World Book 8: Japan wrote:As long-time Rifts® fans may already suspect, we couldn't fit everything we wanted for Rifts Japan into one book.
Consequently, we are already working on a supplement that will focus on many of the key gods, oni, and supernatural beings that fill Japanese mythology.
This book will also focus on magic powers, Shinto priests and a variety of other character classes.
It is likely to be a big book (160 to 220 pages) and may be presented as a Rifts® Conversion Book with a title like Gods & Oni of Rifts Japan.
It will be available in early 1996.
How about "early 2016" instead?
speaking of upcoming products, the following books are also slated for 1996: The Juicer Uprisings™, Lemuria & Easter Island, Northern Gun™, The New West™, and Lone Star. These titles are already in development!
JU/LS/NW all came out in a timely fashion, and we eventually got Lemuria and Northern Gun a decade later, all promises would be kept if an Easter Island book came out.
Japan intro still wrote:Other likely releases are Rifts Chi-Town™ or The Coalition States™, The Omegan Order™ and Cyber-Knights™,
Sot4 was basically the last one. I could swallow a book that fleshes out Chi-Town as long as the focus is on world-building (ala Vampire Kingdoms) with loads of businesses, inns, brothels, etc. Lots of NPCs although preferably cliff's notes (like VK did) for GMs to build on rather than complete stats.
"The Omegan Order" was eventually talked about in Anvil Galaxy, but never really fleshed out, considering they've built an entire multi-planet society, a dimension book dedicated to describing it would be pretty interesting.
"The Coalition States" sounds pretty vague though, I'd ditch that as an idea. When you've had books about its war campaign and individual states, I'm not sure what the unique purpose of one about the empire as a whole would be. I'd be interested but am curious what kind of approach it could take, what it would add.
Erin Tarn, via Traversing Our Modern World, RMBp145 wrote:Psi-World is a community of psychics
Their plan is to create a utopian society free of the fear and hatred they experienced in the world beyond their kingdom.
Firstly, I think anything called a kingdom should have a king, so I want more 'Psyscape' and there to be a King of Psyscape, just like Tolkeen got a king.
Secondly, the fun thing about that last sentence is, it seems to me you could read it a few ways:
"they experienced fear and hatred in the world"
"create a utopian society .. in the world beyond"
The "world" could very well be the "Psi World" they're creating their utopian society in, the other-dimensional Astral Kingdom. As opposed to referring to Earth.
World Book 9 (South America 2) page 154 wrote:This community, known by such names as "Psi-world" and "Psyscape"
World Book 10 (Juicer Uprising) page 160 wrote:Psyscape, a mysterious gathering place of psychics that has been a source of rmors and legends for centuries is revealed at least!
After years of hiding, the secret community is finally coming into the open.
The history of Psyscape and a limpse into the Astral Kingdom!
new psychic O.C.C.s including the Astral Warrior, Psi-Filer, Mirage Weaver, Gate Maker, and Psyche Killer.
There's long been dissatisfaction about how little fleshing out Psyscape got (ie 5 pages of Tarn speculation, 8 pages about Soul Harvest, 6 pages about the book's namesake, 6 pages on Psi-Cola, most of the book taken up with powers/psionicRCCS/monsters, 5 pages on the CS, 6 pages on Psi-Implants, 3 pages on psionic tech/TW) and there is precident for giving certain regions a second book. Atlantis/China/NorthernGun/SouthAmerica/Triax got 2nds (Mindwerks arguably being a 3rd for NGR), Japan was promised a 2nd, Australia was promised a 2nd and 3rd, two "West" books (arguably 3 counting Lone Star), 2 "Russia" and "Dinosaur Swamp" books, Quebec/Xiticix were basically Canada 2+3
I'm sure Palladium still has Carrella's script for Psyscape, I dunno if they ended up buying the rights to it but that could be negotiated. Could finally see the cool-sounding classes that were promised and build on whatever was in the notes to flesh out the 'Scape' as a Kingdom and a World.
Even if CJ can't be brought on board to use his material to create Psi-World, it could still be built upon entirely from scratch. Lots of campaign ideas, NPCs, businesses, etc. I'd probably prefer to see more new powers than more new classes, even though I do want to see the ones advertised in JU's back.
World Book 18 (Mystic Russia) page 2, December 1998 wrote:Coming for Rifts in 1999
Rifts Scotland
Rifts Australia Two
Coalition Wars: Siege on Tolkeen 1 (Sedition) page 2 wrote:Rifts Sourcebooks for 2000 Release
Rifts Australia Two
Rifts Australia Three
Seeing Scotland more fleshed out than the cliff's notes it got in England would be pretty cool, whatever was happening with that project. If a script gets rejected I don't think it means you can never make a book on the topic. Same with Aus2/3.