RIFTS! The science fantasy world of post-apoc cyborgs, wizards, dragons, ninjas, giant mecha, super-nazis, robot ninjas, vampires, underwater kingdoms, remnant human supertech civilizations and everything you can imagine all rolled into one setting where interdimensional RIFTS have pierced Earth's fabric and turned it into a playground for aliens and monsters!Plus other Palladium Games about superheroes, zombies, classic fantasy, supernaturals investigation and more. 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 discord:https://discord.gg/xGkk75Z>Scholarly Adventures reviews and guideshttps://www.scholarlyadventures.com/blog>The Rifter torrent with issues #0 to #85https://files.catbox.moe/57wqyo.torrentWho's ordering surprise gift bags from Santa Kevin this year? Did you get your TMNT redux books? Are you playing any Palladium games?!
I have to say, the redone/colorized artwork for TMNT Redux is pretty sweet.
>>97174572Good reviews of the Redux books:https://www.scholarlyadventures.com/post/legacy-review-12-tmnt-other-strangeness-redux-edition-book-1https://www.scholarlyadventures.com/post/legacy-review-13-transdimensional-tmnt-redux-edition-book-2
>>97173634Recently started playing rifts again.Why does the Cyber-Knight have less psychic powers than half of the major psychics?
>>97180646Good question, one which has caused a lot of arguments on the Palladium forums over the years. It's generally accepted that the Cyber-Knight is underpowered compared to other OCCs at its supposed power level. That said, they're supposed to be mainly melee combatants with their psi-sword, cyber-armor and combat psionics making them strong close-range fighters, while Mind Melters and the like are more back-row artillery.
>>97180646Where on Rifts Earth are you playing?
>>97182365Isn't there a psy-snake rrc just like this?
>>97182370>>97182534Psi-snake... psi-snake... sorry, can't think of where that might be atm. Maybe Mutants in the Yucatan? I'd have to check.
>>97182534>>97182572Oh, you probably mean from Rifts. Yes, the Pythonans, and also Vermuleans.
>>97182365>>97182580Yup, that's it, same energy.
>>97180646Well they started with none at all until they started embezzling powers they came across
>>97182580>>97182625Those guys are in worldbook 21 Splynn Dimensional Market, page 85.
>>97182643Lord Coake really deserved his 80s moniker.
>>97182726I unitonically run my cyberknights that way & it's a LOT more fun. They try to pass themselves off as do-gooders, but frequently end up just stealing supplies & resources from those they save.
>>97180884Numbers wise they are a power house in melee once they're like level 6, before then it's just abusing the fact they can run and shoot from what I can see.>>97181121GM has customized a region of the south east US.
Is this just a reprint of the old Manhunters book with a new cover and title, or does it have new rules/psionics/updates like some of the other Revised books?
>>97186052I've never seen this one, where'd you find it?
>>97186616Right in the Pally shop:https://palladiumbooks.com/shop/futuristic/rifts-rpg/rifts-sourcebooks/rifts-psi-ops-psychic-war/Now it says that they only added XP tables, but IME Palladium does a lot of stealth edits/shadow rules changes in their revised books, so I'm wondering if anyone here has the book to verify whether it's all old material or there's an upgrade for psionics here.
The more interesting question is when the fuzz are we going to get the Lazlo sourcebook? Is there a book release schedule for 2026? This snip has been teased for years now with no actual product.
>>97187348OK, I found this, but it looks the same as in early 2025. CS Arsenal might be interesting if it isn't just another weapons catalog. >THE BLEAKNESS>sad goth noises
>>97187348We will never get Lazlo. Politics are starting to effect RIFTS terribly, idiots out there think the CS are somehow the bad guys. The Lazlo pre-order apparently has shit like thought police no standing military & all kinds of conflicting liberal double think because they can't reconcile the idea of 80's left on which it was made & 20's left which is what they expect. Plus, if they finally finish it, they might get rid of the awesome TW borg bits. If they remove the personal rift generator I fucking riot
>>97187745>If they remove the personal rift generator I fucking riotThat thing is way overpowered anyway! RIFTS should only be a GM's prerogative for plot purposes.
>>97178105>>97174572I always wondered, do people play TMNT with the book as the only resource or do they pull in other palladium books for their campaigns?
>>97187745They already outlined the society in the rifters, just make the lore and dont talk about cancel culture.Better yet, lean into it. This is Palladium, everyone reading hates the hell out of this shit. Make a three page comprehensive section on dragons being racist and the many slurs they have for other species as well as a efforts they take to invent new slurs.Have a terrorist group that the all human faction sponsored called The Cancel Council. Originally sponsored to fight the legal prostitution and controlled drug substance policies that has spiraled out of control into hypocritical terrorists trying to take over by violence, hypocrisy, and lying. They are all magesor TW item users specifically on stopping or disabling people.
