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Warning Violence and the Supernatural
The fictional Worlds of Palladium Booksreg are violent deadly and filled with supernatural monshysters Other dimensional beings often referred to as demons torment stalk and prey on humans Other alien life fonus monsters gods and demigods as well as magic insanity and war are all eleshyments in this book
Some parents may find the violence magic and supernatural elements of the game inappropriate for young readersplayers We suggest parental discretion
Please note that none of us at Palladium Booksreg condone or encourage the occult the practice of magic the use of drugs or violence
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The Rifterreg Number Ten Your guide to the Palladium Megaversereg
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First Printing - April 2000
Copyright 2000 Palladium Books Inc amp 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 form or by any means without permission 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 charshyacters or persons living or dead is strictly coincidental
Palladium Booksreg Riftsreg The Rifterreg RECONreg Nightbanereg The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Gamereg The Mechanoidsreg The Mechanoid Invasionreg After the Bombreg and Megaversereg are registered trademarks owned and licensed by Kevin Siembieda and PalIadium Books Inc
Heroes Unlimited HU2 Ninjas amp Superspies Beyond the Supernatural BTS Coalition Wars RiftsworksZ Systems Failshyure Century Station Chaos Earth Skraypers Phase World Wormwood BaaJgor Wastelands Mount Nimro Eastern Terrishytory Coalition Wars Free Quebec Xiticix Invasion Splynn Dimensional Market Hammer of The Forge The Siege Against Tolkeen Siege On Tolkeen Arzno Psyscape Mechanoids Space 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-Wizardry Cyber-Knight Psi-Stalker Brodkil Juicer Crazy Burbs Borg Bot D-Bee Chi-Town Triax NGR Bio-Leech Fire-Eater Kill Crazy Sym-Killer Spatial Magic Spatial Mage Mutant Underground The Anvil Galaxy Land of the Damned Wolfen and other names titles and likenesses of characters are tradeshymarks owned by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc
Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade is a trademark of Kenzer Co and the creation of JolIy Blackburn
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesreg and TMNTreg are registered trademarks of Mirage Studios
Robotechreg is a registered trademark of Harmony Gold USA Inc
Gen Conreg is a registered trademark of Wizards of the Coast
Palladiwn On-Line wwwpalladiumbookscom
The Riftertrade 10 RPG sourcebook series is published by Palladiwn Books Inc 12455 Universal Drive Taylor MI 48180 Printed in the USA
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Palladium Booksreg Presents
10
Russell Brin Jason Richards
James MG Cannon Nathan Taylor Ewen Cluney Blake Trzpuc Greg Diaczyk Kevin Siembieda Jay Fitzloff Wayne Smith David Haendler
Mark Hall David Phillips
Knights of the Dinner Table Jolly Blackburn
Proofreader Julius Rosenstein
Cover Painting Wayne Breaux
Interior Artists Apollo Okamura Ryan Beres Kent Buries
Wayne Breaux Jr
Freddie Williams II
Brandon C Clark (DSS)
Ka Xiong (DSS) Mark Dudley (DSS)
Charles Walton (DSS) concepts and Mega versereg created by Kevin Siem bieda Drunken Style Studio
Sourcebook and guide to the Palladium Megaversereg
Coordinator amp Editor in Chief Wayne Smith
Supervising Coordinator amp Typesetting
Maryann Siembieda
Contributing Writers
Riftsreg Comic Strip Ramon Perez
Cover Logo Design Steve Edwards
Credits Page Logo Niklas Brandt
Keylining Kevin Siembieda
Based on the RPG rules characters
Special Thanks to all of You for making the Rifterreg a success - Wayne Smith
Our apologies to anybody who got accidentally left out or their name misspelled
3
Sam
ple
file
Contents - The Rifter 10 - April 2000
Page 6-Art Due to space limitations this cool page of artwork by
Freddie Williams 11 was shrunk down to a quarter of its size in Century Stationtrade We thought it would be nice to reprint it here in the size it was originally intended It depicts the notorious vilshylain Daddy Longlegstrade and his Longlegger power armor suit
Page 7 - From the Desk
of Kevin Siembieda Publisher Kevin Siembieda waxes on about why
role-playing games should be fun and some of the exciting proshyject coming soon from Palladium Books
Page 8 - Palladium News This issues news starts off with Kevin amp Maryann
Siembiedas convention circuit up-date - namely Marcon (in May) and Gen Con (in August) These are the only two convenshytions the Siembiedas will be attending later this year come and visit if you can
Ryan Beres joins the Palladium staff but more importantly get the details on Wayne Smiths reaction to The Rifter 9 112
Page 10 Coming Attractions Big plans for Heroes UnlimitedTM and Palladium Fantasy
with a number of exciting sourcebooks planned for both
And for Riftsreg more on Coalition Wars Siege on Tolkeentrade (pretty much on schedule) a new RiJtsworkZ portfoshylio of art by John Zeleznik and other projects
Page 15 - The Rifter 9 1ft
April Fools Day Special If you are wondering what this special limited edition of The
Rifterreg is here are all the details Limited to only 10000 copshyies so get your copy while you still can Available in fme game hobby and comic stores everywhere or directly from Palladium Books
Page 17 - Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade Another hilarious installment of KoDT by creator Jolly
Blackburn and Steve Johansson
Dont forget the KoDT comic books are available from Kenzer amp Company 1935 S Plum Grove Rd Suite 194 Palashytine IL 60067
