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Myrrhibis

Greetings! I just received the news about the Rifts Bundle of Holding and I was quite glad to hear about it. While I have never been able to play on a long Rifts campaign (played on a couple that burned out two or three sessions in and one that never even got a single session), I am still a fan of ...

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Does anyone have a base-layout map they found suitable for running the NORAD adventure come RIFTS Earth? The author made a great side-view map of how the levels stack.... But not so great for actual gaming. Since I'm running on Roll20, my players are very visual. Having to purchase the map is fine....

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Does anyone have a base-layout map they found suitable for running the NORAD adventure come RIFTS Earth? The author made a great side-view map of how the levels stack.... But not so great for actual gaming. Since I'm running on Roll20, my players are very visual. Having to purchase the map is fine. ...

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I agree with PP that Slayer rocks - it's one of the handful of OCCs I tend to gravitate to, depending on the power level & focus of the game I am playing in. I was *very* happy w/ the update to it, aside from the removal of some skill slots. Not happy about that, and my GM told me to leave OCC R...

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It's obviously not going to be everybody's choice of "best" but... I'm partial to the Atlantean Dilettante from Rifter 52. I like the fact that they aren't tied down by anything, not stereotypes or physical location or family drama. It's kinda how I see myself. I think if you like that yo...

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thanks. There's a LOT of new tats coming in the "Secrets of Atlanteans" book. Don't have my raw copy in front of me, but close to 2 dozen Power tats, and several add-ons for Magic Weapons & Animals/Monsters. There's also unofficial tats (some of which are I think, altered & made o...

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hi all, i am back into rifts megaverse after a long 15 yr absence. happy to see the revision to many original OCC's. however i just noticed the rule change on ranged combat where less than 8 is a miss. can someone talk me through the logic change on this please. Dont forget alternately stacking pen...

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Agree - it was an Insider Exclusive... But so was Lemuria. And it's available on DT. so... *shrug* As for the indexing issue... I strip the DRM of the ones I buy that have bookmarks of "page001" because that's sooooooo much help. Because I need to be able to find stuff easily w/o going bac...

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something that might help.. if at all possible, talk to the suppliers about whether there is any way to include a list of products PB recommends, or have them listed by book type, or something? because i have lost track of how many stores i've been to that don't carry anything but a random assortme...

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Did you look for players ON Roll20?

My co-GM & I haven't had a problem finding players interested in playing Rifts.

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What happens to the contents of these, if the casting mage dies?

Does there suddenly appear a bunch of crap in the middle of the road as contents are disgorged, or are the contents lost to a random dimension, & may or may not be seen again?

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Actually...in the last year or so they have been slowly and finally putting out their back catalogue as PDFs on DriveThruRPG...though a little too late for it to really mean anything if you ask me. AMEN. I have most of their backstock as both hard copy, and pirated e-copy. I've been in the process ...

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Since search is down... It appears as written, that once you are being shot at over 50 feet away, there's no longer any penalty? Or is there no penalty... but also no bonuses unless specifically described in the OCC? verus the GMG 'clarification' of -10 or -8 depending on distance, no bonuses (altho...

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A scanned copy which is then ocr'd can be book marked just as well a new originally "digital" version. Hell pirated versions I have seen have had it done. As have I - several of the pirated books I have, which aren't yet available from PB (or weren't until very recently), either had bookm...

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Can anyone tell me if it has *usable* bookmarks? I've bought a few books from DTRPG, and it's mixed results. And since it's DRM'd, I can't add/change the "Atlantis134" to an actual usable bookmark. I found that they don't put book marks in their titles. I purchased Megaverse in Flames, an...

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Can anyone tell me if it has *usable* bookmarks?

I've bought a few books from DTRPG, and it's mixed results. And since it's DRM'd, I can't add/change the "Atlantis134" to an actual usable bookmark.

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I'm leaning towards #2 with that 6b of increasing save slightly.

