Scholarly Adventures

INTRODUCTION In a follow-up to the previous Bestiary Notes for the CS Grunt Section, I thought I would address a more complex element of...

GENERAL Everyone’s favorite dog to kick, CS soldiers are the stereotypical “red shirts” for most Rifts games. I’ll be the first to admit...

GENERAL The Siege on Tolkeen can generally be characterized as a gateway project for Palladium Books and the Rifts timeline. Basically,...

INTRODUCTION General. The Dog Boy was one of the original Classes that allowed a Player to bring a lot of plot points to the table....

INTRODUCTION Every once in a while, topics of conversation come from the most unlikely source. I was reading a Discord thread and the...

INTRODUCTION General. In the original Rifts Main Book, the CS Military Specialist was the catch-all officer and special forces character....

Author: Matthew Clements & Kevin Siembieda Release Date: Oct 2013 GENERAL General. Ever since the Rifts RPG came out, we’ve heard of this...

Author: Kevin Siembieda Release Date: May 2016 INTRODUCTION The Coalition States’ reaction to demonic incursions. Here we hope to find...

Author: Kevin Siembieda Release Date: April 2022 INTRODUCTION As the top choice from my Christmas Grab Bag 2022, I dove into this title...

GENERAL There a great number of misconceptions to the Literacy skill and how to employ it, both during the character creation process and...

INTRODUCTION General. So if you were to look at this OCC, one could be excused for wondering what the draw would be. Your baseline...

Author: Identified at individual story reviews Release Date: 2008 INTRODUCTION Stories strictly revolving around the ‘Burbs never...

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

Author: Patrick Nowak Release Date: August 1997 GENERAL Released relatively shortly after WB 11: Coalition War Campaign, it expands on...

Author: Kevin Siembieda Release Date: 1997 GENERAL The Coalition State shrouded in the most mystery and intrigue has always been Lone...

Author: Kevin Siembieda Release Date: 1996 GENERAL Following the advancement of the setting plot line after World Book 10: Juicer...

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...

Author: C.J. Carella Release Date: 1996 GENERAL The book really is the first World Book to markedly advance the timeline of Rifts Earth,...

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...