The world is a broken, post-apocalyptic wasteland destroyed by the corruption of humanity, the eruption of the Rifts and Ley Lines and the demonic & alien invasions that followed. Now the wasteland has had 300 years to partially recover, and civilization has returned in dribs & drabs to the world; but not just human civilization. Alien empires, monster kingdoms, lands of mutants and wizards have arisen from the ashes, all trying to rebuild the world in their own image!
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>RIFTS
>Heroes Unlimited
>Palladium Fantasy
>Beyond the Supernatural
>Dead Reign
>Robotech (lol)
>TMNT & Other Strangeness + After the Bomb
>Splicers
Does anyone even play any Palladium game other than Rifts these days?
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Always playing palladium fantasy
And we do one shots of after the bomb between campaigns.
Rifts is fun but palladium fantasy is the best built of all pally settings
Long bowman is OP!
>Senator Husband! My tail has gone numb from this lounge chair!
>Silence! I have many more laws to pass if we are to be a space faring species by the end of century!
>We have missed our reservation for dinner and are missing the orgy!
>Feast on grapes.
>The grapes will not be the only sour thing you taste tonight!
>Oooooooh!
>Shut up! New law: Guards and servants shall be silent! Wives too!
>Feast on grapes
Grapes are poisonous to canids, moron.
THEN WHY IS THE SERVANT SERVING GRAPES?!
She's trying to assassinate the senator!
Lol. And roman wolves keep cats as pets too? Lovely.
Saw a thread on the palladium forums about building a Stone Pyramid, it inspired me. Would it be possible for powerful Stone Master to design a Pyramid in such a way as to be able to lift it all by himself? Either through TW devices or just Stone Master powers?
I have an idea of a spacefaring Atlantean explorer, flying on cosmic leylines in a tiny meteorite (with a tiny Pyramid in it. Spending most of the time traveling in stasis, compounding with his extended lifelife, he would travel from planet to planet exploring & building proper dimensional pyramids where ever he goes building a dimentional teleport network all on his own.
Cool idea, but why do you need a meteorite? Just go full Ayylam Pyramid Power and fly through space at odd angles!
So it doesn't get blasted out of the sky/space/planet by people seeing it as a mysterious spaceship/weapon. Plus, I like the idea of a rock/meteor smashing into a planet & then a section of it melts away revealing a weird wizard type dude who then explores the planet a little & builds a proper big pyramid, then fricks off back in his rock to fly off to another planet. Basically a small one room pod pyramid with extra stone lumped around it to disguise the shape
>Okay, hear me out guys. We need 10,000 flying pyramids and just rush it. They cant shoot us all down.
This is one way to do it. Sounds like fun!
What's the smallest scale of Pyramid one can make? I'll make my Atlantean Ha'tak
Like physically? Because I know they can lift a lot of stone.
Yeah
At least post the REAL racists
What am I missing, is there something in the fluff about Free Quebec being "racist"?
Good old Free Quebec is more anti D-Bee than the CS. See the CS might go on the ol' purge every now & then but they have quite a few D-Bees crawling around the 'Burbs & outlying territories. Free Kaybec kills them all pretty much on site, & lets citizens join in the killing too, letting them organize hunting parties & such. While one might see this as a possitive, Free Kweebec goes one step further though & hates Dogboys. Yes sir Free Kyubec hates anything that isn't 100% human & they don't like Crazies or Juciers much either.
>why don’tcha give your bio-comp a tug you’re running low on estrogen
FQ is more puritan than the CS, particularly on the subjects of mutants (psi-stalkers and dog boys) and robot troops (skelebots).
It's a little strange imo because they have the GB legions with a bunch of GB legacy pilots. Since GBs are more or less heroes through and through, it is hard to imagine they would go along with such rampant genocide and xenophobia. But I think it's one of those parts of the setting that didn't quite get though all they way through, beyond Kevin wanted Quebec to have lots and lots of glitterboys.
>it is hard to imagine they would go along with such rampant genocide and xenophobia
You are simply projecting your modern garbage onto the future where none of the social norms and social engineering apply.
No on would think of any of it along those lines.
It's literally described, in setting, as genocide and xenophobia. Multiple times, in multiple books, explicitly.
