Palladium games and RiftsPalladium Games and Rifts General: Pretty Demon Edition.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! Talk about: >RIFTS(tm) >Heroes Unlimited >Palladium Fantasy >Beyond the Supernatural >Dead Reign >Robotech (lol) >TMNT & Other Strangeness + After the Bomb >Splicers >Nightbane >Savage Rifts >Resources, PDFs, links, podcasts, etc.: https://pastebin.com/nCtwd6Jw >official (highly-moderated) discord: https://discord.gg/xGkk75Z >Scholarly Adventures reviews and guides https://www.scholarlyadventures.com/blog >Thread Question: Do you still assault PCs with demons from the rifts, or is that a thing from the past?
>>92626446>Do you still assault PCs with demons from the rifts, or is that a thing from the past?I want to do that for my splicers but I would like some good resources on Demons in an MDC setting.
>>92626446So to continue from last thread, fan content. The megaverse forums are a source and some post on the discords as well.Chuck Walton posts stats and write ups for splicer stuff that hasn't been published like the cannon turtles and dinosaur Warmounts.
https://youtu.be/LlPsn0I4FPQ?si=tgeyp2pY7NbwLr9_LoM have gone into NJnSS to tackle the many MAs
>>92629936That's awesome. It's great when artists are involved in the design work and writing too (looking at you, Wayne Breaux Jr.). Do you have a link to that particular post with the cannon turtle?
>>92629622>resources on Demons in an MDC setting.For a game all about "demons emerging from the rifts" there is surprisingly little for how to make these demons. The RMB had some good tables for it (attached) but the RUE is missing them. Dark Conversions had a lot of MDC demons and dyvals but many of them are tied to specific settings (like Nightbane) or locales, not random. I think the Hades and Dyval books had lots of different demons, but I haven't read those.
>>92634888Forgot attachment.
Will there ever be a Rifts/Megaversal System 2nd Edition (or 3rd, if you count RUE as 2nd)?
>>92635629Maybe, what would you like to see? Personally I think that it could do better with chapter layouts and superfluous art in the middle is unnecessary.
>>92638491Better layout, chapter, indexing. Yeah, all those, obviously. But from a mechanics standpoint I'd:>consolidate all the saves into 8 or fewer>reduce the skills list (7 types of horse-riding, et al.)>summarize all the different schools of magic available (without going in-depth, that's for the extra books)>split the rules into a single main rulebook + rifts campaign setting>have a single, clear, short combat section that includes all forms of combat: melee, ranged, magic, psionics>add rules for hacking, computer networks, cyberspace>add more random generation tables for encounters, demons, locations, dimensions
>>92634839Sure:https://www.deviantart.com/chuckwalton/art/SPLICERS-Unleashed-Iron-Shell-252880041I quickied up a pdf of the info as well. I really like the warmount and keep forgetting where to find it or it's name.
>>92638659Nice, thanks! Always loved Splicers, such a neat setting.
Playing around with some Rifts logos.
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>>92641845This is the best version. Try making one that looks exactly like Chuck Walton's art. I recommend trying some prompts that look like architects plans
>>92641845>>92641555>>92641385Was there ever a proper half demons half cyborg creature in Rifts like that? Like right down the middle as a joke?
>>92641893Okay, might do. I find Walton's art to be overdetailed, which works for mechs but not other things. Logos are supposed to be simpler, after all. >>92642030Not that I ever saw, although Brodkil could possibly resemble it if they did cybernetics on just one half of their body. It was always just a Rifts logo, to my knowledge, showing the mixture of magic + supertechnology.
>>92641893>>92642072This is what I'm getting with Chuck Walton, which I don't think Bing recognizes as an artist with a specific style.
>>92642250last one for now
>>92634897Nice. Time for 20 foot tall sourcerers that feed on fear and human flesh!
>>92642280How did you phrase getting the half and half design to the AI?
>>92642529This was the last prompt I used although I went through a bunch of variations on "graphic design", "logo art" and various artists. Did over a 100 images and got maybe 20 good ones. >dark fantasy landscape in the style of HR Giger of a winged horned fanged demon. one half is cybernetic power armor holding a laser gun while the other half is a red fanged demon holding a magic sword. Lightning and a glowing blue portal is in the background. the title is "RIFTS" in large, orange heavy metal letters. horizontal landscape, black background
I want a new rifts videogame. It's the only thing that will make me happy.Really though, I wonder how Kevin is doing with the death of his not-wife-not-girlfriend thing. No body has proposed like a group E-Card or anything to send him.
>>92646216If Cyberpunk 2020 can come back from being near-dead and get a triple-AAA game, then RIFTS can too. As for Kevin's personal state, I'm sure he's not doing well right now. It takes months to recover from the loss of someone so close. I wish him well.
>>92626446I'm currently planning out a Savage Rifts campaign, and their second adventure will probably involve a demon from a Rift, albeit one intentionally summoned by a shifter.
>>92635629Probably not until after KS is dead and someone else buys up the IP.