>>97187876Fuck you Shifters, Atlanteans & LL Rifters can do shit, let my TW Golem do cool shit too.>>97188452I just want a Demolition Man style "utopia" with magic that is loosing ground as anytime they try to extend their reach past the liberal campus town focus gets bogged down by committees & politicking, etc. It's just a huge bureaucracy filled with bleeding hearts that are ultimately powerless.
>>97188452To go further on the Cancel Council:Their races are almost entirely nexus born humans although most will 'self identify' as a DBee or a made up gender to make themselves more important within their internal hierarchy. Every member is a communist.They focus on spells that deny people things. Although they originally believing in only canceling sort of spells they quickly embrace the most destructive kind of spells as their sponsors abandoned them and they became angrier.Typical spells:Mute, blind, mental shock, globe of silence, agony, sorcerers rage, sorcerers fury, dessicate supernatural, and more recently some spoiling magic.It is of note that the CC go to any means to convince mentors to teach spells to all of their members, usually by trying to convince them to their cause.
>>97188514I think its ultimately going to go that way except I think you cant have the sheltered naivety the future people had in that setting. Also Rifters are the coolest class and no one talks about them because we dont want those normies ruining it.>>97188547Continuing:Penalty: CC mages are typically formally trained Lazlo mages before joining the terrorist group, this means they have the conviction to cast spells but their insane ideology severally retards their abilities, reflecting a permanent hard cap in their maximum PPE and they can never cast with a level bonus higher than 6. To compensate, they will attack in large gangs with most participants standing idly by to give PPE to more powerful members.Their idealogy can be defined by three way contradictions on most topics. Anyone taking them seriously has deciphered it as it being empty promises and all they really want is to take over Lazlo.Examples:>Anti Sex, pro sexworker, anti independent sexwork,>anti cop, pro plurative punishment, anti defense military, pro attacking other militaries they dont like.>anti government but all for opinion suppression It is suspected Duscon and Prosek are sponsors, whoever they are they send thousands of creds to keep this group alive.
>>97188615I forgot to add:Their PPE cannot go above 67.
>>97187745>Thinking the faction explicitly based on the Nazis where every named NPC has an evil alignment and all the armor has a skull motif and player characters explicitly couldn't take their OCCs without being a deserter are the bad guys is a wrong take somehow.This is your brain on MAGA.
>>97188615Rifter or LLRifter? They're two different classes
>>97188640What? Fuck Trump. The CS is one of the only factions still fighting the good fight against all the invaders. Magic & Psychic powers are fine to me, but all the fucking aliens & D-Bees can fuck off Earth. It's our fucking homeland & I don't care how the fuck you got here but you need to fucking leave
>>97188452>>97188547>>97188615>>97188623Holy buttfucks, Batman, this is better than anything I've read about Lazlo before. Let's write a netbook and distribute it before the real book gets published. In 2029.
>>97188514>Demolition Man style "utopia"A Brave New World take on Lazlo might be best. "Friendly fascist/communist oppression through managed democracy" would be a new take. With nasty underground cabals fighting for actual power while shielded by pleasant-looking front groups/parties, like the Muslim Brotherhood hiding behind charitable NGOs. The Promise of Power game showed how power corrupts, even in nice places like Lazlo.
>>97186052>>97186616>>97187330This is a reprint of Coalition Manhunters with a new title & artwork cover. The rest is the same. They changed it because people confused Rifts Manhunter (a separate dimension book) with this one.
>>97188640>>97188640My guy, as someone who started played Palladium in the late 90's, this has always been a problem.Kevin has always had a hardon for the Coalition States being actually the good guys.
>>97188676You can argue in favor of Triax and maybe New Quebec but the Coaliton explicitly raises their populace to be illiterate and organizes book burnings as well as initiating random purges of people just living peacefully.
>>97193073>initiating random purges of peopleBut annual purges are a good thing...
>>97193073You can't read magic books to summon demons if you can't read.
Oh, what’s the best way to play this, emulation wise? I’m aware of the remaster of it in the works, but god knows that’ll come out.
>>97190775Comment above was toward this, my bad - missed the reply ID
>>97195668>>97195674>I’m aware of the remaster of it in the worksThe kickstarter for that failed so there's nothing in the works. https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/palladium-books-inc/rifts-promise-of-power-reforgedYou can get the Symbian emulator yourself:https://github.com/EKA2L1/EKA2L1https://eka2l1.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_PageThe ROM is here:https://files.catbox.moe/wbnrmy.zip
>>97193073Operation Prometheus. Explain how that was a good thing, bone heads!
