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You disagree with.... what exactly? That the tanks are easily outmatched by anyone in flying PA or even fast-moving ground PA? That the bomber is somehow playable in-game? (Or any bomber-type aircraft, or large ship)? From either a PC or NPCs-using-it perspecetive? Its super easy to say “i dont agr...

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Yea, I'm not interested in talking about personal issues with Mr. Seimbeida. He built a world that has fueled our imaginations, and it cannot be denied that he has created something wonderful. Unfortunately, you cant disentangle his issues. Theyre part and parcel of what happened, how and why. I ju...

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until Japan Kevin does not to the big transplants and "whole race enclaves". Carella's work is all about transplants, and entire races as a force. Even if we grant Kevin with Atlantis as you see it, it is only the exception that proves the rule. North America is still a much different sty...

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Yea, I'm not interested in talking about personal issues with Mr. Seimbeida. He built a world that has fueled our imaginations, and it cannot be denied that he has created something wonderful. I just was trying to say that the "Power Creep" that is most complained about(SA2) was more about...

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Isn't the "Power Creep" from the offending books more about the differences in vision of what Rifts Earth could/should be? Mr. Seimbeida and Mr. Carella clearly had different visions of what Rifts is. Kevin saw the Earth as a wasteland with vagrant D-Bees, wandering boy-scouts and revived...

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Isn't the "Power Creep" from the offending books more about the differences in vision of what Rifts Earth could/should be? Mr. Seimbeida and Mr. Carella clearly had different visions of what Rifts is. Kevin saw the Earth as a wasteland with vagrant D-Bees, wandering boy-scouts and revived...

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Isn't the "Power Creep" from the offending books more about the differences in vision of what Rifts Earth could/should be? Mr. Seimbeida and Mr. Carella clearly had different visions of what Rifts is. Kevin saw the Earth as a wasteland with vagrant D-Bees, wandering boy-scouts and revived ...

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In WB#10 there are two groups that trace their origins to the old American Empire. Kingsdale is the home of a group that began as the US forest Service. El Dorado was began by the remains of the state government on Arkansas.

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Lazlo's main impediment to exploiting the resources of the Megaverse is it's leadership. Plato has the ambition of a housecat in a sunny window. Other, better connected cities on Earth do not take advantage of the Megaverse either, IMO. It's prolly due to the authors not knowing how to control the c...

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I agree that we can do a lot more with the Rifter, I'd like to see people just submit interesting characters, even their own personal PCs to the Rifter, or just tell some gaming stories like in KoDT. I'd like to see like...a sampling of the best new questions and answers from the forums, like GMs a...

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Most of what you posted about the West and necromancers making up nearly all of the Tolkein refugees is not worth debating, but you assertion that COake is not a "Hobo King" is the point of my OP. If you are willing, I would like to hear the case as to why he isn't exactly what I have desc...

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That was sort of my point. The presented choice was a false one to begin with. There never was an option for the Cyber-Knights to set up as a major power that would of set the CS and allow the CK to become the "preeminent guardians of humanity". Most of the states that make up the current...

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I've seen the term "nation-building" around here, which generally refers to an intervention by another country to try to build up another. Most of the second Iraq War, for example, was nation-building on the part of the U.S. and its allies. While a Cyber-knight might help some small commu...

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I've seen the term "nation-building" around here, which generally refers to an intervention by another country to try to build up another. Most of the second Iraq War, for example, was nation-building on the part of the U.S. and its allies. While a Cyber-knight might help some small commu...

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That was sort of my point. The presented choice was a false one to begin with. There never was an option for the Cyber-Knights to set up as a major power that would of set the CS and allow the CK to become the "preeminent guardians of humanity". Most of the states that make up the current ...

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I hear all the reasons why Coake SHOULDN'T or COULDN'T establish a nation led by Cyber-Knights, many of them have merit. I am claiming that he WOULDN'T. Ask yourself if Lord Coake had discovered the Lone Star Complex in 55PA( before the Coalition) would he have walked away from the opportunity to b...