Fricking the alignments themselves prevent it. None of the good alignments allow one to go around rampantly killing civilians in the manner that FQ and CS do, even if they are d-bees/mutants
>Fricking the alignments themselves prevent it.
That is a reasonable point.
However the alignments too are doing the same thing I accused you of.
The alignments are part of the game, so if anyone is projecting a world view from outside the game onto the text of the game, it would be you. Presumably because doing so is the only way you can leap to a position of ignoring what the game itself says of its setting. Or you just haven't read the books or something. Still, it shouldn't be a contentious idea. Glitter Boy pilots are defined by their heroic legacy, if nothing else. Genocide is not heroic. Thus the GB legions are kind of weird, but again I acknowledge that it was probably just a result of KS wanting someone to have a GB army, and that it was appropriately symbolic to give it to FQ in their opposition of the CS. If that was the case, then it would only be circumstantial that FQ v CS isn't good v evil, but is rather which post-apocalyptic nazi-faction deserves to be THE post-apocalyptic nazi-faction above all others.
Glitterboys have a heroic legacy of xenophobicly genociding everything that steps out of a rift
Only demons/actual threats. Not mutants and random harmless d-bee civilians, which is what FQ pushes as policy. In RUE the Glitter-Boys are explicitly compared to Cyber-Knights
Yeah, those are the wandering knight errant types that merc'd for good causes over the last 300 years though. Not military men with hot of the presses chromium & a bad attitude. Free Quebec specifically has a hard time trying to recruit the good ones into teaching their robot jockeys the ropes
That's what I was getting at in general. If the CS civil war had been given more fleshing out along the lines of Tolkeen, it would have been cool to see a supplement dealing with the GB legions being opposed by the Free GBs of NA. Of course now that I write that, it wouldn't really work, since the Free GB pilots probably wouldn't want to fight on the side of the CS, and by the same token I doubt that the CS would want to make use of them, even as mercenaries
There's more interesting things. Free Quebec & the CS didn't even have a proper war
Look just accept that humans time is over and d-bees are the rightful owners of earth now.
You don't want to be a nazi do you?
I absolutely do, yes. That's why I only play Imperium or NGR characters.
Didn't the NGR elect a Dbee president? Or was that Triax?
As of the current timeline advancement, the head of Triax and the NGR is the same person, a local human. There was a famous DB npc who was a "general", but not actually in the military.
You mean the six armed guy that looks like the guy from game of thrones? I thought he was just an advocate for not beating DBees as much.
Correct, "General" is just a nickname or something, but could easily be misremembered.
Well it doesn't really answer "why", I guess this sheds some light. The GB legions in Quebec are not the same as the heroic lineage of "regular" glitter-boys
That was during a time when everything stepping out of rifts were demons and worse.
Speaking of alignments:
>Players captures bandit
>Bandit bargains with other players for safe escort to prison
>Another player bites his head off
>Later capture more bandits
>Bandit begs mercy and not to kill him
>Player agrees and then cuts their head off.
>Player has himself listed as a principled dreadguard
>Player ate that corpse as well
I'm trying to figure out which alignment he really is. Lying, breaking promises, killing prisoners for fun, killing prisoners for food, he hasnt tortured anyone yet. He is at best in the evil alignments and a very terrible dreadguard.
If it's for fun then definitely Miscreant or Diabolic depending on the level of sadism involved. If he hammed up the need to feed then he could maybe be Aberrant
Sounds straight up diabolic
Miscreant, unless you had an actual reason, in which case it's diabolical
How often is cannibalism encountered in Rifts? For some reason cannibal jokes disappeared in my groups during the lockdown.
There's definitely some evil monsters/dbess/humans that practice cannibalism. I've never personally encountered it at my table that I can remember. If you're into that kind of thing you can look at Dark Conversions
Read about Cactus People
The FQ glitterboy pilot families were buttholes, each and everyone of them. They amended their version of The Code to apply only to humans that they like at the end. At least that's how I like to I think about it.
Only free range Glitterboys standing around sewing a cowboy hat big enough for their US-G10 while whacking chromium plates back into shape with a wrench are real glitterboy pilots.
Real glitterboy pilots:
>Look through holes in their reinforced pilot compartments and call it nature's iron sights
>Have jammed over 1000 coalition credits in their boomgun and fired it.
