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.