Page 19 - The Palladium Fantasy RPGreg The Magic of Science
Greg Diaczyk offers his thoughts and ideas for technology in the Palladium Fantasy RPGreg setting To this end he presents the Tinker OCC explosives machines and gadgets Note Its fun to see the direction other people take our games and this is
4
one such example Gregs completely optional ideas may work for him but the Palladium World is so rich in magic diverse cultures and the supernatural that modem advancement in the way of science has been stymied People rely on the old ways and use magic as their preferred technology In the official setting technology as we know it has been supplanted by magic and the supernatural
Artwork is by Kent BurIes
Page 24 - More Palladium Fantasy RPGreg
The Changeling Metamorph Mark Hall presents the optional OCC of the Changeling
Metamorph a sort of rare super-changeling who can assume all types of transformations beyond the capabilities of a normal Changeling
Artwork by Apollo Okamura
Page 26 - Heroes Unlimited 2nd Edition
The Gestalt Power Category Jay Fitzloff has created an entirely new optional Power Catshy
egory for Heroes Unlimited 2nd Edition A rare and bizarre class of superbieng that is more than he or she may seem Much more
Artwork by Drunken Style Studio (DSS)
Gestalt NPCs - Heroes amp Villains start on page 35 Written by Wayne Smith Illustrated by Freddie Williams II
Page 40 - Beyond the SupernaturapM Adventure
Trouble in the Midwest Blake Trzpuc gives us a frightening adventure for Beyond
the Supernaturaltrade Ideal for low to mid-level characters
Art by Drunken Style Studio (DSS)
Page 46 - Beyond the SupernaturapM Adventure
Dark Consequences Russel Brin whips up another little adventure for Beyond the
Supernaturaltrade
Art by Kent Buries
Page 48 - Nightbanereg RPG On the Fringe of the Night
Offers optional fringe group OCCs for the Nightbanereg RPG setting David Solon Phillips takes a look at how modem day militia groups might respond to the Nightlords and their minions
Art by Drunken Style Studio (DSS)
Sam
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Page 57 - Riftsreg Lone Star Comic Strip Holy Moses Is this the end of oops dont want to give
away the story in this action packed installment of the Riftsreg Comic Strip The plot thickens and trouble mounts as our heroes come face to face with one of Doctor Desmond Bradfords geshynetic experiments
Part Five of Seven chapters by Ramon Perez (Penciler hIker Letterer and Writer) Thats right seven chapters instead of six Ramon just couldnt keep the story to the six chapters we had originally planned so we are going to extend the strip for an extra issue Somehow I dont think anybody is going to comshyplain
Page 65 - Riftsreg
The Territory of Arzno (part Two of Two) Jason Richards and Nathan Taylor present the independent
City of Arzno Arizona Built from scratch and defended by the Arzno Mercenary Corps it has become something of an oasis of civilization in a dangerous wasteland Part two presents TW Arshymor gizmos and vehicles used by this southwestern community Plus the optional Weapon Mage OCC and a few Hook Line amp Sinkertrade style adventures
Artwork by Wayne Breaux Jr
Page 79 - Riftsreg
The Environment of Space Ewen Cluney explores the pitfalls of playing in outer-space
for Rifts characters Defmitions observations and rules all topped by a over 40 spells designed for use in space and space travel Ideal for use in Phase WordfM
Artwork by Wayne Breaux Jr
Page 93 - The final chapter of David Haendlers
Siege Against Tolkeen After 10 issues this epic tale comes to a satisfying end We
hope you enjoyed the story while it lasted
Artwork by Apollo Okamura
Page 107- Hammer of the Forge The next chapter in James M G Carmons Phase WortfrM
story
The Cover The cover to The Rifter 10 is a concept painting by W~ne
Breaux depicting the character Shock cutting looks with crackshyling energy We thought it was kinda cool and fit with the superbeings presented in this issue
Optional and Unofficial Rules amp Source Material
Please note that most of the material presented in The Rifterreg is unofficial or optional rules and source material They are alternative ideas and things one can include in his
campaign or enjoy reading They are not official to the main games or world settings For example the story Siege Against Tokeen is likely to be very different from Kevin Siembiedas official World Books coming in 2000 As for optional tables and adventures if they sound cool or fun use them If they sound funky too high-powered or inappropriate for your game modify them or ignore them completely
All the material in The Rifterreg has been included for two reasons One because we thought it was imaginative and fun and two we thought it would stimulate your imagination with fun stuff that you can use (if you want) or which might inspire you to create your own wonders
The Rifterreg is a registered trademark We are proud to announce that The Rifterreg is now a Regisshy
tered Trademark owned by Palladium Books hence the circled R instead of the TM Yes we realize that none of you guys and gals probably give a hoot but were pleased and wanted to make note of it
We are looking for
contributors to The Rifterreg 13 Somebody on-line came up with the idea of making 13 a
theme issue focusing on the number J3 bad luck superstishytion and horror We love the idea and want people to think about submitting material that fits the bill Submissions can be serious or humorous Short to medium size are best - that means 5-16 computer pages of material please And dont just focus on horror think about how this might be applicable for Riftsreg Heroes UnlimitetfrM and Palladium Fantasy too So put on those thinking caps and get writing (Of course all submisshysions are created and submitted entirely on speculation Possible publication is left to Palladium Books sole discretion and payshyment is the usual pitiful rate of ten bucks per printed page of text)