>>97188791>>97190775The thing with writing settings is to make it a bad place or obvious problems. Bad places and problems give players the foundations for adventures. 40k works, kinda, because its a bad place with many problems. Moreso in the the sense for being an oppressive force when playing the imperium.Personally I think CS wank is all about vicarious oppressor fantasy like in 40k or at least trying to tap that market.
>>97196068Thanks! Managed to get it working - only off issue is the audio isn’t playing for some reason. Though it’s pretty minor since I usually got background music/vids playing anyway.
>>97199534Good job! Too bad about the audio, the game has pretty good sound effects and music (although it's very repetitive). If you record something post it on youtube and post a link here. There's only been 1 person who ever played the majority of the damn thing that I could find on YT, and it was Sinatar. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT0Vf_mchC9N4RGTEH9fkC26d58HJafGt
>>97188162I've mostly played TMNT with all the books, especially the ones adventure ones (Hollywood, Road Hogs). You don't need them but they provide easy NPCs, locations and adventure hooks.
>>97187398>>97187745>>97188452>LAzlo 1>LAzlo 2Lord, Kevin must be sitting on a pile of a dozen manuscripts to get this much writing. Two fat books? Haven't had this much since Australia and China. There'd better be an 8-page writeup on Plato and Erin Tarn therein.
>>97199801>There'd better be an 8-page writeup on Plato and Erin Tarn therein.He's only been promising it for, what, forty years? I can understand him not really being into writing about a city state surrounding colleges and left-of-military dictatorship governing but being a writer he has the opportunity doing it his way.I saw we collectively piss on his grave if he tries dying and letting Sean write it.
>>97196068Thanks, Im going to ball up and give it a shot!
>>97201000>1000Good for you. Let us know how it goes. Also, does anyone know if Promise of Power used lore from Rifts China, or did it predate that? Cause it has a whole ass chapter set there and it's weird af.
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>>97204115>Chinese demons>for reference>they're talking about a 6-year-old girl they kidnapped
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>>97193396Actually in Rifts it's more likely you'll be approached by a familiar than summoning one on your own.
>>97188676>The CS is one of the only factions still fighting the good fight against all the invaders.Actually, every earth founded faction is fighting an invasion. Literally every level, spiritual, mental, physical, vegatable, and mineral, there is an invasion.Then you have grey areas on what is a dbee. Like atlanteans, lemurans, cat people, and most fae are from Earth but have been gone for a while.
>>97205602Atlanteans & Lemurans are alright. Anything that started on Earth is fine in my books, even magic. But every fucking D-Bee that came from a Rift can fucking die. Get the fuck off my fucking planet you squatter piece of shit, I don't care how you got here or how long you've stayed. Even human D-Bees are suspect. Pleasure bunny females can stay & that is the ONLY EXCEPTION!
>>97188452To continue more Lazlo fluffing:>Bone Brothers (or The Boners)A biker gang that rides around Lazlo and its satellite communities. Too soft to do the Coalition Goosestep, too hard to so the Lazlo trot, the Bone brothers dont quite fit in. They take up riding in packs on whatever assorted vehicles they can manage to afford or repair favoring motorcycles which they see as an extension of personal independance. They keep a loose military structure in terms of hierarchy, although they make a distinction between their rank in the CS and their rank in the gang.They are to be summed up, riotous oafs. Communities are leary when they here the parade of their bikes and most will decide to close shop early as they come to town. On a good day, they will ride up to the local bar, eat and drink anything not nailed down, and then roll away leaving a mess behind. At worst they are a gang pushing a drunken version of Coalition Law and killing anyone protesting. They argue that crimes committed by members are the fault of the individuals and that the Boners are not responsible, others argue that they are not-so-secret insurgents trying to weaken Lazlo for an invasion. The Brothers are given more slack from authorities under the premise that they are just adjusting to this new life, and roving bands of fighting men does suppress random banditry.What they don't know is that both opinions are true. The Boners are in the middle of a power struggle between the current leader, Bobby Robinson, and his honor guard and a fiery new comer, Ronnie Bibbles. Bobby wants the gang to be an outlet for motor heads and treating soldiers who were made to do bad things. Ronnie is a secret CS spy and wants to take over the brotherhood and create a crime cartel focusing on drug trafficking and political terrorism.
>>97206912>boner used to mean 'a mistake'>now it means 'an erection'>in 109 PA...?We had a vampire biker gang in our game.
