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Natasha wrote:

Damian Magecraft wrote:

Pepsi Jedi wrote:I hear India has a huge movie industry. They call it 'Bollywood'. Lots of bright colors and dance numbers. They spend millions and millions on it. I've never once in my life seen a bollywood movie. Have no interest in it.

ya know?

I have seen a few Bollywood films... you are not missing much...

If only saw the Wrath of the Titans or Raven, I would say the same about Hollywood. I've seen much more than those and yet I still the same about Hollywood.

As about world books, they are most useful for stealing ideas from. I prefer the source material, not the world material. I use the world books if the players want to but I am just as happy making up my own setting. As for the book about my neck of the woods it is hit or miss. The hits are the parts that take advantage of the clean slate. The misses are the same as elsewhere in Rifts, knowing what history is relevant and which is cliché when bringing the area back to life.

Killer Cyborg wrote:Rifts: Blue Yonder
Rifts: Underground

Killer Cyborg wrote:Rifts: Underground

Braden Campbell wrote:Mars

Main idea: in ancient times, the Red Planet was strong with ley line activity while Earth was weak. While it never developed intelligient life natively, it was a kind of dimensional crossroads for thousands of years, and several differrent peoples lived there for generations before being killed/ dying off/ moving on.

The book would basically take the theories of Richard C. Hoagland (there are 5-sided pyramids and giant faces built on tehsurface by ancient peoples, ect.) and say that they were true. The book would be filled with all kinds of ancient ruins, plus the abandoned terraforming colonies from the Golden Age. Moreover, the Greek/Roman god from whom the place takes its name has made it part of his personal realm, and it is to Mars that the summons minions to train them to take part in battles across the wider Megaverse. Oh yeah, there are also Archons living there now.

anapuna wrote:i like the idea that someone said RIFTS:cyberspace. make the head jacks useful. more than that please. cyber warfare would be nice and more about or make it into a 100% canon book. i think somethings are in rifters. i do not care what anyone says, in many peoples eye's they are PB approved non canon add ons if it is in the rifters.

also i was thinking operators, city rats, TW somewhat, rouge scholars. in the canada WB it mentions in passing a town full of operators and another town trying to copy it 50-100 miles away. now the operator is a popular original OCC that is essential to rifts NA. heck it is commonly used in the dimension books too. i know i love playing one and there is a lot of rich stuff to play with.

they say that the aviator jacket w/ goggles is TW (wingboarder) fasion. what do operators love? coveralls? multi pocketed get ups?

what are maybe some secret handshakes, trail markers, operator society stuff, how well do they work with TWs? even tolkeen had many operators that setup shop and it even has it in a rifter or book somewhere that says an operator can assist a TW with the physical crafting of a device.

TOOLS!! no do not draw a picture of a crafstman socket set, but what kind of tools where made by the golden age and are common in rifts but not invented in real life. what requires a shop to repair and what can be done in the field. what can be done by an operator or two in the field with a makeshift shop on wheels.

what vehicles are popular with operators. IE it must haul tools and material for trade/repair and a lone operator probably will sleep in it for protection at night. i at first liked the FQ glitterboy support team hover truck. but then after thinking and play testing... it is fine for a lone operator who saves up some real dough and buys one that needs a lot of TLC. if you have a group, duh RPG not FPS. then the 4 seats are taken and the trunk space is filled with the teams weapons and loot or something the team is trading / coming back to town to ID, fullfill quest. if the party has more than 4 people than it is too small. yet an operator needs a vehicle that can hold his big tool chest or multiple smaller tool boxes and can be locked up with enough MDC so as to not have his tools and material stolen by theives and pawned by a city rat. in todays real world tools and devices are stolen all the time from construction sites and trailers of landscapers. anyone who is in the yardwork industry knows you either get a lockable box or post a guard with your open trailer as the rest of the guys grab a burger.

also PA&robot repair. amazing how many times i have seen 2 people decide to do a PA pilot and operator duo. especially after i tell someone that the CS will train you to pilot or majorly repair PA not both. so no pilots with robot mechanics and electronics. you could make an oprator that has made/repaired som old PA and has self taught to pilot it or a runaway CS PA repair tech. but then you have no room for tools and loot. then you will want a vehicle to tow your PA and house your tools and materials.

