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Nikoli

How does mind block affect the familiar bond?
If these creatures dislike being away from their bond partner, how would they react to suddenly being cut off?
Or does the ritual create/maintain a back channel (like a VPN) between mage and familiar?
Would it also protect the familiar?

Nikoli

Do we have a guideline for crafting demo sets?

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DB6 pg 104 through 108 The personal scanning equipment These things are supposed to be one of the more common hand held tools for any tech/medic/science officer, etc. (think that nifty device from that show about trekking through the stars) They seem really handy, except the price tag. The baseline ...

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Jonarti Splitstone, Joey to his friends

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I have a new player in my rifts game (new to rifts, not rpg's). She's got a hatchling Royal Frilled Dragon who is about 30 days old. Before attacking she asks the Dragon Cat the Knight of the Rose has for a mount if such-and-such is tasty, if yes, she atacks with the party, if not she licks the near...

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I find it to be incredibly unnerving actually, and I love robots.
When the guy tried to knock it over I thought it was going to walk back and kick him.

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When I run, i put in time pre-game to outline some basic plots stuff, cover early guestimates on where and what the players will do for research once the ball is rolling and then set up the scene for them. The only game I run currently is a Shadowrun game online, the players are almost never talking...

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My feelings are that the garage probably has a large amount of parts and a good bead on getting more. The lone operator has to scrounge, beg, borrow, steal their parts. That's costs them cash. Also, their servies are highly specialized and mobile. I'd say that the ability as written is what it costs...

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You could go with a Free-born Dogboy Psi-slinger.
Start with psi-sword at 1st level and a bunch of nifty powers.

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Point of note, the RDF gear already has the benefits of "Glitter" technology. RDF armor standard reduces laser attacks by half, that includes the Veritechs.

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While you are right about US training. The CS is patterened moreso after early 40's traiing standards. You spend all day every day of your advanced training learning how to do one thing very well. Remember these guys don't have the benefit of the basic education that US soldiers have prior to enlist...

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Another reason why I love the Quatoria setup, full feeling should be easily attained with filters to turn off high damage overload.

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Can I ask a logic question here?

If outbound lasers are not blocked, why are outbound energy signature tells blocked?

If anything it should block your ability to use sensors as it disrupts inbound energy transmisisons.

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I agree, but I could find no errata on this. Good to see someone else thinkgs it's a little hinky

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Was just taking another look at this, my favorite cyborg OCC. They start with no spare clips for their weapons, no vehicle, no melee weapons (Wolfen are suppsoed to carry a ceremonial sword for settling matters of honor). Any thoughts?

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Tell HIM about the twinkie.

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Bandito Arms: We steal the guns so you don't have to. Golden age Industries: The Technology of Yesterday, killing your foes Today. Wilks: Bring some real focus to your problems. Wilks: Always on target for your needs. Titan Robotics: This combat may be recorded for your protection. Triax: Happiness ...

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Chipwell Armaments: Victory through Economics

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Forcefields contain them,
The CS has dealth with Psi-ghosts in the past and knows how to stop them I would imagine.

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"Crazies: Axe murderer or Mrs. Swanson? Only time will tell." "Chipwell Industries: Cheaper than your funeral." "If you can read this, shoot a Deadboy." Tattoos found on Crazies: "Face towards enemy" (back of the skull) "Warning: Contents under pressure!&...

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"Atlantis: Come for the Market, stay for the Warrior Women" "What's a little RIFTing between friends?" "Presek or Prosac, don't make me choose!" "That's not paranoia, it's just your 6th sense..." ""Chipwell Industries, Wanton destruction for only cre...

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Blinding Flash, flashbangs all day long baby Manipulate Objects, keep those pesky reloads at hand Leviation, a downed comrade is easily moved wihtout a stretcher Throwing Stones, inexpensive weapon for taking out soft (non-MDC armored) targets or weakening hard targets. Cleanse, a clean uniform can ...

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Well, in the fluff of the TA pyramids, they were built to control the ley lines and keep them from erupting randomly.

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The system appears to be down

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One of the permanent portals ont he "evil" millenium tree in Germany connects with Center, though not advised for all travelers.

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I like the idea of the Naruni Plasma Bullets, but how would they act without the bore of th weapon they were designed for to shape them? My first thought is that the energy would be more likely to blip away unfocused, sure the target would take a hit, but not as great a one as they might if the same...

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Well, of course in game mechanics that don't actually work due to those pesky laws of physics have to step in. Without them Gene Roddenbery would still be writing westerns. Look if a game designer could come up with enough real world science for everything in a sience fiction type game, they'd be on...

