Quote from: Omega;900930I believe none of the editions of Recon are compatible with Palladium? I've never seen 2nd or Deluxe. But from what I've read they did not overhaul the system?

They were planning to adopt Recon Modern Combat to the Megaversal system but that is on hold that last I heard.

We played the unholy heck out of Recon and Twilight 2000 back in the day and we bounced between tropical 'Nam and frosty Poland.

Huh, maybe now I'll finally get to try this setting. I always wondered about what Rifts was all about, but I always found the books off putting. The rules that is, not the art


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although I have no idea if the art actually fits the setting.......

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It's definitely got a WTF factor.

jg

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although I have no idea if the art actually fits the setting.......

It does.

Yes, it does.

*Sighs dreamily*

This glorious piece of art is the Rifts stting in a nutshell !

Quote from: yabaziou;901180This glorious piece of art is the Rifts stting in a nutshell !

IE: No one has a clue.

The cover sums that up perfectly.

Tentacle tech monsters and some armed women on a weird platform surrounded by holo-skull things.

Are these the good guys/gals/things? The bad? Who knows! Who cares! Take my money!

Same with the new cover for Ultimate. Huge tentacle toothy eyeball thing and a tusken raider. Must be RCCs! Take my money!

I have a feeling the new SW cover will not be as evocative. Probably some generic group pose. bah! Rifts is never mundane!

You cannot get wrong with a game featuring gun-toting, one piece swimsuit clad babes and monsters with tentacles ! And in-game, those MF will be put the fear of the Spulgorth in you !

Quote from: Trond;901165although I have no idea if the art actually fits the setting.......

I always got the impression that the setting fitted the art. As in, KS gets some commission art done, but also a lot of pieces that he assigns stats for. "This woman with a Lemur? She's a.... Wildnerness Druid OCC! Yeah! And she has concealed mini-missles in her bra. The bra flips open to reveal 12 mini-missles." *I may be exaggerating just a tad*

Yeah, concerning this piece of art, I am sure that KS commissioned it for Palladium Fantasy or it was on a portfolio he bought from Keith Parkinson and then he said, fuck it, she is a Druid ans let's put in the corecook, it need more babes !

Quote from: yabaziou;901266Yeah, concerning this piece of art, I am sure that KS commissioned it for Palladium Fantasy or it was on a portfolio he bought from Keith Parkinson and then he said, fuck it, she is a Druid ans let's put in the corecook, it need more babes !

Could also be total lack of art direction. An general. "some wilderness druid type." and who knows what the hell you get. But you roll with it.

Or Parkinson was just selling some art and eventually someone notes "Hey. This piece here would fit the druid entry." which is also a pretty common way game art used to, and likely still is done with some publishers.

And sometimes you ask for a faerie and get an angel instead. You either use it elsewhere, or retool the faerie, or scrap the art and use it later maybee.

And other approaches like really hammering down what you want.

As with every thing in the gaming biz. Varies wildly from one to the next. And all bets are off on how the heck palladium runs it. Probably all of the above plus a few non-euclidian systems.

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No one ever notices all the humanoids in the background encircling the Minion of Splugorth and the Altara warriors. Probably because the 15 year old in all of us is too busy looking at the Altara Warriors.

This piece of art fits the setting because it's fucking crazy. Weird science and necromancy and magic and alien boobs and slime and tentacles and giant eyeballs. And always in the background are boring humanoids creeping around.

Quote from: everloss;901497No one ever notices all the humanoids in the background encircling the Minion of Splugorth and the Altara warriors. Probably because the 15 year old in all of us is too busy looking at the Altara Warriors.

This piece of art fits the setting because it's fucking crazy. Weird science and necromancy and magic and alien boobs and slime and tentacles and giant eyeballs. And always in the background are boring humanoids creeping around.

1: They blend into the background too much. But yes they add to the WTH aspect because they dont look like the good guys. Think everyone was too busy counting the eyeballs to notice the gals.

2: er... what boobs. All three are dressed. Now alien ass. That we gots on the cover. And eyeballs.

x: This os one of the oft interesting things about Parkinsons art. Thers usually alot going on in each piece. Little details and sideline stuff. Same with Larry Elmore's pics.

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I'd largely say it does.

24 hours since I got the email with the Savage Rifts Player's Guide download link and I still can't log into the Pinnacle website to retrieve it.

Their server can't keep up. This is insane.