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- Tue May 07, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Who still manufactures the Icarus Flight System?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 107
Re: Who still manufactures the Icarus Flight System?
i'd guess one of the black market factions, probably having reverse engineered the UTI system. iirc the CS took over the UTI facilities, and given they've fielded similar systems of their own afterwards, i'd guess they also reverse engineered them.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Hope and Benford Town, where are they?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 163
Re: Hope and Benford Town, where are they?
i guess that the ozarks are close enough to being a mountain range it might work. (they're technically not.. but travelling through you can be easily convinced otherwise)
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Hope and Benford Town, where are they?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 163
Re: Hope and Benford Town, where are they?
Having read the scenario a bit more last night, I'm thinking that an eastern location might work better. Perhaps down the area near GAW and merctown. Benford town could be located on the western edge of the Appalachian mountains, and the location would fit the idea if Hope city fleeing monsters in t...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Hope and Benford Town, where are they?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 163
Re: Hope and Benford Town, where are they?
main issue i can see with a kansas location is that benford town is explicitly stated to be located on the side of a mountain. my own inclination if picking a western location would be to put them in the Dakota's somewhere. close enough to the midwest that 'Hope city' could have the background it do...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:30 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Hope and Benford Town, where are they?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 163
Re: Hope and Benford Town, where are they?
per WB14, the city of Hope, the capitol of the Hope Barony, is located on the ruins of Greely, Colorado. (that's a town just west of Ft collins) [google map link] however the "Hope City" from the scenario in the mercenaries sourcebook does not appear to be the same city of Hope from the co...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:39 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Making Roads?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 233
Re: Making Roads?
for animal drawn transport, hard packed dirt (probably just a worn in trail) works just fine for most of the year, if you live in a fairly wet area you might just use a corduroy road with whatever wood you have nearby to cut down on the issues of moving through mud. motorized transport is where you ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:28 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Rabdom thought for Rifts England:
- Replies: 3
- Views: 287
Re: Rabdom thought for Rifts England:
historically, "morgan le fey" didn't play much role in the arthur stories until fairly modern times.. and when she did, it was largely in a role as a friendly magic user and healer living on avalon, unrelated to arthur.[1] suggesting that in the 'original' conducted by Zazshan, it was prob...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Triax Glitter Boys-Reinforced Pilot's Compartments?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 318
Re: Triax Glitter Boys-Reinforced Pilot's Compartments?
also, it is possible that Triax simplified the design some for their own production. the Pilot's compartment probably added complexity, given that a GB is more of a power armor (which usually lack pilot compartments) than a robot. presumably adding an extra layer or armor under the normal armor woul...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Is the GM ALWAYS right?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 463
Re: Is the GM ALWAYS right?
always right? no
but a Gm ruling is always final. at least for the session you are in. between sessions is the time to debate over stuff.
but a Gm ruling is always final. at least for the session you are in. between sessions is the time to debate over stuff.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Sleepers from the Coalition War Campaign H,L & S
- Replies: 10
- Views: 581
Re: Sleepers from the Coalition War Campaign H,L & S
i tend to assume that a lot of NEMA groups went on ice if they had the hardware for it. save on food and supplies by putting as many people in suspension as you can, leaving a token garrison to hold down the fort and maintain stuff.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: After the Bomb® RPG & TMNT®
- Topic: Transdimensional Turtles and time travel coils
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6142
Re: Transdimensional Turtles and time travel coils
That's a great question! The "coil" time travel concept in Transdimensional Turtles is actually original to the RPG. The comics primarily focused on the Turtles' adventures in their own time, with occasional forays into alternate dimensions. The RPG introduced the coils as a way to explor...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: the self replicating skelebot?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 504
Re: the self replicating skelebot?
it's rifter 7, page 65 through 67. the Super-Skelebot, which is a biomechanical skelebot (really, closer to being a cyborg) mixing cloned flesh with manufactured robot. it has the ability to fuel itself by eating dead enemies, can heal itself to a degree, and give birth to a new copy of itself every...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:18 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Can railgun fire underwater?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 413
Re: Can railgun fire underwater?
looks like you are right. that's what i get for relying on memory. i probably generalized that in my own games (since IRL there have been a lot of research into such things, from russian underwater assault rifles to the US navy researching CIWS ammo they can use to intercept torpedoes) i will say th...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Can railgun fire underwater?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 413
Re: Can railgun fire underwater?
