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(Reposting this here now that I noticed there's a new post up. oops)

I had an idea for a panfandom dressing room based on the Rifts tabletop RPG by Palladium games.

Basically, rifts earth is a post-apocalyptic world charged with magical and psychic energies. This energy is focused through ley lines which cross the planet's surface. Where those ley lines converge are nexus points. Rifts are basically rips in the dimensional fabric which open along ley lines and at nexus points, and can lead to and from just about anywhere - another continent, another world, a parallel dimension, whatever. They're largely unpredictable and uncontrollable natural occurrences. People and creatures that arrive through rifts are called D-Bees (Dimensional Beings) and the planet is full of them.

By coming and going through rifts, characters could arrive and leave the world any time players like, and it's even possible that they could take groups of characters back to their own worlds, so there would be a pretty limitless number of options for what people could do and where they could do it. But there would also be region-by-region descriptions of rifts earth and some connected worlds. (Palladium has published a lot of world and dimension books to draw material from.)

So, for example, on rifts earth, Atlantis has "surfaced" (actually, it returned from another dimension) and is ruled by a race of demonic alien slavers who maintain a huge market there. England has become largely a domain of enchantment and mystical plant life with a huge, sentient Millennium Tree that is big enough that a whole city lives in its branches. The New German Republic is home to a huge corporation which makes mecha and power armor. And in Africa, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have appeared.

There are all kinds of native magical items and innovations like tattoo magic which some players might want their characters to get their hands on too.

I'm imagining that there'd be a combination of open posts which could give people inspiration and setting descriptions/prompts and then people could make individual character posts in addition. (So format-wise, it would be a bit like TLH.)

How does this sound to you, anons? Would there be any interest? I wouldn't want to sink time into it if no one likes the idea.

It sounds interesting! Is the tabletop like the MMO or am I confusing the two?

I actually didn't know there was an MMO so I looked it up. They're quite different.

Here's the wiki page on the Rifts tabletop game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifts_%28role-playing_game%29

It's got a fair bit of info on the setting, but still just the tip of the iceberg. (There's like 60 world and dimensional sourcebooks that have been published over the years, so it feels like a pretty near limitless treasure trove of material.)

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