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Nothing much anywhere in Asia except China and Japan.

Russia books has some cold weather stuff.

Palladium has specifically avoided the Middle East, and intends to continue to do so; essentially, anything they write about the Middle East would be pounced upon by SOMEBODY, as so rather than deal with that, they're just looking elsewhere.

I know several people have done things with the Middle East in their games. There was (is?) an extensive Middle East netbook on the internet. Someone mentioned that they decided they didn't like Atlantis, and so transplanted all of the Atlantis material (Splugorth and their minions) to the Middle East. Personally, I view it as a regenerated cradle of life, an area in which no modern technology will work, and no sentient can harm another... for completely unexplained reasons.

Huggthedwarf wrote:Has there been any material written about the Middle East in Rifts Worldbooks? Where would I find it? What about the arctic, beyond Canada?

No.

Though Kevin won't say it, general consensus is that the current geopolitical situation in the Real World makes it an area that he doesn't want to touch right now, if ever.

Also, according to rumor, freelance writers to Palladium who have tried to submit material on that region have been turned down repeatedly over the years no matter what the material in queestion was (one of them by a Forum Member known here as elmagico-darklorddc).

Huggthedwarf wrote:Understandable. It would be contraversial, but I think GMs can and will use the area for an extension on African campaigns, maybe a Russian scenario as well. Just a thought.

You can.

Palladium won't.

It would but let's not try to convince anyone that books should be written about it. Please.

the largest religions of the Western world all have bases in the Middle East and noone wants to offend any members of those religions...that is why...well and the fact that,that part of the world is a hot spot...once again not wanting to offend anyone

Someone sent me a copy of Rifts: Middle East years ago (probably about 7 years or so ago) that they had submitted to Palladium, but was turned down. It's a great book! If I remember right it's over 200 pages of text (no pics).

Wangfucius wrote:Found it!

The netbook (which is awesome) is located here:

http://www.super-nexus.com/

I'm pretty sure that DLDC explained here what happened to the netbook in question:

8-8-06: Been a long time since I made changes to this page I know, but expect that to change big time. First, as you probably have noticed I’ve taken down several items. This is due to my relationship with Palladium Books becoming more official in nature. Wish I could tell you more, but my lips have to remain sealed for now. Hopefully I’ll be allowed to say more in the months to come.

However, has it has been over a year, it couldn't hurt to ask him for an update for the update...

Huggthedwarf wrote:Are you in possession of the book now?

It was sent to me via email and I've since lostthat email, but I did print it and have only one hard copy. I think it was someone from in here that went by the name: MadDog.

GreenGhost wrote:

Huggthedwarf wrote:Are you in possession of the book now?

It was sent to me via email and I've since lostthat email, but I did print it and have only one hard copy. I think it was someone from in here that went by the name: MadDog.

Don't think he ever posted on the board but he used to be very active on the Palladium Mailing List. I haven't seen him online in years though.

I finally took a look this weekend and it was sent to me by SAWG. I haven't seen that name in here for a long time.

GreenGhost wrote:

Huggthedwarf wrote:Are you in possession of the book now?

It was sent to me via email and I've since lostthat email, but I did print it and have only one hard copy. I think it was someone from in here that went by the name: MadDog.

Think you could scan the pages, I know that would take a long time, but shorter then typing everything out, then post it for download or something. I'd be interested in seeing what changes were dreamed up for that area after the coming of the rifts.


Psst, make a torrent if you can,please.

There is a brief mention on page 110 of Africa, stating that the Arabian peninsula is almost completely desertified.

Wangfucius wrote:uh, who?

He's one of us Palladium Old Timers that used to pretty much live in the Palladium Chatroom long before the forums were even here.

Spark wrote:

GreenGhost wrote:

Huggthedwarf wrote:Are you in possession of the book now?

It was sent to me via email and I've since lostthat email, but I did print it and have only one hard copy. I think it was someone from in here that went by the name: MadDog.

Think you could scan the pages, I know that would take a long time, but shorter then typing everything out, then post it for download or something. I'd be interested in seeing what changes were dreamed up for that area after the coming of the rifts.


Psst, make a torrent if you can,please.

Sorry man- I don't have a working scanner

Is this the netbook in question?

http://rapidshare.com/files/75880294/Pa ... t.zip.html

Qev wrote:Is this the netbook in question?

http://rapidshare.com/files/75880294/Pa ... t.zip.html

I'm at work. I'll have to check it out this evening.

I'll have to look at the netbook when I get home. I can't look at it here at work.

Thanks Qev!

Skimmed it and some parts are nice.

I tried to download it and it wouldn't work. Could someone email me it please.

Aramanthus wrote:I tried to download it and it wouldn't work. Could someone email me it please.

I emailed it to you. Let me know if you get ok.

duck-foot wrote:you could easily not offend all those groups. after 300 years of the dark ages christianity, islam and judiasm no longer exist forgotten by the elders and never passed on to the next generation.

Now you're denying their existence & reality in your fictional world, while affirming the reality of pagan religions. Therefore, you are evil.

Zylo wrote:An old regular named ROT#143 also wrote a Rifts Middle East submission, which was rejected, and I thought was quite good. It was up as a netbook many years ago, but has since been taken down or lost.

I'm downloading that file, just out of curiosity, but I think I have a copy of ROT's full book somewhere.

ROT and SAWG used to come in here around the same time. Do you know if they're one and the same?

For the same reason Christianity didnt survive...PB does not want to get into debates on how much MDC Allah or God would have...

Edit: If you guys really want to see the whole Religous thing played out, check out CJ's role playing game, Armeggedon. I dig it as one of the only non-Palladium RPGs I own.