In 1990, Palladium Books launched Rifts, a post-apocalyptic-science-fantasy-horror-mecha-role-playing game using a game system from 1981.
In 2021, two guys who played it a bunch revisited the game and, armed with hindsight, set about mocking, parodying, and critiquing the game. It turned into this embarrassingly long book.
- Coverage of the basic rules, the nearly 30 (i.e. 27) classes, psionics, magic, the Rifts Earth setting, gear, and what passes for the gamemaster section.
- Insights into the game's history and inner workings.
- Snarky jokes and humorous tables and lists, like a class generator, random skull armor, bests and worsts, plus a Palladium Bingo card!
- The Glitterskull R.C.C. and playbook, letting you play as the "mascot" of the game at long last.
- Magic & Missiles, a fully playable one-page RPG!
- Over 200 superfluous footnotes.
- An in-depth criticism of the game's Nazi apologism. It's worse than you think, and we brought receipts.
Price: $8.00
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