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The world is a broken, post-apocalyptic wasteland destroyed by the eruption of inter-dimensional portals, rifts in the fabric of space-time and ley lines which crisscross the world. Demon & alien invaders have poured out of the rifts to destroy human civilization and claim the Earth. Now the wasteland has had 300 years to partially recover, and civilization has returned to the world; but not just human civilization: alien empires, monster kingdoms, lost time travellers, lands of mutants, demonic overlords and wizards have arisen from the ashes, all trying to rebuild the world in their own image!
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Thread Question: What's your favorite Rifts mecha or power armor?
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RIFTS threads aren't general cancer homosexual.
Will you frick off to the furthest reaches of the universe, you insufferable, feckless b***h hole homosexual
You kids shut the frick up back there or I'm going to turn this car around!
>Driving through the wasteland west of the great lakes in The Boat (a techno wizardry converted 1957 Chevy)
>Suddenly, far as the eye can see there's these huge weird looking fat ass towers all over the place
>I turn to Elvis, a mutant dog what run away from the Coalition
>Hey Elvis, what's the deal with these towers all over?
>I dunno, he says, morose like a sober mercenary
>Cheer up ya ole frickin sourpuss! Sticks, whaddya think?
>Sticks the Crazyman is drumming a thousand beats a minute to a tune he made up on the spot and will forget before he ever writes it down, like usual
>He's out of it, says Tony the headhunter, from behind me, Frickin gone man.
>Well, guess we're gonna keep going till we find out boys, I said and I hammered down what used to be the gas pedal to get us some air
>Yeah, turned out to be bugs
Yeah, but I want to talk about Rifts. We'll give it a break when we it wears out naturally.
On that, gays on discord are saying that rolling a 1-4 is an automatic miss regardless of bonuses bonuses. I refuse to believe Palladium has had a 20% chance of missing every melee attack and every single campaign has been wrong and disregarding it. What is right, /tg/?
Like attacks always being 4+the listed number I think it shifted sometime between Heroes Unlimited and RIFTS.
Yeah in the original Rifts it was 2+ and between then and RUE it became 4+
I dunno why this keeps getting brought up lately.
The 20% miss is from "Rifts Primer" a quickstart rules and adventure written by Carl Gleba. It has multiiple rules that run contrary to the RUE rules.
In the RUE 1-4 is a miss with bonuses and a 1 is always a miss. (p346)
He also says not to reroll initiative each round which is contrary to the RUE. (p341)
Huh, that's interesting
I suppose I could understand Gleba's thought. In this system if you have +3 to hit then you are only missing on 1 and the only real chance you have to miss organically is if you a like using called shots in the dark or something.
I don't think he could anticipate setting altering things like in Splicers or other joints where range attacks go off your normal to strike bonus. With that it means that you have players that can launch a golfball up someone's ass and have it shoot out their nose at 400 yards.
That was one of the big advantages of Sharpshooter classes like Gunslinger that you could use (part of) your PP bonus to get enough bonuses that you're willing to make every shot a called shot or a trick shot.
Also does anyone actually use the "if you move at all during your turn you have attack penalties" rule?
I get that one of the things that makes Cyber Knights special is their immunity to that penalty but that seems like a reason to buff knights not frick everyone else.
>Also does anyone actually use the "if you move at all during your turn you have attack penalties" rule?
I have never used that rule or has anyone I played with. If they are shooting on a moving vehicle we have but never when it's just running.
Could be his houserule that he used for ages and didn't even think about it, we all know their editor ain't gonna catch anything like that either.
Could also be because Rifts is so poorly written.
Got p346 saying
Miss: A roll of 1 -4 to strike (after bonuses) is always a miss .
A roll of one always misses regardless of bonuses
and p340 saying
A roll of 1 -4 to strike is always a miss .
>1-4 is an automatic miss
I thought that was only for guns, melee uses a different system.
1-4 is for melee.
1-7 is for ranged.
GLITTERBOYS every single time.
That being said I've homebrewed some stuff for them.A city state focused on power armor following the idea around feudal knights, with Glitterboy pilots being the rulers. I've got a "Glitter Ghost" variant, as well as another one in progress, A melee weapon "Boomlance" for when you don't have or want a Boomgun. A few other pieces of gear as well like a "Glitterwing" flight system. Also I am eternally pissed that "I Beam" tech isn't used outside of the Megaversal Legion because putting one in a Boomgun would be magical.
