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For what it's worth, stats do not transfer between the systems straight, or even in a 1 to 1 transference. Savage Worlds works on much tighter margins and uses other means of showing variance. I should note, I no longer use the Deluxe edition of the game, but rather the Adventure Edition. It's very ...

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Falling, Thrown/dropped item, and collision damage:
Rifts Ultimate Edition. Page 345. Under the Damage heading (continued from 344) and the Miscellaneous subheading.

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This is how I explained the CS to a player new to SavageRifts.com today: In truth the CS is a nation of frightened patriots manipulated and led by a xenophobic power mongering oligarchy; organized in hero worship around a central figure; and engaged in a cult of personality that extends to his famil...

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Do I need to go into the horrors that the US military allegedly commits in places in order to play a unit of spec ops soldiers fighting the taliban in a game? Do I need to comment on the ills of the soviet system to have a group of players be Spetsnaz fighting off terrorists in the Ukraine? Not ever...

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So no TW Mods for.GBs in Savage? Any spellcaster can put powers on GBs, just the GB can't themselves. Quickness is insanely broken put on a GB. I hate that power. But no, as written you cannot put TW effects on power armor; There is an unwritten Major Mod that allows a TW device to be used by non-a...

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I wanted to share another post that covers our design philosophies on any conversion/translation efforts: I want to translate ___. I don't feel it's done right currently. 1. Can it be done by a basic trapping/redescription? Example: The Dogboy Crazy as a Killhound 2. Can it be done by a MARS Package...

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I wanted to make a couple of things available to you all here, and extend an invitation: Over at SavageRifts.com we have had to answer a lot of the same questions you have asked, and more. We have set up a modest collection of house rules (races, edges, a handful of IFs, MARS Packages, etc) that we ...

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I mean, it's not subtle. It's not a fringe position within the Coalition; "We kill non-humans" isn't a mission statement, it's the mission statement. I'm not saying not killing non-humans. We do that all the time. I'm saying, not killing non-combatants. There is a difference between takin...

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That is too broad a brush. They don't randomly kill villages for the sake of killing villages of d-bees. They do so to fulfill objectives. Sometimes the objective is to terrorize one village so the rest in the area will leave, opening up prime farming land to support the food needs of the cities, or...

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So, someone on another forum disliked that there was a deemphasis on playing Coalition troops in SR. My suggestion was to use the MARS classes to emulate Coalition troops, adding a Vow while giving them access to sweet CS gear. Anyone have other suggestions? My suggestion is: don't play CS troops. ...

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Xar wrote:
MikelAmroni wrote:I'll go why play the CS in a bit, but for those who might be inclined, I offer this.

This is a dead link now. Do you have it posted anywhere else?

Sorry about that, IT backend stuff. I updated my link above and the one quoted in this post.

Also, I made it all available in a google doc here

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I'll go why play the CS in a bit, but for those who might be inclined, I offer this.

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Actually converting Savage Properties into Rifts is probably the second most favorite activity on the PEG forums That said, you'd be surprised at how many "conversions" are best handled by a MARS Personal Concept Even on the SavageRifts.com Play by Post forum, we've already had a conversio...

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Awesome! Just started a game I'm calling Savage Tales of Old Chicago. Basically a group of a CS recruits. We're doing an experiment where we build MARS characters as we play. Should be a blast.

Got a lot of games going at Savagerifts.com!

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In my own experience, any system that deals with EMPs against cybernetics assigns EMPs as just another type of damage. One that those without bionics are immune to. In that regard, just treat it as damage and move on. Like any source of damage it shouldn't be all or nothing, but that's about it. Als...

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Forgiveness would be worth getting the design for the Sidewinder SAMAS, that thing's amazing like that juicer cloaking pack which gives missile penalties. Jamming/spoofing not cloaking. I think the wild weasel would be a much better PA only unit with built in jamming. For my games I long ago had th...

