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I'm curious to see which setting books/world books people own, and by own I also mean "have thoroughly read at some point" even if you subsequently sold the book.

My apologies if this thread has already been done but I searched and browsed 20 forum pages and didn't see anything like it.

Also: what's your favorite Rifts Earth location to play in?

Edit: NOT asking about all your Rifts books, just the ones focused on a specific locale.

you didn't have an "all of the above" option.
And you left out the CS/tolkeen war books. *marks aota*
And the conversion books *marks all four*
And the Dimension books *marks all but RDB12 and Heros of the Megaverse*

All of the above.

Just to clarify, I wanted to focus mostly on locale books, such as world books, so I ignored general rule books like Bionics or metaplot books like Siege on Tolkeen. Though of course almost every book has some setting info in it. I also didn't include All of the Above because it doesn't change the distribution, and the distribution pattern is what I'm interested in. Thanks.

My favorite locale would probably be New West, Atlantis or maybe Dinosaur Swamp.

drewkitty ~..~ wrote::D you didn't have an "all of the above" option.
And you left out the CS/tolkeen war books. *marks aota*
And the conversion books *marks all four*
And the Dimension books *marks all but RDB12 and Heros of the Megaverse*

As well as Triax 2. *checks along with DB12 ad Heroes of the megaverse*

And mutants in orbit *check*

and manhunter *check*

and revised wb16, sb1 and cb1 *check check and check*

and the RMB and RUE *check and check*

and the adventure books *checks all 5*

and Machinations of Doom *check*

and aftermath *check*

and the Bionics Sourcebook *check*

and whatever else I may have missed *check*

I only own about 10 of those books and I suspect that — super-fans who own everything notwithstanding — most people are like me and have chosen a few setting books to buy and run/play their games therein.

Mechanurgist wrote:I only own about 10 of those books and I suspect that, super-fans who own everything notwithstanding, most people are like me and have chosen a few setting books to buy and run/play their games therein.

Oddly enough I buyu them all because I typically like to read them (Heroes of the Megaverse notwithstanding unfortunately). Haven't played Rifts in years.

jaymz wrote:Haven't played Rifts in years.

It's amazing how many people on these forums say that (including me). We should start a "Go out and play Rifts Day" or something.

Mechanurgist wrote:

jaymz wrote:Haven't played Rifts in years.

It's amazing how many people on these forums say that (including me). We should start a "Go out and play Rifts Day" or something.

Well I AM playing a hybrid Macross type game every other week now though...

Out of print Licensed book for a game called manhunter to be used in the Palladium Universe. No longer in print and actually a pretty rare find these days.

frogboy wrote:

jaymz wrote:Out of print Licensed book for a game called manhunter to be used in the Palladium Universe. No longer in print and actually a pretty rare find these days.

Oh, like then ? Is it worth acquiring ?

Yes very much so.

It also came out the same time as Phaseworld and in my opinion is sort of a grittier setting than Phaseworld is.

In ways, it's more like a much better mechanoids

Mechanurgist wrote:
Also: what's your favorite Rifts Earth location to play in?

North America

And it's Atlantis and New West leading the pack by a hair...

Dustin Fireblade wrote:North America

Which part of North America?

Svartalf wrote:In ways, it's more like a much better mechanoids

What he said

It was done by Myrmidon Press. A small RPG company (now out of business) and Rifts Manhunter was essentially a book based on thier own Manhunter RPG just using the PB system of rules. At somepoint I woudl like to get copies of the original RPG books by MP so I can mine it and/or convert everything over for use with the PB system.

Mechanurgist wrote:

Dustin Fireblade wrote:North America

Which part of North America?

No area in particular stands out. I ran a CS SpecOps game based in Lone Star for years, another game was based in Colorado (well before New West). The only place I don't recall having ever gone to as a player or a GM is northwest Canada.

All of the above +.

drewkitty ~..~ wrote::D you didn't have an "all of the above" option.
And you left out the CS/tolkeen war books. *marks aota*
And the conversion books *marks all four*
And the Dimension books *marks all but RDB12 and Heros of the Megaverse*

And mutants in orbit *check*
and manhunter *check*
and revised Fed o Magic, sb1 and RCB1 *check check and check*
and the RMB and RUE *check and check*
and the adventure books *checks all 5*
and Machinations of Doom *check*
and the Bionics Sourcebook *check*
These too.
and Scrapers.
And the Rifts index 1 & 2

Place.... the west, since 99% of my chars would be person non-grata in the CS territories.

drewkitty ~..~ wrote:

drewkitty ~..~ wrote::D you didn't have an "all of the above" option.
And you left out the CS/tolkeen war books. *marks aota*
And the conversion books *marks all four*
And the Dimension books *marks all but RDB12 and Heros of the Megaverse*

And mutants in orbit *check*
and manhunter *check*
and revised Fed o Magic, sb1 and RCB1 *check check and check*
and the RMB and RUE *check and check*
and the adventure books *checks all 5*
and Machinations of Doom *check*
and the Bionics Sourcebook *check*
These too.
and Scrapers.
And the Rifts index 1 & 2

Place.... the west, since 99% of my chars would be person non-grata in the CS territories.

