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,...

RIFTS – The Setting From the first pages of text in the original RIFTS: RPG, the creator, Kevin Siembieda, considered this as “Palladium’s version of cyberpunk.” The RPG continues with a central theme of “human augmentation” through “man’s (fictional) attempts to remake himself.” Back in the 1990s, when this game was initially released, that may have held true. I would initially tag the world of RIFTS as grimdark (no matter where you go, there is battle and conflict and there