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Warning Violence and the Supernatural
The fictional Worlds of Palladium Books reg are violent deadly and filled with supernatural monsters Other dimensional beings often referred to as demons tonnent stalk and prey on humans Other alien life fonns monsters gods and demigod as well as magic insanity and war are all elements 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
TM
Number One A GM amp Players guide and sourcebook for
Riftsregand the entire Palladium Booksreg Megaversereg 1
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Special Thanks to everybody involved and the intrepid souls who sent in logo designs in The Rifter Logo Contest (the winner graces this page and the cov~1 _____ ___ _
Our apologies to anybody who got accidentally left out or their name misspelled
Based on the RPG rules characters
concepts and Megaversereg created by Kevin Siembieda
Second Printing - October 1998
Copyright 1998 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 fonn or by any means without pennission 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 characters or persons living or dead is strictly coincidental
Palladium Booksreg Riftsreg RECONreg Nightbanereg The Palladium Fantasy RPGreg and Megaversereg are registered trademarks owned and licensed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc Federation of Magic Psyscape Scraypers Warlords of Russia Heshyroes Unlimited Phase World Coalition States Erin Tarn Emperor Prosek Splugorth Mega-Damage Alistair Dunscon Skelebots SAMAS Dog Boys Dog Pack Techno-Wizard Ley Line Walker Shifter Cyber-Knight Mystic Knight Battle Magus Psi-Stalker Simvan Brodkil Juicer Crazy Borg Bot D-Bee Chi-Town Triax Fadetowns Dweomer and other names titles and likenesses of characters are trademarks owned by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc
Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade is a trademark of Kenzer Co and the creation of Jolly Blackburn
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesreg is a registered trademark of Mirage Studio
Robotechreg is a registered trademark of Hannony Gold USA Inc
Palladium On-Line wwwpalladiumbookscom
The Riftertrade RPG sourcebook series is published by Palladium Books Inc 12455 Universal Drive Taylor MI 48180 Printed in the USA
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Palladium Booksreg Presents
THE 1 RPG Guide and Megaversereg Sourcebook
Coordinator amp Editor in Chief Wayne Smith
Supervising Coordinator amp Typesetting
Maryann Siembieda Contributing Writers
James Calder
James Cannon David Haendler
Chad Uskoski
Eric Lind
Shawn Merrow
William Muench Aaron Oliver (aka Dream Fox)
Kevin Siembieda Rodney Stott
Steven Trustrum
Erick Wujcik Knights of the Dinner Table Jolly Blackburn
Contributing Editors Alex Marciniszyn Jim Osten Julius Rosenstein
Cover Painting Kevin Long
Interior Artists Kent BurIes Wayne Breaux Jr Scott Johnson
Paulo Parente Ramon Perez Jr
John Zeleznik and other Palladium Madmen
Logo Design Steve Edwards 3
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Contents
Page 6 - From Behind the Desk
of Kevin Siembieda A sort of editorial about The Rifter and hints of things to
come - every issue of The RifterTM will be different Accompashynying art by Apollo Okamura
Page 9 - The Name Giver Game designer and consummate Game Master Erick Wujcik
offers suggestions and humor on how to come up with names for RPG characters
Page 13 - Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade Our long time pal Jolly Blackburn and the good folks at
KenzerCo have agreed to let us publish new and continuing KoDT strips Cool Plug lime The KoDT is published as a (monthly) black and white comic book Issues 4 to present are available for around $400 each from Kenzer and Company 1935 S Plum Grove Rd Suite 194 Palatine IL 60067
Page 15 - Palladium News Info
amp Coming Attractions Kevin Siembieda reveals the workings and rumblings at Palshy
ladium Booksreg Inc
Page 24 - Riftsreg City Creation Rules An excellent set of optional rules for generating urban comshy
munities in Riftsreg Written by Eric 1 Lind Suitable for most Riftsreg campaign settings and easily adaptable for use beyond
Riftsreg Earth
Page 30 - Riftsreg The New Roman Republic Rodney Stott offers his view of Rifts Italy the Mafia and the
growing New Roman Republic of Rifts Earth This optional Riftsreg setting can be fun but is probably different than what Siembieda has planned for the region Optional RCC and equipment
Page 42 - Riftsreg The Knights of Kamnos James M G Cannon presents a brief overview of tile heroic
Kamnos Knights who serve the Three Galaxies A Phase WorldfM setting Optional Occ and equipment
Page 46 - Riftsreg The Hammer of the Forge James M G Cannon give us a short work of fiction concernshy
ing the legendary Cosmic Forge A Phase WorldfM setting
Page 50 - Riftsreg The Siege Against Tolkeen A wonderful work of fiction revolving around the Tolkeen
conflict by David Haendler This story will be serialized over the next several issues of The Rifterreg Warning This story has strong language and violence
Page 66 - Heroes Unlimitedtrade
New Major Super Powers Some of these super abilities are awesome others clever and
some silly but all are fun optional abilities that will make a fine addition to any super-powered campaign Siembieda was so imshypressed by some that hes considering adding a number of them
