Required Books for Players
In order to play in a Steel and Chaos campaign there are certain books required, I will assume that you have access to the books relevant to your character and can look up rules and details by page and paragraph at least between sessions. This should include the Rifts Chaos Earth main book and any other books including OCCs, RCCs, PCCs, psychic powers, magic spells, super powers, chi powers, robot vehicles, power armors, and complicated special equipment included in your character design. This also applies to multiclassing or purchases but not anything awarded as treasure or in the plot of the campaign.
If you do not wish to purchase a book to match the rolls for character creation we'll simply remove those abilities. Current character creation rules only cause this possibility with regard to Psychic characters. For reference here are the books most players should consider:
Normal NEMA/Chaos Earth characters as well as everyone for setting and rules information
Psychics
- Rifts® Ultimate Edition™ - not needed for minor, latent, psychics
Optional additions with more psychic powers:
- Rifts® World Book 12: Psyscape (Telekinetic Leap, Telekinetic Punch, etc.)
- Rifts® Game Master Guide™ (all psychic powers included)
Chaos Earth Latent Psychic Classes and powers
Chaos Earth Psychic Classes
Magic
Chaos Earth Magic Classes
Warlock Class and Elemental Spells
Other books will be added to this post as relevant, but to restate the general principles:
- you need the book with your class in it
- if you have chosen something that is not in the main book then you need that too. Book of Magic or the Game Master Guide may help avoid the need for certain otherwise obscure books.
I've linked the book titles here to the Palladium books website the same books are also available from DriveThruRPG.
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