# Rifts Ultimate Edition

Rifts Ultimate Edition is a board game.

- **Complexity:** 3.3 out of 5
- **Year published:** 2005
- **Categories:** Campaign Setting (game world), Core Rules (min needed to play)
- **Mechanics:** Skill Based (buy or gain skills), Attribute/Stat Based (STR, CON, PER, etc), Level Based (Earn XP and level up), Dice (Primarily d20), Class Based (Pilot, Wizard, Scientist, etc), Random Attribute Generation (during Character Creation), Race Based (Player Race/Species affects gameplay)
- **Owned by:** 1 Ludoya players

**Designers:** Carmen Bellaire, Kevin Siembieda, Trent Ward, Erick Wujcik, Shawn Therrien

**Artists:** Ran Ackels, Michael Phillippi, Brandon C. Clark, Ramón Pérez (I), Ryan Csaszar, Roman Kochnev, Britt Martin, Matt Thompson, Charles Walton, April Lee, John Zeleznik, Kevin Siembieda, Wayne Breaux Jr., Kevin Long (I), Slawek Wojtowicz, Mark Dudley, Chris Arneson, Mike Mumah, Michael Wilson, Adam Withers, Tobias Brenner, Kent Burles, Keith Parkinson, Comfort Love, Apollo Okamura, William Teo, Christopher Bourassa, Scott Johnson, Freddie E. Williams, II, David Martin (II), Joachim Gmoser, Steve Roberts, Michael Dubisch, Mark Evans (I), William Li, Drunken Style Studio, Dan Scott

**Publishers:** Palladium Books

## Links

- [This page](https://www.ludoya.com/games/rifts-ultimate-edition)
- [Rifts Ultimate Edition in the Ludoya app](https://app.ludoya.com/g/rifts-ultimate-edition)
- [BoardGameGeek entry](https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/44553)

_Data from Ludoya, updated 2026-11-06. Ratings, ownership and play counts are Ludoya's own._