For all art, stories, queries and conversations relating to Rifts, Palladium Fantasy, Heroes Unlimited, or any of the other "minor league" titles like Dead Reign, Splicers, Beyond the Supernatural, etc... hey, the last one went alright, so why not another?Some questions to get us started:>How do we make combat magic more viable? Would dropping the P.P.E. cost down by a factor of 10 make attack spells better? Seriously, fuck Kevin's insistence that mages should only be good for puzzles and not combat.>Does anyone know what the hell pic-rel is? It shows up in D-Bees of North America as a Zenith Moon Warper, but I'm sure it appears in other books too...
Is the Palladium Megaverse furry? We have TMNT & Other Strangeness, After the Bomb, and some of those races from Rifts are pretty sus...
>>94237921post the intro copypasta links, you faggot, the old thread isn't even dead yet
>>94238426What intro copypasta links? There weren't any, outside of that one guy just before it ended who shared a hi-res PDF of D-Bees of North America.
>>94238261Every mutant animal with bonus mental affinity, never mind PB, is objectively more fuckable then a normal human. I'm sorry you had to find out like this anon.
I'm trying to create the ultimate beat stick.Take a Concussion staff from Splicers>Incorporate two Atlantean Crystal Stun Maces to each end as well.>Give it to an Alchemist>They add Numbing Cold>They add Venomblade: Basilisk's Eye>They add Invisible Weapon
>>94239638This copypasta. If you're going to start a Palladium/Rifts thread, use it, so that people can find/filter it easily, and get links and resources. Subject: Palladium Games and Rifts General /PGaRG/RIFTS! The science fantasy world of post-apoc cyborgs, wizards, dragons, ninjas, giant mecha, super-nazis, robot ninjas, vampires, underwater kingdoms, remnant human supertech civilizations and everything you can imagine all rolled into one setting where interdimensional RIFTS have pierced Earth's fabric and turned it into a playground for aliens and monsters!Plus other Palladium Games about superheroes, zombies, classic fantasy, supernaturals investigation and more. Talk about:>RIFTS(tm)>Heroes Unlimited>Palladium Fantasy>Beyond the Supernatural>Dead Reign>Robotech (lol)>TMNT & Other Strangeness + After the Bomb>Splicers>Nightbane>Savage Rifts>Resources, PDFs, links, podcasts, etc.:https://pastebin.com/nCtwd6Jw>official (highly-moderated) discord:https://discord.gg/xGkk75Z>Scholarly Adventures reviews and guideshttps://www.scholarlyadventures.com/blog>The Rifter torrent with issues #0 to #85https://files.catbox.moe/57wqyo.torrent>Previous thread:>>93709026>Thread Question:
These guys fit awfully well in RIFTS. A HECU squad falling into a portal to RIFTS Earth isn't even farfetched due to the nature of the resonance cascade. >"Contact!"
>>94248738Forgot the pic. >"Incoming X-RAYS!"
>>94237921I used to fap to that pic, OP.
Okay guys, I want to take a robot dog from New West, & give it a TW Golem Heart, a Transformation Circuit & TW power source from Rifter 84. What's the coolest/most useful vehicle I could turn the fella into? I already plan on making it a sentry gun robot body too so I can have a cool little puppy sidekick follow me into town without too much suspicion that can morph into a mini-missle packing gun implacement. But I also want him to turn into a vehicle for quick escapes.
Just looking at the "Rifts Ultimate Edition" corebook: is there any difference between the Shifter presented in this book and the one presented in the Megaverse Builder, apart from the fact the Megaverse Builder version can make a pact with a greater elemental and the Rifts Ultimate version can't?
>>94248904Go full Mospeada and make it a bike.
>>94249214That's a hell of a reference, but a bike is a bit open air
>>94249441You want a getaway ride, bikes go places cars can't.
Do True Atlanteans have gods? Do any D-Bee or alien? All I can find are the classical earth pantheons & Palladium's pseudo Egyptians & racial pantheons. Plus Aco.
My current character is a literal normal human. An Astronaut who was locked in a stasis pod. Now he's trapped in what was North America. Not gonna lie, he's underpowered compared to the rest of the party who're just a bunch of uppity D-Bees but that's alright. Isaac Clarke had to level up too.
>>94252550"Where is everyone?" Batty wondered as he looked around the empty space port. The windows were broken, and the buildings covered with so much dust and grimme it barely resembled what was Atrotech's most cutting-edge installation. "I don't know," Smith answered, "I can't reach anyone. Anywhere. Mission control, the international space line, even RES isn't picking up- so much for their emergency line. I can't even reach my wife for God's sake, and she's in orbit!" The Comm's officer tried every emergency line on earth, and there was nothing but static. Static that was cut off by something that sounded like a scream. "Stay focused gentlemen," Roy ordered. The captain turned and watched Clarke saw down the double iron plated door with his torch. Clarke was almost done, and Roy needed his men alert. Something was wrong, very wrong. They only went into outer orbit for four hours for some routine maintenance on an old relic from the 20th. While most satellites from the now long defunct American Republic were decommissioned as apart of the UEG's unification accords, radio beacons were kept around by radiological archaeology enthusiasts who used them to transmission old tunes. Pirate radio never died, Roy had chuckled. "Alright," Clarke reached the base of the door, "It's done." He stuck in a jack and tried to pry it open. Roy quickly supported him, and the metal plates screeched as loose bits of rusted debris cracked from the ledges. "Goddamn it, this bitch won't give!" Clarked snarled as Batty and Smith joined in. "GRAAAH!" They snarled as the door finally tore open. "Finally," Batty snarled. "Guess we-" They were dead, all of them. Every astronaut, every single ATC, security agent, technician... Even the suits were dead. And, the men quickly realized as they wandered into what was mission control, they were long since passed. This wasn't a spaceport anymore, it was a mausoleum.Then they heard something roar in the dark.
