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by Curbludgeon
Wed Dec 14, 2022 7:14 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab's Rifts Builds (Rifts- A Final Summation!)
Replies: 3773
Views: 675649

Re: Jab's Rifts Builds (The Necrons! The Skaa! Paratee!)

Great work as always. I'm a fan of the Necrons, and have wanted for a while to use some in a multi-setting Splicers game. Dimension Book 7 has a bunch of tables for differing values for self-made dimensions, for which one of the subvalues is Magic Level. Rifts Earth is at the top, with lower levels ...
by Curbludgeon
Tue Sep 27, 2022 3:28 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab's Rifts Builds (Rifts- A Final Summation!)
Replies: 3773
Views: 675649

Re: Jab's Rifts Builds (Mo-Lo! Rifts China 2- Martial Arts!)

Looking good as always, Jab. I remember putting a brief review of China 2 on this thread, so don't want to repeat myself unduly. I will add that the Drunken Boxing style is awesome for one reason: it adds a character's full dodge bonus to auto-dodge. It's debatable how that interacts with the change...
by Curbludgeon
Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:09 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab's Rifts Builds (Rifts- A Final Summation!)
Replies: 3773
Views: 675649

Re: Jab's Rifts Builds (Rifts Conversion Book Done! Rifts China!)

Oof, going from Conversion Book 1 to China 1 is kinda rough. That's altogether too many monster builds. I like the notion of the Dead and Damned in China, and wanted to like the Spirits and Demons since a few have a good look, but much of the book falls flat. China 2 has some fun ideas, but was defi...
by Curbludgeon
Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:09 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7075356

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Riri Williams! Death Squad! Bucky O’Hare!)

I'd never heard of that IP, but think The Righteous Indignation is a little too cool of a ship name to have been spent on it.
by Curbludgeon
Sat Mar 05, 2022 11:05 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab's Rifts Builds (Rifts- A Final Summation!)
Replies: 3773
Views: 675649

Re: Jab's Rifts Builds (Anubis! Bes! Ra! Thoth! Isis! Horus!)

Wow, I don't post for several months and come back to literal hundreds of builds! Just, wow, Jab. I'd have to go several books worth back to make all the comments I might want, so I'll just now take a look at the slog that must have Pantheons. It is interesting to compare the Egyptian deities' depic...
by Curbludgeon
Sat Jan 01, 2022 8:53 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7075356

Re: Jab’s Builds (Battle Beasts! Madballs! Bionic Six! Centurions!)

There's an alternate dimension somewhere in which the same company owned both Centurions and Jace and the Wheeled Warriors, and gave them all the same diameter mounting pegs.
by Curbludgeon
Fri Dec 10, 2021 11:33 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab's Rifts Builds (Rifts- A Final Summation!)
Replies: 3773
Views: 675649

Re: Jab's Rifts Builds (Hecate! Cyclops! 100-Handed! Jupiter!)

While I think the Venture Brothers made good 1-time use of some Lesser Anemoi names, I'd say one Greek deity of the southwest wind is up there on the bad name list: Lips.
by Curbludgeon
Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:44 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7075356

Re: Jab’s Builds (Old Lace! Chase Stein! Molly Hayes! Nico Minoru!)

The tv show wasn't terrible, being about as unnecessary as Cloak and Dagger, and fitting in between the other Hulu Marvel series Helstrom and Hit Monkey on one side, and M.O.D.O.K. on the other.
by Curbludgeon
Fri Sep 10, 2021 12:19 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab's Rifts Builds (Rifts- A Final Summation!)
Replies: 3773
Views: 675649

Re: Jab's Rifts Builds (Wandjinas! Yowie! Rifts Australia Done!)

I liked some of the ideas found in Splynn Dimensional Market, such as the Weredragons, Staphra, and magic using slave species. One might take a look at the Bio-Borg article found in Rifter 9, which includes "official" material cut from the book to demonstrate a few commonly made biowizardr...
by Curbludgeon
Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:43 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab's Rifts Builds (Rifts- A Final Summation!)
Replies: 3773
Views: 675649

Re: Jab's Rifts Builds (Skraypers Done! Rifts Australia! Bushman!)

Man, you're gonna hate Dinosaur Swamp. It has eight different Wilderness Scout variants, including three which are exactly the same as others minus modern equipment. It's been a while since I've commented on this thread, and considering the absolute slog a couple of the recent books have been I want...
by Curbludgeon
Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:08 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7075356

Re: Jab’s Builds (Gideon! Candra! The Zodiac Cartel! Scorpio!)

Maybe it's just from reading the OHOTMU in the bathtub as a kid, but I always had a real soft spot for the Zodiac Cartel, which is only slightly tempered by that terrible introduction page above. I'm not the biggest fan of CCGs, but think a good idea for one would involve player decks representing v...
by Curbludgeon
Sun May 09, 2021 5:40 pm
Forum: Film, Television and Music
Topic: Invincible Animated Series
Replies: 16
Views: 2470

Re: Invincible Animated Series

Having never read the comic, and acknowledging there are differences, I'm curious as to roughly which issue the season reached.
by Curbludgeon
Tue May 04, 2021 1:34 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab's Rifts Builds (Rifts- A Final Summation!)
Replies: 3773
Views: 675649

Re: Jab's Rifts Builds (Thunderhammer & Thunderstrike Shocktroopers)

It's easy to rail on PB for poor editing and inconsistency, but it does seem deliberate that combat cyborgs are only capable of modest self-repair. The only cyborgs on Rifts Earth with any likelihood to be able to install or repair anything complicated are the Vedmak, whom aren't good in a fight and...
by Curbludgeon
Tue May 04, 2021 7:27 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab's Rifts Builds (Rifts- A Final Summation!)
Replies: 3773
Views: 675649

Re: Jab's Rifts Builds (Thunderhammer & Thunderstrike Shocktroopers)

This has been a great set of builds. Nice catch on the Demonfist adding PS to melee damage. In a game where that being made explicit is important it joins a pretty limited list of things where being both strong and armed matters: Gargoyle/Xiticix/Madhaven Mutant Bone/Northern Gun/Kisentite/Soulmancy...
by Curbludgeon
Fri Apr 23, 2021 2:47 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Beaker! Sam Eagle! Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef!)
Replies: 35317
Views: 7075356

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Here Comes The General! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!)

Here's a decent article on James Ferman, the U.S.-born British film censor, and his largely-arbitrary approach to the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. As for the characters, I liked Donatello the most since a lot of the episodes were based around his latest invention, but think Raphael's Rob Paulsen is...