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This is a bit tangential to Rifts of course, but it was too good to keep to myself, plus they're good representations of some Alien Intelligences..

http://io9.com/5924011/these-cthulhu-le ... tic-bricks

Would be interesting to see Rifts-like robots or Coalition/Triax vehicles in lego as well, I think.

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Per Aftermath , the CS had 405,000 troops killed, and another 1,400,000 wounded during the SoT (not counting Dog Boys & mercs). For comparison, that's the same number of dead and twice as many wounded as the US lost in WWII. Not to mention that the CS "lost" all of Free Quebec in the ...

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Sounds pretty cool and reasonably powerful though understated.

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Five letters starting with r and ending with s, and goes moo. There is also not a great number of Superhero movies/shows out in the past decade. There have been more post-a & shows movies the SupH movies driving the imaginations of the teens. Wow, you have my sympathies. Here in Earth One dimen...

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I'm in Canberra, Australia which is messed up in Rifts Earth, so I'd probably go splat in short order. If elsewhere in Australia with no psionic or magic potential, possibilities include - Song Juicer, Crazy, some kind of tech class if able to fit in in Melbourne (unlikely). Brisbane is a lot safer,...

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That isnt to say that I havent tried to do what I suggest, I just havent completed anything, and looking into the submission process caused me to give up on actually submitting anything. What he said... Well, partly for me, the other issue is the huge amount of already existing Rifts game material ...

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Forging holy rune weapons.. why not?

Maybe in Rifts, let it be used to craft Greatest Rune Weapons (holy), since holy weapons seem not to be among their ranks.

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Because super powers not only allow combinations that are quite powerful compared to most rifts classes, but they tend not to be limited by points e.g. as per psionics being limited by ISP and magic by PPE. They just keep trucking, so they're harder to either keep under control by the GM or they ins...

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m "But the "five times" figure was refuted 20 years after Bauman's experiments. In 1943, Glen Finch of the Yale primate laboratory rigged an apparatus to test the arm strength of eight captive chimpanzees. An adult male chimp, he found, pulled about the same weight as an adult man. On...

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I'd recommend houseruling it as the rule of cool suggested. Plus, even though it's a kitchen sink setting, you can pick a flavor and stick to it for a while, if you're concerned about it getting too goofy. And maybe relax the rule about enviro body armor being proof against all psionics rubbish. If ...

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Generally speaking, out in the open, a Godling is like an armored personnel carrier - tough, but that's about it. A Cosmo Knight is a combination tank and jet - tough, fast, and can smack you down ridiculously fast while being hard to engage. Up close in a confined space, especially if gifted with p...

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As a counterpoint, I offer up Northern Gun 1, in which the vast majority of NPCs are of good or unprincipled alignments. Apparently, the most moral society in the world is also its most famous arms dealer. How's that for turning a stereotype on its head? America!!!! -STS Umm, yeah, that shows the f...

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Glitter boy would be neat... HOWEVER, on screen, all of them will look alike so it'll be really hard to follow the battles if there's a bunch of them... sort of like the ol star war movies were all the ships and foot soldiers all look identical for the most part - that's a bad thing. both good guys...

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Swift-13 wrote:I dig the one that says "Property of the Coalition States." Makes for a nice inside joke among folks familiar with Rifts, even ones you don't know. I'd love to see more like that.

Plus subtle enough that most people won't look too askance at you.

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Why not try putting up a few of palladium's illustrations up as posters for sale?

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That concept reminds me of the rpg Eclipse Phase that I recently read (the big picture secret at the end of the book). But yeah, that kind of thinking seems to be far beyond the usual thinking of the alien intelligences we've seen. Except for Brahman from Pantheons of the Megaverse who's busy with k...

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"Being late" and "needing possibly an extra year and a half on a 7 month project" are two entirely different things. ND doing a ton of the work was supposed to hearten us, and it did. HG being involved may complicate matters, but there were some hopes they might also crack the w...

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No offense to those who are worried about the money they invested in a kickstarter, but you should have been aware of Palladium's longstanding inability to hit a deadline. They've had that problem for well over a decade. You'll just have to be patient. The quality of miniatures issue brings to mind ...

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Problem with railroading is, since it's all in the GM's head, if he doesn't (care to?) track these things carefully, the PCs trying to avoid a big baddie can be pointless, since he could contrive an excuse for the big baddie to turn up at this other location. Or at least for the big baddie's minion...

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Problem with railroading is, since it's all in the GM's head, if he doesn't (care to?) track these things carefully, the PCs trying to avoid a big baddie can be pointless, since he could contrive an excuse for the big baddie to turn up at this other location. Or at least for the big baddie's minions...

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There's Zurvan of course, but he's slightly other-dimensional. At least I think he's an AI of sorts. Anyway, they're not social animals like us, so our form of morality is pretty meaningless. They may be super powerful and intelligent, but I wouldn't rate them much differently from the non-vertebrat...

