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Noon

Last I heard they were hungry for adventure material. Give sending it in a shot!

Noon

Alrik, you don't seem to realise that the odds eventually come. If there's a one in two hundred chance of being one shot killed, after about 200 attacks, that character is dead. If you were talking about one shot being made unconcious and slowly dying, I'd get you. But a one shot kill is a characte...

Noon

'Just' level 10??

Noon

Alrik, you don't seem to realise that the odds eventually come. If there's a one in two hundred chance of being one shot killed, after about 200 attacks, that character is dead. If you were talking about one shot being made unconcious and slowly dying, I'd get you. But a one shot kill is a character...

Noon

I know that many people have called BS on the Rifts laser sounds for years, so I'm just going to leave this right here... LINK Some lasers don't make any noise. When they do, the noise is caused by the laser superheating the air to a plasma, which expands with a supersonic shock wave, much like thu...

Noon

Perhaps if some petition were written up, Nokia might take notice.

You could always act the dissapointed customer with them - it's essentially saying 'we are angry with you unless you take our money', which often works with businesses - especially if hundreds or thousands of people do it.

Noon

Warmaster40k wrote:I'm thinking Savage Worlds.

http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=769 ... ad77bb4&e=[UNIQID]

Noon

I plan out various organisations that are of a range of importances (from farmers to warlords) and events they are embroiled in that the PC's could affect in atleast two ways, if not more ways (the way is up to the PCs).

Then I wing it.

Noon

No, I don't feed people things. I've run that way in the distant past, but now, no. No idea what you mean by pillars. Your NPC giving information seems another hook feeding mechanism - really no, it's possible to both interact with an NPC and it isn't a hook feeding moment.

Noon

Lucky soldiers never play it smart

Noon

Often use dice to determine who the enemy attacks, but give a larger chance of targeting someone who did a lot of damage.

Noon

Side subject : 'advancing the story' - ugh! Advancing the story is for novel writing - solo novel writing! It doesn't even work in tandem novel writing, since you have to actually accept material from your co-author. In roleplay, you have three to five co-authors...

Noon

The latter.

Noon

grandmaster z0b wrote:Has anyone actually checked with Palladium as to whether it's ok to distribute a character generator or has everyone just assumed from rumours that it's not ok?

Checked. Long, bad history right back to the nighspawn law suit.

Noon

My question, purely game mechanics, if you have a PC in this situation what determines if he/she takes the shot? Is it just the player saying "I shoot" or do you have to take alignment into account. Unless you find holding characters to alignment fun somehow, the player just roleplays the...

Noon

My question, purely game mechanics, if you have a PC in this situation what determines if he/she takes the shot? Is it just the player saying "I shoot" or do you have to take alignment into account. Unless you find holding characters to alignment fun somehow, the player just roleplays the...

Noon

How we should read it... As long as you don't cause harm with your immediate action you remain invisible. The way it was probably intended and the way I've been using it since I've played. So... if I shoot you with a .45 automatic, and you're in MDC armor, then I remain visible? And if you don't kn...

Noon

"act of aggression or combat" as I see it is intent to do harm to person or property. If you intend to cause damage or bring harm to another then the spell cancels out. Actual results don't matter so much as your intentions. If you want to engage in hostile actions while being invisible I...

Noon

I'm not sure I am seeing what the advantage of a % "thou art dead" is myself. While its nice for vast statistical analysis, and possibly of use for very large mass combats I would feel cheated, personally, as a player if I shot my target and it 'just died, nice shot'. And I would be incen...

Noon

Sure in heroes unlimited you might want to stick to the 'spandex hero' genre. And an armour system doesn't lend to that terribly well. But that's the system encouraging them to armour up and get big guns - I wouldn't discourage someone for doing that when at the same time the rule set is encouraging...

Noon

What are you worried about happening? From my experience generally its the players PC's who go toward bad things - players tend to determine content more than I do as GM. Your players will decide more the content they can deal with. Though you might want to figure some sort of combat sport that's no...

Noon

How do you mean they use the system - use the system as in players roll dice to solve the puzzle or riddle? Otherwise if the players solve them themselves, then it's not a system thing - and there are probably various compendiums of riddles and puzzles out there that folk here might have links for, ...

Noon

Giant2005 wrote:Yes it does.

Not sure if answering that yes it does add...1D6 Standard Damage.

Noon

If the players respect each other, what's wrong with a PC running in like a bull in a china shop when they think something should be a certain way? You misunderstand. The player was very aggressive towards me personally, sometimes to the point of shouting for long periods, when I issued a call he d...

Noon

All sides should be happy, yeah. It's a tall order. Though it seems you have player issues often, is it the local crop of gamers or do you have expectations that go undiscussed? I think it's the local crop of gamers. I have gamers I'm happy with, that I rarely see due to scheduling. I've run into a...