Second favorite is the SAMAS, it's pretty iconic & cool.
Third is the Coyote, cause it's concealable & can add a lot of advantages to any character
>What's your favorite Rifts mecha or power armor?
Ultimax
But I'm one of those gays who prefers psychic characters anyway and wish they had more support.
I always enjoyed how the SAMAS seems like it's from a specific school of design with the way all of the art makes it look like it locks the users legs in place during flight to prevent accidents.
That said the picture of the Flying Titan in the RUE with the assless pants is just my favorite PA pic.
Reminds of how early books said a Millennium Tree Bikini was viable armor while more recent books would say it has AR or other penalties.
This one? It's a classic.
It's a beauty.
Led to me running a campaign where power armors were regularly lewd.
What few palladium artists have spoken up about Kevin have said is that he's a control freak will make random edits to your artwork to fit some idea he had at the last minute, then put his name as co-creator of your work.
Most artists just refuse to speak about him though.
>What's your favorite Rifts mecha or power armor?
Glitter Boy, no question. Best mecha design in an RPG ever, just iconic as frick.
What ever happen between Larry MacDougall & Kevin? Seems like most of his art was specifically excised from most revised/updated versions of older Palladium and Rifts books.
Probably what happens with most Palladium artists: they got tired of Kevin's butthole behavior and control-freakery and moved on to greener (and pleasanter) pastures.
I don't know but I wish they'd get rid of Walton. I can only stand so many block mechs. He even gave my android waifu two left feet
Most likely didnt get paid. Sadly it happens more often than we would think.
I wonder if Kev would be less hostile if he Hadden gotten fricked over by his cyber knight buddy
Probably, he thought he could just forever run a company with his friends for his friends, and it turned out one of his friends was just in it for the money and fricked off as soon as the heat rose.
Supposedly he was an ass even before that.
I'm looking to get into hosting Rifts for some buddy's as we try out various settings and systems. Any tips on where to start besides the core books? Like lore run downs, tips and tweaks to make the game easier to play.
Hey, welcome aboard, anon! The recommended books would likely be:
>Conversion Book 1 and Dark Conversions are the "monster manuals"
>GM's Guide for summaries of major weapons, armor, gear, mecha
>The Book of Magic for compilations of most of the spells in the game
>Sourcebook One for robots/cyborgs/AIs/bionics
>then a worldbook that matches where you're playing in-game, ie, New West + Spirit West if in the western part of North America
And here's a primer to get you started. Good luck.
They also have Beastiary Vol 1
Yeah and Dbees of North America for playable races!
Northern Gun 1 and 2 and the new Titan Robotics books have a ton of mecha, guns, power armors and stuff like that. Rifts Black Market also has beaucoup gear.
new west and watch knights of cydonia by muse. its new west: the music video.
Is that the shitty Netflix show with the sentient penis mecha?
I was down aside from the Netflix. Remember when Weird Shit was cool? Rifts is a great example. Filled with weird shit, all of it is organic for the most part, definitely cool. Now I hear something about a sentient penis mecha and all I can think is that it's probably lame as frick and mostly about some lady complaining.
It's incredibly lame. Like a troony weeb with a piss fetish tried to make another evangelion ripoff
Yuck, neosatanism is so disgusting
Anyone got any good Rifts maps that aren't found in the published books? Homebrew stuff?
There was a Rifts north america Google map back in the day, I wonder if it still exists
I just disabled that because it bogged down the app and now I can't find it!
I saved a copy ages ago, not sure if the guy updated it at all since I don't remember where I got the original.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1PlGibNCFLfbLjMxjLBg8S6ocwTqSbwVr&ll=42.23762724998419%2C-88.9651641833755&z=7
Chuck Walton's ghost
Not to argue cause this looks really well made, but Magestar is closer to Marysville Ohio than Columbus
If I remember right the creator moved a few things around specifically to make room for places in his campaign.
I've got a few.
>Thr bugs own Winnipeg
Wait, how do they survive the winter?
Look bro, Uncle Kev is from Michigan so everything interesting takes place within a 12 hour drive of there. Could he have put the bugs in the New West & have huge hollowed out mesas full of bug hives? Maybe liven up some of those dead spots not near the Great Lakes? Hell NO! Why would they do that?
>Eastern US has the Republicans, ARCHIE, Shemarrians, Splugorth, untamed magic lands, horrible mutant people and critters
Neat, so how much attention do we give to that?