What do we think of Rifts Australia? How would you rework it as a concept?Me, I'm surprised that Palladium didn't use it as an excuse to port over the Pleasure Bunnies from After the Bomb 2e and/or add some kind of sexy fox furry race - Australia *does* have a long history with those animals being pests...>>94252152Rifts has never really been much of a pantheon builder, not like how D&D was obsessed with giving us lots of different gods and pantheons. Religion is only ever mentioned in passing, and if you want deities outside of the ones from Pantheons of the Megaverse or Palladium Fantasy's Gods & Dragons, then you pretty much have to come up with them yourself.
>>94253036I remember the Demons or whatever hiding Earth from the Chinese pantheon so I wouldn't be surprised if that was very much the case world over. The implications are pretty bleak. I wouldn't be surprised if all souls went to one of the numerous hells.
I really do wonder at the logic behind whoever wrote D-Bees of North America. You have what is basically the Rifts equivalent of a Player's Handbook-type book of nonhuman PC options... so WHY would you include near-mindless "mostly suitable as enemy" type races like the Deer Horn Tribesmen or the Crab Warriors?
>>94255647Because it's about D-Bees & not a Players Handbook.
Question; the Shemarrian Warrior writeup from D-Bees of North America says they have the same skill program as the A-64 Master Robot. Does this mean the *Combat* skill program, or would they also have the Espionage/Spy program as well?
>>94259492Probably just the combat, but I don't see why they couldn't have the other just so they can better pretend they aren't robots
>>94260143Looking at the statsblock in Shemarrian Nation, yeah, they do explicitly get both the Combat and Espionage skill packets.
Found a crazier way of stacking damage than a Boomgun with a bunch of tech & Alchemy.The Laser Mage has a spell to amplify damage by x10 & fuck with light frequency. So we can take an Arkhon tri-beam tech, mix in some spacecraft level HI-Lasers & the same alchemist upgrades like double damage to Evil.So you can take something like a 2d6x100 damage cannon, add the laser upgrade for x10, & the tribeam tech for x2. Let's not forget double damage to evil.That'd be 2d6x4000. Still looking at tinkering on it, if anyone have some cool laser weapons to recommend I'd love it.
So, I hear magic in Rifts is actually not so good, and Kevin is in denial of how bad it is. What's wrong with it, and how could we fix it?
>>94269859Magic is... fine, but tech tends to out perform it. What people don't realize is that tech needs a ton of industry, maintenance, & money. Magic is cheap as fuck. Plus, technowizards can kludge the best tech with the best Magic & make it all run on Magic. RIFTS is largely written by scifi military nerds so they trend towards writing tech & gear cause that's what they like/know.
>>94270505Speaking as an Arcanum player, that's actually pretty cool as that's how technology interacting with magic in-setting. Going by that game's rules, Humanity has gone from an age of technology to a reborn age of magic. A character from an Arcanum lite world would genuinely reflect on the great irony of it all even as he trades gunfire with Robocrabs.
>>94271033Then you have stuff like Dominator Tech which they just tell you is so advanced it's both tech & magic & you won't even really see the line between the two
Daily reminder that the only victory condition for Rifts is to leave Earth. Spess, planar travel, alternate dimensions... Just get the hell outta there.
>>94274077Space is no escape.
>>94274077No the win condition is killing all the squids, killing all the vampires, killing all the evil shit, & building a Stone Pyramid on every Nexus & terminus to regulate the crazy & build a planet sized PPE engine
>>94275371The way you wrote that was so ominous. I loved it.>>94276863"Earth really was nice, Roy." The astronaut looked down at Earth, it's brown and sickly lime green land, with its blue oceans and their high carbon dioxide. It was beautiful, the most beautiful thing he had ever seen."Yeah," Roy turned towards Shannon and smiled, "there's always something about seeing your home planet." "Are we going home, Roy?" Shannon asked. "There's so much we have to do. So much work to be done." "Yeah," Roy nodded towards the empty shuttle. "But I gotta build something first." He turned back towards the cockpit. "Gotta build something... For you." The ship moved towards the moon. Although it would take a day or two, that was fine for Roy. He had time, plenty of time, all the time in the world...>And that's why nobody rolls an astronaut!
What's your favorite Palladium Dragon, and why?
Anybody know which book this Dog Boy art came from?
>>94238261Bottomless does things for me so this image is hard to look at with company.
>>94242295>Make the weapon invisible >Someone trips on it>He wakes up 3 days later with a save vs coma roll
>>94238261There is a whole faction in paladium fantasy that were so popular they were made into a faction in Three Galaxies. Like in PF they are also broken and can dominate most other characters in their settings.In South America there is a city of cat people who are blessed by like three different cat gods. They have many RCCs but Kevin did the artwork so they are all incredibly ugly
>>94287929Yeah, my thought was that he could throw it, & walk around knocking people out in subtle ways. Maybe levitate it with psychic powers etc.
>>94288680It sounds very fun
>>94290803I love to kludge things like that together, its not so much that im a munchkin though i do tend to find out the most broken shit, its that i just like fiddling with different mechanics & stacking stuff together, mixing things around, etc. If you really want a nasty weapon though, get a Vemonblade Enchantment of Blood Poison XX from Rifter 12. It's a save or die poison with -4 to the saving throw. You could even theoretically put that on a ranged weapon with a lot of spread & just fuck up entire squads of dudes. Now, it's arguably one of the rarest things in the world with very few people able to interact with it, but that's what giving handies to your GM is all about.
