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Tor

Getting back to the more available scrolls, does it talk anywhere about them being sensible as an active spell being cast?

Tor

OP asked about psi-swords, we're doing that, not seeing the hi-jack. Thanks for pointing out the text, didn't know about the difference. Nightbane Between the Shadows appears to resemble Rifts in lacking this text you've pointed out on HU2p313 and PF2p178. Figure I'll quote it exactly for analysis, ...

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Growing up SDC would only make you appreciate your super-status even more. So what if it hurts? Overcoming pain is manly! It's stupid for humans to embrace pain as it leads to self-destruction, but Sea Titans can bounce back so rapidly that they could cognitively embrace pain much easier. What most ...

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Maybe they're something like a haunting entity where the creature mirrors your memories/emotions really well, enough to fool people into thinking it is?

Tor

Isn't range simply for the distance you need to be to activate the power? The range is 'Touch' for Mentally Possess Others but that doesn't mean you need to keep touching the person's body to maintain the power, you can leave your body behind and move around in the new one once it's up. Same with Mi...

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I'm only thinking of their impulses in human terms... How a human would feel if they were MDC beings with supernatural strength and super-healing, immortal, immune to disease... I'd feel hella cocky. You know how insecurity and stuff can kill horniness? That would be much less of a problem for them ...

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One spell per melee tacit vs two spells per melee spoken implies that tacit casting takes twice as long as spoken casting. If you're comfortable with that, then it's trivial to apply to RUE casting times (left as an exercise for the reader). Since it doesn't explicitly say double the time, we could...

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The APM penalty is particularly interesting because instead of being maneuver-specific, it affects something inter-maneuver, the action total...

So if 2 Cyber-Knights teamed up on a SAMAS, would it be -4 actions? Or -6 from 3 knights?

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Silencing dart gun perhaps?

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I do have a sneaking suspicion that there might be something somewhere about armor and sensing and stuff... blah. On the issue of what dragons might do though, D&Gp9: enjoy associating with other beings, particularly humans .. develop their sense of ethic, loves, likes and dislikes from their as...

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They're such good ammo but so hard to think of world domination antics when there's no cost-in time-to-make to base logistics on.

Tor

You didn't point out anything, you made an unsupported claim. I had 3 books call it that, my opinion's the supported one. So far we're awaiting anything else being called SB5 or an official retraction of the numerical classification.

Tor

Skirting that, could hand out talismans of silence to a bunch of tiny people who go near your target and toss them, putting themselves at risk but not you.

Tor

If you gain enlightenment so that you reincarnate upon death, and are put into a coma by a zombie and survive so you switch to the Half-Living OCC, what would happen if you died? Half-Living all becomes zombies when they die so it's part of a larger question of what happens if you become a zombie......

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Why does giving them a new ability to make them more dangerous make more sense? Could easily just have Night Priests or evil Mirror Mages make portals.

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No, that isn't what I'm saying. There has simply been no development since the posting of those ads to indicate that it isn't still sourcebook 5. It was still called this when the current cover was advertised using the Rifts Vampires title, and it was not retracted. Apparently 6 years ago at m a Mik...

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Nope. But anyway, dragon wanting to copulate or not doesn't matter, they like to do other things to humans like eat them or rob them or torture them too, all things they could use their morphing beauty to lure humans away from town for fun for. This is why humans in Rifts Earth who knew about shapec...

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I bet a TW could create a silence-firing gun to extend the range.

Tor

Right, and Rifts Vampires was also called "Vampire Sourcebook". The thing is, the title wasn't changed, they just don't always include full titles on the covers. 'Sedition' being absent on SoT1 cover and 'Sourcebook 5' being absent on RV cover don't matter. The title wasn't changed because...

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The rear covers of Black Market, Lemuria, and Revised Vampire Kingdoms. these canon ads are the same ones that tell us that the next book in the pipe is some book that never materializes: Rifts Scotland, Rifts Lazlo, Rifts Zulu Nation, Rifts Australia Two, Rifts Japan Two, Into the Dreamtime, Rifts ...

Tor

PB attributes ability to charm crosses species until I'm specifically told otherwise. =/

Tor

I don't think you had establishes a context of simultaneity.

Plus you do take them at the same time, you just advance them separately

Tor

That sphere of silence thing isn't THAT high level.

Tor

Looking at page 17 of Dragons and Gods would make you think initially that you only knew how much experience it took to reach level 30 (40,000,001) but since we know where level 30 ends, we also know where level 31 begins (60,000,001) and that's just prime.

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By 'unlimited' I meant of what is available to you, as in not limited to casting by triple your maximum, not infinite PPE. The other PPE sources involved, basically, do you actually need to absorb them into your pool before you cast, which would limit your casting to your storage potential? Or do th...

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Conversion Book 1 says MDC beings heal 2D6 MDC per day unless otherwise indicated. This is all I can think of using for their base MDC. This is also the case for... (DB1) Wormwood Humans, Battle Saints/Orbs, Symbbiotes if the host lacks PPE, Life Force Batteries, Battler/Tick/Beetle Parasites (Worm/...

