Smersh

I remember the time my wife stopped and stared at me when I said I was looking for Dick and Moorcock in a used book store...

Confirmation that there will be one or more Incarnate slots unlocked in an issue called Incarnates?

Some publishers exert more care than others for their PDFs, it's true.

Not so. DriveThruRPG works with the publishers. The publishers generally see it as a nice revenue stream - the cost to convert to PDF is cheap compared to printing costs, and it is great for those out-of-print books. They watermark the PDFs with who bought them, so they can catch people who put them out on filesharing sites.

White Wolf, in this case, doesn't publish Aberrant anymore, but sell the PDFs through DriveThru and collect profits.

It's the RPG equivalent of buying a book for a Kindle.

*sigh* Smersh and Flea are going to have to have it out again, aren't they?

Oh, no, I didn't run Palladium Fantasy....

I ran Rifts. It was bad. Very, very bad. Handguns that level towns bad. Magician who can zap a bad guy for 4d6 a round vs. power armor soldier who can dish out 3d6x10 per round and take 800 points before you get through his armor. And that's all mega-damage - multiply by 100 to get SDC damage.

I usually develop my backgrounds as system-agnostic. I also used to switch up systems regularly just to try something different.

Palladium is still very, very bad.

Nope.

You can get yourself a legitimate PDF copy for $7.50, though:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/produc...ilters=0_0_0_0

Yes, it was the lateral acceleration that did it. Unbreakable hyper-carbon tether was only about 50 meters long. I forget the numbers, but I think it calculated out to some hundreds of Gs of centripetal acceleration.

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For any given person, unless they live a cursed life? Chances of running across something like that more than once are pretty slim. (Unless, of course, you work in a profession that brings you into contact with that sort of thing more often, like police work or what have you. I'll focus on people who work in offices.) If you go out actively looking for crime, you're much more likely to find it. And if you're wearing armor and carrying weapons, even non-lethal ones, I really have to look askance at that. Going looking for trouble is very different than trouble happening across your path.

And to claim that Phoenix Jones has 'formal training' is pretty darned disingenuous.

I'm not saying you should let crime go. I'm saying that, if you want to go looking for crime to give yourself an excuse to be a hero, bust heads or whatever, maybe you should consider trying to join your local police force and get some real training and the ability to call in for backup.

One's a person who just did the right thing at the right time.

One's a person who's looking for trouble and came prepared for it.

No, he'll absolutely want a respec now.

Execution Style, the addition of crafted enhancements (IOs) has changed the building game significantly, but you don't need to jump into it if you don't want to. If you do, well, this forum will be there to help you, and you can make your character quite powerful in a number of different ways.

But, when you respec now, you might want to just stick to SOs for the purposes of relearning the game. When you respec, there are two major things you'll want to keep in mind.

1) You left after the global defense nerf, but before enhancement diversification. To keep it short: You don't want to slot more than three of any one type of enhancement in a power. Three heals in integration, three end mods in stamina, etc. More than that won't do you any good. My usual slotting for attacks is one accuracy, three damage, one end reducer and one recharge. Some people like to substitute a second accuracy instead of an end reducer.

2) The fitness pool and stamina are now inherent - they unlock on a character at level 2, and can be slotted normally.

The only other things that really changed for DM/Regen - Siphon Life is now a really good attack with a self-heal side effect. Midnight Grasp does most of its damage up front, instead of having it all spread out as DoT. Moment of Glory has been changed - it's now like a defensive build up.

Have fun out there.

The only time I ran it, it was about five hours. A really together and with-it team that isn't up way past their bedtimes and isn't drinking might, maybe, be able to roll through it in four.

Well, if it helps, I once lost a character to forces of acceleration.

Apparently, trying to whip a mech around a starship really fast (Ender's Game style) by accelerating at ten Gs at the end of a relatively short tether is scary. My GM made me break out the physics reference text and calculate what happened to my character. The results of that calculation were chunky salsa.