so book on the practical lives of operators, maybe some variants
the aviation operator, focuses on on aircraft mechanics and flight
the weapon smith, focuses on gunsmithing
the speed demon, focuses on fast hovercycles, jetpack, race cars
the outdoorsman, is into the rock crawlin, mud bogging, back woods vehicle fun,
the dreamer, into robots, dreams of AIs, grew up reading scifi novels and space stuff the nerdiest one
the computer techie, all the computer skills headjacks, some bionics maybe, hacking, cyber stuff, another nerdy one and more of a city game
the nauterater, all about boats and/or submarines
commercial operater, works in power stations, water works and other large scale technical operations in the "kingdoms" or CS
the excavator, always hunting for golden age tech to collect, repair, sell, share with the world. indiana jones with a wrench.

these are all hands on OCC variants. if you wanted to R&D a new bionic hand then go for rouge scientist but not be rouge...or maybe you are now that you have runaway with the prototype from your backer.

what about rouge scholors and scientists. i assume that they have some occassional meet up places where they trade notes, leeds on things. maybe share findings try to publish some findings. like outside the lazlo university library or reconnect with mentors and classmates. share CS ambush and patrol info.

do they leave some high college level markers that warn other rogue scholar and scientists about CS activity or mark a building as totally investigated and gutted?

also doctors and cyber docs. if the majority of the humans and many DBs do not have MAGIC, PSI and are not men at arms. then why not have a book that explains or lifts the veil just a little on what makes the majority go around?

if they could make more than one book out of mercs why not at least one on operators, rogue scholars and scientists? heck what about non rogue scientists and scholars.

how does the CS educate the top 1%. how does lazlo? how does the black market get the brains to knock off, reverse engineer, and create:drugs, electronics, MD weapons, PA, vehicles, computers, ETC.

Mercbook1 wrote:Man you guys missed the easiest one out there Rifts Vegas think about rifts book about sin city what it like after all this time. Also forgot how close area 51 is to think that could be a book that could be fun. Maybe have it a zombie wasteland where all the dead the mob barried in the desert come to life again lol.

Hystrix wrote:Chi-Town. It's been nearly 22 years and we still don't have a book on Chi-Town itself.

Akashic Soldier wrote:World Book: Counter-Earth
An official parallel reality where Tolkeen won. That'd sure put an end to a lot of the arguments around here.

Looonatic wrote:RIFTS: Through The Looking Glass.
I'd like to see a book depicting alternate realities, timelines, NPCs and rules for creating twisted versions of our own PCs.

ShadowLogan wrote:Rifts: Kittani (Triax 2-style)

The Dark Elf wrote:Rifts: Underground (do you really think that all the rifted D-Bees are surface dwellers? - You wish!! Journey to the centre of the Earth to the Ultimate Rift & PPE origin, Spelunking Borg, Cave critters, Troglodyte Biomancy, high pressure specialised environmental power armours and much, much more).

Zamion138 wrote:Rifts: Cyberspace (makes headjacks usefull)

Icefalcon wrote:Rifts: Archeology for all those Pre-Rifts sites of interest

Chronicle wrote:To Be Honest i would like a book full of Hook, Line and Sinkers without all the index pages.....You know how many of those got blown up into things that are bigger then what they started out as?

Lost Seraph wrote:Rifts: Small Powers. The random suggestions of all of these small kingdoms that never appear in print from every old Rifts book before 1995

Mad Cow Milk wrote:

Killer Cyborg wrote:Rifts: Underground

LOL I was just going to suggest Rifts: Catacombs!

Icefalcon wrote:

Killer Cyborg wrote:Rifts: Blue Yonder
Rifts: Underground

I could enjoy some underground adventures

anapuna wrote:scotland, ireland, scandinavia... yes all books that are in limbo but i want them or just RIFTS: UK for one good sized book. then scandinavia on itas own.

Pepsi Jedi wrote:

Killer Cyborg wrote:

Pepsi Jedi wrote:I hear India has a huge movie industry. They call it 'Bollywood'. Lots of bright colors and dance numbers. They spend millions and millions on it. I've never once in my life seen a bollywood movie. Have no interest in it.

ya know?

Exactly.

I hereby second the motion for Rifts: Bollywood!!!

No no... .No no no... no!

I did not say that! *Tazes KC*

Blastaar wrote:

Pepsi Jedi wrote:

Killer Cyborg wrote:

Pepsi Jedi wrote:I hear India has a huge movie industry. They call it 'Bollywood'. Lots of bright colors and dance numbers. They spend millions and millions on it. I've never once in my life seen a bollywood movie. Have no interest in it.

ya know?

Exactly.

I hereby second the motion for Rifts: Bollywood!!!

No no... .No no no... no!

