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I play Rifts and sometimes I talk about it on YouTube. I also like to see what other #TTRPG people get up to on Twitter.

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@RogueScholarMDC
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Somehow the Bing generated Mexican orcs seem cooler and less offensive
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If there are seven castaways stranded alone on the island then WHO TOOK THE PICTURE??
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Every race has a 30' movement. Nearly every race has 120' darkvision. Orcs aren't tough anymore. And drow no longer have sunlight sensitively. Orcs, for some reason, are no longer tough. Imagine trying to sell this as a game without a well known trademarked name. Gray goo.
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This isn't necessarily meant to be a rage bait post but I don't understand why 90% of the modern D&D art looks like this. They're always eating and laughing and dancing or frolicking indoors or in towns. Who finds this evocative or inspirational for high adventure?
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I think the decline of society began when game consoles started coming with one controller instead of two.
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Therapist: The Appalachian Orcbillies aren't real. They can't hurt you. The Appalachian Orcbillies:
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Has there been any public response from WotC yet?
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I suppose the thing that irritates me most are the smug as**oles who say "YoU aReN't tHe tArGeT aUdIaNcE!" With the claim I was never a real customer. I beg to differ, bucko.
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As much as I hate to admit it, this new version of d&d will be the first version I won't buy even the core books for since I started playing at AD&D 2e.
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The Outpost was a fun fantasy show that had elves and magic. Nobody I know watched it or talked about. But it was one of the few shows that ended properly instead of being abruptly canceled. Also Jessica Green is very pretty.
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You might not like hearing this - but Star Trek Voyager had a LOT of good episodes.
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Saw this on Facebook and thought it was funny
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Did.... did WotC just go out to get some milk cigarettes?
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This image in particular bothers me because the range of motion of the hammer doesn't make a lot of sense compared to its facing and how it's being held
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Wait one damn minute... Is this true??
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As much as I hate to admit it, this new version of d&d will be the first version I won't buy even the core books for since I started playing at AD&D 2e.
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If you have any doubts about the stoicism of Gen-X...
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When I was skimming the AD&D 2E handbook for rules on percentile dice I stumbled across this from 1989. Take it as you will.
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I don't know what the general consensus is on this game but when I was a kid I hated it. It felt like a rip off. These weren't "video game" graphics. It was a choose your own adventure cartoon where you just pushed a stick. Did people really like this? Did you?
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I posted this but it got buried in the replies. I think these better represent hillbilly orcs. Stay off their land
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This should have been in a Rifts book. Keith Parkinson
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INT is knowing how to hack the lock. WIS is knowing you can climb over the door. DEX is being able to do it.
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RTX 8000 series mounting bracket…
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@samthenameofgod @lporiginalg Read this. Then apologize.
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If you recognize this we can be friends.
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What is this? Wrong answers only.
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Damn orcs got mentioned twice! Sorry, I was literally shaking.
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@JohnBearOT I think you might have me confused with WotC since they're the ones actively hiring "ai engineers" for their products and who's orc art was riddled with Latino stereotypes. The ai was just me typing some text to get a desired output to see if that idea could be improved. Not art
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You mean.... *whips it out*... THIS relic??
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Will you guys still be my friends if I tell you a secret? I've never particularly cared about The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings. My opinion about the whole affair wavers between "indifferent" and "neat". *sits back down*
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There's very little to make these races distinct and interesting. Dragonborn get minimal breath weapon and can fly with ghost wings for a few minutes a day. Goliaths can grow "big" once per day. 90% of what makes races different is a fashion show.
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It's unclear why wotc decided to change orc culture to a real world culture and we'll probably never know. But what other cultures could they have appropriated? Here's a few ideas.
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Rifts core rules
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My girlfriend wants me to teach her Rifts. She loves video games but her only experience with ttrpgs is "Is it like D&D?" We're going to start the evening with character creation and go from there. *cracks knuckles*
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Something green? Hola!
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Drop something green from your gallery… 🖼️ Keith Parkinson
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I want Palladium to buy D&D just to watch people's ears start smoking
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Rifts Dimension Book 1: Wormwood is a "stand alone" setting that's connected to Rifts via magic but otherwise can be played as its own campaign with nothing but the Rifts general rules as a basis. There's far too much to go into here about how awesome and unique this setting is
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WotC is actually playing 4th dimensional chess with us. It's just our feeble consumer brains are too smooth to understand. But they've brought D&D back to its true old school roots. They made saying "I'm a huge fan of D&D!" embarrassing again.
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Anyone ever get the vibe that the Devil's Tower is a Millennium Tree stump?
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This is what we get now. You'll take your manual of cut and peeled carrots and you'll like it.
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Modern Logo design is so boring. We need to go back.
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My friend is on a trip and found this goldmine somewhere in Michigan.
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This looks like the starting area in Fallout 4
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Lol to test a hypothesis I told Bing to make elves in the style of a stock art board meeting
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If you have to spell the word a different way than it's written to explain how it's said, it's probably not the correct way to say it.
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Orwell & Goode | $TREN
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Remember when this guy was in the trailer in 2023 and people were up in arms saying fallout was ruined.. Ruiiiiiined!!! Good times.
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I'm not saying NO art should do this, I'm just wondering what ratio of "heroes being heroic in dangerous situations and locations" and "heroes eating, dancing, laughing in safe locations" is appropriate?
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A map for your gaming inspiration
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Everybody out there giving the nu-orcs a hard time. People should take a breath and just let this poor man pick his prickly pears in peace.
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"Come here. I want to show you something."
