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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4202831" data-attributes="member: 13892">Good question. The answer is "Disapppointingly little" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> I have a copy of RUE in front of me right now and, as has always been the case with Rifts, the bulk of the core book is dedicated to rules, not setting detail. That said, if you have any passing familiarity with the setting, there is enough information in the core book to run a loose Coalition States campaign (i.e., the basics of life in the Coaltion States are laid out, though nothing more). For some unknown reason, they removed the random monster creation rules from the core book, which means that you must own other supplements to populate your world with menaces other than Coalition soldiers. While the random monster creation rules were by no means a masterpiece of game design, they definitely made the game more self-contained. I lament their loss in the RUE. If you want to explore any area outside of the Coalition States, fight anything other than Coalition soldiers, or want detailed information on life inside the Coalition States well. . . other sourcebooks are definitely required. And, unfortunately, there is no kind of core campaign setting book for Rifts Earth (i.e., no equivalent of products like the various D&D setting core books that give you a good look at the whole setting under one cover).</blockquote>

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