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The Rifter™ Number Six

Your guide to the Palladium Megaverse ,®

First Printing — April, 1999

part or whole, in any form or by any means, without permission from the publisher, except for brief quotes for use in reviews.

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The Rifter™ #6 RPG sourcebook series is published by Palladium Books Inc., 12455 Universal Drive, Taylor, MI 48180.

Printed in the USA.

Palladium Books® Presents:

THE

RIFTER,

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Sourcebook and guide to the Palladium Megaverse®

Coordinator & Editor in Chief: Wayne Smith

Supervising Coordinator & Typesetting:

Maryann Siembieda

Cover Painting: Ramon Perez & Joachim Gmoser

Interior Artists:

Apollo Okamura

Ryan Beres

Wayne Breaux Jr.

Kent Buries

Ramon Perez

Mike Wilson

Brandon C. Clark (DSS)

Ka Xiong (DSS)

Mark Dudley

Drunken Style Studio

and other Palladium Madmen

Cover Logo Design: Steve Edwards

Contributing Writers:

James M.G. Cannon

Matthew M. Foster

David Haendler

Christopher Jones

Hugh King

John Maher

David Philips

Kevin Siembieda

Richard Thomassen

Knights of the Dinner Table: Jolly Blackburn

Rifts® Comic Strip: Ramon Perez

Coleen Laxalt

Credits Page Logo: Niklas Brandt

Keylining: Kevin Siembieda

Contributing Editors:

Alex Marciniszyn

Jim Osten

Julius Rosenstein

Base on the RPG rules, characters,

concepts and Megaverse® created by Kevin Siembieda.

Special Thanks to Mike "Midnght" Hawthorne and Shawn "Answer Man" Merrow for making

our Web Page a more organized, happy and fun place to visit and play. And to Maryann Siembieda: dip-

lomat, organizer, rabble rouser and "Goddess" of Palladium On Line!

Our apologies to anybody who got accidentally left out or their name misspelled.

Contents — The Rifter™ #6 — April, 1999

Page 6 — From the Desk of Kevin Siembieda

Publisher, Kevin Siembieda, wonders just how many people

actually read The Rifter®. Using time honored magazine for-

mulas, there could be as many as 30,000-50,000 readers! You

can help us find the truth.

More fun & experimentation as Ramon Perez tries his hand

at drawing a Rifts® comic strip, more new contributors see print

and Palladium launches a trilogy of Rifts® Novels. Enjoy the

issue.

Page 50 — Focus on Fun

G.M. tips for playing Rifts®, Heroes Unlimited™,

& other games.

Hugh King offers some excellent advice, tips and observa-

tions about Game Mastering in Rifts®, Heroes Unlimited 2nd

Ed. and all role-playing game settings in general.

The information is thorough, well thought out and incredibly

helpful. It includes Stuff Besides Combat, Encouraging Re-

sourcefulness, Combat with Personality, the many uses of

NPCs, Team Leaders, The Player's Perspective, Rewards and

much more! Illustrated by Wayne Breaux Jr.

Page 7 — Palladium News, Info,

& Coming Attractions

Palladium's new 1999 Catalog is bigger than ever and ready

for you. Rifts® Novels are a reality, we won't be at Gen Con®

(but had a blast at SimCon a few weeks ago), more Web Site

improvements, and more Coming Attractions for hot stuff like

Mount Nimro: Kingdom of Giants and The Eastern Territory for

The Palladium Fantasy RPG® series, Deluxe Revised RECON®

(you gotta check it out), and upcoming Rifts® World Books, in-

cluding Rifts® Canada and the Splynn Dimensional Market

(Atlantis 2). And check out the "Glitter Girl" power armor, part

of Free Quebec's female Army Corps (illustrated by Ryan

Beres).

Page 67 — Intrigue in Singapore

Optional material for Ninjas & Superspies®

Victor Russof presents a role-playing scenario for use with

Ninjas & Superspies, plus source material, adventure ideas,

and stats for Kenpo Karate. Art by Mark Dudley of Drunken

Style Studio.

Page 71 — The Old Ways

Optional material for use in Nightbane®

David Solon Philips takes an interesting look at the Mafia af-

ter Dark Day. How do organized crime syndicates fit into the

world of Nightbane®? Includes the Wise Guy and a pair of As-

sassin O.C.C.s.

Page 13 — Knights of the Dinner Table™

Jolly Blackburn's KoDT strip keep 'em laughing.

Don't forget the KoDT comic books are available from

Kenzer & Company, 1935 S. Plum Grove Rd., Suite 194, Pala-

tine, IL, 60067.

Page 76 — Hunter Robotics

Optional material for Heroes Unlimited™, 2nd

Ed.

Matthew M. Foster whips up a robotics manufacturer and a

handful of robots for use in HU2. Not to mention a couple of

Hook, Line and Sinker™ adventures. Art by Ryan Beres.

Page 15 — Cloak & Dagger™

A look at Assassins in

the Palladium Fantasy RPG®

Optional rules and source material by Richard Thomassen. A

unique overview of assassins in the Western Empire, Timiro,

Lopan, Bizantium, Eastern Territory and The Wolfen Empire.

Plus creation rules and guidelines for making Assassin Guilds.

Artwork by Mike Wilson.

Page 83 — The Khans of Mongolia

Optional material for Rifts®

The irrepressible Christopher Jones offers optional material

for Rifts Mongolia and introduces a new (optional) D-Bee race

called the Gragundi. Plus calling upon spirits, new weapons,

monsters and R.C.C.s. Note that Kevin Siembieda may have

other plans for Rifts Mongolia, but it is cool seeing how other

folks might approach the same subject matter. Who knows,

maybe Kev will actually incorporate some of this in the future.

Art is by Drunken Style Studio (DSS).

Page 30 — Russian Gods

Official Gods for use in Rifts® Russia

A selection of notable Russian Gods were cut from Rifts®

Mystic Russia due to space limitations. Siembieda felt the gods

were interesting enough and the artwork by Kent Buries so

breathtaking, that it would be a shame not to publish them some

place. So here they are in all their glory.

Written by Kevin Siembieda; inspired by real Russian

(mainly Kievian) mythology.

Artwork by Kent Buries, a burgeoning art-god himself.

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