I did not say that! *Tazes KC*

*Brings da popcorn and sets up the camera*

This should be good!

Riftmaker wrote:How about we ahem get a version 2 of the southamerica books with the powerlevels toned down ?

Zer0 Kay wrote:

Riftmaker wrote:How about we ahem get a version 2 of the southamerica books with the powerlevels toned down ?

Uh, yeah cuz there so ridiculous compared to the weapons coming out of the RUE generation. Granted the turtle and mammoth are still a bit outrageous. But anyone who has a mech or ship heavy enough to mount multiple boomguns and goes for a standard railgun, is a freaking moron.

anapuna wrote:i like the idea that someone said RIFTS:cyberspace. make the head jacks useful. more than that please. cyber warfare would be nice and more about or make it into a 100% canon book. i think somethings are in rifters. i do not care what anyone says, in many peoples eye's they are PB approved non canon add ons if it is in the rifters.

also i was thinking operators, city rats, TW somewhat, rouge scholars. in the canada WB it mentions in passing a town full of operators and another town trying to copy it 50-100 miles away. now the operator is a popular original OCC that is essential to rifts NA. heck it is commonly used in the dimension books too. i know i love playing one and there is a lot of rich stuff to play with.

they say that the aviator jacket w/ goggles is TW (wingboarder) fasion. what do operators love? coveralls? multi pocketed get ups?

what are maybe some secret handshakes, trail markers, operator society stuff, how well do they work with TWs? even tolkeen had many operators that setup shop and it even has it in a rifter or book somewhere that says an operator can assist a TW with the physical crafting of a device.

TOOLS!! no do not draw a picture of a crafstman socket set, but what kind of tools where made by the golden age and are common in rifts but not invented in real life. what requires a shop to repair and what can be done in the field. what can be done by an operator or two in the field with a makeshift shop on wheels.

what vehicles are popular with operators. IE it must haul tools and material for trade/repair and a lone operator probably will sleep in it for protection at night. i at first liked the FQ glitterboy support team hover truck. but then after thinking and play testing... it is fine for a lone operator who saves up some real dough and buys one that needs a lot of TLC. if you have a group, duh RPG not FPS. then the 4 seats are taken and the trunk space is filled with the teams weapons and loot or something the team is trading / coming back to town to ID, fullfill quest. if the party has more than 4 people than it is too small. yet an operator needs a vehicle that can hold his big tool chest or multiple smaller tool boxes and can be locked up with enough MDC so as to not have his tools and material stolen by theives and pawned by a city rat. in todays real world tools and devices are stolen all the time from construction sites and trailers of landscapers. anyone who is in the yardwork industry knows you either get a lockable box or post a guard with your open trailer as the rest of the guys grab a burger.

also PA&robot repair. amazing how many times i have seen 2 people decide to do a PA pilot and operator duo. especially after i tell someone that the CS will train you to pilot or majorly repair PA not both. so no pilots with robot mechanics and electronics. you could make an oprator that has made/repaired som old PA and has self taught to pilot it or a runaway CS PA repair tech. but then you have no room for tools and loot. then you will want a vehicle to tow your PA and house your tools and materials.

so book on the practical lives of operators, maybe some variants
the aviation operator, focuses on on aircraft mechanics and flight
the weapon smith, focuses on gunsmithing
the speed demon, focuses on fast hovercycles, jetpack, race cars
the outdoorsman, is into the rock crawlin, mud bogging, back woods vehicle fun,
the dreamer, into robots, dreams of AIs, grew up reading scifi novels and space stuff the nerdiest one
the computer techie, all the computer skills headjacks, some bionics maybe, hacking, cyber stuff, another nerdy one and more of a city game
the nauterater, all about boats and/or submarines
commercial operater, works in power stations, water works and other large scale technical operations in the "kingdoms" or CS
the excavator, always hunting for golden age tech to collect, repair, sell, share with the world. indiana jones with a wrench.

these are all hands on OCC variants. if you wanted to R&D a new bionic hand then go for rouge scientist but not be rouge...or maybe you are now that you have runaway with the prototype from your backer.

what about rouge scholors and scientists. i assume that they have some occassional meet up places where they trade notes, leeds on things. maybe share findings try to publish some findings. like outside the lazlo university library or reconnect with mentors and classmates. share CS ambush and patrol info.

do they leave some high college level markers that warn other rogue scholar and scientists about CS activity or mark a building as totally investigated and gutted?

also doctors and cyber docs. if the majority of the humans and many DBs do not have MAGIC, PSI and are not men at arms. then why not have a book that explains or lifts the veil just a little on what makes the majority go around?

if they could make more than one book out of mercs why not at least one on operators, rogue scholars and scientists? heck what about non rogue scientists and scholars.

how does the CS educate the top 1%. how does lazlo? how does the black market get the brains to knock off, reverse engineer, and create:drugs, electronics, MD weapons, PA, vehicles, computers, ETC.

