I have one other player for this and am looking for another 2-3 players (I would be DMing for free). I was imagining playing Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday afternoon-evening, est. We'd be using the Palladium rules from After the Bomb, Rifts Ultimate Edition, Fantasy, and maybe Nightbane for this game. The setting is the Pleistocene Mediterranean basin at the height of the 'Atlantean' civilization. The conceit of this setting is that there was a worldwide pre-history magical empire called the Theran Empire that was based in Cyprus. The major narrative of the setting is a 'prehistoric giger post-apocalypse'. In this world, the Earth is periodically invaded when the mana levels rise to level where maleficent entities from the deep astral that feed off the emotions of mortals can invade. This invasion lasts thousands of years, and the campaign opens in the wake (like a few generations, depending on race) of one of these incursions. The tone can be described as 'fantasy horror' -- the major enemies are similar to xenomorphs or cenobites (or a weird admixture of the two, they're also inspired probably by Lovecraft and other cosmic horror writers). The main setting is the Mediterranean basin -- Germany, Italy, Morocco, Egypt, Ukraine, Greece, and India are all provinces of the Theran Empire (they all have different names, I'm just trying to explain the basic idea). The major races would be mutant animals from After the Bomb that fill the 'niches' of the Earthdawn races Obsidomen = badgers or sloths Windlings = hummingbirds and/or dragon flies Elves = deer or antelopes or a mixture of that and caracals Dwarves = star nosed moles or ground hogs or armadilloes Orks = warthogs or hell pigs (Entelodontidae) Trolls = Mountain goats Ts'krang = Pterodactyls (this one requires the least adjustment)
