Rifts - by Steven - Cultist Invasion Session 1 - 27 Nov 06:30

Please let me know who is able to make Friday 11/27 06:30 (to play) and who is interested in playing but needs help with a character and/or cant make it Friday.
If you are remote and need a character, contact me asap so we can work it out; I'd be happy to help

I can do the 27th

Chris, have you ever played Rifts or do you know what kind of character you would like to play?

You can find all the PDF books on The Trove.

I'm a Cyber Knight.

You can pick almost any class/race. I can help you pick if you know what kind of character would be interesting. Ross is a cyberknight (kind of like a jedi/questing knight). Art is a baby dragon/rouge scholar. Arthur is a Temporal wizard/shadow being. Stuart is a partially cybernetic special ops mercenary. Tom is a starchild (psychic chosen one). Tena is a priest of light/faerie.

Broadly the options are some sort of psychic, magic user, cybernetic, mutant or soldier. More specifically, as an example, the psychic options include healers, melee warriors, gunfighters, mages, astral travelers, hunters and spies. Races include fantasy races, scifi races, even rules for animal humanoid mutants like ninja turtles. Any kind of character you can think of we could probably build something around.

These are all viable options, and I would be happy to help you modify as needed to come up with something you like. Keep in mind Rifts is less focused on combat so the classic D&D party of healer/tank/DPS is far less important; and some less viable options (some would say under-powered in combat) become more viable and important. Investigative abilities, charismatic abilities, knowledge abilities, stealth abilities skill abilities all become much more valuable.

For races, there are many pre-generated to choose from but specifically for d-bees the aliens unlimited book has every variation you can think of (literally 30+ options) and the mutants you can generate any kind of animal-human hybrid with the teenage mutant ninja turtle books or as you say x-men type mutants with the heroes unlimited book. If you aren't locked into anything then look at classes first as that will probably impact what race would be a good combo.

For classes, Martial artist is viable depending on the selections you make. Some examples to consider are cyborg soldier (from the ninjas and super-spies book) or almost any character from the heroes unlimited book or something else naturally fast/durable. I would be happy to make a custom class with you like a juicer(human augmented with drugs) or crazy(human augmented with brain implants) martial artist.

Shifter, Surger, and Zapper are all basically magic classes with strong but very narrow in focus. Mystic, Mind Melter and Techno Wizard are much more malleable, melters are like a Prof X/Jean Grey type mystics are more like classic wizards with a bit of psychic ability. Techno Wizards are a special kind of magic user that focuses on creating magic weapons, vehicles, and other items and using them instead of directly casting spells. There is a huge variety of spells that can be built into items. The Rifts book describes them in detail and several other books list TW items (like the new west book) that can be made.

Mostly you should think about what will be fun and interesting for you to play. Also keep in mind if you get tired of a character or it turns out to not be your style, let me know and we can talk about trading it out for a new one. (this goes for everybody playing in my games)


Also, yes we can get on discord and/or you can get my phone number and email from Stuart as well

Okay, game on!

So is it a gaming session or Character Creation session?

We may have some character cleanup/questions/etc... but it is going to be primarily a gaming session with the origins of our heroes and the beginning of our campaign.

Sorry i didnt put a time, lets aim for 06:30