We've done this a time or two in my group, and it has worked well. And the players didn't spam more than 2-3 casts.

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Very player dependant.

In the game I play in, we use Perception regularly.

In the game I'm running, not so much. I've been giving nudges/reminders, but soon won't be bothering as addl are experienced gamers both in general and Rifts specifically.

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Yeah, that's a rule that my group is split on. To the point that I think I'm going to have to get OOG input and make a ruling. I know several, including me for the NPCs, aren't fans of "taking a knee". It's more to track because no one wants to lose their bonuses to shoot, so everyone is t...

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[ they could surprise me. They could make a 'digital christmas grab bag" it's possible. I do not expect it. they HAVE been doing lots of sales lately (That people are sometimes attributing to desperation on the company's part. I'm not sure about that, but many are saying they're gasping for ai...

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Even if there's a minimum, and that minimum is 25% of the total, you're still asking palladium to give you the books at 1/4th the cost they're putting them up on Drivethru for, right as they start to use the PDFs. It's not like Palladium's customer base is THAT BIG. They're not going to be selling ...

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Now that they're finally converting over, they're not going to suddenly offer bundles for free or 'pay what you want' or anything of the sort. I guess I wasn't as clear as I'd hoped. These bundles are similar, but not identical to Humble Bundle or DriveThru's option to make titles "Pay-what-yo...

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Without getting too specific (looks like I missed out on the Raw Ed) did PB update the existing classes (I.e. Slayers) to make them more in line with the classes or now, 25 yrs later? As well as general TA racial updates? Any chance some material from those 3 rifters made it in? I thought they were ...

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kiralon wrote:excellent and well done, heres hoping it will be my Christmas present this year

More likely next year for Xmas.

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Not sure how I missed this thread.. I'm working on the update for the Tombs and have been thinking of putting together a package of battle maps to use with minis for this... I love you, for showing some love to the Vampires that weren't the pawns of a vampire intelligence, to the original Palladium...

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Whisker Coyote; usually a Griffin (mainly for travelling purposes) When my character gets higher level.... Mau'Dib likes to show up (template of Blow Worm of Taut, except crystal teeth & electrical storm at its mouth vs slime spit. Have had that tat on several PCs of mine & literary-minded f...

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Apologies if this is the wrong forum, but I saw none better suited. Friday I went and purchased the Rifts UE PDF from OBS because my hardcopy is slowly showing signs of use and carrying a pdf around is far easier. Using it has posed some problems (one, mostly): Are the bookmarks intended to be the ...

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Mostly notebook, although I will be using EverNote for brainstorming & notes to import, so I can work on stuff when out & about via phone or tablet (and work computer when it's slow) Using the game-journal function of Roll20 quite nicely. Let me import a Word doc of House Rules & common ...

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One thing I recently did to account for a character that had a lot more APM than the others, was to have them take 1 action first 'action', then 2 back-to-back there after, in classic PB initiative order. Worked well. They could 'assess' the threat & what their fellows are doing, then act from t...

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MADMANMIKE wrote:If anyone is going to GenCon, I have three games on the registry, all playtests for the Tombs..

The Smuggler's Pass - RPG1691751
The Secrets of Castle Instax - RPG1691752
The Tombs of Gersidi - RPG1691753

Bummer, can't make it to GenCon this year.

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Expect the PC's to breeze past hard puzzles that you spent hours coming up with as if it was nothing (if they don't just completely bypass them) but then be find themselves pole-axed by something as easy as how to cross a stream and make it into a night long event. And gods forbid one of them is an...

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I'd consider another set of glasses.

I have an unused set of the old ones I should toss on the BST forum.

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Count me on the PDF PLEASE list. After playing & purchasing since 1987, I just do not have the room for more than a few choice Paper books (like the upcoming Atlantean book, since I'm on my 3rd copy + legal PDF of Atlantis as it is). Heck - I'd be OK with purchasing near-equal to Hardcopy price,...

