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I love PB, but I wish some of their books had better editing. I was at a local book store and saw they had a copy of Eastern Territory, which I don't own yet. Excitedly I picked it up to read through it. The further I got into the more typos I saw, just really simple ones that should have been caugh...

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Here is a classic lego Valkyre design I saw years ago: http://www.foundrydx.com/works.html

Edit: the site allows you to buy the instructions too, not sure if it still works, as the site is over a decade old.

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She will eventually gain immortality be rifted to the ancient Palladium world and start writing The Tristine Chronicles.

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I am actually stationed at Fort Knox and the gold reseve building is viewable from the Highway surrounded by several layers of fences and open feilds. Heck the Post golf course is right on the boarder of the outer fence line. That being said they don't exactly give tours and Im pretty sure anyone tr...

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Gold is actually a great conductor and really useful in electronics. So any tech society would want it. I also assume that it has applications in magic, like PFRPG wards. Alcemists might need it too.

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If you want to treat this as an even more elite version of the Cyberknight, you should increase the required attributes, like PFRPG does for the knight and paladin OCCs. Perhaps you may require that the character first obtain several levels of the Cyberknight OCC first 4 or 5? and then multi class t...

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That should be fixed now, but the key details are Palladium Books, Inc. 39074 Webb Court Westland, MI 48185 Phone: 734-721-2900 Order Line: 734-721-2903 Fax: 734-721-1238 I'd recommend a letter as this is of a non urgent nature. This is probably the most practical way to get a clear ruling on how t...

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Gentlemen, I have been reading this thread for about a week and find it an interesting, if at times pedantic back and forth conversation. Dog, I totally understand your logic, and while I disagree with it and your assessment that the rule could (and should) be better written and clarified in RUE I ...

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Gentlemen, I have been reading this thread for about a week and find it an interesting, if at times pedantic back and forth conversation. Dog, I totally understand your logic, and while I disagree with it and your assessment that the rule could (and should) be better written and clarified in RUE I w...

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On the whole EX-5 debate I have always looked at them as a mobile base, a combination of a house, and lab and legs. Not to mention the fact that is is the size of a decent sized house, 80 by 20 and 60ft tall really makes it a large mobile structure. The fact that it can carry 4 hover cycles and 6 po...

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How come no one has mentioned Mutants in Orbit? Technically a source book for both After the Bomb and Rifts, it is a total mess, only half of it is specifically Rifts material, and the setting is very weakly fleshed out. It has some interesting gear (3 variants of the Glitterboy that you just won't ...

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I have to agree with popscythe, this is a sweet book. It has been a long time since I have played any tabletop RPGs but I picked up NG1 at Detroit Fanfare a couple weeks ago and it definitely rekindled my love of Rifts and RPGs in general. There are a lot of cool bots and guns to be sure, but I am r...

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Again that is crazy. By that setup then any artillery crew would be deaf too. Another example of someone not thinking when they create something and how it woudl affect gameplay overall....oye Heh actually hearing damage and loss is not uncommon in the military, especially for Artillery personel. Y...

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I'd have to agree with Doom, 1 because after that your tainted goods, and swearing allegence to one entitiy then necessarily precludes you from serving another, and I'm sure they'd be able to tell. As soon as you swear to one, all the others see you as going from a potential asset, to a potential th...

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Course if your going for a straight just want more attacks per melee .. Have your borg take the following. 1) - Two additional life size arms. (+1 attack) 2) - RPA-Elite : Gain more attacks as you level up your "Borg" Pilot. (+3 attacks) 3) - Boxing (As usual) +1 attack. 4) - Hand to Hand...

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I'd start with a complete overhaul of the rules and game mechanics. For me the thing that hurts PB more than anything are the core mechanics of the system especially in combat. I would create more flexibility in how the classes work. Perhaps take a BESM approach making things simpler, faster and mor...

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One thing is that while parachuting is done frequently, it does have a large number of fatalities every year, especially in training. It is very dangerous if you mess up even a little bit. Particularly if we are talking bailing from a falling plane or doing a combat or low altitude jump. I call BS ...

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How many times do you have your characters parachute out of a plane anyway? Seriously I've never run into that situation in any of my games. As for the percentages, I would say maybe roll for the landing to see if you injured an ankle or knee or something; landings from a C130 static line drop with ...

