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Jason Richards

If your book gets printed before mine, I'm gonna take your mom out to a nice seafood dinner and then never call her again.

Jason Richards

Did a little Q&A on Palladium's Facebook Fan Page the other day. Thought some here would be interested.

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Jason Richards

csbioborg wrote:page 132 literacy foriegn lanauge lists Indian as a lanauge

there is Hindi and a couple dozenother lanuages in India but Indian is not a lanuage written or spoken to my knowledge

Good catch.

Jason Richards

Be sure to check out the stickied topics in this forum: one for errata in the main book, and the other for a list of Rifts equipment that is expressly stated in the canon as being from the Golden Age/Chaos Earth era. The letter of the law says no TW in Chaos Earth, but with Rifts, anything is possib...

Jason Richards

how about putting my xp tables for the men of magic into the official errata. I don't really have the authority to do that, but here's what I CAN do: I did the mark-ups for Rise of Magic's second printing many, many moons ago (much like I did for the second printing of the core RPG), and I notice t...

Jason Richards

I haven't heard it yet, but apparently Kevin said tonight on the podcast that he's considering taking a look at First Responders very soon. Good news, right! The sooner that gets done, the sooner I can get to working on Psychic Storm. If you were to drop Kevin a PM, telling him how excited you are f...

Jason Richards

He pulls no punches and applies 100% lethal force at all times. His games, at least at conventions, are really about running a gauntlet and trying to simply survive.

Jason Richards

My opinion is that if he were to rewrite this book or create another similar book that he divide the d-bees into those that are suggested as player races and those that are suggested for use as enemies. I couldn't disagree with this more. There are not "good guy" races and "bad guy&q...

Jason Richards

All true, which is why I wrote that, reread it, then put it in my trash file.

Jason Richards

Here are my actual NEMA vs NAMA notes: To anyone looking back on the formation of the North American Alliance from the latter part of the 21st century or beyond, the given name of the combined police-paramilitary force of the allied nations may be puzzling. The name of the Northern Eagle Military Al...

Jason Richards

1: NEMA aka Northern Eagle Military Allaince, stupid, no government organization would take that name. so Change that to NAMA or North American Military Allaince, this follows a more real world naming convention. It's funny you mention this. I have notes where I was trying to find a reason for it n...

Jason Richards

The future supplement, Brothers in Arms, will have some military cybernetics (I think). As noted, the Bionics Sourcebook is your best bet, for now.

Jason Richards

All good thoughts. Someone mentioned the RCMP, and let me tell you, the Canada book really screws anyone writing Chaos Earth stuff. We already have broken continuity between the CE RPG and Canada in terms of equipment, so I haven't decided how to deal with that. Honestly there will have to be at lea...

Jason Richards

Were I to have written it, I would have approached NEMA differently than did Kevin, but it now is what it is; I'm definitely a details-oriented sort of guy. I think by trying to "make it work" with complicated explanations you can make it worse, though, so I just avoid some of these issues...

Jason Richards

Honestly, it's best not to try and throw too much logic into NEMA's role and mission. If you look too deeply into why a domestic security organization that mostly replaced the CIA and FBI and such has mobile cannons with Boom Guns stationed across the U.S., you might go crosseyed. Due to the fact N...

Jason Richards

Honestly, it's best not to try and throw too much logic into NEMA's role and mission. If you look too deeply into why a domestic security organization that mostly replaced the CIA and FBI and such has mobile cannons with Boom Guns stationed across the U.S., you might go crosseyed.

Jason Richards

Actually, the CG is now governed by homeland security unless called into war service.

In any case, border security is clearly stated to be a mission of NEMA, I think.

Jason Richards

The Galactus Kid wrote:Oh and while you're at it, how about you write NEMA Mission Book: 1. I want more info on Golden age super soldiers.

Shut up you.

