Player looking for game (but much out of practice)

[pyrokineticfire]

Greetings. I happened upon this message board and am interested in joining a game (if a GM will allow it.) I'm open to a variety of different campaigns, but I'm most familiar with Rifts.

Many years ago I used to get together with friends and play in several weekly Rifts games (a Palladium fantasy, a Hero's Unlimited and probably some other type of campaign that eludes me at the moment). We fell out of habit of playing our weekly games when we lost our gathering place and everyone started getting older. Most of our campaigns were set on Rifts-Earth (or GM-modified versions of it.) Many games were short-lived, but I played in 3 that had decent run times (longer than a year.)

I've held on to all the books my brother and I had, as well as acquired a few from a friend when he moved and didn't feel like packing them up. I'd like to get some use out of these books rather than leave them sitting on a shelf.

List of books in my library:
Rifts main book (3 copies ;D )
Rifts world books: 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, and 22
Rifts Dimension Books 2, 3, and 4
Rifts Coalition Wars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Rifts Source-book 4
Rifters 1, 2, 5, 10, 11, 13, and 15
Rifts Game Masters' Guide
Rifts Book of Magic
Rifts Underseas
Rifts Mercenaries
Hero's Unlimited
Palladium Fantasy
Palladium Fantasy: Monsters and Animals
Palladium Fantasy: Dragons and Gods
Nightbane
Nightbane world book 1
After the Bomb
Compendium of Contemporary Weapons

I'm interested in learning how games here are generally played (like, by post, using some kind of group-chat software, voice chat, telepathy?) If I've been mislead about this group and you're actually meeting in person and this board is for information purposes between sessions, I suppose I'm out of luck unless by some slim chance you meet up near me.

Please respond if you can be of some aid to me in understanding what's going on here. Thanks for your time.

~Pyro

[sawg138]

We play mostly through OpenRPG, a chat program for gaming (built in character sheets, dice rollers, and mapping) and occasionally via instant messengers. At least for my, Nekira, and Ed3's games.

Incidentally, how did you find us, I thought we were rather obscure, even by Palladium standards.

[pyrokineticfire]

Google search for "rifts games" lead me to another message board (i forget which) and someone had a link to "Flip's Adventure Game- Lost in Chaos." After looking around a bit, I figured I'd test the waters here.
And obscure can be a great thing. I'm sure you all don't tolerate obnoxious people in your groups, and large, "popular," impersonal groups usually harbor them.

[sawg138]

Unless our obscurity is caused because we are the obnoxious ones?

But my game is next Wed and I won't object to a lurker, though I'm not really looking for more players ATM.

[pyrokineticfire]

My character ideas are all over the place right now, so making a character immediately would probably result in a half-ass job. It would be much better if I had a clear idea of what I want to play (as well as what will fit in a group.)
I'd like to sit in on a game and find out how you all play. I've only ever played with friends in person, so I think a higher level of familiarity would be helpful.

[sawg138]

Not a problem. My game will be next Wed at 7 EST in OpenRPG.

[defiler]

i also havnt played in a long time (RIFTS old version is the only thing i've played/liked since i never understood or liked the whitewolf system)
so if anyone is running a old rules version of rifts (or is willing to let me know whats changed that i need to know) has any room or is starting up a game please let me know

[sawg138]

I'm a bit full right now, but I do close my eyes and pretend RUE doesn't exist.

[defiler]

lol ok i see, i did notice on a different site it mentioned the new rules for low lv spells are 1 per melee action (which depending on the setting i did before anyway lol)

guess everyone has their own set of 'house rules' anyway so the new rules will just be mixed in/modded just as the old ones were

let me know if you get a slot open lol