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Rifts Sourcebook 1
The Rifts Sourcebook One gives the reader more of everything! More data on the Coalition States, CS combat squads, CS morality, character stats, monsters, robots, weapons, equipment and adventures! Plus a peek at the super technology and weapons of the New German Republic along with some Northern Gun bots and weapons.
Sourcebook One also introduces the ever popular A.R.C.H.I.E. 3 (a bizarre creation from the time before the Rifts), its legion of robots and its diabolical human partner, Hagan Lonovich. As well as rules for creating robot player characters. This supplement is a treasure trove of vital data and many surprises.
Highlights
Robot Racial Character Class (an optional R.C.C.).
Robot NPC, villains, and adventure(s) that link the past and present of Rifts Earth.
More details on the Coalition and tips on how to play and Game Master the Coalition characters, heroes and villains. Complete stats on Emperor Prosek and other key CS figures.
Skelebots and other new Coalition bots, weapons, and combat squadron information.
More bots, body armor, power armor, weapons and monsters. rail guns, equipment and black market data
Sourcebook One also introduces the ever popular A.R.C.H.I.E. 3 (a bizarre creation from the time before the Rifts), its legion of robots and its diabolical human partner, Hagan Lonovich. As well as rules for creating robot player characters. This supplement is a treasure trove of vital data and many surprises.
Highlights
Robot Racial Character Class (an optional R.C.C.).
Robot NPC, villains, and adventure(s) that link the past and present of Rifts Earth.
More details on the Coalition and tips on how to play and Game Master the Coalition characters, heroes and villains. Complete stats on Emperor Prosek and other key CS figures.
Skelebots and other new Coalition bots, weapons, and combat squadron information.
More bots, body armor, power armor, weapons and monsters. rail guns, equipment and black market data
120 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1991
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Kevin Siembieda
205 books52 followersKevin Siembieda (born April 2, 1956) is an American artist, writer, designer, and publisher of role-playing games, as well as being the founder and president of Palladium Books.
Palladium Books, founded in southeast Michigan, claims to be the first to implement a role-playing system intended to work for all genres and to introduce the perfect-bound trade paperback format to the RPG industry.
Some of the role-playing games Siembieda helped produce include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness (1985), Robotech RPG (1986), After The Bomb (1986), and Rifts (1990).
Siembieda is also an artist, best known for occasionally illustrating Palladium Books' products. In 1978, he started the now-defunct Megaton Publications in Detroit, publishing a digest style title called A+ Plus and several other titles. He also contributed art and cartography to several early Judges Guild products (for both their Traveller and Dungeons & Dragons lines).
Palladium Books, founded in southeast Michigan, claims to be the first to implement a role-playing system intended to work for all genres and to introduce the perfect-bound trade paperback format to the RPG industry.
Some of the role-playing games Siembieda helped produce include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness (1985), Robotech RPG (1986), After The Bomb (1986), and Rifts (1990).
Siembieda is also an artist, best known for occasionally illustrating Palladium Books' products. In 1978, he started the now-defunct Megaton Publications in Detroit, publishing a digest style title called A+ Plus and several other titles. He also contributed art and cartography to several early Judges Guild products (for both their Traveller and Dungeons & Dragons lines).
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February 10, 2016
Even though the Palladium role-playing system is not the one I use in my games the source books are fantastic. Tons of great ideas and characters are scattered throughout the books. Very recommended for any gamer.
February 4, 2019
A rift sourcebook that I am no longer using so I am giving it away.
April 18, 2016
I believe this was one of the first supplements for the Rifts: Roleplaying game. I know that they have revised it at least once but my review focuses on the original publication. In the Rifts core rulebook a brief overview was given to the movers and shakers of the Rifts setting. One of the biggest players was the Coalition military group, and the sourcebook gives us a little better picture of the upper echelon of their leadership. We are introduced the Proseks, their generals and even more information is given as to soldier armaments, Coalition ideals and practices as well as ample discussion regarding various errata or player questions raised by the original release of the RPG. Where this sourcebook really shined for me was in the inclusion of ARCHIE, the maniacal computer system from our past that survived the apocalypse . A series of adventure hooks are given, and a decent little adventure unfolds as we learn about this unknown menace.
I was so enamored by the story, that for my new group of Rifts players, I am actually going to run with the published material and do my best to do justice to the epic of ARCHIE and James Tee Kuh (the character is never able to fully pronounce their last name but I think from the NPC's overacting it is clear just whom it is supposed to be) Palladium has always been kind of hit or miss with rules, playing sort of fast and loose and leaving it up to the GM to sort out any discrepancies, and this book is no exception but frankly, it was just plain fun to read, and that is saying something too. Ultimately, Siembieda does what he is known for and writes a fast paced narrative that gets you entrenched in the content quickly. I will do a review if I pick up the revised edition but as a whole this will always be one of my favorite purchases from Palladium.
I was so enamored by the story, that for my new group of Rifts players, I am actually going to run with the published material and do my best to do justice to the epic of ARCHIE and James Tee Kuh (the character is never able to fully pronounce their last name but I think from the NPC's overacting it is clear just whom it is supposed to be) Palladium has always been kind of hit or miss with rules, playing sort of fast and loose and leaving it up to the GM to sort out any discrepancies, and this book is no exception but frankly, it was just plain fun to read, and that is saying something too. Ultimately, Siembieda does what he is known for and writes a fast paced narrative that gets you entrenched in the content quickly. I will do a review if I pick up the revised edition but as a whole this will always be one of my favorite purchases from Palladium.
March 31, 2010
Lots of good plothooks and creative additions to the Megaverse.
December 19, 2011
great book for biginners of the rifts rpg.
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