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At one time, I was toying with the idea of fumble/accident rolls that would incorporate things like this. My idea was to require a second roll to determine the severity of the incident, with the roll being d20 plus the combat training skill level. As long as the worst results are at the bottom of th...

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I bought one. It makes for a fairly presentable copy both at a table or on a shelf. My "working" softcover got the cover coated in clear packing tape years ago to help it withstand being carried around in a backpack.

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I haven't found the healing from a priest to be problematic. I run 1E, but use the melee duration of 15 seconds from 2E. Since the priest can only use the healing touch every other melee, it really doesn't add up in a big hurry. If you go with the 1E melee duration, the priest can heal (on average) ...

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I would definitely look into condensing some of the OCCs, especially the Men at Arms. Wizards, Warlocks, and Diabolists are all very different characters, because their special abilities and magical powers MAKE them different. .. Mercenary Fighter and Solider are different jobs for the same sort of...

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Something I have been thinking about (but haven't tried in a game) would be to give them something based on the culture they originated from. This could be resistances against psionics and certain magics for those from Bizantium where those things are reviled, or bonus PPE/casts per day or maybe eve...

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I don't know about the OCCs, but I wouldn't mind seeing some sort of anthology of spells and abilities that were printed in the Rifters. I certainly don't own all the Rifters, but I tend to take individual spells from the Rifters that I do own and insert them as regional spell knowledge or maybe hav...

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I use a similar thought process in my games. If players are asking for a particular interpretation of an ability for their use, are they going to be fine with npcs using the ability in that exact same way against them? If the answer to that question is no, then they can't use the ability in that par...

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All possessions are left where the spell was cast, unless the caster was able to plan ahead and give things to someone to carry or stored them somewhere in preparation. Since nothing is carried with them, then the possessions will not be with/on them when the spell ends.

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Not all of those go back to the original fantasy game as spells, but most do. In that iteration of the rules, Sense Evil and Sense Magic were both "self". See the Invisible was "self or others". See Aura was a psionic ability only at that point and was definitely not something th...

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After reading the different responses here, I think it will really boil down to answering the following question: "In your games, what is a fireball?" In my daily work (during heating season), I tend to a decent sized coal boiler system. At least twice each day, this entails opening up a c...

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Going back to the original fantasy version of the spell, it mentioned a deceased "person" instead of just a body. The exact wording has probably changed over time or at least changed in different settings. Personally, I wouldn't have an issue with someone deciding to raise a recently decea...

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I apply it direct to hit points. I could see applying to armor as well, though I would probably keep it to cloth and maybe light leather. This isn't sustained heat after all, but simply a flash burn, so most materials will survive it just fine. I don't have a problem depleting armor sdc with mundane...

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For me, I would say probably not by itself. However, it is going to ensure there is no language barrier to solving it. I guess it would depend on how you saw the cypher working based on where/who it came from. Is it only using hidden meaning in the words? If so, then maybe it would. If the cypher is...

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My opinion? It depends.... I don't even use everything out of the 1E books. Have you already been filling in parts of the map with your own ideas? If so, then you may not have any need for the sourcebook covering that area. Or maybe you do just to see if there are things you can pull from it. Some t...

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Yeah, I think those are about it for 1E.

If you end up wanting pdf versions of the books, note that there is no pdf version of the 1E Monsters and Animals book as far as I know.

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I've had the written message be like an actual carrier pigeon message. Since those are folded small and then rolled even smaller, I haven't allow wards to be used on them. One thing I like about the magic pigeon spell (at least in the fantasy setting) is the duration. If it can't find the person you...

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For book 12 do mean use the 2e version? Yes, most of the items and their abilities don't have edition specific mechanics. If you don't have that book and don't want to get it, that is fine. There are a few that are repeats or a renamed/updated version of something from earlier books. The only other...

