Savage World's investment

[Rifter11]

I have no interest in PLAYING Savage Worlds Rifts but it's my understanding that there is some interesting fluff in it. So I was wondering what everyone's thoughts were concerning whether or not investing in those books is worth it purely for the fluff?

[mobuttu]

I use some of the Rifts SW plot points for ideas to run on my classic Rifts.

[Library Ogre]

Probably not a ton. Others can correct me but, IME, there's not a lot of new world information, mostly old stuff contextualized for Savage Worlds, plus the addition of the Tomorrow Legion.

[Warshield73]

Probably not a ton. Others can correct me but, IME, there's not a lot of new world information, mostly old stuff contextualized for Savage Worlds, plus the addition of the Tomorrow Legion.

I have most of the SW Rifts books and I agree with Ogre. The Tomorrow Legion is interesting plot device for characters but I have used some of the groups in Nightbane, HU or the Lazlo Society to perform the same function while tying it to other games and even ancient history.

For me it's the extras like the Pawn set that I like although I haven't used them much.

[Library Ogre]

Probably not a ton. Others can correct me but, IME, there's not a lot of new world information, mostly old stuff contextualized for Savage Worlds, plus the addition of the Tomorrow Legion.

I will note that I am slightly salty about their Empires of Humanity coverage of Houstown, which wasn't terribly different than WB 13s... while, when I wrote mine (Savage Worlds, Megaversal), I went "excrement excrement excrement" and had to rewrite things to deal with the MASSIVE Coalition Naval base in Beaumont introduced in CS Navy. And they just... ignored it.

[Rifter11]

Thanks, everyone! That's what I needed to know.