to the official Heroes UnlimiteclfM RPG By Aaron Oliver and Steve Trustrum
Page 84 - Nightbanereg New Morphus Tables Aaron Oliver strikes again with some outrageous (but usushy
ally cool) ideas for optional Nightbanereg Morphus Warning Some of this material like the Gross Stigmata Table is a bit well gross and may be inappropriate for young readers
Page 93 - Nightbanereg The Inlustris A new optional faction for Nightbanereg by William R
Muench
Includes the optional Uziel RCC Psiren PCC magical Psiren songs and characters of note
Page 104 - Nightbanereg Hook Line and Sinkertrade Quickie HLS adventures by Aaron Oliver and Shawn Mershy
row
Page 118 - The Riftertrade Subscription Info
Page 111 - Beyond the SupernaturaJTM OCCs A handful of optional Psychic Character Classes (Pccs) by
the wily William Muench Plus the Transcendent PCC by James Calder - see you in the next life
The Cover The cover painting is an old favorite by Kevin Long It first
appeared in the Riftsreg RPG as one of the interior color plates Long is not back with Palladium Books Inc We always enjoyed his artwork and will be reusing from time to time some of the artwork published by Palladium in the past Moreover there is a pile of Long art done for Palladium that has yet to see publicashytion
The Logo The logo on the cover is the winner of Palladiums The
Riftertrade Logo Contest We were surprised by the number of quality submissions We were also surprised that so many inshycluded Da Vincis Universal Man as part of the design Ramon Perez Jr was so impressed by the entries that he didnt even try to compete
Our selections were made by majority vote of five judges (Kevin and Maryann among them) Dynamic design form funcshytion readability and versatility (ie use in black amp white and color) were all major factors
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The winner is Steve Edwards (see front cover) The radiant sun pattern representing (to us) a dimensional rift energy magic and a bright future
First runner up who would have been our first choice except the use of the Universal Man element seemed a bit distracting and large potentially competing with the cover art Furthermore it seemed to work best in color so it lost in the categories of function and versatility but man it was gorgeous Unfortunately this entry was sent to us via email and Maryann lost his name and email address Hopefully you know who you are and please contact us to let us know who you are To verify who you are resubmit your logo with your name and addrss
Niklas Brandt in Sweden (see page three) was the next runshyner up A nice crisp clean design
An honorable mention goes to 1 Lester Guidry II one of the designs that used the image of the Universal Man (see page one) and to George Purdy who did a sort of T-2 design nice
Optional and Unofficial Rules amp Source Material Please note that the vast majority of rules tables characters
equipment adventures and stories are optional or alternative things one can include in his campaign or enjoy reading They are not official to the main games or world settings For examshyple The excellent story Siege Against Tolkeen is likely to be very different than Siembiedas official world book(s) when it comes out Likewise Siembieda had not considered putting high-tech Wolfen in Italy and may not include them in any offishycial sourcebook As for optional tables (like the Nightbanereg Morphus Tables) and adventures if they sound cool or fun use them If they sound funky or inappropriate for your game ignore them
All the material in The Riftertrade 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
Palladium On Line wwwpalJadiumbookscom
Coming Next Issue More words of wisdom from Erick Wujcik
More Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade
More great art
The latest news and developments at Palladium
The continuing saga of the Siege Against Tolkeen
Riftsreg source material
Optional stutT for the Palladium Fantasy RPGreg
More great artwork adventure and fun
Magic Monsters and more
5
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Warning Violence and the Supernatural
The fictional Worlds of Palladium Books reg are violent deadly and filled with supernatural monsters Other dimensional beings often referred to as demons tonnent stalk and prey on humans Other alien life fonns monsters gods and demigod as well as magic insanity and war are all elements 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
TM
Number One A GM amp Players guide and sourcebook for
Riftsregand the entire Palladium Booksreg Megaversereg 1
Sam
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Special Thanks to everybody involved and the intrepid souls who sent in logo designs in The Rifter Logo Contest (the winner graces this page and the cov~1 _____ ___ _
Our apologies to anybody who got accidentally left out or their name misspelled
Based on the RPG rules characters
concepts and Megaversereg created by Kevin Siembieda
Second Printing - October 1998
Copyright 1998 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 fonn or by any means without pennission 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 characters or persons living or dead is strictly coincidental