Deadline November 12000 (October is even better)
wwwpalladiumbookscom - Palladium On-Line
Coming Next Issue bullbullbull The Riftertrade 11 bull GM advice on handling practitioners of magic bull Adventure for The Palladium Fantasy RPGreg bull Material for Heroes UnlimitedfM bull Insight on Nightbanereg bull More Knights ofthe Dinner Tabletrade bull More of the Ramon Perez Lone Star comic strip bull The next chapter of the Hammer ofthe Forgetrade bull Material for Riftsreg bull The latest news and developments at Palladium bull Source material for the Palladium Megaversereg bull New contributors and fun
5
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- PAL-Rifter10pdf
-
First Printing - April 2000
Copyright 2000 Palladium Books Inc amp 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 form or by any means without permission 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 charshyacters or persons living or dead is strictly coincidental
Palladium Booksreg Riftsreg The Rifterreg RECONreg Nightbanereg The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Gamereg The Mechanoidsreg The Mechanoid Invasionreg After the Bombreg and Megaversereg are registered trademarks owned and licensed by Kevin Siembieda and PalIadium Books Inc
Heroes Unlimited HU2 Ninjas amp Superspies Beyond the Supernatural BTS Coalition Wars RiftsworksZ Systems Failshyure Century Station Chaos Earth Skraypers Phase World Wormwood BaaJgor Wastelands Mount Nimro Eastern Terrishytory Coalition Wars Free Quebec Xiticix Invasion Splynn Dimensional Market Hammer of The Forge The Siege Against Tolkeen Siege On Tolkeen Arzno Psyscape Mechanoids Space 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-Wizardry Cyber-Knight Psi-Stalker Brodkil Juicer Crazy Burbs Borg Bot D-Bee Chi-Town Triax NGR Bio-Leech Fire-Eater Kill Crazy Sym-Killer Spatial Magic Spatial Mage Mutant Underground The Anvil Galaxy Land of the Damned Wolfen and other names titles and likenesses of characters are tradeshymarks owned by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc
Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade is a trademark of Kenzer Co and the creation of JolIy Blackburn
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesreg and TMNTreg are registered trademarks of Mirage Studios
Robotechreg is a registered trademark of Harmony Gold USA Inc
Gen Conreg is a registered trademark of Wizards of the Coast
Palladiwn On-Line wwwpalladiumbookscom
The Riftertrade 10 RPG sourcebook series is published by Palladiwn Books Inc 12455 Universal Drive Taylor MI 48180 Printed in the USA
2
Sam
ple
file
THER
Palladium Booksreg Presents
10
Russell Brin Jason Richards
James MG Cannon Nathan Taylor Ewen Cluney Blake Trzpuc Greg Diaczyk Kevin Siembieda Jay Fitzloff Wayne Smith David Haendler
Mark Hall David Phillips
Knights of the Dinner Table Jolly Blackburn
Proofreader Julius Rosenstein
Cover Painting Wayne Breaux
Interior Artists Apollo Okamura Ryan Beres Kent Buries
Wayne Breaux Jr
Freddie Williams II
Brandon C Clark (DSS)
Ka Xiong (DSS) Mark Dudley (DSS)
Charles Walton (DSS) concepts and Mega versereg created by Kevin Siem bieda Drunken Style Studio
Sourcebook and guide to the Palladium Megaversereg
Coordinator amp Editor in Chief Wayne Smith
Supervising Coordinator amp Typesetting
Maryann Siembieda
Contributing Writers
Riftsreg Comic Strip Ramon Perez
Cover Logo Design Steve Edwards
Credits Page Logo Niklas Brandt
Keylining Kevin Siembieda
Based on the RPG rules characters
Special Thanks to all of You for making the Rifterreg a success - Wayne Smith
Our apologies to anybody who got accidentally left out or their name misspelled
3
Sam
ple
file
Contents - The Rifter 10 - April 2000
Page 6-Art Due to space limitations this cool page of artwork by
Freddie Williams 11 was shrunk down to a quarter of its size in Century Stationtrade We thought it would be nice to reprint it here in the size it was originally intended It depicts the notorious vilshylain Daddy Longlegstrade and his Longlegger power armor suit
Page 7 - From the Desk
of Kevin Siembieda Publisher Kevin Siembieda waxes on about why
role-playing games should be fun and some of the exciting proshyject coming soon from Palladium Books
Page 8 - Palladium News This issues news starts off with Kevin amp Maryann
Siembiedas convention circuit up-date - namely Marcon (in May) and Gen Con (in August) These are the only two convenshytions the Siembiedas will be attending later this year come and visit if you can
Ryan Beres joins the Palladium staff but more importantly get the details on Wayne Smiths reaction to The Rifter 9 112
Page 10 Coming Attractions Big plans for Heroes UnlimitedTM and Palladium Fantasy
with a number of exciting sourcebooks planned for both
And for Riftsreg more on Coalition Wars Siege on Tolkeentrade (pretty much on schedule) a new RiJtsworkZ portfoshylio of art by John Zeleznik and other projects
Page 15 - The Rifter 9 1ft
April Fools Day Special If you are wondering what this special limited edition of The
Rifterreg is here are all the details Limited to only 10000 copshyies so get your copy while you still can Available in fme game hobby and comic stores everywhere or directly from Palladium Books
Page 17 - Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade Another hilarious installment of KoDT by creator Jolly
Blackburn and Steve Johansson
Dont forget the KoDT comic books are available from Kenzer amp Company 1935 S Plum Grove Rd Suite 194 Palashytine IL 60067
