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Kelorin

I was reading through the Dinosaur Swamp books again recently and was wondering if anyone had adapted the Wraith Soldier / Wraith Brigade to other Rifts locales? Personally, I think it would make for a great addition to the European setting with whole different eras and generations of soldiers havi...

Kelorin

I was reading through the Dinosaur Swamp books again recently and was wondering if anyone had adapted the Wraith Soldier / Wraith Brigade to other Rifts locales? Personally, I think it would make for a great addition to the European setting with whole different eras and generations of soldiers havin...

Kelorin

Largato is on the Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean Sea side of South America. Yes, true, Lagarto is kind of in the south/central america edge, no? Anyway, thanks for correcting me. I like the idea of Spulgy outposts harvesting crops, digging up gold/diamonds/gems for magic items and so on. If not ...

Kelorin

Late to the party, but I'd add Splugorth 'farming' colonies to the western side of Africa closest to Atlantis. Something different than their usual random wander around and snag whatever potentials slaves come their way. The idea I had was a venture project launched by one or two of the High Lords w...

Kelorin

Deciding on ordering directly from Palladium or waiting till I can get to my local gaming shop.

Hearing a lot about the Tank Corps. What does the book have for Navy and Air Force?

Kelorin

Honestly, towns with zero modern weaponry offer some opportunity for RIFTS horror and psychological elements, too. After all, the descriptions for Demons and Evil Alignments, IIRC, use the words "torture" and "torment" a lot, and that isn't always possible with people who can de...

Kelorin

In an effort to recycle as much stuff from Palladium's other product lines in Rifts as possible, I think it would be fun to: - Have a Splugorth that stumbled upon a Zentraedi fleet the way Splynn found the Kittani. Able to restore cloning and combine with transmutation - fun times. - Same Splugorth ...

Kelorin

Certain things about robots bother me (like the Triax robot that is 100 feet tall, and carries a laser rifle the size of a tree -- and does D6x10 MD). But generally I've learned to live with it. I just figure that robots are fairly disposable and aren't expected to survive combat. They're mobile he...

Kelorin

A long time ago I noticed robots are very expensive compared to PA when you take into account their weapons and armor. So in some of my games I implemented a special rule: Military grade robots can automate their secondary weapons systems. This adds a crapload of extra attacks but with a minimal bo...

Kelorin

Rifts: Australia - Mad Max: Road Warrior or Fury Road Rifts: NGR (Operation Sea Storm) - Live, Die, Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow Rifts: Japan - Seven Samurai for Empire, Ghost in the Shell and Akira for Republic. Rifts: New West - Magnificient Seven, Firefly and Serenity Rifts: New Navy - The Last Ship ...

Kelorin

I voted no based on two reasons. 1: Neither weapon mentions it can share ammo with the other. I'm fairly sure if they were able to share there would be a notation saying such. 2: Going off the drawings (I realize that's not exactly canon though) both weapons look to be of different sizes. And yet, ...

Kelorin

Never mind pre-Rifts weapons factories. The real treasure troves are seed banks: m One of the last two global facilities on the list is in North America: National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States Once you have the seeds, Lone Star and their Hydroponics...

Kelorin

How does the book define rare? Is it defined or just a flavor text? Here is how Dictionary.com defines rare: adjective, rarer, rarest. 1. coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon: a rare disease; His visits are rare occasions. 2. thinly distributed over an area; few and widely separ...

Kelorin

One point of contention. Palladium is pretty specific about which other races can cross-breed with humans and they typically need to be near-humans or human variants: ie: Ogres, True Atlanteans, Amazons, Sea Titans, Lemurians, Psi-Stalkers and Zentraedi (I've probably missed a couple). Of these, Og...

Kelorin

One point of contention. Palladium is pretty specific about which other races can cross-breed with humans and they typically need to be near-humans or human variants: ie: Ogres, True Atlanteans, Amazons, Sea Titans, Lemurians, Psi-Stalkers and Zentraedi (I've probably missed a couple). Of these, Ogr...

Kelorin

Well assuming the Republicans (God in heaven do they need a better name) took ARCHIE and all the intel and power hes got I could see them setting up shop as industrialist under the titan robotics banner in some city state the CS will definitely try to absorb at some point. Then when the CS comes ca...

Kelorin

I also think there's a decent chance that "Operation Fix Everything" will fall short. Especially considering that EVERYTHING the Republicans have ever tried has failed. They are a bit a bad punchline aren't they, but you're right: They have operational success ratio in the same range as D...

