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I think the implied intent for the defensive disarm would be for it to trigger when the character attempts to parry an attack and rolls a 19 or 20. It hasn’t really come up in my games but that is how I think I would handle it. What are the exception that would cause it to trigger on lower number or...

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And there is no excuse for justifying this. I think you are mixing up justifying that something exists with recognizing it exists. Then it would seem you are linking "justifying" its existence with approving of it. Do any of us like that racism, hate, war, or murder exist? Most people don...

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The only book I am looking forward to would be the Old Kingdoms. For my uses, the rest of the world has enough info that I am happy to fill in the gaps. I will certianly get and use some of what is in the Lopan and Land of the Southwinds books when they are finished and pulled in full. But I wasn't ...

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Thanks for all of the additional input. I do like a lot of other settings out there from D&D and other games. I haven't ever actually used any of them though.

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There are some good highlights here. A couple other things of note from my experience. 1. Advantage and disadvantage is the primary mechanic for adding to or reducing the difficulty of success for actions. If something makes it easier to succeed, the character gains advantage. Or, when something is ...

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Looks like you have a pretty concrete by the book answer. I like that the spell casters have to be careful and use their spells wisely so they don't harm themselves for their allies. This helps keep the balance. But, I could see other exceptions or giving the caster a bonus to save or reduced damage...

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Okay, I am late to this party. However, I have always viewed TK as the psychic using ISP to install kinetic energy in an item. Instead of having to generate the energy of motion by picking up, pushing, or throwing an item, the TK user installs the energy in the item through force of will and then ca...

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Vek, I do like the advantage/disadvantage mechanic some too. I also agree it is used to widely in place of more reasonable bonuses or penalties. Adding that to PF in some form could be cool. Kiralon, that is scattered list across a few versions of DnD. Some of those were a little too complicated or ...

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Wow, no one responded for 10 months on this thread! I am rarely on the forums these days and I mostly just interact with the PF board. tejas121, I felt Wormwood is better suited to be an SDC fantasy world for a long time. I am not aware of Braden's Wormwood solution either. To convert to SDC you sho...

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A couple years ago when my then 9 year old was getting interested in role-playing games I decided to give DnD 5e a shot. It seems a lot simpler to understand and the electronic tools looked promising. Now, a little over two years later, I think that was a great call. I have never been a fan of DnD. ...

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Fly like so many other things in Palladium’s library lacks helpful details. The intent of the spell is clear though; this is supposed to create a flying broom or carpet for the mage and possibly a couple of people to use to fly. And if GMs and players see it and use it that way everything is fine. T...

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TK as with all psionics, magic, and other powers is always tricky to balance thematics with playability and plausibility. In games it can be hard enough to manage those for real world things we can observer and try to translate. So, my take on standard telekinesis (minor/major/super), is that you ar...

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It is a weird progression. Thematically, I think assassins should really have better bonuses to strike and damage and less attacks. The idea of an assassin is to get in a deadly attack that ends the fight or eliminates the target. It would fit more for other fighters to have more attacks and better ...

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Maybe the flame is actually a much smaller part of the stated area, but the area is what will take damage? Or, you just decide that is how it works. So many powers/abilities/spells etc. break down and don't fully make sense if you look at them too closely.

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Good thread. For Braden, I would think there would be more fighters mixed in. The race is more war like and aggressive than humans. But I wouldn't shift the total numbers of orcs for encounters. For Mark, I like your idea of ogres continuing to grow throughout their life. That does help explain how ...

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I had observed the same issue where armor really wasn't doing much. There are a lot of interesting ideas here. Some seem to get a little complicated. My house rule is pretty simple. If the attacker does not make called shot to bypass the armor, the armor takes damage. If the total attack roll is hig...

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In Rifter #30 the A Cut Above article has some W.P. skills for archery as well.

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Well... very interesting question. I had not fully considered this angle when creating the Malvoren. Their power is really a supernatural extreme and specialized form of telemechanics. Fundamental limitations like melding with an actual full or partial conversion 'borg are off limits. For standard A...

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In Rifter #30 the "A cut Above" article has optional rules for pass through from combat while in M.D.C. armor. Among a few other things.

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Pole arm users should be able to learn to do multiple parry, double strike, and parry strike. Much like the abilities of paired weapons.

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I expected some delays with the product as that is just how things work with Palladium. While the game play sounds cool and most of the packaging, cards, and accessory components are nice, I have to admit the number of parts for each figure is insane. I will never end up using this game. I was expec...

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1. Original Rifts Cover
2. Nightbane
3. South America

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When I wrote that article RUE was not out yet. Most people played with the “2 attacks for living”. So mages generally had 4 attacks per melee. Low level spells then took 2 attacks, mid took 4, and so on. The intent was for most mages to be able to sling low level spells one per attack, mid level in ...

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I like the idea of wizard towers being something like a weaker more limited version of pyramid. They should be able to grant the owner/builder/occupants ley line walker like abilities. I see no problem with teleportation between towers connected directly by ley lines. Some minor PPE storage or incre...

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I don't really understand all of the hang up on whether anything printed anywhere in a game book, Rifter, these forums, or any fan site is canon or not comes from. I treat it all the same, if I like, I use it my games. If I don't like I don't use it. Or, I tweak it so it will work for me and my grou...