Per RAW in WB7 there are x7 examples of Rail Guns that fire at reduced range underwater (Triax and Kittani designs, plus a few of the Orca "Power Armor"), we also see at x1 example in SB4 (Sea SAMAS, though the naval version of the CS spider-skull walker doesn't include adjustments, possi...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: A cargo plane for civilian or adventurer use, VTOL too!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 609
Re: A cargo plane for civilian or adventurer use, VTOL too!
also GAW equipment usually are commonly used designs that saw service with the military. the XV-15 was an experimental test bed with only 2 airframes built. (one of which was destroyed during testing, the other of which sits in the Smithsonian) a better choice would have been the MV-22 osprey (or it...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:19 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Sleepers from the Coalition War Campaign H,L & S
- Replies: 10
- Views: 581
Re: Sleepers from the Coalition War Campaign H,L & S
honestly even without NEMA, the idea of pre-rifts people being found in rifts was a fun idea.
shades of one of the earliest Bolo stories (Night of the Trolls by Keith laumer, which can be read for free [here] thank's to project gutenberg.)
shades of one of the earliest Bolo stories (Night of the Trolls by Keith laumer, which can be read for free [here] thank's to project gutenberg.)
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Robotech® - The Shadow Chronicles® - Macross II®
- Topic: Macross comes to major streaming service
- Replies: 3
- Views: 903
Re: Macross comes to major streaming service
crunchyroll is going through a bunch of issues right now and removing tons of content and features,. and it's rapidly bleeding away users as a result. so i'm not surprised that Sony went farther afield. Crunchyroll's days are probably numbered at the moment
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: The Lord of the Deep's "Calling"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 315
Re: The Lord of the Deep's "Calling"
skimming through WB7, i'm not seeing any reference to an actual range in the entries for the LOTD, the cult of the deep, or the sea inquisitor. from the phrasing used to refer to the calling, it actually looks like it has global range from where ever the LOTD is, it's just only psychic sensitives an...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: What If Tolkeen Won...
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5246
Re: What If Tolkeen Won...
People change. The older generation of two diametrically opposed forces once being friends/lovers is a classic trope too. They are of similar age, Erin grew up in CS territory, etc. Plus it just makes for a great narrative. The grumpy military man fell for the idealistic hippie girl. They marry the...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: Robotech® - The Shadow Chronicles® - Macross II®
- Topic: Macross comes to major streaming service
- Replies: 3
- Views: 903
Macross comes to major streaming service
Disney Plus to exclusively distribute Macross worldwide I'm guessing Sony leveraged their relationship with disney from the MCU stuff to do this. At a guess, it'll have everything other than Macross 7 and its related ova's and films. (As those have major music rights snarls to deal with) The articl...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: What If Tolkeen Won...
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5246
Re: What If Tolkeen Won...
unless a Deus ex machina or deus ex munchkin interviened to completely wipe the CS off the face of the earth.. any Tolkien win would only buy tolkien time. 5, 10, or 20 years later, the CS would just beat the wardrums, recruit, rearm, and go at it again. and if tolkien won using terrorist methodolog...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:47 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Chaos Earth™
- Topic: NEMA rebuilt on Rifts Earth. Possible?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 112574
Re: NEMA rebuilt on Rifts Earth. Possible?
it would also depend a lot on where they arrive. a group arriving in the eastern north america seems unlikely to march out to the western half (having to thread the needle between CS territories), and vice versa.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:32 am
- Forum: Megaverse phpBB Bugs/Wish List
- Topic: anyone else having trouble accessign the search?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5515
anyone else having trouble accessign the search?
so i've basically been unable to use the search at all for at least the last month. i keep getting "Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. The server has high load. Please try again later." even at 2 in the morning when the only users are me and four bots. (Ahrefs [Bot], Bing [Bot],...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:55 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Pricing gems and precious metals
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4000
Re: Pricing gems and precious metals
i would assume three things: 1, that there is a big market for coins and other sorts of small tokens made from gold and silver that adventurers can carry as tradable funds. likely these would take the form of fairly small coins, less than an ounce, but could also take the form of small bars, decorat...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 2:49 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Traveling between Hope and Silvereno
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3101
Re: Traveling between Hope and Silvereno
magic is not one of my areas of expertise in the game, so i went to a friend. and he pointed out that the circle of travel is a level 15 ritual spell, so would be extremely rare. also that said circle couldn't be used for moving goods, since it can only move a single person at a time. so you could g...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Traveling between Hope and Silvereno
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3101
Re: Traveling between Hope and Silvereno
i would assume that there is a road, though it is probably a fairly basic one. basic macadam , with some wooden bridges perhaps. probably winding its way through valleys and alongside the sides of mountains. honestly, there are probably several roads. one or two main ones, and then various side path...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:43 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Enhancing Africa and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Replies: 95
- Views: 49564
Re: Enhancing Africa and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
another inspirational video dropped for Rifts Africa expanders:
History Summarized: Timbuktu
i feel like this city, or a successor city, would exists in rifts. though iirc it is near the borders of the phoenix empire so it might be a little endangered.
