The Complete Palladium Skills Book V6.0
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The Complete Palladium Skills Book v6.0 By: MadDog [email protected] Dedicated to the insane folks on the Official Palladium Mailing List; who had to suffer with the cumbersome HTML version of this Netbook for so long. Now you can create your characters without your computer having to be right in front of you. <G> © 1995-1999 Christopher Axtell (aka Mad Dog); I reserve the rights to this compiled collection of skills. On the other hand, this does not mean I "own" every skill. The skill “Read Aura” is completely my creation. Barring such terms, phrases and other legal mumbo jumbo to properly identify all the proper copyright stuff. Know here that no infringe- ment of any copyrights/trademarks/sweat off your back is intended. This "Complete Palladium Skills Book” is in- tended solely for the gamers themselves and no exchange of money is allowed nor indorsed. No part of this compilation may be altered and posted or published. Please allow me this small service, and send any updates to me instead for inclusion in the next version. P.S.: Please don’t sue my *ss off. If a skill is listed here that you created and you wish it removed, send me a polite e-mail asking me to do so, and I’ll remove it in the next version of the Netbook. P.P.S.: Kevin Siembieda and the folks at Palladium Books; please don’t think of this as competition or a blatant theft of your hard work. Digging through 10+ books to create a character gets tiring very quickly. Last updated: 990324 Download Location: http://www.alaska.net/~maddog1/Palladium/Netbooks/Skills/Palladium_Skills_Book.pdf © 1983, 1987, 1988, 1990 Kevin Siembieda; © 1999 Palladium Books, All rights reserved world wide. No part of this work may be reproduced in part or whole, in any form or by any means, without permission from the publisher. All incidents, situations, institutions, governments and people are fictional and any similarity to characters or persons living or dead is strictly coincidental. A.R.C.H.I.E. Three™, Adventures on the High Seas™, Aliens Unlimited™, Alistair Dunscon™, Anti-Monster™, Avenging Angel™, Baalgor Waste- lands™, Battle Magus™, Beguiler™, Beyond the Supernatural™, Bio-Wizardry™, 'Borg™, 'Bot™, Brodkil™, Cascade™, Chaos Earth™, Chi-Town™, Chiang-Ku™, Cloudweaver™, Coalition States™, Coalition War Campaign™, Cosmic Forge™, Cosmo-Knights™, Crazies™, Crazy™, Credia™, Cyborg Shocktrooper™, Cyber-Knight™, Cyberoid™, D-Bee™, Death Wing™, Demonfist™, Diabolist™, Dog Boys™, Dog Pack™, Dragon Borgs™, Dragonwright™, Dreamstream™, Dweomer™, Eandroth™, Ectohunter™, Emperor Prosek™, Erin Tarn™, Fadetowns™, Federation of Magic™, Fennodi™, Gene-Splicers™, Glitter Boy™, Hagan Lanovich™, Heavy Machine™, Heroes Unlimited™, Hero-Knight™, Hidden Witch™, Hollow Men™, Hook, Line and Sinker™, I.S.P.™, Juicer Uprising™, Juicer™, Justice Ranger™, K-9 Sniffer™, Kill Hounds™, Kittani™, Ley Line Walker™, Light Machine™, Lone Star™, Lone Star Complex™, Lords of Magic™, Maxpary™, M.D.C.™, Mega-Damage™, Mega-Hero™, Mega-Steed™, Megahourse™, Melech™, Millennium Tree™, Mind Mage™, Mindwerks™, Monsters & Animals™, Morozko Frost Demon™, Mystic China™, Mys- tic Knight™, Mystic Kuznya™, Naruni Enterprises™, Naut'Yll™, New West™, NGR™, Nightfeeder™, Night Witch™, Nightbane™, Nightlands™, Nightlords™, Ninjas & Superspies™, Nostrous Dunscon™, Old Believer™, P.P.E.™, Palladium Fantasy, RPG™, Pantheons of the Megaverse™, Phase Technology™, Phase World™, Psi-Hounds™, Psi-Net™, Psi-Slinger™, Psi-Stalker™, Psyscape™, Rahu-Man™, Ratling™, S.D.C.™, SAMAS™, Scraypers™, Shifter™, Silonar™, Simvan™, Skelebots™, Sky-Knight™, Sky-Knights™, Slinger™, Smoke Solider™, Spider Skull Walker™, Splugorth™, Spook Squad™, Stormspire™, Summoner™, Techno-Wizard™, Terror Trooper™, The Compendium of Weapons, Armour & Castles™, The Lord of the Deep™, the Old Ones™, The Place of Magic™, The Slayer™, The Sunaj™, Timiro™, Triax™, Triax & The NGR™, Tristine Chronicles™, Vibro- Blade™, Victor Lazlo™, Villains Unlimited™, War-Knight™, Whale Singers™, White Tiger™, Wingrider™, Wired-Gunslinger™, Wolfen™, Wolf- Serpent™, Worm Wraith™, Wormwood™, Xiticix™, Yin-Sloth Jungles™, Zavor™ are trademarks owned and licensed by Kevin Siembieda and Palla- dium Books, Inc. Note about this Netbook: Most of the skills present here are true to the original versions of those skills. However this does not mean all of the skills are identical to the ones created by the folks below. I have tried to consolidate identical skills in the same categories as much as possible for some measure of uniformity among the varies generes. As you all know, a skill in the Rifts® RPG may not be the same as the one listed in Heroes Unlimited™; even though they have the exact same name; Add in typos, bonuses