>>97208087That is very metal. I'm stealing that.
>>97182572I love my Alaskan, racist, cannibal snake wife!
>>97206912To finishBone Brothers are equipped with personal vehicles as it is a note that to be a member you must have a personal vehicle. Motorcycles are preferred. Members wear common light or medium MDC armor with their gang colors or important emblems glued on their backs. They do however stay well armed with over 50% still owning CS rifles they defected with. It is rumored that they have a dug out headquarters where a skull walker or DH transport is being repaired.If you encounter the Brothers on the road it is important to keep your cool. Both Bobby and Ronnie followers are easily provoked to violence but only the Bobby faction who are ardent about not killing civilians. Ronnie faction members are encouraged to lie and present as well meaning until they strike, however, this order is often ignored as gangs prefer to charge in leveling laser fire before they know what's happening.I have been trying to post on this board for DAYS and the new captcha keeps bugging out on me. Are you guys having problems with it?
>>97214460>Motorcycles are preferredWouldn't the use hovercycles instead? >new captcha Do you have X-Chan installed? You need to update it.
>>97208087>>97209768Thanks, I got more.
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>>97215336One, because I thought it looked cooler and tapped the nature of biker gangs.For the other, hovercycles cost ten times as much as mdc motorcycles with Golden Age bikes (140mph, 25 mdc) costing only 11,000. I figured shell shocked slack jaw defectors would be strapped for cash.But Im talking about posting on mobile. It gives a catchy not required and then fails to post stating that captcha was filled incorrectly.
>>97215931>But Im talking about posting on mobile.Then it depends on which mobile app you're using. It needs to be updated to properly load the new captcha. Update your app. You do understand that it works on a "one of these things is not like the other" basis, and that you have to wait for the cooldown timer to hit 0 and show "Done", right?
Is there any kind of random NPC generator for Rifts?
>>97217278Pick an armor, pick a weapon. Give them a fee bonuses to whatever you think they'd be good at & negative to what they'd be bad at. Done
Where can I find werewolf stats in Rifts? >>97218334What about race? OCC? Special abilities? Magic spells? Bionics?
>>97217079Nope, Im up to date. Fix your shit, hiro!
>>97218541Yeah you can add those in if they're relevant
Should stone magic pyramids be actual dungeons for adventurers to explore and conquer?
WHERE IS RIFTS ANTARCTICA?!?!?!?!?
>>97221402At the bottom of RIFTS Earth
>>97218541>Where can I find werewolf stats in Rifts?Dark conversions. It's just one page so here you go. Not exactly a as fleshed out as vampires but similar gimmicks.
>>97222096Thanks. Jesus, this new captcha is one surefire way to kill this board.
>>97223853I like it. No typing or clicking on picture, or moving a slider & then typing a secret code. It's a quick three pics with an obvious odd man out, takes me a second to do it as opposed to the others
>>97187745>idiots out there think the CS are somehow the bad guys...They are. They're fucking Nazis. The corebook straight-up says that there might be a few decent people serving the Coalition who might somehow be ignorant of what they do, but the military as a whole is outright evil.In short, go fuck yourself, you fascist apologist.
>>97224047In connection with the D-Bee question I have this to say: it is a shameful spectacle to see how the whole Post-Rifts world is oozing sympathy for the poor tormented D-Bee creatures, but remains hard-hearted and obdurate when it comes to helping them which is surely, in view of its attitude, an obvious duty. The arguments that are brought up as an excuse for not helping them actually speak for us Coalition citizenry.For this is what they say:1. "We," that is Lazlo, "are not in a position to take in the D-Bees." Yet in these empires there are not 10 people to the square kilometer. While Chi-Town, with her 135 inhabitants to the square kilometer, is supposed to have room for them!
>>97223853The part with the dice being empty screwed with me for the better part of a day. I don't know why, my reading comprehension has never been this bad, I think.Anyway. I'm tired of forge and other applets not having anything close to good tokens for Rifts. I'm going to make some and disperse it like seeds in a field, goddamnit! It's gonna be a lot of inpainting but w/e.Give me suggestions of what to do first. I was thinking working down the OCCs in the Ulti for a start.
>>97227063>working down the OCCs in the Ulti for a start.That's a good start! Some d-bees would be nice too. Maybe...>Cactus People>Quick-Flex>Larmac>Grackletooth>Staphra>Vanguard Brawler>Horune>I still don't get how those dice boxes work in captcha
>>97227092My alcoholic cactus people were never appreciated.
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>>97227120But the lizardwomen always delivered the goods.
