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Dustin Fireblade

I always put them in northern Arkansas. Hope City - figure they fled from the St. Louis Arch when the Rifts erupted, went southwest into Arkansas. Benford Town gets food imported from the CS, so it had to be fairly close. Also with the possible CS subplot with a brigade ready to ride in and take con...

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Interesting stuff. I recall when I was doing my write up years ago, Whykin was a hereditary monarchy. While initially it was the "Whykin" family, they eventually died out and it passed to the cousins. However by that time everything was "Whykin" so they kept it to honor/remember ...

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As far as the Cyber-Knight goes, well look at Reids Rangers and Lazarious. Another option could be that Erin Tarn never actually visited Whykin and it's some other type of OCC. The SoT cyberknights book had fallen cyber knights. Basically they do not loose their powers for breaking the code, and th...

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I don't think he'd need salvage to get cybernetics/bionics off a body

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According to the Black Market SB the BM runs circles around the local law enforcement of Whykin. Whykin uses D-Bee slaves (think that's mentioned elsewhere) As far as the Cyber-Knight goes, well look at Reids Rangers and Lazarious. Another option could be that Erin Tarn never actually visited Whykin...

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Likewise should be able to do the juicer's conversion (either way). May want to pick up the Juicer Lore skill as one of your technical skill options I'd see the lore skills as just that ... lore. To install or upgrade juicers, I'd require the CyberDoc PC have Medical > Juicer Technology (WB10 pg 65...

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The Cyber-Doc can install bionics thanks to the "Special OCC Ability" of "Install Bionics" Also starts with the MD in Cybernetics. Now the skill description there says that allows you to install any cybernetic device and has a -15% to install bionics. So those two skills would al...

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RUE seems clear - Like the Dog Boys, the human mutants known as Psi-Stalkers have also won the growing respect and friendship of the human troops they work with. Humans tend to regard Psi-Stalkers as savages and primitives compared to the "civilized" people of Chi-Town and the Coalition St...

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They didn't actually make it in print, I believe. So just a mystery at this point.

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I'm surprised they haven't made a Dragoon themed SAMAS, who flies fast to the fight but fights as a ground unit with big defensive shield wings made to parry attacks Doesn't the NGR have something like that now? We're could I find it? I'll be honest I don't always thoroughly read everything in a bo...

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I thought the CS Trident PA had some sort of built in modular options. Maybe the NG power armor suits to? Just some idea's on where to look maybe.

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Aermas wrote:
I'm surprised they haven't made a Dragoon themed SAMAS, who flies fast to the fight but fights as a ground unit with big defensive shield wings made to parry attacks

Doesn't the NGR have something like that now?

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Amazing how many people change the CS, and seem to consistently make the same changes

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Has anyone else ever played the SAMAS as being able to detach their flight system? Yes, been doing that since 1990/91 when we started playing Rifts. It didn't move faster and certainly not quieter (well minus the jet engine roar I guess), but yeah it'd be easier to get into tight spaces. I think th...

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Grazzik wrote:
Has anyone else ever played the SAMAS as being able to detach their flight system?

Yes, been doing that since 1990/91 when we started playing Rifts. It didn't move faster and certainly not quieter (well minus the jet engine roar I guess), but yeah it'd be easier to get into tight spaces.

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If you were to recreate the Rifts core setting from the ground up, how would you change it? Number of years ago I started working on my own 'Rifts Reset' project. Filled up one of those 200 page, five subject notebooks. 1. I used those city creation guide from the Rifts Adventure Book to rebuild hu...

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Hello! First post here for me as I get back into Rifts after a 15 year hiatus! I was browsing through the rifts conversion book, looking for monsters for their coalition team to fight against and I came across the Yema (p 169). ONLY MAGIC AND SILVER HURT THIS THING Why hasn’t lazlo or Tolkien survi...

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I thought there was something about this in the books. Basically if a human was walking around without escort, they were assumed to be very powerful/important. But as Grazzik mentions, hide the Marks of Heritage! I imagine the Marks of Heritage for the TA clans are possibly well known among the Mini...

