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Saitou Hajime

Wontons are Chinese, Yes Americans are often culturally blind but I can't see them going with Japanese American and going Wontons, Sushi yes. I submit my mistake as evidence that westerners can make that mixup I mean heck... I watched the entire series of Cooking Master Boy (anime based on chinese ...

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Sulu did not lie. Stand. No farther. No escape for you. You either leave this bois bloodied, or with my blood on your swords. Cowards! Combat sports are also combat systems. Heck, even American football is a form of combat training because it can teach you to tackle or avoid tackles, which is a pre...

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man 15 pages and we can't even agree of the terms to define the terms need to discuss the statement in the title.

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The sea is largely more easier to travel especially and "Inland Sea" The Sea of Scarlet Waters is a good example it pretty much rimmed with settlements.

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I disagree given the Wolven empire is much bigger than Rome was ever at the Republic stage. There is a huge amount of wilderness in most of the provences of the Empire add in the protectorite some of which have unfriendly people in them and a huge amount of frontier. The amount of distence need to ...

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Looking at things historically, The republican system of the wolfen versus the confederation system of the East gives a distinct advantage to the wolfen. Just looking at the conflicts between the Romans and the Greeks proves this out. The same is shown by the Romans versus the Etruscans and various...

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Whiskeyjack wrote:So much wasted potential in the PF line, other eras is just one. I'm guessing Palladium will be out of business before the current world is ever finished.

Exactly how many more books are need to flesh things out?

Also the amount of time that been said and Palladium is still here.

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Mark Hall wrote:That would require them to pay attention to Palladium Fantasy.

needs context.

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Can't say I don't fine appeal in the idea.

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The Concept of RAI not normally default over RAW, is alien to me, the only time I even see people back RAW over RAI is because it give an advanage to do so that way, usually complete again the overall rules set. it usually a jarring advantage as well.

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BTW, for folks who claim that the CS has 'plot armor' because this or that blunder or strange coincidence that lets them escape destruction at the hands of their enemies.... m This is how history actually works. War, in particular, is less a matter of one side winning because of power and resources...

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in this particular case, something like 30% of the CS troops have been explicitly noted as being outright evil. like, not just "good aligned but misguided in a few ways", but actual outright evil. those same numbers listed something like only 10% being actually good i think. First, there'...

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(especially since it would mean that no one was ever combat trained until the late 21st century which is demonstrably false) Now sure, you can make the most narrow possible interpretation that really, combat training was not invented until the late 21st century sure... ...but I am going to suspect ...

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Wooden winning would be good for the world. They are a people of better morals than humans. Natural leaders. One that is a matter of opinion, two the way there government fuction should greatly hamper quickly replying to anything, especially do to communication. Republic systems over a empires neve...

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So have we even agreed what Combat trained means in Rift terms yet, so we actual have a metric to base the statement on?

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The Golems from Dragon Age seem right in the Wheel house of those long forgotten Dwarven Kingdoms. Possible steam engines heated with aform of rune magic perhaps to keep it clean.

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Well, I'm sort of the opposite. I think it's better for people to level slowly. It allows the player to have experience commensurate with the character. I am, however, fine with material rewards. I think it's always a good idea for the PC's to have some tangible reward they can take with them. -Vek...

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Whiskeyjack wrote:
Saitou Hajime wrote:I personaly am fan of quest/arc xp awards

Do you have any guidelines that you follow for determining the amount?

Depends on the system or arc, six sessions would likely be 300 for 1 - 5 levels, another 50 per sessions until ten then 100 per session past ten.

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I seriously doubt even the wolven would want to run a protracted campaign with winter combat as the norm. I see a strike at a location using the suprise as a possiblity, but not protracted campaign, which lets face it whould only lead to seiges anywasys because the humans would have hold up.

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I personaly am fan of quest/arc xp awards

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The average wolf (say 130lbs) requires under 4lbs of meat a day to stay healthy. 2 to 3x that when breeding. So the average wolfen would need 8 to 16lbs of food per day, assuming that their physiology is similar to a wolf. Now that you mention it, the Wolfen seem tame in comparison to figuring out ...

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I never really understood the Disputed zone's push from either side really the Wolven Empire has huge tracks of land they can develop just build a hard border and be done with it.

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are you a setting or mechanics kind of guy? Because if you are Mechanics All I have is you get more skills over time as well as skill growth. As a setting though I think it one of the better setting with some of the most potental for some really epic stories. Huge amounts of area of potentual confli...

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PG 65-The Knight is aware of and able to react to all mechanical devices and weapons used by that particular oppenent, including guns, vibro blades, neural mace, EBA, PA Cyber.bionics weapons and systems computers, optics systems, sensorss, robots, vehicles and other devices. Basically any machine ...

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PG 65-The Knight is aware of and able to react to all mechanical devices and weapons used by that particular oppenent, including guns, vibro blades, neural mace, EBA, PA Cyber.bionics weapons and systems computers, optics systems, sensorss, robots, vehicles and other devices. Basically any machine ...

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I personally think the Upheavel of a coup would upset the NGR but I doubt the resulting product would offend them, the Republician ideals mirror their own much more closely [more free speach, better education over all etc.] I just finished re-read. the revised sourcebook one.

