Rifts Lemuria has shipped

[AlexM]

It's sitting in our warehouse and all pre-orders are on their way. And it looks beautiful.


https://palladium-store.com/1001/produc ... muria.html





Alex Marciniszyn

[Athos]

Any idea when https://palladium-store.com/1001/produc ... lames.html will ship?

I thought it was due out last summer, did you guys not feed poor Carl and he starved to death in some back office?

I bought Heroes of the Megaverse from you today, it would have been nice to buy them both and combine the shipping costs....

[taalismn]

Eagerly awaiting(with scuba mask in hand) the arrival of my copy and dive into it.

[DhAkael]

Waiting for Megaverse in flames to be honest...

[Giant2005]

Ugh I don't know what to do.
Haven't bought any of the more recent books yet - was kind of hoping that if I waited long enough I'd be able to buy them from Drivethrough.
Now I think I might have to bite the bullet and go for the inferior physical copy .

I think that if we buy through the Palladium Store, we should be allowed to upgrade to PDF for free if you guys release them in that format.

[abtex]

My postal worker's truck is not safe. The doors may missing if locked.

[taalismn]

My postal worker's truck is not safe. The doors may missing if locked.

Wow. Yeah, those suburban Dog Boys can be pretty vicious...Not content with ambushing the mailman in the front yard, they follow the poor guy home...

[abtex]

Bald Gorilla waiting for book!!!!

..they follow the poor guy home...

Too many watching.
No, outside of postal parking lot.

[Pepsi Jedi]

Mine came in this morning. (( As stated in the All things palladium thread))

Chuck's art really really defines the book. It's amazing.
Mumah's is awesome too.

Have just started reading but so far the content is nice.

[taalismn]

Ordered mine by U.S. snail mail....it will be a while yet until mine arrives.

[ShadowLogan]

Ugh I don't know what to do.
Haven't bought any of the more recent books yet - was kind of hoping that if I waited long enough I'd be able to buy them from Drivethrough.
Now I think I might have to bite the bullet and go for the inferior physical copy .

I think that if we buy through the Palladium Store, we should be allowed to upgrade to PDF for free if you guys release them in that format.

I don't think physical copies are inferior. But their was a purchase option for a PDF version included when they did the megaverse Insiders thing for funding for the book.

The two Megaverse® Insider hardcovers ship April 20 (same day as The Rifter® #58). Sorry, available only to Megaverse Insiders.

The PDF of Rifts® Lemuria also becomes available for Megaverse Insiders on April 20, 2012.

Emphasis mine.

[Giant2005]

Ugh I don't know what to do.
Haven't bought any of the more recent books yet - was kind of hoping that if I waited long enough I'd be able to buy them from Drivethrough.
Now I think I might have to bite the bullet and go for the inferior physical copy .

I think that if we buy through the Palladium Store, we should be allowed to upgrade to PDF for free if you guys release them in that format.

I don't think physical copies are inferior. But their was a purchase option for a PDF version included when they did the megaverse Insiders thing for funding for the book.

The two Megaverse® Insider hardcovers ship April 20 (same day as The Rifter® #58). Sorry, available only to Megaverse Insiders.

The PDF of Rifts® Lemuria also becomes available for Megaverse Insiders on April 20, 2012.

Emphasis mine.

Yeah I found that info on another thread. Serves me right for not paying attention.
I prefer PDFs because I don't have to pay obscene postage fees to import them and more importantly, they are portable. I just moved country and had to abandon a lot of my Palladium collection - I'd rather not have to do that again.

[taalismn]

Wow. Mine arrived today. I got some words to eat about U.S. Parcel Post.

[abtex]

Ordered mine by U.S. snail mail....it will be a while yet until mine arrives.

So VROOM, the super snail works part time for the Postal service.
"Here delivery this."
"Ok ... What next."
"Delivery the package to that place in New England."
"I did. Now what do I do. Already had two Coffee Breaks waiting for to answer me."

[taalismn]

Ordered mine by U.S. snail mail....it will be a while yet until mine arrives.

So VROOM, the super snail works part time for the Postal service.
"Here delivery this."
"Ok ... What next."
"Delivery the package to that place in New England."
"I did. Now what do I do. Already had two Coffee Breaks waiting for to answer me."

The JET-powered Snail from that YouTube animation....

[abtex]

No, just a mix of the words snail and mail and a couple pain pills at work.

[Dead Boy]

Got mine today! First skim-through looks great!

[Balabanto]

Haven't seen it yet. They may be shipping all of mine together.

[mumah]

I just received my copies today, and man, the artwork is gorgeous. I am loving Kent Burles' work in particular, and Chuck's hyper-detailed work is just beautiful. Bradshaw's designs are gorgeous as well, as are Amy's and Brian and Allen's. Their work makes me wish I had stepped up my game a bit. Also, there are apparently some words in the book, but who looks at that?

[taalismn]

I just received my copies today, and man, the artwork is gorgeous. I am loving Kent Burles' work in particular, and Chuck's hyper-detailed work is just beautiful. Bradshaw's designs are gorgeous as well, as are Amy's and Brian and Allen's. Their work makes me wish I had stepped up my game a bit. Also, there are apparently some words in the book, but who looks at that?

. Ah, another visually-oriented person. Yes, that short-circuited my initial resolve to read the book cover to cover, page-by-page, from the beginning to end. I had to rush to look at all the pretty pictures.

