Scholarly Adventures

INTRODUCTION General. Raving lunatics, covert ninjas with mommy issues (pun intended), whatever you want to call them, they certainly are...

General. So, for anyone that did not attend the GenCon long-form blog interview/discussion between Kevin Siembieda (Palladium Books,...

GENERAL General. You could probably be excused for comparing this to the AD&D Ranger Class, because they do indeed line up fairly well....

General. One of the iconic classes of the Rifts RPG, this was one of the more popular ones from the get-go. Sporting a laser-resistant...

GENERAL General. One of the iconic classes from the Rifts RPG, and one of the most popularized images based on Kevin Long’s line art and...

INTRODUCTION General. One of the iconic classes of the Rifts RPG, this was one of the more popular ones from the get-go, with a massive...

GENERAL Generalizations of Classes. For the most part, gamers from across various RPGs will likely differentiate the various character...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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