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Alrik Vas

Yeah, invincible armor is the GI Joe rule in practice. Which is why I downgraded everything else to only soaking half the remaining the damage.

Alrik Vas

I compromised on halving the damage between layers, except in the case of a critical hit finishing off the protection, then it was normal. So if you're body armor was finished off by a critical, you got no protection. Though when something penetrates and you're SDC, i tend to give you the best 2/3 c...

Alrik Vas

a good Gm could take the 'defining trait' from the book and use it to expand on their version of the Atlantean culture, so you know how 'horse clan' garbage men work if you really need to. it only becomes 'planet of hats' if you don't make the effort to expand on things. (look at the bajorans in st...

Alrik Vas

Blue...stop, seriously. It's not a discussion you need to have. Let the mods be the mods.

Say, bro...

Alrik Vas

Voltron Tattoo? Seems legit for rifts.

Alrik Vas

The opponent is the operator of the mechanism that fired the missile. Not the missile itself. I realize "smart" missiles are kind of a special case as they have APM and dodge etc, but a cyberknight is a really bad example because the missile wouldn't be able to see them anyway... Lastly, b...

Alrik Vas

Glistam wrote:Smart missiles in a volley re-roll once for the entire volley if they miss. This is in line with Palladium's combat rules.

Yep.

Change it if you want, say your way makes sense if you want, but that's how it works.

Alrik Vas

We were in high school, almost everyone is a jerk when they're a kid.

Alrik Vas

I once rolled... IQ: 23 ME: 19 MA: 17 PS: 22 PP: 28 PE: 23 PB: 17 SPD: 23 Then physical skills happened. The GM, having watched me roll and hating me the entire time, told me that I was part demon, would be sensed as if I am a demon, and mistaken for a demon constantly by those who can detect them, ...

Alrik Vas

If i recall correctly, the 1E RPG listed special weapons on some of the zentradi ships that dealt thousands of damage, but their description was that of essentially combined weapons fire. I think the shot in Viva Miryia is what they were basing that off of. You may be thinking of the "Main Las...

Alrik Vas

If i recall correctly, the 1E RPG listed special weapons on some of the zentradi ships that dealt thousands of damage, but their description was that of essentially combined weapons fire. I think the shot in Viva Miryia is what they were basing that off of.

Alrik Vas

I see. Well, I like the idea that demons might be nice guys if they essentially hadn't been cursed. It makes them able to get sympathy, which makes it easier to corrupt the universe.

Alrik Vas

Yeah, the print was from the NGR book from Rifts, i believe. For Chaff anyway.

Alrik Vas

Probably didn't survive the port from 1st Edition. ...or I'm thinking of rules from N&SS, TMNT Guide to the Galaxy, any other random Palladiumness.

Sorry if that's the case. :/

Alrik Vas

I gotta say, it makes sense both ways, because it's explainable in each. Though if I allowed characters to run multiple h2h, i'd just say they have a "best of" from both. If 1 form offers higher strike bonuses over the course of it's 15 levels, you get those bonuses when that form grants t...

Alrik Vas

I never compiled a list. Never needed to. I just apply PS damage bonus and in the cases of strength types that offer a specific punch damage, that as well, to melee weapons. Honestly the game works better that way, supernatural strength is no joke.

Alrik Vas

Well...being a god, that's all rather proper, honestly. For mortals, it's a bit different.

Alrik Vas

Mostly evil, self-justifying CS types, mirithol. It's about what you'd expect, really.

Alrik Vas

I suggest the following if you want to smash Palladium's system and make it more sensible, which oddly enough, you came close to doing. I basically just wanted to regroup the combat round as 1 minute of time which it used to be in 1st edition. Then spread the attacks across that full minute more ev...

Alrik Vas

Seto Kaiba wrote:Those gun ports aren't part of the line art though, and are never seen again after that one scene in Ep27.

Pretty much. New cool animation happens all the time in higher budget episodes. Just like...interesting...animation appears in lower budget.

Alrik Vas

I suggest the following if you want to smash Palladium's system and make it more sensible, which oddly enough, you came close to doing. 1 round is 3 seconds. Everyone gets 1 action. During that round everyone can attempt to parry or dodge 1 time without detriment. (this includes defending against sp...

Alrik Vas

Well, the anti-monster went out like a champ at least.

The Banshee crew was just dumb bad luck...

Alrik Vas

Coming TO palladium? Not that I know of. I could be wrong, but I think Coake the cyberknight founder is originally from Palladium, I think all we know of is out of palladium, not toward it. The only case of someone from outside a fantasy world going to it is the dude in the Wormwood book, but I thin...

Alrik Vas

Rolling with impact doesn't even take an attack to do in Ninjas and Superspies, that was an example I brought up of how Martial Art Forms work differently, and why the prohibition against stacking (most) of them does not apply to non-Form Hand to Hand skills in other games. PP30 may not be common i...

Alrik Vas

I'm not sure that computer tracking would necessarily be up to the task. Even if it could predict where to go, it might not get there in time. You don't think a computer could calculate a missile's path and respond in a fraction of a second with the technology we're dealing with? While it's true th...

Alrik Vas

Yes, but there doesn't seem to be a "collection" of the energy that fires that kind of beam. I'm content to say the weapons firing from Breetai's ship in ep27 are the standard turret, animated up for the cool factor of the episode.

