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)_/¯
Everybody remembers ARCHIE and the robots, but the monsters from that book are also classics. Some of the robots are corny, but that’s RIFTS for you. I feel like Kevin Long drew these as a joke.
“Despite the moniker being more appropriate to the NG-V7 Hunter Mobile Gun (above right), the NG-M56 Multi-Bot (above left) is commonly known as the ‘Thundergun,’ a nickname it received from collecters of pre-Rifts media artifacts for esoteric reasons having to do with the weather conditions in the now-lost city of Philadelphia.”