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Quote from: David Johansen. Recently Ended: Palladium Fantasy - Warlords of the Wastelands: A fantasy campaign beginning in the Baalgor Wastelands, where characters emerge from the oppressive kingdom of the giants. Read about it here. HinterWelt Nebuleon SE Soon Hero Member Posts: Quote from: Silverlion. I've never gotten the chance to play, but I heard lots of great things about it online and so looked at it in the store several times.

It never grabbed me at all. It came across as dry and simply didn't click for me- of course I've had that same reaction to pretty much everything that is "d20". Hero Member Posts: Tricoteuse. I'll chime in with some love for HU. As far as that goes, even selecting your 'origin' for supers is almost extra: its genre emulation of a sort.

In reality you can just assign a number of powers to everyone, or roll on one of the typical and mostly identical random tables for that. Cybernetics suck ass, they aren't on par with being unaugmented, much less being superhuman. Robotics seem like they can work, and unpowered people are the opposite spectrum from the megahero the Superman of the book.

The biggest key to working through it is to realize you either have to tolerate wild power imbalances the Old Master class, for example will never level Its like a candystore of stuff, don't try to eat it all at once.

And yeah: Psi and magic are there for 'genre completeness' but you might be better off just assigning magic descriptors to superpowers if you want to play nice For you the day you found a minor error in a Post by Spike and forced him to admit it, it was the greatest day of your internet life. For me it was I have no words.

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It caused the Prang, so the dreamtime creators could return. Even back then, even before the Prang, they talked of the dreamtime all the time, about how men changed to animals, and animals into men. Seemed like rum yabber at the time. It wasn't long after that the bunyips started birthing everywhere. When the aborigines found the animals changing into human, well, flat out, they raised 'em their own way.

Teaching all the dreamtimestories. And how to, as they call it, 'walk softly on the land. Roos, and dingoes, and rumbucks, and all. Good on ya, that mob was mad to walkabout dreamtime ways. And not a whack was left for us oldtimers. We was short on humans, but all of us raised tykes and other animals like our own. The young Tassies are Corroboree with them dreamtime types, all geared up to fight. I'm too old to bo peep up Bananaland way. So all the luck to you. The next power on the list is Clock Manipulation, which allows the character to adjust the time on a watch or other timepiece.

Not actual time. Just the timepiece. For example, if you got exceptionally lucky, you might roll a PS of 30 before even getting powers. Most powers that increase attributes including mental attributes are Minor Abilities. So if your 30 PS character got this power and continued to roll improbably well, he'd have PS 48, for a capacity of pounds and a deadlift of In Marvel Comics, the Peter Parker Spider-Man can lift at least 10 tons, and he's hardly the strongest guy in that setting.

So if your Mega-character has a 70 PS the maximum they measure in terms of damage capacity his maximum lift is pounds, or It is a superhuman scale, but barely even within the capacity of RIFTS, let alone most of the other supers games. The next sections detail the use of Psionics and Magic respectively.

Psionics use Inner Strength Points I. They do mention that a magician can transfer PPE from blood sacrifices not an option for heroic characters or from ley lines which are not nearly as common as they are in the RIFTS setting. After that you've got the stats for standard equipment, namely weapons, armor, and vehicles. This is on a scale where a. It's actually a pretty extensive list, with things like firearms accessories, polygraph machines, and even nerve gas although they describe that as causing only paralysis, not death, and they don't say how long the paralysis lasts.

They also have a list of ancient weapons printed in the same old-timey font as with the Palladium Fantasy books. The book concludes with the experience table for the various power categories. There is no index, although this being Palladium, it probably wouldn't make a difference if there was. SUMMARY Having reviewed RIFTS a while ago, one of the things that struck me about that book was how Siembieda deliberately threw out things like realism and play balance to create the most implausible and unbalanced character concepts possible, just because they seemed cool.

Whereas if anything, Heroes Unlimited , contrary to its name, seems all about hemming the heroes i. Which is fine if you're on board with that, but if you're not, you should be looking at something else. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass. Books have this ability, to strike.

If a book did not strike you, it was not a problem of a book. It was just not your book. Not your type of book. The are many people in this world just like there are many books and there is a choice. I am glad you were stricken by that book and I was stricken by Alain de Botton Essay on love lately. I found one more book written by him. It is about traveling and I am very interested to read it. I can give two reasons why.

The second reason is that I do not travel much and I like traveling, which is why I enjoy watching movies and shows on traveling let alone reading books on the topic.

Quote from: James Gillen; Though for me, Nightbane is Palladium's better superhero game. Warts and all, I'll play NB in a hot second any day. Quote from: Spinachcat; Hero Member Posts: Tricoteuse. Quote from: The Butcher; For you the day you found a minor error in a Post by Spike and forced him to admit it, it was the greatest day of your internet life. For me it was