here but not there, etc. and you have a wonderful headache waiting to form. Hopefully this will help end the confusion between these skills. If you notice any errors (e.g. spelling, grammar, etc.) in this Netbook please send the correction my way; making sure to reference which category the skill is in, the name of the skill and the correc- tion to be made. Skills borrowed from the following books published by Palladium Books: (possibly others which I might have forgotten. ;) Rifts® RPG Palladium Fantasy RPG® 2nd edition Rifts Conversion Book One™ Dragons & Gods™ 2nd edition Rifts® World Book Five: Triax & the NGR™ Rifts® World Book Seven: Underseas™ Ninjas & Superspies™ Rifts® World Book Six: South America™ Rifts® World Book Eight: Japan™ Rifts® World Book Ten: Juicer Uprising™ Robotech® RPG Rifts® World Book Eleven: Coalition War Campaign™ The Sentinels® RPG Rifts® World Book Twelve: Psyscape™ Rifts® World Book Thirteen: Lonestar Heroes Unlimited™ 2nd edition Rifts® World Book Fourteen: New West™ Heroes Unlimted ™ revised edition Rifts® World Book Sixteen: Federation of Magic™ Aliens Unlimited™ Rifts® World Book Seventeen: Warlords of Russia™ Rifts® Sourcebook Three: Mindwerks™ Rifts® Sourcebook Four: Coalition Navay™ Transdimensional TMNT® Rifts® Mercenaries Mutants in Orbit™ Rifts® Dimension Book Two: Phase World™ Rifts® Dimension Book Four: Skraypers™ Nightbane® RPG Misc. skills borrowed from the following sources: •THE THIRD INVID WAR, a fan supplement by Dave Deitrich <http://www.mcs.net/~deitrich/home.html> and Chris Meadows <http:// www.eyrie.org/~robotech/index.html>. •Some skills were taken from the UG Skills list on the old Avatar Industries Web site by Edward Paul. •The BS Smooth Talking and BS Writing Skills are by Bizarro, [email protected] •Lip Reading Skill by Colin Heacock, [email protected] •Balloon Animal Making, WP Broken Bottle and WP Barstool were created by Robert J. Allan, [email protected] •Psychological Warefare by Colin Heacock, [email protected] •Regional Knowledge by Nathan Taylor, [email protected] •Crystal Lacing by TDragon, [email protected] •Pool by Spires, [email protected] •Combat Sniper; Shawn Merrow ([email protected]), [email protected] (Wachunga), [email protected] (Wade Gulbrandsen), [email protected] (CowMan), and some minor editing from yours truly. As I remember the other sources I’ve raided over the years I will be including them into this credit area. Please if you know who created any of these skills please send me their name and email address. Thanks. Based on the RPG rules, characters, concepts and Megaverse® created by Kevin Siembieda. Skills Index Basic Electronics Drive repair - Ion Drive Torturing Tactics Communications Expert Electronics Drive repair - Plasma Drive Trap Construction Clowning Circuit Board Micro-Electronics Drive repair - Traction Drive Trap/Mine Detection Cryptography Computer Repair Drive repair - Warp/Gravity Drives Underwater Demolitions Electronic Counter-Measures Electrical Engineer Fashion Tools and Weapons Weapons Specialist Encryption electricity Generation/Power Systems Glitter Boy Engineer Flag Signaling Glitter Boy Electronics Hardsuit/Motoroid Mechanics Jesting Mecha Electronics Helicopter Mechanics Physical Laser Power Armor Electronics Industrial Engineer Acrobatics Microwave Communications Robot Electronics Jet Aircraft Mechanics Aerobics Mime Locksmith Arm Wrestling Optic Systems Marine/Naval Engineer Athletics Performance Espionage Mecha Mechanics Basketball Public Speaking Mechanical Engineer Battle Bike Combat Binding Metallurgy Radar/Sonar Operation BS Smooth Talking Blind-Fighting Radio - Basic Mining Engineer Body Building Command Mountain bike Mechanics Radio - Expert Concealment Boxing Radio - Deep Space Nuclear Engineer Climbing Detect Ambush Power Armor Mechancis Radio - Scramblers Detect Concealment Deadball Radio - Satellite Relay Radiation Technology - Industrial Fencing Disguise Robot Mechanics Sign Language Escape Artist Forced March Signal Codes Safety Engineer Gymnastics Fieldcraft Sanitary Engineer Surveillance Systems Forgery HtH - Aikido Telephone Networks Satellite Systems HtH - Assassin Hojo-Jutsu Ship Mechancis TV/Video Imitate Voice HtH - Basic Spacefold Engineer HtH - Commando Impersonation Spaceship Mechanics - Basic Intelligence HtH - Expert Spaceship Mechanics - Expert HtH - Judo Computers Interrogation Techniques Starship Engineer Jungle Survival HtH - Jujitsu Artificial Intelligence Submersible Vehicle Mechanics HtH - Karate Land Navigation Time Machine Mechanics Computer Engineer Lip Reading HtH - Kendo Computer Hacking Veritech Mechanics HtH - Magic Marxism/Leninism-Maoism Weapons Engineer Computer Imaging Microfilm/Microfiche/Microdot Technology HtH - Martial Arts Computer Keyboarding Welding HtH - Ninjutsu/Tai-Jutsu