>Have shoved a pre-reifts American flag through a demon's chest and up a deevil's ass.
>Have a personally preset macro button to salute freedom on their unit's console.
>Believes that 'rockets red glare' is talking about boomguns and will get into a fight over it.
>Claims to have mowed a lawn from a mile away using only his boomgun and 10,000 rounds of ammo. Also claims he did not destroy the home the lawn was in front of.
>Has personally installed Temple OS on his G10, says it makes it work better that the stock system.
If you're a glitterboy pilot, I just assume there are a few things you've done with it like used it as a mirror to shave, or grilled up some burgers on the hatch
>grilled up some burgers on the hatch
The GB pilot in my last game literally did this. She also painted her GB hot pink even though she had to repaint it between missions, since the pink paint got burned off every time the suit took laser fire. She also killed a Spider-Skull Walker that was trying to take cover behind a nearby hill by shooting through the hilltop, destroying the walker and conveniently strip-mining the hill at the same time.
Let's put it this way, Free Quebec's motto is "Sorry, not sorry."
Um...le based?
Quebec still remembers. And it does not forgive.
Needs some Dwemer Magus & Atlanteans guys but I love this chart
Is Antarctica book still a vaporwave?
I own the raw, trust me when i say it needs to stay vapor
What's so bad about it?
Cold makes power!
Feels like a throw away rifter article
Just sounds like typical speculative fiction which doesn't actually work. Throw in a little bit of magic or super science & I wouldnt fricking care.
The factions didnt wow me either but that's taste
Anyplace I could find the RAW Anti & Lazlo pages so I can make an opinion?
Ebay?
You literally agree to a covenant when you buy it dude
Holy shit what a homosexual
Glad your word is worthless.
Stop making it hot...
If you break the Covenant you are eternally bound to be Dunscons buttplug
Fun fact, these are literally the only books ever to say something to the effect of "No part of this book may be reproduced in part or whole, in any form or by any means, without permission from the publisher", which is why you're not allowed to pirate them.
Yeah that's part of what's so bad about it. Literally just say "it's techno-wizard bullshit" and it would be fine, but instead they describe a method of freezing to death and say it generates power comparable to a nuclear source.
>which is why you're not allowed to pirate them.
Ita the only ones that claim a moral covenant that I own israelite.
Picrel is the largest NE armor I know of and it does not have special armor but its got like 2800 mdc sooooo? Winning?
Nah, I need the Thermo-Kinetic & I need it one a one man suit. I plan on getting Impervious to Energy on it, so I can basically half all damage that isn't punches & kicks. I'm sure I could buy plates of the stuff, but theirs no stats.
Only thing I could find power armor wise was the super cool autobot transforming power armor/flaming unicycle armor, but that doesn't have a lot, I was hoping for at minimum 500 or so.
I feel like NE would have a real hard time executing any land and mineral rights in North America. Maybe they're planning really, really long-term...
>Micromissiles sold separately
>668 micromissile payload
Squids always working that upsale!
>thermo-imager
>enhanced radar 100 miles
How does this work, mechanically? Does the GM secretly keep track of how far every opponent is in miles (this mech is 56 miles away, this one is 112 miles away, this group of bandits is 7 miles away)? What roll is made to detect opponents with these sensors? Does the opponent get a Camouflage check ro something and the tracker a Sensors roll? What happens if they both succeed? I never understood how this is supposed to work in the rules system.
Technically, there are no counter rolls. You cant prowl against radar, you can only put things between you and the radar or hide under the sweep, which is pretty difficult.
Other detection blocking things like stealth fields or camouflage have either the hider rolling to see if they are undetectable or making the seeker roll on a specific table the hider provides.
Keep in mind Palladium is favored by military and gun aficionados. They have the stance that if you cant detect a dude sneaking through the brush to RPG your ass through a radar screen then you shouldn't be behind that screen in the first place.
>How does this work, mechanically?
Unironically, who knows. KS does not ever actually give specifics on how these sorts of things resolve. Prowl was like that for the longest time; he wrote at length about penalties and bonuses to prowl and when prowl was possible, but neglected to ever be specific about what prowl -does- (besides the obvious). This was rectified slightly in Heroes of Humanity with the updated prowl rules, but the point is that pretty much every table runs this sort of thing differently.
