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Nekira Sudacne

The only effect of zero P.P.E. is having zero P.P.E.

There are no side effects.

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Overpowered power? How about Mechano-Link? With the worlds' current level of dependence on all forms of tech in their life, this power makes you a virtual God. Every computer, lap top and cell phone is a slave to your will, allowing your mind unprecedented access to any and all forms of information...

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I always took it to mean that they can function as an alchemist.

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I'm not seeing it or remembering ever seeing it, neither the agony thing or the initials thing. Sounds like house rules your GM (or you if you are GM) misremembered and thought was cool. Happens to the best GM's. I know I've had moments where I realized years later a rule I took for granted as canon...

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I have no idea what you assume, but nothing gives Splurgorth or generic AIs deific powers in canon. Some AIs have them, not all, and nothing indicates Splurgorth do

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I think you can also trade chi-powers for extra skills or something along those lines in Ninjas and Superspies? One Martial Art Power for one N&SS Skill Program, except the Physical Skill Program. Another equivalency I had forgotten. Isn't that only rolled against when first teaching yourself a...

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Psychics do not have any kind of immunity to or even resistance to Soulmancy. Rather, Nxla's non-soulmancy related powers are not very effective against Psychics.

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It occurred to me that since Soulmancy is fueled by souls, if you wanted to have a high supply of souls, you would want to breed a minion race with a high rate of birth, short gestation periods, and short maturation periods. You would push them to reproduce as much as possible, and after the adults...

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So I guess another question might be how long you can go avoiding the casting of a spell without forgetting it, since practicing that skill would be OOC for someone wanting to rise above Anarchist alignment. You don't forget spells for lack of use. You don't lose any skill, spell, or ability for la...

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Makes me wonder if there's any small window to resurrect a demon via magic the way you would a human prior to them getting caught in that amnesiac reincarnation spiral. Well, maybe if they had a spell that would let them put a soul into a gem instead of passing on into reincarnation. Then you could...

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Alignments can go up as well as down. A villian could start as Evil, become good through years or centuries of Redemption, and then fall to temptation and revert to being anarchist or evil again. Armageddon Unlimited, for example, has the Heroic Hellion class, which are demons who have become good, ...

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Well, I didn’t see any posts about this so I’ll make my own. Can you share the spell effects of a talisman that casts a spell? If you had a medallion that casts Fly as the Eagle, can you use it to cast that spell on someone else? If not, can you use it to cast the spell on yourself, and then hand t...

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Humans are not demons. The process of reincarnation specifically affects a demons memory.

e.g. it is not death that makes demons forget soulmancy. It's the process of demon-specific reincarnation. Humans don't go through that process and so are unaffected by it.

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If a psychic uses mind bond on another psychic will they be able to use the psionic power known the the psychic on who they have bonded? For example. if a Mind Melter bonded with a Cyber Knight would they be able to create a Psi-Shield and Psi Sword if they did not already have that Super Psionic p...

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Overpowered power? How about Mechano-Link? With the worlds' current level of dependence on all forms of tech in their life, this power makes you a virtual God. Every computer, lap top and cell phone is a slave to your will, allowing your mind unprecedented access to any and all forms of information...

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If a psychic uses mind bond on another psychic will they be able to use the psionic power known the the psychic on who they have bonded? For example. if a Mind Melter bonded with a Cyber Knight would they be able to create a Psi-Shield and Psi Sword if they did not already have that Super Psionic p...

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If a psychic uses mind bond on another psychic will they be able to use the psionic power known the the psychic on who they have bonded? For example. if a Mind Melter bonded with a Cyber Knight would they be able to create a Psi-Shield and Psi Sword if they did not already have that Super Psionic p...

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4d6, place where you want.

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what are alien intelligences? where do they come from? As for where do they come from? There's no one answer. Alien Intelligences are not really a coherent catagory, like Mark said, they're a label used to discribe a variety of godlike entities that don't fit the standard definition of Gods, althou...

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A common trait among Alien Intelligences, often not granted (or, at least, not used) by gods is the ability to form witches; to fragment themselves into very fine pieces, giving a portion of their power to an individual. These gifts are distinct from priestly magic in that they cannot be taken back...

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A common trait among Alien Intelligences, often not granted (or, at least, not used) by gods is the ability to form witches; to fragment themselves into very fine pieces, giving a portion of their power to an individual. These gifts are distinct from priestly magic in that they cannot be taken back...

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Option 3. Genetic modifications do not count as bio wizardy and do not count towards caps.

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A tank that can't dodge, cannot roll to reduce damage. It can shoot at missiles, and that's it. A Bot that cannot dodge missiles can still Block Sacrifice, using its arms to take the hit instead of its main body. Where do you get a tank cannot dodge from? I don't recall seeing any rules that they c...

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Out of curiosity, what is the "bonus" material in the Splicers hardcover? There is apparently 50-60 pages of bonus material. https://palladiumbooks.com/about-palladium/weekly-updates The Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover includes 50 pages of Splicers® material from The Rifter® #30, ...

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Hmm! That could work. Still the Unsung Heroes, most people will never know all the Terrorist attacks that didn't happen due to the heroism of the brave and all, but not tied to the specific cold-war era assumptions.

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This is a general question for fun. Lets face it, the setting of Ninja's and Superspies, such as it is, and what there is of it, is horribly outdated. It was a product written in the late 80's to mash the 80's Kung-Fu Movie craze togeather with Cold-War Spy movies and novels, a genre which even at t...