>Briefly bring it up in Shemarrian Nation, a book most people don't even know came out, and Madhaven can talk specially about NYC
It has the Shemarrians & connections to Archie & the Repubs, & atlantean raiders, but thats not where they are based. Archie got his own book plus the Mechanoids book, Shems got their own book. Atlantis has multiple books. That's more books than anyone but the CS got. The East Coast is literally all Shemarrian Nation, & they are xenophobic of outsiders, there isn't much of interest for players to do but spy on some cyber spinsters.
Meanwhile the great lakes have so much stuff packed in to about the same amount of terrain. CS shit, Fed shit, NG shit, Lazlo shit (Book incoming), Quebec shit, psyscape, bugs, etc. Uncle Kev wanted a game where you play in Michigan & touch on all this cool shit without having to justify a long overland journey like if you wanted to go from the Dinosaur Swamp to the Pecos Empire. There is nothing wrong with this though I don't mind it at all. I just think it's funny. Its honestly one of the best regions in the world to explore ideas in a Post-Post-Apocalypse world. There is nothing short of terraforming that could make the west/southwest interesting. Central america is all fly over states, anyone with taste would ignore Cali & the pacific northwest, & only yuppies who think they are important would want a bunch of shit in new england like they aren't just the same brand of homosexual but with more accents per square mile than moles on a Flooper's asscheeks
Thay aint right. I'm gonna make something up for it
>K'Roy W'en
>In 101AC there was a very dumb but powerful Devil who found a VHS cassette about paranormal events in the City of New York circa 1980 AD. Being a devil he saw the chaos of ghosts rampaging through the city as delightful. The more he researched the city and found that it was a horrid place filled with the pungent smell of urine, that it was so expensive that technically everyone who lived there shouldn't have been able to afford it, a place so hostile that meaness was socially mandatory even between intimate relationships, a place so profane that cursing someone was the accepted greeting, and that statistically everyone should be murdered at least twice in their lifetime. It was a city built on murder, corruption, and rivers of filth.
>With childlike enthusiasm he knew he had to rebuild it but better: it would be upside down to improve it's negative psychic energy.
Some kind of Nega-York? What would you do with Madhaven?
I forgot about that. I kept thinking of Mindwerx and thought it was in Germany. I am going to take a dive and say it's a few miles down from Madhaven. That works, right?
>Weather in Madhaven
>When the gravity works clumps of dirt and water come up from the ground. When it fails the sewers are drain down and rain back up when the spells work again, raining sewage back down on the city. If you are caught in these sewage rains and have an open would then roll vs. disease.
>People who live in K'Roy Wen
>Most people who live in the city are abducted from a long the East Coast and Canada and left in the city or it's subway so as to put them as far away from the ground as possible. From there just about nothing I done specifically to keep them in the city. It is assumed that if they don't die in an accident or murdered that a phenomena called "the New York bubble" will make them think they want to stay.
>Currently the populace is ridden with violent gangs and terrorized by demons and terrible accidents but people generally stay. Why? Because when things work right it's a function recreation of a major prerofts city with working amenities and a trove of prerifts artifacts... Also the tower that actually touched the ground has not exits after the third floor and built from thick MD materials. There is a while rumor mill saying the absolute worst things, including the devil that built the city are at the final floors of the tower.
You can put it right smack on top/above Madhaven bro. In fact i would encourage that. Add to the lunacy. Also, add some gargoyles. New York has a lot of them.
Your Big Apple in the sky reminds me of my old desire to build a floating castle/compound myself. Anyone know of a good way to do it? TW Float & decent structural engineering can make it work easy on a leyline. But how can you get a big chunk of anything to fly over land? what materials can it be made of that are "cheap" enough?
Thanks and all I can think of is that YUGIOh bit about flotation rings. Just put it on a leyline say the who thing has the leyline walk spell. That would give it a traveling carnival vibe, thinking about it. Actually that would be cool!
>Adventuring in K'Roy
>K'Roy Wen has many treasures for scholars and looters alike. Besides artifacts many items can be pinched and sold. Sometimes you may even find treasure entities keep in the city for safe keeping or a magical item set there to recharge.
>When in the city there is a 00-05% chance on any given hour of the gravity spells failing. On a 01-05 the failure is minor and kicks back in quickly, you are only tossed 1d20 feet. On a 00 it was a massive failure and you fall 1d100 then fall back up to ground level, effectively doubling your fall.