Kelorin

Almost definitely. Even a few concerted, non-lethal strikes (sperm and egg extraction) could do wonders. After all, if Sea Titans can mate with Humans, and Ogres can mate with humans, imagine an Ogre Sea Titan. That was given extensive tattoos before it changed. Wow, it would be a literal Munchkin ...

Kelorin

Not to derail the thread on using Sanctum on Chi-Town or just annoying the CS with Magic Pigeons, what would North America look like in 10 years, 25 years or 100 years if the Republicans plans to overthrow the CS leadership were to succeed? (Note: Let's try to avoid the current world politics of mak...

Kelorin

Live almost forever, have psi-powers, hard to kill and go through a mega-mating phase. Wow, Sea Titan are the Asari (Mass Effect) of Rifts! Here's another thought: What happens when (and if) Atlantis or New Phoenix Empire manages to capture a Sea Titan alive? To the Splugorth or a Necromancer, a Sea...

Kelorin

In the earlier World books, it seemed like anyone who had an example of a working Glitterboy / Chromium Gaurdsman was able to reverse engineer it, produce it and even construct local variants. South American nations were able to set up production of Glitterboys and RG-14s (for the aforementioned Mas...

Kelorin

It is amazing how one little idea can spark so much for rifts. But then again it was popular for a reason in my games. Things like this make me wonder if I should type up all my work so I can post it in a thread to posibally inspire people. That's the sort of stuff I was fishing for by posting this...

Kelorin

Heros for humanity says "Do they dare finally reveal themselves and unleash the NEMA forces from suspended animation these many centuries . " I don't think they could do that without making a play for control of ARCHIE. Sounds like they havent even secured the site from archie, rather tha...

Kelorin

Some thoughts: Conventional Car: Power Source: Liquid fuel engine. (gas, diesel, ethanol) . Locomotion: Wheels and driveshaft. TW Car: Power Source: Magic. Locomotion: Wheels and driveshaft. Conventional Airplane: Power Source: Liquid fuel engine (jet fuel, avgas). Locomotion: Lift provided by wings...

Kelorin

Adding all the PFRPG fantasy races to Phase World starts making me think of Warhammer and Warhammer 40K that did the same thing. Does anyone add the fantasy races and leave them low-tech on isolated single planets with no space-faring capability? Now that I think about it, Star Trek did the same thi...

Kelorin

Magical Pets Kitchen Implements An entire panoply of single function kitchen items. One that creates toasted slices of bread. Another that conjures single servings of freshly made pasta. One that stirs pots and maintains them at a constant temperature. One that transforms common fluids into fizzy o...

Kelorin

i'd say that with Arzno it is more of an "Enemy of my Enemy" deal.. they aren't allying with the CS, they just know the Demon invasions are a bad situation and thus are gearing up to help fight it.. even if it means anyone they send up risks being shot up by the CS as well as Demons. in r...

Kelorin

The Republicans woke the sleepers? Did they defeat ARCHIE, circumvent ARCHIE or reason with ARCHIE to convince him that the Demon/Deevil threat was sufficiently great as to justify waking them?

Kelorin

The easiest approach would of course be to just adapt over the GB transport Free Quebec uses in WB22, with perhaps a few weapons and stats changes to reflect prerifts NEMA rather than post-rifts use. But I can't help think that NEMA, being ones for dramatic visuals and expensive and mildly impracti...

Kelorin

Unless you are adding a major section update to a World Book, I'd rather see settings changed in an 'Aftermath' type book, that updates many of the individual settings at once. For character updates, there should have been update/conversion notes in RUE to bring older character classes inline with t...

Kelorin

With the Minion War on the go, I hope the Atlantean Demon Hunter / Slayer (I forget which) from the Rifters will become official canon. Unnecessary the Undead Slayer does that already. The Undead Slayer has a number of bonuses specific to Vampires, like can't be transformed into a vampire. I don't ...

Kelorin

to be honest, i do kind of wish we had official stats for energy weapon mods like we do for projectile weapons. it would help reduce some of the potential for munchkinism. most of the MD projectile weapons can benefit from the options given for SDC weapons, given they are just firing either big pro...

Kelorin

With the Minion War on the go, I hope the Atlantean Demon Hunter / Slayer (I forget which) from the Rifters will become official canon.

