We've had a few decent Rifts threads on here recently and a couple of shitty ones. Here's hoping that this one turns out to be the former instead of the latter.
Talk about Rifts, Classic or Savage flavor, or any other Palladium Games setting.
What's your favorite part of Rifts? Favorite race or class? What Classic Rifts thing do you hope sees a conversion for Savage Rifts--or what do you hope never sees the light of day? What's your favorite non-Rifts Palladium game?
Discuss!
My current game includes a Glitter Boy pilot who stole her suit from an ex-boyfriend, painted it hot pink, and regularly spends all her downtime getting drunk and hanging out in dog boy strip clubs. The party leader is a gambling addict ley line walker who keeps accidentally adding to his ever-growing harem because of his race's pheromone-based charisma. They're not in a relationship, but they have joint custody over their "adopted son," a dragon hatchling who has no concept of the value of money and thinks it's hilarious when he sets people on fire. The closest thing in the party to an actual hero is the burster, and only because he has a concept of "collateral damage" being bad. They're not the most moral group, but they're a hell of a lot of fun.
>What's your favorite part of Rifts?
New West, Atlantis and Dinosaur Swamp.
>Favorite race or class?
The Justice Ranger and the Grackletooth.
>What Classic Rifts thing do you hope sees a conversion for Savage Rifts
Atlantean Bio-Wizardry and shit from Wormwood.
>or what do you hope never sees the light of day?
All the stupid D-Bees of North America other than the aforementioned GTs. Rifts alien are kind of dumb in general.
>What's your favorite non-Rifts Palladium game?
After the Bomb.
Nobody cares about this shitty fucking game. Let it die, OP. Let it die...
>New West, Atlantis and Dinosaur Swamp.
>Wormwood
You have good taste, friend.
Awwwww. You're responding to yourself to make it look like more people care about this shitty game but you. That's sad. Have a donut.
>What's your favorite part of Rifts?
The original game setting: midwestern North America, Atlantis, and the Vampire Kingdoms.
>Favorite race or class?
Race: Dog Boys
Class: Glitter Boys or Crazies
>What Classic Rifts thing do you hope sees a conversion for Savage Rifts
>Motherfucking Wormwood
>or what do you hope never sees the light of day?
Phase World. Or at least that it would get a major revamp before going over to Savage Worlds.
>What's your favorite non-Rifts Palladium game?
Nightspawn/Nightbane. It needs a revival!
Dumping some pics for the evening crowd bump.
Still only three posters.... oh NMI. You must be so ronery.
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Is this the gay Punisher???
>a Glitter Boy pilot who stole her suit from an ex-boyfriend, painted it hot pink
Laser reflective armor no longer works.
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No it's environmentally sealed armor. The Coalition States in the Rifts setting use a skull motif.
The laser reflective armor still works when the first laser blast vaporizes the paint job. She's constantly complaining about how much pink spray paint she burns through.
Notice the package on the one up front? Mmmm, just like Uncle Kev likes em.
Wouldn't the paint just boil off when struck?
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I care, I care alot
Pretty shitty art overall. Still, I'll give props to KS for supporting child autism.
Does nobody have the Splicers pdf? It gets asked every single thread and never gets any replies.
And before anyone says it, I have scoured Da Archive.
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Favorite books?
Gotta be england, only book that has actual dbee floral and fauna thats all just kill and eat you stuff. Really wish the herbal/druid plants and recipes would bevexpanded yo NA.
Favorite race and class
Favorite class is a toss up between robo-slammer (headhunter variant), mystic knight (classic not white rose), and temporal wizzard. Shifters is in my top 10.
Favorite races is devil men, star elves, and Temporal Raiders.
For conversion id like to see something other than terrible savage worlds, so the setting with a better system for conversion
After the bomb and palladium fantasy are neck and neck but probably play palladium fantasy more
Here's a sendspace link for you, brother.
/file/xob7qs
Remember, every time you pirate something, Uncle Kev beats a tranny hooker....
I dunno, man. I would have liked the England book to focus a little more on faerie folk and traditional British lore instead of the tired old "King Arthur returns" bullshit.
Like every time i pirate in general or just palladium stuff?
Sounds like a win-win for everyone.
Just PB stuff, natch....
Even if you cut those parts out the fact it had classes that were actual healers and wasnt awash in tech, plus temporal magic is just sweet..... the cute rock ball mdc pet thing...so cool.
It's true. In a lot of ways, England feels like the last time Rifts really tried going for a somewhat more subdued version of the setting instead of "LASER DINOSAURS AND CYBER NINJAS TURN IT UP TO ELEVEN!!!!"
Just look at that cute little guy....
Except King Arthur Returns IS the traditional British lore. That's the legend.
Yeah I liked the herbal lore more too, but I have no fucking idea what Chinese dragons were doing there.
>Stone ball bug
Yup, that's cute.
>Considered to be anarchist
Whoa, there, little guy!
And here's another pet peeve of mine: instead of simple attribute stat blocks, the poor GM has to roll for every one and then consult charts to derive modifiers. So they basically have to roll a character instead of using the stats straight out of the book. Thanks, Kevin!
Good taste friend, I have played in 2 Rifts campaigns once as a Justice Ranger and the other as a Grackletooth.