>Roll again to see what falls up from the surface. Keep in mind it takes about a full melee round for things from the surface to fall so you have every chance to dodge (roll 8 or higher). Sewage rain occurs every gravity failure.
>00-50 Trash. Dirt and small rocks fall with you. No real issues.
>51-66 a bolder or large animal falls dealing 3d4x100 SDC or 3d4 MDC in SDC damage. Animals make a great deal of noise as they fall and will attract 6d6 scavengers or gang members. They will try to kill and eat you if they find you near the corpse.
>67-98 random machinery or city facets that were not secured properly. This can include random American mad MDC cars, lampposts, or chunks of concrete. As these are MD materials they will deal 6d6 MD if the hit you. Most weigh 1.5 tons on average.
>99: You encounter the statue of the Faller, a 2ton bronze cast battered corpse. If possible to see spirits you can speak to the ghost of the Faller. He doesn't have much to say as the constant abuse has made him forget everything but a desire to be free of the city and constant crashing. 8d6 SDC of he falls on you.
Just a little more, I swear
>For this reason it is encouraged to use flying spells, a jetpack or aircraft, or at least climbing gear when entering the city. People using the sith sense spell or TP ability can detect a gravity failure a few seconds before it happens. Locals makes sure to be inside or under a structure at the start of every hour.
>It is not uncommon to find NEMA gear like firefighting and law enforcement equipment in appropriate stations simply because the people thrown in the city haven't been able to break in or couldn't figure out how to operate it. This the biggest draw for adventures and history nerds.
>K'Roy hosts many street level gangs wandering around. Most are deranged cannibals or converting to worshiping a demonic entity that has taken residence nearby. They rove in 4-6 member packs and are armed with MD weapons and damaged light MDC armor but veteran members and leaders make sure to equip themselves with the best gear they find. It is uncommon but there are also brodkil gangs active in the city as well.
>Demons and undead plague the city and have free roam but are most active during the 'witching hour's or just after midnight. Gargoyles and gurgles are active all day and love it and run or harassing tactics. They are MD and most can fly so they aren't afraid of falling.(thanks for the suggestion.) It is believed that there is an internal conflict among monsters in the city that works to keep the gargoyle population in check.
Ghost and zombies wander the subways and sewers mostly because necromancers take refuge there and feed off the evil energies. Further they know that corpses and victims will wander in seeking shelter at some point.
That's about it. I don't know who the devil should be that built the city. I'm going through gods and monsters now.
>Failure of the city
>Despite everything the city does not produce enough negative psychic energy per population as he wanted. He believes that the wild barbarians being plucked out of the bushes are too well educated and wise to become his vision of a 'Wen Kroyker.' worse, rain flooding in to the sewers from the top are keeping it from achieving proper putrication to be properly hazardous. There are now plans to import trash, rats, and buy reject slaves from the Splurgoth in bulk to offset any natural occurances to keep the city clean and manageable. With luck in 100 years citizens will be enveloped in despair and bred down enough that they will be convinced that there is no world outside the city and if there is that it's not very important.
>Currently he is planning on adding a Bronx expansion.
Please help us ninja turtles
>Despite everything the city does not produce enough negative psychic energy per population as he wanted.
I love that idea of a Devil trying to make a hellish city and it's nowhere near as bad as living in the real new york
>Welp! It's gone to hell, Je'rry! And not the way I wanted.
>Hey G'erge, come right in.
>You know how I calculated it's supposed to be 7PPE, right? Well it's 6.
>Oh not! Not 6! 6 is so much worse than 7.
>I know! I kept beating them but they just don't continue to beat each other. It's very simple!
>Do to others that was done to you. All the Devils know that.
>It's easy!
>It's even better when you do it before they do.
>Even kids can do it.
>*A female demon comes through the door. A smoking hole in her chest.*
>Hey Eeee'lne
>Hey. Guess what happened? I'm skinning a man alive and someone shoots me with a silver bullet at mach 10. My new human skin dress was vaporized. Say goodbye to my promotion!
>Someone shot you for killing humans? I bet he's keeping the humans from killing each other. Did you catch his name?
>NEMA something was on his chest.
>...NEMAn!
>The door again busts open with a tall contorted man with the look on his face and hair like he had been struck by lightening.
>Hey J'rry, I need your spatula.
