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Daniel Stoker

Werebeasts look like they're a species unto themselves. In fact, they're hardly shapeshifters at all; they use specific spell knowledge and PPE to transform. Are you sure about the PPE to transform part? I pulled out the Dark Conversion book and I don’t see anything about needing PPE to transform i...

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I think you could have a fun game running a splinter group of DT members trying to find a way to contact the heroes and get them to help get them out of the DT and off world since if nothing else even if Alpha Prime doesn't have a ship she should be able to get some sent here... but will it be in ti...

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Maybe they like it here after all. As written, I don't think they'd reintegrate themselves back into polite society very well, as they're all kind of psycho sadists now. Heck, the Grand Inquisitor turns into an irrational lunatic if he doesn't torture a human at least once a week. That'd be an expe...

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Yeah, they're written as being anti-Human in the VU book and can be a fun group to have behind all kinds of plots.

That being said did Century Station ever address why they didn't contact the Blaze to get the heck off the planet?

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Daniel Stoker

Do they need the drugs to maintain their powers or are they just going to be addicted to them?

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Daniel Stoker

I had thought about using Mutants of Avalon as source material but eventually dismissed it without really ever looking through it. Maybe I should dig it out and see what it says. As for Excalibur, I may try creating something like the Mystic Weapon power category from Heroes Unlimited. I could thin...

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That could work too.

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You also need to REALLY update the skills, lets be honest the computer ones alone are pretty bad but we need to add more or generalize them and pick more specific 'focuses' for them.

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Good times... good times.

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Daniel Stoker

I never said it was brought back in time, let alone he wanted it to be. I said that since this is Palladium, which isn't known for catching errors or sticking to stuff when something cool can be done with it instead, I'd think the simplest answer is that he originally wanted it to be exclusive to No...

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Its more likely that RUE is wrong, as there are dozens of other statements in RUE that are unequivocally wrong (North America a wilderness that is hard to travel around and unexplored - except you can literally charter commercial flights, etc). This is Palladium, isn't the simplest answer likely th...

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Gotcha, sorry about that, that makes a lot more sense.

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See I assumed that was a new thing for both those classes but I don't remember iron Juggernauts at all in Atlantis.

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They did? I don't have my books with me but I remember rune weapons and tattoo magic and the parasites and the like, but I'm blanking on them having TW too.

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Only if he said Wibbly Wobbly first, sadly he did not and at this time our judges tell us we cannot accept his answer.

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Daniel Stoker

I guess I’m missing something, if the book tells us it was invented in North America then how can it be all over the megaverse well before it was even invented in North America? I mean clearly the book is ‘wrong’ because as other books have shown it’s not just there in North America and a new proces...

Daniel Stoker

So.... aren't you agreeing with him? The books say it originates from Rifts Earth, but then later books go back and add it to all kinds of other groups despite the original information taking something that was exclusive to one area/group and then giving it to all kinds of people?

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Daniel Stoker

It's not like of their spells have the range regardless.

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I'd probably go with The Usurper from Villains Unlimited page 203. He's basically Doctor Doom with super powers and a great backstory and I can imagine him being a blast to play with his ego and personality.

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Daniel Stoker

Well the character is part of an ancient race serpent people.... so technically almost yes?

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Well figured you'd think it's ok.

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Daniel Stoker

NP! But yeah PJ is also right that a lot of the time they also fudge stuff with NPC's.

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Daniel Stoker

I'd say they fudged some but let's see (And I'm assuming max numbers here just cause), he's got a PS of 9, Bestowed Abilities gives him 2D6 so +12, Supernatural Strength gives 30 + 2d6 so + 42, but he's also a Mega hero and it notes he has Tremendous Strength which is +20, so we're left with 83 whic...

Daniel Stoker

So this is a simple-ish question, the Eugenic's category allows you to buy psionic powers in different categories and I'm trying to decide if I should allow a player who wants a more 'mystical' character to do the same thing, but with spell casing ability. I'm looking at limiting it to them only lea...