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The first "rpg" I played.
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Long before the Brotherhood of Steel there was the Chromium Guardsman aka Glitter Boy.
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@Gingerblast Is it even her cat or was she just feeding a stray
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@samthenameofgod @lporiginalg Oh, a troll. Carry on then.
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Okay but what about Mind Flayers? Can we do Mind Flayers? What's the demarcation point between "monsters that remind me of humans so they aren't so bad" and "monsters that can't be reasoned with, can't be bargained with and will not stop until you're food or worse"?
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The Coalition States forbid entry into this relatively intact facility. I wonder why.
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@TKsMantis "She's gonna break it"
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I can never get enough of Chuck Walton's #Rifts art. His attention to detail is astounding.
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I hope a game where humans are the only playable race isn't a deal breaker for people.
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Nobody ever talks about Ioun Stones anymore. #DnD #ttrpg
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I need someone to help me understand the anatomy of this dragon. This isn't adding up.
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Before I go on a deep dive, is anyone aware of an "all in one place" index for Power Armor (not robots) throughout all the Rifts books? I'll be starting with the Game Master guide but I haven't checked yet.
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In all my years of playing #TTRPGs I've heard plenty of stories about how players survived encounters through a combination of determination and lucky rolls. I've never heard the epic stories of "and we were about to die but the GM changed his mind and made the rolls not count"
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I have to be honest, I spent the entire show trying to figure out if they used cgi to make her look like an anime character or if her eyes really are that big. I still don't know.
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Is this ai? Probably. Did I steal it off Facebook? Also probably. Is it something you can find in Rifts? Again, probably.
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I've never met Weird Al. I've never gotten to go to any of his concerts and all the tapes I owned growing up are long gone. But I think about the fact that all my life I listened to his music more than any other performer and it always made me feel good. That's what I remember
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Legendary
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Keith Parkinson, RIP
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Not today, Tiamat! #Rifts #DND #ttrpg
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I'm starting to think the ghoul and that cowboy actor from the flashbacks are connected in some way.
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Ley Line Walker Texas Ranger
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Time for an unpopular opinion. The reason I've never used "consent forms" in my games is because all the degenerate shit on the forms was never considered by default. No sexual intercourse, rape, real world racism, mutilation torture. I don't play with people who would even ask
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Shadowrun not Rifts art by John Zeleznik
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When someone who's never played a ttrpg prior to their first game they always seem to want to make a well known character in media they like. I was no exception. One of my first Rifts characters was a rip off of this guy
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@spacejohnston76 Not on MY watch!
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Rifts World Book 37 Antarctica cover by John Zeleznik. As of now it is still unreleased.
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Morning!
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This thing has probably been floating around for at least 15 years but every time I see it I laugh a bit.
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Friend: Why is this the only game shop you run and play games when it's so far away? Me: Because they carry Rifts and Palladium books as their normal stock.
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I've had it with the discussion trashing the wizkids red box warrior. His name is Robert Paulson. Show some respect.
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Which Rifts movie is this anyway?
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Classic pizza hut is real!
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#PalladiumBooks alignments are better than D&D alignments. Agree?
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Beyond the Supernatural is another setting I'd like to try just based on the covers alone
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5 years ago I got laid off a great job, my wife ran off with a dude (the first time) and my dad died all within the span of 4 months. I can honestly say I've never recovered financially, physically or emotionally. Tomorrow marks the anniversary of his passing. Sorry for the tmi
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I never really got into the After the Bomb setting but I always thought this was a great cover
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@Thedragonlord0 Yeah if you're outside on a nice day. Otherwise you're either in a dungeon, a castle, a Starbucks or it's raining.
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So anyway here's the plot of the next Rifts adventure.
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I was cleaning out some old hard drives and I found this from about 15 or 16 years ago. When D&D was cool! If you know the source, let me know.
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Today is game day. I've never played a Star Trek ttrpg before so this will be fun. Commander Selek reporting for duty.
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@YetiMoose It's 90% of the new PHB art that I've seen.
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Rifts World Book 2: Atlantis. There's a very unique history in Rifts for Atlantis lore. At the "current" time the entire continent is ruled by alien overlords called Splugorth. A dimensional hub of slavery and monstrosities that span the Megaverse.
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I want to make a sci-fi setting in the vein of 1960s Star Trek but instead of "updating" the 1960s Futurism I want to double down on it. Not to be silly or satirical the way Fallout does 50s futurism but play it straight with the designs and approach to how tech would work
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Well, I'm sorry to report that the D&D movie is actually pretty good. So uh, yeah.. Check it out!
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Hi. I'm Larry; Larry Laffer.
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Alright, Rifts O'clock!
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To this day I have no idea what the fuck is going on here.
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@silentrunner71 I would never...
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Which ttrpg rules system is your favorite? If you IGNORE branding (ie; D&D, Palladium, C&C, etc) and focus solely on the rules and game mechanics - which system would you be most likely to play or run no matter what the setting?
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Well it's over. All of it. I feel pretty hollow and empty inside. Not just over the property but the life that went with it. I'm heartbroken for a lot of reasons but I know I will move forward. This is the last post I'll ever make about any of this. Thanks for the support.
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"Artificial Robot, Cerebellum Housing Intellect Experiment number 3, or A.R.C.H.I.E-3 if you prefer." *A-63 robot minions sold separately.
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A normal person: Tesla trucks are dumb and I hate them. Northern Gun sales rep: (in a Frank Drebin voice) Oh yeah? How about now?
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Did someone say dragons?
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