Rifts Sourcebook 3: Mindwerks

by Kevin Siembieda

RIFTS Sourcebook #3, Mindwerks. Usable with RIFTS role-playing game. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091621169X
• ISBN13: 9780916211691
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Palladium Books
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.5" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

A Superb Supplement

Between "Mindwerks" and the NGR Worldbook, Palladium really did a great job on Europe. Mindwerks is another corporate relic of pre-Rifts Earth, and a pioneer in Crazy (M.O.M.) technology. The stress of the post-apocalypse Dark Ages drove its leader mad, and is now known as the Angel of Death. The Angel of Death and her cyborg "daughter", the Angel of Destruction, now outfit the Brodkil and Gargoyles with high technology and exotic new M.O.M. technology, turning those great all-around villains into an even more versatile threat.Some of the other stuff, like the Tarnow Kingdom, isn't so hot--it involves yet another alien intelligence plot, and those get a wee bit old after the umpteenth supplement. The concept behind this particular plot is pretty cool (a magical stone which transforms metals into gold or MDC materials), but I have grown somewhat jaundiced about alien intelligence conspiracies. The new Triax equipment and Gargoyle bots are cool, though I'd doubt many GMs could integrate such heavy armor into it--Rifts could use a set of rules for large battles, rather than small melees, since so much equipment that they showcase will only show up for very large engagements. The twisted Millenium Tree is a concept that could spawn a number of good campaigns (don't let PCs get too close, however, without being well armed or very well concealed), and helps integrate the Rifts England world book with continental Europe. The other new supernatural beasties and the Gene Splicers make a nice menagerie and have solid potential for encounters in the wilderness.On the whole, this is one of the best supplements.

Great for techa nf backwoods background

This book gives readers a full overview of the backwoods situation in Rifts: Germany. A sourcebooks for NGR-Triax (Worldbook 5), this books takes new MOM technology to the edge. It also details more in the fight againstthe Gargoyle empire, including an ultra powerful base calledthe Misfit with a Particle cannon that deals thousands of MDC in one shot. Overall, great. In the skinny, it sands up to everything and is great for the price