Rifts Info on Faerie

[Library Ogre]

I believe the Palladium Fantasy Monsters and Animals has a more sizable entry on them, but there's little indication there that they're considered extradimensional.

[Bill]

I consider them to be magical creatures that are drawn to strong sources of P.P.E. I am not aware of any canon indication that they have a homeworld, and I prefer to play their culture as a shared racial memory. That allows them to share a universal language and to have consistent behavioral patterns regardless of where they are encountered throughout the Megaverse.

[auyl]

If I remember correctly there's some info in the England book for them but it's just how they are and live in that setting rather than where they came from.

[drewkitty ~..~]

I was wondering if any World Books or Rifters have any specific information about the Palladium Megaverse's version of Faeries OTHER than just the 'monster' entries.
Like home dimension, culture, etc?
Thanks!

In the Rifts books the book with the most info on the Fairy Folk is the Rifts Conversion Book 1 (RCB1 & RCB1r), there are some unique fairy folk that are just in the rifts world books.

Outside the Rifts books PF: Monsters and Animals and the Land of the Damed books.

The Rifter fanzine does have one or two unique fairy folk with in their pages.

[Library Ogre]

OTOH, and Drew alluded to this... if you want to write a Rifter article, that would be one to look at.

[drewkitty ~..~]

How active is Rifter publishing these days? I stopped reading at issue 40 something I believe.

Same as before, about. Four issues per year just like they said when they started them. Sometime a week or so late.
The last issue was 70, but the next is going to be a double issue 71 &72 combined.

Most of the articles are well written, even if not all of them interested me.

[glitterboy2098]

Interesting. For years, I fell under the false assumption that, because I hadn't played Rifts for a very, very long time, that it had ceased to be as popular to the global gaming community.
I have since been corrected

mostly its just gotten more insular. game stores stopped stocking Palladium's stuff as much when the D20OGL generated so much stuff that competed with shelf space, and then PDF's and online stores started seeing the end of a lot of physical gaming stores. meant that finding the books for it takes a bit more deliberate effort. particularly since PB only recently recognized the advantages of having PDF's of its products it can sell, which kept their online sales at a lesser level than some other companies.

the online community for gaming too has made finding PB games trickier. a lot of the major gaming forums, groups, and sites (that aren't game specific) have a sizable population of trolls who dis any game that isn't their own favorites, and PB is one of the games that often gets used by them as a whipping boy, because PB's general trend of not following the trends used by games like D&D (like constant new editions with massive changes, for example) and PB's somewhat idiosyncratic settings and rules.

[kaid]

Best rift sources of this are I believe conversion book one/rifts england for most forms of fae and mystic russia has a lot of forrest spirits that work well to bulk out the fae folk.