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Here's a related follow up question to this thread. Assuming I have Elite combat for a power armor, and this allows me to fight a the basic level with any other power armor, do it or does it not also allow me to fight in a Robot Vehicle (say the Titan or the UAR) at a basic level as well? Or do I ne...

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I see your point abou them going after any religion with a holy text or veneration of supernatural beings, good plot device and it makes sense in cannon for them to do so. I had gone with the classifaction of known or practicing Jews as D-bees because of Proseks veneration of Hitler, in my mind he ...

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I don't disagree with your interpretation of the CS as evil, yet necessary, though I do find it interesting that you decided to mirror the nazi anti jewish sentiment. Given that PB/Kevin has never really addressed Judeo-Christian faiths or ethinc issues when talking about the CS, I don't think that ...

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Yes, P.A. Combat Elite for a specific PA grants P.A. Combat Basic for ALL P.A.'s. Care to elaborate on why? Because it says so in the rules. It does make sense though, if you know how to use and fight in one style of power armor at an expert level you'll know how to use and fight with other PA's bu...

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Dog-O-War, I'm done with this. Your posts lack intellectual honesty and you call seeing evidence of something seeing something. If I'm moving in trees and you see the leaves move, you do not see me. That you cannot or will not grasp the difference between those two circumstances and that you cannot...

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Of course this means you either need a magic user who is trained to use Power Armor, or a PA pilot who is also a magic user or is psionic. Either way, it would be freaking devistating. Carry around a couple anti vampire weapons or have magic weapon systems built in and all your bases are coverd.

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Hey there I'm a bit of a lurker on the boards here and wanted to chime in. Been a while since I played Rifts so I'm going off things I remember, and what you all have quoted for RAW from RUE. FYI I'm in the Army currently deployed and no I don't have my gaming books with me. So lets dive in shall we...

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Ways to become immune to soul drinking: 1) be immune to magic 2) Become totally immortal 3) become a Greater Mummy (though you lose level progression) and as I have always understood Vampires in Vampire kingdoms the human never loses their soul, but rather it merges with the essence of the alien int...

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I think it depends of several things. Namely who has the higher PP, PE (depending how long and how many songs they play) and who has the higher dance skill. A GM would have to add penalties for more and more difficult routines.

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So basically your doing a modified DandD system. Armor + Dex bonus + defensive roll.
Not a bad idea but I personally prefer the PF system.

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Changling Mind Mage (in disguise)
Wolfen Paladin, with wilderness skill emphasis
Troll Long Bowman, yay for giant sized long bows!
Wolfen Priest.

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Their MDC non-magical weapons/armor would still be all powerful. Assuming they stayed MDC...almost. There are too-many ways to hurt someone wearing MDC armours, and MAGIC is the answer to many of them! Besides, even a few SDC lightning bolts into the tank would wreak havok with the electronics and ...

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Dwaves, Gnomes, Koblods, Goblins, Hob-Goblins and Troglodites all have digging speeds listed in their attributes. Yet no explination of what this means, and I've always ignored it. Recently it's come to bug me though as I have done my fair share of digging (shoveling snow, landscaping, makeing holes...

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Bah, neither! But they both make good Troll Food (tm).
Elves: light meals for Trolls on a diet.
Dwarf: high protein content perfect for Trolls looking to bulk up!

Course there's always Gnomes the main ingrediant in Troll Snacks (tm), for the Troll on the go.

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Nobody ever stops to consider, what with all the necromancers and ghosts wandering around, why there is not a better record of Palladium's history? Want to know about the weapons and magic used in some battle thousands of years ago? Summon a ghost and ask it! Well you'd need to know who's ghost to ...

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I've always like the Glitter boy for PA, even if it is proportionally overpowered, it doesn't have to be a munchkin toy, often it makes the best distraction you can ask for while the rest of a team either infiltrates or flanks an enemy. Robot, I love to Metal Siren from the Macross II source book, I...

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I would revise the core mechanics for combat, streamline them and simplify them. Balance out newer Robots and Power armor so they they are more in line with the tech level of RMB or only slightly higher. Simplify character creation creating templates for broad categories for what counts as OCC and R...

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