>K'Roy Wen
>A recreation of Manhatten sits upside down in what used to the the Montezuma wildlife refuge. Sky scrapers sit on gaypoles and reach upward to a flate platform and sitting on that is a subway system and sewer system and, by design, abandoned complexes old world oddities like arcane chambers and 18th century inventions.
>The city has reverse gravity and, in spirit of the city, it is faulty and operates on a series of poorly thought out pacts made with thousands of supernatural entities. At any given moment the the spells can fail and someone on street level can fall approximately one mile, the height of the tallest building as of the golden era.
>Currently the record for the most amount fallen is three miles. The person's remains were cast in bronze to comerate the achievement and intentionally not anchored so that it would fall whenever the gravity spells fail to hopefully allow his corpse to defend his title.
Nice, thanks!
Another one.
>Water Point Reserve
Which book is that one in?
Don't blame you for forgetting, as I know very few people who haven't memory holed New West & Spirit West after reading them.
Dang it, I have New West and could have used both of these bits of info.
>What's your favorite Rifts mecha or power armor?
Call me a pizza cutter but I like the CS stuff.
They probably suck mega-dicks, but I just think they look neat.
Hell yeah shits badass
>What's your favorite Rifts mecha or power armor?
Let's just say I'm the guy that looks at the dollar menu first.
Anyone ever just hand their GM some OC bullshit and have them love it?
Years ago i made a CS psi-druid and the GM demanded i justify it. So i arbitrarily altered the class a bit, invented an entire branch of the CS government (The CSGSA, Coalition States Geological Survey Administration) and declared that he worked with the CSFS (Coalition States Forestry Service) dowsing for resources and making maps.
Somehow this ended with me getting a medal from Prosek himself after i kinda won Tolkein via bureaucratic reforms and the most boring use of the most boring power ever.
Based forestry employee doing the real work
It was him, a batboy, a few beat up skelebots and a flying camper van.
>Wake up, check in with local CS base, upload data
>Breakfast, batboy goes to sleep
>Entire day spent using a box of samples dowsing for silver, NEMA components, uranium, ect
>Dinner, wake up batboy, check in, upload data
>Go to sleep, batboy goes hunting and uses 3D mapping imager
>Wake up, check in, upload data
>Spend day scouting next map grid
>Set up camp
>Repeat
The other PCs just happened to be in the area and used him for dinner, E-Clip charges and because if he didn't check in every 12 hours a SAMAS patrol would show up to find out why.
How much of his CS allowance went to coffee?
All of it. He tried to invest in a juicer harness that just injected coffee but command wouldn't approve of it without joining the CS juicer division and they all insist on chicory over there.
The CS and its South American allies are the only source of coffee in the entire multiverse, even Splyncryth envies Prosek his morning cup.
The way it worked out it was basically one day of work, one day off. We did a day of surveying, moved, settled in then repeated it. It was two four day work weeks out in the woods before we spent a few days at the local CS outpost.
I destroyed Tolkien via bureaucracy and powerpoint, i found a half dozen old silver mines and rationalized their exploitation
What did the CSFS do otherwise? Like if trees start killing people do they get called? Are they like parks and recreation where they are so outside the purview of what the rest of the government does that they are pretty much on their own as the other bearcats just nod and assume whatever you are doing is working?
The Coalition States Geological Survey Administration and the Coalition States Forestry Service dealt with mapping and mineral surveys.
> Are they like parks and recreation where they are so outside the purview of what the rest of the government does that they are pretty much on their own as the other bearcats just nod and assume whatever you are doing is working?
Yes, i had almost complete autonomy besides my check ins every 12 hours. Past that if i didn't check in every 12 hours a SAMAS patrol would show up to make sure we were ok.
>What did the CSFS do otherwise? Like if trees start killing people do they get called? Are they like parks and recreation where they are so outside the purview of what the rest of the government does that they are pretty much on their own as the other bearcats just nod and assume whatever you are doing is working?
Run away and nuke the trees, contact the local CS outpost and call for a SAMAS unit to save you. Hide until they find you.
Actually alot! Victor and Flippert (Flip was the Batboy) never considered their coffee consumption but it must have been significant .
>CSFS
>Coalition States Forestry Service
Their main job was to make sure that any D-bee introduced plant life wasn't a threat to humanity and finding ways to exterminate any extradimensional plant life that could not be used to benefit humanity.