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>>97227115>Explicit plant paintings on wall
>>97188640>Because they have edgy costumes and have villains>They must be "bad guys"This is your brain when you have an underdeveloped frontal lobe.
I would like to run a Rifts game. I created a shoddy system for Foundry to play Palladium Fantasy, but the core book was so badly written that I would not want to touch coding Rifts with a 10' pole. Are there any ways other than taking the SW pill to play rifts online?
>>97231440Not that I know of. There's an Excel character generator for sale on the Palladium Books website but I don't know of any automatic systems. Savage Rifts is much better supported in that regard.
>>97231440>SWpillStar Wars?
>>97173634Have a Merry Christmas, Riftsbros (and Pally Pals)!Eat plenty of that Juiced Juicer Turkey to grow your muscles and size. >>97227063These are some nice Rifts tokens. Post moar. >>97227675>>Explicit plant paintings on wallWow, on a blue board, even! Those horny buggers...
>>97236426>post moarI am trying!
>>97237314Here is standard base bitch merc soldier. I was trying to get the wellington body armor and various other depictions of generic body armor.
>>97237317Here is my attempt at a glitterboy. The head was made by cutting up a picture of the glitter boy head and stretching then inpainting. Then I realized the shoulders of the US-G10 is like a curved surfboard and looks terrible.
>>97237330And this one is without the shoulder cannon so it can be shopped for the japanese variants at a later date.
>>97237314I should note, whenever I think of crazies or corpos in Cyberpunk I always thought of this guy.
>>97237314>>97237317>>97237330>>97237336>>97237352Nice, nice, but I don't know who the last guy is.
Merry RIFTSmas
>>97241774The top thug of an Evil CEO in a 6am UPN kids show about basically cyberpunk. He was stone cold killer that they slapped crude corporate family friendly designs on his armor, ie Mr. Stinko and a tie.>>97241774I have been searching our Merry Juicemas stuff but cant find it. Happy juice year!
>>97242760>>97241774Merry Juicemas, Riftsbros.
>>97239579Got super busy. Here is a combat borg. For people who played the OCC, do you want a drill arm? I ask because I'm being a lazy bastard and despite being super cool, I never see people play that mod.
>>97243552This one came out almost perfect. Half dome or no? It's the headhunter OCC, btw.
>>97243563And a samson for the robot pilot OCC. I'm also phoning this one is because I have played rifts for decades and have never seen a single person use a samson, ever. He's the opening act for the Titan flying armor with the butt. No one likes you, Samson.
>>97243552Fuck yeah, that's wicked! Give him drill arms and chainsaw knees!>>97243563No chromedome is better. >>97243616Nice. Could you do a SAMAS and a UAR-1, please? Very nice work.
Anyone have a PDF of Savage Rifts South America they can share?
>>97247628They are up to SA now? Do they still keep the hidden city of cat people?
>>97248181They're up to New West and Atlantis now, even. Yeah, they've got Omagua in there, but they're not sexy, sadly (pic related). I'm just surprised they kept Maga Island without retconning it, given the politics of the Savage Worlds owners.
>>97247628>>97250928embiggened
>>97247628File is here, for 3 days only: https://litter.catbox.moe/sonffh1kgydal50n.pdfEnjoy.
>>97250928>but they're not sexy, sadly (pic related).
>>97245156I think I would really have to. Every campaign I've had someone play a SAMAS or its mexican knock off, the Wild Weasal. Also I missed one.
>>97252725Here's a special one for Uncle Kev, it's croak blackthrone! Who I forgot to designate gender and I decided to keep it!
>>97245156Also, here you go, chainsaw knees, drill, scuff, missile pods.
>>97227092Some DBees on your list.What the hell is the difference between a grackletooth and a Larmac?
>>97252807I can't find anything about grackle tooth females so, I figured it's because they are so big boss bitch they are afraid to write about them.
>>97252893I might roll a grackle next character although their personalities sound pretty hard coded. Basically you're hellboy without the Russian esoteric knowledge.
>>97252807Awesome gens, anon. >>97252730>>97252734Ahahaha, that's hilarious, well done!
>>97174572Yeah im loving mineGot the red white and black editions, pretty happy with them>>97180646Because they have twice the combat skills and starting gear of a common psyionics
>>97187745Hey got raw myself, its totally blm coded bs with a literal apology for having cops, the said cops will only use force on demons, going so far as to try not to harm tectonic psi entities...Its big and you can tell a reddit tier commie got a run over it.Unless Kevin rips a shit ton out of it, they will sign their own death warrant. Its that bad.