Noon

I think the issue here is that shields are not written as if they were cover, like you might write about a wall. They're written as one might write about a club, something you need to make a parry roll to defend with. They're written like handheld-swung things, not mobile walls. They should (at lea...

Noon

Jerell wrote:
Noon wrote:The RUE rules for cover are that it takes two attacks to get past the cover. I don't think there's an increased to hit requirement.

Called shot, old boy. 12+ to hit.

For RUE (Rifts Ultimate Edition) can you give a page number for that?

I'm aware of it in the RMB

Noon

I think using shields as cover could be "technically" true in Rifts due to their size, but there's no example of it anywhere. Nothing that explicitly says you can use shields that way. In every other context in the game, shields are described as defensive weapons. It's fair to say that a ...

Noon

The RUE rules for cover are that it takes two attacks to get past the cover. I don't think there's an increased to hit requirement.

Noon

No pictures of lasers lasering.

Dissapointed.

Noon

well, I doubt they're still treasure troves. undoubtedly they were at one point, but after 300 years of looting and scavenging, they probably don't have much left in the way of treasure. Yeah, I think so too. Had trouble in various posts where other posters thought you couldn't go outside without t...

Noon

Hotrod - If you don't want to do that, say it. But don't kick the game in the junk in order to avoid doing it. We use the insanity rules, but I don't know about your games, but in my the only that really ever comes up is for returning from the dead. The others have rarely occurred to PCs, a bit more...

Noon

Zer0 Kay wrote:That GM of yours is an unimaginative micromanager.

And a railroader.

Noon

Yeah, I should do a few one day.

Handy for GM'ing as well.

Lots of use from it, IMO.

Noon

The question is, if the person was forced to pay for your product if they wanted to see it, would they? Why "forced to pay"? I'm not trying to offend you; I'm just curious why you chose that particular phrasing. Edit: Spelling error corrected. Because other peoples idea is that pirates wo...

Noon

The question is, if the person was forced to pay for your product if they wanted to see it, would they? It's the conceit of authors to think anyone who torrented their work would definately have paid for it if they could had no other way of accessing it. Perhaps some scientific test could be run to ...

Noon

Outside of play ask them what they imagine doing in rifts.

Then do it.

Noon

Keep in mind in RUE called shots take two attacks.

That kind of halves your damage (with no official rules for head shots)

Noon

Do you feel if someone wants to play a ley-line walker then ley-lines should come up during the game? Forcing them to come up is just a kind of metagaming. Ie, things come up in the game world to fill a real life quota (jim hasn't had a ley line yet - quick, force one in!) I would have presumed the...

Noon

Thanks a bunch for the timely reply! I feel that it is right as well, I just need to either hope the GM lets me have 6 APM or find a way to convince him it is the way. The nicer way might be to suggest a trial period with it possibly being nerfed down at the end of the trial, or possibly not. If mo...

Noon

Well to make sure the conversion of Using Armor of Ithan-like stats in Heroes, lets take a look at the MDC/Rifts equal. Psychic Body Field in Rifts provides 10 MDC per level. What does "Armor of Ithan" provide in Rifts? If it is the same, then sure, use the Armor of Ithan AR/SDC for the e...

Noon

your claim of never seperating the group .. and having the city rat go places where the demigod can not... is seperating the group. Actually I mistook it for separating the people who want to play "powerful characters" from people who want to play "squishy characters" into diffe...

Noon

"Good, bad - I'm the one with the XP stick!"

Noon

It makes people start to think of a cohesive theme for the group (if as a RL group they are somewhat cohesive).

What are the odds of strangers just deciding to form up anyway. "Hmm, I'm gunna go risk my life - I think I'll pick people at random to accompany me!"

Noon

Rappanui wrote:he just made an oxymoronic post..
that's a crime now to point it out?

Yeah. No critical thinking on the internet.

Blame Obama for that!

No, don't ask why he's to blame - that would be critical thinking!!1!

Noon

They all made their characters by themselves rather than as a group together, did they?

Noon

That sounds good in alot of ways. But as a quibble, why at three or less? You can survive to your PE in negative.

Noon

Our regular Palladium GM has a distressing tendency to suddenly switch game settings once our characters get skilled enough to take on most average opponents. I have a few dozen character sheets on permanent hiatus, because every time we swing back to a setting, he requires we make new characters, ...

Noon

Ten real life years??

Noon

Depends if it's having a look first or if it turns into 'well we get sneak attack and we buffed ourselves first and we get on either side to flank and...', ie it gets used to gain advantage after advantage.

But just having a look and either going in then or dashing away then is good.

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