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Just wondering if anyone is up to a Rifts campaign set in Utah. The New West borrows heavily from the Old West. This campaign will take place in Utah. Although be mindful, this is happening after the CS/Tolkeen war.
Players are encouraged to read the New West world book along with Rifts to come up with character ideas, although I'm including the original Rifts book in this enterprise. Prospective players may also read the Conversion book 1 (revised), and D-Bees of North America for interesting races to play. Adventures will revolve around the heroes combating evil. There won't be much dimension hopping in the campaign. Players who want to submit characters are encouraged to watch some Westerns, and even "Brisco County Junior" (I think the latter is on iTunes). Players are also encouraged to read the Deadlands RPG (Classic or SWADE) in order to come up with ideas.
Players looking to play character classes from other RIFTS: World Books will find that the concepts are not balanced between world books. But I'll consider character concepts taken from the Lone Star world book and the Spirit West book.
Yes, RIFTS: SWADE made everything better for new players. The original RIFTS system is outdated. Still I wish they made a d20 system version of Rifts. Still I'm a romantic at heart, and we will be using Palladium's system.
So, to balance everything so I can have fun.
All you need is the Rifts Original RPG and the three western World Books -- Lone Star, New West, and Spirit West for this campaign. All four are available on Drivethru at good prices. Players wanting to play different races other than human will find that I allow the Rifts Conversion Book One (Revised) and D-Bees of North America to be referenced. And possibly Aliens Unlimited (for Heroes Unlimited). Look up the UTAH map on bing and pick a place to come from.
About Me
I've started playing RPGs when I got D&D Basic (BECMI), and I switched to Palladium soon after. I played Palladium for ten years until third Edition came out and I switched to that. Then I switched to Pathfinder after finding D&D 4th edition not to my liking. I enjoy DMing Pathfinder (1e) still, though I want to go back to Rifts.
My style is simple --> I rely heavily on Role-play rather than combat. The posse (the Player Characters) will find that they will be rewarded for Roleplay rather than Roll-play.
Well, I think that's everything. I look forward to your character concepts.
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Dot.
EltonJ, not sure if it'll be of any help to ya but there had been a bit of discussion about adapting some of Palladium's rules set to the message boards for a Rifts game I was in- mostly to do with dodging in combat. ;)
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EltonJ, not sure if it'll be of any help to ya but there had been a bit of discussion about adapting some of Palladium's rules set to the message boards for a Rifts game I was in- mostly to do with dodging in combat. ;)
Okay, I'll look it up. But most people are interested in SWADE Rifts right now.
No worries; I think there were some SWADE Rifts games on the message boards as well but I haven't really kept up with any personally.
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Okay, thank you for your help. I may do a SWADE Rifts game here in the future.
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I wouldn't mind playing some too. I haven't had a lot of sessions in RIFTS, but I am not a 100% newbie, just 95%.
Ah. Neat. I guess it's SWADE.
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SWADE would definitely be my first choice of system for this. I just think Palladium system might cause some major delays in PbP mechanics.
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I'd be down for some Rifts goodness for sure. SWADE would be easier, most definitely.
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I set up a new recruitment thread. Based off of GM Tarondor's recruitment thread, I hope it still spells out everthing. And it's still SWADE.
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bump.