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Alien Rope Burn posted:So! As we know by now, Tarnow takes normal metals and converts them into magical super-metals. It talks about them being lighter than normal M.D.C. material, but for some reason the armors listed here are two to four times as heavy as regular Rifts armor. Yes, but they have an excellent marketing department.
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The key to borgstromancy is to take everything completely literally. If you assume things are metaphors then you'll get hopelessly confused.
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Jun 18, 2014 10:06
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:In volume or surface area? Assume a perfectly spherical wolf.
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Aug 20, 2014 03:29
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Communist Zombie posted:There might be hope for them afterall. The fact that the very first thing in the book is a fic about a woman being attacked by a tentacle monster did make me narrow my eyes, but well wait and see.
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Aug 22, 2014 13:18
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Of all the RIFTS stuff you've seen so far, what would you say is the most horrifically overpowered / broken-and-abusable thing that players can access? I know there's a lot of competition there, but I'm curious.
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Aug 24, 2014 05:17
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Valatar posted:There are evolved levels for giant, but as being mutated by dragons into a perversion of nature is not looked upon favorably by the giants, there aren't many valid reasons for a player to receive evolved levels. This is interesting, because I remember AU saying that the Giants had uplifted the Sibbecai into their current (intelligent) form. Is that fluff gone, or is it a case of "the only good fleshcrafting is my fleshcrafting"?
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Aug 27, 2014 10:10
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Lynx Winters posted:Yeah, now that I think about it, reading it to my friends took about an hour because we couldn't stop laughing at poo poo like "were-storms." When the full moon comes out, he turns into vicious precipitation! Are they vulnerable to silver iodide?
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Oct 12, 2014 01:28
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Gazetteer posted:Next time: The Beast -- He tried to kiss me, so I turned into a cobra That never helps.
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Oct 18, 2014 21:58
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ZeeToo posted:Coming of Age (level 3) is a qedeshim/qedeshot spell where the sex priest turns the target from virgin to not-a-virgin, giving them a +1 to ability scores for XP (they pay, not the caster). Casting time: Yes you are. The effect got dispelled, so you're back to virgin city.
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Nov 8, 2014 02:52
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Kurieg posted:If I remember it correctly they used the transitive property on "if we live in a post scarcity society we can turn people into dragons" to turn it into "once we have dragons we'll be able to create a post scarcity society". So they decided to start with 'turning people into dragons' And they would do this by creating an offshore micronation that is somehow a massive economic power. I've spent all this time on lead into gold and it turns out it was people into dragons all along?
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Jan 11, 2015 09:05
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Does HSD provide any support for going all Red Faction / Smash The Lack-of-state ?
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Jan 13, 2015 09:20
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There's an easy hack to make the HSD background make sense: It's an in-character document cut-and-pasted from a Marscorp primary education textbook. This explains both the "everything is great since we removed every possible check on corporate power" propaganda and the lies-to-children simplicity of the explanations for things. Fakeedit: Plus the total whitewashing of the Human Genocide. "Then all the remaining humans just decided that they would all like to move back to Earth, where they were killed by Slenderman. The end."
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Jan 16, 2015 09:01
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Kai Tave posted:Yes, Changing Breeds devotes a not inconsiderable amount of attention to actual literal poo poo. Remember, this was written by a guy that White Wolf cut ties with during the nWoD transition then invited back to write this knowing in all likelihood exactly what they were going to get, and then published it anyway. I'm willing to guess that they knew exactly what they were doing and it sold decently. There was a portion of their old fanbase they were no longer serving, why not toss out a book to get some money from them? It's a crap book, but if it's crap that sells is it still crap?
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Jan 27, 2015 09:51
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They knew exactly who they were selling to. (Furries. It's furries.)
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Jan 27, 2015 11:06
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Warlocktopus posted:Back in my horrible, horrible MU*ing days, there was a Heavy Gear MUX which explicitly mentioned that giant robots were NOT part of it. I always wondered what on earth was the point. Gears are more sort of 'medium robots', so maybe they were just ditching some of the stupider Striders?
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Jan 30, 2015 21:32
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That's the one where the default assumption is 400 character points I believe (equivalent to a small superhero).
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Feb 8, 2015 07:01
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Doresh posted:JC exo-armors are sadly not nearly as ridiculous. I think none of them hold a candle to Heavy Gear's Aller main battle tank. What's ridiculous about the Aller? Big slab of armor with a honking great gun strapped to the top. Do not confront directly.
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Feb 24, 2015 08:39
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Doresh posted:For your daily dose of metaplots that will never be resolved, there's been some disturbing news from the planet Tek'ek'hal (or Tek'ek'hali, the book doesn't seem to be sure). Tekeli'li.
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Feb 28, 2015 23:21
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hyphz posted:I just liked the idea of her being heroic compared to the nastiness of most of the characters. You've basically made a one-person Witch Police. You can never be sure whether Dame Hilda is watching you, hidden. And if you step out of line your last thought will be "WTF!" as your head breaks the ceiling on the way to the stratosphere.
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Mar 20, 2015 08:12
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"Mad science doesn't pay the bills"? Even if it can't be reproduced you could make tons of money selling it as a service. "Your satellite in orbit for $100/kg, no questions answered." Or use your Super-Prospect-O-Mat to find a huge deposit of rare earths, buy up the mining rights, then have the site surveyed conventionally.
