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Okay, I have books that cover your standard Werewolf and the Zenith Moon Warpers, as well as the Wolfen and the Lone Star worldbook for wolves and a great many other critters. What other books have RCCs or monsters that have a wolfish look or feel to them? I've gotten the idea that either the Canada...

One of my players ended up as a famous mercenary and anti-CS rebel. By the time of the Juicer uprising he was trying to unite merc groups that disliked the CS to aid Tolkeen and the Valkyri were one of the groups that belonged, but after the Juicer uprising they along with a lot of juicers dropped ...

You could also have the players randomly rifted to another dimension and then have to learn how Rifts work to get home. World Gate on Wormwood is a good spot for this as is Center on Phase World or the Plain of Mist also mentioned in DB2. Nothing focuses your attention on a subject like survival. Y...

What locales are usually seen as the best places to go on Rifts Earth to find dimensional rifts or experts in d-shifting, especially for someone starting out in North America? I was thinking of a character who's a D-bee or even just plain human from another dimension. One not normally visited by th...

... A small village was bringing in a lot of credits... turning child abduction into a slavery for profit scam... So much money that they had a fleet of flying Titan x-o. and lot's a boom stcks! The Valkiri learned of this wickedness; a day later that small village is nothing but ashes. Because the...

Was looking at the Juicer Uprising book again, and out of many fun ideas in it I especially like the Valkyri mercenary unit. Both out of a fondness for Amazons and for the background and setting information given with them. I was wondering, did anyone ever use them in their game as enemies, allies, ...

Thanks everyone for all the responses.

Warshield73 wrote:

Crimson Dynamo wrote:Merc-Ops is your one-stop shopping book for things like that.

I agree but the original Rifts Mercenaries has several good SDC weapons like the MP-10 and the MP-23A caseless weapons.

I double-checked and found them. Thanks.

Crimson Dynamo wrote:Merc-Ops is your one-stop shopping book for things like that.

Thanks. I meant to get that book anyway, now I have one more reason.

I would like to know if anyone can give me a few titles for books that lust a few non-M.D.C. weapons, mainly firearms, being used in the Rifts setting. I mean, it's not like the Chi-Town 'Burbs or other civilized (in theory) places would let you walk down the street with your plasma ejector or laser...

The nice thing about rifts is that they can form nearly anywhere, anytime, for any duration, and for any reason. There's also plenty of (semi-)permanent rifts as well, and still more rifts can be intentionally created through the use of magic and other supernatural abilities to boot. With that in m...

Okay. I've read in Rifts about how both City Rats and Juicers, just to name two examples, can change their O.C.C. to another class. How does this work? Can you actually have two or more O.C.C.s in Rifts or another Palladium game? I thought it was intended to be impossible. In the Palladium Books ga...

Depends a little on your timeline: Tolkien (if it still exists) New Lazlo Old Detroit (if you want to search ruins for more "unusual" practitioners) Federation of Magic (I get the impression this is a kind of keep your hand on your wallet kind of place - but keep your hand on your soul mi...

Okay. I've read in Rifts about how both City Rats and Juicers, just to name two examples, can change their O.C.C. to another class. How does this work? Can you actually have two or more O.C.C.s in Rifts or another Palladium game? I thought it was intended to be impossible. In the Palladium Books ga...

What locales are usually seen as the best places to go on Rifts Earth to find dimensional rifts or experts in d-shifting, especially for someone starting out in North America? I was thinking of a character who's a D-bee or even just plain human from another dimension. One not normally visited by the...

Thank you everyone for the responses. It seems like, barring extraordinary events like a Juicer deciding to detox rather than die, or say some spellcaster getting horribly mangled and their friends 'saving' them via cyborgization, changing O.C.C.s is a bad idea.

Okay. I've read in Rifts about how both City Rats and Juicers, just to name two examples, can change their O.C.C. to another class. How does this work? Can you actually have two or more O.C.C.s in Rifts or another Palladium game? I thought it was intended to be impossible.

Warshield73 wrote:

ardashir wrote:

Candy wrote:Definitely one of the interesting variables (along with that canon Rifter 'Nexus Born' stuff) introduced into Rifts to spice up your generic farming town.

What 'Nexus Born' stuff from the Rifter?

Rifter 73, really good stuff,

Thanks!

Candy wrote:Definitely one of the interesting variables (along with that canon Rifter 'Nexus Born' stuff) introduced into Rifts to spice up your generic farming town.

What 'Nexus Born' stuff from the Rifter?

Thanks everyone for the responses. Fadetowns sound like a great way to bring new characters into a campaign, among other things. I'll have to see about getting the Federation of Magic book.

I've been buying some Rifts and other Palladium books after many years away, and I've noticed several references to 'Fadetowns'. Just what are they? I get the idea that they're towns that rift in and out of various worlds at random. Or is it something else?

First, do they ever get or develop any new magic or psychic powers as they gain levels? Or are they always limited to what they have at first level? They are limited to what they get at first level, that in of itself is not unusual. They might also be able to gain additional powers in either catego...

Just two quick questions about the Zenith Moon Warper from the Psyscape worldbook. First, do they ever get or develop any new magic or psychic powers as they gain levels? Or are they always limited to what they have at first level? Secondly, can they take on any human form when they transform or jus...

jaymz wrote:No. Revised WB 1 has expanded information and things like Reids rangers was moved to the SB.

Thank you. I know which one to get first then.

Okay. The best one stop for all information on vampires in the Rifts setting used to be their first and one of the est world books, Vampire Kingdoms. But now I see that Rifts has a Vampires sourcebook. Has the second book replaced the former as a reference work for the Rifts vampires or not?

i wouldn't say "hotly and violently opposed", so much as "they're largely ignoring them". the upcoming Chaos Earth: First Responders goes into this a bit more, though you've pretty much pegged the why. NEMA will not help Dbees, but unless they are actively hostile will also not ...

Okay. So in the canon Chaos Earth setting NEMA is hotly and violently opposed to all D-bees they meet because they're 'invaders', intentionally or not, and more immediately because they're competition for the drastically limited amounts of food, medicine, and other resources that the humans they're ...

Hmmmm well seeing as Palladium has been annoyingly silent on the state of Pa. It would be difficult to say. No major fault lines near Pittsburgh, maybe a small quiet one, far from the coast... I suspect down town would suffer, the surrounding neighborhoods would probably fare better, I assume there...

This is some fine work here. I wouldn't mind seeing anything similar done for land-based forces, if it's been posted.

Sorry for the thread necromancy, but I like the idea from the original poster about NEMA or whoever trying to re-establish civilization around Pittsburgh. Oh, and the Wolfen coming through a Rift to join in. I was also wondering, as I currently don't have the Chaos Earth book (just read a lot about ...