My table runs it like this - you have to make active attempts to use the sensors rolling the pilot related skill. If you succeed, you are given the information relevant to the sensors. If you fail you don't get it. No counter rolls. If the defender wants to hide, they need to make those kinds of preparations and decisions before hand. Beyond those basics everything is contextual and resolved on a case-by-case basis.
>What roll is made to detect opponents with these sensors? Does the opponent get a Camouflage check or something and the tracker a Sensors roll? What happens if they both succeed? I never understood how this is supposed to work in the rules system.
So i can tell you what we do
If im doing electronic counter measures i roll, what ever % i succeed by we take off the skill of the person running the radar.
Then if say we ducked low, or lots of trees or background radiation super high....ect. we give bonus or negatives to the roll
As for the range, basicly it lets a player detect shit far away so if they are doing lots of read sensors a fair gm should let them see it comming and not some surprise.......unless they are in a canyon or what not....
Everything is imagination land, if a player never reads sensors, the radars useless. If they want to play Submarine tech officer shit snd ecm vs eccm fights ...let em
If you're using your eyes to find a guy
>Detect Concealment
If you're using sensor equipment to find a guy
>Sensors
If you're hiding in the darkness trying to sneak around
>Prowl
If you're inna woods during daylight trying to sneak around
>Camo (prowl for sound)
If you're using equipment to stop their equipment
>Electronic Countermeasures
When playing the game/interpreting the rules picture yourself as a Boomer armchair military buff, who's a fan of old military sci fi & ask yourself, What Would Uncle Kev Do?
>What Would Uncle Kev Do?
I imagine:
>Did you roll the skill?
>Great roll damage, YERHAW!
Yeah, it's not really shaping up like a good book.
Is Phase World/Three Galaxies a different dimension or our own?
It's in the same dimension as RIFTS Earth*
*RIFTS Earth itself is slightly out of synch with the rest of its dimension so no one except the Archons are able to find it via mundane space travel
Wait, it is? I missed that part. I thought it was a different dimension.
It's covered either in SA 2 or Mutants in Orbit IIRC
>important information about Phaseworld
>Not actually covered in phaseworld
That's par for the course for every Palladium RPG. All the most important info and even key mechanics are scattered across dozens of books so only true collectors and autists understand it all.
blueguy = 0
while blueguy < 24:
print(blueguy)
blueguy+=2
print(blueguy)
blueguy-=1
print("Done.")
Can't you just print it twice and +=1 the counter?
What is the biggest PA with Naruni Thermo-Kinetic armor? What would be a fair price to replace standard armor with thermo-kinetic?
I think thermo-kinetic armor is only in Naruni Wave 2, which means the techno-knight or whatever the hell its called
Furry and furry in denial talk about encounters:
Is there a clear answer on what can be made as a biosystem & what can't? Can biosystems be turned into TW items? Or Lemurian Bio-wizard stuff?
I would rule no for TW because I read Bio-systems as essentially the same as flesh and blood with only a little bit of machinery involved. Certainly no space to for gems or copper wiring
>TMNT & Other Strangeness + After the Bomb
Anyone got a full collection of PDFs for all of these?
Anyone know where I can find random encounter tables for Rifts North America? Are they in a Rifter or an odd supplement somewhere?
IIRC there's a table at the back of the original RMB (not RUE). It'll be outdated, obviously
There are tables for a quick-roll monster generator but not any random encounter tables that I can see. Unless I have a non-standard pdf of the book.
My mistake.
The only other one I can think of is at the back of Mercenaries but it is specifically for bands of roving CS troops
I was looking around for one online but I didn't find one.
Calling the Coalition heroes of humanity because they fight the bushmen is like calling the Nazis heroes of humanity because they took the brunt of USSR's hordes.
That's like a piece of shit blocking waves of shit from flooding your town.
No we call the CS heroes becuase they are morally correct
What's so evil about protecting your home?
Genocide, rape, mass murder, mass censorship, etc.
It's not the goal really that's evil (if you buy into the propaganda at least), it's the means. They don't need to do what they do because we know other more peaceful states exist. They choose to do so
>inb4 You're anti-humanity/anti-white! The CS are all heroes!
