that the Quatoria (...

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William Gibson, one 'b'.

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There are no projectile sniper weapons for the simple reason that Rifts does absolutely nothing to make non-energy weapons attractive in any way.

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Oh there was the one time we were being chased down a set of stairs by an angry lizard mage (who's home we kind of had just buglarized), and my weird shapeshifty character took on dragon form and waited beside the base of the stairs... and kind of uppercut him back the way he came. Oh, and an HU inv...

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Wouldn't a company that's gone through bankruptcy proceedings and no longer in operation have sold its assets in order to pay its creditors? It seems dubious to me that a company would be allowed to take an IP with it into oblivion. In a perfect world that is exactly what would happen. Well, what I...

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phase two. a borg world. earthlike high technology. partial conversions pilot power armor full conversions pilot robots. pretty obvious that magic doesnt exist on this planet. though the occasional partial conversion psionic does exist. i call this race The Raiders. warlike all citizens serve in th...

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Jay05 wrote:Just because something could work, doesn't necessarily mean it should. Wolfen borg with four arms? Fine. He's just not a Quatoria.

This is why you make the arms concealable. This isn't hard with PW tech.

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Actually, a supermassive black hole might be a better choice; it saves you having to shrink the planet down to miniature size before placing it in orbit. I shouldn't do maths late at night. I intended to use a 10 million solar mass black hole, which gives a much more feasible orbital altitude (above...

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Wouldn't a company that's gone through bankruptcy proceedings and no longer in operation have sold its assets in order to pay its creditors? It seems dubious to me that a company would be allowed to take an IP with it into oblivion.

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If they're colonists with a sense of humour, Heaviside Lair.

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If I've done my math right, you could put the planet in a ~44.5km (14.8km if measured from the event horizon) orbit around a 10 solar mass Schwarzschild black hole. This should give the planet a time dilation factor of close to three-quarters of a million relative to the rest of the universe, due so...

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I played a robotic, anthropomorphized orange, once?

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Oddest? Well the oddest had to be in D&D (so probably doesn't count) where we had, I'm pretty certain, representatives from every alignment except true neutral. As for Rifts... geez, there were a pair of CS mutant animals with their light attack hovercraft teamed up with a rag-tag bunch of drift...

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Pretty sure Palladium aren't the only folks who've done the 'crotch cannon' thing on robots. Gundam, Mazinger Z, Battletech... even AstroBoy had butt-guns.

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Um... Palladium made the Robotech RPG, remember? Both versions of which are positively overflowing with errors. This error, however, is not on the part of Palladium, but rather the hack known as Carl Macek, who couldn't be bothered to get a real translator when he localized the three series that ma...

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