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Lord Z

I think there was a Death Knight monsters in Rifter #14, "Beneath the Surface." I seem to recall that it was very potent, on par with a Master Vampire. A Mock Zombie could conceivably learn an O.C.C., but that isn't strictly allowed in the rules. Yeah, the Immortal Mummies are probably mos...

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I would tend to agree with DtMK's perspective. My land lady told me about how she used to watch monkeys riding gray hounds at the dog track. Gray hounds don't weigh much more than the monkeys. With a larger dog like a St. Bernard, this should be both possible and feasible. I would like to see such a...

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HU2 is a good choice for running just about any home-brew game. In one comprehensive volume, you've got magic, psionics, aliens, and various types of hardware. That being said, Nightbane: Between the Shadows has an entire chapter about g-men who hunt monsters. I should point out that Beyond the Soup...

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Never mind! Now that I've actually seen the issue, I know that the three Court of Tarot articles were spliced together into one fat article. The soul-fragment-ghost didn't make the cut.

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Citizen Lazlo wrote: I hope that Kevin decides to do another installment with the world and factional info, and maybe the camp creation rules. There is always the option of Rifter #0. Material not being published elsewhere is fair game as material for this new e-book line. Has anyone suggested this ...

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DtMK wrote: ...isn't normally a dealbreaker, then you HAVE to get... Don't you mean "a deal closer"? I'd hope that the other articles won't prevent a perspective buy from purchasing Rifter. Seriously, the alternate DR article is excellent. The artwork matched the dark and morbid tone perfe...

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I particularly liked the fact that Kevin explained one of his controversial decisions. That's so darn rare. Anyway, the alternate Dead Reign setting is very different and very interesting. I can deal with a lack of faction information so long as the monsters available. That was really the problem Sy...

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Ah, but the stories are RPG content also. I use characters from short stories as NPCs all the time. The stories are also a good source of dialog, so all of my PCs don't end up sounding the same. At rare times, I will use a plot or a trick from a story as an adventure basis. I once based an entire Se...

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I went ahead and made a monster list for myself. I intentionally left the last few percentile scores blank so that another GM could fill them. Random Monster and Antagonist Table for Beyond the Supernatural, 2nd Edition. Some monsters appearing in this table are appropriate for BtS-2 but are describ...

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I like that rule!

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I'm tending to agree with Vidynn. Given a choice between one or the other, I would probably choose the Arcanum book. I'm not comfortable with that answer, really, because I prefer magic-light games. Magic is way too often used as an excuse for making something happen in a story or a game which can't...

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Oops, I forgot Dark Technowizardry in Issue #13. We'll call that my #3 pick. I use necro-shifter tech all the time.

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And if both fighters have Anticipation...? How do you interpret that situation?

Lord Z

Thank you, I'm sending a message tonight to the Gmail account.

Lord Z

I'm glad you mentioned that, Galactic Kid. I should order an extra copy anway, so I'll go ahead and buy one. If I do that, I'm more likely to see Issue #45 some time this month.

Lord Z

MrMom wrote: Why not write a Tome Divine then if Grotesque is supposed to be the evil side of it. Just a thought anyway That raises a much larger issue of the afterlife in the Megaverse. With the exception of the Warriors of Valhalla briefly mentioned in Rifts Conversion Book 2: Pantheons of the Meg...

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No, I hadn't realized that. That interpretation looks basically correct to me. A character with that type of training is supposed to dominate close-quarters in-your-face fighting. I would give the opponent a chance to auto-parry or auto-dodge because these defenses don't require using an attack-per-...

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Okay, I concede your points, Drewkitty. I was probably wrong in improperly classifying those weapons. Your argument about properly equipping the Undead Hunters also makes sense. At least, as far as it goes... I would have thought that giving the hunter a tool for tracking undead would have been more...

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I definitely do not know anything which you guys do not know about Rifter #0. I'm unaffiliated with it as of this moment. I don't none speak for nobody! Prince Artemis has written that he would put out Rifter #0.1 when he received enough material, and he seems to have it. I am guessing that he inten...

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Thank you very much for these renders, Mike. I think I will use the Rusty Nub in my Star Wars game tonight. I needed a bulk freighter with decent sized engines and obvious weapons but not too much of either. Fun with derelict ships!

