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Plane

This is what I do for Bio Regen minor. IIRC Bio Regen Super actually lists an MDC amount that is similar to the HP/SDC amount.

Not in RUE that I can see, pg 178 only listing HP and SDC to me.

That said, there are a couple oddities buried in the Conversion Book for MDC species with psionics ...

Plane

presently Palladium's homepage is using this graphic:

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and linking here:

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What I'm ...

Plane

I like the idea of closed rifts getting more challenging to sense over time but not sure what numbers to apply there.

Plane

Gods change their appearance to match the expectations of their worshipers. So you can reuse the pantheons ... they just don't have to let the PCs know that behind the image they present is an old friend/nemesis. Such is their mystery.

yeah it's kinda the Galactus approach

and also, even if a ...

Plane

Nice find with that! I can't seem to find these speed guidelines on pages 205 and 206 of the original conversion book where it describes AIs and possesion... nor in Dark Conversions on 8 and 188... even though DC does reference Dragons and Gods it seems like an oversight they left it out.

Not ...

Plane

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2215803-ancient-footprints-show-neanderthals-may-have-been-taller-than-thought/

The Le Rozel footprints matched modern man, so maybe there were varieties of neanderthal who were short and tall.

The ones who died out and left bones for us to find were clearly ...

Plane

pg 21 (left) talks about a 900 PPE ritual which allows Nxla to send out fragments for 1d6+2 minutes - this is cheaper and at low levels lasts longer than your usual Dimensional Portal spell (which lasts a minute per level when cast as a ritual, 30 sec per level othewise) but I'm not sure how long it ...

Plane

I had forgotten how fast and tough Xombies are and just how fast they regenerated MDC, but going by Psyscape 22 they lack ranged combat options so an aerial power armor w/ unlimited energy ammo can eventually whittle them down if they can do more than 40 MD per melee.

To me the scariest aspect has ...

Plane

Ogres were at one point referred to as neanderthals so I'd be fine letting them have it but not any further back on the ape spectrum despite the weirdness of elves.

Plane

So, many years ago, I played a shifter who made a pact and the GM, for whatever reason, didn't go with the standard Shifter pact, but a Pact of Magic. Looking back on it, it annoys me, because that's about the last thing a spellcaster would want. Another type of mage? Sure, they might like the ...

Plane

yeah permanency is so powerful the AMC doesn't really fully supress it in a cancelly way like most spells but makes it go to sleep like a mystic energy drain or something but more absolute

Plane

mayhaps there be a secret alliance between Nxla and Kzaa where Xombies are being outfitted with TW power armor and that's how they're actually a threat somehow

Plane

Conversion Book adapted them on page 190 - the MDC was pretty low but the PPE and their spells is really impressive.

They were never put in the Hades section for comparison so it's hard to say if they're a "true demon" though.

Back when monsters were classicied into lesser/greater beings (a BTS ...

Plane

The best example I can give for how I view this is to recommend looking at the text of the Psi-Nullifier on page 68 of Psyscape.

MBAD is a starting power.

Now read the text under their 2nd ability, Null Void:

Thus, fellow psychics cannot sense his presence, see his aura, sense psionics in him ...

Plane

if the force in which you swing/thrust an energy weapon doesn't affect it then we might get a situation like in "Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation" where they drop a lightsaber and it just melts ddownard into the earth's core indefinitely, how do we deal with that?

Plane

given the Sowki example it'd be neat to have rules on what power creates a witch and also what power one could use to sever witchy controls while stealing the power

Plane

perhaps between book 12 and 16 the soulharvesters moved elsewhere?

Plane

If someone is canceling a power that is currently functioning, they are doing it as planned.
If they are reacting to something, then they have to make that decision and making that decision takes time.
That is, unless, they always drop it as a matter of course, but then what's the point of having ...

Plane

Here's one precursor question everyone:

how many actions does it cost to cancel a psionic power that is in use before its dration elapses?

ie for the normal mind block guy - does he need to spend a melee action lowering the block b4 max dur?

If not , if it's a free action to lower it - why isn't ...

Plane

If a mage's plan to do this was going to succeed it seems like the kind of massive impending disaster which would trigger dozens (hundreds) of nightmares among Psi-Net's clairvoyants and give them guidelines as to what areas to guard and cues for when to expect the attack so they can intercept it ...

Plane

The way I always took the "consciously and willingly lower" thing is that anyone actively using a psionic power can make the choice "I am prioritizing this over a mind block"

Based on that, if a Mind Block activates from outside their conscious choice (either an Auto-Defense or a Group Mind Block ...

Plane

the second paragraph is all that really matters. "I must stress the psychic knows everything about the machine; the complete schematic diagram and operational knowledge (emphasis mine) are clearly seen in the mind's eye."

Despite my initial balk at the idea of a Mind Melter now throwing down ...

Plane

yeah I'm just thinking what we need is something where the % skill in teleporting might factor into an enhanced chance of getting sucked into maelstroms explaining why the 10%ers are loathe to attempt it aside from the timewasting

Plane

One thing to keep in mind is "what is the failure state of a dimensional teleport". Because it is possible that rather than "nothing happens, try again", something bad happens to them. Like they make the teleport, but don't arrive in the universe they were aiming for. Or they fail, and suffer some ...

Plane

I thought activated/energized circles where already indestructible (aside from their creator)?

Page 132 of PF2:

"In the case of adding a permanence ward to a magic circle, the entire circle (one giant symbol) becomes indestructible and permanently energized"

This would imply that the default ...

