Forums of the Megaverse®

glitterboy2098

historically, "morgan le fey" didn't play much role in the arthur stories until fairly modern times.. and when she did, it was largely in a role as a friendly magic user and healer living on avalon, unrelated to arthur.[1] suggesting that in the 'original' conducted by Zazshan, it was prob...

glitterboy2098

also, it is possible that Triax simplified the design some for their own production. the Pilot's compartment probably added complexity, given that a GB is more of a power armor (which usually lack pilot compartments) than a robot. presumably adding an extra layer or armor under the normal armor woul...

glitterboy2098

always right? no
but a Gm ruling is always final. at least for the session you are in. between sessions is the time to debate over stuff.

glitterboy2098

i tend to assume that a lot of NEMA groups went on ice if they had the hardware for it. save on food and supplies by putting as many people in suspension as you can, leaving a token garrison to hold down the fort and maintain stuff.

glitterboy2098

That's a great question! The "coil" time travel concept in Transdimensional Turtles is actually original to the RPG. The comics primarily focused on the Turtles' adventures in their own time, with occasional forays into alternate dimensions. The RPG introduced the coils as a way to explor...

glitterboy2098

it's rifter 7, page 65 through 67. the Super-Skelebot, which is a biomechanical skelebot (really, closer to being a cyborg) mixing cloned flesh with manufactured robot. it has the ability to fuel itself by eating dead enemies, can heal itself to a degree, and give birth to a new copy of itself every...

glitterboy2098

looks like you are right. that's what i get for relying on memory. i probably generalized that in my own games (since IRL there have been a lot of research into such things, from russian underwater assault rifles to the US navy researching CIWS ammo they can use to intercept torpedoes) i will say th...

glitterboy2098

Per RAW in WB7 there are x7 examples of Rail Guns that fire at reduced range underwater (Triax and Kittani designs, plus a few of the Orca "Power Armor"), we also see at x1 example in SB4 (Sea SAMAS, though the naval version of the CS spider-skull walker doesn't include adjustments, possi...

glitterboy2098

also GAW equipment usually are commonly used designs that saw service with the military. the XV-15 was an experimental test bed with only 2 airframes built. (one of which was destroyed during testing, the other of which sits in the Smithsonian) a better choice would have been the MV-22 osprey (or it...

glitterboy2098

honestly even without NEMA, the idea of pre-rifts people being found in rifts was a fun idea.
shades of one of the earliest Bolo stories (Night of the Trolls by Keith laumer, which can be read for free [here] thank's to project gutenberg.)

glitterboy2098

crunchyroll is going through a bunch of issues right now and removing tons of content and features,. and it's rapidly bleeding away users as a result. so i'm not surprised that Sony went farther afield. Crunchyroll's days are probably numbered at the moment

glitterboy2098

skimming through WB7, i'm not seeing any reference to an actual range in the entries for the LOTD, the cult of the deep, or the sea inquisitor. from the phrasing used to refer to the calling, it actually looks like it has global range from where ever the LOTD is, it's just only psychic sensitives an...

glitterboy2098

People change. The older generation of two diametrically opposed forces once being friends/lovers is a classic trope too. They are of similar age, Erin grew up in CS territory, etc. Plus it just makes for a great narrative. The grumpy military man fell for the idealistic hippie girl. They marry the...

glitterboy2098

Disney Plus to exclusively distribute Macross worldwide I'm guessing Sony leveraged their relationship with disney from the MCU stuff to do this. At a guess, it'll have everything other than Macross 7 and its related ova's and films. (As those have major music rights snarls to deal with) The articl...

glitterboy2098

unless a Deus ex machina or deus ex munchkin interviened to completely wipe the CS off the face of the earth.. any Tolkien win would only buy tolkien time. 5, 10, or 20 years later, the CS would just beat the wardrums, recruit, rearm, and go at it again. and if tolkien won using terrorist methodolog...

