Rifts Ultimate Edition cover is up

[Alex Marciniszyn]

What is Rifts Ultimate Edition? In a nutshell: everything rewritten, reorganized, updated and improved by the original writer and creator, Kevin Siembieda. And we've gotten plenty of fan/player input we're incorporating.

To get a look at the cover, and more details, go here:

http://www.palladiumbooks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1001&Product_Code=800HC



Alex Marciniszyn,
Palladium Books

[Spriggan]

ya I saw that.  It looks good though my favoite RIFTS corebook cover is the Special edition Hardback (black with a silver logo for those that don't know).  I'm looking forward to this book.

[Fellfrosch]

I'm very excited for Ultimate Rifts as well--I think some of the tweaks to the rule system in recent books, like Splicers and Beyond the Supernatural, will be a great fit for Rifts.

[Spriggan]

There's a pic of the final cover for the hardback edition, I wish there was a "silver" edtion like when they did the original hardback for RIFTS since I like the hardback's simplist cover better but don't want to shell out $70.

http://www.palladiumbooks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1001&Product_Code=8000HC

[Fellfrosch]

And now the book is at the printer: http://www.palladiumbooks.com/press/press2005-07a.html

I expect it to be on shelves (and in my mailbox) within the next couple of weeks, so get ready for a burst of "Fellfrosch is obsessed with Rifts" activity.

[Spriggan]

If you get a hard back edition I will hate you.

But wow some of this stuff is a long time comming.

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Penalties for low attributes.
Skill Penalties.
Skill clarifications (Field Armorer rules for souping up vehicles and such).
Rule clarifications.
Weapon & Combat clarifications (BTS-2 approach).
The layout has been redone with rules and skills in the back of the book.
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Yea us.

[Fellfrosch]

New info in the latest press release: http://www.palladiumbooks.com/press/press2005-07.html

I gotta say, I'm way excited about this book.

[Fellfrosch]

And Ultimate Rifts has shipped! Huzzah, hooray, and all of that. Everybody run out and grasp vainly at nothing, because it will be sold out by the time you get there.

http://www.palladiumbooks.com/press/press2005-08b.html

[Spriggan]

I special ordered mine so I hopefully shouldn't have to worry about grasping at nothing.