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I think something to keep in mind is that I don't think this comparison is apples to apples. The Argument is over 1 character with Energy Expulsion not being as useful as someone with Superhuman Strength, APS Stone, and Extraordinary PE. SO lets translate that: "This one minor power doesn't ho...

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Colonel_Tetsuya wrote:Kev's ego is... legendary. I've experienced it once myself (had a spirited ... discussion once at GenCon),

I'd just point to the NPC's in the Heroes of the Megaverse book for a good look at that.

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I like your system there Glistam.

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Daniel Stoker

If you're going to do collars the 90's X-Men cartoon series did something similar. I'd make them have some sort of detonator if people try to mess with them but you're also going to need to find a way to protect them against someone with Machine Merge or Telemechanics or Electrokineses from messing ...

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My last character worked for a 'shadowy organization' that the rest of the group only mostly trusted, but before that they were mostly doing Archaeology and planning digs where the group was pretty sure a monster might be.

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It's not stealing, you're just being 'influenced by'.

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"Rommel, You Magnificent Bastard. I Read Your Book!" Great movie, though that quote would sound a lot less impressive with Patton's real voice.

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Yeah, add me to the "No MDC in my HU game" list. A high AR and SDC can mimic it enough for super crazy tough items like giant robots or kaiju that I really don't see the need for it.

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Daniel Stoker

Also consider smaller budget Eugenic characters ala Doc Savage.

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Yeah, I had a character try to pull a Legolas with a giant mount and he died when he flubbed a dodge roll and got stepped on by several tons of running War Dinosaur.

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Nice! I'll have to log back in and read it.

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Daniel Stoker

Well tactics are also going to matter, a lot of the time you see people wading into battles but a less powerful character should consider things like attacking on the flank, or staying with a stronger/bigger hero and guard their back and scream bloody murder if you're going to get into combat with a...

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Well you can always say yours is a runt, or a smaller sub-species and halve the size and MDC and the like.

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Hopkins does a better butler, or be really 'meta' and use Jim Carter.

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You need to have it voiced by Anthony Hopkins.

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There's a reason why I put together the Price changes for the Eugenic's category and posted it here myself.

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Daniel Stoker

So, I was re-reading the Call Lightening spell description the other night and it reminded me of two questions that I had, and I thought was posted here ages back but I can't find now. The first question is that the spell says, "The lightening bolt shoots down from the sky, hitting the desired ...

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Well after a lot of going down rabbit holes... yeah there were a number of different types of medieval shoes that used wood for the soles and many of the holds used for shoes were also made of wood, so yeah, the wood working makes sense for a cobbler.

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To be able to make wooden shoes and sandals I guess?

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Not a worry, that just means I can totally plop "The Pitt" down in there without having to worry about canon issues.

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Well anything I was going to say has been said (and probably better then me too) by HWalsh. Good post!

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Daniel Stoker

Wait, are we talking about the druids starting on page 38 in the England book? The fact that they don't get any spells to start with and get to do herb (or blacksmithing) magic always led me to believe that was all they got. Is the assumption that they can learn invocation/spell magic?

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Your assertion that the rule about learning spells in the core rulebook only applies to the classes in the core rulebook. Im not sure how its unclear. If you believe that - that the rules in the core rulebook only cover the classes in the core rulebook, you, by default, think Kevin is so stupid tha...

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I still don't get the part about needing to think Kevin "is a monumentally stupid person". Doesn't say what? That they're a specialist? Ok, but where is the rule that specialist OCC's can't buy spells and which ones are specialists that are called out as such? That being said and going bac...

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Well the Temporal Wizard seems like they can just pick them based on what their spell section says with the wizard limited to 1-4 for conventional spells and I'd guess any for Temporal ones.

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Then you're outright saying that you believe Kevin is a monumentally stupid person who wrote a general rule fully intending to never implement another magic OCC ever again. Which is just absurd on its face. Again, it's not complicated: Are you a mystic? Then you cant learn spells at any time. Are y...

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