What part of Rift's earth does your group adventure in most.

[runebeo]

What part of Rift's earth does your group adventure in most other than the states. Please tell us about threats that have come up and how you group over came them. Thank you so much.

[grandmaster z0b]

Chi-town burbs or the Pecos badlands. Both provide good opportunities for adventure with the CS looming nearby.

[Dustin Fireblade]

Well I've GM'ed a CS SpecOps game in Lone Star for years now. We're just now starting to branch out a bit.

In a CS PBeM we started in Lone Star and have since moved to the Tolkeen front.

And in two different mercenary based PBeM's we are in the Kingsdale/Whykin area.

I've played in games based in England and South America. I've GM'ed a few other games based in North America.

[Aramanthus]

My cmapaign takes place on the east coast of the US, (Dinosaur swamp/ Federation of Magic to the area of southern New York State. And occasionally out in the New West.)

[Hannibal]

I have played all across North America, but the current game I play in is based in Merctown (truly one of the best books Paladium has put out in years). The game I currently run has the characters based in Dweomer, working the mid-west and east coast mostly (for now).

[runebeo]

My group been around the world. South America is where we mainly play so much good stuff down there. Hope rifts India coming soon but I'm sure it won't match what were playing now. Set armies are waging war in India. Atlantis is supplying both sides and China won't stop interfering.

[Aramanthus]

Runebeo, what powers control India in your game? I'm just curious as a fellow GM.

[runebeo]

The India's gods and nomad clans mainly but the gods take little interest now. Set has a strangle hold on the tribes of central India. Thanks for asking.

[Marrowlight]

Off Plane actually.

[SkyeFyre]

Actually we are technically in the states the least. We usually play in Canada, seeing as we are canadian.

[Kagashi]

Almost entirly in North America. I tried to get the guys involved in the NGR once. We did one adventure, and elected to return back to North America. That was many moons ago before WB 23 was even out. If I were still playing in that group, things might be different.

However, even in the PbP game Im currently playing in, I have not left NA.

[Rahmota]

We play mainly in north america. If I'm running its usually a CS based one where either the CSA is expanding its borders through lewis and clark style explorers trying to regain lost knowledge of the world (my CSA is a bit different than book) or the characters are the valient heros trying to defend the glorious CSA from the forces of evil, darkness and opression (said with a compleately straight face) or they are diplomats and traders working out agreements and accords.

If I run in my friend's game its generally either Federation of magic in NA (which in his world are the good guys, go figure) or independents running and fighting from either the (a) oppressive and evil CS (b) opressive and evil vampires (c) opressive and evil...... (well you get the point)

[Killer Cyborg]

What part of Rift's earth does your group adventure in most other than the states.

Nowhere. People have run the occaisional one-shot adventure in Atlantis, Russia, Africa, England, or wherever, but never more than one or two sessions worth.
North America is where the action and focus of the game should be.

[grandmaster z0b]

I did play a game that was based in England for a while, years and years ago, but that was mainly because I had a Herbalist in the party so I wanted him to start in an environment that suited his skills. It wasn't too bad, I had the main enemy the Splugorth in London, but they were rifted to another dimension pretty quickly coz it got boring.

[Mech-Viper Prime]

Mainly north america, but sometimes was book of the month

[runebeo]

Our group stays away from north america most of the time because the CS has huge bounties on us for war crimes. They have a squad of mechanized unit after them lead by colonel Deckerman based on the A-Team's Decker character. We use him in both of our playing groups for years.

[Jefffar]

Earth, what is this Earth of which you speak?

[socom242]

I think most of the games I played or ran in RIFTS took place around North America. Nowadays, my game takes place in Texas (and it's surrounding states). Using mostly LONE STAR, NEW/SPIRIT WEST, VAMPIRE KINGDOMS, CS WAR CAMPAIGN with some elements of ATLANTIS, UNDERSEAS Aand SOUTH AMERICA 1& 2 for good measure.

[Aramanthus]

Thank you for responding so quick Runebeo!

[Josh Sinsapaugh]

Where do my campaigns usually take place?

North America, East of the Mississippi.

~ Josh

[Killer Cyborg]

What part of Rift's earth does your group adventure in most other than the states.

Nowhere. People have run the occaisional one-shot adventure in Atlantis, Russia, Africa, England, or wherever, but never more than one or two sessions worth.
North America is where the action and focus of the game should be.

Im just curious why you think that the focus of a rifts game should be in north America over any other part of the world?

Because that's where the main book is set, along with Sourcebook 1.
These books make up the core of the game, which means that the core of the game is North America.