History Summarized: Timbuktu
i feel like this city, or a successor city, would exists in rifts. though iirc it is near the borders of the phoenix empire so it might be a little endangered.
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:47 am
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Pricing gems and precious metals
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4000
Re: Pricing gems and precious metals
officially, Gold is 1000cr an ounce. and silver is 600cr an ounce.. except in mexico and the NA south west, where it's also 1000cr an ounce (because it's in higher demand due to vampires.)
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Honor Guards for the Coalition and NGR?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2072
Re: Honor Guards for the Coalition and NGR?
iirc there is mention that the CS has a bodyguard unit for the proseks, as well as body doubles, special clear armor panels for podiums during speeches, etc.
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: Rifts®: Dimension Books
- Topic: Trade/Hyperlanes of the Three Galaxies
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3513
Re: Trade/Hyperlanes of the Three Galaxies
"nogo zones" sound like the Repression fields in DB5-Anvil Galaxy (pg30).
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:40 pm
- Forum: After the Bomb® RPG & TMNT®
- Topic: Transdimensional Turtles and time travel coils
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6142
Re: Transdimensional Turtles and time travel coils
for most of them i doubt it would change much, we've not even left the 125ish year window between "twist null" and "twist 1" (2113) so you'd mostly just need to decide if you want to add 36ish years to all the twists to account for the flow of time, or redefine the size of the tw...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: After the Bomb® RPG & TMNT®
- Topic: Transdimensional Turtles and time travel coils
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6142
Re: Transdimensional Turtles and time travel coils
It's original to the game. which is why i like to argue that it should be used to make a timetravel supplement for HU2. you'd need a replacement mechanic for the "time travel effects your BIO-E" part but the core elements of the twists and coils, with their conservation of elapsed time, w...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:57 pm
- Forum: Robotech® - The Shadow Chronicles® - Macross II®
- Topic: Frontier dub?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3973
Re: Frontier dub?
Macross II has already been released in the US. In both nihongo and english dubs. This happening about1990. If I had to guess why this happened is that it wasn't covered by the licensing agreement for the main-line Macross stories. the dub done in the 1990's was released yes. and there was an abort...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 4:03 am
- Forum: Robotech® - The Shadow Chronicles® - Macross II®
- Topic: Frontier dub?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3973
Re: Frontier dub?
most of the US releases are still in the works, is my understanding. Macross II just do a preorder/crowdsource to start a newly dubbed version, most of the others i've heard of had only just obtained contracts to start the process last year. so it'll be a bit before anything releases i think.
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: West of the Rockies
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2015
Re: West of the Rockies
worldbook 7 underseas mentions kingdoms there that the New Navy trades with. (which means they're probably predominantly human). the one trade good mentioned is New navy tanks but i'd guess they'd also trade body armor and infantry weapons. the items the NN gets are probably mostly foodstuffs. one t...
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 3:31 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Enhancing Africa and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Replies: 95
- Views: 49564
Re: Enhancing Africa and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
i just figuered that the region would be forested again since the population is a lot smaller, so less agricultural clearance happening, and it has had 300 years for the forests to regrow. given that you can see a lot of regrowth in only a few decades (re: Mt St helens aftermath, studies of new volc...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:11 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Enhancing Africa and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Replies: 95
- Views: 49564
Re: Enhancing Africa and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
some interesting stuff in this video for Ethiopia. church forests, some details about what the landscaped looked like before modern agriculture, some neat cultural details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fGe-CPWZlE i suspect that in rifts most of that old forest has returned (perhaps with a few ad...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 12:38 am
- Forum: Robotech® - The Shadow Chronicles® - Macross II®
- Topic: REF Reinforcements to Earth in Mind Games
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6255
Re: REF Reinforcements to Earth in Mind Games
except as i pointed out that the second number might not be a count but a squadron/detachment or role designation. there may have been 9 ships in task force 3 detachment 7, and only 2 in task force 3 detachment 8. (which wouldn't be unusual, if detachment 7 was say, was the task force's group escort...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 3:44 pm
- Forum: G.M.s Forum
- Topic: Project Vanguard and Dog Boys
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2576
Re: Project Vanguard and Dog Boys
i'd imagine that after the mage was captured, the Vanguard of the current PA time might attempt a jail break to rescue "a companion of their founders".
