Scholarly Adventures

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

GENERAL So, to recap, we’ve started a discussion on the Palladium Books rules, specifically the individual components that make up the...

GENERAL The Palladium Books core rules set has remained pretty much unchanged over the decades; only tweaks and minor changes here and...

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...

GENERAL There a great number of misconceptions to the Literacy skill and how to employ it, both during the character creation process and...

INTRODUCTION General. At its core, Rifts is based on the premise of rips in the fabric of space and time that allowed various and...

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,...

INTRODUCTION General. In the far future, where technology is seen by many as the saving grace against the inhuman and monstrous, and...

INTRODUCTION General. So if you were to look at this OCC, one could be excused for wondering what the draw would be. Your baseline...

INTRODUCTION General. In a follow-up to last week’s post (The Bazaar 26: OCC Rationalization (Men-at-Arms)), I thought I’d take a look at...

INTRODUCTION One of the things Palladium Books has tried in earnest to do in their World Books, and in some cases Sourcebooks, is provide...

GENERAL Third party content producers and the fandom's support of whatever your slice of geek culture happens to be is one of the key...

INTRODUCTION When the Rifts RPG first came out, it was a wild, post-Apocalyptic mash-up of technology, magic, psionics, demons and...

INTRODUCTION General. As far as Psychic classes and access to the varied powers they deliver, there isn’t one that delivers quite the...

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),...

INTRODUCTION General. Raving lunatics, covert ninjas with mommy issues (pun intended), whatever you want to call them, they certainly are...

INTRODUCTION General. You could probably be excused for comparing this to the AD&D Ranger Class, because they do indeed line up fairly...

INTRODUCTION General. One of the iconic classes of the Rifts RPG, this was one of the more popular ones from the get-go. Sporting a...

INTRODUCTION General. One of the iconic classes from the Rifts RPG, and one of the most popularized images based on Kevin Long’s line art...

INTRODUCTION General. One of the iconic classes of the Rifts RPG, this was one of the more popular ones from the get-go, with a massive...