Lord Z

Really? Was anything done to fix the Undead Slayer O.C.C. from Yin Sloth Jungles? That's the screwiest class I have ever seen. The character has two rune weapons in his starting equipment, yet he still has no way of tracking undead creatures nor even detecting their presence.

Lord Z

Is anyone working on Beyond the Supernatural materials for Rifter 0.1 or any subsequent Rifter 0? I am thinking about submitting something, but I don't want to conflict with what anyone else is doing.

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sHaKa and mrloucifer, you two should make the pitches anyway. If Kevin decides that you need the magic rules, he can always supply you with an early draft. I have been working off the asumption that the new rules are compatible enough with the old that they can be easily revised when the new rules d...

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I apologize for the short answers. There are a couple of reasons for being non-verbose. First, I don't want to disclose too much of the information in the text, so I'm falling on the side of caution. Second, I don't want to mention something which might not be there. I submitted the Court as a serie...

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Basically yes, yes, and yes...

I'm the article's author. That's three points for Gaby. Any other guesses?

Lord Z

Robyn, I'm sorry that I got your name wrong.

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First Place: Cyberjacking Across the Megaverse by Wayne Breaux, Issue #2. Many of the Palladium settings are mostly cyber-punk but lack many tropes of that sub-genre. This article fills a lot of those gaps, and it does so by relying upon the Palladium rules rather than supplementing them. Second Pla...

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I just thought of a suggestion. It's a non-Palladium product, but there is a very good little e-book for D20 Modern called Alien Invasion. I picked it up for information on different alien species, but I was surprised by how much I got for five bucks. The information is mostly based upon actual rese...

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Please pardon me for jumping in very late. I like the tables a lot, Gallahan. I do have some suggestions, if I may. First, the type of dice needed for each table should be listed at the top of the table. I had to scroll down a few times to see if I needed a D20 or percentile. Second, the season coul...

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Therumancer, I enjoyed reading your post. You made an original proposal, and you supported your proposal well with relavent examples and solid logic. There was one problem. It belongs in a different thread. This thread is about "Children." Your post was clearly about teenagers. I was think...

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Here is some evidence of how my nerdiness is spiraling out of control: Link-o-matic!

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Those were some good answers. Thank you, P-Bomb. The PF version sounds like something I could use as-is in an alternate-history setting I have.

Btw, I can't remember how I signed my first Court article. I'm probably appearing as Scott G, but I might be appearing as my alter-ego, Zaboem.

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What tone of game are you running, Duck-foot? If you want strealthy invasion-of-the-body-snatchers type of aliens, I would go with the Pleasurers from Phase World or the Night Princes from Nightbane. If you want to big and gnarly conquering type of aliens, I would use the Zentreadi from Robotech or ...

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The player is definitely making the character concept work. That part about the big talking puppy is great imagery. In the past, this is how I've handled child-characters. I roll up the characters as normal using 2D6 instead of 3D6. The kid gains the extra die sometime during his or her teenage year...

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Actually, the Mystic Study Hero in HU-2 is a rather good fit. If you can get past the artwork of the typical Merlin-wannabe character, the class is well suited to BtS-2. I will crack open my HU-2 book later to double check that. The Arcane Detective class in Nightbane: Between the Shadows is probabl...

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R, that explanation does make perfect sense. I have to agree that using your own small group in that situation was the more manageable choice. It's also completely feasible that little monster-busting groups would pop up and again in the BtS world. That being said, I went a different way with the Co...

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I'm the author of the Court of Tarot article, and this was pretty much my experience also. My best guess is that Palladium doesn't actually need the contracts because these documents seem to be wordier versions of the releases which we signed when we made our submissions. My submission went in nearl...

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Congratulations to everyone for surviving another year. Vidynn, I share your concern. I suspect that the BtS-2 sourcebooks will eventually be released but when we least expect them. The main rule book came out -- what? -- ten years after it was initially announced? In the meantime, we have these wo...

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It's nice to meet you guys. Roguey, could you tell us a little more about your reasons for deciding to develop your own organization?

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Hello, I'm the writer of that Court of Tarot article. I'd like to thank Rogue Shadow for pointing me to this thread. Anyway, Wayne's tagline really sums up the idea well. I is an elitist organization which rivals the Lazlo Society. I realized that player characters in BtS-2 are assumed to probably ...

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