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Truth is they cut and pasted the skill section and added skills from the the old rule book and many other minor books. Likly they mised a redunded skill. I would bet my book collection this is how we got the overlap. My solution has always been to not include staff under blunt. A staff is much more...

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I'm not comfortable sleeping in anything more than boxers. No way I could survive more that a couple days sleeping in any type of armor. Even the toughest person who can learn to sleep in uncomfortable places will eventually start suffering from sleeping in armor.

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Yes, I loved using the Mechanoids. One of the first campaigns I ran revolved around them. I basically started the players with the original Archie adventure and near the end had it merge with the Mechanoids arrival. The players were hunting for Hegan in the Archie complex and were there when the Mec...

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I have always wanted to add Psi-Stalkers, Bursters, and Tattooed men to PF. More recently the magic OCCs from Fed of Magic have seemed like a good fit. Not much else really. I mostly like the selection of characters as they are.

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Depends on the feel you are going for. If you want wandering heroes go with Ley Line Walker, Cyber-Knight, Operator, Glitter Boy Pilot, Wilderness Scout. If you want to go darker and capturing man trying scrape back from the abyss go with Shifter, Mind Melter, Juicer, Cyborg, Psi-Stalker. Another op...

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I think I would want my own little kingdom in the Eastern Territories. As an immortal golem wizard I could rule forever.

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I deal with perception checks in two ways, static and opposed. For both types of perception checks I use the IQ attribute score on the ME save psi chart. Few characters really have a bonus from this. I also usually give all characters a +1 for perception checks at levels 4/7/11/15. In many cases ski...

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I have always like the Ulti-max as well. As everyone else has stated, the mini-missiles, plus force field, plus laser, plus decent MDC, plus rail gun makes it very versatile. And for it's size pretty powerful over all. I have still always felt the rail gun should do at least 2d4x10 MD. I think 2d6x1...

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I enjoy many of the OCCs. I really like rangers, long bowmen, and mind mages. I think rangers with psionics are my overall favorite.

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There are many that I really like and it depends on if I am playing or GMing, and where the game is set. But I would probably go with Source Book 1 because it really captured the original gritty feel of Rifts. Some of the later books sort catch it. But in general the dark, gritty, and dangerous feel...

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I have a set of house rules that I use for initiative. They sound a little complicated at first, but after just a couple melees it all makes sense and is very easy. I call it Time Sliced Initiative. Here it is: This method is designed to speed up and simplify combat. The basic premise is that each c...

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When I run into this situation I have something with the story line happen. If I was planning an encounter later for the story, I might adapt it and use. Or, based on the story I come up with an encounter that changes the story. Whether the encounter is beneficial for the group or not depends on wha...

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They really should add more super psy powers that are available to all master psi classes. Seriously in all the years rifts has been going there has been one generically useful book for psychics and that is psyscape and even that added precious few powers that were obtainable by most psychics. Even...

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Really, by canon there are not any good ways to handle this that make sense to me. For the OP, I am not giving a canon answer, nor do I support any variant of canon answer that may or may not apply to your situation. This is how I would handle it. In a case like this the old skills or special abilit...

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There are already a lot of good answers. And like Carl said, Phase is where the money is at if you want to do space adventures. I think for the core setting though nothing paints a better picture of the desolate world Rifts is supposed to be then the Source Book (first edition or revised, doesn't ma...

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Pyrokinesis would be a strong contender. I can start a fire with sticks and stones, but it’s not very easy to do with a wild animal bearing down on you. For flexibly of offense and defense, and just basic survival I don’t know if anything would be as useful as Pyrokinesis. Another really useful powe...

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My first Rifts, and RPG for that matter, was a human Cyber-Knight named Mercer. At the time only the Rifts RPG book was out. Cyber-Knights are still one of my favorite classes.

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Veritas, people were responding with their thoughts and ideas that were as close to your question as they had. It isn’t very reasonable to attack those who are trying to have a civil discourse with you just because you are not getting the answers you expected. While the answers were not exactly what...

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I am certain that I am alone on this but I love Mechanoid Invasion! It allowed me to really use ARCHIE and Hagan who are two of my favorite NPCs and the Edict of Planetary Distress has given me a story line that I have used for better then a decade. It also leads into other books really nice way in...

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From the Rifts line I think Wormwood might be my favorite. But, I would prefer to separate it from Rifts entirely. So, for actual use with Rifts I would have to go with Atlantis. There is just a ton of very cool stuff in it for players and GMs.

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I give out experience points as players earn them; the difference is that I use counters. The players then total up the experience at the end of the session. Currently I use small glass beads with a flat side like the ones used in the bottom of fish tanks. I have also used poker chips. This method s...

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Jedi. Their raw power is way greater. Their combat ability is way better.

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Nightbane with wererabbit morphus.

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This is an interesting “quick little something”. Are you going any farther with this? Is this for an adventure or campaign you are running?

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Mystic Knight, might be cool. A changeling in Nightbane could be interesting. Many might get a changeling confused with minions of the nightlords. Using the vows of any religious order is a good cover for the food allergies. Then the GM moved out of state and I never did get called a "lowly mon...

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