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I hear all the reasons why Coake SHOULDN'T or COULDN'T establish a nation led by Cyber-Knights, many of them have merit. I am claiming that he WOULDN'T. Ask yourself if Lord Coake had discovered the Lone Star Complex in 55PA( before the Coalition) would he have walked away from the opportunity to bu...

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Heroes of Humanity: The genocidal skull-fetish Nazis who outlaw books and breed entire races of slaves are the good guys now! Well when the alternative is getting enslaved or worse by demons/devils and being dragged literally into hell than at least if the CS kill you they can't trap your soul for ...

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I think parked Cyber-Knights / Tundra Rangers would just be vulnerable. Harder to target them as nomads. They can stop by the fix up towns who are in trouble but by staying there indefinitely they'd probably just get assassinated. As dangerous as it was to live in communities in Iraq, it's way more...

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To use an analogy from another fiction: what happened to the Jedi when they ceased being peacekeepers and became soldiers of the Republic? This illustrates the danger the Cyber Knights would face should they bind themselves to a political (or state) entity, even if it is of their own creation. Yep,...

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Why does Superman fight crime and alien invasions, instead of using his powers to rule over a nation or the entire planet? Probably because his goals don't include conquest or ruling. This is an example of a moral hero who faces similar of choices and Coake I had not thought of. Thanks for posting....

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Lord Coake has the stature and respect to unite North America against the prejudice and hatred of the Coalition, He has chosen not to. He has chosen this knowing full well the end result of an unchecked Coalition. He has chosen to allow the domination of North America by a nation that would commit ...

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Some of your points are interesting, but they have no place here. Then why ask the question? No seriously. If you are going to ask questions and state that Coake is morally corrupt for his actions then why would defending those actions have no place here? I am not writing canon(rewriting) as you ar...

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One last thought: a central idea in the Savage Rifts world, and where it changes markedly from classic Rifts, is the whole "Legion of Tomorrow" that Coake helps found a stronghold at Castle Refuge and plays some part in leading and shaping its community (though he still spends much time t...

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Click below to read about my real-life experience that has some bearing on this topic: I'm going to take a bit of a risk here and provide some personal experiences, because I think it illustrates an important principle in this discussion. For a real-life analogy to the Cyber-Knights, consider E...

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Also one thing to note is a lot of what remains of NA is even less populated than the old west was. What towns there are are tiny and transient for the most part. So in general people trying to help are going to tend to be wandering a circuit because staying in one place is helping a bare handful o...

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I think that people underestimate the effect cyberknights can have. And oversimplify their modus operandi. In many ways the cyber knights purpose is not to fight all evil themselves, so much as inspire, train, and lead non-knights to defend themselves. Much like Gandalf and the other Istari in lord...

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SereneTsunami, Snarkiness aside, you're both entirely correct and absolutely wrong. The very idea of the Cyber Knights is predicated on a romanticized ideal of the middle ages that never truly existed as a thing: the chivalrous knight-errant. Actual knightly orders were generally dedicated to varyi...

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I think that people underestimate the effect cyberknights can have. And oversimplify their modus operandi. In many ways the cyber knights purpose is not to fight all evil themselves, so much as inspire, train, and lead non-knights to defend themselves. Much like Gandalf and the other Istari in lord...

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I fail to see how it's cowardly. I'll be the first to admit that I'm no fan of cyber-knights, or any OTHER goody-two-shoes (paladins, Jedi, etc), and I take great delight in bringing them down (killing them, making them 'fall', embarrassing them or making them show themselves to be fools, that kind...

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Hotrod wrote:
SereneTsunami wrote:Am I on to something, or am I on somthing?

Yes.

I was afraid of that

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I fail to see how it's cowardly. I'll be the first to admit that I'm no fan of cyber-knights, or any OTHER goody-two-shoes (paladins, Jedi, etc), and I take great delight in bringing them down (killing them, making them 'fall', embarrassing them or making them show themselves to be fools, that kind...

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Something has been bothering me for a while and it has been hard to put into words. I have noticed that many of Mr. Siembieda's hero archetypes, like Cyber-Knights and Tundra Rangers, are wandering do-gooders who defend villages and hunt evil in the vast wilderness of North America. To my mind this ...