Palladium Booksreg Riftsreg RECONreg Nightbanereg The Palladium Fantasy RPGreg and Megaversereg are registered trademarks owned and licensed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc Federation of Magic Psyscape Scraypers Warlords of Russia Heshyroes Unlimited Phase World Coalition States Erin Tarn Emperor Prosek Splugorth Mega-Damage Alistair Dunscon Skelebots SAMAS Dog Boys Dog Pack Techno-Wizard Ley Line Walker Shifter Cyber-Knight Mystic Knight Battle Magus Psi-Stalker Simvan Brodkil Juicer Crazy Borg Bot D-Bee Chi-Town Triax Fadetowns Dweomer and other names titles and likenesses of characters are trademarks owned by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc
Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade is a trademark of Kenzer Co and the creation of Jolly Blackburn
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesreg is a registered trademark of Mirage Studio
Robotechreg is a registered trademark of Hannony Gold USA Inc
Palladium On-Line wwwpalladiumbookscom
The Riftertrade RPG sourcebook series is published by Palladium Books Inc 12455 Universal Drive Taylor MI 48180 Printed in the USA
2
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Palladium Booksreg Presents
THE 1 RPG Guide and Megaversereg Sourcebook
Coordinator amp Editor in Chief Wayne Smith
Supervising Coordinator amp Typesetting
Maryann Siembieda Contributing Writers
James Calder
James Cannon David Haendler
Chad Uskoski
Eric Lind
Shawn Merrow
William Muench Aaron Oliver (aka Dream Fox)
Kevin Siembieda Rodney Stott
Steven Trustrum
Erick Wujcik Knights of the Dinner Table Jolly Blackburn
Contributing Editors Alex Marciniszyn Jim Osten Julius Rosenstein
Cover Painting Kevin Long
Interior Artists Kent BurIes Wayne Breaux Jr Scott Johnson
Paulo Parente Ramon Perez Jr
John Zeleznik and other Palladium Madmen
Logo Design Steve Edwards 3
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Contents
Page 6 - From Behind the Desk
of Kevin Siembieda A sort of editorial about The Rifter and hints of things to
come - every issue of The RifterTM will be different Accompashynying art by Apollo Okamura
Page 9 - The Name Giver Game designer and consummate Game Master Erick Wujcik
offers suggestions and humor on how to come up with names for RPG characters
Page 13 - Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade Our long time pal Jolly Blackburn and the good folks at
KenzerCo have agreed to let us publish new and continuing KoDT strips Cool Plug lime The KoDT is published as a (monthly) black and white comic book Issues 4 to present are available for around $400 each from Kenzer and Company 1935 S Plum Grove Rd Suite 194 Palatine IL 60067
Page 15 - Palladium News Info
amp Coming Attractions Kevin Siembieda reveals the workings and rumblings at Palshy
ladium Booksreg Inc
Page 24 - Riftsreg City Creation Rules An excellent set of optional rules for generating urban comshy
munities in Riftsreg Written by Eric 1 Lind Suitable for most Riftsreg campaign settings and easily adaptable for use beyond
Riftsreg Earth
Page 30 - Riftsreg The New Roman Republic Rodney Stott offers his view of Rifts Italy the Mafia and the
growing New Roman Republic of Rifts Earth This optional Riftsreg setting can be fun but is probably different than what Siembieda has planned for the region Optional RCC and equipment
Page 42 - Riftsreg The Knights of Kamnos James M G Cannon presents a brief overview of tile heroic
Kamnos Knights who serve the Three Galaxies A Phase WorldfM setting Optional Occ and equipment
Page 46 - Riftsreg The Hammer of the Forge James M G Cannon give us a short work of fiction concernshy
ing the legendary Cosmic Forge A Phase WorldfM setting
Page 50 - Riftsreg The Siege Against Tolkeen A wonderful work of fiction revolving around the Tolkeen
conflict by David Haendler This story will be serialized over the next several issues of The Rifterreg Warning This story has strong language and violence
Page 66 - Heroes Unlimitedtrade
New Major Super Powers Some of these super abilities are awesome others clever and
some silly but all are fun optional abilities that will make a fine addition to any super-powered campaign Siembieda was so imshypressed by some that hes considering adding a number of them
to the official Heroes UnlimiteclfM RPG By Aaron Oliver and Steve Trustrum
Page 84 - Nightbanereg New Morphus Tables Aaron Oliver strikes again with some outrageous (but usushy
ally cool) ideas for optional Nightbanereg Morphus Warning Some of this material like the Gross Stigmata Table is a bit well gross and may be inappropriate for young readers
Page 93 - Nightbanereg The Inlustris A new optional faction for Nightbanereg by William R
Muench
Includes the optional Uziel RCC Psiren PCC magical Psiren songs and characters of note
Page 104 - Nightbanereg Hook Line and Sinkertrade Quickie HLS adventures by Aaron Oliver and Shawn Mershy
row
Page 118 - The Riftertrade Subscription Info
Page 111 - Beyond the SupernaturaJTM OCCs A handful of optional Psychic Character Classes (Pccs) by
the wily William Muench Plus the Transcendent PCC by James Calder - see you in the next life
The Cover The cover painting is an old favorite by Kevin Long It first
appeared in the Riftsreg RPG as one of the interior color plates Long is not back with Palladium Books Inc We always enjoyed his artwork and will be reusing from time to time some of the artwork published by Palladium in the past Moreover there is a pile of Long art done for Palladium that has yet to see publicashytion
The Logo The logo on the cover is the winner of Palladiums The
