I am endeavoring to provide a complete list of all Rifts® books and supplemental materials by publish date. I would appreciate any help from the community that you might be able to offer. I am interested in doing a retrospective reading of these books and reading in publish order to relive the development of Rifts since its release 35 years ago. What follows below are all the details I have managed to gather on my own through perusing my fairly extensive Rifts library as well as a few other sources. I have also attempted to categorize the books. I did attempt to search this forum as well as other places on the internet and couldn't find anything this thorough.
If there is a month and year listed, I have personally verified the print date on a physical copy I own, a legit copy I purchased on DriveThruRPG, or a preview on DriveThruRPG. Since I did not start playing Rifts until 1997 and did not always have the money for new releases, I often have second or later printings. In some cases the subsequent printing lists the month and year of the first printing. In other cases it does not, and so I resort to copyright date in which case "???" is listed; this is only an approximation however because sometimes the copyright was issued before the book was actually published, so any clarifications would be welcome. In the event that I uncover an egregious print error (such as listing an incorrect year), there will be a footnote on the error, followed by the correct year, but I am not currently aware of any such errors. I am aware of a few errors in print month, but I will choose to ignore most such errors as (from what I understand) this generally means the final copy manuscript was ready on that date and printing delays resulted in a later release date. If you would like to make the case for print month needing an asterisk note, I will include any major errors. I certainly welcome feedback from those more versed in the topic than I.
Where I do not own a copy of the book, I have noted a double angle bracket >> at the beginning. In some cases, a date is still listed because I have seen a copy of the publish page through a friend's copy or DriveThruRPG so a date might still be listed. In a few cases, I have not been able to find it on DriveThruRPG or similar sites and have resorted to Amazon or eBay to give me the publish date, but these sites do not always list such information accurately. In a very small number of cases, I have even been able to find old newsletters in the archives that describe a book being available for the first time in which case I can infer a publish year, but I know that on more than one occasion these books were available in my FLGS before they were announced on the newsletter.
If you have any information you can contribute to help fill in the gaps, I would greatly appreciate it and will update this thread as time goes on.
Core Rule Books
| Note | Mon | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| ??? | 1990 | Rifts® (Core Rulebook) | |
| >> | ??? | 1996 | Rifts® Game Master Reference Screen (I think this may be the same as Game Shields and Adventures) |
| >> | ??? | 1996 | Rifts® Magic & Psionics Screen (I think this may be the same as Game Shields and Adventures) |
| ??? | 2001 | Rifts® Book of Magic™ | |
| Sep | 2001 | Rifts® Game Master Guide™ | |
| ??? | 2002 | Rifts® Adventure Guide™ | |
| Aug | 2005 | Rifts® Ultimate Edition™ | |
| >> | ??? | 2016 | Rifts Primer How to Play Rifts® and Create Adventures |
| >> | ??? | 2021 | Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover Edition |
| Note | Mon | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov | 1991 | Rifts® Sourcebook One™ | |
| ??? | 1992 | Rifts® Sourcebook 2: The Mechanoids® | |
| Mar | 1992 | Mutants in Orbit | |