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:37 am
- Forum: Robotech® - The Shadow Chronicles® - Macross II®
- Topic: Modern technologies that we don't see in robotech
- Replies: 95
- Views: 91748
Re: Modern technologies that we don't see in robotech
actually the main limitations with LIDAR are the sensitivity of the optical receiver, rather than the strength of the laser. though that is obviously a factor as well. and techically drones were in se at the time they made the show, just not in the same roles they later did, or in uses that made the...
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 6:39 pm
- Forum: All Things Palladium Books®
- Topic: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Othger Strangeness RPG Kickstarter has launched!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3959
Re: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Othger Strangeness RPG Kickstarter has launched!
Over 700K now What surprises me is the number of backers, almost 4,500. I mean there were more than 5,000 people following the campaign before it launched but I never thought they would top 4k. And it looks like there are lots of people who are doing just $1 so they can get a few items on Backerkit...
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 5:54 pm
- Forum: After the Bomb® RPG & TMNT®
- Topic: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness question
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4509
Re: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness question
the ATB sourcebooks might not have been reprinted in forever, but PB still has a stock of them and sells the dead tree format versions on their webstore . though that might change quickly after the KS ends, given a lot of people expressed interested in ATB in relation to the KS, and those older book...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 12:02 pm
- Forum: Robotech® - The Shadow Chronicles® - Macross II®
- Topic: Modern technologies that we don't see in robotech
- Replies: 95
- Views: 91748
Re: Modern technologies that we don't see in robotech
true. i think part of that is the fact that "drones" has become a shorthand for the light stuff used so much IRL, like the predator, reaper, Bayraktar, etc. not to mention the little hand launched remote controlled planes and quadrotors things. since we don't really have anything comparabl...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:55 pm
- Forum: Robotech® - The Shadow Chronicles® - Macross II®
- Topic: Modern technologies that we don't see in robotech
- Replies: 95
- Views: 91748
Re: Modern technologies that we don't see in robotech
shinchane101, since you recently joined, i would like to point out that in this forum thread necromancy is generally frowned on, especially for something nearly ten years old. As far as technologies go in RT, some tech ought to be there because it existed even when the show was being made, it just w...
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 2:07 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Halloween in Rifts Earth Culture?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1207
Re: Halloween in Rifts Earth Culture?
i'd imagine that some traditions might survive.. but i suspect that where they do, a lot of them have slid back into older forms. Halloween is derived from All hallows eve , a time of remembrance and respect for those that had passed on. and it was a christianization of traditions like Samhain and A...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 6:29 pm
- Forum: All Things Palladium Books®
- Topic: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Othger Strangeness RPG Kickstarter has launched!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3959
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 5:09 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Multiple accions/attacks house rules
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3704
Re: Multiple accions/attacks house rules
so i talked to 13eowulf and got permission to share a copy of his file on it.
a few bits are his house rules but those should be easily sorted (he calls out most of them as such)
a few bits are his house rules but those should be easily sorted (he calls out most of them as such)
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 3:12 pm
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Multiple accions/attacks house rules
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3704
Re: Multiple accions/attacks house rules
i'll PM you.
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:56 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Multiple accions/attacks house rules
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3704
Re: Multiple accions/attacks house rules
I personally consider each attack to be something time based, if you can feasibly use 4 weapons at once in 15 seconds, you should. However, i borrow from BattleTech, where each round happens at the same time, but the damage isn't calculated until the end of the round. Helps keep everyone's actions ...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 3:57 am
- Forum: Rifts®
- Topic: Enhancing Africa and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Replies: 95
- Views: 49564
Re: Enhancing Africa and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
pretty sure ethoipia isn't in their borders.. it had its own entry in the description of the continent. (yet more "nothing there" type stuff.) checking WB4.. yep. pg 129-120. wilderness, low population, yadda-yadda.supposedly the low population is due to all the supernatural critters there...