Riftertrade Logo Contest We were surprised by the number of quality submissions We were also surprised that so many inshycluded Da Vincis Universal Man as part of the design Ramon Perez Jr was so impressed by the entries that he didnt even try to compete
Our selections were made by majority vote of five judges (Kevin and Maryann among them) Dynamic design form funcshytion readability and versatility (ie use in black amp white and color) were all major factors
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The winner is Steve Edwards (see front cover) The radiant sun pattern representing (to us) a dimensional rift energy magic and a bright future
First runner up who would have been our first choice except the use of the Universal Man element seemed a bit distracting and large potentially competing with the cover art Furthermore it seemed to work best in color so it lost in the categories of function and versatility but man it was gorgeous Unfortunately this entry was sent to us via email and Maryann lost his name and email address Hopefully you know who you are and please contact us to let us know who you are To verify who you are resubmit your logo with your name and addrss
Niklas Brandt in Sweden (see page three) was the next runshyner up A nice crisp clean design
An honorable mention goes to 1 Lester Guidry II one of the designs that used the image of the Universal Man (see page one) and to George Purdy who did a sort of T-2 design nice
Optional and Unofficial Rules amp Source Material Please note that the vast majority of rules tables characters
equipment adventures and stories are optional or alternative things one can include in his campaign or enjoy reading They are not official to the main games or world settings For examshyple The excellent story Siege Against Tolkeen is likely to be very different than Siembiedas official world book(s) when it comes out Likewise Siembieda had not considered putting high-tech Wolfen in Italy and may not include them in any offishycial sourcebook As for optional tables (like the Nightbanereg Morphus Tables) and adventures if they sound cool or fun use them If they sound funky or inappropriate for your game ignore them
All the material in The Riftertrade 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
Palladium On Line wwwpalJadiumbookscom
Coming Next Issue More words of wisdom from Erick Wujcik
More Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade
More great art
The latest news and developments at Palladium
The continuing saga of the Siege Against Tolkeen
Riftsreg source material
Optional stutT for the Palladium Fantasy RPGreg
More great artwork adventure and fun
Magic Monsters and more
5
Sam
ple
file
Special Thanks to everybody involved and the intrepid souls who sent in logo designs in The Rifter Logo Contest (the winner graces this page and the cov~1 _____ ___ _
Our apologies to anybody who got accidentally left out or their name misspelled
Based on the RPG rules characters
concepts and Megaversereg created by Kevin Siembieda
Second Printing - October 1998
Copyright 1998 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 fonn or by any means without pennission 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 characters or persons living or dead is strictly coincidental
Palladium Booksreg Riftsreg RECONreg Nightbanereg The Palladium Fantasy RPGreg and Megaversereg are registered trademarks owned and licensed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc Federation of Magic Psyscape Scraypers Warlords of Russia Heshyroes Unlimited Phase World Coalition States Erin Tarn Emperor Prosek Splugorth Mega-Damage Alistair Dunscon Skelebots SAMAS Dog Boys Dog Pack Techno-Wizard Ley Line Walker Shifter Cyber-Knight Mystic Knight Battle Magus Psi-Stalker Simvan Brodkil Juicer Crazy Borg Bot D-Bee Chi-Town Triax Fadetowns Dweomer and other names titles and likenesses of characters are trademarks owned by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc
Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade is a trademark of Kenzer Co and the creation of Jolly Blackburn
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesreg is a registered trademark of Mirage Studio
Robotechreg is a registered trademark of Hannony Gold USA Inc
Palladium On-Line wwwpalladiumbookscom
The Riftertrade RPG sourcebook series is published by Palladium Books Inc 12455 Universal Drive Taylor MI 48180 Printed in the USA
2
Sam
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Palladium Booksreg Presents
THE 1 RPG Guide and Megaversereg Sourcebook
Coordinator amp Editor in Chief Wayne Smith
Supervising Coordinator amp Typesetting
Maryann Siembieda Contributing Writers
James Calder
James Cannon David Haendler
Chad Uskoski
Eric Lind
Shawn Merrow
William Muench Aaron Oliver (aka Dream Fox)
Kevin Siembieda Rodney Stott
Steven Trustrum
Erick Wujcik Knights of the Dinner Table Jolly Blackburn
Contributing Editors Alex Marciniszyn Jim Osten Julius Rosenstein
Cover Painting Kevin Long
Interior Artists Kent BurIes Wayne Breaux Jr Scott Johnson
Paulo Parente Ramon Perez Jr
John Zeleznik and other Palladium Madmen
Logo Design Steve Edwards 3
Sam
ple
file
Contents
Page 6 - From Behind the Desk
of Kevin Siembieda A sort of editorial about The Rifter and hints of things to
come - every issue of The RifterTM will be different Accompashynying art by Apollo Okamura
Page 9 - The Name Giver Game designer and consummate Game Master Erick Wujcik
offers suggestions and humor on how to come up with names for RPG characters