Page 19 - The Palladium Fantasy RPGreg The Magic of Science
Greg Diaczyk offers his thoughts and ideas for technology in the Palladium Fantasy RPGreg setting To this end he presents the Tinker OCC explosives machines and gadgets Note Its fun to see the direction other people take our games and this is
4
one such example Gregs completely optional ideas may work for him but the Palladium World is so rich in magic diverse cultures and the supernatural that modem advancement in the way of science has been stymied People rely on the old ways and use magic as their preferred technology In the official setting technology as we know it has been supplanted by magic and the supernatural
Artwork is by Kent BurIes
Page 24 - More Palladium Fantasy RPGreg
The Changeling Metamorph Mark Hall presents the optional OCC of the Changeling
Metamorph a sort of rare super-changeling who can assume all types of transformations beyond the capabilities of a normal Changeling
Artwork by Apollo Okamura
Page 26 - Heroes Unlimited 2nd Edition
The Gestalt Power Category Jay Fitzloff has created an entirely new optional Power Catshy
egory for Heroes Unlimited 2nd Edition A rare and bizarre class of superbieng that is more than he or she may seem Much more
Artwork by Drunken Style Studio (DSS)
Gestalt NPCs - Heroes amp Villains start on page 35 Written by Wayne Smith Illustrated by Freddie Williams II
Page 40 - Beyond the SupernaturapM Adventure
Trouble in the Midwest Blake Trzpuc gives us a frightening adventure for Beyond
the Supernaturaltrade Ideal for low to mid-level characters
Art by Drunken Style Studio (DSS)
Page 46 - Beyond the SupernaturapM Adventure
Dark Consequences Russel Brin whips up another little adventure for Beyond the
Supernaturaltrade
Art by Kent Buries
Page 48 - Nightbanereg RPG On the Fringe of the Night
Offers optional fringe group OCCs for the Nightbanereg RPG setting David Solon Phillips takes a look at how modem day militia groups might respond to the Nightlords and their minions
Art by Drunken Style Studio (DSS)
Sam
ple
file
Page 57 - Riftsreg Lone Star Comic Strip Holy Moses Is this the end of oops dont want to give
away the story in this action packed installment of the Riftsreg Comic Strip The plot thickens and trouble mounts as our heroes come face to face with one of Doctor Desmond Bradfords geshynetic experiments
Part Five of Seven chapters by Ramon Perez (Penciler hIker Letterer and Writer) Thats right seven chapters instead of six Ramon just couldnt keep the story to the six chapters we had originally planned so we are going to extend the strip for an extra issue Somehow I dont think anybody is going to comshyplain
Page 65 - Riftsreg
The Territory of Arzno (part Two of Two) Jason Richards and Nathan Taylor present the independent
City of Arzno Arizona Built from scratch and defended by the Arzno Mercenary Corps it has become something of an oasis of civilization in a dangerous wasteland Part two presents TW Arshymor gizmos and vehicles used by this southwestern community Plus the optional Weapon Mage OCC and a few Hook Line amp Sinkertrade style adventures
Artwork by Wayne Breaux Jr
Page 79 - Riftsreg
The Environment of Space Ewen Cluney explores the pitfalls of playing in outer-space
for Rifts characters Defmitions observations and rules all topped by a over 40 spells designed for use in space and space travel Ideal for use in Phase WordfM
Artwork by Wayne Breaux Jr
Page 93 - The final chapter of David Haendlers
Siege Against Tolkeen After 10 issues this epic tale comes to a satisfying end We
hope you enjoyed the story while it lasted
Artwork by Apollo Okamura
Page 107- Hammer of the Forge The next chapter in James M G Carmons Phase WortfrM
story
The Cover The cover to The Rifter 10 is a concept painting by W~ne
Breaux depicting the character Shock cutting looks with crackshyling energy We thought it was kinda cool and fit with the superbeings presented in this issue
Optional and Unofficial Rules amp Source Material
Please note that most of the material presented in The Rifterreg is unofficial or optional rules and source material They are alternative ideas and things one can include in his
campaign or enjoy reading They are not official to the main games or world settings For example the story Siege Against Tokeen is likely to be very different from Kevin Siembiedas official World Books coming in 2000 As for optional tables and adventures if they sound cool or fun use them If they sound funky too high-powered or inappropriate for your game modify them or ignore them completely
All the material in The Rifterreg has been included for two reasons One because we thought it was imaginative and fun and two we thought it would stimulate your imagination with fun stuff that you can use (if you want) or which might inspire you to create your own wonders
The Rifterreg is a registered trademark We are proud to announce that The Rifterreg is now a Regisshy
tered Trademark owned by Palladium Books hence the circled R instead of the TM Yes we realize that none of you guys and gals probably give a hoot but were pleased and wanted to make note of it
We are looking for
contributors to The Rifterreg 13 Somebody on-line came up with the idea of making 13 a
theme issue focusing on the number J3 bad luck superstishytion and horror We love the idea and want people to think about submitting material that fits the bill Submissions can be serious or humorous Short to medium size are best - that means 5-16 computer pages of material please And dont just focus on horror think about how this might be applicable for Riftsreg Heroes UnlimitetfrM and Palladium Fantasy too So put on those thinking caps and get writing (Of course all submisshysions are created and submitted entirely on speculation Possible publication is left to Palladium Books sole discretion and payshyment is the usual pitiful rate of ten bucks per printed page of text)