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The problem with Mrrlyn for me has always been how there are no other powers for him to interact with, no other plots for him to counter, etc. The seeds are there though: ⋅ Bath is a wonderful city to have as a contrast to Camelot. Allied, but not beholden. I use the stuff done for Chaos ...

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Bit of thread necromancy, but now that we have a good description of this from both the Player's Guide and the GM guide, what do people think of Castle Refuge and the Tomorrow Legion?

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Dhara Hammerheart, as mentioned by SPF in one of his posts, is actually from the fantasy world he wrote and got rifted to Earth and is the leader of the Dwarves that form the center of the Tomorrow Legion's forces and who finished the pre-rifts castle that existed on the point where the Tomorrow Leg...

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gaby wrote:OH Well the HU:Galaxy game is still go,and it,s Great,Can't wait to see what happed next,I am hoping the Arismal will survive.

Of course we will survive!
(plays Ryden)

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So the takeaway of all of the colony discussion is that there is an absence of proof (either way) to the existence of colonies outside of the Solar System (except for Tirol). Similarly, there is an absence of hard proof that NO colonies were ever established outside of the solar system (except for T...

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Personally wouldn't do it, but there's no reason you couldn't have a veritech pilot being a marine aviator and just choose some O.C.C. related skills to bulk out the Marine side of things.

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There are a LOT of places in the existing skill list where you could EASILY combine skills. And add in the ones that are desperately needed to be added/expanded/or better explained (social skills, I'm looking at you). And there are multiple skills that are really different versions of the same skill...

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Actually when you create a TW item, you can choose to create a PPE storage device that allows anyone to use. Stormspire was just the first one to make it common. Arzno (and by extension the Colorado Baronies) also does it, and does it well. You can also create one shot use TW devices as well. the TW...

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I also finally added the ISS Urban Pursuit Hover Cycle. Timeline for the bike is 102 PA, so it doesn't invalidate anything in the NG books to say they used it for a while.
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Long awaited. Critiques welcome. I basically combined the NG-230 Prowler, the NG-400 Stinger, and the NG-480 Turbo. I made it a rather fragile creature, but agile and stable despite this. Strong frame, thin armor. AFHC-490 Urban Pursuit Light Patrol Hovercycle m The AFHC-490 Urban Pursuit is a sleek...

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I had done some CS vehicles before - here's the link: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=117264&p=2247989 here's the Rhino-Buffalo, my CS line of trucks (dump trucks, semis, etc)

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oh I was just showing it to everyone. I don't expect any other GM to use my stuff whole cloth. Only one I know has, and he plays under me. It's actually quite balanced against other CS OCCs in my game, and doesn't overpower the bad guys I toss at them. (so far to include Raptors, Juicers, Shermarrin...

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Hey rmckee78, Welcome to the boards, as everyone else has said. Insofar as one shots go, one of the Megaversal Ambassadors (Novastar) made up some pretty useable demos with pre-gen characters and a pretty simple concept. It doesn't delve into the right or wrong of the situation, merely puts two diff...

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What book is a CS Psi-Net Mind Melter in? CWC page 194. It's one of many psychic options for the Psi-Net Agent 25% Non-Psychic humans (equal to ISS Peacekeeper or Specter). 40% Sensitive, including Psi-Stalkers (20%), Dog Pack (50%) and human sensitive (30%). 15% Eruptors: Bursters, Zappers, etc. (...

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As for Neural Maces, remember that they are primarily crowd control/stun weapons, much like tasers. We don't give modern soldiers tasers, even though they would be more effective with such a weapon than a RIFTS soldier will be with a Neural Mace (or taser or pepper spray, ect,) because of who it's ...

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Not yet Kagashi. My intent is to run two games, one on RPOL and one on EU. But I'm a logn way off from there

Thanks ArmySGT, though I ended up going with Four Corners for that colony. I may add that in as the Tirolian name though.