Page 13 - Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade Our long time pal Jolly Blackburn and the good folks at
KenzerCo have agreed to let us publish new and continuing KoDT strips Cool Plug lime The KoDT is published as a (monthly) black and white comic book Issues 4 to present are available for around $400 each from Kenzer and Company 1935 S Plum Grove Rd Suite 194 Palatine IL 60067
Page 15 - Palladium News Info
amp Coming Attractions Kevin Siembieda reveals the workings and rumblings at Palshy
ladium Booksreg Inc
Page 24 - Riftsreg City Creation Rules An excellent set of optional rules for generating urban comshy
munities in Riftsreg Written by Eric 1 Lind Suitable for most Riftsreg campaign settings and easily adaptable for use beyond
Riftsreg Earth
Page 30 - Riftsreg The New Roman Republic Rodney Stott offers his view of Rifts Italy the Mafia and the
growing New Roman Republic of Rifts Earth This optional Riftsreg setting can be fun but is probably different than what Siembieda has planned for the region Optional RCC and equipment
Page 42 - Riftsreg The Knights of Kamnos James M G Cannon presents a brief overview of tile heroic
Kamnos Knights who serve the Three Galaxies A Phase WorldfM setting Optional Occ and equipment
Page 46 - Riftsreg The Hammer of the Forge James M G Cannon give us a short work of fiction concernshy
ing the legendary Cosmic Forge A Phase WorldfM setting
Page 50 - Riftsreg The Siege Against Tolkeen A wonderful work of fiction revolving around the Tolkeen
conflict by David Haendler This story will be serialized over the next several issues of The Rifterreg Warning This story has strong language and violence
Page 66 - Heroes Unlimitedtrade
New Major Super Powers Some of these super abilities are awesome others clever and
some silly but all are fun optional abilities that will make a fine addition to any super-powered campaign Siembieda was so imshypressed by some that hes considering adding a number of them
to the official Heroes UnlimiteclfM RPG By Aaron Oliver and Steve Trustrum
Page 84 - Nightbanereg New Morphus Tables Aaron Oliver strikes again with some outrageous (but usushy
ally cool) ideas for optional Nightbanereg Morphus Warning Some of this material like the Gross Stigmata Table is a bit well gross and may be inappropriate for young readers
Page 93 - Nightbanereg The Inlustris A new optional faction for Nightbanereg by William R
Muench
Includes the optional Uziel RCC Psiren PCC magical Psiren songs and characters of note
Page 104 - Nightbanereg Hook Line and Sinkertrade Quickie HLS adventures by Aaron Oliver and Shawn Mershy
row
Page 118 - The Riftertrade Subscription Info
Page 111 - Beyond the SupernaturaJTM OCCs A handful of optional Psychic Character Classes (Pccs) by
the wily William Muench Plus the Transcendent PCC by James Calder - see you in the next life
The Cover The cover painting is an old favorite by Kevin Long It first
appeared in the Riftsreg RPG as one of the interior color plates Long is not back with Palladium Books Inc We always enjoyed his artwork and will be reusing from time to time some of the artwork published by Palladium in the past Moreover there is a pile of Long art done for Palladium that has yet to see publicashytion
The Logo The logo on the cover is the winner of Palladiums The
Riftertrade Logo Contest We were surprised by the number of quality submissions We were also surprised that so many inshycluded Da Vincis Universal Man as part of the design Ramon Perez Jr was so impressed by the entries that he didnt even try to compete
Our selections were made by majority vote of five judges (Kevin and Maryann among them) Dynamic design form funcshytion readability and versatility (ie use in black amp white and color) were all major factors
4
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ple
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The winner is Steve Edwards (see front cover) The radiant sun pattern representing (to us) a dimensional rift energy magic and a bright future
First runner up who would have been our first choice except the use of the Universal Man element seemed a bit distracting and large potentially competing with the cover art Furthermore it seemed to work best in color so it lost in the categories of function and versatility but man it was gorgeous Unfortunately this entry was sent to us via email and Maryann lost his name and email address Hopefully you know who you are and please contact us to let us know who you are To verify who you are resubmit your logo with your name and addrss
Niklas Brandt in Sweden (see page three) was the next runshyner up A nice crisp clean design
An honorable mention goes to 1 Lester Guidry II one of the designs that used the image of the Universal Man (see page one) and to George Purdy who did a sort of T-2 design nice
Optional and Unofficial Rules amp Source Material Please note that the vast majority of rules tables characters
equipment adventures and stories are optional or alternative things one can include in his campaign or enjoy reading They are not official to the main games or world settings For examshyple The excellent story Siege Against Tolkeen is likely to be very different than Siembiedas official world book(s) when it comes out Likewise Siembieda had not considered putting high-tech Wolfen in Italy and may not include them in any offishycial sourcebook As for optional tables (like the Nightbanereg Morphus Tables) and adventures if they sound cool or fun use them If they sound funky or inappropriate for your game ignore them