Deadline November 12000 (October is even better)
wwwpalladiumbookscom - Palladium On-Line
Coming Next Issue bullbullbull The Riftertrade 11 bull GM advice on handling practitioners of magic bull Adventure for The Palladium Fantasy RPGreg bull Material for Heroes UnlimitedfM bull Insight on Nightbanereg bull More Knights ofthe Dinner Tabletrade bull More of the Ramon Perez Lone Star comic strip bull The next chapter of the Hammer ofthe Forgetrade bull Material for Riftsreg bull The latest news and developments at Palladium bull Source material for the Palladium Megaversereg bull New contributors and fun
5
Sam
ple
file
6
Sam
ple
file
- PAL-Rifter10pdf
-
THER
Palladium Booksreg Presents
10
Russell Brin Jason Richards
James MG Cannon Nathan Taylor Ewen Cluney Blake Trzpuc Greg Diaczyk Kevin Siembieda Jay Fitzloff Wayne Smith David Haendler
Mark Hall David Phillips
Knights of the Dinner Table Jolly Blackburn
Proofreader Julius Rosenstein
Cover Painting Wayne Breaux
Interior Artists Apollo Okamura Ryan Beres Kent Buries
Wayne Breaux Jr
Freddie Williams II
Brandon C Clark (DSS)
Ka Xiong (DSS) Mark Dudley (DSS)
Charles Walton (DSS) concepts and Mega versereg created by Kevin Siem bieda Drunken Style Studio
Sourcebook and guide to the Palladium Megaversereg
Coordinator amp Editor in Chief Wayne Smith
Supervising Coordinator amp Typesetting
Maryann Siembieda
Contributing Writers
Riftsreg Comic Strip Ramon Perez
Cover Logo Design Steve Edwards
Credits Page Logo Niklas Brandt
Keylining Kevin Siembieda
Based on the RPG rules characters
Special Thanks to all of You for making the Rifterreg a success - Wayne Smith
Our apologies to anybody who got accidentally left out or their name misspelled
3
Sam
ple
file
Contents - The Rifter 10 - April 2000
Page 6-Art Due to space limitations this cool page of artwork by
Freddie Williams 11 was shrunk down to a quarter of its size in Century Stationtrade We thought it would be nice to reprint it here in the size it was originally intended It depicts the notorious vilshylain Daddy Longlegstrade and his Longlegger power armor suit
Page 7 - From the Desk
of Kevin Siembieda Publisher Kevin Siembieda waxes on about why
role-playing games should be fun and some of the exciting proshyject coming soon from Palladium Books
Page 8 - Palladium News This issues news starts off with Kevin amp Maryann
Siembiedas convention circuit up-date - namely Marcon (in May) and Gen Con (in August) These are the only two convenshytions the Siembiedas will be attending later this year come and visit if you can
Ryan Beres joins the Palladium staff but more importantly get the details on Wayne Smiths reaction to The Rifter 9 112
Page 10 Coming Attractions Big plans for Heroes UnlimitedTM and Palladium Fantasy
with a number of exciting sourcebooks planned for both
And for Riftsreg more on Coalition Wars Siege on Tolkeentrade (pretty much on schedule) a new RiJtsworkZ portfoshylio of art by John Zeleznik and other projects
Page 15 - The Rifter 9 1ft
April Fools Day Special If you are wondering what this special limited edition of The
Rifterreg is here are all the details Limited to only 10000 copshyies so get your copy while you still can Available in fme game hobby and comic stores everywhere or directly from Palladium Books
Page 17 - Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade Another hilarious installment of KoDT by creator Jolly
Blackburn and Steve Johansson
Dont forget the KoDT comic books are available from Kenzer amp Company 1935 S Plum Grove Rd Suite 194 Palashytine IL 60067
Page 19 - The Palladium Fantasy RPGreg The Magic of Science
Greg Diaczyk offers his thoughts and ideas for technology in the Palladium Fantasy RPGreg setting To this end he presents the Tinker OCC explosives machines and gadgets Note Its fun to see the direction other people take our games and this is
4
one such example Gregs completely optional ideas may work for him but the Palladium World is so rich in magic diverse cultures and the supernatural that modem advancement in the way of science has been stymied People rely on the old ways and use magic as their preferred technology In the official setting technology as we know it has been supplanted by magic and the supernatural
Artwork is by Kent BurIes
Page 24 - More Palladium Fantasy RPGreg
The Changeling Metamorph Mark Hall presents the optional OCC of the Changeling
Metamorph a sort of rare super-changeling who can assume all types of transformations beyond the capabilities of a normal Changeling
Artwork by Apollo Okamura
Page 26 - Heroes Unlimited 2nd Edition
The Gestalt Power Category Jay Fitzloff has created an entirely new optional Power Catshy
egory for Heroes Unlimited 2nd Edition A rare and bizarre class of superbieng that is more than he or she may seem Much more
Artwork by Drunken Style Studio (DSS)
Gestalt NPCs - Heroes amp Villains start on page 35 Written by Wayne Smith Illustrated by Freddie Williams II
Page 40 - Beyond the SupernaturapM Adventure
Trouble in the Midwest Blake Trzpuc gives us a frightening adventure for Beyond
the Supernaturaltrade Ideal for low to mid-level characters
Art by Drunken Style Studio (DSS)
Page 46 - Beyond the SupernaturapM Adventure
Dark Consequences Russel Brin whips up another little adventure for Beyond the
Supernaturaltrade
Art by Kent Buries
Page 48 - Nightbanereg RPG On the Fringe of the Night
Offers optional fringe group OCCs for the Nightbanereg RPG setting David Solon Phillips takes a look at how modem day militia groups might respond to the Nightlords and their minions