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Overall I don't believe there is a list like you are looking for in Palladium. The Compendium of Modern Weapons, unless it was seriously updated, was written I think in the early 90's maybe? I believe Rifts Merc Ops has the various generic stats - say a .45 caliber pistol you have damage, capacity, ...

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I'm not a fan of it. I've tinkered around with different modifications for it over the years. I think the simple solution for my group was to drop it and replace it with Commando HtH. Then I did a massive re-write of the OCC's and ended up eliminating the class, although the "concept" of a...

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Say we have the Cryptography skill. In the Ultimate Edition, the values would be 25% + 5%/level. In Ninjas & Superspies, the values are listed as 30% + 5%/level. I can go down the line if I wanted to. So the question is, which ones are the most accurate to use? Different education systems for e...

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Hey, look, my probably-decade-or-more-old approach to Palladium skills: m And a bonus, about combat styles: m Say, did you have a slightly different take on the Easy, Medium, Hard starting percentages? Reason I'm asking is in my house rules, whenever I've borrowed someone's ideas I try to credit th...

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Hey, look, my probably-decade-or-more-old approach to Palladium skills: m And a bonus, about combat styles: m Say, did you have a slightly different take on the Easy, Medium, Hard starting percentages? Reason I'm asking is in my house rules, whenever I've borrowed someone's ideas I try to credit th...

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IMO the Coalition is an evil force. They condone genocide, are bigoted and racist, and don't seem to have ethics. Plus, the Nazi imagery is a HORRIBLE choice if they're meant to represent "good". Yet many books, and players, seem to present them as the good guys, or at least in some sort ...

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In the CS "Heroes of Humanity" book, there's a section detailing how the CS is building more power armor and cyborgs now rather than robot vehicles. Essentially it comes down to resources and and I believe effectiveness factors. barna10 - for Rifts, what would be an effective robot combat ...

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Didn't Ishpheming have some fortifications from the Northern Gun books?

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There are a couple of Native American Preserves on the west coast. They always seem to be forgotten whenever the topic comes up. I recall YEARS ago (like 18 years or so), there was a bunch of us that tried to make a "world book" of the west coast here on the forums, but I don't believe an ...

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I really was very disappointed in this book to be honest. For example while I was always expecting more OCC's or whatever, the whole take that was done with the Manhunter's was just garbage I thought.

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Don't believe it was mentioned, but the rocket weapons from South America 1 might be handy. Getting ammo might be more difficult.

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<snip> The NGR Infantry Soldier has HtH Basic to start, but I think that might be only one like that? Not sure what you mean by reserving Forced March for a Grunt? That's what this is - someone who has completed their Basic and AIT Infantry School. Likewise with Climbing? Realistically, soldiers wo...

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As for the skills noted above, as a currently serving Infantry Officer, the only ones I would consider pertinent for Baseline OCC Skills are: 1. Basic Radio +10% 2. First Aid +10% 3. Land Navigation +10% 4. Military Etiquette +10% 5. Pilot Automobile/Hovercraft +10% (Select 1) 6. Camouflage +10% 7....

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Ok, some thoughts on what a completed Generic Infantry OCC would look like - 1. Basic Radio +10% 2. First Aid +10% 3. Land Navigation +10% 4. Military Etiquette +10% 5. Pilot Automobile/Hovercraft +10% (Select 1) 6. Camouflage +10% 7. Climbing +10% 8. Running 9. Physical Labor (Or call it Physical ...

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I don't have it handy, but you might want to also check out Rifter #23, CS Target Acquisitions Group, which covers CS snipers. Actually I wonder if a "Sniper" Advanced Training would be appropriate. I think there is a "Marksman" AT available? The AT's are found here if not famil...

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Ok, some thoughts on what a completed Generic Infantry OCC would look like - 1. Basic Radio +10% 2. First Aid +10% 3. Land Navigation +10% 4. Military Etiquette +10% 5. Pilot Automobile/Hovercraft +10% (Select 1) 6. Camouflage +10% 7. Climbing +10% 8. Running 9. Physical Labor (Or call it Physical ...