>>94285102It was art slated for the Rifts Boardgame they were putting out via Kickstarter back in like 2018. Never heard whether or not it succeeded. https://www.deviantart.com/chuckwalton/art/Rifts-Psi-Hounds-and-Psi-Stalker-the-DogBoys-679534279
So, the 1e Rifts corebook says something about letting mutant animals take a Rifts Psychic Character Class instead of using the "buy psychic powers with Bio-E" system from TMNT & Other Strangeness or After the Bomb, but did this ever get examined in greater depth? It's definitely a good idea, since Bio-E's psy-powers are kind of awful compared to Rifts', but the corebook itself points readers to the Rifts Conversion Book...
>>94237921Kek.
>>94291768I promise you that even if they made their goals, it was never produced
>>94294497We need that pick of Prosek & Joey on the throne but edited to have Trump & Baron
>>94294497Let's go, Coalition
>>94294497I think palladium fans are good at choosing candidates. He clearly is trying to take advantage of the mentally ill by luring them into buying random books! It's a trusty tactic used by business for ages.
>>94294750>Coalition: All told we have made Chicago better somewhat.>Prosek and Prosek: The safest place to stand around a coalition rifle is behind its sights
Which is the better art version of the Trimadore? The original art from World Book 11: Coalition War?
Or the remade art from World Book 30: D-Bees of North America?
>>94302130>>94302138Look at this fucking goober. How has RIFTS not gotten a shitty anime or even a Saturday Morning cartoon? Screw some Jerry Brockheimer movie, as much as I'd love to see a fully made Glitterboy in live action, an animated show would be easier to make & be closer to the art in the books
Is there any reason other than roleplay to play a normal Weredragon instead of a Weredragon Monster?
>>94306276Those weird egg head ones are usually killed by real dragons. I don't know of any other kind of weredragon
>>94302138>>94302130WB30 looks weirder so I think it's better.
>>94302960I wonder that as well. Kevin says he likes quality control but I doubt his standards are that high to meet. Other times deals just don't work out just look at that Mousegaurd movie that almost happened.
>>94312957Mouseguard is a contender for the single worst system ever put to print so it's not like anyone involved had any concept of QC.
>>94312967Yes, I played it and had suppressed the experience. I was actually referring to the movie deal that was half done when Disney bought FOX and cancelled it.That system was very bad. It took us an hour of reading to figure out how team work worked.
So, I studying vampire kingdoms. By page 15 they have beaten home that vampires are irredeemable threeways to sunday and are not the people they were.I did like that Erin Tarn was being a cute little meddling grandma and shit went so sideways that she had to use a level 10 port the hell out and redact her own work because her pruny ass and cyberknight boytoys ended up on a human blood ranch awaiting to be a caprisun for a family of fang heads.
>>94320185>I did like that Erin Tarn was being a cute little meddling grandmaYeah, her stint in the Vampire Kingdoms kind of wakes her up from being a meddling grandma, and you SLOWLY start to see her figuring out a bit about why Prosek does the shit he does the more she ends up seeing and hearing about in her travels.
Question; why does the Asgardian High Elf from Pantheons of the Megaverse use the same EXP table as the Demigod? Is the High Elf really that powerful?
>>94320185Erin Tarn is just her alias. She's really Lady Prosek who was rescued by the Cyber-knight guy & then she went & did her little world tour, being a meddling liberal grandma. Then during the gathering of heroes she realizes that Prosek was right or at least not all that wrong & returns.Lady Prosek & Erin Tarn both grew up as country girls in the early CS. Both have intimate knowledge of the Chi-Town library & the Prosek family. Both have two biosystem fingers on their left hand. Lady Prosek was captured by Lord Dunscon & held for a considerably long time until freed by the cyberknight Winslow Thorpe. Now, what if instead of spending that entire time as a captive, Lady Prosek was rescued far sooner, & decided to take the opportunity to travel around & study everything she only dreamed about while in the Chi-Town library? In typical white woman fashion she runs off to alien & D-Bee shitholes & talks about how they are just so wonderful. Eventually she goes to Africa & has a wake up call cause theirs no way she can justify that place as being good in any way, so she returns home to her conservative husband, now blown out by D-Bee dicks & her midlife second wave feminist crisis has run its course. Now she wants the protection & status she had back in Chi-Town.
https://youtu.be/REGLCGvF73M?si=ys67IMRg2lXDT4drFrom what I have read, this is what the Nutani are like.
How believable is this party makeup for a party themed as a band of escapees from the slave-market of Atlantis?>Human Shifter>Renegade Blind Warrior Woman of Altara>Renegade Staphra Warlord>Rulian Translator>Pythonan Battle Magus>Quick-Flex Alien Gunslinger>Vernulian Techno-Wizard>Vanguard Brawler Bandit>Pleasure Bunny (from After the Bomb) Psi-Slinger>Kremin Cyber-Doc with Kremin Military-Grade Bionics
How unbalanced would it be to let a player playing a Hydra Hatchling play a mutant whose 7th head loses its normal psychic powers, but doubles the Hydra's Int score from 1d6+3 to 2d6+6 and gives them the Human Metamorphosis power?Also, anyone got some Palladium Hydra art to share?
>>94327211Yes, I think that fits in.
>>94248754All they gotta do is scavenge a massacred dead-boy squad and they'll be good to go.
>>94327211Sounds pretty generic except for the snake magus which just sounds like cheese. Which specific book are Pleasure Bunnies from?
>>94334210Pleasure Bunnies are from After the Bomb 2nd edition corebook.Altaran, Quick-Flex Alien, Vernulian, Vanguard Brawler, and Kremin are from World Book 30, but they all appeared in World Books 2, 11, 1, 11 and 11 respectively first.Staphra Warlord, Rulian and Pythonan are all from World Book 21.