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snip.... Galahad also doesn't add up very well. He has 12 power tattoos, 4 summons (2 animal 2 monster) and 5 simple weapons, totaling 21 leaving 11 more to reach 32. In spite of "heritage plus the following 30" the marks of heritage appear to be built into the list since Turn Dead appear...

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Do they have a HF or not? I don't see one listed in any of the spell descriptions, but I thought I had seen a listing for them somewhere. Page 57 of Shadows of Light features a slightly modified version of Shadow Beasts, presented as regular monsters rather than spell effects. These Shadow Beasts h...

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So general consensus is:

AutoDodge bonus (PP + specifically stated bonuses) won't be as high as a character's Dodge (PP+HTH+skills+class+anything else), but it's a free action?

In short, a character w/ AutoDodge (in most cases) will have to decide: Free action vs Very Good Chance to Dodge?

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Agree about the +% per level kicks in @ 2nd level onwards. Unless a skill/ability bonus says "per each level of experience" (such as some of the Lew Line Walker's OCC abilities). i.e. 30 + 5% per each level = 45 at 3rd level vs 30 +5 per level = 40% at 3rd. I cannot recall any books throug...

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This is a step in the right direction. I'll buy one to show support even though I own print copies of both books. Same here. I have a move coming Aug 1, but soon as that's over, I'll be buying one or both (have both in hardcopy, and i still have my well-used 1st printing of Vamp Kingdoms original)....

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Is there a frost warning in Hell? Cuz I think it might be getting ready to freeze over. Snark aside, I would NOT want to see chapters released prior to the completed work, mainly because PB's track record for timely release on anything other than the Rifter is well known. Not to mention that seldom ...

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Well, given that they gave out a PDF with their crowd source of it, I find it obscene that's the only way to get it. I suppose with how rare the thing is currently(even for pirates) the plan of having a print copy only seems to be working... but I'd much rather just buy the pdf version rather than ...

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Riftmaker wrote:For real palladium needs to pay this guy and make this map into a nice rifter submission or maybe a rifts earth atlas.

For sure.

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strictly speaking, we don't actually know that piracy is the reason they don't do PDFs. but yeah, there is no indication whatsoever that PB is even remotely likely to release NG 2 as a PDF any time soon. as noted, the books that get released as PDF are mostly out of print, with few exceptions. I'm ...

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Main issue: All editing, other than the Rifter, goes through Kevin. *all of it*. Many of us fans firmly believe that the only reason the Rifter is more or less on time, and has been since like the 2nd year of production, is exactly because it's NOT on Kevin's plate. IMHO, that's very telling that a ...

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Jefffar wrote:Just to point out, Palladium doesn't actually take the money until publication. So if you pre-order and the book is delayed or canceled, you still have your money in pocket.

I'll echo this. I haven't pre-ordered very often, but as I recall, $ didn't leave my acct until publication.

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:( I'm a little disappointed that Bizantium will not likely be done in time to be available for Grab Bags. I was really hoping to give the Palladium fans an awesome Christmas gift. Nevertheless it will be in everyone's hands in January at least. I'm not sure new stuff should be in grab bags. It's a...

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:( I'm a little disappointed that Bizantium will not likely be done in time to be available for Grab Bags. I was really hoping to give the Palladium fans an awesome Christmas gift. Nevertheless it will be in everyone's hands in January at least. I'm not sure new stuff should be in grab bags. It's a...

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Agree w/ all PPs. This is the way we've always run. Same if you get knocked back/down or fail HF - you lose next action.

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Rough plan for the campaign (basic story line) with further planning for each chapter/session (build the villains and basics of encounters), and then wing/improvise the details during the session (mostly react to the players actions). ^^ this is usual SOP in our group. We have a lot of out-of-box t...

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I try to keep any given group within the same range of destructive potential, give or take 100 MDC. Otherwise, I limit players not characters. I'll ask them to come up with a reason why their character is present and participating in the adventure rather than tell them they can't have a specific cl...

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