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For powerful items, I would recommend you look at Book 12: Library of Bletherad, Book 6: Island at the Edge of the World, and Book 3: The High Seas. Book 6 has crystal magic, which is mostly psionics focused, but you could adapt some elements of that to "regular" rune items without too muc...

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The one thing I miss about 1e was the hand to hand differences. Each man of arms class had slightly different hth bonuses. I don't remember details, but I liked the idea. If I ever play it again, I think I'm going to bring (something like that) back borrowing heavily from Ninjas & Superspies Lo...

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I know someone looking at starting a Rifts game on Roll20, so I will point her at your video. Thanks for putting it together!

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Shorty Lickens wrote:Guys?
Why how come you never respond my threads?

I just can't handle the excitement.

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At times, I have wanted to come up with some sort of "overcasting" system, mostly due to reading L. E. Modessit Jr.'s Order/Chaos Wars books. I haven't followed through so far, because the effects out of the novels... work well in the novels, but probably wouldn't in a game. I mean, the ef...

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The process for players building those things (golems and golem-like) are in the spell descriptions: Create Golem (1E-pg 90, 2E-pg 214) Sculpt and Animate Clay (1E-pg 90, 2E-pg 232) Those spell entries talk about the creation process, base stats of the constructs, and how they change when turned to ...

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Occupation Skill Selection . Your analogy on the 1E Robotech Characters is pretty much bang on. Something not defined is the re-write I would propose for Occupations as well. I've already done a couple of blog posts on it (e.g. 200+ Men at Arms OCCs are really easily presented as 12, with MOS-like ...

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They are in the library of bletherad sourcebook. I'm glad someone posted, because I knew I had seen them somewhere! I know I have thrown the Ghost Ship spell into the mix in my 1E fantasy games as a "lost" spell that players may find (or find scrolls of) while rambling around. I looked in...

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I think it might be ok, but I think it is begging for a weight limit. I mean, the beard may be prehensile, but it is still attached to your chin. How much weight do you want attached to your lower jaw over a long period of time? 1 lb.? Maybe 2 (though hanging a common machinist's hammer from your ja...

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ShadowLogan and Aermas have claimed I've been saying completely different things--hence calling me a liar, especially after I clarified the point for them multiple times . That seems to be quite the exaggeration to me. I have seen them presenting a different point of view. TW items are the largest ...

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No, them intentionally and willfully misinterpreting what I've said--even after multiple clarifications--and then writing walls of text to "prove" how wrong I was is what's unproductive. There's nothing philosophical about it. They straight-up lied about what was being said and then rante...

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This is totally a house rule sort of thing, but in the fantasy game I don't automatically give the charm/impress roll along with the P.B. of someone that is shape shifted (mostly changelings in that setting). The reason I don't is due to the changeling species being asexual and genderless (except fo...

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It looks like this question might be for Heroes Unlimited, but is posted in the Fantasy forum. The basic rules I am aware of for fatigue for HU2 are on 16 under Movement and Exertion. That section ends with this: Prolonged periods of combat or heavy exertion (an hour or more of intense, continual, p...

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As far as skeletons go, I haven't messed with sentient ones in my games, but I don't see why you couldn't adapt the process/mechanics of becoming a mummy with becoming a skeleton. The original fantasy game had an ability called Death Trap as the "capstone" ability for a Mind Mage. You like...

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Hotrod wrote:Maybe I'll do a smaller pantheon next time, like Dragonwright or Rurga.

Aren't Rurga's bunch mostly specific trees or leaves of specific trees? That might be a fairly simple one to do.

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A couple things come to mind from parts of the description of ratlings. These are from the Monsters and Animals book (pg 126). To be honest, even the Western Empire has no idea how many of these nocturnal. subterranean creatures exist under their cities. They have conducted purges that have slaughte...

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He had been a follower of Rurga. However, as time progressed, he had a family and that called into question the wisdom of trying to follow the code of chivalry as closely as possible. I was also gravitating away from Principled as an alignment/philosophy by that time. There was a fairly long intense...