>>94334226Ah I remember now. They're pretty cool the way they can get people addicted to them. I always wanted to play a man whore Pleasure Bunny in RIFTS myself, fucking & lying my way through shit, keeping on step ahead of angry husbands. A speedster jucier named Jack Rabbit
Don't die again, /palladium/
my friends and I campaign started forever ago and we pull anything from all the existances in all of reality. if its possible its possible. so what started the rifts megaverse has been travels to all sorts of dimensions gaining power and untold new forms of magic and all sorts of stuff. and we have such a lax campaign that we just kinda of get away with alot of things and find ways to 4th wall shit with magic or tech. now we operate out of earth 0 dimension gotham city from the dc comics multiverse as a 20 person group of all sorts of professions and occ and classes and whatnot and are super massively high level in everything its so cheese but its fun. so now gotham has this power armor magic casting reality bending whatever team running around terrorizing gothams criminals and shit talking them constantly. we do all sorts of bullshit stuff like using magic to summon the person to us and than all the evidence we need. than we put them to sleep and magically restrain them and off they go teleported to jail with it all and remove them from the campaign for a few years or if we want them back and have them escape. crime has drastically dropped and batman and the bat family and other heroes are all oh no we gotta do it this way and stuff. thats not even getting into the whole true gods sending a bunch of copies of things from all of existance and reality into some super expaned earth 0 dimension change that made the old earth 0 dimension the size of a penny and the new version about 6ft by 6ft in size. anything you can think of has a copy there including star wars and dragon ball multiverse and so on. I could type up a 500000 line reply talking about all the stuff we've seen and done in the campaign over the last 17 years. we've been anywhere and everywhere you can think of using anything tha6t exists or ideas or thoughts and gone there and done whatever. its just so cheese and it brings the group much joy.
Looking to expand my Palladium collection; anons, which 2 books from this list would you suggest I try and get ahold of first?>Dead Reign Corebook>Chaos Earth Corebook>Palladium Fantasy 2e Corebook>Nightbane Corebook>Rifts World Book Japan>Rifts World Book Australia>Rifts World Book Mystic Russia>Rifts World Book Psyscape>Rifts Sourcebook Mindwerks>Rifts Sourcebook Shemarrian Nation>Rifts Dimension Book Secrets of the Atlanteans>Rifts Book of Magic
>>94339425Psyscape & Secrets of Atlantis will add the most content in my opinion.
What are the most fitting insanities to give a Crazy whose "gimmick" is that they basically think they're a shonen anime protagonist come to life? Crazy Man and Power By Association - Power Words (thinking the titular character's "Guyver" or Goku's "Kaioken") immediately suggest themselves, but what else?
>>94339831>Magic Item Association: TittiesHe can be the Grabbin' DragonMagic Item Association: Sentai SuitMultiple Personalities, he's "possessed" by a great warrior or yada yada, like Yugi, or half a dozen animes
>>94339425Psyscape is important; Japan is fun.
>>94339425>>Rifts Sourcebook Mindwerks>>Rifts Dimension Book Secrets of the AtlanteansThese are both cool in different ways, one for Psynetics (psionics + cybernetics) and the other for more bio-wizardry and d-bee races/monsters.
Opinions on Heroes Unlimited?
>>94344252>extraordinary P.P.oh my
>>94344252It's one of the few superhero systems that don't make you do a shit ton of stupid math with build points so I like it well enough. On the other hand, I wish it had more OP crazy stuff too.
>>94345542wut? most superhero games I see are all random generated, outside of stuff like Champions.
>>94346225Mutants & Masterminds, GURPS, etc. Almost all superhero systems are super formulaic math chassis' to make powers work.
>>94347137Most superhero games I see are all FASERIP wannabes. Villains & Vigilants still the king
Does anyone think they'll ever do another swimsuit issue of the Rifter? If they do, what're the odds we might see some d-bee or mutant animal ladies, given furries and monster girls are big money on the internet now?...Honestly, with the monstergirl fandom having taken off, and the furry fandom well established, I'm kind of surprised they never did any kind of book to take advantage of that...
>>94350446Coomer go and stay go
>>94350446Their swimsuit editions aren't even sexy dude. It's just bad art half the time. It's just a female NPC roster.
>>94350446What swimsuit issue? Last time I was involved with Palladium, Mutants in Orbit had just been released.
>>94352062Issues #35, 39, and 43.
>>94351405A few were nice but honestly there are Rifts covers that are sexier than most of the normal swimsuit girls.
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>>94353358The best one of all: Erin Tarn in a bikini.
I wish there was more to have a PB over 30. Pleasure Bunnies can reach 50 with a good roll & access to the Phaseworld cosmetic surgery machine, & that's before looking into Physical Skills & otherniche ways to boost it. I'd love to see how high i could crank it. A Pleasure Bunny with a 100 PB utterly mogging all the love goddesses that barely hit 30 would be hilarious.
>>94339425If you're a GM the book of magic is good. If you like the SDC games Dead Reign is getting more popular.
>>94339831Can't go wrong with a superhero complex.
>>94353358ARCHIE NO!
>>94344252Everything involved makes it a bit crazy, it's great.
>>94353352Is it wrong that I want to know how much damage that guy getting headspike takes and to argue that his head should have been taken right off?
>>94354774He has an MDC skull.
>>94354721Archie getting more action from real women than Hagan is comedy gold
Question: does ANYONE know where the Brodkil experience table can be found? They've been a "technically playable" R.C.C. since they debuted in Sourcebook 1, but I can't seem to find their Experience Table anywhere...
>>94360732Triax? Or Atlantis?