All the material in The Riftertrade 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
Palladium On Line wwwpalJadiumbookscom
Coming Next Issue More words of wisdom from Erick Wujcik
More Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade
More great art
The latest news and developments at Palladium
The continuing saga of the Siege Against Tolkeen
Riftsreg source material
Optional stutT for the Palladium Fantasy RPGreg
More great artwork adventure and fun
Magic Monsters and more
5
Sam
ple
file
Palladium Booksreg Presents
THE 1 RPG Guide and Megaversereg Sourcebook
Coordinator amp Editor in Chief Wayne Smith
Supervising Coordinator amp Typesetting
Maryann Siembieda Contributing Writers
James Calder
James Cannon David Haendler
Chad Uskoski
Eric Lind
Shawn Merrow
William Muench Aaron Oliver (aka Dream Fox)
Kevin Siembieda Rodney Stott
Steven Trustrum
Erick Wujcik Knights of the Dinner Table Jolly Blackburn
Contributing Editors Alex Marciniszyn Jim Osten Julius Rosenstein
Cover Painting Kevin Long
Interior Artists Kent BurIes Wayne Breaux Jr Scott Johnson
Paulo Parente Ramon Perez Jr
John Zeleznik and other Palladium Madmen
Logo Design Steve Edwards 3
Sam
ple
file
Contents
Page 6 - From Behind the Desk
of Kevin Siembieda A sort of editorial about The Rifter and hints of things to
come - every issue of The RifterTM will be different Accompashynying art by Apollo Okamura
Page 9 - The Name Giver Game designer and consummate Game Master Erick Wujcik
offers suggestions and humor on how to come up with names for RPG characters
Page 13 - Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade Our long time pal Jolly Blackburn and the good folks at
KenzerCo have agreed to let us publish new and continuing KoDT strips Cool Plug lime The KoDT is published as a (monthly) black and white comic book Issues 4 to present are available for around $400 each from Kenzer and Company 1935 S Plum Grove Rd Suite 194 Palatine IL 60067
Page 15 - Palladium News Info
amp Coming Attractions Kevin Siembieda reveals the workings and rumblings at Palshy
ladium Booksreg Inc
Page 24 - Riftsreg City Creation Rules An excellent set of optional rules for generating urban comshy
munities in Riftsreg Written by Eric 1 Lind Suitable for most Riftsreg campaign settings and easily adaptable for use beyond
Riftsreg Earth
Page 30 - Riftsreg The New Roman Republic Rodney Stott offers his view of Rifts Italy the Mafia and the
growing New Roman Republic of Rifts Earth This optional Riftsreg setting can be fun but is probably different than what Siembieda has planned for the region Optional RCC and equipment
Page 42 - Riftsreg The Knights of Kamnos James M G Cannon presents a brief overview of tile heroic
Kamnos Knights who serve the Three Galaxies A Phase WorldfM setting Optional Occ and equipment
Page 46 - Riftsreg The Hammer of the Forge James M G Cannon give us a short work of fiction concernshy
ing the legendary Cosmic Forge A Phase WorldfM setting
Page 50 - Riftsreg The Siege Against Tolkeen A wonderful work of fiction revolving around the Tolkeen
conflict by David Haendler This story will be serialized over the next several issues of The Rifterreg Warning This story has strong language and violence
Page 66 - Heroes Unlimitedtrade
New Major Super Powers Some of these super abilities are awesome others clever and
some silly but all are fun optional abilities that will make a fine addition to any super-powered campaign Siembieda was so imshypressed by some that hes considering adding a number of them
to the official Heroes UnlimiteclfM RPG By Aaron Oliver and Steve Trustrum
Page 84 - Nightbanereg New Morphus Tables Aaron Oliver strikes again with some outrageous (but usushy
ally cool) ideas for optional Nightbanereg Morphus Warning Some of this material like the Gross Stigmata Table is a bit well gross and may be inappropriate for young readers
Page 93 - Nightbanereg The Inlustris A new optional faction for Nightbanereg by William R
Muench
Includes the optional Uziel RCC Psiren PCC magical Psiren songs and characters of note
Page 104 - Nightbanereg Hook Line and Sinkertrade Quickie HLS adventures by Aaron Oliver and Shawn Mershy
row
Page 118 - The Riftertrade Subscription Info
Page 111 - Beyond the SupernaturaJTM OCCs A handful of optional Psychic Character Classes (Pccs) by
the wily William Muench Plus the Transcendent PCC by James Calder - see you in the next life
The Cover The cover painting is an old favorite by Kevin Long It first
appeared in the Riftsreg RPG as one of the interior color plates Long is not back with Palladium Books Inc We always enjoyed his artwork and will be reusing from time to time some of the artwork published by Palladium in the past Moreover there is a pile of Long art done for Palladium that has yet to see publicashytion
The Logo The logo on the cover is the winner of Palladiums The
Riftertrade Logo Contest We were surprised by the number of quality submissions We were also surprised that so many inshycluded Da Vincis Universal Man as part of the design Ramon Perez Jr was so impressed by the entries that he didnt even try to compete
Our selections were made by majority vote of five judges (Kevin and Maryann among them) Dynamic design form funcshytion readability and versatility (ie use in black amp white and color) were all major factors
