Wormwood!!!

Syndicate · Unread post by **Syndicate** » Tue May 18, 2004 8:02 pm

Not as of yet. With all the new Dimension books coming out, I would imagine most gamers are trying their hand at some new senerios for Rifts. Wormwood is still a favorite of mine as well, but when I got my copy of Naruni Wave 2, I knew it was time to play Phase World again...

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Tinker Dragoon · Wed May 19, 2004 12:08 am

I'd definitely like to see more of both Wormwood and Skraypers, but Phase World seems to be the primary alternate dimension for Rifts right now.

I don't know if Truman & Henry are even still around...

Shadow Wyrm · Unread post by **Shadow Wyrm** » Wed May 19, 2004 2:20 pm

Wormwood seems to be a dead world. That is to say that the folk's at PB have desided not to expand on it any further. It's a real shame too. I always thought it needed a bit more story line.

dakota · Unread post by **dakota** » Fri May 21, 2004 1:41 am

Shadow Wyrm wrote:Wormwood seems to be a dead world. That is to say that the folk's at PB have desided not to expand on it any further. It's a real shame too. I always thought it needed a bit more story line.

No kidding. If Phase World can get a whole string of books, then they should come out with Wormwood vol.2 . Or at least expand it in the Rifter (if they already have, I apoligize, I'm missing a bunch)

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Sun May 23, 2004 12:15 pm

Mad Dogg wrote:I'm just surprised that nobody even talks about it anymore. Anybody have some favorite adventures, scenarios? Anybody flesh out the world a bit more?

Personally, I have a "mercenary" army lead by a godling and great-horned dragon that I use as an "Army of Conscience" to fight the bad guys. (The godling was so disturbed by what the (bad guys) are doing that he started the army with forces from across the megaverse...)

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Sun May 23, 2004 1:01 pm

Yup...they use modern organizational practices for the forces, Naruni, Northern Gun, Triax, and Phase World weapons / vehicle tech, and a fully mixed-arms organisation (more as the CAF than USAF know/use it).

They also have an organised medical corps for tech, psi, and magical medical practices, using everything from field surgery to phase-tech surgical practices. They also take full advantage of the "native" know-how and practices medically and militarily.

There are probably about 100 or so battlestones scattered throughout the forces (primarily with the officer corps and HW troops), and dozens of psi-booster stones, etc...

Syndicate · Unread post by **Syndicate** » Sat May 29, 2004 12:34 pm

Borast wrote:Yup...they use modern organizational practices for the forces, Naruni, Northern Gun, Triax, and Phase World weapons / vehicle tech, and a fully mixed-arms organisation (more as the CAF than USAF know/use it).

They also have an organised medical corps for tech, psi, and magical medical practices, using everything from field surgery to phase-tech surgical practices. They also take full advantage of the "native" know-how and practices medically and militarily.

There are probably about 100 or so battlestones scattered throughout the forces (primarily with the officer corps and HW troops), and dozens of psi-booster stones, etc...

oohh...nasty... :demon:

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Sat May 29, 2004 1:46 pm

Might even write it up for a Rifter article.

Syndicate · Unread post by **Syndicate** » Sun May 30, 2004 12:39 pm

Sounds good...go for it... :ok:

Talon Starblade · Sun May 30, 2004 1:50 pm

Sounds a lot like the Dimensonal "Good-guy" group I'd created. It'd be interesting to compare notes. I'd actually created mine as a background for a number of characters in an online Story styled RP.

Warmaster40k · Unread post by **Warmaster40k** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:25 pm

heres this for an idea the HOST decide to spread their evil empire by rifting cultists to different worlds and opening a rift on the new world to the prison dimension and now the host have spread to a new world and with it the create a perment gate way to wormwood to the new HOST city now you got a problem or better yet

some one finds a wormwood seed an object used to grow a new wormwood problem is it needs a planet to feed on to grow

Steve Conan Trustrum · Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:58 am

I wish I had to time to revamp/repost what I already have for the Wormwood Netbook, not to mention finish it off, because it's easily my fave setting of all time. Nothing has inspired me to cool ideas like that setting. If anyone ever wants some extra game material or ideas, let me know and I'll see what I can pass along from the netbook files on my hard drive. I had notes on everything from new types of symbiotes, new cultures, the Cathedral's power structure, new equipment and weapons, to new classes.