>>94361397Nope. Atlantis gives us these EXP tables:>Ancient Dragon>Atlantean Vagabond>Stone Master>Tattooed Man>Atlantan Undead Slayer>Sunaj Assassin/Kydian (Splugorth Overlord & Powerlord)/Splugorth Slaver>T-Monster Man>Chiang-ku/Zembahk/Adorak/Metzla - use Dragon EP>Kittani/Blind Warrior Woman - use Cyber-knight EPAnd Triax gives us these EXP tables:>NGR Intelligence Officer>NGR Intelligence Commando>NGR Power Armor Commando>NGR Robot Soldier>NGR Cyborg Soldier>NGR Robot Combat Pilot>NGR Comms Officer/Medic/Field Mechanic>NGR Combat Soldier/Police>Euro-Juicer>Gypsy Thief>Gypsy Wizard-Thief>Gypsy Seer>Gypsy Gifted OneThere's no EXP tables that I can find in sourcebook 1 or conversion book 1 - hell, I can't even find the "creature of magic" EXP table that the R.C.C. writeups for the faerie folks keep pointing me to in the conversion book!
>>94361535I think they are in a rifter
At what range can an A.I. control something? Both Mutants in Orbit & Heroes Unlimited have remote piloted robots & suits. I want to build a villain who is robot A.I. that's disguised/mistaken for a meteor who sends a bunch of robots & drones to the planet to kill shit while it stays in orbit
>>94361561Any idea which one? Rifter #46 has an article offering an alternative take on the Brodkil as basically demons possessing mutated corpses, and the Brodkil Gearhead R.C.C. in that article says "use the Brodkil EXP table". Hence why I'm so annoyed I can't find it.>>94361580I think it usually depends on radio transmissions? Sourcebook 1 first introduced in-depth robot mechanics, and World Book 5 introduces a remote robot pilot of some kind, so maybe check those...?
Could a superhero spacial mage & Multiple Selves create clones & drain them their PPE to fund their pocket realm just to absorb them with no negative?
>>94361593Found it in Mindwerks
>>94361676No, that's for the *mutant* Brodkil, the Gene-Splicer augmented subrace.
>>94361676>>94362754Turns out, the first appearance of the Brodkil's personal EXP table was in World Book 13: Lone Star, and it got reprinted in the Rifts GM's Guide.
Does anyone know where this supposed quote by a Basal Daemonix comes from?>"Tolkeen has given us legs, and arms, and weapons. We will fight their war. For now."
Is there any superpower that generates sunlight beams?
>>94363822Rifts CCG card for Basal Daemonix
>>94363829I want to say yes, but I'm not sure which sourcebook it's in. The Rifter may have something along those lines... I know for a fact issue #46 has a Human Mutant archetype called the Lightwielder whose whole thing is that it can shoot (solar-powered?) lasers out of its hands.>>94363838Oh, cool, thanks anon.
>>94363840Those lightweilders are for After the Bomb.I just thought it was weird I haven't seen sunbeam powers since I figured that would be an easy given. An anti vampire hero or solar crusader needs something like that
Okay, so, the Rifts Conversion Book lists various faerie folk as playable, that's all well and good... but can they level up? I mean, they don't seem to be allowed to take standard O.C.C.s, but I can't find an EXP table for them anywhere in my Rifts books, unless it's hidden away in the Palladium Fantasy stuff...
Can anyone tell me if there was more cactus people art than this? Didn't the New West book have a picture of a cactus people family?
>>94367273There's a cartoonist drawing a remember of cactus people in a covered wagon but I can only guess it was in the margins of a Rifter.
Need a name for my new superhero, yes he is deliberately OP>Pleasure Bunny>Invincible>Multiple Selves>Master Psychic>Master Spell Caster>Universal Being>Sonic & Space Flight>Energy Extrusion>Phase MysticSymbolism: LoveVulnerability: WomenJack Rabbitt was just bunny boy from Center who touched a comic book that was actually the Book of Heroes.He's basically a himbo with a gratuitous power & an easy going personality. He also gets around & has a hard time focusing when a woman is talking, or walking, or just standing around.
>>94367714Captain Handsome. When he duplicates himself he calls it the Handfuls of Handsome Lads Attack.
>>94367273Yeah, New West has some more. I have some ai-genned cactus people art, if you want it.
>>94369970>Come! My cactus juice is the best around! >Err, no. They come from Earth cactuses. >Incidentally if I'm out of stock I can only gather about 1.1 L a day depending on how much water I can drink.
>>94369994lol. It gets worse: they're so poor they sell their many children in pots on the street!
>>94369969That's not terrible. I was thinking Thumper or Wolpertinger. He doesn't have a lot of bunny theming outside his mutant origin though so maybe I should do like you say & leave the rabbit out of it
Okay, so, I'm looking at the Euro-Juicer O.C.C. in the Triax/NGR world book, and I'm just not getting it. Is this a class? How does it actually differ from a regular Juicer? Can anybody break it down for me?
>>94372862I think the psi-x aliens was the writer just having a funny.>Let's have grey aliens, right?>But they are like bums and street addicts!>And they are especially addicted to pyschic boosting soft drinks!
>>94370999Honestly I think it's just intended to be a bonus enhancement for your mortal Man At Arms than something you should try to be a real juicer. Its in Triax so really you are in a heavy combat setting so really it's more about helping with the skill bonuses and combat bonuses that you can use as you are in a power armor or tank.
Anons, should Trimadores be able to take the Psi-Tech class? Yes or no?
>>94378191Yeah, what's confusing is that there's a separate EXP table for the Euro-Juicer, so I don't know if it's supposed to be a Juicer that replaces the standard juicer rig with the EJ rig or what.
Using RIFTS only to steal some ideas and/or weapons/armor/equipment/cybernetics descriptions and approximate stats. Works for me.
>>94339319So, does your group have a name or what? What do the poor mentally ill homeless people should be you break through a brick wall and unload a salvo of missiles at them?
