The Bazaar #37: Titan Robotics Kickstart Campaign
INTRODUCTION I imagine that as a fan of Palladium Books’ games (hence why you are here), I'd be much surprised if you’ve not heard about...
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Francois DesRochers
- Nov 15
- 6 min
Bazaar #36: Palladium Books Christmas Grab Bag 2022
INTRODUCTION Once again, Palladium Books are busy filling out Christmas orders, slinging “randomized” grab bags across the earth to all...
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Francois DesRochers
- Oct 26
- 9 min
The Bazaar #34 – Rifts Renaissance (Skills Redux)
GENERAL The Palladium Books core rules set has remained pretty much unchanged over the decades; only tweaks and minor changes here and...
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Francois DesRochers
- Oct 18
- 5 min
The Bazaar #33: Rifts – It’s For Kids Too!
GENERAL First off, it’s great to be back, and this isn’t your typical Rifts-centric post. I’m easing back into things. Four weeks on...
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Francois DesRochers
- Jul 5
- 7 min
The Bazaar #31: OCC Overview – Shifter
GENERAL General. At its core, Rifts is based on the premise of rips in the fabric of space and time that allowed various and numerous...
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Francois DesRochers
- May 3
- 12 min
The Bazaar #30: GM Sessions (Players' Psychology)
GENERAL This is very much a more “high-brow” aspect to the GM Sessions posts, in that it isn’t directly attributable to the crafting,...
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Francois DesRochers
- Apr 20
- 6 min
The Bazaar #29: OCC Overview – Operator
GENERAL General. In the far future, where technology is seen by many as the saving grace against the inhuman and monstrous, and combat...
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Francois DesRochers
- Apr 12
- 5 min
The Bazaar #28: OCC Overview – Coalition Grunt
GENERAL General. So if you were to look at this OCC, one could be excused for wondering what the draw would be. Your baseline infantry...
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Francois DesRochers
- Mar 1
- 10 min
The Bazaar #27: OCC Rationalization (Men-at-Arms) - A Follow-up
GENERAL In a follow-up to last week’s post (The Bazaar 26: OCC Rationalization (Men-at-Arms)), I thought I’d take a look at the...
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Francois DesRochers
- Feb 22
- 9 min
The Bazaar #26: OCC Rationalization (Men-At-Arms)
INTRODUCTION One of the things Palladium Books has tried in earnest to do in their World Books, and in some cases Sourcebooks, is provide...
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Francois DesRochers
- Feb 15
- 6 min
The Bazaar #25: The Palladium Books Online Fandom
GENERAL Third party content producers and the fandom's support of whatever your slice of geek culture happens to be is one of the key...
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Francois DesRochers
- Feb 1
- 3 min
The Bazaar #24: Artist Review (Larry MacDougall)
INTRODUCTION When the Rifts RPG first came out, it was a wild, post-Apocalyptic mash-up of technology, magic, psionics, demons and...
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Francois DesRochers
- Jan 18
- 6 min
The Bazaar #23: OCC Overview – The Mind Melter
INTRODUCTION General. As far as Psychic classes and access to the varied powers they deliver, there isn’t one that delivers quite the...
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Francois DesRochers
- Jan 4
- 6 min
The Bazaar 22: Fixing OCCs - An Example
INTRODUCTION General. One of the benefits of playing Rifts is the multitude of publications to support GMs and players. There are so many...
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Francois DesRochers
- Nov 30, 2021
- 6 min
The Bazaar #21: OCC Overview – The Dragon Hatchling
INTRODUCTION General. When the Rifts RPG first came out, there was a lot of hype over the setting and the range of abilities players...
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Francois DesRochers
- Nov 16, 2021
- 4 min
The Bazaar #20: The Christmas Grab Bag
INTRODUCTION General. The staple for Palladium Books has once again fallen upon us and Palladium Books elves are busily working to...
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Francois DesRochers
- Nov 2, 2021
- 9 min
The Bazaar #18: Player Character Attributes
INTRODUCTION General. In a sort of follow-up to my post where I posit what I would look like as a Rifted character (hint, no great hero),...
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Francois DesRochers
- Oct 12, 2021
- 7 min
The Bazaar #17: Me as a Rifted Character
General. One of the intellectual games that Rifts players often play at one point or another is imagining one’s self in the game's milieu...
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Francois DesRochers
- Sep 28, 2021
- 6 min
The Bazaar #16: OCC Overview – The Crazy
INTRODUCTION General. Raving lunatics, covert ninjas with mommy issues (pun intended), whatever you want to call them, they certainly are...
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Francois DesRochers
- Sep 21, 2021
- 6 min
The Bazaar #15: Thoughts on Palladium Books’ “Big GenCon 2021 Announcement”
General. So, for anyone that did not attend the GenCon long-form blog interview/discussion between Kevin Siembieda (Palladium Books,...
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