Steve Conan Trustrum · Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:30 pm

Will do -- I'll just have to find the CD I backed it all up on to first.

Any preferences for the type of stuff you'd most like to see?

Svartalf · Unread post by **Svartalf** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:19 am

Tinker Dragoon wrote:I'd definitely like to see more of both Wormwood and Skraypers, but Phase World seems to be the primary alternate dimension for Rifts right now.

I don't know if Truman & Henry are even still around...

well... here we are as often with PB ... some truly great idea, but flawed execution and no follow up. given some of the reports I've heard, I wonder if mister BossS doesn't have a knack for alienating some of his collaborators, which would explain why some of the best talent went away one day to pursue other things.

and contrary to some of the wishes I see expressed here... I'd like a real expansion, not just the measly bits and pieces that have made it to the Drifter till now ... something that would gather the rifter bits in one convenient place PLUS something with a little more scope to it.

BTW, besides the Blood Shman, what *did* get published for wormwood?

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 12:27 pm

S...

Unfortunately, I don't think anything else has really been published for it...

Steve Conan Trustrum · Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:12 pm

Jaegermeister wrote:I like to second that!

*Jaeger on his knees kissing your feet with huge wet slopping kisses*

You wouldn't happen to have any HU2 stuff in any nooks and crannies on your hard drive? say yes, say yes.

Thanks. It's always good to hear that someone else has fun with the stuff I write. As for HU stuff, pretty much all I have is the mass of material on my web site: powers, organizations, rules, gear, etc.

Steve Conan Trustrum · Fri Jun 18, 2004 11:31 pm

Force Canada-1 is fully written up, I've just not had the time to php and post it. As for the ninja clan, I'd have to double check to see if I ever finished off the ideas I had for them (I think I did, but can't recall.) I'll have to go dig up which CD I've burned that all on as it's not currently on my HD.

Syndicate · Unread post by **Syndicate** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 1:27 pm

gadrin wrote:don't forget to look for that Spatial Magic stuff too...

Wow Gadrin....you don't give-up easy do you? :lol:

Steve Conan Trustrum · Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:02 am

This bit of thread necromancy reminded me that I never did find any of that stuff -- I had to go hunting through some old backup CDs for some material I used in an upcoming manuscript for another game company, but I couldn't find the ones back from when I was working on that material

Sir_Spirit · Unread post by **Sir_Spirit** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:20 am

Steve Conan Trustrum wrote:This bit of thread necromancy reminded me that I never did find any of that stuff -- I had to go hunting through some old backup CDs for some material I used in an upcoming manuscript for another game company, but I couldn't find the ones back from when I was working on that material

So what material cant' you find?
Wormwood?
HU?
Spatial Mage?

Be specific....

(SHIFTY) · Unread post by **(SHIFTY)** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:17 pm

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Steve Conan Trustrum · Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:05 am

The_Primordial_Serpent wrote:
Steve Conan Trustrum wrote:This bit of thread necromancy reminded me that I never did find any of that stuff -- I had to go hunting through some old backup CDs for some material I used in an upcoming manuscript for another game company, but I couldn't find the ones back from when I was working on that material

So what material cant' you find?
Wormwood?
HU?
Spatial Mage?

Be specific....

Well, I found an older copy of the Wormwood stuff with only about 1/4 of human society's history written out (which is a pitty, because it blew my group away when I sprung it on them after they found an ancient cache of historical objects, deep in the Resin Mountains). I can't find the Spatial Mage stuff at all.

Swift-13 · Unread post by **Swift-13** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:19 am

Gods...I don't know how many characters I've lost to Wormwood and the Host...

But that's the fun of it all! The Wormwood setting has a special place in my impoverished gamer heart because one of the writers and the main artist also cooked up one of my favorite comicbooks: Grimjack. It's all an epic conflict where the bad guys have the upper hand and they're enough to put even a Mega-Juicer scrambling for the hills. And, of course, I love how it's a "contained" world; offering up useful parasites and devices and then disentegrating them should someone decide to get munchkin and rampage across another dimension with his shiny new Battle Saint. :-D