Kelorin

One of the arguments in the other thread was the that SA2 Neo-Human's MDC transformation was a unique RCC ability and was thus exempt from the psionic cancellation bit in Psyscape. I wonder if the folks arguing that position would feel the same way about the Psi-Ghost's Intangibility power or the Ps...

Kelorin

I've been playing a lot Destiny of late, which I would consider to be a RPG/FPS hybrid in that you use the shooting mechanics of traditional FPS games, but you also have the character customization and weapon/armor looting of your typical videogame RPGs. All of the better guns in the game have sele...

Kelorin

I've been playing a lot Destiny of late, which I would consider to be a RPG/FPS hybrid in that you use the shooting mechanics of traditional FPS games, but you also have the character customization and weapon/armor looting of your typical videogame RPGs. All of the better guns in the game have selec...

Kelorin

Actually, I could the Republicans being very interested in thousands of combat trained American humans displaced in time with 'old-school' ideals and values. Properly equipped with MDC NEMA gear they could be a very effective fighting force. I could see the Republicans arming them and manipulating ...

Kelorin

So let's say that in 109 PA, out of nowhere, a gigantic Rift opens up somewhere in the Caribbean. The following ships from our era (late 20th century-early 21st century) spews out of them: There are wo major factors to consider with regard to the fleet being Rifted forward, and that' before asking ...

Kelorin

I can't remember where it states this, but the CS considers anything that has passed through a rift (and this includes native earthborn humans) as D-Bees. So by definition, you have a sudden appearance of a large D-Bee fleet in possession of equipment and naval assets that rightfully belong to the C...

Kelorin

With that said unguided missiles are not actually "rockets" what that means is just because the missile isn't "homing" per say doesn't mean that it can't be fed a course (prior to launch) that involves maneuvering and course changes, it just means that its going to go to a prede...

Kelorin

Question: According to RUE, most missiles in Rifts are unguided. If missiles are fired from far enough away that you potentially have more than three or four actions to shoot them, don't you also have time to NOT be where the missiles were aimed? If the missiles are unguided then they don't have the...

Kelorin

PBR-05 Mk.VII Particle Board Rifle Using recently rediscovered pre-rifts technology this is a revolutionary weapon of unprecedented range and power. The weapon uses a built in wood chipper / resin board presser, powered by an e-clip to rapidly turn normal wood into particle board projectiles. Ideal...

Kelorin

Caveat; This is not canonical, but comes from a combination of some background in physics coupled with a healthy dose of SCIENCE!!!! and Comicesque Male Bovine Manure. Okay so we basically have four general energy weapon types in Rifts(there are more, but lets just hold onto the main ones for now) ...

Kelorin

When Rifts started out a lot of the information on high-energy weapons as real life applications didn't exist yet (they should still have been able to look up what lightning and ions were) so they would have had to make up a lot of it. Fair enough, can't fault Palladium on that one. What does bug me...

Kelorin

Hi, Rifts has a number of different weapon names that on the surface seem to be the same basic type of weapon, but have widely differing damage ranges. Rifts Australia and one of the fighter jets in Rifts Triax have weapons that are described as lightning or arc throwers. The Australia one has a bri...

Kelorin

Could someone maybe write or submit a Rifts: Lazlo book? For a place as important as it to the plotline, it is very noticeable gap.

Kelorin

Every discussion about taking down Splynncryth's Atlantis always comes back to the trillions of additional troops old One Eye has in reserve off-planet . So, seems to me that the discussiaon should be how best to lock-out those extra-dimensional reserves by destroying, taking control or de-powering ...

Kelorin

There are other groups hunting and fighting the Mechanoids such as Glitterboy squads out of Free Quebec, Splugorth Kittani squads, Shemarrians, Robot Control mercenaries, Hagan and his secret bots... Your groups should try to hook up with one of these outfits (you mentioned that your groups has hook...

Kelorin

Have you read "What is a Credit?" (I believe that is the title), in the Rifts: Game Master Guide? Essentially, Credit Cards (cards with Credits on them) work like Australian Debit Cards. You put credits on them, swipe them and it takes credits off them. Presumably there is certain fail sa...

Kelorin

the black market isn't illegal everywhere, actually. also, just because you oppose the CS, doesn't mean you can't use their money. but even if it did, precious metals and gems do exist, and in fact is a starting option for starting money for a number of characters. as to sustainability, well, that ...

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