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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
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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

    • BehemothExplorerOPM
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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
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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?

        • BehemothExplorerOPM
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          1 year ago

          Ashmedai are shapeshifting worms that hail from (but may not be native to) the Darklands, the dark dimension of bad guys that’s just adjacent to Nightbane’s Earth (behind every mirror). They’re the closest thing to Aku’s “race” in the Megaverse that I’ve come across, and they’d be easier to play than a RIFTS shifter, for sure.