No, read the books. At the absolute best they're morally grey, and that's being extremely generous. In the case of Heroes of Humanity/the Minion War, not only did they directly cause the Dimensional Outbreak to come to earth, they also killed off anyone else who could have done something about it. CS wasn't invited to the Gathering of Heroes for a reason.
Portraying the CS as rapists is just stupid, 90% of D-Bees don't even look attractive or sexually compatible to humans. The odd elf or Lemurian or whatever, sure, i can understand that but i dont see it happening much, but are you telling me the Deadboys WANT to strap down a grackletooth & frick their scaley cloaca? Where do you even stick it in on a cactus people woman?
Using rape as narrative shorthand for evil is stupid.
It's about power. Though it's probably extra thought if you're one of the sexy dbees like an auto g
I don't buy that. HuMans rape other humans as a power play, but our parts match up. No deadboy is gonna rape a goblin or a flooper. Hell, there are probably more than a few D-Bees who would literally melt your dick off. The CS teaches that D-Bees are full if evil tricks & unknowable powers & to always be on guard. RIFTS Earth teaches you not to leave your EBA.
The idea that some good ol' boy from Missouri is gonna drop his MDC trousers to stick his dick in a Noli, or a Simvan, or a Wolfen is so fricking dumb. I'm not saying it wouldn't happen, but the idea that it's common is stupid
Nah. Just look at the number of unironic furries and monster frickers on the internet. RIFTS is just their fantasies made life. There's no doubt in my mind that there would be a number of degenerates in the CS who would jump at the chance to frick a dog-boy let alone a wolfen. Or really anything remotely humanoid. The Naruni sales reps probably got a fair bit of unwanted fricking during the Naruni purge. Quickflex aliens in the burbs, maybe even sword fists. Oh and definitely dragons if the opportunity somehow arose
Besides, monsters rape humans in Rifts. This just a case where the reverse is true, except the rape is directed against the powerless and innocent among dbees
Not to mention that horrific trans-dimensional STDs a human could catch from an alien d-bee!
>Sexually Trans-Dimensional
Her pussy's so good it'll rift ya!
>Good Ol Biy from Missouri
Them good ol boys have and will stick it in worse.
>Wolfen
Please, wolfen would mist any deadboy. The only reason Chi Town isnt a dog park is because the wolfen havent noticed them yet.
Space wolfen vs palladium fantasy wolfen are very diffrent levels of tech
Yes, but according to
Space Wolfen exist in the same dimension and time as the Coalition on Earth. Thus, if they are going to encounter a Wolfen it's going to be Space Wolfen and likely one that is more augmented than a combat borg with a blank check.
There's a Wolfen empire on RIFTS earth vs a space wolfen can only get to earth by going through a gate on phase world or a random rift
>Wolfen empire on RIFTS earth
No, I don't believe you. You're having a funny!
It's in Rome IIRC or somewhere thereabouts. I believe they LARP as legionnaires. I'd have to dig through the Europe books to confirm unless someone else can chime in
It's in a rifter I think. Definitely exists
It was bugging me so I had to look it up. It's official, World Book 05 pg 216-217
Sure, why not?
>It's about power
That's moronic
You aew claiming dead boys rape things with mdc buttholes? You think cs troops are popping boner pills to teach the trolls a leason...with thier dicks?
Rape is about power in some instances but we dont rape wolves or lions we kill em .
Elf rape sure, even dwarven....but a flooper getting dicked by the cs...no
Not to mention the cs has a large %of female officers and rpa pilots.
Are you doing some bs jackal of auschits lies?
1) I ain't claiming shit, that text is straight out of RUE from KS himself.
2) I absolutely believe that there are unironic sexual sadists among the worst of the CS troops. If you want to get super dark and descriptive, there's surely ISS officers who'd shove a neural stun rod up some monsters hole. As for your example there are absolutely a large number of people in the world who rape animals (again, just look at furries).
It's just as the text says - these people are the worst of the worst of humanity, enabled by the evil and propaganda of the CS high command and given license to do whatever they want to their victims. I can't imagine why you think sexual violence is out of the question other than maybe you've bought into the in-universe propaganda and you think every CS soldier is the quintessential professional.