glitterboy2098

it would also depend a lot on where they arrive. a group arriving in the eastern north america seems unlikely to march out to the western half (having to thread the needle between CS territories), and vice versa.

glitterboy2098

so i've basically been unable to use the search at all for at least the last month. i keep getting "Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. The server has high load. Please try again later." even at 2 in the morning when the only users are me and four bots. (Ahrefs [Bot], Bing [Bot],...

glitterboy2098

i would assume three things: 1, that there is a big market for coins and other sorts of small tokens made from gold and silver that adventurers can carry as tradable funds. likely these would take the form of fairly small coins, less than an ounce, but could also take the form of small bars, decorat...

glitterboy2098

magic is not one of my areas of expertise in the game, so i went to a friend. and he pointed out that the circle of travel is a level 15 ritual spell, so would be extremely rare. also that said circle couldn't be used for moving goods, since it can only move a single person at a time. so you could g...

glitterboy2098

i would assume that there is a road, though it is probably a fairly basic one. basic macadam , with some wooden bridges perhaps. probably winding its way through valleys and alongside the sides of mountains. honestly, there are probably several roads. one or two main ones, and then various side path...

glitterboy2098

another inspirational video dropped for Rifts Africa expanders:
History Summarized: Timbuktu

i feel like this city, or a successor city, would exists in rifts. though iirc it is near the borders of the phoenix empire so it might be a little endangered.

glitterboy2098

officially, Gold is 1000cr an ounce. and silver is 600cr an ounce.. except in mexico and the NA south west, where it's also 1000cr an ounce (because it's in higher demand due to vampires.)

glitterboy2098

iirc there is mention that the CS has a bodyguard unit for the proseks, as well as body doubles, special clear armor panels for podiums during speeches, etc.

glitterboy2098

"nogo zones" sound like the Repression fields in DB5-Anvil Galaxy (pg30).

glitterboy2098

for most of them i doubt it would change much, we've not even left the 125ish year window between "twist null" and "twist 1" (2113) so you'd mostly just need to decide if you want to add 36ish years to all the twists to account for the flow of time, or redefine the size of the tw...

glitterboy2098

It's original to the game. which is why i like to argue that it should be used to make a timetravel supplement for HU2. you'd need a replacement mechanic for the "time travel effects your BIO-E" part but the core elements of the twists and coils, with their conservation of elapsed time, w...

glitterboy2098

Macross II has already been released in the US. In both nihongo and english dubs. This happening about1990. If I had to guess why this happened is that it wasn't covered by the licensing agreement for the main-line Macross stories. the dub done in the 1990's was released yes. and there was an abort...

glitterboy2098

most of the US releases are still in the works, is my understanding. Macross II just do a preorder/crowdsource to start a newly dubbed version, most of the others i've heard of had only just obtained contracts to start the process last year. so it'll be a bit before anything releases i think.

glitterboy2098

worldbook 7 underseas mentions kingdoms there that the New Navy trades with. (which means they're probably predominantly human). the one trade good mentioned is New navy tanks but i'd guess they'd also trade body armor and infantry weapons. the items the NN gets are probably mostly foodstuffs. one t...

glitterboy2098

i just figuered that the region would be forested again since the population is a lot smaller, so less agricultural clearance happening, and it has had 300 years for the forests to regrow. given that you can see a lot of regrowth in only a few decades (re: Mt St helens aftermath, studies of new volc...

glitterboy2098

some interesting stuff in this video for Ethiopia. church forests, some details about what the landscaped looked like before modern agriculture, some neat cultural details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fGe-CPWZlE i suspect that in rifts most of that old forest has returned (perhaps with a few ad...

glitterboy2098

except as i pointed out that the second number might not be a count but a squadron/detachment or role designation. there may have been 9 ships in task force 3 detachment 7, and only 2 in task force 3 detachment 8. (which wouldn't be unusual, if detachment 7 was say, was the task force's group escort...