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So any feedback on my house modification for this skill would be appreciated as well as if any of you have used your own house skill for this. I don't have it handy, but you might want to also check out Rifter #23, CS Target Acquisitions Group, which covers CS snipers. As to what you have here, I'v...

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I've been getting some freetime and I was thinking of submitting a system's failure article to the Rifter. So, what type of article would you like to see? what type of article would you not like to see. Keep in mind that "submitting" and "getting accepted" are two quite differen...

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Ok, some thoughts on what a completed Generic Infantry OCC would look like - 1. Basic Radio +10% 2. First Aid +10% 3. Land Navigation +10% 4. Military Etiquette +10% 5. Pilot Automobile/Hovercraft +10% (Select 1) 6. Camouflage +10% 7. Climbing +10% 8. Running 9. Physical Labor (Or call it Physical T...

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I would replace running with general athletics, while the military does run allot they also do body weight exercises like push ups. I dislike CS grunts being based off world war 2 tactics they should have the skill camouflage. Well I don't entirely disagree replacing Running with General Athletics,...

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I was just watching a video on youtube that got me to thinking: Do you think that the various companies (like Northern Gun, Triax and others) had, somehow, had found or kept the schematics for various vehicles and cars from the 20th/21st centuries in hopes that there'd be a market for them? Signed,...

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I think Military Etiquette is a skill simply because non-military people won't necessarily have it, but might want/need it: spies, militia, etc. It'd probably be simpler to keep Military Etiquette as part of Basic Training, rather than just having it as an unlisted skill that the military gets whic...

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Well, there's no in-game explanation, but there IS an obvious out-of-game explanation, which is that whoever wrote up the OCC has a bit of the "Airborne Military Mindset." We can make up all kinds of home-brewed in-world explanations, but the fact that none was given points us toward the ...

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So, going into a wild tangent, though somewhat connected to the subject matter of the topic, has someone considered or actually tackled adapting the ever growing plethora of OCCs & RCCs we presently have in Rifts into something like HU's scheme of character creation? Curious about the pros &...

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So in the "Worst OCC/RCC in Rifts" thread - https://palladium-megaverse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=179634 - we've had a lengthy discussion on some of the Rifts military OCC's and what they can/can't do. I thought it might be a fun exercise to take these type of OCC's and give them ...

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So, going into a wild tangent, though somewhat connected to the subject matter of the topic, has someone considered or actually tackled adapting the ever growing plethora of OCCs & RCCs we presently have in Rifts into something like HU's scheme of character creation? Curious about the pros &...

Dustin Fireblade

So, going into a wild tangent, though somewhat connected to the subject matter of the topic, has someone considered or actually tackled adapting the ever growing plethora of OCCs & RCCs we presently have in Rifts into something like HU's scheme of character creation? Curious about the pros &...

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If it is their primary job you should not have to spend skill choices to get them. The issue is not weather or not they can get it as a choice but if the default package has them. If you going to claim a OCC can do the job of a modern navy seal they are going to need the skill to do seal missions. ...

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Well they lack the skills of navy seals while claiming they can do it. (Blue_Lion's post trimmed to reduce size - big wall of text below) Long story short it seems pretty clear to me the Paratrooper can perform any mission needed. Parachuting? Yes the Paratrooper is better with their +30, but the C...

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To be fair, I think there are some unique traits to paratrooper training. The deliberate choice to jump out of an airplane is not a natural act; it requires a significant element of courage, and there is value in exercising that courage. It also requires the paratrooper to perform necessary and reh...

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Honestly the Traix Intelligence commando is a class that has the right skills for what the paratrooper claims to do minus the airborn. Has prowl, and intelligence, scuba, and swimming so can do ranger and navy seal missions. In addition can use PA for when you need the extra punch. Really do not se...

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Well, there's no in-game explanation, but there IS an obvious out-of-game explanation, which is that whoever wrote up the OCC has a bit of the "Airborne Military Mindset." We can make up all kinds of home-brewed in-world explanations, but the fact that none was given points us toward the ...

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