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Introduction II
In This chapter, Here is where all the prior information comes in handy. After creating your character sheet, and visited your nearest Game master, hopefully you were able to creat a game, to get the general feel of how a rifts game is playes, its quite enjoyable. Now, below i will describe how a battle confrontation is taken care of.


Chapter III
Just so you know, to begin with, a 1D20 is ALWAYS used to determine Strike (S), Parry (P), and Dodge(D).

  1. Determine initiative [who attacks first] by rolling a 1D20. Each person does this and whoever gets the highest roll goes first.
    1. If there is a tie, then those who will then reroll until everyone has a set place in the order.
    2. This is redone after every player runs out o meelee attacks and then the meelee round starts over.


  2. The person who rolled the highest on initiative then chooses how to attack and rolls to strike (1D20)
  3. The one who is being attacked may choose to parry [reflect the attack some how], dodge, which is to just jump out of the way, or to take the damage.
    1. If the parry is rolled 1D20 then the roll must equal or surpass that of the roll to strike in order to work. By doing this no attacks are lost and and the next person in the initiative sequence roll for attacks.
    2. If a dodge is rolled 1D20 then 1 attack is lost and the roll must equal or surpass that of the roll to strike inorder to work. When it comes time for the person who was attacked in this situation, he/she loses this current turn if a prior dodge was rolled.
    3. If no roll is taken, then you take the damage from the attack(rolled prior to any defensive moves taken) and any other penalties incurred by the method of attack.

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[Musts]
Inorder to play this game, it is a must that you get the main book, or you would not be able to play the game, nor be able to complete your character sheet, which you cannot play without. Below is the link to view the cover of the main book.
Main Book Cover
Its the most expensive book of the series at about $25. At someplaces you can bargain and reduce it to $20, if your lucky. Also, here are the Character Sheets to Download. (CS=Character Sheet)
Rifts Standard CS(front)
Rifts Standard CS(back)

NOTE:
100 S.D.C = 1 M.D.C.

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