Drew - Skraypers was a DB which you already checked

but thanks for reminding me of of the Indeces *check and check*

and Aftermath *check*

Clean sweep; got'em all. Got everything except Heroes of the Megaverse.
As for favorite setting? North America(my own backyard). Shemarrian territory(one day, we shall turn Archie-3 back to the Way of Good, even if we have to wipe the demented little toaster and start over again).

All, except Shemarrian Nation.........though the books are pdf

jaymz wrote:It also came out the same time as Phaseworld and in my opinion is sort of a grittier setting than Phaseworld is.

Grittier setting, but I have my reservations about it; Manhunter's full of great stuff and good descriptions, the formatting is okay, the illustrations fresh, but it suffers from poor editing...part of the problem, I think, was that Myrmidon Press was translating an existing product of theirs to Palladium, and not everything came over from the fluff to the stats. There's gaps that you can drive a truck through, and missing equipment; gear that's mentioned as standard in the character description is wholly missing in the stat portion, pr doesn't match up at all.
That being said, I do keep it close at hand for comparison purposes and for its RCCs, OCCs, and occasional odd piece of equipment(Kirn wood-firing guns make good anti-vampire weapons).

The Galactus Kid wrote:All of the above.

Same here

Almost all of them (other then some of the newer stuff).

And three Free Quebec for some reason . . . (Aside two NGR's I'm not sure how I duplicated, and two Atlantis books). There was a common joke that my books began breeding . . .

johnkretzer wrote:

The Galactus Kid wrote:All of the above.

Same here

Pretty much the same, with only three missing from it...
And some are so consumed they look and smell like old used poker cards(let's not talk about old RMB or the old conversion book, much like my Nightbane book and HU Main book arte kept together by faith and costant restoring process - I'm sure each of you had some Palladium books in such conditions. The TMNT and other strangeness stuff is too quite consumed...but I pay more attention with those.)

I await the recieving of my last [complcated] Chriostmas grab bag. so i can finish my rifts collection.

Mechanurgist wrote:

jaymz wrote:Haven't played Rifts in years.

It's amazing how many people on these forums say that (including me). We should start a "Go out and play Rifts Day" or something.

I haven't played in years either - life got in the way, but I still enjoy reading the books. I just started a play by post game where you only have to give an hour or two a week to play rifts!! Check out this site:

http://www.explorersunlimited.com/eu/

Sign up and play if you haven't played in a while! You don't have to agree to play eight hours in one day, instead you have to post at least once a week!! A guy created a world around merctown and runs this website! It's free and allows you to get a Rifts fix! Check it out if you miss Rifts!!

Cinos wrote:Almost all of them (other then some of the newer stuff).

And three Free Quebec for some reason . . . (Aside two NGR's I'm not sure how I duplicated, and two Atlantis books). There was a common joke that my books began breeding . . .

I have to start teaching my gaming books how do that. The most common present I give to people(well gamers friends) ar gaming book...if I could get them to breed I'll save tousands on fifts.

I've been checking out Explorers Unlimited for a bit now. Thanks, Riftdevil, I'll see if I can join a group there.

I managed to snag Madhaven, Rifts Canada and Dark Conversions today, so I can add the first two to my pile. Seems like a lot of people here fall into the "own almost everything" category.

Right now I am looking for copies of China 1 and aftermath to compete my collection. Anyone willing to send me spare copies?

Shinitenshi wrote:

frogboy wrote:

Mechanurgist wrote:I've been checking out Explorers Unlimited for a bit now. Thanks, Riftdevil, I'll see if I can join a group there.

I managed to snag Madhaven, Rifts Canada and Dark Conversions today, so I can add the first two to my pile. Seems like a lot of people here fall into the "own almost everything" category.

Madhaven is good, and I liked Canad to.

Baron of chaos, I have a coffee stain in every book. When they are beat to Hades you know they are getting used.

Shin, We like the west to. We use Arzno (a favorite) allot as well as Canada. We also stomp around dinosaur swamp a bunch to.

Madhaven is the only book in our collection that Ninjabunny hasn't even gotten to look at

We play in the Dino swamps on occasion and when I ran a game we played in Thailand and Russia!

Still!?! Awesome.

I'm missing about three books.

/Sub

The only Rifts book I'm missing is the original Gold HC and Africa with the new cover.

Interesting results. I'm not surprised by Atlantis or Sourcebook 1, but some of the others, such as New West I wouldn't have guessed as being terribly popular. Shemarrian Nation comes off worst probably because it's so new, but the China and Dinosaur Swamp books don't do well either.

So by removing all the people who own everything (subtracting the lowest score, essentially) we get this chart:

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/3206 ... larity.jpg

(I can't embed images in the forum?)

Thanks for your input!