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Re: Another Rift question

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:29 pm
by drewkitty ~..~
Can you see through them? most, yes



What about gravity? Each side is seperate from the other.
If you open one up horzontally under a person, would they fall through, or find themselves floating? They would get pushed aside from the rift.

What if you opened a portal with a local opening that was verticle (like a door), but the remote opening was horizontal on a high grav world, would people in front of the local opening be pulled through? Gravity does not come through a magic portal or rift.

Also, it says that something unwanted usually gets through. Is there a table for this? yes, but the GM who made it hasn't been published in Rifter yet.
And wouldn't it only apply to remote locations where there is something unwanted that could get through in the first place? Meaning, if you opened the remote gateway into an empty, locked jail cell, there's nothing there to try to sneak through - or is it some thing from random locations magically slipping through your portal (like an unwanted shortcut)? The meaning is that there are alot of things that would just love to be in a magic rich enviroment, and they can sense it from the other side so they are drawn tot he portal and will go through if they can. Some are as simple as portergists, while others want to use the power to take over things. Not all of them are physical beings nor are all of them intelegent.

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:48 pm
by Braden Campbell
There is some kind of membrane that seperates the two worlds. Otherwise, the atmopshere would have been long ago blown off the planet by a rift which opened up to Mars or into space. Also, water and alien atmopheres don't spill over onto Earth.

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:35 pm
by cornholioprime
Braden Campbell wrote:There is some kind of membrane that seperates the two worlds. Otherwise, the atmopshere would have been long ago blown off the planet by a rift which opened up to Mars or into space. Also, water and alien atmopheres don't spill over onto Earth.
This answers them all.

Probably for Game Play than for anything else, usually environmental conditions in the other world don't go through Rifts.

However, there is a spell that allows Sorcerors to get a feel for conditions for the other side of the Rift; based upon that Spell, as well as the fact that millions upon millions of unsuspecting creatures die all the time when rifting into a lifeform-hostile environment (the Dead Pools on Rifts Earth being just one instance), I'd say that you do NOT normally get to see what's on the other side of a dimesnional Rift.

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:26 am
by The Beast
cornholioprime wrote:
Braden Campbell wrote:There is some kind of membrane that seperates the two worlds. Otherwise, the atmopshere would have been long ago blown off the planet by a rift which opened up to Mars or into space. Also, water and alien atmopheres don't spill over onto Earth.
This answers them all.

Probably for Game Play than for anything else, usually environmental conditions in the other world don't go through Rifts.

However, there is a spell that allows Sorcerors to get a feel for conditions for the other side of the Rift; based upon that Spell, as well as the fact that millions upon millions of unsuspecting creatures die all the time when rifting into a lifeform-hostile environment (the Dead Pools on Rifts Earth being just one instance), I'd say that you do NOT normally get to see what's on the other side of a dimesnional Rift.


I agree. Otherwise the shifter responsible for the mechanoids coming to Rifts Earth would have closed the rift once him, Hagan, and/or Archie saw that there was some sort of fight on the other side.

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 2:01 pm
by Mouser13
Don't for get about the RIFTS projectation gun in PHASE WORLD.

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 2:25 pm
by The Beast
Mouser13 wrote:Don't for get about the RIFTS projectation gun in PHASE WORLD.


Do you mean the Phase Beamers?

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 2:48 pm
by JTwig
The Beast wrote:
Mouser13 wrote:Don't for get about the RIFTS projectation gun in PHASE WORLD.


Do you mean the Phase Beamers?


I think he means the Rifts Projection Cannons found on the dwarven ships.

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:34 pm
by Mouser13
The Beast wrote:
Mouser13 wrote:Don't for get about the RIFTS projectation gun in PHASE WORLD.


Do you mean the Phase Beamers?


No, THe UWW uses a large cannon that says it fires RIFTS at a ship and has random things happen to the target like monsters randomly appear on the ship.

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:44 pm
by Mouser13
what do you mean bloodspray?