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You know haven't all the WP that have been created with the intent to stack had phrases saying they stack with other WP?

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I am amazed we are still debating this, have we even agreed on what is Combat Trained yet? No, no they haven't. I have to agree though with the person who notes that some of the definitions for Combat Trained seem to be arbitrarily designed solely to exclude mages. The only one so far that excludes...

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Thanks for those thoughts. I thought the very same things myself, but 2 things give me pause. 1. Lonestar is supposed to be the "Big Kahuna" for the US armed forces. It doesn't quite track that they would not be able to make their premier weapon in such a facility. 2. As I understand it C...

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Northern: similar to you guys, but as the barbarians speak the same language as the Byzantines, I think of it not as English, but as a Celtic language (or ancient Briton). The inhabitants of Havea and other northern communities would speak a related Celtic dialect. Remember the English language isr...

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I am amazed we are still debating this, have we even agreed on what is Combat Trained yet?

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It may be worth noting that the suns of other dimentions still affect vampires such as Palladium and Hades certianly seem to and are implied to have different physics to their worlds.

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the Souix, ZULU, Samarai etc. are all examples of WARRIORS. The Spartans were definitely warriors but I believe they were also proto-soldiers but I would say the roman Legions were an early example of SOLDIERS IE a group that were all trained to fight the same way, with standard weapons and tactics...

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Sounds like a question for the player and Game Master to work out for the character. In typical Palladium fashion, the guidance nets out to be whatever the player and Game Master think about the character. Sweeping generalisations don't really apply to character creation. One of the more sensible p...

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Majority of the rural population of Free Rural population of Rifts likely does [ie Not Slaves which exist is several places in the world in large amounts] large Urban settlements it will become less so until you get to place like Japanese cities, CS Cities, NGR Cities where the majority will not. Th...

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Heros for humanity says "Do they dare finally reveal themselves and unleash the NEMA forces from suspended animation these many centuries . " I don't think they could do that without making a play for control of ARCHIE. Sounds like they havent even secured the site from archie, rather tha...

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I am done! allowing Blunt and Staff to stack for Staves gives a mechanical advantagage that was never intended as cleary make Staves very powerful when compared to other melee weapons, not even Palladium is that unaware of game balance to have done so. The level of Frustration because cause by this ...

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CS is outside humans and Mutant Animals which have the there own rules have gone to a field command don't ask don't tell policy, as long as objectives are completed the use of unoffical forces to do so will not be asked about. I can certianly see Vanguard trying their best to put forth magic as a to...

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Oh but it is logic, any thing you use to reason or understand something is logic. The number of weapons skills that list weapons found in other skills is some what rare only targeting and blunt-staff seam to list weapons covered by other skills with a chance of multiple weapon. Wait skills stack as...

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There should be but I would be damn if I can remember were they might be. I think the Original rulebook had it some where but I not sure if RUE updated that or retained it.

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I read through all of this in one sitting and it makes me want to punch people in the face. that said i honestly thing one of the biggest problems with Palladium Books is the fact that they give us WAY too much credit to be reasonable, sensible adults. I mean there are so few examples on how things...

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Saitou if I am not using a weapon as a "hand" does that mean I can't use hand to hand combat skill bonuses with it? Does the damage bonus I get from high ST from boxing only apply to punches? Does the natural 20 knockout only work on punches? Nope. Bonuses are clearly not very particular ...

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Well this is a bit odd because on like allot of other possible WP combinations listed this is one of the few(rare times) a weapon is listed in multiple WP as a listed weapon.(the other time is with the targeting skill) So while you could argue the trident uses the spear WP as well as the fork only ...

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I read through all of this in one sitting and it makes me want to punch people in the face. that said i honestly thing one of the biggest problems with Palladium Books is the fact that they give us WAY too much credit to be reasonable, sensible adults. I mean there are so few examples on how things ...

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isn't there a rule about alsways having a Taco's opition?

to the useful point you might want the options to be as follows:

All
Many
Some
None
Tacos
Who cares!

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Has anyone noticed that by RAW: -the description for HTH: None in RUE (pg316) and essentially the equivalent in RMB (pg28) starts off with: "Characters without combat training...", from here the two books differ in format in presenting the bonuses. Wouldn't this essentially mean that any ...

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You are going to effectivally build your statement around flavour text rather than something a liitle more solid. Further High level in Rifts is like 8th. I am much more a fan of find a Defintion that base on something more solid than flavour text like OCC or Skills. The Chances of those passages b...

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So what exactly is your idea of combat trained give me your specific definition based on rifts otherwise your argument means nothing. funny. the other side of the discussions seems to have absolutely no problem whatsoever using whatever definition they feel like when it's convenient for them. why a...

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Japan 2 would be nice. A Canada 2 would be nice honestly btu I can't expect everyone to love that.

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Now if we define basic combat trained as this and bring it to rifts it seems like: - wilderness/survival skills - HtoH less than 8 weeks of hand to hand training. - WP - Rappelling (climbing) 80% of mages start with these specific skills on top of their magic ability most starting with combat speci...

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