>their coffee consumption but it must have been significant
Where do they grow it? Colombia's a vampire kingdom!
Rifts Argentina is basically a mini CS that is allied with the CS, GDR, Japan and is even more psycho than Canada, if the CS will give them protection with their atomic weapons then you better believe that the CS has good coffee. Also the CS has the entire southern US in it's grasp .
The day Emperor Prosek can't have his morning coffee is the day 1000 atomic warheads detonate over Atlantis
>Rifts Argentina
Argentina doesn't produce any coffee, it doesn't have the climate or soil for it.
>Also the CS has the entire southern US in it's grasp
LOL, wut? The CS has none of the southern states in its grasp.
>1000 atomic warheads detonate over Atlantis
Nukes don't work well on Rifts Earth and none would ever get through Splugorth defenses.
Would you really risk the full nuclear wrath of the CS and its allies if all Prosek wanted was a decent cup of coffee?nh
Did we ever get a definitive answer about whether big nukes (hydrogen bombs) actually work in Rifts? I remember reading that they tended to be unreliable because of the rifts and ley lines and often fizzled. And that "fusion blocks" aren't actually fusion bombs, just really powerful energetics.
The CS, NGR, New Navy and Japan have strategic fusion weapons and ICBMs, H-bombs.
They don't use them because massive death caused rifts to happen in the first place. That said the CS, NGR and New Navy use them in naval confrontations quite frequently.
They work, however it releases alot of PPE due to the massive death. Otherwise the CS would just nuke everyone.
Why do you assume that climates are the same in RIFTS Earth? Argentina could have coffee beans growing along leylines which make the conditions perfect. Maybe Lone Starhas a different enough environment to grow coffee beans along the horn of texas.
All i know is that it is Rifts canon that the CS has good coffee. Anyone who disputes that will no longer be able to grow coffee plants as their skywill be blotted out with SAMAS operators demanding a cup.
cofveve
>When you hear some D-bees are talking shit at the local Starbucks
>To get coffee after running out of stores of what was in the shelters.
>Crops have either been destroyed or D Shifted to who knows where.
>Only option is to go to a Seed Library in Florida to get coffee seeds.
That sounds like a great campaign.
>Vanguard out of nowhere exterminates ten thousand people to seize the remains of a factory that 200 years ago made Monster Energy Drinks
They basically tried to make sure that the local plant life was compatible with human agriculture and not hostile and that the CS could safety set up lumber mills.
>Rifts campaign
>Starts in a town with a Dim Nexus
>We were told characters are all nexus born from the town but won't be there for long
>One player is playing a nightbane sorcerer
>Second player is trying to decide between a psi-operator and a partial Borg with TW components
I'm trying to figure out what to bring without being a Cyber-Knight since I always bring CKs when given the opportunity.
What's a fun class that won't feel completely wasted or too ridiculously OP?
Do you know what is a few days travels outside your starting location and will you get lost without a CSGSA aapproved map?
Battle Magus
I love how over 20+ years Rifts went from ''oh no we are being invaded from other dimensions what will we do we are helpless ' to 'the CS is going to exterminate us please help us.''
The CS are the good guys.
How the hell does the CS have 2.5 million+ SAMAS armor suits? That isn't even 40k bullshit, a 40k Space Marine Chater would get blown to bits by the CS in a large scale of operation.
The CS is objectively a bigger mary sue than the female lead in the disney star wars movies. Kevin just goons to the CS at all times. This is why
should not buy anything of the official material. Literally just visit TV tropes and then use any other system for the cool things you see. A system that does not spam 200 (there was actually slightly more than that when i counted in the UE book) skills like home keeping, branding, kanooing and civilian tracked SDC vehicle operation in the middle of MDC spam.
Shut the frick up. Don't be such a negative Nancy.
Do this
plus Atlantis, everyone likes Atlantis. Also get SB1 revised if you can. It has the Republicans who are the best
This AI art fills the hole in my heart about the lack of Rifts fan art.
Help me riftbros, what do I roll for a drinking contest? What is the penalties of getting drunk? How do I handle them passing out? Is it roll vs. nonlethal or a skill or what?
Obviously Roll with the Punches
Kek. Try Rifts New West, Saloon Bum OCC, pg 120.
Kevin Sembadia threatening legal action over the GURPS:Rifts project is the worst thing that ever happened to TTRPGs.