In the interest of clarifying before people continue to get upset - Not literally every CS soldier is a murdering rapist. Again, taking from the text - the grunts of the CS range from misguided heroes to brainwashed patriots to insane sadists. Above them though is the CS high command which is pretty much evil through and through with the one exception of that black general who they made march through bug territory (his name escapes me). With that sort of leadership, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the evil of the nation and it's soldiers is magnified more than the good. Those good soldiers still exist, but they're on an individual or unit level.
I'm also not saying that CS high command puts forward an official policy of "rape dbees". What I am saying is that creating an environment that makes victims of the innocent and that rewards the most cruel among your soldiers with advancement, then it shouldn't be a surprise that you end up recruiting a not-negligible of rapists, murderers, and other maniacs.
I see the CS deadboys as pretty much the guys from Full Metal Jacket mixed with G.I. Joe & some other stuff. My deadboys are honest soldiers shooting shit they don't understand because humanity is on the Blackfoot & you just honestly cannot be bothered to expand your morals to include the infinite fricked up menagerie of RIFTS Earth. Is there the occasional sadist? Absolutely. Is there the occasional creepy rapist Psi-Stalker who feeds his rape victims to dog boys after they have a turn? Probably. But these guys are fewer & far between. As for the evils of the brass? Those are far more likely to he big broad war crimes than something as personal as rape. Maybe the brass keep a bunch of elf girls in the Burbs to do with as they please, but the idea that there is enough rape going on for it to be listed specifically instead of fitting under a more nebulous umbrella of generalized evil traits is stupid.
I think the point that KS is making that the CS soldiery, more so than any other faction, represents both the best and the worst of humanity. That's why he doesn't put rape beyond them, and likely listed it specifically because it is one of the more heinous crimes (at least to modern sensibilities. I also think he is clear that they way you want to run your CS troops so long as it is within the broad umbrella he is using. But I don't know why insisting rape is stupid is happening, because I don't see the grounds to believe rape is beyond the evil CS soldiers he is describing. At the very least he is saying that there is enough rape that it is worth noting among the other crimes he is describing and that is more or less a fact of the setting since it's not like it's coming from the mouth of Erin Tarn or something.
The only other thing I think that is noteworthy is that the CS military is the only one that gets this treatment. Even for all the shit that FQ was given earlier. I think that again the point was to reinforce that the CS soldiers are collectively the best and worst examples of humanity, and once you take away the politeness of society, human beings are capable of some pretty fricked up things.
Sure, the NGR blows up gargoyle babies with remote bombs, but man-for-man their soldiers are more "average" than the range given for CS troops. Outside of gargoyles they aren't particularly xenophobic, and they even allow dbees to achieve citizenship status. I think Sovietski are similar but it's been a while since I read their book; IIRC they were given a dbee that was somehow genetically pre-disposed to be a communist.
You wrote alot of words to justify your rape fantasy ERP
Are you denying the text from the book because sexual violence makes you uncomfortable?
Im saying the majority of rapes don't matter becuase they aren't human
I see, you accept the text as truth, you just don't care.
Our skull boys are just blowing off some steam.
Dead boys will be dead boys
Why do soldiers want to rape refugee women that are 5/10 on a good day and havent showered or even washed their hands in weeks?
Human pussy is a quality. Ost soliders are looking for, and its not a power play its im sick of not fricking b***hes
>Splugorth and their Slave Barges are one of the gravest threats to mankind. So it is a true testament to the heroism of the CS military that there is no shortage of volunteers to call upon when one is spotted. The warrior women especially are a favored target during such engagements
>Join the CS!
>Show those stupid b***hes their mistake for kicking you out of their bathroom!
I think the angle is that you can have whatever alignment as a CS grunt... as long as you can shove that alignment in your pocket and do whatever you're told. When you climb that promotion ladder you will drop your alignment down a few notches or be a target for by more evil peers, subordinates, or COs.
So you can be a Principled deadbolt, you just have to be stupid enough to not realize your own hypocrisy.
I don't think he was talking about PCs. Certainly PCs can do whatever they want to do. In fact, ex-CS because of morals is one of the more common adventurer backstories I heard.
>this robot is designed to frick you in the mouth
We need some Private Dickers stories
Some mechs in Mercenaries look like that movie Robot Jox
What are some good pre-made adventures that are good for a newbie GM?
