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Hate to break it to but a kingdom is a type of nation. CS states is a direct evolution of the city of chi town as a nation. So what it reconized was reconised by the city is reconised by what it become. Basically Tolkeen was a nation/kingdom before the CS was formed so yes since they came out of th...

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Goodbye, you'll be back home if you come back.

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Attributes that are fixed by the borg build don't get improved by physical skills, but actual skills and skil bonuses are gained... of course, a full conversion borg would get little use from swilmming, unless he was in an aquatic model.

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So what is it exactly about?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, everything depends on what group you ask.

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They were introduced in Rifts England, and I guess that's the place with the most comprehensive data on them, though, IIRC, large chunks have been reprinted in Rifts Japan and other volumes where a MIllenium tree appears.

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Gorgon? isn't that a major deevil? If I'm right, they are definitely not intended to serve as PCs, and you're completely in GM fiat territory, talk with your GM. Yeah, I know, they have a char level and an XP table, but myt take is that it's if the GM wants to make them more powerful to suit a highe...

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It seams to me that "D-bees have no rights to land because it is human land" is untrue in rifts. Just because a nation of Xenophobic Nazi that act like terrorist does not recognize it does not mean that they do not have rights to lands.(They use terror to push their agenda on those that d...

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How about those that choose the RCC?

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RUE or RMB (which ever one you have) *Coalition War Campaign *Lone Star *Juicer Uprising *Coalition Navy Sourcebook 2 for the Mechanoids Free Quebec Xiticix World Book (I can't remember what the title is) For characters with bionics/cybernetics: Bionics Sourcebook For psychic characters: Psiscape D...

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I'll be hornswoggled! It does look like they completely forgot to put in the RCCs and OCCs experience tables... look in the cutting room floor or for errata...

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Duh, and I manged to miss it... Thanks for telling me where to look again.

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Sploog juicers... where are they described already?

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Depends, a wolfen could be allowed in the councils of high command, and be the commander of even large ships (IIRC, there's a wolfen admiral for a TGE capital size ship in Fleets of the 3G)

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The Absurr Life Node and Chest Amalgamate are both on p 117 of Atlantis.

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And AoE can as easily be a liability as an advantage... I remember the time when I had to switch characters because my fire warlock only had AoE spells, and my party mates did not mind me at all and rushed to melee ASAP so the character was basically useless because he could not act without harming ...

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OK, I should have said "mutant animals"

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To boot, only dog boys get trust, NTSET and psi net are highly sensitive agencies, bats, or other mutants would not be allowed in.

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Mekton Zeta Plus is a supplement for/version of the Mekton game with a very comprehensive and efficient system for creating mecha of literally all conceivable types. If it's been in an anime, Mekton Z+ can do it. An equivalent system for creating robots, power armor and space ships would indeed be a...

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What's wrong with power creep? The books by CJ Carella were full of it, and they are still the best stuff ever written for Rifts... Eh. Some of the stuff that CJ wrote is some of the best stuff written for Rifts... but some of the other stuff he wrote is some of the worst. Any book by him was a ver...

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What's wrong with power creep? The books by CJ Carella were full of it, and they are still the best stuff ever written for Rifts... of course, if you don't regulate at all, beyond a certain level you'd be better off playing Scion, but the problem is more keeping the players who want to play low powe...

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Even low level pneuma biforms are a problem, as their bipedal time is severely limited

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I go with the original version, but that's because I don't have the revised thing... and because vamps are so hard to kill that the more means to hurt them there are, the better

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"Lifestyles of the Obscenely Rich and Infamous"---280 xp. Build a private home bigger than Chi-Town. Does it have to be a single building? If it's listed on the local tax rolls and zoning as 'private residence' and not 'housing development' or 'township', it's in. Do you really pay taxes ...

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Phase powers are like magic and beyond magic, they can damage vampires, werewolves and other invulnerable creatures, maybe not slow their regen or kill them outright, but certainly damage them.

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10 earth credits for one phase world credit, if memory serves, I know the figure is somewhere in Phase World, but I don't remember exactly where.

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thing is, the cold blood totally replaces the chemistry that the drugs need to work (the blood), so the two types of augmentation are clearly mutually incompatible.

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"You're gonna catch a cold!", 50 xp: Successfully upload a virus to a CS mainframe using an Apple Mac Book. Independence Day fan? We The People------ 75xp (in addition to the standard combat and skill awards this will entail) : Found your own sovereign state and successfully resist attemp...