Mike Pondsmith stopping Kevin from suing WotC out of existence before they became a big company is the worst thing that ever happened to TTRPGs
What are some quirky TW items that aren't direct damage, but still super useful? Like stuff in the Black Vault, or other ingenious adventurer tools
Carpet of adhesion is like the most useful spell ever, so I imagine a glove with that spell would be good for climbing or grappling or holding things good.
After Black Vault I felt perfectly justified in pulling out the old Encyclopedia Magica books for AD&D and just ripping off random magic items there.
Such as one I recently added to my game.
>Salt of Good Enough
>When sprinkling this salt on (almost) anything, it becomes edible, even if its toxic, sharp, or any other inedible factors. The negative effects of eating the object no longer bother you, but the taste isn't particularly great. Can treat up to 1 cubic feet of material per pinch, 60 pinches per bag.
A cup infused with spoil water and water to wine. So like, the cup would make water into vinegar or fetid wine or something.
Could one glitterboy mount two Triax style boomguns to each shoulder? It would have to have a custom ammo drum or something of course, but I was thinking it would be cool as an idea for a GB pilot to mount one with traditional ammo & then one with specially silver rounds to fight in the Minion War without having to switch ammo.
IIRC Triax 2 introduces a GB model with two boomguns, so in theory the Chassis wouldn't need much changing.
Rifter 85 has a pretty fun read on GB "Hotrodding" as they call it, as well.
Can you please post the Rifter 85 in a catbox link?
My Internet at home is out. Will post it tomorrow or the next day assuming my landlord fixes his shit.
>next day assuming my landlord fixes his shit.
Ten bucks it was just needing to unplug it and plug it back in.
It's worse than that. Found out the landlord didn't pay their bill, again, company cut off the entire building and then reimburses the "accidentally impacted" people at the start of next month.
Further fun fact, if you complain about this to the company they pay you an extra 200 bucks to frick off.
I've considered trying to bring it to court on principle, but truth be told, I can't be fricked.
Nets are back.
The Rifter Annual #85
https://[email protected]
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yxmllb.pdf
The double boomgun "Fatboy" Glitterboy in Triax 2 is a different chassis than the standard one.
The fatboy just carries a mega sized cannon.the Taurus holds two mortars
Step 1
>be Juicer
Step 2
>make a fortune.
Step 3
>find an Alchemist
Step 4
>But a Naruni Thermo-kinetic EBA suit
Step 5
>have Alchemist make it Impervious to Fire/Energy and Regenerate
Step 6
>JUICE IT
Good luck fools! I'm off to storm Lone Star and frick the catgirls!
Speaking of Juicers, I'm curious.
Juicer Uprising mentions that the protocol to make it so Juicers can live full lifespans was actually a CS trap but it did have some unintended consequences with Juicer blood mutating and their nanite systems seeming to somehow evolve, but the CS scientists figured it was a fluke at best and not worth worrying about.
Does anyone else think this was supposed to be the explanation for how the Mega Juicer came to be until someone decided "nah frick it" and just said that they've always been available just too expensive for most people?
No I think it's just a rabbit hole your GM can use to do something fun or interesting
That's fair.
I guess I still sometimes expect explanations when I know I shouldn't.
Like I still want an explanation as to why Kevin hates Nightbane so much.
>Like I still want an explanation as to why Kevin hates Nightbane so much.
C.J. Carella is probably the whole reason.
I don't know that he does, he was talking it up on that podcast a while back.
The way he butchered the Shadows of Light and most of the lore of the setting when CJ left says otherwise.
>Shadows of Light
That is like straight out of the margins of my highschool math notebook.
How much of left is for Borgs?
Left? Ain't nothing left when you become a borg
Like the brain, and sometimes the face according to the RUE.
There a mega with coalition manhunters or titan robotics up?
In RUE full borgs keep about 10 to 20% of their original body, is the brain and maybe the face and a few other parts. Like Robocop, the face is just stretched over an MDC skull which fully protects the brain. The faces are protected by attachable faceplates. I don't think borgs wear helmets or optics because that is supposed to be what the cyberskull is.
Outside of RUE there is a wide variety of what a Borg really is. Way more than even Juicers, which unconsciously makes players of either OCC compete.
Japanese borgs are cool. Heroes of Humanity has come good borg options too.
I mean, there are both cyberborg ninjas and cyborg dragons in the Japan book. Actually a lot of cyborgs in the book.