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The winner is Steve Edwards (see front cover) The radiant sun pattern representing (to us) a dimensional rift energy magic and a bright future
First runner up who would have been our first choice except the use of the Universal Man element seemed a bit distracting and large potentially competing with the cover art Furthermore it seemed to work best in color so it lost in the categories of function and versatility but man it was gorgeous Unfortunately this entry was sent to us via email and Maryann lost his name and email address Hopefully you know who you are and please contact us to let us know who you are To verify who you are resubmit your logo with your name and addrss
Niklas Brandt in Sweden (see page three) was the next runshyner up A nice crisp clean design
An honorable mention goes to 1 Lester Guidry II one of the designs that used the image of the Universal Man (see page one) and to George Purdy who did a sort of T-2 design nice
Optional and Unofficial Rules amp Source Material Please note that the vast majority of rules tables characters
equipment adventures and stories are optional or alternative things one can include in his campaign or enjoy reading They are not official to the main games or world settings For examshyple The excellent story Siege Against Tolkeen is likely to be very different than Siembiedas official world book(s) when it comes out Likewise Siembieda had not considered putting high-tech Wolfen in Italy and may not include them in any offishycial sourcebook As for optional tables (like the Nightbanereg Morphus Tables) and adventures if they sound cool or fun use them If they sound funky or inappropriate for your game ignore them
All the material in The Riftertrade 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
Palladium On Line wwwpalJadiumbookscom
Coming Next Issue More words of wisdom from Erick Wujcik
More Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade
More great art
The latest news and developments at Palladium
The continuing saga of the Siege Against Tolkeen
Riftsreg source material
Optional stutT for the Palladium Fantasy RPGreg
More great artwork adventure and fun
Magic Monsters and more
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Contents
Page 6 - From Behind the Desk
of Kevin Siembieda A sort of editorial about The Rifter and hints of things to
come - every issue of The RifterTM will be different Accompashynying art by Apollo Okamura
Page 9 - The Name Giver Game designer and consummate Game Master Erick Wujcik
offers suggestions and humor on how to come up with names for RPG characters
Page 13 - Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade Our long time pal Jolly Blackburn and the good folks at
KenzerCo have agreed to let us publish new and continuing KoDT strips Cool Plug lime The KoDT is published as a (monthly) black and white comic book Issues 4 to present are available for around $400 each from Kenzer and Company 1935 S Plum Grove Rd Suite 194 Palatine IL 60067
Page 15 - Palladium News Info
amp Coming Attractions Kevin Siembieda reveals the workings and rumblings at Palshy
ladium Booksreg Inc
Page 24 - Riftsreg City Creation Rules An excellent set of optional rules for generating urban comshy
munities in Riftsreg Written by Eric 1 Lind Suitable for most Riftsreg campaign settings and easily adaptable for use beyond
Riftsreg Earth
Page 30 - Riftsreg The New Roman Republic Rodney Stott offers his view of Rifts Italy the Mafia and the
growing New Roman Republic of Rifts Earth This optional Riftsreg setting can be fun but is probably different than what Siembieda has planned for the region Optional RCC and equipment
Page 42 - Riftsreg The Knights of Kamnos James M G Cannon presents a brief overview of tile heroic
Kamnos Knights who serve the Three Galaxies A Phase WorldfM setting Optional Occ and equipment
Page 46 - Riftsreg The Hammer of the Forge James M G Cannon give us a short work of fiction concernshy
ing the legendary Cosmic Forge A Phase WorldfM setting
Page 50 - Riftsreg The Siege Against Tolkeen A wonderful work of fiction revolving around the Tolkeen
conflict by David Haendler This story will be serialized over the next several issues of The Rifterreg Warning This story has strong language and violence
Page 66 - Heroes Unlimitedtrade
New Major Super Powers Some of these super abilities are awesome others clever and
some silly but all are fun optional abilities that will make a fine addition to any super-powered campaign Siembieda was so imshypressed by some that hes considering adding a number of them
to the official Heroes UnlimiteclfM RPG By Aaron Oliver and Steve Trustrum
Page 84 - Nightbanereg New Morphus Tables Aaron Oliver strikes again with some outrageous (but usushy
ally cool) ideas for optional Nightbanereg Morphus Warning Some of this material like the Gross Stigmata Table is a bit well gross and may be inappropriate for young readers
Page 93 - Nightbanereg The Inlustris A new optional faction for Nightbanereg by William R
Muench
Includes the optional Uziel RCC Psiren PCC magical Psiren songs and characters of note
Page 104 - Nightbanereg Hook Line and Sinkertrade Quickie HLS adventures by Aaron Oliver and Shawn Mershy
row
Page 118 - The Riftertrade Subscription Info
Page 111 - Beyond the SupernaturaJTM OCCs A handful of optional Psychic Character Classes (Pccs) by
the wily William Muench Plus the Transcendent PCC by James Calder - see you in the next life