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Amaki Gizmoteers are toward the end of SA2

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Shows you should check the attribute listings for any creature where that question in asked, that's where it was mentioned, not anywhere else.

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But are tungsten or uranium magnetic? You need a magnetic metal to be propelled by a railgun. Plus, let's be honest, steel is cheaper.
or would the flechettes be steel jacketed for propulsion but with U or W penetrators?

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First stagers are 'normal' AFAICT, they don't yet count as SN, or any other weird descriptor.

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A juicer would be able to live long enough with the biocomp disabled to go through the procedure, so one disables the biocomp, drinks the fluid, and has one's veins slit to allow for the rituals to commence. Biocomp off doesn't equal instant death. If it did, they couldn't detox! @Blue Lion: I see ...

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@PepsiJedi:Drink blue stuff that lowers body temperature, then open veins and drain blood to stop heart. So, I suppose that I should spell it out a bit more. You need to disable the biocomp AND the medical nanobots and make sure that there are no drugs in the harness (or remove it, but merely makin...

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Alternately, if you're the GM, you can just prevent it as fiat and blame Faerzress

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what's a coldblooded already and where's it from?

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With lasers, the damage would also be affected as the ray starts to lose coherence due to refraction from humidity and dust in the atmosphere.

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taalismn wrote:There's also the unnamed (and now extinct) dimwit clan that created the Mechanoids.

that was the Atlanteans? don't remember any such thing.

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I am not certain if this has ever been mentioned but how did the human faiths fare in the aftermath of the Apocalypse? Are the main world religions of today still around in any sort of significant numbers? I get the feeling that Palladium deliberately steered the hell away from christian themes and...

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thank you

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I guess the subject has already been covered somewhere, but my google fu missed it... so, how many Atlantean clans are there, and how many are known by name, and of those, where are they mentioned? I know of course clan Aerihman, from Atlantis, and also Clan Skellian frome South America I... but I g...

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The phrasing that phase guns can't be "serviced" by anybody but prometheans is ambiguous, especially since the ammo cap for them does not specify the kind of clip.

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He's talking about the Mega-Juicer that literally burns out. They were created using a variant version of MOM implants in combination with latent psychics and the juicer drugs. I do not think he was talking about mega juicers (I thought they where boarder line TW not mom.) There is a psi-juicers th...

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Yes actually it mentions, I believe in Mindworks, that using MoM on a juicer will cause them to burn out. Unless you're that one MOM-augmented Juicer variant that I think eventually explodes like a small bomb and can't be detoxed. Megajuicers are a special case, but if Mindwerks is to be believed, ...

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the original fluff suggests that VFL's are useful against things other than just glitterboy armor, though it doesn't go into it. honestly it would not be hard for a GM to add additional anti-laser/anti-energy defenses for the VFL to overcome.. or to rule that all armor has a frequency it is weak to...

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Given that we know some abilities explicitly state protecting armor (the 'Energy Resistance' minor super ability in the conversion book, the 'Impervious to Fire' spell) those which do not state that probably just protect the person and not their gear. Why leave the table? Mystic Knights are still p...

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So do I, at least I'd quickly leave any table where the GM ruled the other way.

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nasic explosives, HE minimissiles, frag grenades, vibroblades, railguns... anything that's not an enregy attack.
or attack them with magic... Carpet of Adhesion, sleep,... plenty possibilities depending on what your party mages have at their disposal.

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CyberKnightrs in Power Armor? I don't have a problem with it, though it isn't supposed to be common. As for modifying it for Psi-Sword use. It really is a GM's call and such on when/if it is necessary. A Samson isn't going to do IMHO (no matter how many modifications), but something trim like a Fly...

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RUE 366 Psionics that affect the mind cannot affect somebody in heavy power armor (250+ MDC). IIRC, there are indications that it works the other way around as well, that psionics have trouble reaching out through heavy PA/bots, and I'd count the Zen anti-tech powers as having the same limit. I'd a...

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Axelmania wrote:GB has pretty long range sensors too, he might know opponents are in range due to radar or other stuff and pick them off first. 11 000 feet beats 6000 feet.

yeah, but using a boom gun vs an infantry soldier type of opponent is like using a Barrett .50 to swat a fly.

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