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Johnathan

You know, every time I tried to consider a "detective" caster, I just couldn't help but imagine some weird blend between Dick Tracy, The Shadow and Dr. Strange...

... ANYWAY...

I'll agree with what everyone has posted above, I'll even throw in a third motion for the mystic.

There's also the ...

Johnathan

For a ship start with an Altess battlecruiser, then go up from there. An all female crew of beautiful, powerful, and unusual humanoids(amazons, godlings etc), with TW upgrades, Dominator tech and so on. Not your run of the mill Warshield or Smasher.

Castlerake comes to mind from PF, along with a ...

Johnathan

Has anyone ever noticed in RUE that the GB is worse off shooting the Boomgun underwater without the pylons than on dry land? Under water it gets thrown back 1d4x100 yard/meters and lose initiative and 1d4+3 actions vs the mere 30 feet on dry land (and no mention of lost initiative or actions per pg ...

Johnathan

Ships are always a high priced item if we are talking pipe dreams. Sure a privately owned cruiser is fairly expensive, but then at TW features. After that a few Dominator plug ins. Then you do the same with fighters and PA on the cruiser, and so on.

Why stop there? Go into the luxury liner ...

Johnathan

Hello all, I'm freshly new here- but I came specifically to this forum dimension to ask a question of the collective.

I am looking for the most expensive, absolutely extraordinary, somewhat unrealistic, heinously ridiculous, GM defying, wow factor items. So far I have not been able to find such a ...

Johnathan

Or... you could be a good character who uses evil creatures for good purposes. Such as sending evil creatures to destroy other menaces. You'd have to real careful not to lose control, though.

One could make an argument that such an approach is turning an evil minion into a force for good, and is ...

Johnathan

Thank you for all the reply's, I only bring this up because there is a FAQ about this that confirms my dilemma.
And my current GM is really new to running the Rifts, and has chosen to follow the FAQ.

This is from Palladium FAQ:
Question: On page 46 of Rifts Japan it lays out all the stats for True ...

Johnathan

The best bet there, from an alignment point of view would be for the GM to make up some races that want to be summoned to 'fight the good fight'
An example that springs to mind would be the Valkyrie from the Pantheons Book who would not mind being summoned to battle at the side of a Norse wizard ...

Johnathan

There are a couple points I would make.

The first is that, sure you can summon just about any being that qualifies as "a Lesser Being" that your GM will allow you to summon.

The second point is that unless you are using a True Name to summon someone that you have previously made a deal with you ...

Johnathan

Unfortunately there are very few good aligned creatures to summon. You're right that's it's geared towards evil.

Yeeeaaah. Just looking through conversion book 1 and dark conversions kinda cemented that for me.

Which is why I was trying to see if there was a reason why summoning creatures that ...

Johnathan

Depends on your GM if you can just talk your way into being let to summon those other lesser SN beings, or if you'd have to create a spell variant that lets you summon those other lesser SN beings

It just seems a little on the bias side towards only summoning "evil" supernatural creatures is why ...

Johnathan

The spell designates that the caster is capable of summoning "Lesser demons, sub-demons, Deevils, entities, demonic spirits and monsters."

My question is can it summon other "lesser" supernatural creatures? Like minor elementals? Spirits of Light (those are arguably "greater" supernatural creatures ...

Johnathan

Greetings and Salutations. Ah, okay, I think I see the problem the Original Poster has. The issue is a True Samurai fighting an "armored" opponent in melee combat. Most of us think of the rune swords, but the write-up on page 46 does cause a potential problem. There are two areas that mention ...

Johnathan

Oh, and going back to what you may see their abilities continuing to be after 15, my own list is quite a bit simpler.

Level 16: Able to learn 11th level spells
Level 17: Able to learn 12th level spells
Level 18: Able to learn 13th level spells
Level 19: Able to learn 14th level spells
Level 20 ...

Johnathan

I'm sorry... but... what?

I had to reread your OP a few times in order to understand the question. However, I think you're asking how it's possible for True Samurai to be able to fight tech opponents at range without violating their anti-technology belief system, correct?

Admittedly, the samurai ...

Johnathan

Alright. Just going to put this in. It probably won't help any with the discussion.

By Cannon, per RUE, you can't go above level 15.

As a GM, if I were following this rule, I would say fine. I would allow the person to become Multi-class without the usual penalties.

Now we come to the part that ...