So frickin' awesome. Can you imagine what an """artist""" would have charged for a drawing like this? We're finally free.
If you're in charge of a RIFTS movie, a main cast of up to 6 characters, what do you do? Which OCC? Which races? What plot?
What I'd want to see would be a full-on gonzo 80s style OVA, maybe an animated Netflix series, either with art that plays as close to the source material as possible. That'd be the dream.
For a more realistic modern take that wound up being something more like a Marvel movie, probably a guardians of the galaxy style cadre of adventurers as much as a cop out as that would be. I just kinda doubt Glitterboy is going to fly on screen with a mostly human-scale cast. Maybe you can have the party drive by a GB who's the defender of a small kingdom watching them pass in their ATV from his vantage point on the hill, gleaming in the sun. Juicer and Crazy could easily be in a pack of evil mercs the party has to fight, but the real antagonists of the movie should be the Coalition oppressing and serving the population by blasting dbee settlements and forcing the protags to get involved and thus run afoul of the dead boys.
I would like a big budget low episode count tv show like the starwas shit.
It's about an idealistic GB pilot & his best friend who got the Juice in a fatalistic attempt to fight back against the world they live in. They travel out from their small town to protect another one that's friendly with their town. Fighting Fury beetles & bandits along the way. They also partner up with a full conversion cyborg, a dogboy on the run, a Ley Line walker woman, & a psycho edgy b***h psistalker who likes vibro knives & spiked armor. Together they defend the town against the surprisingly organized & supplied bandits. After a few days of fighting they take out the leader & most of his men, that night the town throws a party to celebrate only for people to start dying when a SAMAS patrol sweeps the village. The bandits were funded by the CS, but now they don't care about keeping a low profile. The heroes scramble a defense & take out the CS, ending with an epic battle with the GB pilot fighting a GB Killer. I'd also have the Juicer have a perpetual sword of damocles where he is constantly being foreshadowed to die but never actually kill him. He always survives no matter what stupid stunt he pulls like it's a Fast & the Furious movie
Badass, I'd watch the shit out of it, 100/100.
Do you guys allow PF magic items in your RIFTS or other subsettings?
I don't see why not if you want to include some as GM. If your players are asking for some, hell no don't trust 'em lol
Sure let the Juicer take the Gloves of Swift Action & a suit of armor with Fleet Footed... how much harm can it do?
Kek yeah exactly. 14 attacks are fiiine, trust me GM.
And so I grabbed my JA-12 & started blastin'!
The issue I found with the JA12 and being a juicer is the constant need to reload. In a typical fricassee my character was pounding through two clips a round and emptying the third.
It needed an autoloading system like a power cord or a team of gnomes to dance around the rifle to load up new clips like a little artillery crew. I am confident short term hiring the gnome crew would be cheaper than a power link to a barrel sized eclip, which is what a Juicer needs.
Just install a NG UEL. I love that shit
>NG UEL
Err, which northern gun book is that?
Universal Energy Link can be found in both I think
They are so easily converted to mega damage there is little reason not to.
Anyone know a reliable Canadian site that sells the books?
Theres like 10 I wanna order bus shipping from Palladiums site is insane.
Negative, ebay or local used book shops are probably a good bet.
https://www.scholarlyadventures.com/post/scholar-s-review-69-rifts-aftermath
Reviewer that reviews rifts book reviewed a rift book. I think it's good but it was either WP Heavy Weapons or Literacy: English so...
Time For Half Thought Out TW Tech!
A wrist watch with a pull cord from a children's toy. When the wearer activates it (pulling the pull cord) you hear
>The cow says, "MOO!"
& the wearer turns into a cow via Metamorphosis Animal
The watch has several other animal options either limited & random or such by the whims of the TW or GM designing it!
Tracker Munitions
Bullets that have a Location Spell on them
Bizarre Bombs
Those in the blast range suffer Hallucinations & the World Bizarre effects
Lucky Underwear
These gem encrusted tighty whities are blessed by Beat Insurmountable Odds
Would a lot of surviving humanity live in fortresses or underground to escape the constand demon/monster attacks?
Post more Rifts landscapes, please.
Fortresses, obviously they would have underground elements but humans can't be bottled up.
If I remember right the adventure guide basically says every town in Rifts either has walls and loads of guns/turrets or doesn't last more than a decade.
There are exceptions for unnaturally calm areas but they'll usually with weird magic related nonsense.