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Apr 8, 2015 04:59
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Cythereal posted:
So I could, say, short-sell everything then crash the stock market?
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Apr 8, 2015 05:26
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Cythereal posted:With enough successes? Yep, you certainly could. Every axiom makes you capable of horrible, horrible things past two or three dots, though some require more creativity than others. I'm just still harping on the "short on money" thing.
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Apr 8, 2015 05:45
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Kai Tave posted:. Even if you changed Nippon Tech to "Sleeping Dogs: the Cosm" why would you bother going there? Because you need 800kg of semtex to foil Möbius' plans and where else are you going to get that on short notice? (Insert 'vital indication', 'medical care', 'hired ninjas' etc as appropriate.)
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Apr 9, 2015 05:54
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pkfan2004 posted:It really would. How in the hell are you gonna kidnap the Commissar's pet Grox with getting killed by the Grox being the least of your worries? "We're going to need an Ogryn."
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Apr 14, 2015 00:57
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How does Genius feel about 'off-label' uses of the Axioms? F'rex, using the space-travel axiom to drop big rocks on something (duplicating the effect of the blow-things-up axiom).
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Apr 20, 2015 00:38
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Automaton (biological) + pill form is a pokeball, right?
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Apr 27, 2015 02:04
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:GURPS: Voodoo did it better than most. GURPS authors seem to do as much research as the rest of the industry put together.
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May 8, 2015 09:28
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Would Dr. Dinosaur be a good example of an Unmada? He spouts crazy bullshit that is obviously nonsense but... somehow isn't, and makes elaborate nonsense machines that can do anything if it involves crystals.
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May 15, 2015 13:20
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Halloween Jack posted:The only thing that will kill an Immortal is 40mm frag'll do that, no worries.
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May 16, 2015 05:37
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Then can take any class that doesn't involve the Coalition / Triax, power armor, or juicing. So basically none of the good ones?
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May 17, 2015 06:31
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Does Brucato find a way to cram bestiality into every third paragraph in his other work, or is it only in Furry: the Yiffing?
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May 26, 2015 09:57
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Mors Rattus posted:Ashwood is somewhat less likely to murder random civilians. But only because they die too easily.
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May 30, 2015 01:33
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So Prometheans treat MDC damage as SDC... does that mean that if one becomes MDC somehow (Einherjar? There was some kind of template) they are practically invulnerable?
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May 31, 2015 03:54
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Kai Tave posted:No, I get that. My point is what the hell were they trying to make where step one was "take cancer from serial killers' brains and implant it into other peoples' brains"? What possible mass-market biotech were they aiming for with that one? A lot of the Cheiron stuff seems a little too out-there to be stuff that was just incidental byproducts of trying to make the next aspirin. Implant that allows you to turn your conscience off... hmm, sell it to up-and-coming executives?
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May 31, 2015 05:27
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pkfan2004 posted:Oceanid bloodlines are nothing if not stable and reliable. Every few generations pumps out a few Leviathans and the number is somewhat constant. A lot of Oceanid families know how to predict when the next batch will come. The wild card is they never know which family will get them. Anyone who has the direct lineage of an Oceanid has the potential to become one, and sometimes families with reliable Oceanid inheritances lose their shot of getting one ever again because of a forgotten bastard or a family member cut their ties. Oceanid families tend to approach human families a lot to bring them back into the bloodline so they don't lose a shot at getting one in the future, keeping heavy track of genealogy. So... the less competition, the more likely it is that my child will be the one to Exalt?
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So I'm confused. Do you take a RCC and an OCC, or just a RCC?
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Jun 7, 2015 02:56
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Alien Rope Burn posted:There's also the weird Murphy's Rule where some races can take "Men of War" OCCs... which includes Coalition OCCs. Guess you can hide a lot under those skull-helmets... Aren't you a bit gigantic to be a stormtrooper?
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Jun 7, 2015 06:00
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Halloween Jack posted:It would be interesting, to me, if Cliomancers' sense for historical importance allows them to know if something is significant. But Cliomancers are about pop-history. It's what is known, not what is true.
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How does the Law of Transaction interact with major Epideromancy charges? Say I cut my hand off for a major charge, and use it to 'completely redesign my body'. I can't get my hand back because of the Law, but I've now got five arms and these nifty chin-tentacles so the fact that one arm ends in a stump doesn't bother me that much. (Then I get assassinated by the Sleepers because seriously) Also, could a Cliomancer with enough writing chops create a new landmark by writing a best-selling pop-history book that makes everybody think a major historical event happened there? The landing site of the ancient astronauts or something? The Lone Badger fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Jun 9, 2015 |
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oriongates posted:This is a classic example of selling your car to buy a new tire. Keep in mind epideromancer transformations like this are permanent (unless you sacrifice another hand or major body part to change back) By turning yourself into a raging tentacled hate-beast that hand is the least of what you've lost. Sneaking around the loss of your hand by transforming yourself into a monster (more monstrous than even someone like the Freak) doesn't mean you've managed to cheat magick...you've cheated yourself out of your humanity. If they had the courage to take control of their own bodies they'd be hideous tentacle-beasts too. Don't blame me for others being weak.
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