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Yeah, I may not have been clear enough with the "may or may not". I wasn't intending to imply that groups playing that way wouldn't ever pick up another (or multiple) OCCs. My first character was a paladin 9, priest 8 by the time I was done playing him. I'm not sure I would have picked up ...

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It wouldn't surprise me if the rules for changing/multiple OCCs are one of the more houseruled bits of the rule set. I have certainly made some changes to them myself. If you simply look at OCCs from a "gamist" point of view, there is no reason to not have multiples. You may not be very de...

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I always thought it applied to energy attacks that targeted the person protected by AoI, simply because it doesn't make any sense to me for the SDC of the conjured armor to be the only thing the resistances help protect. I applied it to energy attacks whether they end up applied to the armor (like f...

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I don't know if it made it to 2E, but in the 1E version of Book III: The High Seas (pg 41), there is a Cloak of Guises. It can change into a complete set of clothing at will. The limitations are that the clothing will be made of the same sort of material as the cloak, and has to be shades of the sam...

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Timiro is really filled in. On the other hand, it also had many adventure ideas or fairly fleshed out adventures that make use of a bunch of that detail. To me, the Great Northern Wilderness and Ophid's Grasslands areas were the easiest to throw in your own stuff. They still are if you ignore anythi...

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It may be simply my point of view on it. I don't see requiring a priest to stop in the middle of combat for at least one melee in to attempt a prayer to be all that appealing. Since another use of that same prayer (in 1E anyway) is to be granted the knowledge to teach a wizard a new spell, and that ...

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I'm not sure if there is an official statement anywhere about this, but this is how I handle the spell option of prayer of intervention: 1. The exact spell desired has to be specified in the prayer, and can't be changed afterwards. 2. The spell requested may be used any time that day, since it is a ...

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...but I'm not sure I would allow a male barbarian with stats like that. That sentence fragment. That's why those restrictions are dumb and best left ignored, because it's ultimately up to the GM allowing the character in the first place. In fact, suggesting (and this is a general reference, and by...

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male barbarian with a 3 in PS, PE, and PP. I'm not sure if it is different in 2E (and I am too lazy to look it up at the moment), but I'm not sure I would allow a male barbarian with stats like that. I mean, in 1E, even squires (one of the optional classes) required a PS of 5 or 6 just to carry the...

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No, it requires the burning of faerie wings to power it. From the 2E main book on pg 153: A new location can be indicated by rubbing out the old destination and writing the new one. This is one of the few circles that can be used by someone who did not create the circle and does not require addition...

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I don't think I have run across an official statement of when you might step up to multiplying dice by 10 instead of rolling all of them. In the fantasy setting, I have mostly seen the XdY*10 sort of formula applied to siege weaponry. Using word searches in some of the pdfs I own hasn't turned up an...

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I generally use anydice.com for simple dice probabilities: m Getting 16+ on any race/species with 3 dice (since you get an extra die in 2E on a 16 also instead of just 17 or 18 like in 1E) on the roll has a 4.63% probability, so it is close to that 5% specified. Getting 14+ is much higher at 16.2%. ...

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As Hotrod brought up, you have to burn a pair of faerie wings to activate the circle. You also (unless this changed in 2E) still have a chance of mishaps if you aren't teleporting directly to another teleport circle. So, for perfect teleportation, you want 2 circles with 2 pairs of faerie wings. The...

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I'm not sure which way I would go. In general, I would probably lean towards Kiralon's take on this. On the other hand, you could go with allowing skills to make up the difference, which might (to my mind anyway) be a decent match for the trope of someone training in secret. Their attributes didn't ...

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I agree most animals will rarely parry, if ever. Have you ever been attacked by a dog? They don't dodge much! If they do, they move right out of the way - avoiding the attacker altogether rather than attacking themselves, which would fit with the Palladium combat rules: the animal can choose to use...

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