glitterboy2098

i'd imagine that after the mage was captured, the Vanguard of the current PA time might attempt a jail break to rescue "a companion of their founders".

glitterboy2098

actually the main limitations with LIDAR are the sensitivity of the optical receiver, rather than the strength of the laser. though that is obviously a factor as well. and techically drones were in se at the time they made the show, just not in the same roles they later did, or in uses that made the...

glitterboy2098

Over 700K now What surprises me is the number of backers, almost 4,500. I mean there were more than 5,000 people following the campaign before it launched but I never thought they would top 4k. And it looks like there are lots of people who are doing just $1 so they can get a few items on Backerkit...

glitterboy2098

the ATB sourcebooks might not have been reprinted in forever, but PB still has a stock of them and sells the dead tree format versions on their webstore . though that might change quickly after the KS ends, given a lot of people expressed interested in ATB in relation to the KS, and those older book...

glitterboy2098

true. i think part of that is the fact that "drones" has become a shorthand for the light stuff used so much IRL, like the predator, reaper, Bayraktar, etc. not to mention the little hand launched remote controlled planes and quadrotors things. since we don't really have anything comparabl...

glitterboy2098

shinchane101, since you recently joined, i would like to point out that in this forum thread necromancy is generally frowned on, especially for something nearly ten years old. As far as technologies go in RT, some tech ought to be there because it existed even when the show was being made, it just w...

glitterboy2098

i'd imagine that some traditions might survive.. but i suspect that where they do, a lot of them have slid back into older forms. Halloween is derived from All hallows eve , a time of remembrance and respect for those that had passed on. and it was a christianization of traditions like Samhain and A...

glitterboy2098

Jefffar wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:24 pm We are over the line.

and that means that milestone 1, the free cover print, is now part of everyone's pledges.

glitterboy2098

so i talked to 13eowulf and got permission to share a copy of his file on it.

a few bits are his house rules but those should be easily sorted (he calls out most of them as such)

glitterboy2098

i'll PM you.

glitterboy2098

I personally consider each attack to be something time based, if you can feasibly use 4 weapons at once in 15 seconds, you should. However, i borrow from BattleTech, where each round happens at the same time, but the damage isn't calculated until the end of the round. Helps keep everyone's actions ...

glitterboy2098

pretty sure ethoipia isn't in their borders.. it had its own entry in the description of the continent. (yet more "nothing there" type stuff.) checking WB4.. yep. pg 129-120. wilderness, low population, yadda-yadda.supposedly the low population is due to all the supernatural critters there...

glitterboy2098

when PB had the RT game license, HG was being very strict about what you could and couldn't include, and anything from the comics other than the wildstorm runs was part of the "can't use". towards the end HG started letting up a little, thus why the New Gen sourcebook, genesis pits book, a...

glitterboy2098

sorry, brain fart, HG. had been talking with someone about warhammer 40k stuff prior to posting that. and i would reiterate that arguing over whether making some of the less defined mecha from southern cross into power armor instead of large mecha is largely pointless when it comes to the question o...

glitterboy2098

the order to recycle the line art game from HG. at the time they were not allowing *any* original mecha to be added to the game. and the ASC stuff didn't have any info other than art, and that was limited. there is almost no preproduction or post-production materials for southern cross, and what lit...

glitterboy2098

Given the PB stats for most of them are closer to the battloid size than human, I've been assuming that they are classed as PA due to the controls.. that they have a forcefeedback motion control system frame instead of a fighter style cockpit like battloids and destroids. Think the AMP suit from Av...

glitterboy2098

Given the PB stats for most of them are closer to the battloid size than human, I've been assuming that they are classed as PA due to the controls.. that they have a forcefeedback motion control system frame instead of a fighter style cockpit like battloids and destroids. Think the AMP suit from Ava...

glitterboy2098

they'd be part of the United Worlds Warlock. also wouldn't this topic be better located in the dimension books section for the forums? "all things palladium books" is generally the section used to talk about the company itself.

Search found 13027 matches