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Rifts is a multi-genre role-playing game that captures the imagination unlike any other. Elements of magic, horror, and the supernatural co-exist with science, high technology and the ordinary. The game spans countless dimensions, making anything and everything possible.

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)_/¯

  • pretzel_morty@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Genndy’s Tarts, my proposed group of short-haired all-star cartoon babes for a Lemmy-based RIFTS campaign (would Fang and Monkey be included? Fingers crossed…)

    Left to right: Mira (Primal), Ikra (Samurai Jack), and Agent Honeydew (Dial M for Monkey)

    Samurai Jack spoiler

    Ikra would be a shifter with Aku as a patron, not Aku in disguise, obviously

    • BehemothExplorer@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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      1 year ago

      Nice! This is exactly the sort of copyright-infringing game that wouldn’t fly on a company-moderated message board. Character builds for Spear, Samurai Jack, and Dexter, would, of course, be obligatory…

      RIFTS (core)
      Mira : Wilderness Scout
      Ikra : Shifter (with combat training)
      Honeydew : CS Military Specialist (minor psionic)

      Turtle Prime (no-MD, old school) Mira : mutant hominidon (Transdimensional TMNT)
      Fang : mutant t-rex (Transdimensional TMNT)
      Ikra : Ashmedai (Nightspawnbane)
      Honeydew : agent (Ninjas & Superspies)
      Monkey : mutant monkey (TMNT Adventures and Heroes Unlimited)

      • pretzel_morty@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I’ve only played RIFTS (Ultimate Edition, if it matters), but I’d be down to try Transdimensional TMNT.

        I like playing dark characters, so if I had to pick one of the three Tarts, it’d be Ikra for sure. I’ve never played a shifter or any other RIFTS caster; would an Ashmedai (whatever that is) be simpler to play?