Plane

pretty much whichever god pokes their head up publicly will probably just get shot w/ a Sphere of Annihilation launcehd at them by an enemy via targeting through a worshipper's eyes, or maybe ambushed w/ a souldrinking rune dagger, so there's good reasons not to regularly and predictably come out ...

Plane

Threads which discuss the stats of gods do tend to presuppose agreement with the concept of giving them out as the game writers have been consistently doing since the 80s.

Plane

I don't even know how Wormwood linking to the Calgary Rift is even considered a permenent one TBH since the Calgary Rift explicitly rotates between destinations like the St Louis one does.

Like what would that look like exactly - you can always go WW>Earth but can't always make the return trip?

I ...

Plane

That would be too simple

Plane

fun thing I noticed checking some older threads - I had thought RUE introduced these tables in 2005 but it turns out they're from pg 181 of Dark Conversions back in 2002 even before Megaverse Builder came out in 2003, so it was in the first update to the Shifter OCC and not the 2nd

the calgary ...

Plane

ah I get it so you affix the portal to the indestructible parchment instead of a destructible carpet I guess

Reduce Self sounds like a great idea! You could fly on your bat-familiar as a vehicle!

Plane

i'm not sure if the calgary rift is a constant one.. it's write up in 'megaverse in flames' talks of it surging, and opening to various places... the same language used to describe normal transitory rifts.

the write up for the city also makes no mention of a permanent mile high rift.

The ...

Plane

Sounds like a fair interpretation of the ability though page 14 notes if the body you're using isn't a spellcaster those PPE costs are doubled which probably includes the permanent amounts too.

Plane

in the zombie combat rules, it states that an UNMODIFIED rule of 17 or higher is needed to hit a zombie head or neck.
BUT the core rulebook also has a called shot and aimed shot rules that states there are bonuses and penalties (I assume both are accumulative/combined) for hitting targets as small ...

Plane

Chaos Earth: Creatures of Chaos has a table for Chaos Storms occurring in Blue Zones, but doesn't specify anything pertinent.

Page 14 at least specifies that at this time ley lines shone "ten times more brightly" than ley lines by the time of Rifts Earth. Which might give us some guidelines as ...

Plane

For example, Tolmet on pg 132 has two percentages listed for dimensional teleport - a higher percentage for "known locations" and a lower for "new or unknown" ones.

She is the only one I noticed two percentages for, all other gods seem to just list a single DT percentage without context of whether ...

Plane

I mean we do have ways to make dimensional portal spells permanent - you can create Permanence Ward on a surface via a Diabolist or get a demon to cast the Permanence spell. In either case an Anti-Magic Cloud can nullify those permanent spells temporarily though (and Negate Magic too in the case of ...

Plane

RUE 123
"Both the Shifter and the familiar gain an additional six Hit Points as a result of their mystic connection"
"If the animal is killed, the Shifter permanently loses 10 Hit Points (the six from the link and four additional)."

RUE 217
"Because of the magical nature of the union, the mage and ...

Plane

That a familiar, not to mention things like sound, can travel freely across a communication rift suggests that they're not one way. I'm not sure from where that notion stems.

I'm probably remembering the 4th OCC ability 'dimensional travel' which is one-way, contrast with Dimensional Portal ...

Plane

I was trying to go on memory so I have the source material in front of me now...

Ah okay so pg 37 defines a "skull fractured" state where head SDC is depleted - I understand now that the 'damage equivalent to the zombie's full' rule does seem to be implied to only apply in a fractured situation ...

Plane

I think part of the reason for that would be that communication rifts are part of the new cheaper 1-way rifts Shifters can make, so once you start going through you're going to need to keep going all the way through - you can't just conveniently stick in your hand and then pull it out when you're ...

Plane

I don't think there are any guidelines for this. Sure, we have examples (pg 194 mentions Saint Louis and Calgary) yet I mean in terms of what conditions do them.

Pg 193's "odds" page normally creates using the Random Rift Table and at Super Nexus Points you can use the Periodic Rift Table instead ...

Plane

Another similar instance I recall: RUE 194 had the Becalmed Rift mention under World Links that it can be used as conduit to create witches by powerful supernatural beings - the previous section gave examples of demon lords, gods and AIs. Communication is suggested via empathy or telepathy or magic ...

Plane

I take it to mean that if you inflict the amount of the max HP in a single hit, the amount of SDC the head had remaining doesn't matter, it shatters.

This also bypasses stuff like putting the zombie into a coma via not going far enough into negative HP

Plane

stuff like starting farms is probably more complex in DR compared to TWD due to more variants like mock zombies coming in pretending to be cows

Plane

Book of Magic pg 228 under the 13th ability of "powers of stone pyramids" mentions this:

"a 1-53% chance that a being from another dimension may usurp control of the dimensional portal if the portal connects to the beings home dimension"

"Having a Rift usurped means that the character who ...

Plane

One oddity that I noticed when reading the Rifts Book of Magic is that pg 135 goes out of its way to note for the 10th level spell (60PPE) Mystic Portal ("creates a dimensional Rift") at the end that "A Negate Magic may also eliminate it"

Pg 152 makes no note for that for Dimensional Portal though ...

Plane

Library Ogre wrote: Thu May 08, 2025 10:05 am
Plane wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 7:32 pm yeah indestructible objects as portals would be the ideal but not sure how to make them
Rune-inscribed circle of parchment?

you mean like putting a permanence ward on paper?

Plane

Ah I understand that much, since random destinations could be dangerous you might want to reliably be able to exit there within around a minute instead of possibly three.

I had thought about a situation like "what if I end up in a strong-fabric dimension by accident" but Hades says demons can't ...

Plane

hey maybe demons found some way to Love Charm each other and that's what does it

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