Francois DesRochers
The Bazaar #61: Bestiary Field Notes (CS Grunt Section)
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...
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Francois DesRochers
- Dec 12, 2023
- 12 min
The Bazaar #49: Fixing Siege on Tolkeen Series
GENERAL The Siege on Tolkeen can generally be characterized as a gateway project for Palladium Books and the Rifts timeline. Basically,...
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Francois DesRochers
- Jul 11, 2023
- 7 min
The Bazaar #46: OCC Overview – Dog Boys
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....
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Francois DesRochers
- Jul 4, 2023
- 12 min
GM Field Guide #15 - Law of Armed Conflict in Rifts
INTRODUCTION Every once in a while, topics of conversation come from the most unlikely source. I was reading a Discord thread and the...
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Francois DesRochers
- Jun 27, 2023
- 6 min
The Bazaar #45: OCC Overview – CS Military Specialist
INTRODUCTION General. In the original Rifts Main Book, the CS Military Specialist was the catch-all officer and special forces character....
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Francois DesRochers
- Apr 25, 2023
- 9 min
Scholar’s Review #64: World Book 33: Northern Gun 1
Author: Matthew Clements & Kevin Siembieda Release Date: Oct 2013 GENERAL General. Ever since the Rifts RPG came out, we’ve heard of this...
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Francois DesRochers
- Mar 14, 2023
- 7 min
Scholars Review #63: Secrets of the CS: Heroes of Humanity
Author: Kevin Siembieda Release Date: May 2016 INTRODUCTION The Coalition States’ reaction to demonic incursions. Here we hope to find...
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Francois DesRochers
- Nov 29, 2022
- 9 min
Scholars Review #60: Coalition Manhunters
Author: Kevin Siembieda Release Date: April 2022 INTRODUCTION As the top choice from my Christmas Grab Bag 2022, I dove into this title...
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Francois DesRochers
- Aug 17, 2022
- 10 min
GM Field Guide #6: Literacy in Rifts Earth
GENERAL There a great number of misconceptions to the Literacy skill and how to employ it, both during the character creation process and...
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Francois DesRochers
- Apr 12, 2022
- 6 min
The Bazaar #28: OCC Overview – Coalition Grunt
INTRODUCTION General. So if you were to look at this OCC, one could be excused for wondering what the draw would be. Your baseline...
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Francois DesRochers
- Aug 10, 2021
- 8 min
Scholar's Review #38: Rifts Anthology - Tales of the Chi-Town 'Burbs
Author: Identified at individual story reviews Release Date: 2008 INTRODUCTION Stories strictly revolving around the ‘Burbs never...
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Francois DesRochers
- May 4, 2021
- 10 min
GM Field Guide #3: 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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Francois DesRochers
- Jan 27, 2021
- 4 min
Scholar's Review #24: Rifts Sourcebook 4: Coalition Navy
Author: Patrick Nowak Release Date: August 1997 GENERAL Released relatively shortly after WB 11: Coalition War Campaign, it expands on...
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Francois DesRochers
- Jul 16, 2020
- 5 min
Scholar's Review #18: Rifts World Book 13: Lone Star
Author: Kevin Siembieda Release Date: 1997 GENERAL The Coalition State shrouded in the most mystery and intrigue has always been Lone...
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Francois DesRochers
- Jul 6, 2020
- 7 min
Scholar's Review #16: Rifts World Book 11: Coalition War Campaign
Author: Kevin Siembieda Release Date: 1996 GENERAL Following the advancement of the setting plot line after World Book 10: Juicer...
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Francois DesRochers
- Jun 30, 2020
- 9 min
GM Field Guide: 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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Francois DesRochers
- Jun 23, 2020
- 3 min
GM Field Guide #2: 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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Francois DesRochers
- Jun 16, 2020
- 5 min
Scholar's Review 15: Rifts World Book 10: Juicer Uprising
Author: C.J. Carella Release Date: 1996 GENERAL The book really is the first World Book to markedly advance the timeline of Rifts Earth,...
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Francois DesRochers
- Jun 11, 2020
- 6 min
GM Field Guide #1: 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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