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Captain Shiva

Thanks; I don't know how overlooked that, because I have that issue.

Captain Shiva

I hope someone can help me out with this: I remember reading about some different types of Cyborgs, one of which was called the Skeleborg; shaped like a Skelebot. This might have been a decade ago; I not sure. I thought it was in a Rifter article, but I cannot find it. Of course, it might have been ...

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I always hated when a player wanted to just kill NPCs for no reason then just to kill them. But lucky for me I always plan for those idiots, funny they never liked the pay back they got from the NPCs family, sometimes it was just brutal,sick and completely sadistic, because rifts is a dangerous pla...

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So, the Black Plague happened in the 1800s?

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Anyone can sharpen a stick. Hell, you can probably just break a leg off a table or chair and it will have a pointy end to stick something with. However, just being able to sharpen said stick doesn't make it the right kind of wood, nor does it mean you have the proficiency to be stabbing a vampire w...

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Anyone can sharpen a stick. Hell, you can probably just break a leg off a table or chair and it will have a pointy end to stick something with. However, just being able to sharpen said stick doesn't make it the right kind of wood, nor does it mean you have the proficiency to be stabbing a vampire w...

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I don't blame the game, I blame the players that championed it to the exclusion of everything else. I would open my mouth about looking for a 4E group and get nothing but diatribes about how "4th Edition sucks, you can't do anything with it, you need to play Pathfinder". Pathfinder player...

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My third most hated is the Rules Lawyer. Arguing rules, I find, is boring and it takes valuable time away from doing the fun parts of the game, like RP'ing and combat. Rules Lawyer to a point is fine. As a player, I find it very annoying when the rules have the consistency of quicksand, or when I b...

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My third most hated is the Rules Lawyer. Arguing rules, I find, is boring and it takes valuable time away from doing the fun parts of the game, like RP'ing and combat. Rules Lawyer to a point is fine. As a player, I find it very annoying when the rules have the consistency of quicksand, or when I b...

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Slightly off topic, but I played under a GM who was a mixture of Perv and Gender Bender, but he(now she) tried to pull me into some weird, twisted shiggety in a game, and I had to threaten to drop out to get it stopped.

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Vrykolas2k wrote:
Alrik Vas wrote:Those are all annoying, but i enjoy them all (except for the slob and the X-file) for the strengths they have a result of (or perhaps in duality with) their faults.

Aside from driving away female players, what strengths would the perv have?

Driving away anyone with taste or common sense?

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The Helen Keller- "I didn't see that on my character sheet! I didn't hear you!"

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While I am forced to agree that to make a pointy object for the most part (i.e. a tent stake) requires no skill, that is not always the case. Soft wood will be easier to sharpen then, I don't know HARD wood, which by the way won't crack open on a ribcage. Soft wood, would (pardon the pun). To make ...

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you rarely run into the issue and its easy to dodge..just go solid or dodge the burst. Its really not that killer a weakness as it seems. Since when is dodging energy bursts easy? Most energy weapons have huge penalties to dodge and bonus nullificaiton. Psi-Ghosts don't have any special avoidance a...

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Happens to the best of us... lesse if I can pick out what you wrote... If you are intangible, then so is your EBA. The gasses would then have normal effect. The lightning sword would pass right through the armor. A possible house rule would be to have SDC electricity do normal damage, and MDC elect...

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Happens to the best of us... lesse if I can pick out what you wrote... If you are intangible, then so is your EBA. The gasses would then have normal effect. The lightning sword would pass right through the armor. A possible house rule would be to have SDC electricity do normal damage, and MDC elect...

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NG has a a stealth suit that is MDC. its in Merc ops. I assume it's under the 20lb weight limit of what Psi-Ghosts can bring along? I overlooked this, I think I was mixing up my ideas about astral projections with intangibility, since astral bros can't usually bring armor, especially into the mater...

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NG has a a stealth suit that is MDC. its in Merc ops. I assume it's under the 20lb weight limit of what Psi-Ghosts can bring along? I overlooked this, I think I was mixing up my ideas about astral projections with intangibility, since astral bros can't usually bring armor, especially into the mater...

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I like what the OP came up with but its not how I would envision vibro-grenades. To me the OPs is a "sonic" grenade, not a "vibro" grenade. IMO A vibro-grenade would be a version of a frag grenade where the projectiles expelled from the exploding grenade are imparted with a temp...

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Particle beam weapons have historically been able to harm a person that has the innate ability to become intangible. This is presented in HU, HU2 if I recall correctly. Never spotted that. but makes sens as that would agitate and or disrupt molecules and its an energy weapon so a laser or other typ...

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I ran a Rifts campaign several years ago with a Ps-Ghost PC. I made up this house rule: if you are intangible, you can not directly affect the physical world. No "I turn intangible, walk up to the CS soldier, and use TK to pull the pins on all his grenades. And you can't use Bio-Manipulation w...

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Alien Intelligences in general are very Lovecraftian. Dragons and Gods has more material on them.

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ArmySGT. wrote:
Alrik Vas wrote:I don't need stats or anything, but what is the premise of the Pretty Zombie?

It is surprise and shock. The PC thinks he is helping a beautiful woman survivor. Then the woman tries to eat his face.

Or a post-apocalyptic psycho tries to force himself on her, and she eats something else.

