You guys routinely use Nightbane or Splicers material?

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You guys routinely use Nightbane or Splicers material?

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in your Rifts campaign?
Or Beyond the Supernatural, or Dead Reign?

I loved Dark Conversions and frequently make adventures around entire species or whatever. But never a full campaign. Nor do I use the stuff exclusively found in the other books, even though I own some of them.
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Re: You guys routinely use Nightbane or Splicers material?

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I know I have mentioned this on the forums before but I started using Nightlands and Nightlords in my Rifts campaign about a year after the NB book came out. Way before Dark Conversions.

I had the nightlands devastated and sealed off by the coming of the Rifts it was invaded by demons, deevils and vampires. Lord Moloch even disappeared and many Nighland cities were destroyed when the companion real world city was destroyed. I had the Nightlands version of Hiroshima and Nagasaki disappear and reappear when the real cities did.

When the barrier between the nightlands and the earth came down (and I forget what I say caused that) the dark day event occured only in the pacific rim (West coast NA, Japan, part of Australia, and all of the New Navy area). I had them infiltrating groups in this area and they even caused a civil war in the New Navy.

The Nightlords are great villains but they can be really disruptive so I kept them far away from the two main areas of Rifts Earth at the time which was CS area and NGR area. Still a lot of fun.

I would NEVER use them in BTS or DR as they are SO overpowered that just 1 hound could lead to a TPK.
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I'm honestly a bit biased regarding Nightbane as I absolutely loathed the movie it was based on (Nightbreed). It was... not good. And not in that cult classic sort of not good either.

As such, I've avoided them like the plague in my games. Especially since the only reason I ever see anyone talk about wanting to play them, it's because of some of their broken mechanics when taking into other settings like Rifts.
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Our group allows nightbane and other characters from that campaign such as athanatos and templar dark slayers as individuals. There is no link to the mirror realm or the nightlands. They simply hand the "misfortune" to fall through a random rift that somehow appeared on nightbane earth and brought them to rifts earth. This hasn't been a problem so far although necrosis magii aganathos do have an absolutely insane amount of PPE
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I have a lot of the Splicers stuff, but without the setting in PW.
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Typically no, but I might consider allowing a PC to be converted from nightbane world,or native to splicers.
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I do use NightSpawn in Rifts, more thanI use Rifts classes.
NightBane....I don't use NB chars.
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