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Machinations of Doom
Rifts® Machinations of Doom
Graphic Novel & Sourcebook
# At long last, Palladium is collecting Ramon Perezs Lone Star comic strip from the pages of The Rifter®, and adding 30-40 pages of RPG sourcebook material. Includes stats on all the characters in the comic strip (villains, heroes and monsters), as well as ideas for new adventures. 72 page comic, plus pinups and concept sketches by Ramon Perez.
# 30-40 pages of gaming source material for Rifts® by Kevin Siembieda.
# New color cover by Ramon Perez.
# 128 pages Cat. No. 871.
Graphic Novel & Sourcebook
# At long last, Palladium is collecting Ramon Perezs Lone Star comic strip from the pages of The Rifter®, and adding 30-40 pages of RPG sourcebook material. Includes stats on all the characters in the comic strip (villains, heroes and monsters), as well as ideas for new adventures. 72 page comic, plus pinups and concept sketches by Ramon Perez.
# 30-40 pages of gaming source material for Rifts® by Kevin Siembieda.
# New color cover by Ramon Perez.
# 128 pages Cat. No. 871.
124 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2007
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About the author
Ramón Pérez
259Ìýbooks23ÌýfollowersRamón Pérez is the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning cartoonist best known for his graphic novel adaptation of Jim Henson’s Tale Of Sand for publisher Archaia Entertainment. Currently the artist on the All-New Hawkeye with collaborator Jeff Lemire, his other lauded sequential works include The Amazing Spider-Man: Learning To Crawl, John Carter: The Gods Of Mars, Wolverine & the X-Men, and creator-owned endeavours Butternutsquash and Kukuburi. Outside of comics, Ramón’s work can be found in Classic RPGs and CCGs, and in various editorial, book, and advertising illustration. Ramón resides in Toronto, in a horse house, with his three plants and Boba Fett.
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December 3, 2020
Ah, Rifts, the incredible kitchen sink all the way down. Unabashedly bonkers and freewheeling and a game system that looks like it should be popping cogs and belching black smoke and making all kinds of weird noises.
Pérez distills this lunacy into a straightforward invade-the-base plot that defines the characters while not letting their backstory or personality flaws get in the way of the shootemup. Even if you're not conversant in the setting then you follow along: here is the fireball guy, there's the space wizard, this is a giant alien lizard something, and over there is the weirdo with the beer cans protruding from his cranium. Perfectly normal.
And then it goes into its second half to provide the writeups and game material for this motley crew and their opponents, and things go kind of off the rails for the casual reader.
Pérez distills this lunacy into a straightforward invade-the-base plot that defines the characters while not letting their backstory or personality flaws get in the way of the shootemup. Even if you're not conversant in the setting then you follow along: here is the fireball guy, there's the space wizard, this is a giant alien lizard something, and over there is the weirdo with the beer cans protruding from his cranium. Perfectly normal.
And then it goes into its second half to provide the writeups and game material for this motley crew and their opponents, and things go kind of off the rails for the casual reader.
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