The Megaverse® Beckons...

I took vacation today because it is my birthday.  I just felt like chilling at the house instead of busting my hump.  I caught up on some Netflix viewing that I had wanted to do so I was wondering what to do next. Then it dawned on me that the children were in school so a trip to the FLGS would not have to be rushed or spent monitoring their browsing activity.  

I went to Wizard's Asylum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  There are other hobby stores in the area but I specifically wanted to look for the products of Palladium Books®.  I looked at all of the products before I decided to get the following three books:

Dead Reign™ Sourcebook Three: Endless Dead™

Dead Reign™ Sourcebook Four: Fear the Reaper™

Rifts® Sourcebook One™ - Revised and Expanded  

I bought the two Dead Reign™ books for 50% off.  There were other copies on the shelf at full price.  I have no idea why they were marked down.  I could  not tell the difference between the condition of the ones I purchased and the ones on the shelf.  Maybe it was over-stock?  Maybe they were browsing copies? Maybe they were "gently used" by the store for a game night, demo, or something else?  I have no idea but I do have a complete run of the published Dead Reign™ books.  

At one time I had the original version of Rifts® Sourcebook One™ but no longer.  I am basically starting over on my Palladium Books® collection.  I had numerous books but decided to trim down my collection.  I seriously advise doing this unless you are absolutely certain you will never want to use those books again!  I got rid of everything but the Rifts® Ultimate Edition™ I have kept for all of these years.  I have a recurring urge to use Rifts® and open it up every now and then to start planning.  Now the time is right to get serious about it so I have started planning some purchases for a campaign starting off in the West involving vampires, bandits, etc.  I even signed up to be a Megaversal® Ambassador and I will have some news on events or demos on that front soon.

     

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[Sunday Spotlight] Two Rifts® Blogs/Post Themes I Recommend

This post is cross-posted from my other blog, A Megaversal Miscellany.

I think it is fair to say there seems to be a shortage of blogs devoted to the game lines of Palladium Books®. I am sure part of that is some feel a little intimidated by their internet policy and do not want to get it wrong on their blog.  Most of the blogs I have found have been dormant for some time.  Some of them have some really good content so it is unfortunate that they are no longer updated.  I do follow two blogs that are either devoted to a product of Palladium Books® or has posts devoted to one or more of their game lines.

Stabilizing Rifts® is a blog fully devoted to the game of Rifts®.  The stated mission is to "cut away the stupid stuff, and follow through on the rest to their logical conclusions.".  I find it very interesting reading.  Some of the posts series include Playing a Coalition Campaign, Playing a Magic-User in Rifts®, Playing a Psychic in Rifts®, and more.  These posts tend to take a good long look at the subject and provide practical information for use in your games.

101 Days of Rifts® is a series of posts at Places to Go, People to Be that is focusing on Rifts® for the next 101 days of posting.  The posting just started and is not scheduled to end sometime towards the end of December.  It is cool to read the author reminiscence about old games, articles in The Rifter®, developing house rules, and his Rifts® Laramie campaign.  There are also posts about other games at this blog.

Now that I have shown you some Rifts® links, what can you recommend to me?

Rifts®, The Rifter®, RECON®, Splicers®, Palladium Books®, The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game®, Phase World®, Nightbane®, Megaverse®, The Mechanoids®, The Mechanoid Invasion®, Coalition Wars® and After the Bomb® are Registered Trademarks of Palladium Books Inc. RPG Tactics™, Beyond the Supernatural, Chaos Earth, Coalition States, Dead Reign, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, Minion War, Mysteries of Magic, SAMAS, Thundercloud Galaxy, Three Galaxies, Vampire Kingdoms, and other published book titles, names, slogans and likenesses are trademarks of Palladium Books Inc., and Kevin Siembieda.

Robotech® and Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® are Registered Trademarks of Harmony Gold USA, Inc.