>>92646216>RIFTS videogameSo many possibilities with this. It would be entirely feasible to model the complexity of the tabletop system with an existing game engine like Unreal. The big mystery is why it hasn't happened already.
>>92647852Wait, you can plan SWADE games? I thought you just drew cards and dealed.
>>92647923Funny. About on par with, "You can plan Palladium Rifts games? I thought you just rolled on random tables until your character imploded."
>>92647908A small scale thing would like Dillion's Rolling Western. Basically a action/management game about something like a Glitterboy defending a village from monsters attacking from different directions.
Anyone have a larger size of pic related?
Do people use this for mech combat?
Did some shemarrians.
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>>92656621And a bonus, spoopy booba:https://files.catbox.moe/drfev0.jpg
>>92656623>>92656621>>92656615>>92656604If only Hagan knew what Moe meant when he designed the shermarian!
>>92656604Damn nice! Could you offer up the prompt as well for these?
>>92654656Actually yes. Sometimes my party fights beefy robots or have special weapons that deliberately induce damage effect rolls. Obviously, losing life support on a robot doesn't make sense so I reroll when that happens.
>>92659094Sure. There were a lot of variations as you can see with different artists, backgrounds, etc. but the main of it was:>dark black & white anime ink illustration in the style of the HR Giger Newton Ewell with chiaroscuro showing a post-apoc amazon atop a monstrous four-legged biomechanical robot. She has blue hair tied into a crown, long antennas, neon-blue transparent armor, motherly, huge pauldrons, elegant face, and a huge futuristic railgun. The robot has a squat body, glossy bulbous head and a long tail. White background.Have a psi-stalker too.
>>92659551>have special weapons that deliberately induce damage effect rollsInteresting. Care to share those? I was looking for some special weapons.
I've been on a fallout kick lately and was wondering, what is Los Vegas like in Rifts? Does it have a Mega Rat Pack? Is the Strip some ethereal psychic Dreamland?
>>92662783It's been mostly destroyed but of course it's also the secret home of Bandito Arms, at it's Area 51/Nellis Air Force Base superfactory location where it makes all its advanced hardware.. But there's no reason you can't have a MegaRat Pack (lol) in your game, alongside a Mr House or other local minor player which BA ignores and who doesn't have any influence outside of the small urban area of Las Vegas. Maybe he runs the casinos for all the lonely psi-stalkers and simvan types in the New West.
>>92634888>Hades and Dyval books had lots of different demonsThose two + China 1 I use for demons.Loads of types.
>>92635629As >>92647863 said. Won't happen until KS dies.>>92638549Probably also adjust the combat rolls so not everything is a PP roll.
>>92646216>>92647812>>92647908If I had to guess, it's probably because it requires a studio with A LOT of free time for art direction due to how weird shit can get.And it probably requires a studio willing to deal with Kevin's bullshit, since I can see him trying to micromanage as much as a Games Workshop or WotC.
>>92662783Vegas is mentioned in New West to basically be the hell city from that one Stephen King book.It's all ghosts, demons, and notSatan there.
>>92664378>ChinaOh yeah, that's a good one, if you can justify why Chinese demons would be anywhere else than China. Yes, I know, it's RIFTS. It's always fucking RIFTS!
>>92665015I just don't address it because my players don't give a fuck about east asia so they don't even look in those books if I don't specifically recommend something from them.
>>92660293Simvan monster rider? What color are they supposed to be anyway? Underneath the bandages.
>>92665145I always assumed they were brown/grey but I just noticed D-Bees of NA doesn't say.
>>92665253Given they're in Texas, I'd assume brown/gray too, lol. But a bit of color is nice.
>>92665888I agree, though in my western US (or south western) Rifts campaigns I tend to use a lot more humans, borgs, grackletooth, and giant monsters.Simvan just come across as unnecessary to me.
>>92662917>Maybe he runs the casinos for all the lonely psi-stalkers and simvan types in the New West.I think psistalkers and simvans would be big on gambling on snuff fights. Simvams round up monsters and wizards and psistalkers get off on their PPE hitting the ether.
>>92666371>>92665888>>92665253>>92665145I think simvans exist entirely on that Kevin thought they would look cool and did no other thoughts.
>>92626446Is there a world book that discusses forming circuses or entertainment troupes? If so, which one please?
>>92672263Rifts Black Market has a section on creating circuses and traveling freak shows to use as covers to black market dealings.
>>92672263The old Rifts Worldbook 1 - Vampire Kingdoms p117 is what you want. Heck, I'll upload the section for you.
>>92668980Look cool as what, though? Bandaged beetle riders? I'm not sure what he was going for here. Also, if they're monster-riders and that's their schtick, shouldn't they have more monster mounts than just fury beetles? Like, I dunno, devil unicorns, dragons, rhino-buffalo, raptors, dragon-girls?
Aynone know if there are any radiation rules for Rifts?