[Killer Cyborg]

What part of Rift's earth does your group adventure in most other than the states.

Nowhere. People have run the occaisional one-shot adventure in Atlantis, Russia, Africa, England, or wherever, but never more than one or two sessions worth.
North America is where the action and focus of the game should be.

Im just curious why you think that the focus of a rifts game should be in north America over any other part of the world?

Because that's where the main book is set, along with Sourcebook 1.
These books make up the core of the game, which means that the core of the game is North America.

The point of the world book series is to flesh out the world as a whole not just north america. The base book may be set in NA but the various WB's present different settings for the game to take place in so what makes one more correct to use as the center of the action than the other?

Because that's where the main book is set, along with Sourcebook 1.
These books make up the core of the game, which means that the core of the game is North America.

The Worldbooks don't do much to change this, no more than the existence of the Dimension Books mean that Rifts isn't about Earth.

[killhound]

i have 1 group walking to south america. another group going after the black vault another group playing in merctown and my last group is preping for an inter dimensional scavenger hunt

[Nxla666]

North America with side trips to the Three Galaxies.

[Killer Cyborg]

The Worldbooks don't do much to change this, no more than the existence of the Dimension Books mean that Rifts isn't about Earth.

I can understand that although i allways looked at it from the point of view that the focus was on Earth and the dimention books were for extra fun but the focus was Earth.

That's how I look at the world books that don't pertain to North America.
They're there for extra (unecessary) fun, but the focus is (and should be) North America.
You can run an Australia campaign, or a Wormwood campaign, but the main focus of Rifts should be North America on Rifts Earth.

[Nxla666]

The Worldbooks don't do much to change this, no more than the existence of the Dimension Books mean that Rifts isn't about Earth.

I can understand that although i allways looked at it from the point of view that the focus was on Earth and the dimention books were for extra fun but the focus was Earth.

That's how I look at the world books that don't pertain to North America.
They're there for extra (unecessary) fun, but the focus is (and should be) North America.
You can run an Australia campaign, or a Wormwood campaign, but the main focus of Rifts should be North America on Rifts Earth.

I think the main focus tends to be wherever the GM is from.

[Killer Cyborg]

The Worldbooks don't do much to change this, no more than the existence of the Dimension Books mean that Rifts isn't about Earth.

I can understand that although i allways looked at it from the point of view that the focus was on Earth and the dimention books were for extra fun but the focus was Earth.

That's how I look at the world books that don't pertain to North America.
They're there for extra (unecessary) fun, but the focus is (and should be) North America.
You can run an Australia campaign, or a Wormwood campaign, but the main focus of Rifts should be North America on Rifts Earth.

I think the main focus tends to be wherever the GM is from.

See i always saw it as the Catyclysm happened to Earth not just North America. So with every new world book i saw the horrizons broaden just a little giving me just that much more of the complete picture of the new world.

Every new world book makes the horizons smaller.
Instead of a vast and unknown world, we now have one with significant high-tech and/or magic kingdoms in virtually every corner.
Instead of feeling like life in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, it's starting to resemble a post-apocalyptic suburb. Neighbors wherever you look. Too much traffic.

[Killer Cyborg]

The thing is that having the world more full than it was makes sense when the apocalypse hapened the world was experiancing a golden age of peace and prosperity not just NA but the whole world. So to say that after the dark ages that only people in north america were able to establish a new society is kinda silly especially since in the real world people have existed all over the globe longer than anywhere in NA.

It's not that the rest of the world should be uninhabited; it's that the rest of the world doesn't matter because characters from North America don't have any realistic way of getting to these other places (beyond those directly connected).
Unless your GM wants to repeatedly trot out the old "You go through a rift, and of all the places in the entire Megaverse, it happens to come out on a different continent of the same planet that you started from" nonsense.
Meanwhile, places that the PCs would be likely to encounter, or at least know something about, go unnoticed.

As for the realism of there being other survivors, that's not necessarily so.
Depending on the size of the cataclysm, it's perfectly plausible that only a handful of humans survived anywhere on the planet.
Really, the number of people in North America seems a bit too high.

[Aramanthus]

The world is developing the way KS wants it too go. It's up to the GM as to the final make up of the world in their opinion. So there might not be as many places in some peoples worlds, meaning far less people.

[runebeo]

I think palladium should devote some more books to NGR to make another interesting place to go. This is just me but if as people are saying here only North America matters then the world books are not been written with a back story thats interesting to the fans then are then?

[runebeo]

Anyone's group travel to Atlantis often? How does your group handle this. Do they sneak around or are they well known there?