| Aug | 1994 | Rifts® Mercenaries™ | |
| >> | Dec | 1994 | Rifts® Manhunter |
| Jul | 1994 | Rifts® Sourcebook 3: Mindwerks™ | |
| Aug | 1997 | Rifts® Sourcebook 4: Coalition Navy™ | |
| >> | ??? | 1998 | The Mechanoid Invasion Trilogy |
| ??? | 2002 | Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook | |
| ??? | 2005 | Rifts® MercTown™ | |
| >> | May | 2005 | Rifts® Merc Ops™ |
| Feb | 2007 | Rifts® Sourcebook One: Revised and Expanded™ | |
| Apr | 2009 | Rifts® Sourcebook: Shemarrian Nation™ | |
| Aug | 2012 | Rifts® Black Market™ | |
| Apr | 2013 | Rifts® Sourcebook 5: Vampires | |
| May | 2016 | Rifts® Sourcebook – The Coalition States: Heroes of Humanity | |
| Jul | 2019 | Rifts® Bestiary, Volume One | |
| >> | ??? | 2023 | Rifts®: The Cyberworks™ Collection Hardcover |
| * | Apr | 2022 | Rifts® Coalition Manhunters™ |
| * | May | 2023 | Rifts® Titan Robotics™ Sourcebook |
| >> | TBD | TBD | Rifts® Bestiary, Volume Two |
| >> | TBD | TBD | Rifts® Living Nowhere |
| >> | TBD | TBD | Rifts® Secrets of the Coalition States: The Disavowed |
| >> | TBD | TBD | The Coalition States: Heroes of Humanity™ Arsenal Sourcebook |
| Note | Mon | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun | 2003 | Rifts® Chaos Earth™ | |
| Nov | 2003 | Rifts® Chaos Earth™ Sourcebook Two: Rise of Magic™ | |
| Dec | 2003 | Rifts® Chaos Earth™ Sourcebook One: Creatures of Chaos™ | |
| Nov | 2015 | Rifts® Chaos Earth® Sourcebook: Resurrection | |
| >> | ??? | 2021 | Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover |
| TBD | TBD | Rifts® Chaos Earth™: NEMA™ Mission Book One | |
| TBD | TBD | Rifts® Chaos Earth™: Psychic Storm™ | |
| TBD | TBD | Rifts® Chaos Earth® Sourcebook: First Responders™ |
| Note | Mon | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| ??? | 1991 | Rifts® Conversion Book One | |
| Apr | 1994 | Rifts® Conversion Book 2: Pantheons of the Megaverse® | |
| Nov | 2002 | Rifts® Conversion Book One, Revised | |
| Dec | 2002 | Rifts® Dark Conversions™ |
| Note | Mon | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| ??? | 1991 | Rifts® World Book 1: Vampire Kingdoms™ | |
| Aug | 2011 | Rifts® World Book 1: Vampire Kingdoms: Revised & Expanded™ | |
| Sep | 1992 | Rifts® World Book 2: Atlantis™ | |
| Mar | 1993 | Rifts® World Book 3: England™ | |
| Jun | 1993 | Rifts® World Book 4: Africa™ | |
| ??? | 1994 | Rifts® World Book 5: Triax™ & The NGR™ | |
| Oct | 1994 | Rifts® World Book 6: South America™ | |
| Jun | 1995 | Rifts® World Book 7: Underseas™ | |
| >> | ??? | 1995 | Rifts® World Book 8: Japan™ |
| Nov | 1995 | Rifts® World Book 9: South America Two™ |
??? 1996 Rifts® World Book 11: Coalition War Campaign™
December 1997 Rifts® World Book 12: Psyscape
April 1997 Rifts® World Book 13: Lone Star™
??? 1997 Rifts® World Book 14: New West™
July 1997 Rifts® World Book 15: Spirit West™
October 1997 Rifts® World Book 16: Federation of Magic™
November 2004 Rifts® World Book 16: Federation of Magic: Revised & Updated™
August 1998 Rifts® World Book 17: Warlords of Russia™
December 1998 Rifts® World Book 18: Mystic Russia™
January 1999 Rifts® World Book 19: Australia™
August 1999 Rifts® World Book 20: Canada™
September 1999 Rifts® World Book 21: Splynn Dimensional Market™
>> April 2000 Rifts® World Book 22: Free Quebec™
November 1999 Rifts® World Book 23: The Xiticix Invasion™
>> January 2004 Rifts® World Book 24: China One™ - The Yama Kings
>> August 2004 Rifts® World Book 25: China Two™ - Heroes of the Celestial Court
>> June 2004 Rifts® World Book 26: Dinosaur Swamp™
February 2006 Rifts® World Book 27: Adventures in Dinosaur Swamp™
March 2006 Rifts® World Book 28: Arzno™
July 2006 Rifts® World Book 29: Madhaven™
April 2007 Rifts® World Book 30: D-Bees of North America™