>>97188640The CS is the only force stoping the influx of demons and devils taking over earth.If they fall the spligorths will takecall of earth to "defend" it and then slave it all out to tbe 3 galaxies
>>97193073>New QuebecThe guys who see the CS as pussies and not human supremacist enough? Yeah, look hasn't read the lore.Also the NGR...triax is the industrial company of the ngr...has a dbee on their ruling council, like a 4 armed ru-ha-man giant
>>97206343>Pleasure bunny femalesMade on earth by humans
>>97260495Can you post a pdf or scans? Usually I’m pretty ambivalent when Rifts has WTF moments with author’s fiat, since I can chuck out the stuff I ain’t keen on, but this sounds like a definite read-to-believe thing if this was in the literal works
>>97261648I can snap some shitty shots when i get home.Just of the libtard shit not everything though......covenant of the buyer and all
>>97261112How are the cs trooper the most authoritarian? Not even being edgy but the Naurani are both more techy and more authoritarian
>>97193058>Kevin has always had a hardon for the Coalition States being actually the good guys.Because they are. Racism and fascism are good things when faced with existential threats. And healthy humanity is faced with an existential threat that it must either exterminate or cease to exist. And they're threatened with that in RIFTS, too.
>>97260569But not THIS earth
>>97261112Hell yeah! Sombody used my shitty Juicerchad
>>97261738Anyway I could beg you to post just the Metal Head OCC? Or some of the TW gear?
>>97261648Thanks, anon
>>97173634What are the strengths and weaknesses of Rifts? What about some of the other games like Heroes Unlimited?
>>97264750The strength is being one big huge never ending game with a ton of source material, no new editions or shit like that.Its also a flaw because not everything has actual rules. & sometimes those rules have been updated or changed in another book somewhere down the line.But another strength is being a dimension spanning menagerie of 80's heavy metal kitchen sink scifi & fantasy
I really love how Amazons from South America can gain the powers of the monsters they defeat.
>>97265301Strengths:>fantastic campaign kitchen-sink setting>play any kind of race or class imaginable>intricate combat involving martials, strikes, parries, leaps, etc.>shift between genres and go to other planets, dimensions, places using the rifts>wild, weird and funWeaknesses:>too many skills>combat options get very complicated>many rules don't make sense, are inconsistent, or contradict each other>hundreds of tiny subrules everywhere>over 100 books published so a lot of reading to understand everything>poor editing and layout, difficult to find rules or specific info
>>97265922Get the fuck out of this thread
>>97264750Pros:>shitton of source material so you always have stuff to play with>deadly AD&D combat with more focuses on survival and tacticsCons:>some rules are wonky, with a bunch of "small details" or "fixes" spread through all the books>it's an 80s RPG, so balance wasn't a concern when making the gameSame for Heroes Unlimited and pretty much every other Palladium game.
Post weird d-bees. >Arkhons>part dog>part cat>part lizard
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>>97267076>Falam>big arms>very long reach
>>97267106>mutant condoroid>psionically-accelerated birdmen
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>>97263502I forgot ill set an alarm for when im off work, and sure>>97266275Balance is for bad GM'S that either cant say no or dont research the monsters/Villians they are using
>>97267076>>97267106>>97267270>>97265922Savages aren't welcome here
>>97265922This is cancer, but it becomes much better by changing a single letter of the text.>"Every time an Amazon lays a Wild Card Monster which possesses one of the qualities listed on the Sacred Hunt Table..."
>>97268216>not changing the single letter in 'Hunt'smdh
>>97268066BasedYeah fuck of savage fags
>>97267270>the rare Obamaian Snake People
>>97187348Right after Robotech Tactics.
>>97260495That's pitiful. I'm gonna write a correction>BAG>Name: Brigade of Assisting Guardians (Unofficially called Bad Ass Geriactrics)Lazlo is a swirling pool of not just magic and technology but also Earth, DBEE, and forgotten earth cultures. This means that the law needs a presence but a soft, understanding, motherly presence. Rather than having armed real police to arrive and make things worse a division of Lazlo citizens, chosen out of statistically understanding demographics was formed. As part of it, it's members were magically augmented to overcome physical disabilities. Old women were the first chosen, with the disabled and mentally informed as auxilery hires.Unforeseeable by anyone, surely, was that BAGs would become the darkest secret in Lazlo history. The records their agents don't falsify are heavily redacted and chronicles the worst beatdqowns in Lazlo history. It turns out that old women can be exceptionally brutal and highly racist when augmented into MD creature physical ability. Are you OD'ing on expired juicer drugs you found in a puddle in an ally? BAGs will bear hug you until toy stomach contents shoot out your ass then heal you from death to bear death, then toss you in lockup. Paperwork will of course say you had aggressive diarrhea and surrendered willingly with the words saying you will accept future wellness checks from BAGs underlined.