>>94382103>Cat Lady, Dwemor cityI think Dwemer City is much better than Lazlo. It has a better government structure and a fleet of attack golems. What does Lazlo have? A good baseball team?
>>94382152Dweomer would be pretty awesome if it wasn't ruled by aliens with their own agenda.
>>94383592I like that they did have their own agenda and tried to be ominous greyzone characters but shit kept happening that forced them to put whatever vague scheme on the backburner so much that they are now alignment scrupulous goodie goodie.>Dunston, yes. Make a pact with us for power and knowledge!>Dunston, no. Do not have a dick measuring contest with the Coalition. No, don't. Don't outline your dick on that letter to Prosek. Put it back Dunston! No! Don't mail you dick measure to the coalition.... And it's gone.>Dunston Jr. You have to realize that your father was very dumb and antagonized someone he was not ready to fight. No, no, don't pick up your father's head. Don't kiss it! Don't go into another dimension and align with the splugorth to get vleevenge on everyone. We mean it! If you come back as a Saturday morning cartoon villain complete with a mentally unstable villainess henchman... And he's gone.>Oh dear, those Coalition are killing a lot of locals. Okay everyone, just- just come into our magic city and we'll wait this out. Okay?>Aren't we suppose to conquer this dimension?>I don't even know, man. Help me set up these chairs and pass out the MREs.
>>94385332Funny AND accurate to how it went down.
What is the best playable reptilian race in Rifts? In fact, what ARE the playable reptilian races of Rifts? I can only name Blucies, Bruutasaurs, Grackle Tooths, Greots, Larmacs, Lyvorrks, Pythonans and Dragons off the top of my head.
>>94389835Grackles & dragons
>>94389835Grackletooths. Grackleteeth? Whatever their plural is. They are gregarious and can take OCCs.
There are so many d-bees in Rifts. Anyone care to label this pic with their race names?
New map of Rifts North America dropped.
>>94394294Okay, starting from left corner and going straight across, row by row...>Seeker (Mindwerks)>Mastadonoid (Canada)>Amazon? (South America 1)>M'Raghille (DBoNA)>Grackle Tooth (Canada)>Tirrvol (Coalition War Sourcebook)>Greot (Canada)>Trimadore (CWSB)>Temporal Raider (England)>Kremin (CWSB)>Syrrnn (Mindwerks)>No Idea>Staphra (Splynn Dimensional Market)>Were-Dragon (SDM)>N'mbyr (CWSB)>No Idea>Fennodi (NW)>Vanguard Brawler (CWSB)>Ewaipanomas (SA1)>Simvan (Sourcebook 1)>Naut'Yll (Underseas)>Rulian (SDM)>Larmac (Coalition Wars 3)>Quick-Flex Alien (CWSB)>Kwarla (Australia)>Men-Rall (SA1)>Horune (Underseas)>Fingertooth Carpetbagger (DBoNA)>Octoman (SDM)...No idea what those four are in the bottom right corner are, though I think the bestial is a Zenith Moon Warper and one's a Psi-Goblin, both from Psyscape.
>>94288013Love the mutant cats from SA. Flying Tiger is one of the few beings that can travel at the speed of sound. Like most flyers and magic gliders can only do a few hundred mph at most and are getting smoked by anything with modern jet engine in it.
>>94394789Wait, Northern Gun is in the U.P.? I thought it was in Canada proper. Funny stuff.
They're going to be jamming 6 Palladium books (NGR, England, Russia 1, Russia 2, Africa, Mindwerks) into one 200-page Savage Rifts book:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/545820095/rifts-for-savage-worlds-europa
>>94396178It's named northern gun cause the U.P is shaped like a gun
>>94396225Gay, butbthatbgoes without saying
Quick question; if I stick with the standard "Uteni Trader" R.C.C. for the Uteni (Rifts Mercenaries, Dimension Book 5), is there a specific EXP table I need to use? I'm guessing that if I take one of the alternative O.C.Cs, it progresses according to that O.C.C, but these "default" R.C.C. always confuse me if they don't explicitly list a comparable O.C.C for leveling up, like how the Blind Warrior Women of Altara use either the Cyber-Knight or the Juicer EXP table.
>>94396323As a Michigan native that is a new one to hear, interesting. Glad to see Uncle Kev made the Great Lakes state important in Rifts at least. Fuck Ohio.
>>94396453Fuck you you fucking Bitchiganer! Get back to us when you do something worthy of history books except being the poster child of urban decay!Go Bucks! Michigan sucks!
>>94396548What did the mitten say to the bitch ass from Ohio? Nothing because sucks
>>94396225There's going to be a Rifts Scandinavia now with mega-giants and vikings and werewolves?!?
>>94397551There'd better be trolls in Norway. Everyone knows they have them.
>>94397186>Nothing because sucksThis doesn't even make sense... tell me, how's that state up north these days? Still spending tons of taxpayer dollars on Robocop Statues that generate zero tourism? Let's all be honest the only good part is the upper peninsula & that's just land you stole from Wisconsin
>>94237921Palladium Fantasy is such an underrated setting.
>>94398524Their classes work a little better since everything is SDC and there isn’t much bloat of hit points/armor/damage. Their Paladin could use a little more magic, but they can damage the supernatural pretty well.
this isnt the heroes unlimited thread....where am I *checks his database of maps*
>>94237921I'm wanting to get in to Palladium (specifically After the Bomb). Is there a good Palladium actual play podcast that could help me learn the rules in context?
