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I'm at the warehouse, where is everybody else?

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Yep. Can't wait to meet him in person. Warwolf and I will be there in about 12 hours, give or take.

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Alpha 11 wrote:Flying in. Flight goes out at 5:05 am on Thur. Central.

Kamikazijoe's flight arrives at 8AM central..

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I leave in 8.5 hours! Hope to spend some time with the family and get more than four hours of sleep between now and then.. <goes back to packing>

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Ugh.. 45 minutes until I've worked 39 hours this week.. Plus the 40 hours I did last week without a day off between.. Home, bed, up to do laundry, bed. Up to spend some time with the family, bed. Up at 2AM Wednesday, and off to Michigan!

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I managed to knock out five pregens today before coming to work! only 19 left to go.. I have put together a .pdf of modular dungeon tiles I intend to print along with a 24x36 inch dungeon floor with a one-inch grid, so I can layout a dungeon crawl as the players get to it. Will be fun to try out the...

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I'm looking to get a few more commissions between now and next week so I can pay to print my minis, characters and a poster-sized dungeon floor with modular parts for the Open House. I've got some pre-made rooms, doors, walls, stairs, and I'm working on a set of furniture/treasure chests, etc.

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So I'm planning one of my adventures for the Open House and I find myself in need of a good Dungeon Map. To that end, I've put together a series of map tiles that will allow me to build the map as the players move through the adventure without revealing anything up ahead of them before it's time. Is...

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I do not build 3D models, and as such could only pay (the exorbitant) license fees for the models I use. The return on investment is unlikely to prove profitable.

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well, the engineering could be made pretty easy if you just make it a box with pictures on each side. obviously, more complicated would look better, but i think the main goal is more "reasonable approximation". i was thinking more along the lines of "how on earth would you make a spi...

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With the news about Savage RIFTS and it's ease of use with minis, I'm going to put some extra effort into getting the first 4 or 5 sets of RIFTS paper minis ready to go by the time it is released. I'll post updates here as I go.

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Shark_Force wrote:...the real trick is gonna come in doing vehicles, though...

Yeah.. papercraft engineering is a bit too far outside my wheelhouse..

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MadManMike...you should get cracking on designing RIFTS cardboard minis... Well, my sigpic is a preview of the Adventurers set; the Old-Style Deadboys set is ready, but I want to have a Magic/Psychic set and a set or two of Men at Arms done before we put them in the store.. After the Open House I s...

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MadManMike...you should get cracking on designing RIFTS cardboard minis... Well, my sigpic is a preview of the Adventurers set; the Old-Style Deadboys set is ready, but I want to have a Magic/Psychic set and a set or two of Men at Arms done before we put them in the store.. After the Open House I s...

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Chronicler wrote:Hey for the people that have played SW how heavily involved is the miniature side of things?

I'm very interested in the answer to this one as well...

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ffranceschi wrote:I have bought them all! Great work!

Thanks! More to come!

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I am finalizing the Bizantium Marines set now, possibly up this weekend.

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Ah, that's what I get for being too busy with a family of six and three jobs.

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The first Bizantium set will be Marines; two of each subgroup, with an additional two Skyriders as removable riders on a pair of Pegasus minis; I'm toying with the idea of throwing in a page laid out as multiples of each division so that you can do an army of each, but I'm loathe to sell duplicate m...

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..The Water Chanter does not have pilot: small boats, which is the skill required for kayaking as an O.C.C. skill... What Palladium Fantasy book did you find that skill in? Trick question, it's not in any Palladium Fantasy book because it's totally unnecessary.. Anyone with the ability to sit uprig...

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Thanks! You could always put together demo games for your local shops.. I've picked up a few players that way over the years.

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Hey! Who is this Jim Cross and why is he trying to one-up my Palladium Fantasy Game with his RIFTS game?!?!

maybe it's a case of great minds..

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There is no they, it's just me with input from Kev. I design the minis from concept to finished .pdf (with spell checking by Wayne at the end). Bizantium is going to be four sets of 14, then I'll probably finish up my three sets of Century Station minis and move back to my RIFTS paper minis. That fa...

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I'm with you, Dreamstreamer. I had RIFTS in my hands 3 days after it was released, and the first half dozen or so supplements just as quickly and I've ALWAYS scratched my head at this nonsense that Kevin somehow 'ruined' the flavor of the main book. That's all on the reader, not the guy who created...

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I'm with you, Dreamstreamer. I had RIFTS in my hands 3 days after it was released, and the first half dozen or so supplements just as quickly and I've ALWAYS scratched my head at this nonsense that Kevin somehow 'ruined' the flavor of the main book. That's all on the reader, not the guy who created ...

