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I agree with the previous post. I do think it should be a first level spell costing just 1or 2 PPE in a MD setting.

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Yes it provides protection after the other armor is gone. Yes the to hit roll needed to exceed the cyber armor’s AR but it is MD armor and MD armor can’t be bypassed by AR roll so despite what Palladium May have said about cyber armor you could go either way and have a rule to back you up. We play t...

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My thoughts: Replace Automobile Mechanics with Vehicular Armorer It has a cool ability to drive almost anything at the base skill level. Very appropriate for a dimension hopping character that had to steal vehicles then discard them to dimension jump. I have one RPA Elite as an OCC skill plus Demoli...

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Similar to another reply I would only allow use of individual parts of the Mountaineer as conduits unless the spell being cast was capable of affecting the whole vehicle and was being cast on the vehicle. If the weapon was mounted on a turret ring maybe with a small MDC gun shield like you see on so...

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Remember the tattoo creature has max stats for that type of creature.

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Even weirder: tattoos prevent their users from being transformed by any means. However, Chiang-Ku are master shape-shifters who use tattoo magic. Do their tattoos get hidden with their shape-shifting? Also weird: Chiang-Ku have some bizarre inhibition against using tattoo magic in Palladium Fantasy...

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Psi-Swords.....they are a physical attack. So...No, not immune. Psi-sword can be used to parry physical attacks. Unlike the 'so called' laser sword :roll: (which is a energy weapon) produced by Wilks. (More like a laser rod built to look like a sword hilt with a trigger that responds to an object m...

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We play each tattoo, no matter how many tattoos it represents are activated as a one tattoo. Example: Heart Encircled by Chains with a Broken Link counts as one tattoo toward the max six when activated, uses PPE equal to both tattoos, cannot be activated separately, counts as two tattoos for the pur...

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I checked some of the other tattooed OCCs and they get additional MDC per level. Tattooed OCCs got a power bump up in SotA.

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As long as they keep their Marks of Heritage covered they would be treated like any other Tattooed Man. There are plenty of Tattooed Man slaves in Atlantis.

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We have always played the source of the energy magical or technological does not matter. However we play force bolts penetrate as well as Mind Bolts. We also play ion beams do half damage because part of their damage is kinetic impact damage like bullets.

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I agree with Grazzik. The question of what crit range applies to thrown weapons is a hot topic.

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Yes Undead Slayers have a lot of weapon tats with max enhancements. Most people forget the rule from RUE that says you get your weapon damage or your supernatural strength damage. That means simple weapons with enhancements work great for undead slayers.

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Actually given Undead Slayers have Supernatural Strength they do not need a flaming weapon tat for vampire killing. A silver simple weapon tat is better for creatures like vamps who ate vulnerable to silver.

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Thanks I only have the revised Sourcebook 1.

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Anyone know of a write up or illustration of Col. Lyboc?

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16,000 car per carat on Rifts Earth or 1600 3G credits The cost of a Emerald (green) from the TW Gem table? I know it (and the slightly cheaper but more potent Diamond) can store PPE (10 for emerald, 20 for diamaond), and PPE converts at 1PPE = 2ISP. Are you using some type of ratio of Emeralds (or...

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I love the setting but like many have a lot of house rules, note ably around magic. I am working on a couple of my favorite Rifts short stories linking the Rifts specific terms to explanations and graphics if available of the terms. I showed my GM the linked Wizards Duel from the Treacherous Awakeni...

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Love it! In our campaign Joseph II was exposed to the Orb of Soleman causing a similar change of events although Karl was not assasinated.

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An Operator could also build something to convert/connect the Naruni clip to a rechardging source. I agree. Phase World book page 142 says 3G E-clips are not directly compatible with Rifts equipment and need to be altered slightly which adds 150 cr to the price of the 3G E-clip bring the E-clip’s t...

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Like so many things in Phase World/Three Galaxies we just don't have enough information to make a reasonable judgement. For factors driving up the cost of the raw crystals we have, at least, two considerations: 1 - is the rarity you already mentioned 2 - Only psychics can detect them. This will lim...

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AceTW wrote:Chaos Earth: P.P. always matters.
Rifts UE: P.P. is just for punching and cutting, not for shooting.

Chaos Earth page 149 “Character P.P. Bonuses do NOT count when shooting an automatic weapon, rail gun, shotgun, energy weapon or any modern weapon.”

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Page 152 Lone Star has the full page depiction of ‘PETUNIA’ the Modified Mountaineer ATV from Machinations of Doom Graphic Sourcebook. PETUNIA’s stats and a smaller depiction are on page 94 of Machinations of Doom.

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No rule against it I know of. Personally I only allow a MDC flight suit/jump suit inside power armor. Obviously you can’t wear a helmet inside of most power armor helmets.

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We have always played the tattoo monsters have max stats.

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Definitely as a barrier. I would allow a Dodge of 16 or higher to avoid being entrapped by one, same as Magic Net.

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Interesting discussions. I would say changing the missile firing order from a default order would take an extra attack unless the robot had multiple launch buttons that could be programmed for specific mixes or voice control. I think it would depend on the sophistication of the robot.

