Shinitenshi wrote:But it's not a blank slate you can do anything with. If you mess with the climate it would have consequences that would affect the entire globe. Humans can't survive there, only a select few plants and animals can survive there, so unless you go with all the usual Pally cliches I can't see how someone would be able to make it interesting enough to have an entire WB dedicated to it.
The climate of Rifts Earth has already been messed with. Atlantis has been plopped into the Atlantic and Australia has an inland sea.
If you're thinking there's nothing interesting to be done there you're not using your imagination. There's plenty I can think up and still keep it a frozen wasteland for the most part. Populating the place with a lot of alien plant and animal life that thrive in Antarctic conditions for starters. The remains and ruins of some experimental Arcologies built there pre-Rifts built as the first stages for the orbital and moon colonies. One or two could still have survivors so you get some native humans. Toss in some new alien/d-bee invaders with some familiar faces like Palladium Ice Giants. Some haunted ruins of destroyed Arcologies and there you go.
Which would be going with the usual Pally cliches. Am I saying this book will suck...NO. My biggest gripe was that this is not something that should be a "super secret" project and it shouldn't be done before books people have been waiting for. If the book comes out and it's amazing then I'll get it.
The usual Pally cliches? I never mentioned the evil Alien Inteligence Shackl'ton who lives at the South Pole.
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Hmmmm, in watching PBS tonight there apparently is a small portion of the continent that is in fact solid rock exposed to the elements and not buried beneath ice so there is an area where you could set up shop on rock without having to burrow through possibly miles of ice. Given we've people stationed there now it's more plausible that before the Cataclysm a self-sustaining base could have been set up in that location and survived retaining some or a fairly complete range of golden age technologies.
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It's 'canon', not 'cannon'. A cannon is a big gun like on pirate ships, canon is what you mean when referring to something as being contained within one of the books such as how many dice to roll for a stat.
I can't make a decision on this book as I know NOTHING about it's contents.
Rifts earth can be anything the author wants it to be, that's the simplistic beauty of Rifts.
Rifts Antarctica could be the frozen wasteland that it is on our Earth or it could be an alien rainforest or it could be a complete void of nothingness so I can't judge. It could be full of humans or aliens or monsters or D-Bees or robots or all of that so I can't judge.
I also know nothing of the writer as I've never read anything by him or sat with him at a brainstorming (sorry, "thoughtshower") session so once again.....wait for it....I can't judge.
So my answer is I want it just so I am able to answer the OP.
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Ironically, one of the groups I GM just made a visit to Antarctica. They even found the old Amundsen-Scott research station buried under the ice. If I knew there was a Rifts book in the works for Antarctica I might've.... Nah. I would've done it anyway. If it doesn't jibe with the book, I'll disregard that particular part of the book.
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