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Can't wait to hear how this turns out. The more I think about it, I could really turn it into a whole campaign setting. Random additions I've been thinking of: * A local clan of disgruntled polar bears (perhaps they are eco-terrorists, blaming global warming for melting their territory or whatnot). ...

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I like Tor's observations. Perhaps I need to write up a "second edition" for the scenario, lol. The truth is, of course, that I just didn't think about most of those things at the time I wrote it up. I'm glad people still find my post/scenario idea interesting after so many years. I wonder...

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And there is absolutely NO excuse they could possibly have for it. On the totem of "things to do" this lists as a low priority. That is a plausible and reasonable excuse to me. It's not worth the 5-10-60 minutes it would take to post it. I don't think it has to do with book sales, as I've...

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Well, I was upset about this months ago. I think it is completely unprofessional of them not to have posted the errata by now. And there is absolutely NO excuse they could possibly have for it. I'm sticking with what I said before - no errata, no new purchases from me. It's the principle of the matt...

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I don't know... collectively, all four worthless groups could become a considerable world power. Actually I see it more like the U.N. I use Lazlo for that. In my campaign, Lazlo is the big power that wants to do good but spends all its time debating and never actually agrees enough on a course of a...

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I actually plan on answering this question in my campaign. I plant to take things a little further with a plot about a secret NORAD-type base where the president and other politicians were put in stasis back when the rifts emerged. So then there will be a combined "New America" force of th...

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That's really only true of a novice and /or bad writer. Even a fan of something can write for general audiences, it's just a matter of constructing a storyline that is understandable to all. The techie bits can generally be left unexplained, as well as some of the more "mystical" aspects ...

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The screenplay actually is in process, on draft 3 (may be in polish now, but that was the info I got as of nov. 2006). My only worry is that the film makers aren't Rifts fans and a bit of the spirit of the game may get lost in translation. The problem with using Rifts fans for writing, though, is t...

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The Rifts Conversion Book would work as well.

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Isn't it a bit late to do that after the Conversion book came out and we have a number of Wolfen in the Rifts books, including a whole galactic community of them? I'm confused why it would ever be a problem, anyways. Daredevil and Spider-Man showed up in hundreds of comics together and there was no...

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Palladium has stated in the past that they're trying to keep their intellectual properties somewhat separate, for licensing purposes. There's a large difference between "Palladium makes a highly questionable business decision not to do it" and "Palladium is legally prevented from doi...

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Blight wrote:The wolfen are properties of Palladium Fantasy thus cannot legally used in rifts...

Where did you get that info from?

All the trademarked stuff are properties of Palladium. It doesn't really matter what game line they are introduced in.

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Nice way to put it, Jeff. Actually, my name is "Josh". But then, this could be some kind of reference or in-joke I'm not getting. One conclusion I've drawn is that Palladium isn't serious about dealing with errata. I'm forced to consider something different - that it is, in fact, a delibe...

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p.s. - and don't think for a second that I have stopped hounding Wayne about errata. He says hes working on it and promises it soon. Thanks guys. See - here's the thing I don't get. What is there left to work on? Editing errata and posting it is, at most, a 15 min job. In the amount of time they've...

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I had to institute a ban on talking about World of Warcraft and other video games (like Neverwinter Nights) during the sessions. A few people in the group play, a few do not. The few that do not (including me) got really tired of hearing all the OOC chatter about it during the games. It was becoming...

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In my campaign world, Lazlo never does anything. Anything at all. I portray them as either being too spineless to actually do anything, or else locked in endless debate (like the old Star Wars Republic prior to Palpatine becoming chancellor). I even go so far as to suggest that Lazlo is actually the...

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Wayne is keeping it the .PDF format and sprucing it up a bit from what I sent him. That is all the info I have as of yet. I don't think I've ever seen spruced up errata before, usually its pretty cut and dry. I guess we'll just have to wait and see... It would be nice if it'd be up by the 10th, sin...

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I would suggest other people start doing the same. If Palladium loses enough sales, perhaps they will start listening. or maybe they will just stop making new material because no one is purchasing the material they already have out. That would be unfortunate, but it doesn't really change anything (...

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Well, this has gone on long enough for my tastes. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm not buying anything else from Palladium until the errata gets posted. They won't be getting one dime. Not one cent. I am a customer. I bought a product. And I expect to receive prompt customer service. Asking that ...

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So, still no errata up on the website, huh? I realize everyone is busy and all, but a lot of people have been waiting for this. Plus, it doesn't take any more time that it does to post one of Kevin's murmurs or a new press release (probably much less time - I don't see how it would take more than a ...

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Just to clarify: 600-800 is just the numerical average range of what I've given out so far. Everyone is awarded XP based on what they did that session, per the XP chart in the book. I only mentioned the session length because you can get a lot more done in a 6 hour session than a 3 hour one. I also ...

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Like the title says - how much XP per session do you guys usually give out (or get)?