AFAIK RIFTS only has three actual "adventures". One in the back of Mercenaries, and the boot camp in Merc Adventures. Together they're probably good for maybe five sessions. Then there was one about assassinating ARCHIE which I think was in the original Sourcebook One, and was removed from the revised edition, but my memory on it is very fuzzy
Everything else is "hook, line, sinkers"; short blurbs that give the set up for an adventure but you will have to do all the work of building encounters and planning shit on your own
Every other rifter or so has a Hook Line and Sinker section which are adventure modules.
I do my best to skip adventure modules. They just dont click with me.
Rifts doesn't have much in the way of adventures. Probably your best bet is Sourcebook One as
said. It's called The Face of Evil, page 63.
So nanite armor as envisioned by Daddy Walton is 90s metal strip muscles. I always imagined them basically looking like being covered in tinfoil.
Where the frick nanite armor? That sounds badass
Splicers. Its fleshed out in Rifter 70 where it can be augmented like an electric field or can extend out to a vehicle you're driving. Basically it's a light MDC suit you can turn on or jump into a pile of trash and walk out with more MDC than most robot vehicles.
It's what cyberknights should have instead of that outdated stuff, imo.
Do you have to be a technojacker to have it or can anyone develop it?
I-Beam tech is such a fricking cool way to fly, why do the Megaversal Legion have to be such b***hes about people using their shit?
Also, the art for their power armor suit is way off its description. It's supposed to have a pickle helmet style head and plate armor aesthetic
>It's supposed to have a pickle helmet style head and plate armor aesthetic
Whats a pickle helmet?
Maybe he means a pickelhaube
See
Stat him in RIFTS, if able. Is it even do-able in the system? What would he be classified as?
A guy with a 1d6 MD gun in an otherwise mundane SDC setting
Yes but the gun has a very long range!
A guy with a 1d6 GDC gun in an otherwise MDC setting
Please tell me GDC is the upper damage limit.
For now...
Reminder that 100:1 damage should be hecto-damage, and mega-damage should already be 1,000,000:1. Palladium is literally unplayable.
Go away
Hello this is a joke about correct use of SI prefixes, thank you for your understanding.
You may have tried to be funny but it's a legitimate question. Either get funnier or play a game.
I'm no big CS fanboy or anything, but I think I'd shoot a D-Bee or wizard, no matter how oppressed or downtrodden, that ever hurt a Dog Boy.
Only on April 1st.
No, no. Not really. MDC vs SDC isnt just a number but materials used. A mountain has a lot of SDC but it's all rock and dirt, it's still SDC. Some things straddle that line of having SDC but can be considered to have MDC but it's a false equivalency because it only has MDC when taking MDC just for expediency sake, it's still SDC.
MDC materials are fantastically strong and usually technobabble. Things like dinosaur skin, poured polished titanium, duraplasti with staggered carbon lattices, etc.
If you wanted GDC OR TDC you are going to come up with a new bullshit to justify it.
Vagabond w8th an MDC weapon
>SDC robot with an MDC pistol
Combat Borg with a 6d6x10 MD Graviton Beam Emitter that can shoot straight through any MDC armor or structure.
If any normal means can harm something its SDC. That's the benchmark we should work with.
Seems a bit light for a guy who represents the pinnacle of technology before the City went batshit and the lights went out on human civilization divorced from the Netsphere.
>Low level human intelligence
>Barely knows american
>Mostly just laughs until its losing
>Tortures prey both physically and psychologically
>loves to kill and leave bodies strung up to intimidate other victims
>horn is a phallic symbol
>Strongest attack is belly flopping on you and having a temper tantrum
I think the demonic unicorn is a parody of players.
I see it
What is your opinion on the mystic?
>Has ISP and PPE
>Spells and psychic powers
>Most likely to sell essential oils
>Essentially that girl that asks what is in the food at restaurants then says she thinks she's allergic to it and will order something like it anyway.
>Hardcoded to be annoyingly whimsical and female.
Healing is shitty in RIFTS and so having a dedicated healer is a waste
Healing psychic skills are useful pretty much only for SDC settings or if your GM is going in hard but using dismemberment rules.
They are the worst caster in the game that's not some combat monster
They make the most sense for casters youd meet outside major magic areas, they intuitively know so thry dont need instruction from a master/elder.
Love them, but I generally prefer a more useful variant, like the born mystic or the mystic knight, rather than the core mystic.
We need a new bread!