Skills

Riding                                  

The coming of the Rifts has made reliable
vehicles scarce, especially in the Wilderness.
Therefore, more often than not, a random 
traveller will be riding a creature and not
a car.


Beam Weapons                    

New Specialisations
Plasma Ejector
Plasma Thrower
Hand Cannon (any heavy beam)


Guns                                    

New Specializations:
Pump-Pistol
Machine Pistol
Needler


Gunner

New Specialisations
Rail Gun

Judo/Karate

The GM may wish to outlaw these altogether.  
Rifts makes the very clear point that very 
few hand-to-hand styles from the Time Before 
the Rifts survived the cataclysm.  But it 
is just as possible that new styles have 
been invented.  It’s a GM judgement call. 


Languages

M/A
American
Techno-can
Spanish
Japanese
Chinese
Euro


M/H
Dragonese
Gobbley
Faerie-Speak


Professional Skills and Scientific Skills
are rare oustide of cities.

Thief/Spy Skills are available only to 
those who buy the Unusual Background.  Exceptions 
are Streetwise, Detect Lies, Escape and Ventriloquism 
(which can be learned by anyone).


Vehicle Skills

Driving

New Specilazations
Hovercar
Hovertruck
Hovertank

Piloting
New Specializations
Power Armor
Mecha


Brand-Spanking New Skill

Psychic/Magic Tracking          M/H
By using one’s given psionic abilities, one
can implement this skill in the tracking of 
psionics and magic-users.  The prerequisite
is one of the Sense Magic/Psionic abilities.