[Premier]

I picked up my copies yesterday, Mann.. this is one of those sourcebooks that you know is a CLASSIC KEEPER!!! I must say reading through it, I am so proud of Greg, Kevin and Matthew for delivering such an awesome setting and so much more playability and ideas for the RIFTS setting that makes me want to crank out the old GM gear. I was thrilled with the entire cast of Artists and the level of artistry they illustrated. EVERYONE brought it and delivered (though I think I should have done a few things different to not have my art so dark.) This is one of of those titles that you better hurry up to snag your copy(ies) because you will need them!

A job well done to ALL the production team on this book, and I'm humbled by all the words of encouragement, but it really is the awesome team that makes this book stand strong!
Mumah, Amy, Kent, Brian & Allen, You guys & gal did an excellent job and I am glad I was part of this art team!

The writing delivers a wonderful take on the introduction and developments of Lemurians, their culture, history, abilities, and the deep races that dwell amist them, let alone their biomancy is so realistic and well balanced! I love what was done with the War steeds as the words really brings them to life! I was very impressed with the aquatic fauna both in writing and visuals (Mumah strikes again!)

I can easily say with this caliber of work that Palladiumbooks has delivered, I better step my game up even more.

[Premier]

Anyone else get their copy of Lemuria and any feedback thus far?

[abtex]

Palladium is rushing my copy to me as I type this.

Like Premier asks feedback please.

[kaid]

Anyone else get their copy of Lemuria and any feedback thus far?

Been reading through mine have not had a chance to get super far in it but man I am so tempted to make a junk crab character. Crazy hermit crab tech savant building his own lil porta james bond bunker on his back. I would probably drive my GM to drink in my quest for more shinies though.

I got the hard cover with the normal cover art and have to say book quality and appearance is excellent.

[Everyman]

The artwork is fantastic and the writing quite good. Lemuria is defiantely interesting and worth the wait of so many years since it was first listed as in the queue. Due to the artwork style and organic content, the book really did read like a "Splicers Undersea". In fact, I plan to recommend it to the product starved Splicer folks for just that reason and might consider using some of the war mounts from there such as the Leviathan with Lemuria.

[abtex]

Palladium is rushing my copy to me as I type this.

Like Premier asks feedback please.

Howdy All,

So, I walked into one of my local friendly game stores this morning, Black Diamond Games in Concord CA, post-coffee, to find a copy of Rifts: Lemuria on the new books shelf. It's a very striking cover, so home it came with me, along with a new copy of Rifts Ultimate and, via quick stop at the local Half Price Books, a $5 copy of Rifts Underseas.

You see, I don't have a copy of Rifts on my shelves anymore (well, didn't). I actually sold my extensive Rifts collection back in '05ish. I had last run a Rifts camping around 2000 (based in Thunder Bay).

That counts as some feedback.

I've only started flipping through it, but it's got all the sorts of chock-full of gamery goodness you'd expect. A very good amount on Lemurians, their return to the modern Rifts age, RCC, OCCs.

I was just flipping through the war machines (creatures) section. If you're an animal companion sort of player / person, you'll have a lot of fun with the Sea Monsters & War Steeds section. There's a bunch of really wild undersea ridable war machine animal-monsters based off sharks, rays, seals. Bionmancy definitely gets a sea-lion's share of space in the background, OOC and Magic sections. The bioweaponry and gear is pretty wild too. Hydro-psionics

It's been awhile since I've read a Rifts book - the amount of Cool Stuff just jammed together is a bit jarring at the moment.

Welcome to the Forum. Stay a while.
I think that works as feedback.

[abtex]

The artwork is fantastic and the writing quite good. Lemuria is defiantely interesting and worth the wait of so many years since it was first listed as in the queue. Due to the artwork style and organic content, the book really did read like a "Splicers Undersea". In fact, I plan to recommend it to the product starved Splicer folks for just that reason and might consider using some of the war mounts from there such as the Leviathan with Lemuria.

Hi Everyman, welcome to the forum as well.

I was wondering about Lemuria misuse in Splicers myself. At least upgrades to Armor and war mounts or at least different versions of them. Fish and using them as tools with some combat use. Oct-knife, a Lemurian Swiss Army knife up to a 'shovel' size one could be one.

[kaid]

The artwork is fantastic and the writing quite good. Lemuria is defiantely interesting and worth the wait of so many years since it was first listed as in the queue. Due to the artwork style and organic content, the book really did read like a "Splicers Undersea". In fact, I plan to recommend it to the product starved Splicer folks for just that reason and might consider using some of the war mounts from there such as the Leviathan with Lemuria.

Hi Everyman, welcome to the forum as well.

I was wondering about Lemuria misuse in Splicers myself. At least upgrades to Armor and war mounts or at least different versions of them. Fish and using them as tools with some combat use. Oct-knife, a Lemurian Swiss Army knife up to a 'shovel' size one could be one.

I think the bio armor/weapon stuff from lemuria would work okay in splicers. One thing to note though is a lot of the damage seems on the lower end so it may need a smidge of tweaking for the splicers setting. As a GM I don't think I would have a problem with any of the new additions everything that I have looked at so far is pretty reasonably power level wise nothing I have seen yet looks to outrageous for use in other settings.