??? 2010 Rifts® World Book 31: Triax™ Two
April 2012 Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria
October 2013 Rifts® World Book 33: Northern Gun 1
May 2014 Rifts® World Book 34: Northern Gun 2
August 2014 Rifts® World Book 35: Megaverse in Flames
March 2018 Rifts® World Book 36: Rifts Sovietski
TBD Rifts® World Book: Lazlo™
TBD Rifts® World Book: Antarctica™
Coalition Wars
June 2000 Rifts® Coalition Wars® 1: Sedition™
August 2000 Rifts® Coalition Wars® 2: Coalition Overkill™
October 2000 Rifts® Coalition Wars® 3: Sorcerers' Revenge™
December 2000 Rifts® Coalition Wars® 4: Cyber-Knights™
February 2001 Rifts® Coalition Wars® 5: Shadows of Evil™
August 2001 Rifts® Coalition Wars® 6: The Final Siege™
>> April 2002 Rifts® Aftermath™
Dimension Books
??? 1993 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 1: Wormwood®
??? 1994 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 2: Phase World®
March 1994 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 3: Phase World® Sourcebook™
May 1998 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 4: Skraypers™
>> ??? 2002 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 5: Phase World®: Anvil Galaxy™
??? 2003 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 6: Phase World®: The Three Galaxies™
??? 2004 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 7: Megaverse® Builder
April 2004 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 8: Naruni™ Wave Two
Unpublished Rifts® Dimension Book™ 9: Phase World®: United Worlds of Warlock®
August 2007 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 10: Hades - Pits of Hell™
March 2009 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 11: Dyval - Hell Unleashed™
March 2010 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 12: Phase World®: Dimensional Outbreak™
>> July 2009 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 13: Phase World®: Fleets of the Three Galaxies™ Sourcebook™
>> April 2011 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 14: Phase World®: Thundercloud Galaxy™
>> July 2017 Rifts® Dimension Book™ 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans™
September 2010 Rifts® Phase World®: Heroes of the Megaverse® Sourcebook™
Adventure Books
August 1996 Rifts® Game Shields and Adventures
February 1996 Rifts® Index & Adventures Volume One
December 1997 Rifts® Index & Adventures Volume Two
March 2003 Rifts® Adventure Sourcebook: Chi-Town 'Burbs™: Forbidden Knowledge
May 2003 Rifts® Adventure Sourcebook: Chi-Town 'Burbs™: Firetown™ and the Tolkeen Crisis™
July 2003 Rifts® Adventure Sourcebook: Chi-Town 'Burbs™: The Black Vault™
September 2003 Rifts® Adventure Sourcebook: Chi-Town 'Burbs™: The Vanguard™
October 2005 Rifts® Adventure Sourcebook: Mercenary Adventures
Novels
??? 1999 Rifts®: Sonic Boom™
??? 1999 Rifts®: Deception's Web™
>> ??? 1999 Rifts®: Treacherous Awakenings™
August 2008 Rifts® Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs™
>> ??? 2020 Hammer of the Forge™ Vol. 1: The Cosmo-Knight™
>> ??? 2020 Hammer of the Forge™ Vol. 2: The Reckoning™
*February 2021 Rifts® Novel: Duty’s Edge™*
Screenplays
December 2011 Rifts® Path of the Storm™
Graphic Novels
>> ??? 1990 Mechanoids 1
>> ??? 1991 Mechanoids 2
>> ??? 1991 Mechanoids 3
>> ??? 2007 Rifts® Machinations of Doom™
Art Books
>> ??? 2000? RiftsworkZ Portfolio
>> ??? 2006? The John Zeleznik Collectible Rifts Coloring Book
>> ??? 2009? Rifts and the Megaverse: The Art of John Zeleznik
>> I do not own this book. Any publish date listed is either personally verified by examining a 1st edition I do not currently own or verified by a third party as indicated in the Note.
* 2024-12-03 first publishing dates for Titan Robotics, Manhunters, and Duty's Edge added courtesy of Francois DesRochers (desrocfc)