Zer0 Kay wrote:

Blastaar wrote:

Pepsi Jedi wrote:

Killer Cyborg wrote:

Pepsi Jedi wrote:I hear India has a huge movie industry. They call it 'Bollywood'. Lots of bright colors and dance numbers. They spend millions and millions on it. I've never once in my life seen a bollywood movie. Have no interest in it.

ya know?

Exactly.

I hereby second the motion for Rifts: Bollywood!!!

No no... .No no no... no!

I did not say that! *Tazes KC*

*Brings da popcorn and sets up the camera*

This should be good!

NO cameras or flash photography! Quick hide the cardboard boxes and the wheels.

Bill wrote:

Zer0 Kay wrote:

Riftmaker wrote:How about we ahem get a version 2 of the southamerica books with the powerlevels toned down ?

Uh, yeah cuz there so ridiculous compared to the weapons coming out of the RUE generation. Granted the turtle and mammoth are still a bit outrageous. But anyone who has a mech or ship heavy enough to mount multiple boomguns and goes for a standard railgun, is a freaking moron.

My colleague means to say that he would prefer other books be given priority over a revision of material that isn't necessarily that much more powerful than what has been published recently.

I would like to see the Southern Federation expanded upon. While enough material could easily be generated for a World Book, I would actually prefer to see it presented as a campaign book. A dozen or so fully fleshed out, interlocking, adventures; each with half a dozen hook line and sinker style extras. I think that would provide ample opportunity to expand on the sketch from SA2 and detail several of the cities that make up the Federation while focusing more on story opportunity than piling on races, classes, and equipment to a game already choking on the variety. Admittedly, that would reduce the potential sales of the book. Only GMs and collectors will have reason to purchase a book without a significant volume of player oriented material.

kaid wrote:

Zer0 Kay wrote:

Blastaar wrote:

Pepsi Jedi wrote:

Killer Cyborg wrote:
Exactly.

I hereby second the motion for Rifts: Bollywood!!!

No no... .No no no... no!

I did not say that! *Tazes KC*

*Brings da popcorn and sets up the camera*

This should be good!

NO cameras or flash photography! Quick hide the cardboard boxes and the wheels.

Rifts Singham! Now you can walk around being a total badass police officer of the future ridding your hell scape post appocalypse world of corruption through sheer manliness and dance numbers!

Svartalf wrote:Much as Carella's stuff (including SA and PhW) is full of power creep, I feel that toning down the super tech found there to levels closer to what the CS, or even Triax can achieve is wrong, it was designed to be super... if you don't like the power level, just brush that part of the world /megaverse aside and stay in the lo tech areas.

Braden wrote:Mars

Main idea: in ancient times, the Red Planet was strong with ley line activity while Earth was weak. While it never developed intelligient life natively, it was a kind of dimensional crossroads for thousands of years, and several differrent peoples lived there for generations before being killed/ dying off/ moving on.

The book would basically take the theories of Richard C. Hoagland (there are 5-sided pyramids and giant faces built on tehsurface by ancient peoples, ect.) and say that they were true. The book would be filled with all kinds of ancient ruins, plus the abandoned terraforming colonies from the Golden Age. Moreover, the Greek/Roman god from whom the place takes its name has made it part of his personal realm, and it is to Mars that the summons minions to train them to take part in battles across the wider Megaverse. Oh yeah, there are also Archons living there now.

Secondhand Smoke wrote:Rifts: Psycape 2.

Or a comprehensive book of Psionics (which isn't strictly rifts) featuring all the rifter occ's and powers as canon and more added by the authors. The fact that Palladium still have not addressed a book of Psionics is shameful.

Rifts Lone Star 2/ Rifts Desmund Bradford. I've said it before and I'll say it again, he IS the BEST npc in rifts. Why oh why is he not included in more events. He has genius clones of himself for crying out loud. Why is this not being expanded? Did you writers forget? Seriously, what the hell???

His Dudeness wrote:Lazlo anyone?

Jorick wrote:

His Dudeness wrote:Lazlo anyone?