The Cover The cover painting is an old favorite by Kevin Long It first
appeared in the Riftsreg RPG as one of the interior color plates Long is not back with Palladium Books Inc We always enjoyed his artwork and will be reusing from time to time some of the artwork published by Palladium in the past Moreover there is a pile of Long art done for Palladium that has yet to see publicashytion
The Logo The logo on the cover is the winner of Palladiums The
Riftertrade Logo Contest We were surprised by the number of quality submissions We were also surprised that so many inshycluded Da Vincis Universal Man as part of the design Ramon Perez Jr was so impressed by the entries that he didnt even try to compete
Our selections were made by majority vote of five judges (Kevin and Maryann among them) Dynamic design form funcshytion readability and versatility (ie use in black amp white and color) were all major factors
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The winner is Steve Edwards (see front cover) The radiant sun pattern representing (to us) a dimensional rift energy magic and a bright future
First runner up who would have been our first choice except the use of the Universal Man element seemed a bit distracting and large potentially competing with the cover art Furthermore it seemed to work best in color so it lost in the categories of function and versatility but man it was gorgeous Unfortunately this entry was sent to us via email and Maryann lost his name and email address Hopefully you know who you are and please contact us to let us know who you are To verify who you are resubmit your logo with your name and addrss
Niklas Brandt in Sweden (see page three) was the next runshyner up A nice crisp clean design
An honorable mention goes to 1 Lester Guidry II one of the designs that used the image of the Universal Man (see page one) and to George Purdy who did a sort of T-2 design nice
Optional and Unofficial Rules amp Source Material Please note that the vast majority of rules tables characters
equipment adventures and stories are optional or alternative things one can include in his campaign or enjoy reading They are not official to the main games or world settings For examshyple The excellent story Siege Against Tolkeen is likely to be very different than Siembiedas official world book(s) when it comes out Likewise Siembieda had not considered putting high-tech Wolfen in Italy and may not include them in any offishycial sourcebook As for optional tables (like the Nightbanereg Morphus Tables) and adventures if they sound cool or fun use them If they sound funky or inappropriate for your game ignore them
All the material in The Riftertrade 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
Palladium On Line wwwpalJadiumbookscom
Coming Next Issue More words of wisdom from Erick Wujcik
More Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade
More great art
The latest news and developments at Palladium
The continuing saga of the Siege Against Tolkeen
Riftsreg source material
Optional stutT for the Palladium Fantasy RPGreg
More great artwork adventure and fun
Magic Monsters and more
5
Sam
ple
file
The winner is Steve Edwards (see front cover) The radiant sun pattern representing (to us) a dimensional rift energy magic and a bright future
First runner up who would have been our first choice except the use of the Universal Man element seemed a bit distracting and large potentially competing with the cover art Furthermore it seemed to work best in color so it lost in the categories of function and versatility but man it was gorgeous Unfortunately this entry was sent to us via email and Maryann lost his name and email address Hopefully you know who you are and please contact us to let us know who you are To verify who you are resubmit your logo with your name and addrss
Niklas Brandt in Sweden (see page three) was the next runshyner up A nice crisp clean design
An honorable mention goes to 1 Lester Guidry II one of the designs that used the image of the Universal Man (see page one) and to George Purdy who did a sort of T-2 design nice
Optional and Unofficial Rules amp Source Material Please note that the vast majority of rules tables characters
equipment adventures and stories are optional or alternative things one can include in his campaign or enjoy reading They are not official to the main games or world settings For examshyple The excellent story Siege Against Tolkeen is likely to be very different than Siembiedas official world book(s) when it comes out Likewise Siembieda had not considered putting high-tech Wolfen in Italy and may not include them in any offishycial sourcebook As for optional tables (like the Nightbanereg Morphus Tables) and adventures if they sound cool or fun use them If they sound funky or inappropriate for your game ignore them
All the material in The Riftertrade 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
Palladium On Line wwwpalJadiumbookscom
Coming Next Issue More words of wisdom from Erick Wujcik
More Knights of the Dinner Tabletrade
More great art
The latest news and developments at Palladium
The continuing saga of the Siege Against Tolkeen
Riftsreg source material
Optional stutT for the Palladium Fantasy RPGreg
More great artwork adventure and fun
Magic Monsters and more
5
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ple
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