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I guess hope can spring eternal when things like this happen: http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/fox-is- ... on-kinberg

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Mystic weapon category from Heroes Unlimited 2 - choose super powers that compliment swordsmanship - sonic speed and maybe extraordinary PE for MDC and extraordinary PP (or radar sense for blind fighting) (not sure if sonic speed gives mdc, but it might - see Skraypers) would be terrifying. If the w...

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Well done Taalismn, more excellent tables.

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Not a big fan of it, but up to the GM obviously. I think magical tattoos should summon monsters with limited magical abilities at most, not psionic abilities.

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Classic idea. Three thumbs up

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You can even play this music for your character: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BWBn26bX0

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Yeah, like those movies where an undercover cop is forced to kill someone, to prove that they're not one.

It's to make sure you're willing to become a slave as well as burn your bridges.

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Yeah it's just a catchy term, obviously just extrapolating on the term "3D printers".

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There was no spell at the time called 'mental blast' (literally anyway) and there's no reason I'm aware of to think an artist necessarily cared about the fine mechanical details of the role-playing game he was illustrating for - it's well known that many if not most artists of fantasy novel book cov...

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I think DhAkael would be correct. It's a bit annoying, but not worth over-explaining in the end

Basically the artist was good at illustrating, not tracking spells, psionic powers and expenditure.

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m m From the second article: "In essence, the “fourth dimension” represents change—4D printing simply refers to printers that create objects that can transform over time and, in some cases, self-assemble. Which is why the Army is so keen on it. We already know that the Navy is testing the possi...

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Well, if you take your cue from DND, you could substitute in a lesser elemental with a humanoid form and a unique personality perhaps. Or maybe just an islamic-themed demi-god or godling with all spells up to their level from the gift of magic, perhaps a lesser member of the persian pantheon detaile...

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I assume he doesn't have the psionic power "mind bolt" which could be described as a mental blast?

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Armorlord wrote:Think of the craziest dungeon crawling you've ever wanted to do but never had an excuse for. Then throw in a malicious producer trying to keep the action value up for better video sales.

Sort of like Mojo from Marvel Comics.

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Yeah, you know what? Screw being a slave. It's not working out well for that witch of Ahriman in Rifts Mercenaries. It's like buying a car and paying extreme interest rates - the car isn't yours, it's the person who now owns you lock, stock and barrel. And with the gift of union, the car is your bod...

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Or they're SDC and have some immunities like Murder Wraiths so MD weapons can only do SD to them.

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Depends. A copy can be an exact copy (or reproduction) or an inexact copy. With the former you'd probably just list the differences since you'd expect them to be small and it'd be more efficient in terms of compressing the data, assuming that the baseline details are already known. With the latter, ...

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Ah, I thought you were being ironic

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jaymz wrote:Call it a tying error that wasn't caught. If it says official, regardless of "" I;d call it canon.

Nice response

Presumably your typing errors are deliberate

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Well, it is great but those sort of drawings would take a long... time I would think. And need glossy pages like in the original RMB. Could be awesome though.

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It's been a little dubious but really, the difference in the long run is negligible. Ruling either way will only be subtly different. Especially when it comes to 110m vs 100m. Who realistically gives exact distances - geometry teachers running games? It's not worth the effort to muck around with pla...

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Just give her a "natural" bioborg facelift. She'll appreciate biowizard symbiote upgrades like sonic screaming for her debates.

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I totally have to get SA1 and SA2. I read lots of complaints about it, but all the complaints seem to revolve around the damage levels, not the meat of the presented materials. --flatline It is actually quite good, and some really interesting ideas. Most of the burn was from just how wild the power...

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They were in the old Rifts Conversion book. Not sure about the new one, they might have been moved/removed.

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Been thinking about some ideas, I might as well list them here. Psionic powers/applications: "Mental Fission"/"Parallel Processing" (kinda like the chi ability to split the mind into Hun and Po - intellect and animal instinct - can't remember which is which) to allow some percept...

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Thanks for the ideas, I'll use them to spark my own of course, but credit people in this thread in some way. I'll try to restrain the desire to overpower them of course, since I want it as compatible as possible with RUE, as close to canon as possible, within reason of course. But some more area aff...

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Dark new world setting? Personal game setting or for a book/article submission? Rifts I presume?

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Hi everyone, I'm thinking of writing a Rifts psionic article for the Rifter. I was considering having a city set on Rifts Earth with a link to aspects of the Nightbane setting based in part on 'Through the Glass Darkly'. Part of the article would deal with psionic powers, psionic classes, a small ci...

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As long as your campaign doesn't force cyberknights to play lawful stupid, I would recommend a CK, especially one with psionics. That would give him a range of things he could do, which seems to be what he wants. He can melee, he can shoot a rifle, he can use psionics in clever ways... lots of opti...

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