Palladium Games and Rifts General! /PGaRG/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!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 (highly-moderated) 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.torrent>Previous thread:>>93709026>Thread Question: What's the weirdest place you've been in RIFTS? Ever been to any of the underwater kingdoms?
Wormwood is always a popular choice.
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>>97687068>What's the weirdest place you've been in RIFTS?Slime planet, gm was nice snd had us port in on a rock out cropping. From what tested it was 20ft+ deep of slime, it was alive but didn't/couldn't communicate with us....saw birds in the distance but it would have been death to go check it out...gm thought we had a jet pack....we did not. Fuck the underwater shit, ill go out my way to avoid the ocean
>>97691711Our group has been to Eylor, the Eyeball Planet. It was not as much fun as it sounds.
I recently picked up the TMNT book re-realeases, and I vaguely had memories of them being a variant of traveller. Turns out I was completely wrong and misremembered the entire thing from when I was younger. Does anyone have good advice or some shorthand notes on how the rules run. It seems a bit harder than I remember. How is after the bomb different as well if anyone knows.
>>97687068fish pussy......I'd bukkake the FUCK out of THAT roe.....
>>97696378Yeah, no, it's nothing like Traveller. Here's a short PDF primer that introduces the rules alongside an intro adventure. https://files.catbox.moe/ds5suk.pdf
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>>97696617I imagine Rifts Earth populated by these strange alien cities and their d-bee inhabitants who after hundreds of years consider it as much their home as the humans'.
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>>97696630Some surely demonic and depraved beyond measure.
>>97692830If you dont have the know how to harvest them i bet it was just alot of water and air regulation
>>97696378Have you ever played any palladium games? Same system Force random rolls for animals, make character creation a whole night. Pick a city, never leave. Were in Florence Italy right now.What are you having trouble with?
>>97696378There were two anthro races in Traveller, the canine Vargr and the feline Aslan. That may be what you are remembering. You could also be thinking of Other Suns (1983) or Justifiers (1988). Both are percentile based systems themed around anthropomorphic characters and space exploration. They could look like Traveller or Palladium if you're squinting.>It seems a bit harder than I remember.Harder how?Character creation has a lot of moving parts but it is fairly procedural. It might just seem more complex because it's like a drink from the firehose.The skill system is very straightforward. There are some ambiguities and widgets here and there but once you identify them it they don't sneak up on you.Combat is where all the rough terrain is. It starts with a basic mechanic (d20+strike vs 4 or AR to hit; d20+dodge/parry vs strike total to defend) and permutates pretty heavily from there. TMNT&OS mostly deals with hand to hand and basic firearms exchanges so the there are fewer rules forks.Where are your pain points?
>>97700229>>97700512>>97696501The character gen and skill system seem smoith enough. I guess I am struggling with running the combat smoothly with some tests I did. Mainly keeping bonuses and what players/enemies can do in mind with the grapple, holds, etc. I am gonna read it a bit more and see how it goes.I honestly think I just confused the shit out of myself when I misremembered everything. Thanks for the help everyone.
>>97701544>I am struggling with running the combat smoothlyEven long-time Pally GMs struggle with that. It's a clunky, time-consuming system with a lot of intricate parts and sub-rules. Have a summary from our home game. There are some house rules in there so caveat emptor, but the majority is RAW.
>>97702559There's also a Rifts reference guide with rule summaries that some anon made:https://files.catbox.moe/8djq1n.pdf
>>97692830Does your party violently understand the difference between a blink and two eyes winking, now?
>>97687068>What's the weirdest place you've been in RIFTS?In Heroes, I had a campaign where a NPC megaheroe's over complimentary powers created a tiered multi floor gravity anomaly cave. NEVER GOT TO USE IT BECAUSE MY PARTY ARE RETARDED CATS. Ever been to any of the underwater kingdoms?Splicers. Exploring a sunken battleship and a Maori based splicer great house. That time I was better at hearing cats. Whipped up a few aquatic monsters for them to fight.
>>97696624>>97696637These people's buildings are very angry!
>>97689108Its funny how the glitterboy killers didnt replace the SAMAS with CS players. Ive only seen it played once while the SAMAS gets played all the time.
>>97702559Thanks for post. I'm rewriting my house rules since I started up the TMNT game. This is a nice distillation of points I've been considering.
>>97704937Glitterboy killers are trash.Short range, expensive, no flight system(if i remember right)An abolisher is better suited to take down Glitterboys
>>97702559Thanks for posting this. Do you happen to have a print friendly version? I am thinking about adding this to my gm screen when I decide to run this.
