Rifts Chaos Earth

Rifts Chaos Earth is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game from Palladium Books. It is a spinoff and prequel to their popular game Rifts, which uses a similar form of Palladium's Megaversal system.

Rifts Chaos Earth
Front cover of Rifts Chaos Earth core rulebook, illustrated by Scott Johnson
Designer(s)Kevin Siembieda
Illustrator(s)Wayne Breaux, Jr., Michael Dubisch, Apollo Okamura, Ramón Pérez, Freddie E. Williams II, Michael Wilson
Publisher(s)Palladium Books
Publication dateJune 2003 (2003-06)
Years active2003–present
Genre(s)Post-apocalyptic
Language(s)English
System(s)Megaversal
Websitepalladiumbooks.com

History

In the early 2000, Palladium was experiencing a downward trend, so to try to offset decreasing sales, Palladium continued creating new settings; as a result the brand new game Rifts Chaos Earth (2003), a prequel to Rifts, was released and soon supplemented by a few sourcebooks (2003).[1]

Description

Chaos Earth was originally intended to be a parallel dimension to Rifts where the massive deaths were caused a minute after midnight when the released Potential Psychic Energy (P.P.E.) was magnified. Everything that happened in Rifts happened on a smaller scale in Chaos Earth. In Chaos Earth, most of humanity survives and has to fend off the supernatural. This game style can be played in Palladium's Nightbane series. Sometime after its original press description in an early Rifter, the game changed from a parallel dimension to Rifts history, perhaps due to the level of interest in Rifts' past. Now in the Palladium Megaverse, the Chaos Earth setting is the period in Earth during which the rips in space-time known as rifts ripped apart mankind.

Chaos Earth gives players a chance to play in a world somewhat more recognizable than the world of Rifts. Monsters are only starting to appear and there the forces of humanity are still trying to hold on to the civilized world that Earth had been, as opposed to Rifts where characters live in a world where violence and horror have been commonplace for centuries.

Sourcebooks and mission books
  • Sourcebook One:[2] Creatures of Chaos, first printing September 2003
  • Sourcebook Two:[3] Rise of Magic, first printing November 2003
  • Resurrection[4] was announced in February 2015.[5] The expected release date was changed several times.[6][7][8]
  • First Responders has been on pre-order since June 2012[9] and as of March 2019 remains so.[10]
  • NEMA Mission Book 1 was on pre-order as early as 13 May 2012[11], and is still on pre-order as of March 2019.[12]

References
  1. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 162. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. "Palladium Books Store Rifts® Chaos Earth® Sourcebook One: Creatures of Chaos™". palladium-store.com. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  3. "Palladium Books Store Rifts® Chaos Earth® Sourcebook Two: Rise of Magic™". palladium-store.com. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  4. "Palladium Books Store Rifts® Chaos Earth® Sourcebook: Resurrection". Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  5. Smith, Wayne (12 February 2015). "Palladium Books® Weekly Update – Feb. 12, 2015".
  6. Smith, Wayne. "Palladium Books® Weekly Update – March 6, 2015".
  7. Smith, Wayne. "Palladium Books® Weekly Update – June 25, 2015".
  8. "2 July 2015".
  9. "Palladium Books Store Rifts® Chaos Earth™ Sourcebook: First Responders™ (pre-order)". 18 June 2012. Archived from the original on 18 June 2012.
  10. "Rifts® Chaos Earth® Sourcebook: First Responders™ (pre-order)". Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  11. "Palladium Books Store Rifts® Chaos Earth™: NEMA™ Mission Book One (pre-order)". 13 May 2012. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012.
  12. "Rifts® Chaos Earth®: NEMA™ Mission Book One (pre-order)". Retrieved 27 March 2019.
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