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Total house rule but it has worked well at my table. First, any perceived attack can be attempted by a defender. So if somebody attacks from behind the defender must know its coming. If a character doesn't posses the Multiple Dodge skill, then the character must roll a dodge for each incoming attack...

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While printing out palladium docs and working on my new adventure I began contemplating over the myriad of ways GMs hand out experience and the best way to handle the process Specifically I began wondering how my fellow GMs give their PCs Xp Here are a few questions to stimulate your thoughts on th...

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Thanks Nate. It's worked really well so far. Works great for the PC's and major NPC's in my games. Just got to watch for the power creep especially if you add super powers. Avoid Extraordinary abilities, MA's usually get enough attribute boosts.

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Some of the first games I played in involved mutant animals with super powers. The PC's were human classes and we had to stop these empowered MA's. They were some tough builds. Very enjoyable, watched a lot of good characters die. Lol As far as mixing guidelines the mutant class has a psionics roll....

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I have found, after making several mutant animals, that 10-15 more Bio-E is great for most concepts envisioned by my players and I. Make a roll out of it or just give it away after a convincing plea for making or breaking their concept. I allow a lot a leeway for good story driven reasons that don't...

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That's pretty awesome NMI. I usually try doing something like that before I bring something over. Even though I usually have to nerf it recreating it with Heroes power sets. I go into it with keeping attack bonuses under 10 and SDC totals being around 500 or less. And PS topping out around 60 or so...

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What I like about Palladium is that it has it's own distinct flavor to the creation of heroes and how you apply the abilities. While at the same time it feels like a comfy pair of old shoes. And it's easy to plug and play. Coming over from the TSR Marvel games, almost 20 years ago, to Palladium was...

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What I like about Palladium is that it has it's own distinct flavor to the creation of heroes and how you apply the abilities. While at the same time it feels like a comfy pair of old shoes. And it's easy to plug and play. Coming over from the TSR Marvel games, almost 20 years ago, to Palladium was ...

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That's pretty awesome NMI. I usually try doing something like that before I bring something over. Even though I usually have to nerf it recreating it with Heroes power sets. I go into it with keeping attack bonuses under 10 and SDC totals being around 500 or less. And PS topping out around 60 or so....

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I like to mix and match from the whole megaverse into my Heroes. But it comes with a lot of modding and consideration. My current heroes campaign, now going strong for about 10 years, is pretty high level so some straight crossovers have been done. I actually had to beef up some Mechanoid stats to g...

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Indeed good sir. Thanks for posting that.

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SG posted a nifty table for experimenting on mutants.
But a couple of minors and/or some side effects shouldn't wreck a game.

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Trooper Jim wrote:This guy is very interesting indeed. I think someone like him would make a great "mentor" for a group of heros.

Yeah. He has a great demeanor for something like that based on what's in his videos. Great personality to try and emulate in game.

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Unless its some kind of an ability or what was mentioned above, yeah they're stuck. Every so often when my players level up I'll throw some extra SDC at them especially if they have been through a lot physically. Anywhere from a couple D6's to 10 points or so. I've given more but I was running a pre...

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This guy is awesome and has become popular with some of us Silat players. Wish he would come to America.

Would love to get his insights on exotic weapons fighting.

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Out of 7, 6 own the HU2 book. Me and one other have a copy of Rifts Main. I am the library for everything else. Doesn't bother me, though a few Rifts main books would be cool to throw around to the players. Such a high mortality rate in Rifts. lol

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They floated that around in the late 90's I believe. I use to dream about what this book would be like... Hopefully some talent will pick this up and run with it. I do believe they killed this book around the time of treachery.

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GM one game for 4-6 players and play in one with 2 others. The one fantasy game i'm a part has my favorite character: Henry Salamander Pikeman (Pikey)
The right gm and this is my favorite setting to play in. I prefer HU when I run but I like fantasy when actually playing a character.

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Over on RPGnet someone recommended OneNote for the computer. I youtubed it and it looks fantastic. It may be the thing that gets me away from actual paper for the most part. It could be what gets me wanting to use PDFs of books. OneNote rocks! The fact that it doesn't lag out like word or excel is ...

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I was considering this idea, but I haven't implemented it yet. Let me know what you guys think. If you don't want your shops to all carry the same products... Get those clear binder pages for holding baseball cards 3x3. Make a little card for each weapon or armor that details the stats and maybe ha...

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Lots of power stacking that may bend or outright break the rules. Rune weapons, especially ones that can inflict triple damage (a weapon specifically made to destroy this SI and it's henchmen). May have to come up with something specific that can outright destroy or drive away this baddy. But don't ...

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13... Way too much and I was under the influence of, well I won't get into that. I was young and dumb. But the game itself wasn't too bad except for two loud mouth drunks that I took care of once they went looking for a malt liquor lake and to equal their "awesomeness", I plinked them to d...

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I am thinking about making a video showing my GM binder. However I am considering reorganizing my binder due to building a GM screen. The GM screen will have the basic rules and charts on it so I won't need that in my GM binder. Would you guys want to see a video of how I try to be organized? Go fo...

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Very similar to what we do. We love it. Rewards speedsters and characters with experience. I do it a little different in only that I place the other attacks (after 4) every other turn. So if you have 6 attacks then it goes 2,1,2,1, and if you have 7 attacks 2,2,2,1 Combat for 6 players goes a heck o...

