Scholarly Adventures

INTRODUCTION General. The Rifts RPG is a game that brings a lot of different play styles and classes to the table with varying levels of...

(An Unsolicited Submission to Palladium Books) GENERAL For any long-time Player of the Palladium Books games, you quickly realize the...

INTRODUCTION General. One of the running themes for Rifts has always been about the bionic and cybernetic augmentation. From the very...

INTRODUCTION General. Once again, Palladium Books are busy filling out Christmas orders, slinging “randomized” grab bags across the earth...

INTRODUCTION General. When Rifts Ultimate Edition came out, one of the few new additions to the line-up for O.C.C.s was generally thought...

GENERAL The Siege on Tolkeen can generally be characterized as a gateway project for Palladium Books and the Rifts timeline. Basically,...

GENERAL The actual contents for the Titanium Club (Limited Edition Backer) included several physical and electronic (PDF) versions of the...

(Uh-Oh, Canada!) INTRODUCTION Like many of you, I've been waiting for my order from the Titan Robotics Kickstarter. I reviewed my initial...

INTRODUCTION General. The Dog Boy was one of the original Classes that allowed a Player to bring a lot of plot points to the table....

INTRODUCTION General. In the original Rifts Main Book, the CS Military Specialist was the catch-all officer and special forces character....

INTRODUCTION General. A rather unique class, the City Rat is specific to the relatively few major settlements across Rifts Earth. These...

INTRODUCTION By now you've have likely heard of the incident involving Wizards of the Coast (wait, again?!) a Magic: The Gathering (MtG)...

INTRODUCTION General. One of the more cerebral classes within the game, they certainly don’t present as the clear go-to class for an...

INTRODUCTION With the relatively dramatic implosion of the D&D community over the proposed changes to the Open Game License (OGL) at the...

GENERAL In my previous article, The Bazaar #40: Geography & Distances, we discussed geography-related issues more inclined for the GMs,...

A Macro-Level Discussion GENERAL There really are two factors to this discussion. At the macro-level, this is more inclined for the GMs...

(One D&D’s Impact and Palladium Books) INTRODUCTION A relatively unsurprising amount of angst has developed from the One D&D release, as...

INTRODUCTION The Psychic Classes are the one segment of the game that fails to garner the attention technology receives; even magic gets...

INTRODUCTION I imagine that as a fan of Palladium Books’ games (hence why you are here), I'd be much surprised if you’ve not heard about...