Jason Richards

when writing up the army gear, how much of the 'future military' concepts currently being looked at do you plan to use? are these going to be 'core concepts' to the 2090's military, or will they be relegated to 'old plans developed to fight yesterday's wars'? for example, the computer network heavy...

Jason Richards

No Dead Boy armor for the Army. At least, not directly. Remember that there are 300 years between the Chaos Earth RPG and the Rifts RPG. While all based on the same tech, the application would have to be different. Were I to have written the CERPG, honestly, I wouldn't have simply duplicated the CS ...

Jason Richards

Here's how it breaks down: NEMA took over the bulk of the federal and tri-national law enforcement and homeland security responsibilities, as well as domestic disaster response and crisis management; I'd argue this includes the entirety of the Coast Guard as well. These responsibilities extended int...

Jason Richards

It's instantaneous with the actual action, and happens as soon as the d20 is rolled for strike. Think of it as a simultaneous attack. The attack still goes through (hit or miss as normal), but the reaction occurs as well.

Jason Richards

I've made some efforts to do this by comparing salaries of different military pay grades to their current counterparts, to get some idea of what the average person's take-home pay might be, but it's a painful exercise. As you might expect, the results are pretty well all over the place.

Jason Richards

Hound wrote:I like them... kinda makes me leery of sending my own 4-5 Psychic CE classes into the Rifter after seeing how well these were done!

Send 'em in. I fully intend to raid the Rifter for Psychic Storm material, if at all possible.

Jason Richards

I pronounce it "Teek," but to each his own.

Jason Richards

In a thread on the Rifter forum, someone pointed out an exploit in the Teke Freak, so before Psychic Storm is written I'm going to look at a few things, but I'm glad that they are well received. My main focus was to try and find very different, instinctive ways for Chaos Earth psychics to use their ...

Jason Richards

Someone asked me to expand on my comments regarding the life expectancy. The life expectancy in the original printing of CE is, in fact, incorrect, as the ages given don't make sense. It was corrected in the second printing. The errata is stickied at the top of the forum.

Jason Richards

Had part of a response written, but thought better of it as it would only drag out a rehashed argument over and over again. It seems like we're no longer talking about combat skills in a role-playing game, but trying to equate your personal experiences to a gaming world, and that simply isn't how th...

Jason Richards

Okay, I'm in front of my source material now, so let me use that to illustrate my point, which is that Hand to Hand: Martial Arts is a skill more advanced than is commonly practiced by average people of the Golden Age. The idea seems to be out there that taking a martial arts class at a gym or local...

Jason Richards

I just re-read your previous post, Cybermancer. Do you really suggest that bunker-building during the Cold War, even as late as the 70s and 80s, was a common practice? That this level of fear and preparedness was generally to be expected at that time, and thus the same phenomenon encountered at the ...

Jason Richards

I'll get into a more in depth discussion when I have a little more time, but just briefly, was it unclear that when I originally and subsequently referred to Martial Arts, that I was referring to the Hand to Hand skill? Cybermancer, I don't understand your most recent post, because you suggest that ...

Jason Richards

I can see your point, Jason, that even the five fighting styles are going to be the most common in the game because they're the most common in the United States of the Golden Age and the average person isn't going to have the time or, more likely, the inclination to even bother with those style, le...

Jason Richards

Cybermancer, in the first portion of your post, you missed the point. Yes, martial arts is practiced for fitness and sport and basic self defense. However, none of those things constitute Hand to Hand: Martial Arts. They constitute physical skills or, at most, Hand to Hand: Basic. I'm always open to...

Jason Richards

Okay, let me back up. I think maybe I wasn't clear on some points, and I KNOW that some of you misunderstood me or made some pretty wild leaps. For starters, I did not suggest that people did not learn any hand to hand combat skills. I specifically noted that Hand to Hand: Expert and Hand to Hand: A...

Jason Richards

I'm just gonna rewrite the Weapon Mage, since it comes up so often.