Alrik Vas

And I thought I was being conservative.

I understand what you're saying, ShadowLogan, and that you're speaking only as a general "maybe", but I think a little supposition is okay for the point of naming some factors that get the ball rolling.

Also you're no fun.

Alrik Vas

Yeah, and sometimes a master (PP20 and 15 levels of a martial art) can lose in a tournament to a relative newcomer who is insanely gifted (PP30, 3 levels in martial art). And that's okay. Though the master has a lot of advantages, like attacks per melee, which means in a real fight of hand to hand, ...

Alrik Vas

I didn't say it was a rule, just how i do it. /shrug

Alrik Vas

Okay...maybe we're underestimating what it takes to obliterate a few kilometers of asteroid. Even simply shattering it with precision attacks would still need far more energy than what the stat damage suggests. I think the near miss damage Seto mentioned, which is consisted with their ship guns at a...

Alrik Vas

I do, and it's delicious. Though, they just wanted to give you a way to defend against missiles and thought a cloud of space junk was a good answer. Oh well, right?

Alrik Vas

I don't give penalties to other guided missiles when they attack other missiles. Though i do require them to beat the other missile's strike roll to land a successful hit. Shooting with iron sights...yeah, you need a N20 for that. Other targeting systems can lower the penalty, even though it's impli...

Alrik Vas

having modifiers from physical prowess isn't really the issue, because anyone can already have those.

Alrik Vas

I agree for the most part, Razorwing, but if your campaign evolves into an NPC revenge story, and the players wanted an epic no consequence tale of their own badassery, then you've got a real problem, and suddenly no gaming group.

Alrik Vas

The idea of throwing something to detonate incoming missiles is God-Tier Hilarity.

But carry on.

Alrik Vas

I think, because of energy work requirements to explode a plenatoid, and since the beams that finally shatter said planetoid continue on their way...that the turrets on zentradi warships must have some serious, serious business going on. Asteroids/planetary bodies and the such aren't all one element...

Alrik Vas

Recently happened. GM told us about rumors of some bizarre lightning demon. Turns out to be Pikachu (yes...that one, but of course, not really). I try to capture it (because to be the very best that no one ever was, you gotta catch'm all, right?) Everyone else is trying to kill it. Pikachu isn't fir...

Alrik Vas

And we all know Palladium has enough of those. Even all those spells with no saving throws. It's a nasty megaverse if your GM doesn't like you and is willing to do a little interpretation. That said, you're going a little high on the meta here, Axel. Why are you even bringing this up? Boredom is as ...

Alrik Vas

Unguided, guided, smart...who cares? Just having the missile itself is where you get a kill from. Didn't someone project that shooting at an incoming missile comes with a penalty of like -12 or so? Good luck with that.

Alrik Vas

TL;DR: Trying to figure out weapon yield for "Heavy Particle Beam" or Reflex Cannon, or Dimension Beam, or whatever you want to call it. I know they might all be a little different. So...we see Zentradi ships do some nasty things to mother earth's complexion in the Macross series. They als...

Alrik Vas

SHHHHHHH...no logic while RPG physics is talking.

Alrik Vas

I believe in some dimension book, megaverse generator...something-something-nonsense, there is a particular passage that dictates there are worlds where your MDC become SDC, not converted by any factors, just straight across. Which suddenly makes your 2d4 mega damage pistol which on rifts earth can ...

Alrik Vas

Doesn't matter how it's done. Busted is busted.

Alrik Vas

Boomgun. Missile Volleys. Go ahead and kungfu that with 9 fighting styles. OP is a term that had no place in this game. Supernatural Intelligences..... And you take that kung fu with 9 fighting styles, with the 30 APM you'd get from them all, and stack a few more on from the Power Armor training, a...

Alrik Vas

Interestingly, i watched a movie recently where something like this happened.

Girl Trapped in Boy's Body: watashi...
Boy's Friends, Unknowing of the Condition: ????
Girl: Boku...?
Boys: ???
Girl: Ore?
Boys: *nodding correct*

Alrik Vas

Well, to be fair I did mention they were always increasing their influence all the while, sometimes that does mean you end up creating your opportunity. Though I get what you're saying, and I agree with it, GB. In any case, I don't want a super convoluted plot, but I hate force feeding the players a...

Alrik Vas

I'm trying out SR with my group, it's fine so far. Metaplot is moved a bit forward because of what happened in the last Rifts game. Oddly enough, the action occurred near enough to Refuge's location, and the fallout of the campaign created lots of refugees, that i could drop them Tomorrow Legion rig...

Alrik Vas

Okay. So...from what I've been able to glean from Palladium over the past 20 or so years is that... Alien Intelligences play the long game. They're eternal, so they can wait for the best opportunity to make it all happen, slowly increasing influence so it's easier to get it done when the time comes....

Alrik Vas

it occurs to me it might not be a robotech reference after all.. rather Gunbuster where to beat a massive invasion of bizzare aliens, humanity (for some reason) built a battleship size transforming multipart giant robot able to throw absurdly powerful firepower around. absurdly? WHAT? you mean awes...

Alrik Vas

Robotech thankfully have avoided that in later vessels, leaving the SDF1's transformation just a one off field expedient I have to disagree with the thankfully part, i believe transforming ships are cooler than non-transforming ships. Though, I have to say, I'm out on a lot of the ship weapon visua...

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