Art by Drunken Style Studio (DSS)
Sam
ple
file
Page 57 - Riftsreg Lone Star Comic Strip Holy Moses Is this the end of oops dont want to give
away the story in this action packed installment of the Riftsreg Comic Strip The plot thickens and trouble mounts as our heroes come face to face with one of Doctor Desmond Bradfords geshynetic experiments
Part Five of Seven chapters by Ramon Perez (Penciler hIker Letterer and Writer) Thats right seven chapters instead of six Ramon just couldnt keep the story to the six chapters we had originally planned so we are going to extend the strip for an extra issue Somehow I dont think anybody is going to comshyplain
Page 65 - Riftsreg
The Territory of Arzno (part Two of Two) Jason Richards and Nathan Taylor present the independent
City of Arzno Arizona Built from scratch and defended by the Arzno Mercenary Corps it has become something of an oasis of civilization in a dangerous wasteland Part two presents TW Arshymor gizmos and vehicles used by this southwestern community Plus the optional Weapon Mage OCC and a few Hook Line amp Sinkertrade style adventures
Artwork by Wayne Breaux Jr
Page 79 - Riftsreg
The Environment of Space Ewen Cluney explores the pitfalls of playing in outer-space
for Rifts characters Defmitions observations and rules all topped by a over 40 spells designed for use in space and space travel Ideal for use in Phase WordfM
Artwork by Wayne Breaux Jr
Page 93 - The final chapter of David Haendlers
Siege Against Tolkeen After 10 issues this epic tale comes to a satisfying end We
hope you enjoyed the story while it lasted
Artwork by Apollo Okamura
Page 107- Hammer of the Forge The next chapter in James M G Carmons Phase WortfrM
story
The Cover The cover to The Rifter 10 is a concept painting by W~ne
Breaux depicting the character Shock cutting looks with crackshyling energy We thought it was kinda cool and fit with the superbeings presented in this issue
Optional and Unofficial Rules amp Source Material
Please note that most of the material presented in The Rifterreg is unofficial or optional rules and source material They are alternative ideas and things one can include in his
campaign or enjoy reading They are not official to the main games or world settings For example the story Siege Against Tokeen is likely to be very different from Kevin Siembiedas official World Books coming in 2000 As for optional tables and adventures if they sound cool or fun use them If they sound funky too high-powered or inappropriate for your game modify them or ignore them completely
All the material in The Rifterreg has been included for two reasons One because we thought it was imaginative and fun and two we thought it would stimulate your imagination with fun stuff that you can use (if you want) or which might inspire you to create your own wonders
The Rifterreg is a registered trademark We are proud to announce that The Rifterreg is now a Regisshy
tered Trademark owned by Palladium Books hence the circled R instead of the TM Yes we realize that none of you guys and gals probably give a hoot but were pleased and wanted to make note of it
We are looking for
contributors to The Rifterreg 13 Somebody on-line came up with the idea of making 13 a
theme issue focusing on the number J3 bad luck superstishytion and horror We love the idea and want people to think about submitting material that fits the bill Submissions can be serious or humorous Short to medium size are best - that means 5-16 computer pages of material please And dont just focus on horror think about how this might be applicable for Riftsreg Heroes UnlimitetfrM and Palladium Fantasy too So put on those thinking caps and get writing (Of course all submisshysions are created and submitted entirely on speculation Possible publication is left to Palladium Books sole discretion and payshyment is the usual pitiful rate of ten bucks per printed page of text)
Deadline November 12000 (October is even better)
wwwpalladiumbookscom - Palladium On-Line
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Contents - The Rifter 10 - April 2000
Page 6-Art Due to space limitations this cool page of artwork by
Freddie Williams 11 was shrunk down to a quarter of its size in Century Stationtrade We thought it would be nice to reprint it here in the size it was originally intended It depicts the notorious vilshylain Daddy Longlegstrade and his Longlegger power armor suit
Page 7 - From the Desk
of Kevin Siembieda Publisher Kevin Siembieda waxes on about why
role-playing games should be fun and some of the exciting proshyject coming soon from Palladium Books
Page 8 - Palladium News This issues news starts off with Kevin amp Maryann
Siembiedas convention circuit up-date - namely Marcon (in May) and Gen Con (in August) These are the only two convenshytions the Siembiedas will be attending later this year come and visit if you can
Ryan Beres joins the Palladium staff but more importantly get the details on Wayne Smiths reaction to The Rifter 9 112
Page 10 Coming Attractions Big plans for Heroes UnlimitedTM and Palladium Fantasy
with a number of exciting sourcebooks planned for both
And for Riftsreg more on Coalition Wars Siege on Tolkeentrade (pretty much on schedule) a new RiJtsworkZ portfoshylio of art by John Zeleznik and other projects
Page 15 - The Rifter 9 1ft
April Fools Day Special If you are wondering what this special limited edition of The
Rifterreg is here are all the details Limited to only 10000 copshyies so get your copy while you still can Available in fme game hobby and comic stores everywhere or directly from Palladium Books