Wait, wait, you telling me
You can actually
Play Rifts?
Yes. And with Savage Rifts out, it's even easier than ever.
That picture is fantastic.
Only if you go MAX autist
Grackle tooths are great.
I like Dinosaur Swamp too. It's got that post-apoc savage feel that early Rifts had before it got filled up with ultratech megacities, nation states and million-mecha armies.
>Rifts pro tip: divide all populations by 10; divide all military populations by 100.
The military size with the cs for sure their standing army is the size of the worlds armies now basicly
OP continues to respond to himself. So sad. Have a cookie, NMI. You'll feel better. I promise.
Even today's armies don't have millions of tanks and aircraft. CS is just plain ridonkulous.
>divide all populations by 10; divide all military populations by 100.
This is pretty much the rule I always go by. It makes for some interesting realizations for my players when they hear about a "major metropolis" and then get to see that it only has about 20,000 people living in it. I think the military division especially makes PCs more important in the grand scheme of things. Now, instead of a group of ultra-powerful super-soldiers and magical beings being so outnumbered that they barely matter in large-scale conflicts, a small and elite force of PCs can be a major game changer in just about any battle.
Well, KS clearly doesn't know shit about actual military forces beyond what he's gleamed as an armchair general for miniatures wargaming.
So that's where the Robotech money went...
Out of curiosity, has anybody figured out how much mega damage Uncle Kev's cock does to NMIs ass on a weekly basis? You just KNOW that dirty ol bastard don't use no lube....
Oh yeah. His trip to Thailand is LEGENDARY on the trap boards.
Is this anything like the story that Monte Cook went to Japan to literally a post-op tranny's bar-b-qued cock?
Wait... Whaaaaaa??????
How's Salem these days, Joe?
Wow. So someone told Monte to eat cock and he took it literally. Crazy son of a bitch.
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How do we feel about cyberized Xiticix?
Good/Bad? Has controlled bio-weapons potential?
Thanks senpai, made it from the grackletooth in one of the books and some random SAMAS fanart.
I like the setting and I could overlook the mechanics being so shitty for combat and attributes if there were mechanics for the things I really want to do. A functional gear creation system and a functional research system for both technology and magic would make power creep a lot less of a problem. But the technowizard device creation system hardly even functions, and I'm talking about the one included in the Rifts Ultimate core book. They give a couple examples of the process used to invent items but the damage stats on the weapons are randomly adjusted from what they were in the spell and the bang you get for your buck varies massively and senselessly as a result. That one lightsaber used specifically to fight undead is a prime example, it hits for 1D4 X 10 or some bullshit but it's so cheap and usable by anyone! Meanwhile you can buy a shitty little ice pistol that does 2D4, recharges for an unreasonable amount of PPE, and costs four times as much as a regular pistol doing the same damage.
I JUST WANT TO CREATE MY OWN GEAR WITH IN-SYSTEM MECHANICS RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
They already have one sorta lone star made the xitinic hunter which I remember right has some dna of them in them, they can breed in the wild but the ones the CS release have some wierd cyber gear
>I JUST WANT TO CREATE MY OWN GEAR WITH IN-SYSTEM MECHANICS RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Get Savage Rifts, mate. The Sci-Fi Companion and the SR Player's Guide can let you build custom equipment, no sweat.
I think that damage is only to Vampires...not just any undead.
And vampires are retarded strong in palladium/rifts
I think I saw a homebrew one on the Nexus Nine forums a long time ago. Might want to look there.
Speaking of Rifts, has anyone tried that Breachworld RPG by one of the Palladium freelancers (forget the name)?
It was like a retroclone of Rifts or something, had a kickstarter. I never heard whether it was good or shit.
It's pretty decent.
Details? What does it do better than Rifts?
The beta artwork looked awful, did it get better?
I haven't, I remember the kickstarter for it, but never really kept up. Probably hard to get a pdf of it too, but ill take one if someone has it.
Yeah that would be pretty cool. The RUE's techno wizard rules are Paizo tier disgusting.
>Probably hard to get a pdf of it too
Yeah. It's not in Da Archive, or even on the wishlist.
>Splugorth are just venting their Spleen
>The local Millennium Tree is infested with Xiticix, humans and other pests. Your mission is to clean them all out.
Yes sir!
This guy did some great Rifts fan art. Also did some mecha loli porn, IIRC.
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Gonna post some of Rifts's wild cover art. Apologies in advance for some of the small sizes.
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For some reason Palladium calls their monster manuals "Conversion Books", which always confused the hell out of me and my friends. "Dark Conversions" is the especially bad monsters.
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>The winner of the Big Robot Flexing Competition is _______!
Rifts has so many chaotic books and disorganzied info scattered across 65+ products that it sells the index as a separate book.
But secretly it's also a adventure compilation. Go figure.
>Fun Fact: 3/4 of the pagecount in every Rifts book is taken up by classes, weapons, armor, mecha, monsters and more weapons.
>The pagecount for the world setting info that the book is ostensibly about can take up anywhere from 1 to 12 pages, tops.
They are conversions from palladium fantasy, heroes unlimited tmnt...ect.
Best book.
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