Johnathan

For my own .02c worth my only issue with raising the level powers of the Magus class is this...
...it quickly gets into the question of "Okay, so your getting more powers and abilities than the people (The Lords of Magic) who are sponsoring/Empowering you have"

The, personal, solution for me ...

Johnathan

Ohh yeah if it were 20k A bandit well that might work.....these wete totals.

Currently involved in space campaign. It's advanced quite a ways, but in the beginning of the game, my group were couriers. They were hired on by a company as permanent employees to, basically, move Object A from point B ...

Johnathan

We had a gm take over and he was amazed we turned down all his job offers, he was offering our small merc squad of 12 (4 pc's and 8 support npcs) 10k and 20k for a search and destroy mission, and 50k to do some trek to nowheresville to deal with some bandits...said we were making his game fail ...

Johnathan

Anyone arguing that ypu cant be level 16 as a near immortal mage because its not written is really arguing for no fun allowed. Its clearly a thought experiment that through normal game play will never happen
. Quit poo pooing his idea you come off as joy kills that cant imagine something unwritten ...

Johnathan

Player Characters can not advance past level 15.
Non-player characters may still be able to level up, but PCs cant.

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24. Can pc or npc go beyond level 15? If so how do you find out how much experience it takes to get to the next level beyond 15 and what kind of bonuses do you get for your ...

Johnathan

Page 19 in RIFTS Merc Ops shows common prices and missions involved in hiring mercenaries. This is about as close as I could find right off hand.

Johnathan

16 – 425801 – 501000
- Same as 15-16
17 – 501001 – 613800
- Add 50% from previous EXP.
18 – 613801 – 726600
- Same as level 17
19 – 726601 – 952200
- Double EXP Requirement (225600)
20 – 952201 – 1177800
- Same as level 19
21 – 1177801 – 1403400
- Same as level 19
22 – 1403401 – 1629000
- Same as ...

Johnathan

Soooo... Went ahead and wrote it up. It's 6 pages long... But I cross referenced the absolute heck out of it with anything I could find that seemed to follow guidelines similar (Dug up Dragons & Gods for the Dragon XP chart... since RUE ends it at 15...).

Either way! I used the mathematical ...

Johnathan

Even considering the variables here...

*holds up one hand* Instant head vaporization assuming ANYONE rolls high enough to make that called shot.

*holds up other hand* Slow and painful death that involves me dying in a pool of my own vomit.

Yeah. Sorry. The first option has, at least, the ...

Johnathan

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Upon further review of the power. You are absolutely correct. I had failed to account for the involuntary clairvoyant visions as well as the ambiguity involved therein. I must retract my previous claims, as I was writing them based on memory of the ability and, at this point, I'm ...

Johnathan

Shark_Force: Hey, I doubt you're going to get anyone defending the quality of writing, here. Rather, the pro-Holmes side is laying out the most likely confluence of factors leading to the outcome described, given the spartan nature of the information available.

except that they're not just ...

Johnathan

Shark_Force: Hey, I doubt you're going to get anyone defending the quality of writing, here. Rather, the pro-Holmes side is laying out the most likely confluence of factors leading to the outcome described, given the spartan nature of the information available.

except that they're not just ...

Johnathan

Even considering the variables here...

*holds up one hand* Instant head vaporization assuming ANYONE rolls high enough to make that called shot.

*holds up other hand* Slow and painful death that involves me dying in a pool of my own vomit.

Yeah. Sorry. The first option has, at least, the chance ...

Johnathan

drewkitty ~..~ wrote:to Johnathan,

Magic Prof. are from the Through the Glass Darkly book.

And you would have it a class ability. noted.
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*tags ShadowL's PMs*

You mean I have to dust off my Nightbane books...? Crud... where did I put my storage key?

Johnathan

For the sake of argument, which seems to be the case here, and just because I love a good math problem. I decided to try my hand here and came up with the following equation:

6,000,000/4/3/24 = 20,833

Amongst a population of 6,000,000 random humans (of which the CS would undoubtedly have a ...

Johnathan

snip... However since magic includes gestures one could argue that they could work those gestures into their combat maneuvers.
Where does it say that gestures are needed?
The texts I remember say that everything is showmanship other then the words being said. And those spells that indicate they ...

Johnathan

I was asking if there were any in any other places other then the PFMB or the WE book. Because I didn't readily remember anywhere that there were any more.

That I posted an answer that delivered via the chats, was to put that answer where others could see it also. So...if they, in the future ...

