Rifts

Rifts is a genre-spanning roleplaying game created by American designer Kevin Siembieda. First launched in 1990, it and its many supplements have remained in constant publication through Palladium Books ever since. In addition to the core roleplaying game, several tie-in novels, a collectible card game, and a video game have also been released Rifts at Wikipedia.
==Premise==
The world of Rifts is set several hundred years in the future in a world torn apart by nuclear war and subsequently reshaped by the opening of rifts, interdimensional portals which allow access to other planes of existence and, conversely, the denizens of said planes to access our own world. Due to the enormously varied locations made accessible by these rifts, the game can support virtually any type of roleplaying game, but has a strong focus on the cyberpunk, fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres.
==Mythos Connections==
The setting describes a number of entities which many consider Lovecraftian in nature, including the Splugorth and Alien Intelligences, but notably contains no direct references to either the Cthulhu Mythos or the works of H. P. Lovecraft.
==External Links==
*Rifts at Wikipedia
==References==
Category:Roleplaying Games
Category:Mythos-Inspired Works
Category:Kevin Siembieda works