Palladium | Rifts: Lost and Found

About the adventure

Rifts is a multi-genre role-playing which takes place in a post-apocalyptic future, deriving elements from cyberpunk, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western, mythology and many other genres. Rifts serves as a cross-over environment for a variety of other Palladium games with different universes connected through "rifts" on Earth that lead to different spaces, times, and realities known as the Megaverse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifts_(role-playing_game) This is the continuation & re-vamping of a campaign that's been active since 2018. The story was about struggling, broke street urchins making their way up in the Black Market in Merctown. Well, the OG characters have made it, and started their own "legit" business as "acquisition specialists." The campaign is no longer Merctown-centric, but rather megaversal in scope. The team will be doing jobs across the megaverse. The general orientation of the game is quasi-criminal in nature. The player characters are "acquisition specialists" who locate, find, extract, retrieve things & people anywhere in the megaverse for those willing to pay for such a service. --New player characters will start off at 6th level. --Gear selection will be "wish list" focused. --The "power level" is low/medium given the focus of the campaign isn't combat--that's just what happens when a good plan goes pear-shaped.

Additional Details

How to prepare

Know your character sheets and the personality of your character. I highly encourage practicing your character and how they'll think and interact with everyday things. Make sure you have your backstory in place so we know how it is that you'll behave. Mics, a Discord account, and a Roll20 account are all required. Owning the PDFs or books will be very helpful and lead to less frustration, and so is highly recommended. Support publishers of content you love.

What I provide

💖 Pulse pounding suspense ⛰️ Breathtaking maps 🎻 Excellent soundtracks 🎵 Suspenseful ambiance Everything for players to have a fun gaming experience is furnished within the platform. Players need bring only a good attitude and a desire to have fun. Please leave your politics, pronouns, & prejudices at home. They have no place at my table. I desire only to have fun & entertain folks of all persuasions.

Gameplay details

The first hour will be focused on set-up, resolving player tech issues, and addressing any player concerns. If anything in the game or my personality is not to your liking, you're encouraged to find your fun elsewhere. This is a classic dungeon crawl. A lot of this game is likely to be theater of the mind with conflict scenes taking place on dynamically-lit maps. In-game discussion will use Discord for voice chat, and players are encouraged to whisper (/w) among one another freely throughout the course of a session.

Content warnings

(none)

Safety tools used

X, N, and O Cards

How will character creation work

This is strictly campaign play, and as character creation for Rifts can range the gamut from simple to very complex, I will walk new players through character creation step-by-step outside of regularly scheduled game times.

Players can expect

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