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You know you play Rifts too much when.....

Just a little reminder, you can never have too much of anything, just a lack of sense of reality. (no offense to anyone, just a funny list, I'm even guilty of many of these)

  1. you have more Rifts books than real books.
  2. you've made yor own Net-book.
  3. you write a fanfiction type story about,
  4. ...and you're a professional writter.
  5. you ponder about how much S.D.C. or M.D.C. a certain object or person may have.
  6. you're in character a little too often.
  7. when you know more Rifts Earth Geography (or anything else) more than real Earth Geography.
  8. you're involved with political, social, and moral issues of Rifts.
  9. you're convinced Atlantis does exist, and the Splugorth are after you.
  10. you think the novel "20000 Leagues Under the Sea" was about the Lord of the Deep.
  11. you read the works of Victor Lazlo so you can find Ley Lines.
  12. you carry dice with you to make decisions in your everyday life. (especially tests)
  13. you start worshiping an alien intelligence in hopes of getting superhuman powers.
  14. you rate members of the opposite sex by PB.
  15. you try and turn a weedwhaker into a TW invention. (much to your parents' dismay)
  16. you gain the animocity of historians and those who know extensive mythology by asking too many questions. (yes, even old people with nothing better to do)
  17. you start using PA calenders.
  18. you realize you need more skills, or you'll never be any kind of O.C.C.
  19. you get Tatoo's for the sole purposes of claiming to be a Tattood Atlantean, and are convinced you'll live at least 500 years.
  20. you won't go camping till you think you have enough wilderness skills.
  21. you start getting Karl Prosek and Hitler mixed up, on school reports.
  22. you go down to Mexico, but go crazy when customs takes away your waterguns.
  23. you try and warn Quebec about its impending war.
  24. when asked race, you put (D-bee of choice here) as your answer.
  25. you avoid Chicago for fear of being persecuted.
  26. go into genetics studies so one day your own Sparky can be a fierce Psi-hound.
  27. you go onto a missile test site, trying to prove you're a M.D.C. being.
  28. you would trade your mother for a Glitter Boy power armor.
  29. you would actually jump into a rift without any hesitation.
  30. you wear any kind of Rifts related costume for Halloween.
  31. ...you wear the costume when its not Halloween.
  32. the people at Palladium now refer to you by name.
  33. you've given more material to Palladium than Kevin Siembieda..
  34. ...it's actually been used.
  35. you prepare for the coming of the Rifts.
  36. you've led people to follow you in preparing for the coming of the Rifts.
  37. you met your wife (or even a girlfriend) by playing Rifts. (reverse as gender and lifestyle may warrant)
  38. you've ever fallen in love with an NPC.
  39. you've ever played a Rouge Scientist that could kill a Dragon in hand to hand combat.
  40. you've ever used a Vagabond as a charachter, for any reason.
  41. you got a vagabond charachter above level 10.
  42. you've ever engaged in sex, in game contexts.
  43. you've ever had to make a roll during this sex.
  44. you've gambled credits away.
  45. you've ever given the GM a bribe for furthering yourself in the game.
  46. ...you're his main source of income.
  47. you think you're a D-bee.
  48. you come up with a YKYPRTMW list.
  49. The orthographic correction program of your computer knows more Rifts vocabulary (like SAMAS, Psi-Stalker etc.) than real words.
  50. you think your a D-bee
  51. You think your neighbor is a D-Bee.
  52. You moved to Calgary/Minneapolis/St. Louis in hopes of taking advantage of the Ley Line Power.
  53. ...You moved out of the above because you're afraid of what can happen there.
  54. You refer to the above cites by their Rifts names.
  55. You're looking to invest in Triax in order to have a secure investment in the future.
  56. You're looking to invest in Uberchem Inc. so you can become a Juicer sooner.
  57. You've bought land in Texas so that when the gov't starts building the Lone Star Complex they'll have to buy your property.
  58. In order to prevent the rise of the CS, you've decided to kill off anyone whose last name is Prosek.
  59. You have Wet dreams about Altiarain Warrior Women.
  60. You're hunting for Victor Lazlo so you can warn him about what's going to happen.
  61. You're convinced that YOU can get a good deal out of Naruni.
  62. You sell some organs in advance, because you know you're just going to become a borg anway.
  63. You move to Florida and invest in some really big guns because you want to hunt some Dinosaurs.
  64. You bought a surplus Russian Submarine so you can join the US Underseas Navy.
  65. You've ever worked a character from starting level to level 15.
  66. You character achieved the staus of a god.
  67. You ever used the phrase "I attack the Splugorth."
  68. ...You lived after using the phrase "I attack the splugorth."
  69. People have had to remind you what century it is.
  70. You've heard of gamesmaster software for Rifts.
  71. ...You created the beta version of the gamesmaster software for Rifts.
  72. You have a notebook stuffed full of characters that have each been used but none ever died.
  73. You've ever written your own humerous Rifts material.
  74. You've seen a rifts book that came out on time.
  75. You were looking forward to the conversion book coming out.
  76. You know the +% level of every skill available.
  77. You have your own rifts Web-site.
  78. Your character has singlehandly cleaned up Ciudad Juarez, liberated the mutanat animals from Lone Star, and marched an army on Chi-Town (yes matt this means you!)
  79. You've used the Stone to Flesh spell.
  80. You quit using your vagabond character because his skills were "just too useful."
  81. You've ever been arrested in a roleplaying related incident.
  82. You have ever been involved in an LARP that involved someone "getting lost in the steam tunnels."
  83. You cared about the mechanoids Trilogy being reprinted.
  84. You've thrown away dice that were "just too worn".
  85. Everyone knows your name on the Palladium Mailing list.
  86. You own a copy of Rifts Manhunter.
  87. Someone can give you a page number and book title and you can tell them the first word on the page.
  88. You don't need the books or any help to create a new character.

This list was created by Ismael Alvarez lantismkr@juno.com: Posted On: 980621

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