Jason Rainville
March 1st, 2008, 12:33 PM
Yeah I'm a nerd. I don't really care :)
Anyone heard of this, anyone play it? In highschool I was first introduced to DnD. It was alright, but a lot of the rules and stats didn't make sense to me and it always felt restrictive. Then my friends showed me rifts, and I was hooked.
The setting is earth, hundreds of years after a super-high-tech world war, so it immediately has a post-apocalyptic vibe with the wilderness overtaking the land, major cities in ruins, violence and banditry at an all time high etc.
But it's much more than that. Inside each one of us is PPE - potential psychic energy. Each time we die abruptly, it is released and DOUBLED. So when billions of lives were lost in that world war, too much of that energy was released. Ley lines resurfaced and shot across the earth, creating huge rifts where they met. Out from those rifts poured trans-dimentional beings. Humans eventually retuned themselves to their latent psychic abilities, and because magic on the earth was once again abundant, humans relearned the ancient art of magic.
There are giant wolves in italy, dinosaurs in florida, huge anthopods in alberta, and good natured and evil aliens across the globe.
The coalition of states, with its human supremacist tendancies is in control of north america, uniting the old texas, chicago and sudbury kingdoms. The new german republic with the most adcanced human technology on the planet fights a desperate war with gargoyles. and atlantis has returned from its dimensional cocoon, filled with wonderous alien technology and inhuman overlords.
So yeah, it's diverse. The best thing about it is the huge amounts of skills, combat techniques etc that amount to really unique and free gameplay.
Since going to college, all of my friends who played it have left our small town, so it's hard to even try to get a game going. I miss it a lot, just because of the crazy situations we'd get ourselves into. I miss it so much actually I'm still thinking of trying to get a group of people together to build a little video game of it from the ground up ala mount and blade. I know nothing about game development though, so I'm treating this dream as overly optimistic.
So, any rifts gamers? any crazy stories?
Anyone heard of this, anyone play it? In highschool I was first introduced to DnD. It was alright, but a lot of the rules and stats didn't make sense to me and it always felt restrictive. Then my friends showed me rifts, and I was hooked.
The setting is earth, hundreds of years after a super-high-tech world war, so it immediately has a post-apocalyptic vibe with the wilderness overtaking the land, major cities in ruins, violence and banditry at an all time high etc.
But it's much more than that. Inside each one of us is PPE - potential psychic energy. Each time we die abruptly, it is released and DOUBLED. So when billions of lives were lost in that world war, too much of that energy was released. Ley lines resurfaced and shot across the earth, creating huge rifts where they met. Out from those rifts poured trans-dimentional beings. Humans eventually retuned themselves to their latent psychic abilities, and because magic on the earth was once again abundant, humans relearned the ancient art of magic.
There are giant wolves in italy, dinosaurs in florida, huge anthopods in alberta, and good natured and evil aliens across the globe.
The coalition of states, with its human supremacist tendancies is in control of north america, uniting the old texas, chicago and sudbury kingdoms. The new german republic with the most adcanced human technology on the planet fights a desperate war with gargoyles. and atlantis has returned from its dimensional cocoon, filled with wonderous alien technology and inhuman overlords.
So yeah, it's diverse. The best thing about it is the huge amounts of skills, combat techniques etc that amount to really unique and free gameplay.
Since going to college, all of my friends who played it have left our small town, so it's hard to even try to get a game going. I miss it a lot, just because of the crazy situations we'd get ourselves into. I miss it so much actually I'm still thinking of trying to get a group of people together to build a little video game of it from the ground up ala mount and blade. I know nothing about game development though, so I'm treating this dream as overly optimistic.
So, any rifts gamers? any crazy stories?