Francois DesRochers
The Bazaar #58: Two New Post Series
GENERAL The primary mission of this blog has always been the promotion of resources and guidance for Rifts Game Masters and Players,...
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Francois DesRochers
- Dec 5, 2023
- 5 min
GM Field Guide #17: OCC Overview Index
INTRODUCTION The idea of this series of posts was to provide both Players and GMs an overview of the class features, along with...
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Francois DesRochers
- Nov 28, 2023
- 14 min
GM Field Guide #16: Player Immersion and Engagement
INTRODUCTION This is going to be another one of my omnibus posts; a holding site for several related articles. In the GM Field Guide #4:...
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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
- Apr 11, 2023
- 9 min
GM Field Guide #13: Session Zero
INTRODUCTION The following is a combination of personal thoughts and summarized information from a variety of online sources. To be...
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Francois DesRochers
- Mar 28, 2023
- 7 min
GM Field Guide #12: Skill Rolls
(A Challenge for GMs) INTRODUCTION Skill Checks and Skill Rolls are a very pertinent part of the Rifts RPG. I mean, it’s one of the...
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Francois DesRochers
- Mar 21, 2023
- 11 min
GM Field Guide #11: Game Balance in Rifts (Baseline)
INTRODUCTION The idea of balancing a game is not something limited to a TTRPG. We try to apply this concept to professional sports (e.g....
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Francois DesRochers
- Feb 14, 2023
- 10 min
GM Field Guide #10: Convincing Players to Try Rifts
INTRODUCTION With the relatively dramatic implosion of the D&D community over the proposed changes to the Open Game License (OGL) at the...
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Francois DesRochers
- Feb 7, 2023
- 12 min
GM Field Guide #9: Topography & Tactics
GENERAL In my previous article, The Bazaar #40: Geography & Distances, we discussed geography-related issues more inclined for the GMs,...
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Francois DesRochers
- Jan 24, 2023
- 10 min
GM Field Guide #8: Geography and Distances
A Macro-Level Discussion GENERAL There really are two factors to this discussion. At the macro-level, this is more inclined for the GMs...
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Francois DesRochers
- Oct 18, 2022
- 5 min
GM Field Guide #7: 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
- 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
- May 3, 2022
- 12 min
GM Field Guide #5: 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
- Feb 8, 2022
- 15 min
GM Field Guide #4: Baseline Publications for New GMs
INTRODUCTION General . There are a great many books supporting the Rifts RPG, which makes the barrier to entry, even just skimming the...
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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
- 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
- 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 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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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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