>>97269359Of course, meetings about the propositions to form committees to investigate the root of the matter were enacted. They found that while most technowizard enchantments shouldn't cause negative mental states, it was theorized that taking a disabled and old person and elevating their abilities so much, that temporarily stopping all those pains of old age, can act like a drug or demonic pact in of itself and that BAG should be shut down for harassment and corruption. He would later retract his recommendation citing medical issues with his pelvis and glutes.
>>97187745>>97260495>>97261648>>97269359>>97269454Here we go
>>97269646Note the sorry if cops bother youIts not prostitution its sex work! And pimps aren't allowed dang it
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>>97269662What's a TW Autofriend?
>>97269874Tw drone with an illusion body, pretty fucking lame actually.
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>>97269646Crap you weren't kidding, whoever wrote that sensitivity disclaimer is hopefully barred from writing any more fluff. If people wanna do some grimdark Judge Dredd style policing, that's their table's pejorative, not anyone's obligation to pander to some potential sissy who can't separate fiction from reality much less the author.
>>97269958I'm gonna go out on a limb & say it might be Mark Hall? He's a freelancer writer & from what I remember of him on the giantitp forums he would definitely write a disclaimer like that.
>>97269921>>97269917Those are cool & of course they must be proprietary tech! (Also, If they have telekinesis how have they not cornered the sex market?) My biggest grumble is how all the cool shit is exclusive. Thank you very very much for sharing this stuff. If I can ask, are there any good spells or armor in the book?
>>97269958>>97269991Written by Mark Oberle>>97270003Honestly not really, ill snap a few extra pictures sometime, im sleepy
>>97227092Here is the rest of the DBees. This batch was super scuffed but I got the Harune eyes, which I think is a good thing. Thanks to the anon who posted that Staphra pdf god knows how long ago. I had to dig that up....How many DBees are basically green people or lizard people?
>>97269646Yeah, that is pretty damn cringe. It reminds me of Washington cities who had to put BLM signs on their windows to hope to avoid antifa smashing their stores or homes. I see see those signs up and I still think they are living in fear.I think it's pretty pathetic. Both in that the threat of these things needing to be put in ttrpgs turned out to be toothless threats and that how these writers rolled over for the softest representation of terrorism.
>>97270172Id like to belive Kevin wouldn't put that in a final version. Hes never been anti cop or military so I doubt it would make the final edit.Its a product of its time, that raw came out during the blm shit if I remember right so likely as I said it was some reddit queer hastly added it to his write up before submitting it.
>>97270057>Written by Mark Oberlehttps://rpggeek.com/rpgdesigner/18242/mark-oberleHe's written books for Palladium before but he seems to work in psychology, which is a very left-wing field even by the standards of academia. But the biggest problem with that Lazlo script isn't that it's got a small pro-BLM blurb in it; it's that it's incredibly boring. Reading the parts on law and order is mind-numbing. Lazlo is just too much of a boring goody-two-shoes lefty-liberal place so unless they spice it up with something really unique and interesting it's the last place players, or GMs, want to go. I suspect that's what is holding back the book release. Kevin looked at the manuscript and said "Where's the adventure?"
>>97270129>How many DBees are basically green people or lizard people?Half of them? I dunno, most d-bee illustrations have been B&W with only the RCC describing coloration but I only remember things visually so it's kind of random for me. I always thought Grackletooths were yellow, for example. It wasn't until Savage Rifts that we got color illustrations for a lot of things. Nice work on the tokens, riftsbro.
>>97272605Crackletooth ARE yellow
>>97272286They need to include a bunch if Rogue Scholar pulp academia stuff. Like how different scholarly societies in England would bluster & backstab while also funding expeditions into Africa, Peru, & whatnot. Imagine a bunch of human & D-Bee adventurer professors all arguing about how many dimensions a person could travel to in a day without puking up their spleen, like they used to say way back when. anything over 50mph would disrupt your vital organs!That itself adds a bucket full of adventure & intrigue.Then you get intonthe military/politics of how do you keep your morals while also making you high ideals work in the real world? Whats the line between fascist liberal utopia & fascist coalition state? Is it possible? Are there concessions & double think? Are those at the top secretly corrupt & betray the hippie hippie outlooks that their people value? Is there some level of dystopia to Lazlo that no one knew of?How does the person Lazlo, feel about the country of Lazlo & vice versa?
What is the ideal CS campaign party make up?
