Ab3 Rant #17: The Bad Rifts Project
My pallet desires pie but what kind of pie? The patriotic fervor of apple? The esoteric revelations of blueberry? Perhaps the October dream that is pumpkin? Or perhaps the culinary dichotomy known as rhubarb?
Ab3 tries playing Palladium’s darling rpg, Rifts, at a local Denny’s. Of course, between El Disgusto’s obsession with ninjas and Blobert’s Smith’s lurid descriptions of transexual singing post apocalyptic nurses, Ab3 is in more than he bargained for. Take a seat at the table for The Bad Rifts Project.The Bad Rifts Project was originally posted on RPG.net and used with permission of the author.
Written by AlBruno the 3rd
Performed by RPPR
Edited by Chris Farmer
Ab3 – Chris Farmer
Weasly Crusher – Aaron Carstein
Blobert Smith – Ross Payton
El Disgusto – Tom Church
Deviant Boy – Patrick Seth Williams
Police Officer – David Norman
Collateral Darren – Jason Ariciu
Sam the Waitress – Karee Kimple
Police Officer – David Norman
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RPPR Episode 81: Mega-Damaged
News: Check out the newest Story Bundle! My book, Zombies of the World, is one of the bonus ebooks you can get if you pay the average of $8 or more. The bundle also features F. Paul Wilson and other great authors!
I also wrote up a detailed post-mortem of my recent Call of Cthulhu one shot based on the indie video game, Hotline Miami.
Synopsis: I asked Tom what he wanted to do an episode on and he chose the Palladium game system. So here we are. After going over our history with the system, we go over the game, from its mechanics to the setting of Rifts. It’s not pretty, but hopefully entertaining. Tom’s letter is about Rifts of course, and we have shout outs, a listener letter, and an anecdote.
Shout outs:
- Story Bundle: Buy these ebooks! They make great Christmas gifts 😀
- SSSSSSS: A 1970s horror movie about people being turned into giant snakes because of reasons.
- The Drift: New SG-1 Stargate novel. Interesting plot, characterization, and excellent attention to detail.
- A Monster in Paris: CGI animated film about a monster (in Paris).
- Miskatonic River Press and Punktown Kickstarter: Get Lovecraftian games and fiction!
- HP Lovecraft books Skyrim mod: Reading Lovecraft books in real life get you down? There’s got to be a better way!
- Dead Pixels: A new indie game on Steam about shooting zombies, so you know I dig it.
- Legend of Grimrock: Indie CRPG modeled after old school games like Eye of the Beholder. Clever puzzles and fun combat.
Song: Multidimensional Consciousness by the Flavor Foundation
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