>>92676262Bing refused to depict the dragon getting chased by simvans, cowboys, or being chased in anyway.Can you even ride dragons in Palladium as a whole? The sentient ones are pricks and too strong to be tamed out the gate and non sentient ones are never talked about being ridden or demotivated. Then again there is a ton of PF stuff so I wouldn't be surprised if there was a dragon rider OCC or something.Gods and dragons book has a god riding a dragon but I didn't read anything about it.
>>92676532Barely. In triax, uranium rounds for guns stop regeneration until they are removed.Heroes unlimited has raditon sickness in its Control Radiation power snd lists it as nasuae, shiting blood and a whole lot of other things along with 3d6 sdc damage daily intil treated.The combat penalties are halving your PE and all bonuses, skill and speed reduced by 10%, reduced melees by one, then it says that immediate treatment will mean 3d4 days to recover and an additional 3 days for every day they do not seek treatment.I've seen other systems simplify that to just saying all your stats are halved and you suffer a damage tick until you get cured.
>>92675701Nice!
>>92676558>captcha: DRYTD>i don't think she's dry, captcha...
>>92660392I don't really know how to copy pdf files that well so I c+v it. Copied bone weapons because that's a prerequisite to the tendril injector weapons.The hydrocutter is normally attached to a giant crab so it doesn't list a Bio-E cost. I'd say it would be ~30 bioE if it was mod version.
>>92676558In Vampire Kingdoms, it mentions that the fallen Cyber-Knight, Sir Raoul, sometimes rides Carlotta the White, his dragon girlfriend, into battle.>And then after the battle too>If you know what I mean
>>92679533Giggity.
If anyone wants the complete The Rifter series #0 to #85, the torrent is here: https://files.catbox.moe/57wqyo.torrentMaybe OP can add it to the resources pastebin?
>>92677630Complicated, but cool! Thanks.
>>92679533I keep thinking cyberknights are celibate but I think that's just confusing them with being like Jedis
>>92683280It is, one of the famous evil cyber-knights is a woman with a harem of men including a bunch of male cyber-knights.Though given seduction is an "evil" skill in palladium, maybe sex is something only bad people do outside of marriage.
>>92683909Thays a tough one, if you think about it. Can seduction be used in any way that isn't underhanded in a Rifts adventure? Like, I don't think you can have a mission that involved trying to get a nerd to be less shy about asking women out or making jaded widows learn to love again.Then again I'm obsessed with Juicers. Juicer seduction is probably just ripping your pants off and shouting.
>>92682295Funny, for two years i waited for someone to post the last Rifters, but then i got them piece and piece and now you are offering everything so easily. Tragic.
>>92685347Don't worry, Rifter 86 will come out soon and then you can wait another 2 years for someone to scan that.
Latest news on the situation.
>>92684977>Can seduction be used in any way that isn't underhanded in a Rifts adventure?Don't your adventurers have a girlfriend who waits for you at home or a fellow adventurer of the opposite sex who might be interested in a relationship? Seduction is also courtship, dating, flirting, socializing, partying.
>>92684977>ripping your pants off and shoutingNow I have another thing that gives me a random boner. Thanks.
>>92687100>Ferkelberger
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>>92687167No, they are cannibalistic murdhobos. They have no formal home so it's kind of hard to get a manipulative girlfriend thing going.
>>92664413>WotCLord knows what will happen when Kevin tries out AIs
>think about Shemarians>Think about Shemarians and things that can give Shemarians sentience>Think about how if they become sentient the obviously that means a host of illogical and unproductive personality ticks>Think that some Shemarians will be dumb as well as smart>Think about a Shemarians bimbo anime harem traveling in a bright pink MDC RV searching for handsome men to be their kens to their Barbies.>Life in (dura-)plastic, it's fantastic!Something is wrong with me.
>>92693715>KILL ALL D-BEES WHO INFRINGE COPYRIGHT!!!
>>92690079How can one man be so butthurt for so long. Let it go, anon, let it go...
>>92697034>>92690079What is DB09 and why is it worth getting mad about?
>>92697209Dimension Book 9 - United Worlds of Warlock for Phase World, which will never get published because of complications, even though it was finished and had a cover and everything.
>>92695051>barbie shemarriansThat's brilliant, stealing the idea for a future encounter.
>>92697352He just had to make an RCC that was of mickey mouse, huh? Really though I would like to know why it's not going to happen.
>>92697651>Christmas comes for you all>For you all
>>92697209As >>92697352 said.It was about the one major power group of the Three Galaxies missing loads of lore (not counting cosmo-knights and other super high tier shit), it was supposed to have all of the space techno-wizardry that is kind of necessary to know what power levels TW has in 3G given they keep harping on about how it's far better than the tech due to the dwarven influence but not mass-market capable, and according to the writer it had a whole section on religion within the 3G, various cults (good and bad), and how the gods that are fucking around in space factor in.Allegedly the reason for the cancellation is because it had references to content from Rifts or Palladium Fantasy in it, and this was during that phase where Kevin was trying to separate all of the properties to better separate them for licensing deals since he thought the movie was definitely going to happen.
>>92698296And they can't just release it now that things are clearly different?
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>>92700557New bread:>>92700700>>92700700>>92700700verry rucky numba!
