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Angela Christine posted:Wait, what do all the other cyber-priests think of a new cyber-priest suddenly existing? A gopher-man obviously doesn't belong, but a new thing-what-makes-sense-in-this-reality but has no connection to the reality doesn't belong either. "Who is this guy? I didn't go to cyber-seminary with him." They would consider it a miracle that the caveman find Christ through the Cyberpapacy and became a cyberpriest. After all, the backstory of the Cyberpapacy is that they didn't start off with this technology: their original homeworld was a Dark Ages theocracy that was still geocentric and the most advanced weapon was the blunderbuss. The High Lord's brief encounter with a traveler from a cyberpunk reality caused him to rethink his technology bias, so he jumpstarted his reality's tech level. So, you have folks with a medieval mindset but they know how to work computers, use automatic weapons and laser guns, and implant cybernetics. Transformed people are really interesting, metaphysics rules be damned. For another example, the President of the U.S. in TORG is supposedly attending an United Nations session and is caught in the invasion of the Living Land, the dinosaur-caveman reality. There's a comment that the last anyone saw of him is that he was leading a tribe inside transformed New York City. Now, if you saw him as a Core Earth person ("our" reality), you'd recognize him as the President. If you were a transformed person in the Living Land, however, you would still have those memories of him as being the President, but since your concept of society doesn't go above the familial and tribal level (because that's what that reality can support) and have no concept of what a nation-state is and how the electoral system works, you would just recognize him by saying "he lead big tribe". Young Freud fucked around with this message at May 3, 2013 around 18:55 |
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Angela Christine posted:Wait, what do all the other cyber-priests think of a new cyber-priest suddenly existing? A gopher-man obviously doesn't belong, but a new thing-what-makes-sense-in-this-reality but has no connection to the reality doesn't belong either. "Who is this guy? I didn't go to cyber-seminary with him."  And his description gets into a lot of the fun things about how TORG translated mechanics into story. Yes, you would not remember going to Cyber-Seminary with Vurgda the Enlightened Cybergopher, but his personality and memories would now adapt themselves to the new reality, such that his life in treehouses and barely making fire would seem like an extended personal religious pilgrimage that had been planned all along, or something along those lines. Basically being absorbed gave you creative license to make, within the axes of the new reality (rated as Magic, Spiritual, Sociological, and Technological limits), your backstory fit your new life.So if the Mechanical Sphinx were himself a character ... if he entered the Living Lands, where technological reality does not allow anything more complex than the wheel to reliably function, it might turn out that deep down he was a living creature encased inside ... strange, hard, shiny, box! Mechspinks smash box! Climb out of box for first time! Mechspinks happy to be home with lizard friends. (Or the Gamemaster would just say that you were now dead since machines do not work there, either way) BEST GAME EVER
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Torg was always a game I wanted to play but never got around to buying, much less failing to get anyone to play. (One day I will run Paranoia or Ghostbusters. One day.  )It just seemed like this boss rear end thing to 15 year old me. And not with the Palladium system so bonus there. (Though I did run a Rifts campaign in the Navy. I got derailed by Dark/Antiquities era Magic. I am not sure which game was the worse decision..) This was a great update that makes me want to buy more nerd crap I do not need. Thanks a lot guys.
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It's that time again! Steve has another wonderful toolkit for today's busy DM. No time to come up with a fantastical magic treasure? Players tired of pawning off yet another boring nameless +2 longsword? No worries, with just one click Steve's toolkit will generate an incredible and unique item that's sure to please even the most lore-hungry bard! Edit: it could use some tweaking, though. I rolled up that folk-art tower shield like five times and now the whole party has them.
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My broken clock seemed severely underpowered - it could only be used twice per day!
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Tuxedo Ted posted:Edit: it could use some tweaking, though. I rolled up that folk-art tower shield like five times and now the whole party has them. We just put that one in there 15 times because we're really into outsider art.
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| # ? May 9, 2013 20:04 |
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Does the hot anime babe statue count as an exotic weapon when wielded?
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And yet another post: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dun...s-cover-art.php And did anyone else get the feeling that Rifts as heavily trying to imitate Rob Liefeld? Also, my copy of World Book Africa had a different cover than the one pictured. I feel cheated now.
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That's not Emperor Karl Prosek, that's just some dude who blundered into a super computer facility with a computer brain named ARCHIE. 
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Dr. Clockwork posted:That's not Emperor Karl Prosek, that's just some dude who blundered into a super computer facility with a computer brain named ARCHIE. Professor X and Magneto did the fusion dance and are guarded by terminators physically based on Robert Z'Dar.
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I am going to laugh forever about the exchange pondering the existence of a "little skeleton guy" who puts cute saddles together for the skeleton overlord versus things just falling into place.
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