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I like to throw in save vs pain when lots of damage is inflicted especially if large amounts were sustained by one attack.The target roll can range from 12 - 20 with PE bonuses. Most of my villains go down after all or most of their SDC is gone. And if my hero has stated that he is not going for a k...

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It's a big megaverse. I like to combine lots of things. Especially powers and certain classes. I GM a lot so a lot of what I do is just make sure it is balanced for the game. I put caps on bonuses for my NPC'S based on power levels and the skill of the player, as well as counting up slots on the num...

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As above with most, I use minis or my wipe board for approximate locations. Though I have been tinkering for close quarter urban combat for some special forces games I have planned and going a bit beyond approximate and more exact. Don't know how this will go but it should be a fun journey. I have n...

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What makes you think it needs to be really convoluted? It's just a payment plan with interest. Now, if they DON'T make their payments on time, I could see the "collections" side of the bureau be a bit... pushy. Why weird font sizes, scripts, puzzles, etc. They're business people, just bec...

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LOL! Space-Hell! Love it. You might be on your own on that bud. If you make it on your own, put lots of non sense into it. Double speak and make it really long. Constantly change font sizes. Pull up a contract example off the series of tubes we call the inter webs and go from there. It should make t...

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Oh, and good job on the addition. Will help an up coming Special Forces game.

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Hi All, One of my players mentioned something that got me thinking, an alien with the torso of a humanoid and the lower body of a giant spider, are there any references, rules that you could think of that would help flesh this out? i know of eugenics and there's a morphus in nightbane, but are ther...

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Also check out Coalition War Campaign. The Coalition OCC's have some good ideas and skill stats for building traps

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As I had said, I admitted it to being my fault, and I was rolling with it. Thanks for the enlightening discussion. Really, always push the envelope. My post was unclear and one sided. Was not looking for an exchange like this but I enjoyed the commentary. Made me think. Good fortune to you and yours.

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Can't help but think the players would just lol as well, if they heard you felt a bit betrayed. Ie, it's a fine responce until the other guy does it. lol How the hell was I suppose to respond. You took a small portion of one game and blew up on me. My players don't feel like they are on rails. I le...

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Now I like to give the players a sense of true free will Well, a sense of free will but not actual free will, given the alignments and such. It's kind of like putting a rat in a maze, then telling it it has free will to go anywhere it wants. Then getting peeved when the way it wants to go is to che...

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I'm just going to let it ride and roleplay it out. The faerie was in character ( i know) and the guy who decapitated the foe is going to be dealt with in game. It'll make or break the character in whether he is playable anymore. And the big reason I posted was that I honestly felt betrayed these two...

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Anybody here ever just pretend a game didn't happen? I'm seriously considering it. Not sure what my players were smoking but I had two be so disruptive and/or out of character that honestly it may have wrecked the rest of my game. In all honesty, the effects from the game won't be that long lasting ...

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I lower the KO roll on minor villains, and even some of the mid to "captain of the guard". KO from behind should be easy though I have never really ruled anything. Basically if a hero is creative in how he handles the bad guy and rolls well (nat 14 or so) I usually reward them in some fash...

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One of the Nightbane books has an interesting take on the bad guys that won't die or stay dead, like Jason Vorhees and others. Could base it off that. What book is that in? I have most of the NB books. That's a good question. Just ran through the rifter index, doesn't look to be in one of those. At...

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One of the Nightbane books has an interesting take on the bad guys that won't die or stay dead, like Jason Vorhees and others. Could base it off that. What book is that in? I have most of the NB books. That's a good question. Just ran through the rifter index, doesn't look to be in one of those. At...

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One of the Nightbane books has an interesting take on the bad guys that won't die or stay dead, like Jason Vorhees and others. Could base it off that.

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This is awesome! Now where do I get a shark tank?
I love the mod for larger bots and their rail guns. That's a great fix. Good job.

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You need to get feedback. Have you considered trying a solo game to set up a bigger game? Is your game on rails? Try a simple world and plot. Next time maybe record your game, and see where it falls apart on you. Sometimes good friends don't make good players. But good friends should be willing to t...

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Grab a map and look at rural areas. There are lots of awesome names that get over looked.

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What I want to know is how you determine how much money he makes. Our PCs need to cover their personal expenses and pay for mission costs somehow, and they certainly don't get paid for their hero duties. If there's no official determination of how much our heroes can get paid, I'll have to come up ...

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When Justin Time isn't out clobbering super baddies he works as a professor at Mount Joy University, teaching theoretical physics to other metas.

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I have been hearing that laptops are being used more often for gaming lately. Do you just type your notes and keep track of things in notepad then? Or do you still write things down on paper at all? I use a combination of both. During the game, notes are usually made in a notebook, mostly due to th...

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I've been putting everything into excel and publisher and making website like pages with links to all my stuff on my laptop. Hyperlinks are awesome. I do most of my notes on paper and put the final version into my laptop. I also have a scanner that converts almost anything into a word text. Drive th...

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I just come up with a concept then work in w/e covers the the abilities. Balance it out with coming short of what I actually want then hopefully the gm will let me customize it later. I don't worry about budget, build to suit the game's power level and needs.

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Increasing lift capacity is a much needed upgrade. The argument that it increases damage could be argued like this: I train martial artists, some of them have been really big guys, and even though they could lift an extreme amount of weight, they hit like wet noodles. So for my games, it's easy for...

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