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Thanks! Tell all your friends!

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Again, it's a distant eventuality. Unless you want to commission a set that would later become an official release, Aliens Unlimited is not in the immediate plans; Here's an image I did of my last Aliens Unlimited group; the two big guys are random rolled races, but the other three are a Sorinam, a ...

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kaid wrote:Or wear a trench coat and yell FUEGO!

Ha!

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I don't think I'm familiar with that story, but I can attest to how awesome Jolly and Barbara are..

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Alright gaby, you win.. I don't have the time to work on making the minis for the market right now, but I can give you a preview of some of the art; here's a scale image I did last year when I was first putting some together for a game I had planned for GenCon.

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Had a wisdom tooth extracted last Monday and haven't had much focus through the pain since, but I was able to do a commission that will become a couple (or 3) sets of Heroes Unlimited Century Station minis.. Set one is Civilians, Set 2 is Cops; I'm thinking for Set 2 I'll add more uniforms and detec...

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There are several ortho and cut-away shots of ships I've designed in my Deviant Art Gallery Here, and I certainly have considered doing deck-plan sets for sale, but it's hard to make it a priority right now..

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Interesting note on the indoors or outdoors question is the air warlock version seems to indicate it works indoors as well as outdoors but the wizard/invocation magic version is outdoors only. Seemed pretty reasonable that air warlocks are simply better at this sort of magic. Uhm.. No. At least not...

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Not to mention that you still have to roll a successful strike to hit the target. Where do you get that idea? 1st edition only says "instant and line of sight", and 2nd Edition specifies "Saving Throw: None; it always hits unless one's opponent rolls a natural 20 or a modified 24 or ...

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Thank you Madmanmike! I think this is kind of fuzzy explained in the rule book. It should be more clearer. Myabe my bad not picking up 2 ed rule book yet. I will maybe stay with the damage input that I use today on spells. AR vs Damage. So if damage roll is above AR. Everything will go to Hit point...

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About Spell damage and AR. So what you say is that spell damage will never go on SDC, just directly to Hit points ? Of course you could add the Strike for Wizard, but how is the rule from the book interpret 1 ed. ? How do you determine if spell damage should go to SDC or Hit points ? As written the...

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I just want to say, the Game Master has a big job; they must build a story for the characters (albeit with the players help) and maintain tension/ a sense of danger without killing the characters .. Character deaths should be uncommon and heroic, not random because a high level mage one-shot killed ...

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As written it wouldn't matter, an automatic hit is an automatic hit. If the GM wanted to alter it, I'd say make a straight strike roll (maybe adding the mage's spell strength bonus the roll) to see if that beats the A.R... For me an instance like Call Lightning would essentially be an area affect at...

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Yes. There is SDC in first edition. But you cant count SDC as protection when damage is above AR. If damage is above AR all the damage will hit the hitpoints. So Armor will have no effect on the lightning from a 10th level wizard if the damage roll is above AR. Also, A Wizard can throw more than on...

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Here's a small preview of that map..

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I would think so, but I've not had the time to develop those too.. There are tons of modular mapping systems out there already though, take a look through the Paper miniatures section at DrivethruRPG.com.. Last year I did a commissioned map for a Beyond The Supernatural game ran at GenCon.. It was f...

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gaby wrote:Great,I hope they do Paper Miniatures of Phase world,s Occ and Rcc in 2015.

If time permits..

This was a prototype of a Seljuk mini I had at GenCon last year...

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...But for some reason, I see a lot of GMs insist that the PCs fight high MDC enemies because they want the PCs to have a "challenge," then complain that combat takes too long. This. The challenge doesn't have to be combat, and in fact the combat should be an after thought to the challeng...

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Set 5: O.C.C.s Female now available!

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Set 5 now available!

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I've contacted Wayne Breaux and sadly he won't be able to make it to the Open House, but I'm going to see if we can set up a skype conference for him to participate in a panel talk; maybe then we can get some serious push on the book..

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Set 4: Undead is now in the market; That gives a total of 104 Official Palladium Fantasy Paper Miniatures available at about .17 cents apiece!

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Set 4: Undead is now in the market; That gives a total of 104 Official Palladium Fantasy Paper Miniatures available at about 19 cents apiece!

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I filmed at the first Open House, a good portion of one of Carl's games I was in, and then the Monday after Kev have me and John a tour of the old warehouse and office.. I'll try to bring that DVD so people can view it if they want. It starts with the presentation of the print we all signed to Kev....

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I guess you guys don't have bonuses from magic items and things like spells and ward protections and miscellaneous things There's a simple rule to communication that's been lost here; if you don't say what you mean, you won't mean what you've said... Most classes rather get bonuses to pe so high th...

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