Francois DesRochers
GM Field Guide #18: Meta-Gaming in Rifts
INTRODUCTION A contentious topic, for some meta-gaming is a serious no-go issue, while others are more lenient in allowing some...
top of page
Francois DesRochers
Dec 5, 20235 min read
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...
260 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
Nov 28, 202314 min read
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:...
199 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
Jul 4, 202312 min read
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...
205 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
Apr 11, 20239 min read
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...
137 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
Mar 28, 20237 min read
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...
168 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
Mar 21, 202311 min read
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....
317 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
Feb 14, 202310 min read
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...
150 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
Feb 7, 202312 min read
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,...
115 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
Jan 24, 202310 min read
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...
211 views2 comments
Francois DesRochers
Oct 18, 20225 min read
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...
92 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
Aug 17, 202210 min read
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...
205 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
May 3, 202212 min read
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,...
143 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
Feb 8, 202215 min read
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...
745 views1 comment
Francois DesRochers
Nov 2, 20219 min read
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),...
171 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
May 4, 202110 min read
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...
235 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
Jun 30, 20209 min read
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,...
131 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
Jun 23, 20203 min read
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...
197 views0 comments
Francois DesRochers
Jun 11, 20206 min read
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...
390 views0 comments
bottom of page