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The Bazaar #9: Playing Coalition States As Antagonists

General. Short of playing characters from the Coalition States, the CS is pretty much the quintessential antagonist for most Rifts...

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The Bazaar #8: An Author's Perspective of Rifts World Book 22: Free Quebec

Francois DesRochers

Feb 24
7 min

The Bazaar #8: An Author's Perspective of Rifts World Book 22: Free Quebec

GENERAL I thought I’d do something a little different, now that we’ve made our way down through maybe two-thirds of the way through the...

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The Bazaar #7: Perspectives – Playing the Coalition States (Part 3)

Francois DesRochers

Jun 30, 2020
9 min

The Bazaar #7: Perspectives – Playing the Coalition States (Part 3)

GENERAL Presentation of the information herein is to give a very broad strokes background on the skeleton of what makes up a worldview,...

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The Bazaar #6: Perspectives - Playing the Coalition States (Part 2)

Francois DesRochers

Jun 23, 2020
3 min

The Bazaar #6: Perspectives - Playing the Coalition States (Part 2)

GENERAL In the previous post, I discussed some of the issues facing easily the most polarizing issue about the Coalition States (how they...

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The Bazaar #5: Perspectives - Playing the Coalition States (Part 1)

Francois DesRochers

Jun 11, 2020
6 min

The Bazaar #5: Perspectives - Playing the Coalition States (Part 1)

GENERAL To assume that a population is defined by one individual, or the loudest sub-set, fails to take into account the totality of the...

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Francois DesRochers

Apr 16, 2020
3 min

The Bazaar #4 - Astartes Youtube Series

General. I’m not necessarily promoting another gaming platform on this site, particularly one that makes the leap from paper-and-pen RPG...

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The Bazaar #3 - Campaign Levels and Managing Power Levels

Francois DesRochers

Apr 11, 2020
8 min

The Bazaar #3 - Campaign Levels and Managing Power Levels

GENERAL Rifts is often regarded as a power player or god-player dream system. The setting, to some extent, certainly can lead players...

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The Bazaar #2 - What This Blog Will / Won't Address

Francois DesRochers

Apr 7, 2020
5 min

The Bazaar #2 - What This Blog Will / Won't Address

I WILL NOT ADDRESS RIFTS Game Mechanics. One of the constant issues the Palladium Books system faces is criticism of various parts of the...

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Francois DesRochers

Mar 26, 2020
3 min

Session 0 - Scholarly Adventures

RIFTS – The Setting From the first pages of text in the original RIFTS: RPG, the creator, Kevin Siembieda, considered this as...

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