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Orin J.

triax seems to have a different design approach to giant robots than the original glitterboys had, the reinforced internal frame might have been discarded as a design choice to streamline production to facilitate their current rescue team's tactics.

Orin J.

i'm legitimately surprised this wasn't a TW vehicle. looks good though!

Orin J.

do the northern gun powerpacks in mercenaries count for this? they regenerate their payload but they're not integral to the weapon and have limits.

Orin J.

Actually....did tolkeen even HAVE a "victory" possible? Breaking the CS wouldn't have been in their power, and bloodying their nose would have just made the CS antagonize them more than they already did before. I'm not sure free quebec would have stayed allies long if tolkeen DID stuff the...

Orin J.

the very fact they can pop into their personal astral plane-space would by the CS's own understanding of things make them a D-Bee (in this case a being from another dimension that simply tests as human, their otherworldy power is proof enough of their evil!) and enemy of the state for the CS, i can'...

Orin J.

unless you're using the random monster tables from the RMB, none, they don't care. if you are and it comes up there it'll be listed.

Orin J.

I would differ in saying that Tech has to be a 'Made Object', not just something that was laying about on the ground. Within the argument that tech items can be used as a focus for TWs, I would agree that the tech item has to be functional. This would disqualify TW magic items from being used as a ...

Orin J.

....You ain't getting it. The techno wizard can cast spells using normal, non-TW devices to focus the spell (assuming they're a device that makes sense for how the spell works) which is what this is about. None of the parts on the jeep, including the turret and whatever gun(s) is mounts, are modifie...

Orin J.

Sure they can cast magic, they just don't at full str. If there are such things as 'Magic Foci' for TW to cast magic at full Str. (w/o doing it 2nd'hand through a TW item)....how are they made? where are they detailed/stat'ed out as an piece of equipment, Instead of just being an item in descriptiv...

Orin J.

The mechanics of the TW magic items is that they are 2nd hand magic. In other words the user is not casting the magic, the Item is doing the casting. Not casting, using the TW item as a focus to cast magic at full str. The user might empower/charge the TW magic item, but that is not casting the spe...

Orin J.

Wait, are you saying people confused the "needing a mechanical item to properly cast spells" with needing a TW-item for casting spells to avoid the penalty? That's pretty straightforwardly explained in the RUE.

Orin J.

i'd expect them to have the exact same gear as any other unit, just that they'd be handpicked for their experience and loyalty. probably receive some extra diplomatic training to keep them from causing an incident.

Orin J.

always thought it was left in as a typo.

Orin J.

GM's guide is less than great, but the books i always suggest for people wanting to start their rifts collection are the first sourcebook, the mercenary book, and the new west world book. even if the adventures don't matter to ya all three of them are full of useful stuff for any campaign, both for ...

Orin J.

I have a question about the Techno-Wizard. Can they use a vehicle as a spell focus? I ask this because one of the videos Legion of Myth had: highlighted a rule where you cannot cast from inside a vehicle. I get the rational for that rule if you were a traditional caster; however, the techo-wizard i...

Orin J.

Thanks for the assist KC, i'm too lazy to bother with hunting down references to cite.

Orin J.

the mistake you're making is you're arguing using their framing of things, and their framing of things is itself evil. even if you academically disagree, you're tacitly advocating their position by using their language and "i don't MEAN it i'm just saying-" is itself a common method of fas...

Orin J.

The second issue is "Does the entire turret, the turret and the vehicle it's mounted on, or the weapon inside of the turret serve as the focus " The thing is ..... There It No such idea as a 'Magic Focus' in the canon PB game system. So leave the talk about magic foci for D&D. The onl...

Orin J.

If the vehicle had a turret mounted on it with a gun, could i cast offensive spells through the Mountaineer then through the gun as one giant techno spell focus (thereby getting around the rule no casting out of a vehicle) Okay, so there's two issues here. The first is can you cast offensive spells...

Orin J.

they aren't the only power doing that, they're the only power that gets detailed doing that. Both tolkeen and lazlo have mentions of doing that but they're good guys and rifts writers are allergic to letting the good guys do anything cool. Yes they are. Lazlo, & Tolkeen etc. are okay with cohab...

Orin J.

Stop pretending that Coalition soldiers are heroes. They are the only North American force still fighting a global invasion by forces that want to eat human souls, enslave humans, genocide humans, etc. An invasion that has spanned centuries. Not every D-Bee is a threat but the Minion War, the bugs,...

Orin J.

every time i've seen this topic i've said the same things. 1:curtail the CS's power expantion. the coalition states get a LOT of things weirdly handed to them in terms ot resources and politics, and i get to a point thats because sales numbers but it's honestly over the line of "nazi apoligism&...

Orin J.

I would honestly not assume that last part, as they've made it clear as glass that TW-clips cannot be charged by anyone other that specialists trained in their secrets, which they to not let everyone have. letting non-casters use them might be more of a matter for the weapon than the cell though, i...

Orin J.

I would honestly not assume that last part, as they've made it clear as glass that TW-clips cannot be charged by anyone other that specialists trained in their secrets, which they to not let everyone have. letting non-casters use them might be more of a matter for the weapon than the cell though, i ...

Orin J.

i always see the narrative in the books as "how we did it" which is to say the vision they had writing but not required (or good, some of this is pretty silly). the CS never gets the magical publicity turnaround they snuck in after the juicer uprising and ends up taking on a lot of issues ...