Johnathan

Most of us create our own places to post fan fiction. You can find them posted up all over the internet, really.

Johnathan

edited the OP to include the word 'weapon'.

Talked to Eli in the chats and he pointed out that the frost blade spell (NH page 81) is available as a magic weapon feature.

Don't recall there being such an enchantment.
…snip
Look at the footnote at the end of that spell's 'spell text'. This is ...

Johnathan

I've toyed with the ideas of Lord Magi gaining such abilities as teleport, dimensional teleport, night vision, and the such. These could be abilities they gain as they progress beyond level 15. I've also considered the possibility that being "one with magic" would cause a possibility of the Lord ...

Johnathan

edited the OP to include the word 'weapon'.

Talked to Eli in the chats and he pointed out that the frost blade spell (NH page 81) is available as a magic weapon feature.

Don't recall there being such an enchantment. However, I do recall that Western Empire has a "Numbing Cold" enchantment for ...

Johnathan

Ironic. Again, I can't really counter anything being said. As I have stated before. Anything the PCs can do, chances are the NPC villains/mooks/baddies can also do. You have a player who abuses a mechanic behind a given weapon/skill/psionic/spell? Cool. Use it against them and see how the tables ...

Johnathan

I will say, as an addendum to my previous posts, my GM has had me roll to strike (normal, unarmed strike bonuses) against fast moving targets.

The targets, specifically, was a pair from race of fast-moving aliens called the Vinali. They looked like Xenomorphs mixed with Rinzler, but I digress ...

Johnathan

That is your perception and, I respect, in your game that could be your call on it. I don't let mages stealth cast personally. When a mage starts casting there is a lightshow. You don't get just a bunch of invisible spells going off.

Person you can see is casting a spell, the targeted area ...

Johnathan

There's another issue that seems be being ignored here. CoA can be cast upon a person, this adhering them to whatever surfaces/items that they touch also. Who cares about whether the CoA is visible or not if it covers your entire body?

Now, even then, CoA doesn't stop someone from shooting their ...

Johnathan

The general rule as I understand it is most races classes/can not advance bounden level 15. It is hard cap for pcs pg 296 RUE.
The maximum level a player character can reach is 15.

Some NPC break this most notably dragons.
(note the table does not tell you where 16 starts but 15 stops.)

I know ...

Johnathan

I figured as a house rule if your XP requirements are lower than the dragon table (most are) you can use the dragon table to know how much it takes to get to level 17 and beyond.

All tables tell you where 16 begins, just not where it ends.

I think there's math behind it. Like you take the EXP it ...

Johnathan

Specific rules not that I know of. We have always just used the simple rule, you could go full out (top speed / combat) for 1min per PE point for regular (which is still a lot really, I can't run full speed for my PE in minutes unless my PE is like 0.5 or less), and 1hr per PE point for ...

Johnathan

One of the abilities of a Lord Magus is their aging is slowed down. Age one year for every five. One of the races that is approved for Lord Magus training are elves.

Now, with that being said. Elves live hundreds of years (600 normally). That means an elven Lord Magus could potentially live for ...

Johnathan

Might wanna use the teleport spells as a basis. I know many creatures who have d-port/teleport have limitations in regards to distance and chance of success. I also know that dragons, specifically, have to wait five minutes to teleport again. A fellow PC in a game I was in played a dragon hatchling ...

Johnathan

bring in the Wings of the Maggot spell... and that poor Cosmo-Knight is going to find himself flying against an opponent who can travel about 2,400 miles per hour faster, per level, than he can.

Dimensional Outbreak pg 188 is Wings of the Demon Locust.

It gives an equivalent mach 1 per level ...

Johnathan

There are a ton of failsafes, or at least there should be, in regards to flying at that speeds while trying to attack something. Yes, it's possible, of course, it's just not something likely. Traveling at Mach speeds still limits you in regards to what your actions allow.

For example. We will say ...

Johnathan

I think my group may need to re-evaluate some things then LOL.

With credits being a type of crypto-currency, it means any place with a deficiency of electricity or higher tech won't take them at all. I've introduce Northern Gun Notes into the fray as well, paper money, but it might meet the same ...

Johnathan

There's the truth to this whole thing. RIFTS can be very dangerous in many different ways than just who has the bigger guns and the tougher armor. All that stuff requires upkeep and repairs. Ammo needs to be reloaded/recharged. Armor needs to be repaired/replaced.

The PCs can't spend every hour of ...

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