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   What is a Roleplaying Game? - A type of game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters and collaboratively create or follow stories. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines. Within the rules, players can improvise freely; their choices shape the direction and outcome of the games.
A role-playing game rarely has winners or losers. That makes role-playing games fundamentally different from board games, card games, sports and most other types of games.

What is Rifts? - Sometime in Earth's future, after a Golden Age of peace and technological advancement, the face of the planet is decimated by the return of magic and the Coming of the Rifts. Cities fall, civilization collapses, billions of people perish, and portals to a thousand alien worlds open across the face of the planet.
Rifts picks up 300 years later. Humankind has, at last, crawled out of a 200 year long Dark Age to reassert itself in the world. Only this world – Rifts Earth – is as strange as any alien planet. Reshaped by dimensional energies, inhabited by alien beings and changed by magic from the Rifts, humankind must learn to adapt to this strange new world.
The Rifts are tears in the fabric of space and time. They are found along ley lines – natural lines of mystic energy. Where two or more ley lines intersect, a Rift may form (or be opened) to create a dimensional portal to virtually anywhere and anywhen. Opening a Rift enables characters to travel from one end of the planet to the other in a heartbeat, and beyond, to an infinite number of alien worlds and dimensions.
Read more about Rifts on the official web page.

What Rifts products do we carry? - We carry a full line of Rifts products, including the sub-setting books of Chaos Earth and Palladium Fantasy.
We also carry an extensive line of supplements for Role-Playing Games, including dice sets, battlemats, battlemat markers, prepainted miniatures, terrain kits, and adventure paths.

What do I need to play? - Each player in a game needs access to the core rules, presented in the Rifts core book, and a set of dice. One person, the DM, needs access to a selection of additional books (these books provide the "behind the scenes" rules, such as enemies and quests). Players will also need a set of dice, a pad of paper, a pen or pencil, and imagination.

What kind of dice do I need? - You need a D20 dice set, which consists of a D4 (abrreviated for a four-sided die), D6, D8, D10, D% (used with the D10 to roll a percentage), D12, and D20. These dice are available individually or as sets. These dice can be made out of many materials, from simple plastic to such exotic things as bone, or even meteorites! This is what a set of dice looks like.