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I've decided to multiply the XP everyone gets by 3; it takes too long to level up. This isn't meant to be aggressive, i'm simply curious: how long do you feel it should take to level up, and why? For me, you should usually be 2nd level by your 2nd session, and then a new level every 2-4 sessions. T...

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I would argue many if not most people go with milestone-based leveling. In addition to it be strictly easier to implement, it doesn't involve using thousands of microjudgements applied to obviously arbitrarily derived experience tables. I would be curious if there's any kind of hard numbers on that...

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What about finding causes for mass protests that TPTB (in this case the CS) would not like, but the populace at large could support and which would provoke TPTB into an out of line heavy handed response. From a certain POV TPTB might consider these protests a threat to the status quo, possibly even...

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Fenris2020 wrote:I've decided to multiply the XP everyone gets by 3; it takes too long to level up.

This isn't meant to be aggressive, i'm simply curious: how long do you feel it should take to level up, and why?

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Mystics can learn any spell, even Biomancy spells Especially given that Biomancy spells aren't wildly OP and prone to abuse. It's a very conditional spell school. You pretty much need to be in a heavily forested setting at all times. Something more objectionable would be giving a Mystic Temporal or...

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barna10 wrote:Mystics can learn any spell, even Biomancy spells

Nothing says they can learn anything but standard invocations.

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Also, most SA Biomancer spells suck, and most Lemurian biomancer spells are race-restricted and also not plant-specific anyway. You're a Mystic. Your spell selections are already almost cripplingly limited. You do not need to waste your precious few spell slots on Spells so specific as to never be ...

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Biomancy is something better dipped into or taken advantage of via items. If a player is set on the idea, the Plant Shaman in Spirit West is perhaps the best way to do so, in that they have some access to Mystic Herbology and Plant spells from any source, including Biomancy, Nature Magic, and Eleme...

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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 e...

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Interesting. Where do you get 1-2 melee attacks from? One attack to jump, one to pull himself up, IF I didn't just allow it with a single check. With a human standing in a pit that was just higher than their head, I'd let a single Acrobatics or Gymnastics cover it. If they didn't have those skills,...

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When I first picked-up Rifts in 1991, I loved the idea of mechs. A friend of mine had tried to introduce me to Robotech a few years earlier, but I wasn't a fan (I like magic). Now, decades later, and after being in the Army as an anti-armor MOS....mechs are one of the dumbest ideas ever proposed Fo...

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When I first picked-up Rifts in 1991, I loved the idea of mechs. A friend of mine had tried to introduce me to Robotech a few years earlier, but I wasn't a fan (I like magic). Now, decades later, and after being in the Army as an anti-armor MOS....mechs are one of the dumbest ideas ever proposed Fo...

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No. Not sure why you think this would e a problem. You may want to look at the half-wizard from Mysteries of Magic and adapt it to Mystic instead of Wizard. I don't know what the general consensus is on what constitutes an overpowered starting character. I'm sure people try much more ridiculous com...

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what are the gods? are they formed by belief, or are they powerful mages? Some Gods are born from Alien Intelligences. Some gods, canonically, are Alien Intelligences. Some gods are demons or mortals who ascend to godhood via beleif or being granted it by an existing god. Dimension book Dyval has r...

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Demons are also pretty easy bad guys. Don't need to worry about realistic motivations or how the bad guys justify slaughtering a village or three. When you are the cosmic embodiment of the metaphysical concept of Evil, you don't need a motivation to do bad things to good people.

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Thank you and still thinking about that one. I may not go with having a Molokoi as Partial-Conversion-Cyborg just for the ease it. I think the issue is: In RMB, Headhunter served as the generic Mercenary/Bandit OCC, and the option of Bionics was an add-on that was not automatic to the character. Bu...

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Page 12 of the Vampire Sourcebook details a Doomsday Machine that CAN be a nuke, depending on the foe. Depending on GM's call more like. It's a Macguffin and it explictly says nobody knows what happens when it is turned on. Which I guess means that sure, magical nuke is as valid as any other thing ...

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Page 12 of the Vampire Sourcebook details a Doomsday Machine that CAN be a nuke, depending on the foe. Depending on GM's call more like. It's a Macguffin and it explictly says nobody knows what happens when it is turned on. Which I guess means that sure, magical nuke is as valid as any other thing ...

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Warshield73 wrote:I don't think most of the weapons of that scale are for sale, tech or magic. If you are looking for magic weapons of that level I think there are several in the War on Tolkeen series.

Nope. Tolkeen didn't have any city-destroying super weapons. Which is also why they didn't use them to win the war.

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I just noticed in Merc Town theres a magic quarter near the weapons quarter and one of the shops allegedly has a vast array of magic weapons, including large powerful devices used to level whole cities. But the shop does not mention a single magic weapon by name or book. All of a sudden it occurred...

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Plasma is Fire. Fire is energy. There are no rules for it having any kenetic damage. Plasma is not fire.. Plasma is too hot to burn. Plasma is a third state of matter that breaks down the molecular structure of substances. I believe it "burns" at least 8000 degrees celcius. Correct. But i...

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Plasma generally is counted as energy. some settings (like HU) allow plasma to partially bypass some abilities that are normally immune or resistant to energy weaponry. but even in those setting, that is a feature of the specific abilities rather than a general rule. (for example, invincible charac...

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Two plasma-related questions: 1) What sort of WP normally covers the use of plasma weapons? Heavy MDC or Heavy Energy? 2) Also, does plasma count as fire for some of the Burster's abilities, like the one covering making fires more intense and increasing their damage? Because if so then a Burster wi...

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Plasma is Fire.

Fire is energy.

There are no rules for it having any kenetic damage.

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