Rifters

Hi internet. How are you? Yeah, I know it’s been a while. Yup, been pretty busy, too. I’ll tell you what, I’ll try and make up for it. You that nifty PDF-fillable character sheet I put out a few years ago? Yeah, that one! Well guess what? I just put them back online. And just to be super nice, I even left the URL the same, just in case you had it bookmarked. Okay, yeah, I was hoping it’d make a difference for Google. Yeah I got that. Thanks.

Anyway, head on over to the new Megaverse Online project site (Rifters is now a Multisite WordPress installation) and check out the Downloads section. Your feedback is very much appreciated as I’d like to get everything tidied up before moving on to the next phase of the project.

I’ve always thought of Palladium RPGs as two different games within the system: the game you play in combat and the game you play when you aren’t. To help speed up combat and to facilitate switching between the two modes, I have basic information repeated (automatically when you fill it out in a PDF viewer) along the top above the line, outlined in red below:

Once you get how to use the sheet, I find it greatly speeds up combat, especially since along the top it also includes some quick calculations and attribute-based bonuses. I purposely did this so in those cases where you lose your attribute bonuses, you don’t have to figure out what to deduct. Again, I know it’s not for everyone but I’d love to see if I can make it more useful and bring some of the calculations and fields up-to-date, so please, comment away.