>>94404936You're here at 4chan my friend, you're very lost. Want to sit with me & play video games with my dog Stretch? The name's Jack
Anons? Putting together an NPC band for Rifts (don't ask why); is this too outlandish or mary-sue?All names placeholders."The Kosmic Misfits"; Megaverse-traveling monster adventurers. Consist of "The Old Guard", the original escapees from the slave-pits of Atlantis, and "The Newbloods", D-bees added on afterwards.The Old Guard>Zarok AzathothHuman Male, hybrid-classed Shifter/Necromancer. Masterminded the escape. Has developed specialized summoning spells to summon party members. *Problems* with baseline humans; prefers D-bees, magical creatures, mutants, fellow mages, and true psychics. Named himself from pre-cataclysm old books.>RosalinaFemale Pythonan Evoker (custom O.C.C.; Psyker/Mage hybrid class, like the Mystic, but focused on offensive psi-powers & spells instead of healing and sensing). Zarok's original partner. 2nd in command.>Mr. MouthMale Rulian Translator. The Old Guard killed his original slave-owner as part of the escape, took him with them. Party's diplomat. Loving his freedom.>KazaraRenegade Staphra Female Warlord. Managed to hide her disloyalty to the Splugorth long enough to get bio-borged, but then got found out.>Miriam 16Renegade Blind Warrior Woman of Altara. Determined to never go back.>NeferkitiFemale Sphinx, hybrid-classed Techno-Wizard/Cyber-Doc. Fascinated by bionics and techno-wizardry; obsessed with perfecting TW-bionics and creating magitek cyborgs (and psyborgs). Motor-mouthed, socially anxious bookworm, a far cry from the seductive, domineering, mischievous gynosphinx.>Radiance of Spring's First Dawn, aka "Psy-Worm Jane"Female Zebrahk. Rescued by the Old Guard literally seconds before she was going to be lobotomized. Has been TW-cybernetically augmented so she can attach herself to a TW robot body (basically a suit of Gladiator armor stuffed with TW-modified parts from Coalition Skelebots).>VraskaFemale Were-Dragon (Monster). Insane; bloodthirsty cannibal AND also childlike. Ambiguous innocence incarnate. Loyal
>>94409368The Newbloods>Dr. BadvibesMale Men-Rall Tech-Master. Talks like a Tomb of the Cybermen (2nd Doctor) Cyber-Man with the vocabulary of a Dalek. Likes weapons, destruction, blowing things up, shooting lightning.>SkrapitNeuter (Female) Aberrant Mechanoid Brute. Believes itself the last of its kind, determined that the Mechanoids should have a chance to start afresh. Ultimate goal is to create a Mechanoid "spawning factory" using its genes as the template for a new race. Close friends with Neferkiti & Dr. Badvibes. Starting to think of itself as female.>BlitzerNeuter Aberrant Mechanoid Runner. Skrapit's fellow Mechanoid survivor. Fascinated by magic; spends much of its downtime discussing sorcery with its party members.>GargosFemale Bruutasaur. Originally from Dinosaur Swamp. Thought the Misfits looked tough, so decided to tag along; was getting ready to leave her tribe anyway.>SlicerMale Tirrvol Sword Fist. Joined the Misfits because he believes they have a chance to do much good.>MolochMale Holy Terror. Discovered mostly amnesiac floating in a dimensional limbo; probably displaced there during the interrupted migration from Wormwood. Joined the party because it sounded better than being stuck in limbo.>"Nurse" RatchetFemale Psi-X Alien. Psychic Healer power-set. Cranky, sarcastic, constantly belittling the stupidity of her companions, but also dedicated to keeping them alive.>ShuulgraFemale Vernulian Psy-Slinger. Very proud of her skills, likes to show off. Has a rivalry with Rosalina over their respective telekinetic prowess.
>>94409368The worm wouldn't need to have TW cybernetics to pilot a robot. Just Telemechanics & a "cockpit" but with them being a worm you could just run a few electronic systems to a chest storage compartment.Indont like custom classes/races when it comes to giving people a thumbs up so those ones idk. I tend to discourage custom stuff with NPCs. Most of the characters take the "goofy gang of misfits" schtick a bit too many but that's a line for your table to figure out not me
>>94409411Forgot to mention; Skrapit has managed to get itself installed in a "Mark 2" Brute Chassis - the "Type One Evil Mechanoid Brute" model from Rifts Sourcebook 2....Actually, can anyone tell me where to find the Aberrant Mechanoid EXP tables? Or are they one of the many R.C.C.s that don't get one, because Palladium's editing efforts are pathetic?>>94409435The Zembrahk was basically an Earthworm Jim homage, but yeah, I really wasn't sure how to represent the Cybernetic Super Suit aspect. Also, I'm not sure if Zembrahks *get* Telemechanics off the top of my head...
>>94409368>>94409411That's a huge fucking band you got there. What are you going to do with so many NPCs?!? Adding individualist Mechanoids seems a bit much to me. Their motivations also don't seem to align with their race/nature, so you should fix that. Can Sphinxes and Zembahks be techno-wizards? I don't think so.Were-Dragons aren't bloodthirsty cannibals at all. Your contrarianism is kind of juvenile and ridiculous, I must say.
>>94409450They don't get telemechanics, but if you're doing all this custom shit then it's not a far cry to give them a telemechanic helmet/link like Archie or to trade one or two of their psychic powers for Telemechanics. Like, swap out the PsiSword for the Psi-Tech machine link ability.
