Editing User:Bill/Rifts Week by Week/Setting Notes (section)

===Poland===
====The Brodkil====
The brodkil themselves don't interest me very much. They are brutish barbarians with a power-based hierarchy. And while some players might find the idea of taking control of a tribe or warband by challenging and defeating its leader exciting, I don't think it makes for that great a story for a group. The Angel of Death and Mindwerks on the other hand are potentially very interesting. The challenge there would be figuring a good reason for the players to investigate Mindwerks. Perhaps exposing a connection between commonly encountered body chop-shop MoM hardware and that found on the bodies of dead brodkil would work.

====Tarnow====
Pronounced Tarnuv. The Tarnow kingdom as described in ''Mindwerks'' is nestled in the middle of Brodkil territory. That in itself could be a good excuse for putting the player characters there; acting as "advisors" cultivating a guerrilla force to harass the brodkil in their own back yard. And who would be more deniable as an asset to an openly human supremacist government than a handful of d-bee freaks and deserters? All sources indicate that the NGR is taking a wait and see posture with the brodkil because they aren't openly hostile to Germany, but I doubt the NGR military is really stupid enough to ignore a violent alien race living on their border. I could potentially dovetail this into a more extended story exposing Mindwerks.

====Poznan Collective====
The Poznan Collective doesn't get much attention except to say that the state's infrastructure is mostly underground and that the wealthy of Poznan live entirely underground. The capital is described in a fashion reminiscent of ''Cyberpunk's'' Night City. This is pretty fertile ground in my opinion for stories about dark secrets and hidden cthonic influences. Just setting an adventure underground automatically makes those themes easier to pull off in my experience.

====Wroclaw====
Even though Wroclaw was flattened by the NGR offensive, there's a lot of potential for sifting through the rubble. As a semi-independent city-state, there must have been secret government projects and potentially private collections of dangerous artifacts. Either one might make for a good reason to visit the ruins.

====GSS Spaceships====
Described in the Gene-Splicer entry, there is a functional spacecraft in Poland and the former Czech Republic. Encountering the Gene-Splicers, their creations, and or their ship could make for an interesting game.