The Rifter® #53 includes:

•Ravages of Time, by S.E. Gibbons, is an interesting Rifts® article with tips for Game Masters and playing sprawling epic sagas like the Minion War™ and Siege on Tolkeen.

•ARCHIE Phase Two, by Damon Sutton. This Rifts article takes a look at more machinations of our favorite mechanized menace, ARCHIE Three™.

•On Faerie Folk, by Michael P. Yocom, offers up a menagerie of new Faerie Folk, cousins and animals for the Rifts® and Palladium Fantasy® settings.

•Dawn of a New Era, by Corey Livermore, presents an adventure in a setting for Heroes Unlimited™ in which mutants and aliens are being forced to "register" with global governments, or else.

•The Lucky Psychic, by Steven Dawes, presents a new Beyond the Supernatural™ psychic who makes his own luck.

•A Dark Day™ Short Story, by Jeremy Hutchins, will keep you wondering what's next.

•The next chapter of the Hammer of the Forge™.

•Plus news and coming attractions.

•Heroes Unlimited™ cover by Zachary Schoenbaum.

•More of the usual, but in addition to game material and fiction, you'll learn what Palladium has planned for 2011.