Page 17 - Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade Another hilarious installment of KoDT by creator Jolly
Blackburn and Steve Johansson
Dont forget the KoDT comic books are available from Kenzer amp Company 1935 S Plum Grove Rd Suite 194 Palashytine IL 60067
Page 19 - The Palladium Fantasy RPGreg The Magic of Science
Greg Diaczyk offers his thoughts and ideas for technology in the Palladium Fantasy RPGreg setting To this end he presents the Tinker OCC explosives machines and gadgets Note Its fun to see the direction other people take our games and this is
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one such example Gregs completely optional ideas may work for him but the Palladium World is so rich in magic diverse cultures and the supernatural that modem advancement in the way of science has been stymied People rely on the old ways and use magic as their preferred technology In the official setting technology as we know it has been supplanted by magic and the supernatural
Artwork is by Kent BurIes
Page 24 - More Palladium Fantasy RPGreg
The Changeling Metamorph Mark Hall presents the optional OCC of the Changeling
Metamorph a sort of rare super-changeling who can assume all types of transformations beyond the capabilities of a normal Changeling
Artwork by Apollo Okamura
Page 26 - Heroes Unlimited 2nd Edition
The Gestalt Power Category Jay Fitzloff has created an entirely new optional Power Catshy
egory for Heroes Unlimited 2nd Edition A rare and bizarre class of superbieng that is more than he or she may seem Much more
Artwork by Drunken Style Studio (DSS)
Gestalt NPCs - Heroes amp Villains start on page 35 Written by Wayne Smith Illustrated by Freddie Williams II
Page 40 - Beyond the SupernaturapM Adventure
Trouble in the Midwest Blake Trzpuc gives us a frightening adventure for Beyond
the Supernaturaltrade Ideal for low to mid-level characters
Art by Drunken Style Studio (DSS)
Page 46 - Beyond the SupernaturapM Adventure
Dark Consequences Russel Brin whips up another little adventure for Beyond the
Supernaturaltrade
Art by Kent Buries
Page 48 - Nightbanereg RPG On the Fringe of the Night
Offers optional fringe group OCCs for the Nightbanereg RPG setting David Solon Phillips takes a look at how modem day militia groups might respond to the Nightlords and their minions
Art by Drunken Style Studio (DSS)
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Page 57 - Riftsreg Lone Star Comic Strip Holy Moses Is this the end of oops dont want to give
away the story in this action packed installment of the Riftsreg Comic Strip The plot thickens and trouble mounts as our heroes come face to face with one of Doctor Desmond Bradfords geshynetic experiments
Part Five of Seven chapters by Ramon Perez (Penciler hIker Letterer and Writer) Thats right seven chapters instead of six Ramon just couldnt keep the story to the six chapters we had originally planned so we are going to extend the strip for an extra issue Somehow I dont think anybody is going to comshyplain
Page 65 - Riftsreg
The Territory of Arzno (part Two of Two) Jason Richards and Nathan Taylor present the independent
City of Arzno Arizona Built from scratch and defended by the Arzno Mercenary Corps it has become something of an oasis of civilization in a dangerous wasteland Part two presents TW Arshymor gizmos and vehicles used by this southwestern community Plus the optional Weapon Mage OCC and a few Hook Line amp Sinkertrade style adventures
Artwork by Wayne Breaux Jr
Page 79 - Riftsreg
The Environment of Space Ewen Cluney explores the pitfalls of playing in outer-space
for Rifts characters Defmitions observations and rules all topped by a over 40 spells designed for use in space and space travel Ideal for use in Phase WordfM
Artwork by Wayne Breaux Jr
Page 93 - The final chapter of David Haendlers
Siege Against Tolkeen After 10 issues this epic tale comes to a satisfying end We
hope you enjoyed the story while it lasted
Artwork by Apollo Okamura
Page 107- Hammer of the Forge The next chapter in James M G Carmons Phase WortfrM
story
The Cover The cover to The Rifter 10 is a concept painting by W~ne
Breaux depicting the character Shock cutting looks with crackshyling energy We thought it was kinda cool and fit with the superbeings presented in this issue
Optional and Unofficial Rules amp Source Material
Please note that most of the material presented in The Rifterreg is unofficial or optional rules and source material They are alternative ideas and things one can include in his
campaign or enjoy reading They are not official to the main games or world settings For example the story Siege Against Tokeen is likely to be very different from Kevin Siembiedas official World Books coming in 2000 As for optional tables and adventures if they sound cool or fun use them If they sound funky too high-powered or inappropriate for your game modify them or ignore them completely
All the material in The Rifterreg has been included for two reasons One because we thought it was imaginative and fun and two we thought it would stimulate your imagination with fun stuff that you can use (if you want) or which might inspire you to create your own wonders
The Rifterreg is a registered trademark We are proud to announce that The Rifterreg is now a Regisshy
tered Trademark owned by Palladium Books hence the circled R instead of the TM Yes we realize that none of you guys and gals probably give a hoot but were pleased and wanted to make note of it
We are looking for
contributors to The Rifterreg 13 Somebody on-line came up with the idea of making 13 a