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I always thought of plasma weapons (the plasma based flame throwers as the exception) as using a "magnetic bottle" for projecting th e plasma over long distances. Basically the weapons creates a cohesive blast of magnetic energy, in the center is a hollow space that the designers trap the ...

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As far as writing down your spells for posterity, somce schools could require you to write down your more powerful (above 4th level) spells so that you enrich the school. Does this mean they know what you know and make you write it all down? No, but if a school member sees you cast something he neve...

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They need to errata the fluff text on LLW and LLR, it says they can learn more spells than anyone, but all the specialty casters can usually learn the invocations and the special school just for them. The LLW/R don't get that.

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I had been playing D&D with my high school buddies and they had a by invitation only Rifts game on the side. The GM heard about my play style and invited me, this from my first Rp experence ever. Sadly, they were power gamers, which not a bad thing, we all tend to go through it from time to time...

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Jonarti Splitstone (TA Ley Line Walker with Invulnerability Tatt) is trying to be a hero, but as he is currently facing tech based enemies. He has however put himself in harms way numerous times standing in the way of demons, not letting party members summarily execute cultists trying to summon a da...

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My main issue with the power is that in groups with skill based characters, the psychic can sort of lord over them all, at least until the ISP run out. I had players either complaining that their character wasn't special enough or that TM was too powerful, when they re-rolled as a psychic I almost b...

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Also, as a caster attains new power levels, their spell power increases topping out at 16 for everyone but the TW who tops out at 15. Unfortunately several classes get bonuses to resist spells and several options exist for upping the PE attribute. One way around that offset is to use spells that giv...

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Funny, I find the casters to be incredibly effective when used properly. Throwing Stones is one of the most economical uses of PPE of any spell in the game. 5 PPE, 2 Melee rounds, 1d6+1/level At 5th level you can hit 6 attacks per melee easily, so that's 11 rocks to be thrown with an average 88 MDC ...

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Which would explain the existence of Hide Psionics and Hide Magical Ability options through other psionic powers or magical spells.

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Chi-town or any Coalition fortress?

Nightbane with Ride the Lightning, enter through a power outlet and fry all the computers and the people using them...

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IIRC the traction drive is the fastest sub-luminal drive available, being able to reach .9C The Solar Sail is possibly a close second however when you get a certain distance, stars from other systems begin to interfere and the radiation from Sol (our star) becomes just barely more than useless. Sola...

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Leader of the [Dog]Pack - Shasta and the Barquettes
Too close to spell - Willie Maquette

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Given that only the vagabond starts play with candy and there is no given prices for the stuff, I'd say it's safe to assume the "Great Sugar Depression" has already come and the poor buggers starved to death, providing the nourishment to foster several dozen tribes of psi-stalkers who sadl...

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Well, they do all have tatts, at least 2 of them unless they were born in the Scrapers dimension. Personally, I think I'll put together an OCC more akin the Psychic Warrior from Psyscape, that meshes better with TA philosophy since they helped create the training regimine. It also has a better flavo...

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Quick question:
Given that the Sunaj have taken extreme measures to prevent the TA nation at large from finding out who they really are or that they even exist, how exactly did they develop a "Sunaj Hunter"?

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And they thought they had chiseled features before...

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And, in Scrapers there is an Atlantean clan that has Super Powers, but no tatts. They are a mutated genetic abberation in the pool.

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The basic jumpsuit is good in a pinch, should protect you against 90% of the crud whizzing through the cosmos if you find yourself outside. The Multi-tool doesn't need much in the way of upgrades, it is a nano-controlled tool. If it can't do it already, a short programming check later and it can now...

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CS barely trusts the psychics it has, at least it did prior to Psycape being printed and every psychic and his dog was allowed in. I see them using a Dog-pack to guard the gear, but not psi-stalkers and other psychics (never know when one is actually a psi-ghost). Then again, there are powers to cir...

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It also states that they dislike harming animals, and they have to cut their prey to feed. I don't see many doing it except as an emergency, preferred over a ley line. Remember though, there are thousands of supernatural creatures out there just itching to get hunted. Any given day you roll up on th...

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I like the UWW Space Marine Armor, nice blend of Tech and Magic.
I'd tack on a CG Pack, a Malkovich Death disk and a naruni stealth system.

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Actually, when you consider that every member of the race (barring those poor souls in Scrapers) has at their command a magical sword, I could see them developing a sword based fighting style. Of course the Sunaj have to either reject it or simply not train it. Don't make it a full MA but more like ...

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Well, with TA's they are technically mutant humans, so a TA called to the Forge would appear to be and act as a human.

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