>>97269662Lame! No wonder its boring and will never be printed. They need to talk about prostitution.>Interdimensionally famous sex trade"We are now debating price."-Ancient quote written at the base of a statue of Rosescale, Horniest Dragon in Recorded HistoryLazlo has legal prostitution, but pimping is illegal. Its this single sentence that is the foundation of many of the common cases in Lazlo's justice system. It seems a bit stiff but many 'entrepreneurs' try to poke loopholes in these laws. The quote on the street is that if you want to make money off wholesale then do it yourself, to illustrate public sentiment.The beauracracy slips its way in with mandatory health checks and a.license for sex working. Largely its just to screen for human-compatible STDs. They just do not have the budget to screen for all DBee combinations. There is a two year leeway for the annual license renewal. That said, New Gun and Chipwell have lines of contraceptives.It is inconceivable to the human mind the power of going into a mating cycle. Try to imagine: The primal urge to mate can strangle a sentient thinking creatures thinking ability and they become a brain dead goon stumbling for a welcoming embrace. These creatures tend to be highly powerful, 20 feet nose to tail minimum, have very under documented sexual reactions to leylines, and are often adversarial to their own species but have hordes of gold. Dragons, who vanguard for this purely hypothetical species, used this scenario to shape the laws for Lazlo's sex workers. Again its dragons, who built a statue in the center of their whore district of a lecherous dragon, is doing this entirely for other lesser species and not their own kind.
kk, men of magic tokens.
>>97276029Oops, forgot the fusionist. Has anyone played on of these guys?
>>97275077>CS SAMAS Pilot>Dog Boy>Dog Boy Handler (female)>Combat Juicer>Manhunter Psyker (licensed)>Human Courtesan (closet Mystic)
>>97276029Could you name the OCCs here? I see a Shifter, LLW, maybe Magus? >>97276044They were just a new thing Kevin added to sell RUE and I have never seen them played or even mentioned anywhere else. (except the PoP video game that nobody bought)
>>97275077My table never gets more than 4 PC'sBut you want a psi stalkerCommandoSamas pilotOfficer thats an iss officer>>97278600All my players just go full warlock if they want that feel.
>>97278569I actually have several tokens for LLWs so I went with the other Mages. Maguses are really different for a token with the distinct shell helmets and things.
>>97280254>>97278569Are SAMAS pilots that broken?
>>97273316>>97272605lower right is a Vanguard Brawler, which I couldn't see what their skin tone was I went with yellow.>>97252913>>97252893These are grackletoothes. Officially they are described as redish-orange to gold skinned. Completely different!... Maybe I should label these things.
>>97275835Psi-Cola, it hits the spot. Now available in Lemon-Lime Line Walker, Blazin' Orange Burster and Coalition Cherry.
>>97174572>>97178105>>97260456OK< here's my question; is After The Bomb 2nd Edition compatible?
>>97280542Yes, honestly you dont need turtles if you got it, just use the rules and change the setting.
>>97280338>Are SAMAS pilots that broken?Depends on which samas they are piloting.The super samas and special forces ones are crazy powerful.Old style is perfectly serviceable but dated now
>>97280338SAMAS Pilots are that iconic
>>97281572Thanks! Once I get TMNT Redux, I want to see what I can port over.
>>97280542Pretty much completely compatible
>>97281956Excellent! Thanks!
It honestly chaps my ass>>97281956 so much that Stone Masters dont make TW equipment, nor do their own TW variant. I mean they supposedly were the first
>>97285048>so much that Stone Masters dont make TW equipment, nor do their own TW variant. I mean they supposedly were the firstIf you think about it, they are specialists Technowizards who specialize in the field of putting rocks on top of other rocks to create their very large TW device.
>>97287371They don't even have fucking RULES for how they make the Magic Pyramids. Then you got the crystal mages doing their own building projects & theyre not TWs either. Its fucking bullshit
>>97288670Speaking of inconsistencies>This happens whenever someone tinkers with a TItan Robotics unit.>The CS will drop the hammer on Titan Robotics if it ever found out that TR stuff is more advanced than theirs.>CS, despite their policies, are not so stupid as to not notice that lethal warranty protection might suggest that TR is hiding something from them.
>>97292665There's a little Archie bot inside that kills you for looking & disguises it as an accident
>>97280299Oof, getting though this one but I am not doing a good job. I've got to finish the rifle but I'm quickly finding that SAMAS are basically stuck out a mile in 3 directions so the wings and turbines and railgun are a big short.
>>97294554It looks great. SAMAS are pretty huge
>>97294554Sweeet! Great work!
