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Page 1: Warning! - watermark.rapidejdr.frwatermark.rapidejdr.fr/pdf_previews/61124-sample.pdf · Warning! Violence and the Supernatural The fictional Worlds of Palladium Books® are violent,

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

~t7

t

The Rifterreg Number Ten Your guide to the Palladium Megaversereg

1

Sam

ple

file

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
Page 2: Warning! - watermark.rapidejdr.frwatermark.rapidejdr.fr/pdf_previews/61124-sample.pdf · Warning! Violence and the Supernatural The fictional Worlds of Palladium Books® are violent,

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
Page 3: Warning! - watermark.rapidejdr.frwatermark.rapidejdr.fr/pdf_previews/61124-sample.pdf · Warning! Violence and the Supernatural The fictional Worlds of Palladium Books® are violent,

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

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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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