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I ran a Rifts campaign several years ago with a Ps-Ghost PC. I made up this house rule: if you are intangible, you can not directly affect the physical world. No "I turn intangible, walk up to the CS soldier, and use TK to pull the pins on all his grenades. And you can't use Bio-Manipulation wh...

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Just had another idea: smoke grenades plus EBA plus Neural Mace.

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Bio-Manipulation might work as well as some Mind Bleeder powers. In spells, Mental Blast(Book of Magic page 109) and Agony(page 114,) as well as Life Drain and Mental Shock(both on page 117) are likely candidates. Deathword(page 132) is a good choice, as is Soultwist(page 145.) Rounding out the list...

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Telemechanic Paralysis can drop a high-tech opponent quickly. I do not believe this is a canon power in Rifts, but I once talked a GM into letting me have the psionic version of Teleport Object, which is quite useful with fusion blocks.

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id say no, i dont think sharpening a stick should take a skill roll. its like making some one roll wilderness survival to set up a tent. I'm with Zamion. I mean I am kind of a skill Nazi but sharpening a stick? Now if only certain types of wood effected vamps then it should absolutely take a lore s...

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In one issue of the Rifter, there is a small robot shaped like a rat. How about building a vibro-grenade into something like that?

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* Inner Beast(Super) This power unleashes the inner animal said to exist within all of us; the primordial killer that comes out when flight is impossible, and reason futile. The power projects an ectoplasmic construct that typically appears as a glowing, unearthly avatar of the person’s rage; typic...

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Doing my best to sort out what is from Shiva here... He could pretend to be in his early 20s, like the actor playing him actually was. That could apply to movie-version Ed but not necessarily book-version Ed. If he actually was 22 or so, it would be still inappropriate to date high school girls. He...

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was picking on Twilight specifically. Most of the other examples you cite are between consenting adults. So it's moreso the 'she's under 18' factor than the 'a century separates us' factor? Doris and Leila are both 17 and I still wouldn't hate D for having feelings for 'em, nor Ryoko for liking Ten...

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I was picking on Twilight specifically. Most of the other examples you cite are between consenting adults. What bothered me was that Edward Cullen pretended to be a high school kid.And I wonder,how old was Lucy Westenra when Dracula seduced/raped her? Lucy was dating three adult males and had accep...

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Do you also find it creepy and pathetic that The Dreamer (over 2000 years old) and Henry Smith (early 40s) are lovers (Rifts Mercs) or that in Vampire Kingdoms Carlotta (99) and Raoul (25) are lovers and that Meetal (29, 15 when she met him) is falling in love with her idol/mentor Grizzly Carter (3...

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was going to ad SPARKLES in sunlight as a weakness How about "Can't Act," and "Still Dates High School Girls" instead? "Still Dates High School Girls" is a power I would love to have. In The immortal (pun intended) words of Matthew Mcconaughy in Dazed and Confused - &q...

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This is just my personal opinion,but I would just continue to let the HTH skill progress normally,just as if you had never changed classes. That is unbalanced, because it's a heck of a lot easier to get to level 2 in 15 OCCs than it is to reach level 15 in one of them. Again,just my personal opinio...

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This is just my personal opinion,but I would just continue to let the HTH skill progress normally,just as if you had never changed classes. That is unbalanced, because it's a heck of a lot easier to get to level 2 in 15 OCCs than it is to reach level 15 in one of them. Again,just my personal opinio...

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Daniel Stoker wrote:Well that's the Penanggalan, one of my favorites.

Daniel Stoker

I believe it is also known by other names in other cultures from the same region.

Captain Shiva

Some vampire types from Asia are really weird; their heads detach from their bodies and fly around.

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say652 wrote:i just like vampires as a menace. i was going to ad SPARKLES in sunlight as a weakness but after attempting to strangle myself with my mouse cable thought better of it.

How about "Can't Act," and "Still Dates High School Girls" instead?

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If you want another British team member,how about someone skilled with ye olde English longbow? Like maybe a descendant of Robin Hood?

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you should have japan using stuff out of the rifts japan book. the ninjas types specifically. maybe the monks(would they fight for the empire?) and of course the samurai. remember the war had two fronts two vastly different armies with different styles of warfare. maybe in china a demon quellar as ...

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This is just my personal opinion,but I would just continue to let the HTH skill progress normally,just as if you had never changed classes. Don't you mean you personal house rule, cause what you said is contrary to what the canon rules say. The canon rules for multiclassing,as written,are not well ...

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This is just my personal opinion,but I would just continue to let the HTH skill progress normally,just as if you had never changed classes.

Captain Shiva

So im gonna run a campaign based during ww2 with alastair crowley working with the british the government to organize a specialized team to deal with the third reich more unique threats. Right now i have a british supersoldier, a spell thrower, and an alien that is human in apperance and is an infl...

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This class has impressive power potential.If you take Invulnerability as your super power mutation,you have an excellent chance of surviving most Rifts combats unscathed.Adding the magic class abilities of the Magebane from Mercenary Adventures makes you nearly immune to magic.For the class skills.p...

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yes they could summon a fire elemental but the Warlock would be a becone to every dead head for miles. also taalismn i love that weapon i plan on using it in my game as well as the Lifeshot (and to the above in my game the zeds dont see or sence ppe) True enough,but with a little planning,that coul...

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If you had a Warlock,he could simply summon a fire elemental.

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Perhaps your speech should be incomprehensible to most,but you can survive having your face shot off.

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