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Daeglan

Curbludgeon wrote:The description changed between WB2 and DB15. I hadn't yet looked at my copy
• When the magic tattoo is first activated, a wooden stake and a cross appears, one in each hand. Both

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this seems like it would get in the way a lot of the time... I hadnt seen that line in DB15

Daeglan

It sounds like you're basing that on the description within Savage Rifts. Within Palladium Rifts, and with the exception that the tattoo of a flaming sword doesn't make an actually flaming weapon, that is what the tattoos do. Even in Savage rifts it doesnt do that. It can be used as a Holy synbol. ...

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They get two marks of heritage - a flaming sword and a heart impaled by a stake. The former can damage vampires, and the latter creates a wooden stake and a cross in the Atlantean's hands, in addition to making them impervious to vamp slow kill and mind control. No that is Not what that tattoo does...

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Thanks,

But that doesn't really answer my question...I dont see anything in the enhancements dealing with vampires....

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In Savage Rifts the flaming sword tatoo has the Silver and Fire Trapping. so you can stake a vampire....In Palladium I cant find anything that spacifies. But that started the Tradition to deal with Vampires. SO i would think they do....but it is unclear

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The problem is perception is a skill and should be percentage based. Also if you make skills additive with the goal being to get higher than 100 you can compare results higher result wins

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of course because palladium is not map friendly those radiuses are difficult to determine.

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glitterboy2098 wrote:four i would suggest for all new GM's.. regardless of the worldbook setting they are interested in.

Rifts Ultimate Edition
Conversion book 3: Dark conversions (for the monsters)
Game Master Guide (for quick stats on tons of gear)
Book of magic (for all the magic)

Add Rifts Adventure guide.

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Wearing bullet proof armor is not illegal in the US. It is perfectly legal to do so. It is not legal to do it while committing a crime. Ah so if it worn as a concealed suit would there be issues? Since guns can be carried openly in some states would this suit have similar restriction or is wearing ...

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Wearing bullet proof armor is not illegal in the US. It is perfectly legal to do so. It is not legal to do it while committing a crime.

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Locations... Towns, regions, etc.

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So far i have seen a bunch of rules lawyers arguing about what a rules lawyers is and making a wonderful example of why people dislike rules lawyers. 8 pages arguing about rules lawyers... do you guys not see the irony at all?

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I believe this thread is a fine example of why people dislike rules lawyers.

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Because the game was never designed to be an introductory (or gateway) game? It was designed with the assumption that the players and GM have experience in the hobby. Okay, this leads to a few questions: 1) Where do you get this design assumption? 2) Where does that play out in the system? 3) Why w...

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I agree. But the rules can help the GMs.

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Or 1 opponent with the Undead slayer playing the tank. Or the Vagabond acts like infantry today act around tanks. Hid in cover and fire rockets etc. Keep moving to new cover.

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Tell us about the community where they are built as well

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I would love to see this as a Rifter Article with the story behind this group.

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I think the concept is good. I do think it needs more work as it is unclear exactly how this would work.

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I dislike balance in games...and after the enforced balance of d20 leading to so many severely imbalanced PCs, I agree with jamyz in thinking "what's the point." To me, the best games are those where character creation occurs as a group so that all the players know what is being made, wha...

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Dragondactyl are good for a transportation and fighting.

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So one option is when you reach 15th level switch classes.

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What are the rules for multiclassing?

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So how do we help GMs with these problems?

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The problem I see comes from the difficulty in the GM setting up challenging encounters because it is really hard to judge the various power levels and keep players on some sort of parity in regards to combat. IE keeping it from being a cake walk for 1 player or a death trap for every one else. IE h...

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I have to say I really dislike how perception is handled. Skills that would affect perception do not get handled well because a D20 roll vs. a percentage based roll with no system for opposed rolls that I can see....The fact that some classes get a perception bonus and others make no mention of it...

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Kagashi wrote:
Daeglan wrote:Did Atlantis get the quiet update?

Yes, it was the first to do so.

What changed?

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Did Atlantis get the quiet update?

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Looks like a good setup. My only issue is assuming the Heart wrapped in chains tattoo is a given. There are two armor giving tattoos, the knight in armor and the heart in chains, and one is clearly far superior to the other. I've always figured that most young T-men get stuck with the Knight in Arm...

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i think what is more important than balance is an easy way to judge the capabilities of the individual players and monsters. And to understand how things interact. Which I think Palladium is lacking helping GM's judge this.

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Why are you arguing for 6 pages on rules lawyers?

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I should have specified that it was in a blog about rifts. Mobutto's Blog has them I believe. I tried to find it on there and couldn't. after four pages back my computer was warning me about the add content being dangerous and gave up. Just navigate to april of 2011... There is a calender on the ri...

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Happens just as the CS is making it out of the Minion War. When they think they are home free.

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That woman/snake psychic demon from Psyscape was pretty scary stuff, at least potentially. Making a monster resemble humans, at least in part, mentally or physically is a good way to generate a scare (so long as they are also radically different in some other way - like the headless horseman). Also...

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http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... &sandbox=1

Aprill 2011 is what you want to look for.

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All I want it to do is add up things.

These sheets are just the picking of options. and tallying totals. so I think excel will work fine. I just not sure how to do radio buttons or drop downs or how to have the result show up on a separate sheet for printing etc.

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nilgravity wrote:I should have specified that it was in a blog about rifts.

Mobutto's Blog has them I believe.

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Excel isn't that hard to use. The hard part is if there are things that are choices based on other choices. But really - the worst for me, was layout. How to get it to look professional on the menu, and then the output. The next pain is the data input. It's doable, but time intensive. And yes, I ma...

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Palladium Books just needs authors and editors familiar with how writing in english works. I have no idea how many partial sentences I've run across in every book. Not to mention the cut and paste method leaves much to be desired. For instance, the description for HtH Commando is the same as HtH Ex...

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So no one willing to help me make this happen?

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What I would really like to see them do is an actual clean up of the Main book. Straighten out the rules. Clean up the lay out. Fix the organization. Make the rules consistent. then I would like to see them bring all the books up to date and make them consistent as well. They all need to have percep...

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I need someone who is good with excel. Because I think it would be helpful to have Some excel sheets for stuff in rifts. For example a Vehicle design sheet would likely be useful. A Community designer excel sheet would be helpful. An organization design sheet would be helpful A robot design sheet wo...

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Wish there was a spreadsheet to handle this.

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Stuff like the Sorcerers forge. With the idea of making places PC's could have come from. So not necessarily new OCCs. But places where existing OCCs may have come from. Like a True Atlantean Outpost, A Cyber Knights Castle and surrounding community, etc. Basically places to go and places PCs can us...

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Don't find it there either

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Lots of Crystal stuff. No skulls though.

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Impressive and very useful. Been watching this topic for a few years now and I am impressed with the amount of time and detail you have put into it. Kudos. Thanks! I'm now starting to work on a On-line GIS Map with book references in each map element. It's a huuuge work, but I think i'll be very us...

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Are they covered anywhere? i am guessing that they are Atlantean stone magic. Just curious if they are ever actually covered?

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where do you think those hovertrains go?

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One thing this review did not cover is the fact that the organization in this edition is.....well i don't have a word to describe how bad the organization is. Some things are better. But my god trying to find what you need when you need it... well that is kind of a lost ause.

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