theme issue focusing on the number J3 bad luck superstishytion and horror We love the idea and want people to think about submitting material that fits the bill Submissions can be serious or humorous Short to medium size are best - that means 5-16 computer pages of material please And dont just focus on horror think about how this might be applicable for Riftsreg Heroes UnlimitetfrM and Palladium Fantasy too So put on those thinking caps and get writing (Of course all submisshysions are created and submitted entirely on speculation Possible publication is left to Palladium Books sole discretion and payshyment is the usual pitiful rate of ten bucks per printed page of text)
Deadline November 12000 (October is even better)
wwwpalladiumbookscom - Palladium On-Line
Coming Next Issue bullbullbull The Riftertrade 11 bull GM advice on handling practitioners of magic bull Adventure for The Palladium Fantasy RPGreg bull Material for Heroes UnlimitedfM bull Insight on Nightbanereg bull More Knights ofthe Dinner Tabletrade bull More of the Ramon Perez Lone Star comic strip bull The next chapter of the Hammer ofthe Forgetrade bull Material for Riftsreg bull The latest news and developments at Palladium bull Source material for the Palladium Megaversereg bull New contributors and fun
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Page 57 - Riftsreg Lone Star Comic Strip Holy Moses Is this the end of oops dont want to give
away the story in this action packed installment of the Riftsreg Comic Strip The plot thickens and trouble mounts as our heroes come face to face with one of Doctor Desmond Bradfords geshynetic experiments
Part Five of Seven chapters by Ramon Perez (Penciler hIker Letterer and Writer) Thats right seven chapters instead of six Ramon just couldnt keep the story to the six chapters we had originally planned so we are going to extend the strip for an extra issue Somehow I dont think anybody is going to comshyplain
Page 65 - Riftsreg
The Territory of Arzno (part Two of Two) Jason Richards and Nathan Taylor present the independent
City of Arzno Arizona Built from scratch and defended by the Arzno Mercenary Corps it has become something of an oasis of civilization in a dangerous wasteland Part two presents TW Arshymor gizmos and vehicles used by this southwestern community Plus the optional Weapon Mage OCC and a few Hook Line amp Sinkertrade style adventures
Artwork by Wayne Breaux Jr
Page 79 - Riftsreg
The Environment of Space Ewen Cluney explores the pitfalls of playing in outer-space
for Rifts characters Defmitions observations and rules all topped by a over 40 spells designed for use in space and space travel Ideal for use in Phase WordfM
Artwork by Wayne Breaux Jr
Page 93 - The final chapter of David Haendlers
Siege Against Tolkeen After 10 issues this epic tale comes to a satisfying end We
hope you enjoyed the story while it lasted
Artwork by Apollo Okamura
Page 107- Hammer of the Forge The next chapter in James M G Carmons Phase WortfrM
story
The Cover The cover to The Rifter 10 is a concept painting by W~ne
Breaux depicting the character Shock cutting looks with crackshyling energy We thought it was kinda cool and fit with the superbeings presented in this issue
Optional and Unofficial Rules amp Source Material
Please note that most of the material presented in The Rifterreg is unofficial or optional rules and source material They are alternative ideas and things one can include in his
campaign or enjoy reading They are not official to the main games or world settings For example the story Siege Against Tokeen is likely to be very different from Kevin Siembiedas official World Books coming in 2000 As for optional tables and adventures if they sound cool or fun use them If they sound funky too high-powered or inappropriate for your game modify them or ignore them completely
All the material in The Rifterreg has been included for two reasons One because we thought it was imaginative and fun and two we thought it would stimulate your imagination with fun stuff that you can use (if you want) or which might inspire you to create your own wonders
The Rifterreg is a registered trademark We are proud to announce that The Rifterreg is now a Regisshy
tered Trademark owned by Palladium Books hence the circled R instead of the TM Yes we realize that none of you guys and gals probably give a hoot but were pleased and wanted to make note of it
We are looking for
contributors to The Rifterreg 13 Somebody on-line came up with the idea of making 13 a
theme issue focusing on the number J3 bad luck superstishytion and horror We love the idea and want people to think about submitting material that fits the bill Submissions can be serious or humorous Short to medium size are best - that means 5-16 computer pages of material please And dont just focus on horror think about how this might be applicable for Riftsreg Heroes UnlimitetfrM and Palladium Fantasy too So put on those thinking caps and get writing (Of course all submisshysions are created and submitted entirely on speculation Possible publication is left to Palladium Books sole discretion and payshyment is the usual pitiful rate of ten bucks per printed page of text)
Deadline November 12000 (October is even better)
wwwpalladiumbookscom - Palladium On-Line
Coming Next Issue bullbullbull The Riftertrade 11 bull GM advice on handling practitioners of magic bull Adventure for The Palladium Fantasy RPGreg bull Material for Heroes UnlimitedfM bull Insight on Nightbanereg bull More Knights ofthe Dinner Tabletrade bull More of the Ramon Perez Lone Star comic strip bull The next chapter of the Hammer ofthe Forgetrade bull Material for Riftsreg bull The latest news and developments at Palladium bull Source material for the Palladium Megaversereg bull New contributors and fun
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