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Glad you liked it. If you have any other ideas spring to mind, please post them. That last one was gold

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I dunno if any survived (though I suspect they did at least until the 2nd war), but I do know that for my Long Range Patrol game, I'm going to have a few of the colonies produce upgraded versions for colony defense bases. The plans will be available (well will be to one colony in particular), and de...

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Personally I don't use the PS counts towards Vibro-Blades rule. One, it's not in RUE, and despite the need for something to be done with it, I have players who would ALWAYS go for their vibro-blades in battle. The 50 PS (don't ask) Kill Hound in particular, although the 36 PS Combat Medic wouldn't b...

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Hi everybody! Cheers! Heya, I'm honestly surprised no one pointed you to the quick start adventures in the Megaversal Ambassador's forum. There is some great stuff in there, and it goes a LONG way to making the core concepts of the game understandable and usable, and even better, gives you some pre...

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You've got a great start on your game. I'm curious, do you have the dinosaur swamp books? Somehow I'm thinking by your description you don't. I could be wrong. If not, I HIGHLY suggest them. They have some of the best rules for heat exhaustion, moving in swamps, etc in any Rifts book, including in V...

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I apologize if this has been asked before. But I couldn't located anything on the question. I am creating a Coalition trained Mind Melter and wanted to use some of the OOC from the World Book 11 - Coalition War Campaign. Would I be able to use the OOC skills of...say the NTSET Protector but with th...

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Rise, rise from the dead!

I have updated the second post of this thread with Traxon, the colony suggested by Shawn Merrow. Comments welcome. Many thanks to Shawn and everyone for the feedback.

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I go with the assumption that majority of the NEMA forces under Sawyer eventually founded Chi-Town after they found they couldn't hold Chicago itself. Moving the factories would be hard long work, but easy enough. The fact that Chi-Town become something else far removed from the original goal is jus...

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Shark_Force wrote:
Comrade Corsarius wrote:I have 'falling belts' on my sky-ship.

that's a great idea, but not single-use at all...

The only thing non single use is the fact that they can be recharged. He loses that bit of fluff and they are indeed single use items.

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I also made these two. 25 minute duration on the Red Box, 2 and a half minute duration on the marbled black box. I ended up crafting the cases out of sterno cans, so they really are one use items I might be able to salvage the gems and the silver wire, but that's about it. My Impervious to Fire Red ...

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Subjugator wrote:A box shouldn't do shadowmeld. I'd make it a blacklight or something.

I should include that the box would attach to a harness worn by the user. I'll edit above.

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Oh I'm quite familiar with the creation rules, but there is nothing in regards to making one shot use items. I personally think this is a weakness. One thing a TW should be able to do is make up some one shot devices to beef up his team, expensive, but not overly so. Multi-use items are also time in...

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Hey, so how what kind of modifier would you apply for a true one shot device. Basically I want the equivalent of a grenade or a potion.

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Florida was different for me, but then again what I had was pretty crappy, so it didn't much matter. I used an old Robotech Adventure, changed the Zentraedi to a group of giant rats called the Rattoni, and had the group be a mixed CS squad operating off the CS Submersible carrier. I kinda had the id...

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Sweet thanks mobuttu! Your atlas was quite helpful with this as well, so thanks for that as well.

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If you have it, check out Rifter 54. Deadboy here on the boards is the author. Has some really cool stuff for New Chilicothe in it, including consumer electronics, cigars, foods, "personal" services for borgs, etc. Here is the list from the PX in my game Base PX Chi-Cola The most popular s...

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Maybe three or four hours from the Lone Star Compound (less by air)? That's a ballsy RS. I gave them the option of going through Albuquerque (which I've decided is a post-volcanic oasis much like Flagstaff, except without the Screamers (see Arzno for details) which is the shortest route. Roswell add...

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I remember at least one fan theory from back in the day which explained the fact that crosses worked, and it basically boiled down the ankh, the egyptian symbol for life. If you take the Atlantean-Egyptian link to it's logical end, you could then say that the reason the cross works is because the At...

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