I def want a Lazlo book, for the background, etc. But then I think "where's the tension?" They seem to be good guys who have the good guy thing well in hand. How much of a criminal underground could there be? Would we have to have another story about "not all is as it seems and the good people of Lazlo could turn into evil demon spawn mutants but for the PCs!" That's kind of a yawn.

What could be done? Maybe make the Lazlo sourcebook THE definitive techno-wizardry sourcebook. Does TW need more info? Maybe not. But you could probably give the history and map the city, then add a bunch of TW toys and rule options/ideas and it would sell.




I also want Chi-Town. I see it maybe working as a "stand alone"-ish book. Cyberpunk (with a little psionics, and maybe the occasional demon/vampire/something). Rules about hacking the net that could work for other cities that have such things. Expand on the city-rat stuff in the bionics book. Noir ISS cop stories and corrupt rich top floors vs. crime (and non-human) ridden bottom floors. That kind of stuff. You could play entire cyberpunk campaigns in the mega-city. Or use the rules to go from city to city (all the ones that have relevant tech or whatever) beyond Chi-Town. Walled city life, post apocalypse.

His Dudeness wrote:Didn't they already release a book about Chi-town?

CaptKaruthors wrote:I think a NGR secret missions book would be awesome. Something along the lines of studying leylines, etc. and the build up/development of an experimental large tank/ crawler that has a large gun on it that can collapse nexus points..and interrupt the flow of ley lines..and the secret missions that arise from field testing it. I'd also like to flesh out the military leaders of the NGR. We all know who the big players are within the CS, but what about the NGR government. Secret missions into western europe, etc.

World Book 8: Japan wrote:As long-time Rifts® fans may already suspect, we couldn't fit everything we wanted for Rifts Japan into one book.

Consequently, we are already working on a supplement that will focus on many of the key gods, oni, and supernatural beings that fill Japanese mythology.

This book will also focus on magic powers, Shinto priests and a variety of other character classes.

It is likely to be a big book (160 to 220 pages) and may be presented as a Rifts® Conversion Book with a title like Gods & Oni of Rifts Japan.

It will be available in early 1996.

speaking of upcoming products, the following books are also slated for 1996: The Juicer Uprisings™, Lemuria & Easter Island, Northern Gun™, The New West™, and Lone Star. These titles are already in development!

Japan intro still wrote:Other likely releases are Rifts Chi-Town™ or The Coalition States™, The Omegan Order™ and Cyber-Knights™,

Erin Tarn, via Traversing Our Modern World, RMBp145 wrote:Psi-World is a community of psychics
Their plan is to create a utopian society free of the fear and hatred they experienced in the world beyond their kingdom.

World Book 9 (South America 2) page 154 wrote:This community, known by such names as "Psi-world" and "Psyscape"

World Book 10 (Juicer Uprising) page 160 wrote:Psyscape, a mysterious gathering place of psychics that has been a source of rmors and legends for centuries is revealed at least!
After years of hiding, the secret community is finally coming into the open.
The history of Psyscape and a limpse into the Astral Kingdom!
new psychic O.C.C.s including the Astral Warrior, Psi-Filer, Mirage Weaver, Gate Maker, and Psyche Killer.

World Book 18 (Mystic Russia) page 2, December 1998 wrote:Coming for Rifts in 1999
Rifts Scotland
Rifts Australia Two

Coalition Wars: Siege on Tolkeen 1 (Sedition) page 2 wrote:Rifts Sourcebooks for 2000 Release
Rifts Australia Two
Rifts Australia Three

His Dudeness wrote:Lazlo anyone?

His Dudeness wrote:In addition to bumping this, Sovietski is now apparently the next world book on the schedule for release.

I'd also like to propose a new list for new world books I'd like to see;

Rifts: Chi-Town (all of it)
Rifts: The Republicans (what are they about?)
Rifts: West Coast of U.S. (from California on up to Washington)
Rifts: England 2 (more info on Ireland, England, etc)
Rifts: Africa 2 (covering the areas south of the Sahara)
Rifts: Lazlo

His Dudeness wrote:In addition to bumping this, Sovietski is now apparently the next world book on the schedule for release.

I'd also like to propose a new list for new world books I'd like to see;

Rifts: Chi-Town (all of it)
Rifts: The Republicans (what are they about?)
Rifts: West Coast of U.S. (from California on up to Washington)
Rifts: England 2 (more info on Ireland, England, etc)
Rifts: Africa 2 (covering the areas south of the Sahara)
Rifts: Lazlo