In my game, I give an average of 600-800 XP per character for every 3 hour session (which are biweekly). I was just curious how much other people usually gave out.

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:shock: Uh... when does the cool factor ware off? I usually start my campaigns with the individuals in whatever location I think they should be and find reasons for them to have a common goal and a location they will all meet at without knowing (in character) that they will meet other... unless tha...

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Last session in my Rifts campaign, a couple of guys headed into the wastes. I was just going to use waste ghosts on them, but now I think I'll have poo-slinging waste monkeys attack them. And when they get in close, they'll find out they are vampire waste monkeys.

Muh hah ha...

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Read my actual play thread (linked in my sig). OK, that's a shameless plug - but seriously, I've had a couple dozen people tell me they got inspired to do their own Rifts games after reading it. I think a lot of the reason is that I run Rifts as much more "sci-fi" and much less "zany&...

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Or perhaps the advances in Golden Age science lead to a much more secularized world in whch religious beliefs faded into obscurity? Alternatively, the new dark age could have plunged the majority of humanity back into something like paganism. As you travel the countryside, the small towns could be ...

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we should treat the game as is. With all the "gods" and demons walking around in there, we don't really need real world religions. Moreover, dealing with abortion is more a morality issue. I don't know about that. I can see it not being in the books, but religions are a large part of cult...

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I'm just going to have the CS in my game be associated with the "Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism" church.

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I completely disagree on this part. Cybernetics inclusion is in no way part of a cyberpunk subtext. Nothing in the main book or source book had anything to do with the cyberpunk feeling other than a listing of bionic implants or cybernetic limbs. Cyberpunk was about much more than just new body par...

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Then, Rifts changed along with its consumer base: after the fall of the Soviet Union the apocalypse became kitsch, western society was obsessed with aquisition, success: better, faster stronger. Ironically, I remember playing my Rifts game back in my high school days and having the August Coup bein...

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So I was watching Scrooged the other night, and was inspired by the fake TV movie, "The Night the Reindeer Died" to create a wacky adventure for the old TMNT rules using terrorists attacking Santa's workshop, and it being defended by mutant ninja reindeer. Here's what I came up with: Assau...

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darkmax wrote:Localized pronunciation... That's a mighty good idea! It makes travelling fun.

Every region could have its own pronunciation of "Sinsapaugh", too.

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You could also use the XP table for robotics from HU2.

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Question - let's say the worst happens (for whatever reason) and only the first book (Delta Blues) is ever released. Will it be self-contained enough to enjoy by itself? Or will it feel somewhat incomplete like my Underseas, Australia, and China books? It would be contained (well, at least when com...

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Same here, although I use the two terms interchangeably, with Deevil being a cultural drift mispronounciation used out in the boonies. (So a Rogue Scholar would call them Devils, the Vagabond from Virginia would call them Deevils). Huh - never thought of that. That's a pretty good idea. I can defin...

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Question - let's say the worst happens (for whatever reason) and only the first book (Delta Blues) is ever released. Will it be self-contained enough to enjoy by itself? Or will it feel somewhat incomplete like my Underseas, Australia, and China books? I'm trying to decide whether it makes more sens...

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Hades and Dyval (I still liked it better under the original name given in Palladium Fantasy 1st ed, though) and see how it goes from there. Me too. I liked that the Deevils were originally "Devils," and that they were from "Hell." I can understand why Palladium felt that it was ...

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Well, I thought it was pretty common knowledge that SoT was no big commercial success. Kevin himself stated before (in a Rifter, IIRC) that distributors did not order as much of it as he was expecting, and I seriously doubt sales picked up as time went on. And while all books have some critique, SoT...

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So I see there's still no official word on when me might see the errata, even though it's almost a year since it was out.

Disappointing. Extremely disappointing.

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Just wanted to clarify (in case my original post wasn't clear) - I am the GM of the Rifts game. The rogue scholar is a character of one of the players - not a character of mine. What I'm looking for is ways to include the player's character in the happenings of the sessions to balance out with the m...

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OK, one of the PCs in my campaign is a rogue scholar (shameless plug - see my actual play thread link in my sig). I have a problem with the rogue scholar character - I rarely can think up anything interesting for her to do. In combats, all she can do is weakly fire her pistol. Outside of combat, all...

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Thinking about the still-possible Rob:UE, I got to thinking. It seems to me a lot of the shows had a lot of social interaction, including influence over others. A lot of other RPGs have been introducing "social combat" type systems recently. So I thought - maybe Rob:UE would be a good plac...

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I always thought that Recon would have been out sooner as a suppliment for N&SS or HU. But this is thread jacking and we need to get back to what Braden is cooking up for us What I was trying to get at in my post is that I'd like to see World Books for Recon: Modern (or Warpath) for different c...

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I definately see Warpath as taking the "niche" that Recon had - modern day action games against bad guys. Plus, Warpath has the advantage of not being as sensitive of a topic as Recon might have been. I'd like to see a main book about Law Enforcement agencies. And then a modernized Contemp...

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