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I would like to see things from any of the different product lines that did not make it into books. Every book I have bought had cool things cutout to make the book the correct size. I am assuming that all this was edited and balanced and jsut missed the cut. Lots of ready made goodness that could b...

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It could work possibly. But, the problem is that releasing new cannon material is not the real purpose of the Rifter. Yes, official cannon material does appear in the Rifter occasionally. However, its primary goal is to find new writers/artists to work as freelancers. It's secondary purpose is to g...

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Do like we did and make Manoa, and it's mucho advanced TW factories be the source of Anti-Monsters. Then the AM can use the Manoan TW weapons (and even the TW options available to the Power Armor they make). The home base of Manao and the story device of "Atlantean heroes exploring the world&qu...

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I really like the Monster Tattoo enhancements. You can really make a monster tattoo be unique now. The Dimensional Tattoos are so perfect for the Atlantean Nomad. Before these additions it was harder to see how a non-caster dimensionally hopped. The PE costs for these tattoos also make their use muc...

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Adding in refugees from Tolkeen is a easy way to get some weird combinations of D-Bees together. I like the idea of a fade town that has a normal town built up around it, and they trade with each other whenever the fade town pops back into place. I think that the leader of a "Monster town"...

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You could do what Clan Aerihman did, find a dimension where times passes 4 times faster then normal.

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Oh forgot to talk about dimensional tattoos. These and the atlantean OCC that specializes in them are both really good and kinda needed for such a dimensional hopping bunch of people. Having some good tatoo based ways to get people in and out of other dimensions is really handy for groups of undead...

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I was wondering if anyone thinks that the RIFTER could be used to give Palladium a more consistant amount of canon material. I for one think that saving a single page(front and back) for different systems to add canon material might be a great way to kill 2 birds with one stone. This idea would alie...

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I had not read the 3 galaxies part, the only dimension book I have is #4. Clan Skellion being masters of Techno-Wizardry for centuries(WB#6) is also in the mix. I'm not sure when or how the idea was birthed that Techno-Wizadry should/had to be invented in North America. Rediscovering(with help) this...

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I am not trying to get anyone in trouble, but I thought it would be ok to point out that several of the Shadow Spells described transfrom the caster. This would mean that Atlantean Shadow Mages cannot use Etherial in Shadow or the Shadow Self spell. I know that the wording for both crystal magic and...

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I am enjoying the book immensely. The expanded history of the Atlanteans makes alot of things written in WB#2: Atlantis more realistic and believable. This was a big job and it was done pretty well. I liked the choices for new OCCs, especially the Voyager. A tattooed Atlantean that can go dimension ...

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Sondoes simple weapon work like create steel? Can I use a simple tattoo to kill a Zavor and only Magic Weapon Splits them? All the physical objects created by magic tattoos are made from ectoplasim. Amongst the list of weapons that a tattoo can create and the SDC damage they do is the entry for sta...

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Their "Crusade" makes more sense now, and so does their ablity to keep their identity secret. Is it at least a realistic and plausible reason why if I may ask? Or is everyone essentially around them portrayed as being completely clueless and dumber than a bag of hammers when it comes to n...

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So do they give a good reason for the Sunaj still being unnoticed by the rest of the Altanteans? Even with them systematically trying to kill off their own kind. Or are they still being given Mary sue levels of plot armor? I was happy with the explanation and expanded background on the Sunaj. Their...

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I think that a new Dimension book not dealing with the Minion war is a long shot. However, I could see them updating the most important OCCs like they did for the NGR OCCs in RIFTER#55. It would cost almost nothing and they could use a fan voting system to decide which of the many OCCs to update. he...

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I know that the NG-X9 and the NG-V7 both entered the open market in 81PA. They are the first of the NG line. It is harder to pin down the first year that the CS began flying a SAMAS, but 80PA(roughly) is when they first fielded the UAR-1. I have not researched the Titan stuff. I have not found any u...

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Thank you, K.C. I rather enjoyed that post.

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