Rifts takes place several hundred years in Earth’s future after a nuclear war ended a golden age and sparked a mystic apocalypse that opened “rifts” to multiple dimensions, times and realities bringing all the possibilities of the Rifts multiverse to play in a single game. Combining elements of cyberpunk, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western, mythology and many other genres into a single setting, Earth’s native humans now share their home with a host of aliens and monsters (collectively called Dimensional Beings or D-Bees), and harness both technology and magic. If you can dream it, Rifts can do it.
If the joke begins, “A cyborg, a wizard, a mutant dog, an archaeologist, and an alien from the Kallium Galaxy walk into a bar…” it could have happened on Rifts Earth. Characters can come from any of numerous sourcebooks, and with the help of the Rifts Conversion Book, from any other game in the Palladium System.