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The flying combat examples or ambushes are fairly common in our campaign. If you have ever been hit by a big missile volley having a long range weapon so you can get maybe two shots at it instead of one is huge. Have a Cyber Knight in our game who never uses ranged weapons although he uses power arm...

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I got a pdf from https://www.drivethrurpg.com . I am enjoying it although I only play Rifts so the adventures and background material from PF and HU aren’t of much interest. I did enjoy the Rifts Disavowed novella a lot. The artwork in the Rifts story was not as clear as it could have been which is ...

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[ Mt Rainer, Mt Baker, Mt Hood and possibly Mt St Helens would have blown as every volcano in the Pacific Ring of Fire blew during the Great Cataclysm. Which Boeing plant are you referring to? I have always pictured the Boeing Everret plant with a huge wall around it patrolled by robotic vehicles. ...

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I've mentioned in the GNEverse that Seattle is part of Paladin Steel West, though much of the region got wrecked by volcanic ash drift and mudslides when Mt. Saint Helens blew its stack again. The Boeing Works are buried and later mined for data by the tech enclave that set up shop later. I've also...

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There is no real hard and fast rules or formulae, just a starting point for the GM to eyeball a price from. That starting point is: Construction Cost = (P.P.E. Construction Cost x 10 x Device Level) + the Cost of All Required Gems Note that I added the parenthesis just because not everyone knows th...

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I don’t have BtS but I am wondering what a mage has as starting PPE to compare the magic level in the BtS setting compared to other Palladium settings. Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, there is no mage in the current issue of BtS. That is something we have been waiting for, for a long time! In t...

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I don’t have BtS but I am wondering what a mage has as starting PPE to compare the magic level in the BtS setting compared to other Palladium settings. Thanks for the help.

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.... I use the original R.M.B. radar ranges for power armor / robots. So basically power armor get the lesser range while robots the greater. I am contemplating having radio systems being less in power armor as well. I am not sure just yet. I will be back with more later. Thanks I had not picked up...

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I separated the Knights into two classes, the Psi-Knights and the Cyber-Knights. Latter are basically non psionic Knights from the RUE Knights. Psi-Knights are all psychics but get none of the anti-tech powers as Psi-Knights get Zanshin which gives them auto dodge and bonuses equivalent to Sixth Sen...

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I let them absorb it or use it for a spell being cast. If the mage is using PPE talismans they made themselves PPE can be drawn as needed from self made talismans vs a talisman made by someone else or in a TW factory, very common in my campaign, tapping releases the whole 50. You can draw from more ...

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Interesting world. Would what it is based on be "Ascendance of a Bookworm"? Seen the Light Novels in Amazon......and now found the anime on CR) My house rule about recharging Talisman, which uses the numbers found in the canon spell but make it easier to use by PCs.... (has the PF2 core b...

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Sounds kind of like a shaped charge round in construction to me.

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You are corrupt only two have penalties. Makes even lesssense to me now that the heaviest weapon has no penalty. Stats in most Rifts, and to be fair in lots of games, are very inconsistent. To me the weight is part of it, the other is the profile and center of balance it provides. In my games I loo...

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As previously mentioned becoming a vampire would be a downgrade for a dragon. Dragon’s get more powerful as they age and vampires do not plus vampires have more weaknesses than dragons.

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You are corrupt only two have penalties. Makes even lesssense to me now that the heaviest weapon has no penalty. Stats in most Rifts, and to be fair in lots of games, are very inconsistent. To me the weight is part of it, the other is the profile and center of balance it provides. In my games I loo...

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The Triax book has 4 interchangeable shoulder mounted weapons for the Jaeger. Three have movement and combat penalties but the Rotary Missile Drum drops not. I am of mixed thoughts on whether the lack of penalties was an oversight or left off on purpose. Your thoughts? The missile drum looks bigger...

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The Triax book has 4 interchangeable shoulder mounted weapons for the Jaeger. Three have movement and combat penalties but the Rotary Missile Drum drops not. I am of mixed thoughts on whether the lack of penalties was an oversight or left off on purpose. Your thoughts? The missile drum looks bigger ...

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Way to expensive for me. Who is going to pay that for two resin minis?

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How many Power Armor and Robots are in Rifts? Based on my incomplete Rifts Library... RMB-era Books: -114x Power Armor -79x Piloted Robots (includes MiO VRRDS and their manned variants, but not the 8x Triax VR variants or the MOM/'brain transfer versions just the manned) -6x Transformable units RUE...

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I would suggest a hunting dog with an 85% Tracking by smell.

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There are lots of examples of weapon damage plus SN punch damage in Rifts. FYI the substitution of SN punch for weapon damage has been in HU for a long time. I honestly have not seen a single reference to the substitution in any Rifts book that came out after RUE. I have seen lots of weapon damage p...

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As has been pointed out only a few TW weapons fire enchanted bullets. I did something similar with the 7.62 mm barrel on JA-11 but the “bullet” was an emitter. Each emitter fired a different kind of spell. We found burst firing spells to be too saving throw onerous on the GM. If you are going to bur...

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A Lasae so desperate to escape Dyval it will accept a familiar binding.

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