Orin J.

I cannot, I no longer own any of the books. My source is myself, I probably read it in the original rulebook, or I just made it up. Hard to say for sure. you're misremembering the technowizard glitterboys from new west, i think, they have that mention of being semi-self piloting and not working for...

Orin J.

i don't think there's anything written about that, but i'm inclined to argue that as long as it maintains its performance, the specialized skill required by it supersedes the general TW floaties skill.

Orin J.

i vaugely recall reading that the company is disbanded due to losing their naruni backing and the remaining forces might be forming a new-smaller merc unit as a result.

Orin J.

It's been a minute since I've looked at the Traveling Shows tables. Is there anything about showing video? yes, apparantly it's a big draw for traveling shows to have some movies (also probably a good turnaround for most of them if they find a pre-rifts film people will pile in for).i forget the de...

Orin J.

i think instead of television you would see a lot of public movie theatres appearing in rifts america. broadcasting is very limited due to the ease with which the infrastructure will get knocked out, but having public film shows that include news reels avaialble throughout the day would allow the me...

Orin J.

all you really need to do is have Jr. screw up badly enough he dies or has to be removed from succession. without an heir, the whole place will burn itself to the ground trying to establish a pecking order (karl, like all fascists, did not plan for a peaceful transition in case of blunder) maybe he...

Orin J.

all you really need to do is have Jr. screw up badly enough he dies or has to be removed from succession. without an heir, the whole place will burn itself to the ground trying to establish a pecking order (karl, like all fascists, did not plan for a peaceful transition in case of blunder) maybe he ...

Orin J.

-get rid of alien intelligences -make a build-a-town system that made it clear how the large, advanced nations are like that because they've hoarded all the production and refining tech, often at gunpoint and lets GMs handle entire campaigns without having to focus them around a major capital -some ...

Orin J.

of the two choices electrical engineer would work best. if you can wire an entire building you should be able to understand how to affect repairs to the power lines in theory, i've created new skills for less but that's not the question here. i think your biggest bottleneck is that including the too...

Orin J.

i was playing with the idea of the "rouge mage" centered around operating inside of magically restricted locations instead of acquiring powerful magic at some point, which got a class feature that let them suppress their magical abilities but got less spells and general power than other s...

Orin J.

looking at it from the persepctive of the GM, my strategey for making magic users feel contributing can be summed up with "magic is only as powerful as it's prep time". magic can do a LOT of stuff nothing else can and used correctly can win you a lot of fights that would not be winnible ot...

Orin J.

interesting stuff, i always did like the concept of the CTF rounds (if thought them doomed to obscurity) but i gotta ask- why make the shotgun rounds rechargable? also i'd like to see the availability you envisioned for them- i have a bit of trouble imagining the CS is going to tolerate anything cap...

Orin J.

from Merc Ops- "For decades the industrialized Manistique Imperium had focused on producing all-purpose vehicles, parts and adventuring gear, along with weapon knock-offs sold mainly to the Black Market." i don't think they make many uniquely branded items, but instead produce generic item...

Orin J.

i was playing with the idea of the "rouge mage" centered around operating inside of magically restricted locations instead of acquiring powerful magic at some point, which got a class feature that let them suppress their magical abilities but got less spells and general power than other sp...

Orin J.

i don't think palladium HAS any real space for 0-level mages, honestly. level 1 is already pretty low. if you mean low-cost utility spells that's another thing but i'm confused by the wording here....

Orin J.

any kickstarter/preorder monies i might have for a palladium game is on hold until i get rifts scotland and whatever book has the truck with the massive energy cannon turret in it. i cannot trust palladium with a schedule, simple as that.

Orin J.

i've always felt that retiring a juicer is the duty of a GM, myself.

Orin J.

ultimately, OP was incorrect in their statement. bags of holding would exist in rifts, since alchemists can create permenent enchanted items so they'd just be making the dimensional pocket like that. of course, we're talking hundreds of thousands of credits for the bag, probably a couple mil if they...

Orin J.

i would prefer they get a big part of a more broad sourcebook as they're not really a major political force in the wrold so much as a business full of kooks that just fix stuff. preferably something that brings a focus to properly using SDC adventure ideas in Rifts. and a nice appendix of general go...

Orin J.

yeah, but they aren't detailed. same with iron heart, the CS fortress city that's never had anything to detail it ever.

Orin J.

to be the odd man out, the vagabond has access to all the skills you'd need to be a geologist. it might not have special bonuses, but it's geology not neurosurgery. the rocks are hardly going to spoil if you take the time needed to make sure of your fndings.

Orin J.

i think you'd more likely find a conventional enchntment for an item like that. T-W work is usually for limited charge stuff. but it wouldn't be hard to dummy one up (someone already did in the thread).

Orin J.

it's a holdover from that period when there were legit satanic panics over the game. kev doesn't change things that don't cause him problems.

even when the cause everyone else problems.

Orin J.

a lot of the time it's "i wanna snipe these guys" in my experience. i allow the range changes they want, they turn everything into a long-range ambush, I start subjecting them to long-range ambushes, they wail about the setting, and then they always choose to go back to before when i point...

Orin J.

explaining a complex concept, conveying your message when there's some kind of interferance (noise you can't just shout over) trying to impress someone with your grasp of the language, that sorta thing. So do you roll it if you're trying to have a conversation if let's say you have it at like 60%? ...

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