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Warning! Violence and the Supernatural the Fictional Worlds of Palladium Books® Are Violent, Deadly and Filled with Supernatural Monsters Warning! Violence and the Supernatural The fictional worlds of Palladium Books® are violent, deadly and filled with supernatural monsters. Other-dimensional beings, often referred to as "demons," torment, stalk and prey on humans. Other alien life forms, monsters, gods and demigods, as well as magic, insanity, and war are all elements in these books. Some parents may find the violence, magic and supernatural elements of the games inappropriate for young readers/players. We suggest parental discretion. Please note that none of us at Palladiwn Books® condone or encourage the occult, the practice of magic, the use of drugs, or violence. Sample file The Rifter® Number 23 Your guide to the Palladium Megaverse®! First Printing - July, 2003 Copyright 2003 Palladium Books Inc. & Kevin Siembieda All rights reserved, world wide, under the Universal Copyright Convention. No part of this book may be reproduced in part or whole, in any fonn or by any means, without pennission from the publisher, except for brief quotes for use in reviews. All incidents, situations, institutions, governments and people are fictional and any similarity, without satiric intent, of char­ acters or persons living or dead, is strictly coincidental. Palladium Books®, Rifts®. The Rifter®, Coalition Wars®, RECON®, Nightbane®, The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game®. The Mechanoids®, The Mechanoid Invasion®, After the Bomb®, Phase World® and Megaverse® are registered trademarks owned and li­ censed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc. Chaos Earth, NEMA, Mechanoid Space, Heroes Unlimited, HU2, Powers Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, Aliens Unlimited, Mutant Underground, The Nursery, Hardware Unlimited, Gadgets Unlimited, RECON Modem Combat, Beyond the Supernatural, BTS, Three Galaxies, Void Runners, Coalition Wars, RiftsworkZ, Systems Failure, Gramercy Island, Slcraypers, Atorian Empire, Wormwood, Land of the Damned, The Citadel, Wolfen Wars, Wolfen, Cosmo-Knights, Cyber-Knight, Free Quebec, Xiticix Invasion, Fadetown, Hammer of the Forge, Siege On Tolkeen, Psyscape, Dweomer, ARCHIE-3. Northern Gun, Coalition States, Erin Tam, Emperor Prosek, Splugorth, Splynncryth, Mega-Damage, Skelebot, SAMAS. Glitter Boy, Dog Boys, Dog Pack, Techno-Wizard, Ley Line Walker, Shifter, Bio-Wiz­ ardry, Psi-Stalker, Brodkil, Juicer, Crazy, 'Burbs, 'Borg, 'Bot, D-Bee, Chi-Town, Triax, NGR, Shifter, Spell Breather, Living Magic, and other names,Sample titles and likenesses of characters are trademarks owned by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Booksfile Inc. Palladium Online www.palladiumbooks.com The Rifter® #23 RPG sourcebook series is published by Palladium Books Inc., 12455 Universal Drive, Taylor, Ml 48180. Printed in the USA. 2 Palladium Books® Presents: THE #23 Sourcebook and guide to the Palladium Megaverse® Coordinator & Editor in Chief: Wayne Smith Contributing Writers: Interior Artists: James M.G. Cannon Wayne Breaux Jr. Ted Dimitry Drunken Style Studios Dan Felkins Brian Manning Carl Gleba Apollo Okamura Shawn Merrow Ramon Perez A.J. Pickett Freddie Williams II John Stevens Michael Wilson Kevin Siem bieda Ed Woodward III Rodney Stott and other Palladium Madmen Ed Woodward III Todd Yoho Cover Illustration: Dan Scott Cover Logo Design: Steve Edwards Proofreader: Julius Rosenstein Typesetting: Wayne Smith Credits Page Logo: Niklas Brandt Keylining: Kevin Siembieda Based on the RPG rules, characters, concepts Sampleand Megaverse® created by Kevin Siembieda. file Special Thanks to all our contributors, writers and artists - and a special welcome onboard to the artists and writers making their debut in this issue. Our apologies to anybody who got accidentally left out or their name misspelled. 3 Contents - The Rifter® #22 - April, 2003 Page 6 - Rifts® Movie Deal Page 23 - The Palladium Fantasy RPG® It's finally official, Palladium Books has signed a deal with Palladium Astronomy Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Walt Disney Pictures to do a live Carl Gleba wonders what the night sky over the Palladium action motion picture based on Rifts®. Read all about it in the World might look like and presents his musings in this fun and original May 8, 2003 press release and more on page seven. different article for Palladium Fantasy. Includes Palladium's first true telescope/Star Scope, and Temples in the Sky. Page 7 - From the Desk of Kevin Siembieda Artwork by Apollo Okamura. The boss talks a little about the film option for Rifts® and how it may impact Palladium Books now and in the future. He Page 29 - The Palladium Fantasy RPG® also talks about Rifts® Chaos EarthTM, the new role-playing game that is an epic prequel to Rifts® that plays out the origin of The Blade Mage Rifts Earth. We're all pretty excited about this RPG. Hmm, everybody seems to be fascinated with the idea of a spell casting swordsman. A.J. Pickett offers his thoughts and ideas for an optional O.C.C. he calls The Blade Mage. Complete Page 8 - Palladium News with a special Hand to Hand Combat: Blade Master skill, Hey, could the advent of the Rifts® movie make the RPG and weapon expertise and 37 Blade Magic spells. other Palladium games collector items? Find out what Kevin Siembieda thinks. More on Chaos Earth™ and other odds and ends. Page 41- After the Bomb® & Heroes Unlimited™ Mesozoic Land: Part One Page 10 - Coming Attractions Todd S. Yoho goes all out creating a background for genetic mutants that are dinosaurs. That's right, Mutant Dinosaurs com­ Palladium's schedule through October. The latest releases and what's coming soon. Beyond the SupernaturaJTM 2nd plete with Creation Steps, Background Table, and 14 dinos com­ Edition, Rifts®: The Black Vault™ and The Vanguard™ pletely statted out. Suitable for adapting and using as mutants or sourcebooks, a revised edition of Federation of Magic™ (with experiments in Heroes Unlimited™ as well as the obvious use 30 pages of new material), European Castles, Exotic Weapons in ATB. and more. Part Two concludes the ideas next issue. Artwork by Brian "Rex" Manning. Page 15 - Rifts® Chaos Earth In case you missed the hype and excitement, this is the Page 60- Rifts® prequel to Rifts® set in the apocalyptic days of the Great Cata­ The Faerie Harvest clysm and the collapse of human civilization. This is a different It is common knowledge that the Splugorth of Atlantis "har­ setting than Rifts® with its share of unique characters, weapons vest" Faerie Folk. It was always assumed they were sold in the and adventures. Read all about it right here. Chaos Earth™ is slave market as magical oddities, however, in recent years, it has completely compatible with Rifts®. become known that Faerie Folk are used as living P.P.E. batter­ The facing page of artwork is from the Chaos Earth RPG ies for numerous different Splugorth magic weapons and de­ and is by Mike Majestic of Drunken Style Studio. vices. This Bio-Wizardry usually leaves the Faeries lobotomized or forever imprisoned, a fate worse than death. Page 16 - The Rifts® Subscription Offer Ted Dimitry presents a number of new Splugorth Bio-Wizard Whether you buy it in the stores or buy it from Palladium vehicles, weapons and devices that incorporate Faerie Folk as Books directly, you don't want to miss a single issue of The their source of power. Plus the Faerie War, Faerie Knight and Rifter®. Each issue just seems to get better and better, plus The Ley Wasp. All outstanding optional material for Rifts®. Rifter® is your first and best source for Rifts® movie updates. Artwork by Apollo Okamura. Page 17 - Nightbane® Page 74 - Rifts® SampleCS Target Acquisition file Groups The Spell Breather Ed Woodward III returns with a new, cool O.C.C. for John Stevens presents a new area of special training in snip­ Nightbane®, the conjurer of Living Magic. Includes special ing for the Coalition Army. Includes the C-lOS Laser Sniper abilities, a special appearance table and other pertinent data. Rifle. Artwork is also by the talented Mr. Ed Woodward. 4 Page 77 - Rifts® Coming Next Issue Modern Army Combat Rules Dan Felkins is back, this time with mass anny combat rules, The Rifter™ #24 tips and suggestions with Rifts® in mind. Includes some Typi­ • Mesozoic Land: Part Two (conclusion). cal Modern Army Units and Army Creation Rules based on • Material for Nightbane® and/or Heroes Unlim­ those for creating a Mercenary Company. itetPM• Adaptable to other modern games and settings. Includes us­ ing magic and psionics. • More material for Palladium Fantasy®. Artwork by Wayne Breaux Jr, Freddie Williams and Mike • More material for Rifts®. Wilson. • Expanded Questions and Answers: Rodney, Shawn and Kevin have worked up a larger than Page 92 - Rifts® Phase World® usual questions and answers section with Palla­ The Hammer of the Forge dium Fantasy® Second Edition conversions for the Chapter 23 of James M.G. Cannon's epic saga. Yin-Sloth Jungle™. Artwork by Apollo "Mr. Transformer" Okamura. • The next chapter of The Hammer of the Forge™. The theme for issue 23 • The latest news and developments at Palladium Seems to be Magic, Monsters and Combat across the Books. Megaverse, which seems appropriate considering The Palladium • Source material for the entire Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game® (full of monsters, magic and com­ Megaverse®. bat) debuted in the summer of 1983, twenty years ago. The Pal­ • New contributors and fun. So please join us. ladium Fantasy RPG® has never been out of print and continues to be one of the most played fantasy RPGs on the market. The Cover Palladium Books® role-playing The cover is by artist Dan Scott. We thought the Simvan games ... infinite possibilities, limited Riding a dinosaur fit nicely with the mutant dinosaurs. This is ™ really only halfof the artwork. The piece was originally created only by your imagination as an illustration for the ill-fated expansion set for the Rifts® Collectible Card Game. It is seen here for the first time ever. Optional and Unofficial Rules & Source Material Please note that most of the material presented in The Rifter® is "unofficial" or "optional" rules and source material.
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