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Rifts (rpggeek.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BehemothExplorer to c/megaversal_ttrpgs

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RIFTS? Never heard of it...

(Just kidding. Sound off here with a post if RIFTS is your jam, you filthy casuals...)

For those who don't know, RIFTS was the game that was such a hit in the 90's that it kept Palladium on life support for the next twenty-five D&D-dominated years, and was even optioned for a movie (and then discarded into development hell as a cashed-in bargaining chip in their strategy to get a better price for the rights to the Transformers franchise. But still, a Hollywood movie! That's never worked out horribly for the RPG in the past except for every single other time it's happened...)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] sbv 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the Rifts sourcebook has been re-released. I saw it in a comic book store when I was browsing for D&D crap. I almost picked it up as a nostalgia buy, but I don't think I could withstand the psychic damage of reliving my teens.

[–] BehemothExplorer 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a "Krugatch thread" about Palladium's re-release of OG Rifts to expunge all Ninja Turtle references from the Megaverse. Sounds to me like Shredder and ~~Krang~~ Doc Feral are up to their old dimension/time-travel tricks again! Thanks to Transdimensional TMNT, the Turtles had their own little Megaverse going on before RIFTS came along. They can't publish for it, but we can still play it.

I still love me some D&D, but after the d20/Pathfinder glory days, I could never get into 5E or PF2. I got back into Palladium during lockdown and discovered Dead Reign (close to home during COVID) and Nightbane (the Palladium-predicted apocalypse that more-or-less really did happen after 9-11), which have been easier to collect and digest than the massive sprawls of RIFTS, Heroes Unilimited, or Palladium Fantasy. After years of edition wars, it was really refreshing to find that Palladium hasn't changed their "broken" system (but that's a topic for its own dedicated thread).