>>94409452>Adding individualist Mechanoids seems a bit much to me.That is literally the description of the Aberrant Mechanoids; their entire schtick is that they are mutant Mechanoids who have rejected the hive-mind and genocidal madness of the normal Mechanoids. See Rifts Sourcebook 2: The Mechanoids.>Can Sphinxes and Zembahks be techno-wizards? I don't think so.Zembahks are a Racial Character Class and can't "multiclass" to an O.C.C, that's correct. Sphinxes, however, CAN take O.C.C.s, and in fact their R.C.C. is basically a hybrid of racial skills & abilities PLUS a magic-using or scholarly O.C.C, with Techno-Wizard and Cyber-Doc both explicitly called out as examples (Techno-Wizardry is even a particular area of interest for sphinxes). See Rifts Conversion Book 1, pg 158-159.>Were-Dragons aren't bloodthirsty cannibals at all. Your contrarianism is kind of juvenile and ridiculous, I must say.You missed that this character is a Were-Dragon *Monster*. That is, a Were-Dragon subjected to Bio-Wizardry modifications that turn them into an M.D.C. killer with the personality of a psychotic predator. See Rifts World Book 21: Splynn Dimensional Market, pg. 98-101. She has *two* of the starting Were-Dragon Monster Insanities; cannibalistic cravings and childlike mentality, both on page 100.
>>94409452Forgot to mention, the Aberrant Mechanoids entry in Sourcebook 2 says that whilst it won't be a universal goal, some individual Aberrants may seek to create Mechanoid reproduction facilities to replenish their numbers. Also, the writeup of the Aberrant Mechanoid Runner notes that they will find magic fascinating and be interested in learning how to use it.
>>94409551>>94409563These still sound like a mess dude
What are the coolest Energy Extrusion powers to take?
>>94410253What actually are the Energy Extrusion power options, anyway?
Something I've never understood; how does a character from a non-O.C.C. based Palladium Game like Heroes Unlimited fit into an O.C.C. based one like
>>94413890
>>94413890>>94413940On page 28 of Heroes of the Multiverse, you can start with any OCC but get reduced skill options.
>>94412138My auto correct keeps fucking it up when I type.Its Energy Expulsion.There's fire, electrcity, plasma, lasers, etc. just about every energy blast you can think of. Plus some odd ones like Soul Blast (evil) or Petrification which turns motherfuckers to stone.
Anyone have art from the Rifts Sourcebook 2?Also, since that book offers Aberrant Mechanoid PCs, but doesn't give them EXP tables, what would be your workaround? Have them use the Dragon Hatchling EXP table?
Huge amount of palladium materialhttps://palladiumriftsfansite.fandom.com/wiki/Palladium/Rifts_Fansite_Wiki
>>94420487>Anyone have art from the Rifts Sourcebook 2?Sure thing, got a bunch.
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>>94422328Some of the coolest art Kevin Long and Newton Ewell ever did.
>>94422340Then there's Kevin Siembieda's slightly-retarded art.
>>94422344But I have to give him props for some cool ideas.
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>>94422362But NE still rocks to the top.
>>94422366
>>94422372Fuck me if this isn't the most awesome-looking Terminator ripoff I've ever seen.
>>94422382(with a bit of battletech and robotech thrown in)
>>94422389The Piece of Resistance (Lego Movie)
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>>94421805And some dude liked the Shemarrians so much they created an entire wiki to sperg out with their headcanon idea of "what if some of the Shemarrians got possessed by alien energy beings and became true synthetic lifeforms who genuinely believe their programmed backstory and so slip out of Archie-3's control?"https://eshemarrian.fandom.com/wiki/EShemarrian_Wiki
this is why I love rifts and all its other universes and whatnot. the art for some of the stuff is really awesome.
>>94422589The amount of Shemarrian fan fiction is huge. Tons of pages of just equipment on the forums
>>94422589It'd have been far better if he'd made more art for them than this headcanon nonsense.
>>94414747I see. Y'know, anyone else think it's weird that despite Palladium being largely known for its setting building because of Rifts, Palladium Fantasy RPG and Dead Reign, their earlier shit like TMNT & Other Strangeness, Heroes Unlimited and Ninjas & Superspies has literally no inherent worldbuilding in it at all? I wonder if that played a role in its inability to steal the crown from TSR...
>>94426580TMNT had After the Bomb which is Rifts without D-Bees and Magic. Heroes Unlimited had Mutants Underground and Galaxy Guide. Ninjas and Superspies had Mystic China, though it was mostly it's own thing.
>>94372862The Ayys, after generations of probing humans, were brought low by an unforeseen consequence even Great AElonicus couldn't predict. So now they just bum around and steal shit. The Lizardmen never associated with these crackheads, yeah. Shut the fuck up mammal.
>>94427153Hilariously, the real lore might be even crackier than that.The Psi-X are illegal experiments in augmenting human psionic potential conducted by Dr. Bradford, the madman behind the Coalition's mutant animal soldiers, in his Lone Star facility. Ending up with a bunch of deformed and insane super-psis, in a rare moment of pity he released them into the wilderness of urban Texas. They've been around long enough to have at least one generation of kids, and they're starting to genuinely believe they ARE aliens.
>>94428178Bradford solves a lot of his problems by releasing them in the wilds of texas. There is probably a lot of tax documents caught in tumbleweeds across the state.
Listening to legion of Myth rant about the coalition has made me realize that magic is never the problem or is misrepresented>Atlantis tries to make a super portal and sucks the magic out as well as themselves. Magic was not the problem, it was a horrific transdimensional accident.>The great cataclysm: Magic has nothing to do with that. That was caused by giving Brazilians nukes and having a nuclear exchange on the day the planets align. A freak coincidence>Demons everywhere: Demons were always waiting to invade. They were at the doors and we're always waiting. Magic in fact comes later in a splat for Chaos Earth.After that Magic is just a tool, a means for someone to do things. If anything magic in rifts is another means for the nerd and geeks to empower themselves after all the jocks figured out how to work the laser guns!
>>94422414>>94422389I liked the mechanoid designs more when they were more rudimentary shapes with buggy limbs. It makes them seem cheesier but also beat home that they are like snails or other mollusks. The robot is their shell. They don't have much articulated points the same way you wouldn't want your house or car to be able to twist around.