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I agree about the falling but if you vapourize their head/lungs that might prevent the yell.

Actually if the blast was big enough and you vapourized them entirely there'd be nothing to fall, it'd just mist

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I'd figure much of it stems from the fact that dragons will inevitably outlive the vast majority of humans/beings they encounter. So the number of dragons that actively seek to have sexual relations with fragile, short lived humans would be exceedingly small. If dragons can hold an attitude of huma...

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According to the Seige of Tolkeen book about CyberKnights, a PsiStalker can be a knight. But, I thought Stalkers were all of the same OCC. Is there an RCC that I missed? If so, can they be other OCCs as well? Also, as CyberKnighta can be Minor, Major, or even Master Psychics, can a Zapper, Burster,...

Tor

Indefensibility of richochet might be related to the angle of attack more than the surprise.

Kind of like in N&SS I think you can't parry a sweeper knockdown attack, you're limited to dodging it.

Tor

I always figured with PPE aid in rituals that it was like absorbing PPE from a ley line and still limited by the 3x base cap.

If PPE from ritual participants were treated as a pool to sum to that triple base to expand the range of casting then it'd explain more.

Tor

Is there anything about lasers defaulting to red unless indicated in weapons like blue-green lasers in Underseas? I figure in any color artwork it was probably red but it's be interesting if there was others.

*wonders if you can laser outside the visible spectrum*

Tor

Are there any rules for a means of actually constructing missiles? In terms of self-sufficiency there is an OCC or a magic spell which can be used to recharge e-clips, but I'm looking for a way besides buying them to actually just build a missile to replenish ones you use.

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at risk of repeating eliakon... World Book Atlantis clearly states any and all freedom the Kitanni have is an illusion. Ergo, they are not free. Ergo, they fit the definition of a slave. Wrong, page 18 does not say 'any and all'. It merely says 'freedom within' which might refer to some aspect of fr...

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As much as I would like the idea of environmentally sealed armor protecting mages and supernatural beings from Psi-Stalker and Psi-Hound sensing, it seems like a controversial idea to introduce, probably worth proposing that claim on its own. Even though I'm not sure I agree with you, I'd be willing...

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As OP, I don't mind if you bring it up, and do not consider it jacking. If it were a case of the cover being changed I'd probably agree, but it called it SB5 even when advertising that cover which did not display it. This established it was acceptable to call it that even if the cover didn't display...

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I don't understand how a "sizzling "ssswhack" sound" is "completely" silent though. I guess the laser beam itself is silent but the gun/clip creating it or the burning it creates are noisy. Perhaps it does a sizzly ssswhack for MDC armor but a boomier thing for explodin...

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Where does it talk about Psi-sword emanating from a user?

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Ah I guess, probably forgot about doing that while waiting on other ideas.

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Advertisements are descriptions of books' contents, just as books' contents are. "Internal pages are canon" has some mysterious source that 'covers are canon' or 'ads are canon' doesn't?

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The experience tables are designed to tell you exactly how much experience you need to reach level 16. Even though it lacks a row, knowing the upper limit of 15 does this. So yeah, get there, enjoy the heightened skill/spell and utter lack of any benefit to your hand to hand abilities. As for changi...

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SolCannibal wrote:
Tor wrote:As long as DB9 comes with a bunch of witches and fallen cosmo knights, I'll be happy.

New OCCs variants or you mean just NPCs?

Just NPCs would be enough, although I always like new witch variants. A variety of fallens showing how the class works would be good.

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3 laminated color ads, canon is canon. That said, I'll specify "Rifts Sourcebook Five" due to m also existing. We should probably do that for the first dozen Rifts World Books as well although I'm prone to dropping them and forgetting that PF/NB have WBs too. I did notice an E-Bay add refe...

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Dat borg rail gun hand in NGR that does exactly 2 MD per shot but has dice allowing you to roll odd amounts.

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Given that in N&SS when you body flip someone into someone else they take the same damage that's probably an okay precedent for the thrown object and target taking the dmg.

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Surprise attacks win initiative, although I'm a bit unsure if the first attack counts as part of the melee round or if you get a free attack and then begin it. It also can't be defended against except in weird cases like Juicers. I'm just not sure when attacks stop surprising. If nobody knows where ...

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A rule for vehicle-affixed weapons being a little less wild compared to handheld ones would definitely make sense, just not sure of where text supports it. All I can propose is we take "fire from" to mean a distinct thing from "fire with", if the turret is mounted on the vehicle ...

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Is anything else referred to as a sourcebook 5 in any official Palladium publication?

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RMBp11 mentions 'a hail of bullets' either coming from M-16 assault rifles or sub-machine guns. It mentions 'as many as 50' rounds hitting for about 300 SDC. This comes from 30 rebel bandits though so this 'hail' might be from more than 1 gun. RMBp244 lists only as much as a 30 round clip for the M1...

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Perhaps the targeting systems of PA allow radar to be used in lieu of direct sight? Like how some current day tech does? Nah... That makes too much sense. I recall there being artillery introduced and some mention of spotters, the Archons also fire missile-bombs using spotters, spotters and radar a...

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