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Francois DesRochers
Feb 410 min read
Scholar’s Review 82: Rifts Dimension Book 1: Wormwood
Review of Wormwood setting and how to merge current campaign into this understated entry.
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Francois DesRochers
Dec 10, 20247 min read
Scholar’s Review #81: Rifts Chaos Earth (Resurrection)
Written by : Taylor White & Kevin Siembieda Release Date : November 2015 GENERAL Released over ten years after the last Chaos Earth book...
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Francois DesRochers
Nov 19, 20244 min read
Scholar’s Review #80: Rifts Chaos Earth (Rise of Magic)
Written by : Kevin Siembieda Release Date : November 2003 GENERAL One of the biggest gaps from the outset of Chaos Earth was the lack of...
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Francois DesRochers
Nov 12, 20246 min read
Scholar’s Review #79: Rifts Chaos Earth (Creatures of Chaos)
Written by : Kevin Siembieda Release Date : September 2003 Â GENERAL Â The continued troubles that face Humanity are explored in the...
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Francois DesRochers
Oct 29, 202410 min read
Scholar’s Review #78: Rifts Chaos Earth RPG
We shift into reviewing the Chaos Earth RPG, examining the book that explains how it all started.
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Francois DesRochers
Sep 3, 20244 min read
Scholar’s Review #77: Rifts Index – Volume 2
Indexed and Compiled by : Craig Crawford Release Date : December 1997 GENERAL A follow-up to the Rifts Index – Volume 1, Volume 2...
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Francois DesRochers
Jul 9, 20247 min read
Scholar’s Review #75: World Book 36: Sovietski
Author: Brandon Aten, Matthew Orr and Kevin Siembieda Release Date: March 2018 GENERAL I got this title a while back, but only just got...
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Francois DesRochers
Jun 4, 20248 min read
Scholar’s Review #74: RIFTS Sourcebook: Vampires
Author: Kevin Siembieda Release Date: April 2013 GENERAL We revisit the original expansion to the Rifts RPG, diving back into the...
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Francois DesRochers
Apr 30, 202413 min read
Scholar’s Review #73: World Book 35: NG2
Author: Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda Release Date: May 2014 GENERAL The follow-up to World Book 34: Northern Gun 1, this tome of...
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Francois DesRochers
Mar 26, 20245 min read
Scholar’s Review #72: Dimension Book 7: Megaverse Builder
Author: Carl Gleba Release Date: 2004 Note: Special Printing Reviewed (Dec 2022) GENERAL Something of an impulse buy along with my 2023...
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Francois DesRochers
Mar 12, 20246 min read
Scholar’s Review #71: Machinations of Doom
Written and Illustrated by: Ramon Perez Additional Text: Kevin Siembieda and Julius Rosenstein Release Date: May 2007 GENERAL In a bit of...
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Francois DesRochers
Mar 5, 20244 min read
Scholar’s Review #70: The Cyberworks Collection
GENERAL The second part of the Titan Robotics Kickstarter, the Cyberwork Collection is an omnibus of most other ARCHIE-03 publications...
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Francois DesRochers
Feb 13, 20246 min read
Scholar’s Review #69: Rifts Aftermath
Author: Kevin Siembieda Release Date: April 2002 GENERAL As the copious number of books produced by Palladium Books for Rifts continues...
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Francois DesRochers
Jan 16, 20248 min read
Scholar’s Review #68: Sourcebook: Shemarrian Nation
Author: Josh Sinsapaugh Release Date: 2009 GENERAL Ever since the first glimpse into ARCHIE-03 back in Rifts Sourcebook 1, more so after...
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Francois DesRochers
Oct 17, 20239 min read
Scholar’s Review #67: Titan Robotics
GENERAL We finally get our hands on the goods. I’ll be honest, it’s been a while since I’ve reviewed a Palladium Books product I was this...
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Francois DesRochers
Jun 20, 20235 min read
Scholar’s Review #66: Dark Conversions
Author: Kevin Siembieda Release Date: December 2002 GENERAL General. Anecdotally referred to as Conversion Book 3, this book provides a...
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Francois DesRochers
May 9, 202313 min read
Scholars Review #65: World Book 35 – Megaverse in Flames
Author: Carl Gleba Release Date: September 2015 (PDF Edition) INTRODUCTION After examining Dimension Book 10: Hades and Dimension Book...
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Francois DesRochers
Apr 25, 20239 min read
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, 20237 min read
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
Mar 7, 20239 min read
Scholars Review #62: Dimension Book 11: Dyval – Hell Unleashed
Author: Carl Gleba Release Date: August 2007 INTRODUCTION The second of two Dimension Books, we explore the second of two main parties to...
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