Jason Richards

I won't argue that the Weapon Mage is rubbish. It toooootally is.

Jason Richards

Everyone in the 'Burbs dies. But the bigger question, and one that, to my knowledge hasn't ever been answered is: is Chi-town open topped? If it is, then the citizens will feel the full effects of fallout, but if the city is in fact a gigantic, fully-environmental fallout shelter... then my guess i...

Jason Richards

In my opinion, martial arts should be virtually non-existent in Golden Age North America. Remember, the Golden Age of Humanity wasn't Star Trek-like, where technology made everyone equals and gave people time to pursue physical and mental disciplines for the sake of their own improvement. Chaos Eart...

Jason Richards

Everyone in the 'Burbs dies. But the bigger question, and one that, to my knowledge hasn't ever been answered is: is Chi-town open topped? If it is, then the citizens will feel the full effects of fallout, but if the city is in fact a gigantic, fully-environmental fallout shelter... then my guess i...

Jason Richards

So they can be a Weapons and Robotics Engineer who designs new weapons and robots, who can drive a Giant Robot which has a new kind of plasma cannon that they designed but they can't fire it. No idea how. Sure they can learn how to use a medieval Pole Arm but not fire a missile launcher. Not to nit...

Jason Richards

The way skills work in Rifts lends itself to including/excluding certain skills to differentiate between classes. There's not an easy catch-all fix for it, so really they should just be used as guidelines in the first place. I've never known a GM that didn't allow selections outside the given ranges...

Jason Richards

Want some interesting freelancer insight? Filling out the last five or six fields for O.C.C.s (equipment, money, cybernetics, etc.) makes me want to stab myself in the eye with a toothpick. I hate it. Same goes for all of the crunchy stats on weapons and vehicles (size, weight, price, etc.). Just t...

Jason Richards

Want some interesting freelancer insight? Filling out the last five or six fields for O.C.C.s (equipment, money, cybernetics, etc.) makes me want to stab myself in the eye with a toothpick. I hate it. Same goes for all of the crunchy stats on weapons and vehicles (size, weight, price, etc.). Just th...

Jason Richards

Hey all. My Complete Character today has a horror slant, so I thought I'd throw it your way. Corporal Jake Avery is a police officer who once saw a horrific encounter with the supernatural, and it changed his forever.

Check it out at http://www.jasonrichards.net and let me know what you think

Jason Richards

But there is not a consistent mechanic as to how base percentages or per-level gains are established for individual players or GMs to fill in the gaps. Which could just be a reflection of how difficult the skill is to master. I disagree about the per-level gains, the vast majority (over 150) are 5%...

Jason Richards

My general comments on this thread so far: 1. Game balance is for suckers. Artificially creating balances nerfs things that should be deadly and needlessly bulks up things that should be less-powerful. If you have a knife fighter versus a gun fighter, each has some advantages, but ultimately the gun...

Jason Richards

Palladium's system is caught in the middle of what I would consider the two real norms for role-playing. In some cases you can have as many skills as you want, and they are all linked to some attribute or other common method of determining the chance of success. An example of this is in D6, where yo...

Jason Richards

This class does highlight a pain with the current mechanics, however. In my opinion a Pilot: Power Armor or Pilot: Robots or whatever should be used for all functions of the armor's operation. I think it's silly that you should need a separate skill to work the radio, read the sensor screen, climb,...

Jason Richards

Ratty asked for my thoughts, so he opened this door. Welcome to the Jason Richards school of O.C.C. design. First off, fine work by r_b. I agree with his thoughts, particularly on physical skills. In my opinion, for a skill to be included in a list of O.C.C. Skills, it must pass the following test: ...

Jason Richards

If you're going to start with SDC, then I'd recommend going the route of scavengers/city rats, or maybe escaped slaves. It gives the characters a common bond and makes survival the most important thing. They'll run away a lot, but you can throw non-MD threats at them like animals, monsters, and othe...

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